Lol the new 'malenia, blade of miquella'

Yes the CORAL nearly killed you

You have to win this

The Coral nearly killed me as well.

"You need to focus so I've turned your comms off. Now I'm gonna keep telling you how much you need to focus, how important this is, over and over. But focus!"

I first tryed Balteus. First armored core game for me. That being said I actually got gud in the missions before Balteus

no you didn't, no one cares if you did@@filipgasic2642

They nerfed him. Missile tracking is a cake walk. Which he is mostly Missiles.

That sounds like a subtle jab against the video creator's skills lol

@@devourerofbigmacs7858 I can see how you'd think that, but we've all been curb stomped by Balteus the first time we fought him. I'm pointing out that this person didn't just go and create a finely tuned OP build that massacres him in 5 seconds and instead captured the truly difficult fight that happens the first time you stumble in

more like raven: Yeah and? i'm about to shove an energy sword in his skull

In his defence, he was already right by it at the time, and you don't get much warning.

@@Embers73 the energy pulse of Balteus is just pure bullshit, you need a lightweight mech to get clear when that close with quick boosts. anything medium to heavy is too slow to clear.

@@exiteternium >assault boost

@@seinyaaa4504 not enough time to swap from hardlock and use it, the indicators are very minimal and sometimes even the Ayre spiel to get clear happens mid energy wave.

My fav BOSS of all time,topped things like maliketh, vergil beowulf from dmc3 or Daimon of dd, the second balteus fight is good, but is literally a whole different fight, we need inner balteus or a modded berserk balteus lol

Dance of chaos is a good attack name😊

its so pretty to look at

this comment ❤️❤️ summarized everything I went through

Same here except he pinned me with flame swords and killed me when he was 1/3. In my defense all I had were guns

Good or bad pain is the question?

bad, i managed it but its really shit design @@doolenny9458

@@doolenny9458 With pulse blade/gun (pretty much the combo to use against the shield) and a 2nd set of hand weapons for dealing real damage, I can say, bad pain. I was in a pretty mobile setup, too.

This boss fight took me three hours because the monkey brain sold all the parts

@@spelv1104 hehehehe i just redid missions and the dragon brain said "hoard all the things!" FYI Dam mission is highest payout early on.

Agreed!

If it was no damage with combos, nah If it was no damage with skills, hell yeah

Aw man i hope you get to beat it eventually theres alot of good stuff hiding just behind him

its not t=even the worst man the later bosses are when the diff really spikes

​@@Noah-lx2tgto me personally, who've already beaten the game. This boss was the hardest bcs early game you don't have much weapon choice that do big dmg. My second one would be the Ibis boss fight. The others are hard for sure but I don't despise it as much as this sucker. I hate Balteus with passion.

Boomer hands here too. Got him stunlocked to almost 1/5 of his HP on my best try.

Use assault boost to get past the missiles and use quick boost to dodge the howitzer after you hear the alert sound. Its best to jump and QB since its an explosive round. Have the laser cannon and plasma gun on your right, and have a blade and the grenade cannon as your left hand weapons. Energy weapons for the shield, blade then switch to grenade once he's vulnerable.

If i knew what was coming, i would use my backwards-legs-jumpy-blade build, but i was testing hevier ones... damn that was an experience.

Apologies on the late reply, may not be relevant now but figured I would chime in. The weapon description on the Pulse Blade states "...Delivers slashing attacks with high frequency oscillation that are ideal for canceling out pulse defenses..." Same thing with the pulse rifle. They just eat up his shield.

You get him yet?

One thing that's tough for a lot of people to get used to with Armored core (and this has always been true) is adjusting your whole loadout to suit a specific boss. I was pretty stubborn myself, and used the basic rifle and saber with two of the default missiles. It's important to have a short QB recovery against Balteus, and rapid weapons can help bring down its barrier

it's tough for a lot of people because you don't assume that you need to die in order to know how to adjust your loadout accordingly.

@@larswesterwoudt2561 yeah, even the steam discussions are full of the " i played all the AC's and i never had to change my loadout before" yueah.. never played AC1-3 i guarantee it, 4 answer hand held alot in comparison to 1-3, anyone who played the originals knew you built to suit the mission, when you could, some missions where meant to be difficult and walled the next upgrades that would have given you an edge in the fight, as a kind of reward for mastering your AC and the customization.

@@larswesterwoudt2561 And you would know that after one failure, which is the time that it would matter. You try and either succeed, or fail and get the option to change

You may have beaten it by now, but I was trying to beat this boss with the Nachtreiher Mech + the jumping legs (going for full mobility). But that build didn't work out for me... Ended up using the Medlander Mech with duo 8x vertical launcher, the laser blade and a plasma rifle. That did the trick for after more failures than I can count with the Nachtreiher Mech xD In chapter 2 I went back to the mobile mech though :D

@@RandoLePerson Yeah I'm struggling to beat him, I get him to about a 1/4 health left and just dont have the hit points left

the Machine Gun you get from doing the tutorial missions, dual wield those, they shred the shield pretty fast, combined with a blade to do extra dmg when he's staggered, and a missile launcher and you can get him down really fast

@@DracoMilitis I beat it. I busted out the melee sword and shredded him pretty quickly my first try lol

What is the build? What's equipped?

