As we all know, P-2 is hard. But P-Ranking it is harder. This video breaks down a successful run at beating the (currently) hardest level in Ultrakill without dying.
Protips for saving stamina while fighting Sisyphus: Jumping over his ground slam shockwave and whiplashing to him is a nice idea if you're not scarred of hard damage. When he uses "you can't escape" it's good to keep track of where he teleports and then slide to the sides just like when you fight Minos (though you might need to dash the first hit). Apply the tip above to the last hit in that combo. "This will hurt" can be 100% canceled when you parry it about 1/2 second before he explodes. Quite easy because he tends to teleport right next to you before charging it. Idk if anyone finds this useful. I use it myself and it really helps me.
also, for a free health pack, when the "you can't escape!" happens, dash once to the right, and then every time he attacks, slide to the left, and for his final attack just slap him in the balls
Hey, veteran here. If you get your hands on the sawblade launcher, it is a big chonky damage output when you use it with magnets. For example, sticking some on PANOPTICON will do juicy damage over time while you can add up some projboosts etc (i usually finish PANOPTICON off without bothering with the eyes) During the cutscene you can do the infamous sawtrap stacking by refreshing the magnets (make sure not to place over 20 of the sawblades!) Four coin toss + slab piercer shot does a lot more damage than a railgun with four coins so you can do the coinslab + rail combo for good starting damage dodging all the attacks in the fight is fun but there's a gigantic cheese to him: dash-storage. Dashing and *immediately* getting into sliding position lets you keep the invincibility frames given by the dash for as long as you are sliding. Proj boost, rockets, sawblade launching, coin shooting are viable to damage him in this case, but keep in mind that you don't recharge stamina while sliding, so you will still need to find timings to restore the stamina while dodging some attacks Note: I didn't remember that one mechanic before p-ranking Sisy after dozens of deaths and i kinda regret not remembering it before dumping lots of time into the battle xd
This is a surprisingly high quality guide. Very impressive, though i will say some text sections vanish a bit too quickly. We need a little more time to read that stuff, its all very important.
lessons I learned from this video: - I am bad at rocket launcher usage - I am bad at hitting core nukes - I am bad at managing stamina - I am bad at dodging - I am bad at style - I am bad at aiming - I am bad at the game - I should use the overheat nailgun - default piercer
Tip: The mindflayers are your best friends. Rather then just dodging them, parry them for a quick heal. You can also stand behind enemies and they will get hit by the orbs.
best guide i've seen so far advice wise, my main issue really is just getting to sisyphus and FP2 cause i'm used to the open space of cybergrind so having a plan of action makes the mental switch over quicker, thx
Sisyphus’ strategy is like Minos’. If your in the air, your in his territory, and he will kick you around. If you’re on the floor you can slide around, but in the air, you’re limited by dashes only.
Something that helped me a lot in my fights with the big man is using the Screwdriver, which might be the only time in the game I think that weapon shines. Though you do lose some damage, I preferred it over railcoins for three reasons: (1) You’re going to be shaky and nervous, so it’s more mechanically simplistic than shooting a railcoin, which during setup might’ve made you look away from Sisyphus; (2) Passive hp regen since Sisyphus glues himself to you. There are plenty of times where you’ll be getting knocked around by a slightly off-camera Sisyphus and the hp receive might allow you to take another hit while you hard focus on dodging; (3) The Screwdriver is loud and pinned to the big man, so it allows you to audibly track his teleporting a bit better if you listen for it. Also, and I haven’t tested this, since you can “parry” the Screwdriver to end it early, that might refresh stamina after the patches. I tended to let the Screwdriver run its full course because I felt much safer from dying to combos with it up.
