Cortex boss. Is this avoidable? What did I do wrong here?

The boss starts charging up the slam thats going to kill you roughly at the 2sec mark.

You end up dashing into the exact same position you have been when he started charging up, which is the area the boss is targeting and get slammed into oblivion.
If you stay behind the boss, you could have avoided this.

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Orbaal wrote:

The boss starts charging up the slam thats going to kill you roughly at the 2sec mark.

You end up dashing into the exact same position you have been when he started charging up, which is the area the boss is targeting and get slammed into oblivion.
If you stay behind the boss, you could have avoided this.

I'm pretty sure I flame dashed to the right but after that the black goo warped me to that spot.

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Necrogue wrote:

https://youtu.be/Hex2RLLXfpk

Oh wow I would be so pissed. I just don't understand the design behind some boss fights in this game. That was terrible.

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seaman wrote:

As I remember, you need to wait until you are teleported to the boss, and only then use the flame dash. if you use flame dash while slowing, you won't be able to use it after teleporting and the boss will kill you

[https://youtu.be/VJwRD2eUrIQ

Here's another time it happened. How is someone supposed to see this coming going in blind then react within a fraction of a second?

I don't like needing to study a tutorial to play a game.

I can see why people play meta builds with 100s of millions of DPS because this wouldn't happen.

It is lockstep or not?

With even 100ms ping in lockstep, i often feel that movement skill is desynced between server and client so that you think you have moved but the server did not think so

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neohongkong wrote:

It is lockstep or not?

With even 100ms ping in lockstep, i often feel that movement skill is desynced between server and client so that you think you have moved but the server did not think so

I'm on lockstep with 25ms ping.

That was the boss warping me and slamming me about 400 milliseconds after. Even after knowing this it seems like it would be difficult to time. On top of that it has to be done multiple times because my build only does 2 mill DPS.

How is this predictable going in blind? I liked Synthesis but never did this fight. This is probably part of what ruined Synthesis for people.

For reference I've beat Uber elder and Sirus.

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Necrogue wrote:

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neohongkong wrote:

It is lockstep or not?

With even 100ms ping in lockstep, i often feel that movement skill is desynced between server and client so that you think you have moved but the server did not think so

I'm on lockstep with 25ms ping.

That was the boss warping me and slamming me about 400 milliseconds after. Even after knowing this it seems like it would be difficult to time. On top of that it has to be done multiple times because my build only does 2 mill DPS.

How is this predictable going in blind? I liked Synthesis but never did this fight. This is probably part of what ruined Synthesis for people.

For reference I've beat Uber elder and Sirus.

GGG doesn't make end-game boss fights that are predictable going in blind (at least, not any more). Their design philosophy on boss fights is that you should learn from your deaths, pseudo-roguelike. They love their surprise one-shot kills.

But then they provide you with no feedback as to what actually killed you, so it becomes a community thing. GGG loves it when the community has to come together to brainstorm mechanics and strategies.

None of their end-game boss fights are designed to be learned on-the-fly.

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Necrogue wrote:

How is someone supposed to see this coming going in blind then react within a fraction of a second?

They're not.

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I don't like needing to study a tutorial to play a game.

The alternative is learning by trial and error.