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NieR:Automata - Gameplay, discussion, help
Third Eye Lem:
--- Quote from: commandercool on February 18, 2018, 04:59:58 AM ---So I'm trying to Spoiler: fight Emil at his house and I can't seem to damage him at all. Hacking seems to do nothing, all of my attacks do either 0 or 1 damage, and he can kill me cleanly in two hits. Am I doing something wrong? I'm level 67, am I just supposed to grind for hours and hours before I can even attempt this? Is it a scripted fight where I just have to survive? I don't really know what I'm doing here.
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You can actually grind quickly by equipping as many +EXP chips as possible, and Spoiler: hacking the bunny statue in the amusement park. I never tried it myself, but you can reach level 99 much faster than just by killing enemies.
commandercool:
Spoiler: So it is just underleveling then? I don't need a special item to damage him or anything?
Didn't realize you could re-fight the statue. It took me *forever* to get it to move the first time. Like a solid five minutes of spamming attacks and charged specials at him. I assume that's based on dealing a certain amount of damage and therefore gets quicker over time? Or does it just always take that long?
Helepolis:
--- Quote from: commandercool on February 18, 2018, 04:59:58 AM ---So I'm trying to Spoiler: fight Emil at his house and I can't seem to damage him at all. Hacking seems to do nothing, all of my attacks do either 0 or 1 damage, and he can kill me cleanly in two hits. Am I doing something wrong? I'm level 67, am I just supposed to grind for hours and hours before I can even attempt this? Is it a scripted fight where I just have to survive? I don't really know what I'm doing here.
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Spoiler: No, you don't need to be high level. I defeated him around same level as well. If you're playing Hard mode, he will one-shot you regardless of the equipment you carry. If you really want to beat him on Hard, you need to grind. Otherwise if you want to go for the story experience, switch to Normal. Warning: He can still 2-3 shot you depending on the attacks.
Weapons
Your weapon of choice should be Spear of the Usurper. This one has Critical Up and is very overpowered. Secondary can be Fang of the Twins. High damage, crit up. Make sure both your weapons are level 4. You need maximum damage. If you don't have Fang of the Twins, you should definitely go for Usurper. If you don't have that one either then prepare for effort and raging because it is going to be a long fight.
If you have 2B as partner, equip her with best damage/crit weapons as well.
Pod
Machine gun pod with spears skill or laser. Ditch the protection and such.
Chips
- Must have chip: Anti Chain Damag. 2s one is minimum unless you're extremely fast with your responses to heal up. His attack where he spams his faces as bouncing balls will wreck you and you need the invincibility time to heal up.
- Very important chip: Continous combo. While you evade, you don't want to break your combo.
- Important chips: Critical rate, increased weapon damage, increased melee defense,
Tactics
- I didn't hack him. Melee/pod attack only.
- Spam all L potions that boost your stats, i.e.: Defence up etc. These are cheap to buy so stock them up
- Use the machine gun Pod non-stop. Your pod should never stop firing, except when you use Pod skill.
- Make sure you always execute evasive skill where you potentially "get hit" (The button you press where you turn translucent and negate damage while doing fancy acrobatics). This is something you need to master fully.
- Emil's faces as projectiles which bounce -> Use Pod fire and evade until projectiles disappear. Melee attacking is impossible because he drives around too much and he will easily kill you.
- Large laser where he spins -> Attack and evade + use Pod
- Regular drive around and halts momentarily -> Attack + pod
- Dazed -> Attack + pod
- Always be at full health! ALWAYS. Stock up 99 of full/large heals.
Whenever your Pod laser is cooled down -> spam skill. If you have 3 pods, charge up all three. The damage is really good.
Patience is the key. Time your attacks and monitor Emil's attacks. Back off when you notice you failed a combo or he is suddenly going crazy.
Good luck.
commandercool:
Spoiler: So I spent forever grinding for New Bolts in the amusement park and ended up killing the rabbit a few times in the process, which cranked my level up to 78 in no time and resulted in me being overprepared for Emil. I completely wrecked him, even without being able to get the materials to make Spear Of The Usurper Level 4 (I found one New Bolt after like an hour of clearing the amusement park entrance over and over).
I feel so bad about bullying poor Emil! Much worse than I feel about butchering heaps and heaps of harmless clown machines who just want to party.
So how do I get Emil to change shop inventories? I've seen him with chips and low-level materials, but my understanding is that he has a high-level materials inventory too, right? I've tried everything I could think of but haven't been able to get him to offer it to me. I need a bunch of Meteorite Shards and some other odds and ends to finish all my weapons.
Ionasal kkll Solciel:
I believe it depends on where you encounter him. There's a slight variance, though, so sometimes you still won't get the right inventory even in the right spot.