the screwdriver saved my scaredy ass with minos and sisyphus. i'm not good with regen on the faster bosses but they do to come to you making the blood fountain a lifesaver
My tips for P-Ranking P-2 Level -Have an opening strategy for every room you enter. Anything you can do to instanly kill enemies or deal massive damage to strong enemies. As an example, against the cerberi, and later the sentries and swordsmachine, I used a Slab Sharpshooter and Electric rail from the side, to put them all at really low health right from the start. In the blood tunnel, try Nuking when enemies spawn, hopefully you can knock them into the blood and kill them -prioritize certain enemies. The virtues in the second phase of the mindflayer room are always annoying, take them both out with your railcannon if you have it -parry attacks whenever you can. Swordsmachines and Mindflayers always have attacks that are fairly predictable to parry, you should take advantage if this for damage and health -learn the ferryman. The ferryman is easily one of the most challenging enemies that spawn in this. You should learn to parry their attacks, it'll help out a lot Boss -practice sisyphus A LOT. You should know what to do for each of his attacks, and try to time your parries. -save stamina by spamming the slide button instead of holding it. By doing this you will slowly recover stamina instead of not recovering it at all. Being able to dash and dodge damage is very important in this fight, you should always be careful with your stamina -go for big setups. Use the saw/nail gun to set up a massive trap for sisyphus, use coins to either railcoin or slabcoin sisyphus, maybe even freezeframe some rockets, anythig to get more damage helps -consider using the screwdriver. I usually never use the screwdriver, but using it on sisyphus to make recovering health easier is huge. Basically: practice everything a lot, it just takes time and patience. Also take breaks, don't stress yourself out over this.
2:38 you can also if you want to be very stylish reel back in the cannonball with whiplash and go for a second swing at the other one to stun them both, also using the overheat default is quite a interesting choice, I went with the alt overheat and magnet for my p rank
I've been trying to p-rank this level for the better part of two weeks now, biggest hurdle for me is the room with the two mind flayers. surprisingly not the part where I actually fight those, but the Maurices and Virtues part, but if I'm seeing this right, over pump should instantly kill the virtues, so I'll give that a shot next. great guide, hope it can help me finally achieve my goal!
Additional tip: the eyes can be used as sources for grappling, cause they're considered as heavy enemies, allowing you to somewhat skip the instant rocket ride training. Another thing is that tho you can, you needn't kill the eyes, the panopticon dies anyway after it reaches the heal moment cuz of sisyphus. Edit: another idea i picked up from a different player, is using the green variant of the railcannon, granting you a full heal whenever you get close to him
I feel like what I learned the most from P-2, especially on Violent, is how to store and use dash I-frames and know what enemies to target. Almost every arena puts you in these areas where you have to dodge a shitton of projectiles and enemies where your best bet to not take damage, is to use your dashes perfectly. Even Sisyphus himself seems to be in the incarnate of that, the terminal literally tells you to learn to use your I-frames in your dashes to avoid things like his shockwaves, and for me, those I-frames are used in a lot of my strats I use to beat the level, such as whiplashing onto Malicious Faces and dashing when they shoot me to avoid the damage so I can get in close with shotguns, and dashing through projectiles the mind flayer shoots so that they attack other enemies like Turrets and Swordmachines.
I've gotta question, why would you want to kill panopticon eyes if you can just damage the panopticon itself and speed up the time it takes for Sisyphus to break out
If you're good at slide jumping, you can ignore them. If you have the Sawgun, stick some to Panopticon for the extra style and then just slide jump around the room to avoid damage until the phase is over.
Also, at the beginning of the fight Panopticon doesn't attack you, and it's a good opportunity to jump on the top of it, do railcoin and then shotgun swap + KB spam until holy beam or black hole eventually drive you away
That was a really good run. One thing I would suggest tho is getting more comfortable with parrying. That will make Sisyphus way easier. I beat him once with just the feedbacker so you just have to learn his attacks more. Parries give stamina now so if you party him enough, then you never have to worry about stamina.
Having HUD (besides style) off because your crosshair outline already displays the same information without having to look down seems pretty vital Many times during any boss fight I would look down. See my health critically low, panic, lose focus, and die trying to heal it off. For the sole purpose of reducing distractions and maintaining focus. I might go ahead and try something like your HUD layout myself Also thanks for the guide! Lots of good tips. Only drawback is some text moves on too quickly in some segments but still overall a great and informative video.
I feel like with videos like these, people tend to pigeon hole themselves to copy exactly how u got ur p rank. But i think it is fun to experiment the weapons itself and then attempt to do a p rank on ur own. Like i have tried usin the blue nailgun now to try out new things and it is pretty fun!