Days? dang! Im giving up tonight... gave it a good 5 tries. got to go to bed for work though.

And sword

@@Jexnic504 that is the starter middle and arms. sword is likely upgraded. rifle is the plasma rifle.

@@exiteterniumsword is not upgraded

@@KrullKama why not, you get a higher damage output sword pretty early in the game, why not use it?

@@exiteternium Different swords do different things. I personally prefer the one with wider swings, but the damage is pretty similar.

Plasma weapons and the sword, but it's still very hard. He's too fast

@@RandoLePerson what's cheap about the boss?

I don't get why people got so mad with this Boss. He is hard but not that bad

@@matheusalexandre7056 ikr? I beat him on my 3rd or fourth try. He's definitely a jump in difficulty but as long as you stay cool his only dangerous attacks are his flame based attacks. People panic on the missiles but just dashing you'll avoid 90% of them

@@pintobean6702 yeah. I mean I definitely took a while but really the problem was me getting his patterns right, not the boss itself. Pretty Fun fight. Smart cleaner was much easier by comparison

@@matheusalexandre7056 still don't know how the game went from a boss that shoots 100 missiles at you and has a shield to a giant cleaning machine to an ancient weapon from the institute

after this boss it gets a bit easier especially if you have a strong build... for me anyways

The boss after him was much easier in comparison.

It is not a soulslike. Outside of a stagger, it's not even similar.

I hate the term soulslike so much! Now we have fools like this using it to say every single game ever made is “soulslike”. There where games before Dark Souls, and there will be many more after it…. Learn a new word, and maybe do some research too.

Game is still easier than the old PS2 versions

How is it a soulslike exactly?

@@Wonkess_Chonkess idk, best guess is that there's a stagger bar? If anything it's closer to sekiro, but even that's a stretch imo.

I switched to a super lightweight dual machine gun build, with a pulse blade in reserve. Chase him around, dont let him create distance, and I beat him that way. Hope that helps. Lol theres so many harder encounters, Im stuck on an encounter that isnt really even a boss fight in chapter 3 rn.

Experiment with builds Or get filtered.

I shall try to coach you - I was struggling yesterday too. Build a frame with a high load and AC like Ti Qiang - Use the bubble pulse weapon on both arms to annihilate his shields and then the shoulder mounted laser cannons for burst damage during staggers. Use the boost that increases AB boost efficiency. At start, boost through the missles directly towards Balteus, use kick if unlocked at the end of the charge. Dodge a few times as the missles hit and then unload all bubbles from close range to lower shields. Might take a couple loops before you stagger him but when you do you can get off around 3 laser shots for massive damage. Be aggressive during his missles as they dont track well if they're converging back towards him. Just stay close to him and keep an ear out for the boop that means he's firing a missle at you directly and dodge sidewards to avoid. When you get him to halfway he will start using flame attacks with massive AOE, and you will need to either back off or use a few dodges to avoid before moving back in to close range to waste his shield/stagger him with your bubbles. Whenever he uses the missile attack he will be rooted in place and now is the perfect time to play aggressive and close distance. Just remember to dodge a few seconds after you close the distance and keep your ears listening for the boops for when the cluster will hit so you can string a few dodges as they do. Hope this helps!

@@hruikan I beat him bro !!! Im on chapter 4 now !! My AC is so powerful now and thank you for typing all of that trying to help me I appreciate that

CONGRATS DUDE Anytime@@BROOKLYNBORN1994

Nah he was fun boss. I love his soundtrack

@@RandoLePersoncope, boy

The biggest skill issue boss in Fromsoft history

@@RandoLePerson Damn dude, it's almost like he's a boss or something?

skill issue

Did you pick up the GIT GUD boost prior to the fight?

The boss beat you 100 times but it's trash? Aight

Hey friend, have you tried changing your build? I was stuck on this one too. But I decided to change my legs to the tank ones, spam pulse cannons and as shotgun it up close. No skill was required.

@@XenosisReaper1 Nah, I disagree, Played Sekiro no charm demon bell but this boss is appropriate. It should be a chapter 3 boss not 1.

Bloody rockets in me robot game !!!!!!!!!!!

Its not a skill issue if I beat the game with a light frame and pulse sword and no cheese. Unlike 95% of these people I've played AC.@@blastimbre

Could spew the same cope about your take on my opinion. You've just served to show me you are incapable of seeing past rose colored goggles.@@blastimbre

A mech with a ring of missiles and flamethrowers and carrrying primal armor around? Thats cool af i cznt conveice Balteus no being a cool design man

Like most consumers, especially in the games industry, you are expected to eat it up. It's okay, My comment is for those with the eyes and knowledge required to see past the spectacle.@@redglint6451

Sounds like someones a lil upset they aren’t good enough to play

Skill issue

Sounds like you got filtered by the tutorial boss.

F I l t e r

no you're spot on, this mf KNOWS where to preemptively strike

wich mf u talking about? xD balteus or the dude playing? xD@@larswesterwoudt2561

A big part of what I struggled with is I would get impatient and rush in to get its shields as soon as possible, but you can take your time with the shields since they don't regen like stagger does. And then when he pulls the fire sword out GET FAR AWAY UNTIL HE CHILLS