Good guide! I’ll probably just go for an s rank though because I can’t be bothered to restart after dying on Sisyphus on a good run or having a few seconds off from P
Great guide! For Panopticon though, I'd only recommend killing the Face eye - horizontal and vertical Virtue beams can be dodged relatively easily with dashes/sliding so damage from those isn't too much of a worry, and Whiplashing from eye to eye during the mortars is much easier than rocket rides
Very interesting video which is going to be useful when I try P ranking this level, however I feel like the text sections towards the end (and especially towards the Sisyphus fight) vanish way too quickly. I’m halfway done reading them and they just disappear. Other than that, it’s a nice breakdown
I didn’t know the HM idol opened after the sentries. Also I found strafing around the arena after clearing the virtues to be good for the cerberus mass wave pre patch
hey, in the room with the immortal stalker, during wave three where there are three mercies, you can take out two at once by aligning a proper railcannon. It's super quick and easy, even if technically not the most efficient use of the weapon.
Two lil snip-bits of info: 1. The Sawblade Launcher can also be used in the bossfight, while it's not direct damage and might not land, the dmg for it is exceptional. 2. Rockets also get attracted by nails, use this to your advantage. (3 rockets on the ground would break it, and ~2 midair would break it.)
other tips: you can drill railcannon a idoled mindlfayer from the start so it can't teleport and will get stuck behind, which is a easy kill parry and electric railcannon are your best friends in here magnetic on sisyphus and a burst of nails just to keep track of where he teleported to scrongling enemies is a valid strat ignore the eyes, just damage the panopticon enough since the healing phase is the trigger for sissyphys spawn
I've noticed that Sisyphus struggles a lot of with diagonal movement. For example, his 5 hit combo that finishes with an overhead kick can be easily parried and dodged at the same time by jumping to the side and torwards him. His clap is also dodgeable with this logic. I also recommend interrupting his "this will hurt explosion" since it's a BIG opening for damage, just parry whenever his eyes flash. Staying on the ground is a big survival tip, whenever you lose sight of him just jump, and inmediately slam back to the ground after the shockwave.
yo btw at 2:00 i recommend doing the funny whiplash then shotgun swap repeatedly on the mindflayers its really effective and my friends and i call it the hum-
another tip for the hell mortars in the panopticon fight: they dont last long so just go ontop of the panopticon and have them pass through it, mentions it during the terminal entry also you dont have to kill the eyes, just damage it and sisyphus will come out faster
Here is an advice: right before entering the room with the two idol mindflayers shoot your screwdriver to the one who is already with you and rapidly enter the room, that way you will only have to deal with one. P.D: When you finish the room you have to go to the entrance to the room to kill the mindflayer
You prolly know by now, but you can parry almost every attack he does, especially after this patch that made his 2nd phase as parryable as first. The 'this will hurt' is easy free damage (and prevents him from exploding, unless this was changed) also nice vid. came here not for advice but just to watch, and still learned a thing or two.
1:50 actually a great strategy against Mindflayers is to whiplash them and and blast them with a shotgun shot and KB, while also using the shockwave from KB to keep yourself safe from homing projectiles. Also on the Sisyphus Prime part (7:01) I recommend setting up a sawblade trap, throwing 4 coins into the air DURING the cutscene, then SKIPPING the cutscene and shooting the coins with piercer's charge shot (Slab version is better for that), after which you can follow-up with a railcoin. If you're lucky and do everything correctly, you should be able to skip the first phase entirely.
fun tip i've learned while trying to P-rank: Sisyphus completely falls over to both the saw and the screwdriver surprisingly. I open with a saw trap + railcoin then stick a screwdriver on him and as long as you're somewhat good at parrying then he'll almost phase by the time the screwdriver is done. The hard part is setting up ANOTHER saw trap mid-fight. So i just like to play the long game.
The more i try (and fail) at P-ranks the more i'm realizing sisyphus was probably coded to be a "no breathing room" type fight. The closer you are the more parries you can hit and the longer you can keep him in the sawtrap and leech off your own screwdriver.
1:55 for the mindflayers, I recommend learning the instakill timing. I personally find instakilling with the malicious rail the easiest of them, as it can be done from any position and at the most consistent timing. So, if there is an alive mindflayer, and you happen to have a rail charge that's currently sitting without a better use, I would try to perform the instakill rather than go for a railcoin or a drill.
you don't need an instakill if you can parry the blue orbs that are slow as fuck to get you back to 100 (or 50 because I can only maneuver with the whiplash) health
Quick question: why not use the sawblades? Or at least swap to them before the Sussypuss fight starts? They do increased damage to him, I'm pretty sure literally 3x the damage. When I use them they take out a quarter of his health in an instant.
i like starting p rank bossfights with a 4 coin slab revolver ultraricoshot. it's incredible how much damage a slab URC does, a lot of people are sleeping on it ive seen it take out half a gabe phase. plus, if you skip the cutscene, you have another 4 coins for railcoining/coinadding
Just adding a few tips on here: There's some kind of bug, probably, that allows you to fight one Mindflayer in their arena. You need to shoot the Green Railcannnon (idk what it's called) to the Mindflayer that is chasing you, and quickly enter the arena. The one chasing you will get stuck at the hall while you only have to fight only 1 Mindflayer at the time. When you finish you need to use Projectile Boost to kill the remaining Mindflayer. Use this while you can because it probably would get patched. Secondly, for the Insurrectionist you can fight only one by using your Rocket Launcher Ride, you need to go to the left abyss and wait until the second Insurrectionist arrives, he will get instakilled by the abyss, similar to killing him by making him fall through the glass of his respective level
That's a nice guide, but there is one more tip. You can save some time if you kill 2 virtues with one railgun shot, which is safe to do everywhere except the blood tunnel.
hey, a good strategy i have is saving the railgun in the first part of the blood tunnel (3:08) and using it in the second part (3:27) with a nuke, that way you push back the sentries killing them instantly and damage the cerberi enough to finish them off with a couple projectile boosts and rocket launcher
if you whiplash straight to the maurice and kill him, the shockwave knocks the 2 sentries up to their death, basically clearing the room instantly just make sure to be careful when whiplashing to the maurice, that or you can rocket-ride towards him
You can overpump once you enter the blood tunnel which will kill maurice while also taking the virtues down with the shock wave, simply put maurice is top priority for chain reactions in blood tunnel
Its really interesting seeing how everyone handles these levels - clearly we all do it differently. Personally, I think killing the double mindflayers is a lot easier than dealing with all the virtues and maurices at blue skull area, and the blood tunnels I find to be INFINITELY worse than the stalker section
Tip with sysyphus, try to parry with the core eject shotgun. Punch+shoot when he does a parriable attack, also, you know you parry when pissy goes ''Hm..''
I don’t use any HUD at all, not even the crosshair or style meter. I only use the circle in the middle for health and stamina because V1 is a machine and i do need some way to tell my current state
Im pretty late to the party, but theres a strat i use in the 2 mindflayer room, when the sentry appears you gotta get the two swordsmachines in a line and just slide below them, if done right both the mindflayers and the sentry will instakill the two swordsmachines, giving you more spare time, it is kinda unreliable due to relying on the AI
on the second fight of the blood tunnell id recommend doing another core nuke, itll blow the sentries into the wall killing them instantly and do a fat chunk of damage to the cerberi
Thanks for your tips and your time! I would like to give you back something in exchange (aside from a like, of course): when displaying text on screen, make sure to have it show enough time for you, the video creator, to read it 3 times at a somewhat quick pace. That way it will be easier for viewers to read everything in full. Again, thanks and have a good day!
One trick in the insurrectionists is to rocket ride to over the install area on the side to the arena and get closer to the spawn area of them, one will spawn normally and the other will immediately die, leaving you with having to deal with only one, (there's a way to do this with both of them but I'm not sure on how to do it consistently)
I can't p-rank this stage for the life of me, but something I learned is if you're far away and he winds up the giant explosion (when he says, "This will hurt") you can grapple to him and parry him.
I have noticed not being able to see my health bar helps me play better, no health bar means I don't know if I'm low, so I don't panic while fighting ignorance = fearless no hesitation to go in. 89 restarts
I'm incredibly surprised you didn't parry KS pretty much at all, especially since all the stuff he uses to attack needs stamina to be dodged, hence the need to parry for the HP and stamina recharge. I only beat him twice, Im MILES away from a P rank, but I just want to say Im genuinely surprised you can get by the way you did. I parry 2/3rd's of his attacks, telegraphed or not, and I still can barely kill him. Kudos to you.
a p rank on p-2 doesnt stand for perfect or prime anymore, it stands for pain
pain 2: the sequel
nuh uh it stands for piss
@@randomshitpostchannel pee rank
P: PERFECT HATRED.
it stands for penis though
Ultrakill : the game where you pranked someone until they are ceased from existence
on various occasions
pranked?
p-ranked?
@@DamageMaximo both tbh
Pranked!!!!!!
@@kingkaydengaming2786*monke spawns*
Great advice, however some sections fade away too quickly to be paused on first time round
I thought it was just me, how does this person read so fast lmao
Strange how I find the hideoua mass room the easier of the two combat arenas.
I cannot deal with the two mindflayers
I feel like they are too inconsistent compared to hideous and if you played a lot of cybergrind you shouldnt have problem with last room
SAME
The mindflayers to me were the easiest things in the world, HM room took me like an hour! Huh?
The hideous mass are way more ignorable than the two invinicible mindflayers
thr mindflayers literally fuck me over every time
Protips for saving stamina while fighting Sisyphus:
Jumping over his ground slam shockwave and whiplashing to him is a nice idea if you're not scarred of hard damage.
When he uses "you can't escape" it's good to keep track of where he teleports and then slide to the sides just like when you fight Minos (though you might need to dash the first hit). Apply the tip above to the last hit in that combo.
"This will hurt" can be 100% canceled when you parry it about 1/2 second before he explodes. Quite easy because he tends to teleport right next to you before charging it.
Idk if anyone finds this useful. I use it myself and it really helps me.
you don't even need to slide to avoid minos' combos, just walk sideways looking at him while he does the "thy end is now" or "prepare thyself"
You got any tip for countering the "Destroy" move? Apparently it can be parried but he usually casts it when he's far away from you.
@@Hyper_1989 dash jump away, and stomp when you're far enough from the attack, staying grounded makes both prime souls easier to dodge
also, for a free health pack, when the "you can't escape!" happens, dash once to the right, and then every time he attacks, slide to the left, and for his final attack just slap him in the balls
@@Hyper_1989 dash into him when he does it and then attempt to parry, btw just get ready for another dash use
“If you know what to do” that is LITERALLY why I’m here
I'm genuinely impressed at the skill of the ultrakill community to p-rank p-2 in a matter of *days* after the update
My friend p-ranked it the day it came out. Idk wtf he was smoking.
Are you friends with a speedrunner or herbmassiah?
Hey, veteran here.
If you get your hands on the sawblade launcher, it is a big chonky damage output when you use it with magnets.
For example, sticking some on PANOPTICON will do juicy damage over time while you can add up some projboosts etc (i usually finish PANOPTICON off without bothering with the eyes)
During the cutscene you can do the infamous sawtrap stacking by refreshing the magnets (make sure not to place over 20 of the sawblades!)
Four coin toss + slab piercer shot does a lot more damage than a railgun with four coins so you can do the coinslab + rail combo for good starting damage
dodging all the attacks in the fight is fun but there's a gigantic cheese to him: dash-storage. Dashing and *immediately* getting into sliding position lets you keep the invincibility frames given by the dash for as long as you are sliding. Proj boost, rockets, sawblade launching, coin shooting are viable to damage him in this case, but keep in mind that you don't recharge stamina while sliding, so you will still need to find timings to restore the stamina while dodging some attacks
Note: I didn't remember that one mechanic before p-ranking Sisy after dozens of deaths and i kinda regret not remembering it before dumping lots of time into the battle xd
they also dont have the slab revolver which is kinda shocking
Yeah the sawblade is a god send in this levels especially the overheat, because that thing can dish out some damage
Unfortunately, dash storage has been nerfed so you lose invincibility frames while sliding but at 20% of the speed than just dashing
@@soulassassin3962 yeah man, i've seen the patch notes not long after posting this comment. OH WELL HOW UNFORTUNATE, I STILL HAVE MY P
@@soulassassin3962 Wait, so does sliding after a dash not provide any increase in i-frames now?
This is a surprisingly high quality guide. Very impressive, though i will say some text sections vanish a bit too quickly. We need a little more time to read that stuff, its all very important.
Also, another tip for beatin the panopticon in time is to force it to heal asap, it will make sisyphus come out of it
amazing p-2 prank, 1 minor issue: default piercer
It's the heresy layer after all
@@risu2312seeing that left me with PERFECT HATRED
lessons I learned from this video:
- I am bad at rocket launcher usage
- I am bad at hitting core nukes
- I am bad at managing stamina
- I am bad at dodging
- I am bad at style
- I am bad at aiming
- I am bad at the game
- I should use the overheat nailgun
- default piercer
i loved this commentary and the appreciation of sisyphus' monologues and the terminal at the end
"current objective: survive"
halo reach players: sweats profusely
Tip: The mindflayers are your best friends. Rather then just dodging them, parry them for a quick heal. You can also stand behind enemies and they will get hit by the orbs.
best guide i've seen so far advice wise, my main issue really is just getting to sisyphus and FP2 cause i'm used to the open space of cybergrind so having a plan of action makes the mental switch over quicker, thx
Nice video! You seriously have a lot of potential my friend! I wish you great amounts of happiness and success! :)
Sisyphus’ strategy is like Minos’. If your in the air, your in his territory, and he will kick you around. If you’re on the floor you can slide around, but in the air, you’re limited by dashes only.
this guide is amazing, it's nice to see a good run among the regular cheesing
Something that helped me a lot in my fights with the big man is using the Screwdriver, which might be the only time in the game I think that weapon shines. Though you do lose some damage, I preferred it over railcoins for three reasons: (1) You’re going to be shaky and nervous, so it’s more mechanically simplistic than shooting a railcoin, which during setup might’ve made you look away from Sisyphus; (2) Passive hp regen since Sisyphus glues himself to you. There are plenty of times where you’ll be getting knocked around by a slightly off-camera Sisyphus and the hp receive might allow you to take another hit while you hard focus on dodging; (3) The Screwdriver is loud and pinned to the big man, so it allows you to audibly track his teleporting a bit better if you listen for it. Also, and I haven’t tested this, since you can “parry” the Screwdriver to end it early, that might refresh stamina after the patches. I tended to let the Screwdriver run its full course because I felt much safer from dying to combos with it up.
the screwdriver saved my scaredy ass with minos and sisyphus. i'm not good with regen on the faster bosses but they do to come to you making the blood fountain a lifesaver
you're a godsend
great gameplay too
subbed for more
This is an amazing video! Thanks for the great tips and strategies. I will now game the gamers, and subsequently take my rightfull place as a gamer.
This guide was super helpful, but I recommend leaving the texts on screen for longer, or putting a transcript in the description/a pinned comment
My tips for P-Ranking P-2
Level
-Have an opening strategy for every room you enter. Anything you can do to instanly kill enemies or deal massive damage to strong enemies. As an example, against the cerberi, and later the sentries and swordsmachine, I used a Slab Sharpshooter and Electric rail from the side, to put them all at really low health right from the start. In the blood tunnel, try Nuking when enemies spawn, hopefully you can knock them into the blood and kill them
-prioritize certain enemies. The virtues in the second phase of the mindflayer room are always annoying, take them both out with your railcannon if you have it
-parry attacks whenever you can. Swordsmachines and Mindflayers always have attacks that are fairly predictable to parry, you should take advantage if this for damage and health
-learn the ferryman. The ferryman is easily one of the most challenging enemies that spawn in this. You should learn to parry their attacks, it'll help out a lot
Boss
-practice sisyphus A LOT. You should know what to do for each of his attacks, and try to time your parries.
-save stamina by spamming the slide button instead of holding it. By doing this you will slowly recover stamina instead of not recovering it at all. Being able to dash and dodge damage is very important in this fight, you should always be careful with your stamina
-go for big setups. Use the saw/nail gun to set up a massive trap for sisyphus, use coins to either railcoin or slabcoin sisyphus, maybe even freezeframe some rockets, anythig to get more damage helps
-consider using the screwdriver. I usually never use the screwdriver, but using it on sisyphus to make recovering health easier is huge.
Basically: practice everything a lot, it just takes time and patience. Also take breaks, don't stress yourself out over this.
i just seize and hope it works(and it did just now)
2:38 you can also if you want to be very stylish reel back in the cannonball with whiplash and go for a second swing at the other one to stun them both, also using the overheat default is quite a interesting choice, I went with the alt overheat and magnet for my p rank
I've been trying to p-rank this level for the better part of two weeks now, biggest hurdle for me is the room with the two mind flayers. surprisingly not the part where I actually fight those, but the Maurices and Virtues part, but if I'm seeing this right, over pump should instantly kill the virtues, so I'll give that a shot next.
great guide, hope it can help me finally achieve my goal!
Additional tip: the eyes can be used as sources for grappling, cause they're considered as heavy enemies, allowing you to somewhat skip the instant rocket ride training. Another thing is that tho you can, you needn't kill the eyes, the panopticon dies anyway after it reaches the heal moment cuz of sisyphus.
Edit: another idea i picked up from a different player, is using the green variant of the railcannon, granting you a full heal whenever you get close to him
I feel like what I learned the most from P-2, especially on Violent, is how to store and use dash I-frames and know what enemies to target. Almost every arena puts you in these areas where you have to dodge a shitton of projectiles and enemies where your best bet to not take damage, is to use your dashes perfectly. Even Sisyphus himself seems to be in the incarnate of that, the terminal literally tells you to learn to use your I-frames in your dashes to avoid things like his shockwaves, and for me, those I-frames are used in a lot of my strats I use to beat the level, such as whiplashing onto Malicious Faces and dashing when they shoot me to avoid the damage so I can get in close with shotguns, and dashing through projectiles the mind flayer shoots so that they attack other enemies like Turrets and Swordmachines.
I've gotta question, why would you want to kill panopticon eyes if you can just damage the panopticon itself and speed up the time it takes for Sisyphus to break out
As long as there alive you cannot heal at all, you get instant hard damage when they look at you
@@kirbly2854 won't need healing if you can quickly dispatch it but I get your deal
they also work as good hookpoints
If you're good at slide jumping, you can ignore them. If you have the Sawgun, stick some to Panopticon for the extra style and then just slide jump around the room to avoid damage until the phase is over.
Also, at the beginning of the fight Panopticon doesn't attack you, and it's a good opportunity to jump on the top of it, do railcoin and then shotgun swap + KB spam until holy beam or black hole eventually drive you away
Its way easier to just throw some saws on the Panopticon and use the eyes to grapple around the arena. You'll basically never get hit.
That was a really good run. One thing I would suggest tho is getting more comfortable with parrying. That will make Sisyphus way easier. I beat him once with just the feedbacker so you just have to learn his attacks more. Parries give stamina now so if you party him enough, then you never have to worry about stamina.
For the panopticon bit, I just destroy the little Maurices then whiplash to the eyes to avoid the mortars.
Having HUD (besides style) off because your crosshair outline already displays the same information without having to look down seems pretty vital
Many times during any boss fight I would look down. See my health critically low, panic, lose focus, and die trying to heal it off. For the sole purpose of reducing distractions and maintaining focus. I might go ahead and try something like your HUD layout myself
Also thanks for the guide! Lots of good tips. Only drawback is some text moves on too quickly in some segments but still overall a great and informative video.
The fact he did it while using the normal piercer and the normal nailgun proves that this dude is insane
I feel like with videos like these, people tend to pigeon hole themselves to copy exactly how u got ur p rank. But i think it is fun to experiment the weapons itself and then attempt to do a p rank on ur own. Like i have tried usin the blue nailgun now to try out new things and it is pretty fun!
I'd reccomend the saw guns over the nailguns, the traps are useful in 90% of rooms in this level and when sysiphus is doing his speech.
That mid fight rocket riding is nutty
Good guide! I’ll probably just go for an s rank though because I can’t be bothered to restart after dying on Sisyphus on a good run or having a few seconds off from P
Great guide! For Panopticon though, I'd only recommend killing the Face eye - horizontal and vertical Virtue beams can be dodged relatively easily with dashes/sliding so damage from those isn't too much of a worry, and Whiplashing from eye to eye during the mortars is much easier than rocket rides
rocket rides are cool as fuck tho
Youre a legend dude 😊
Excellent guide!
Fellow no-HUD user, you might get some use out of my RcHud mod.
Very interesting video which is going to be useful when I try P ranking this level, however I feel like the text sections towards the end (and especially towards the Sisyphus fight) vanish way too quickly. I’m halfway done reading them and they just disappear. Other than that, it’s a nice breakdown
amazing run
Nice to find someone that appreciates how cool Sisyphus is. I personally like him more than Minos
In the first section of the blood hall, you can knuckleblaster punch the sentry to the red mist, same with the two sentries ahead.
I didn’t know the HM idol opened after the sentries. Also I found strafing around the arena after clearing the virtues to be good for the cerberus mass wave pre patch
0:41 the most brutal sound for the overheat nailgun i ever heard on ultrakill (without powerups)
hey, in the room with the immortal stalker, during wave three where there are three mercies, you can take out two at once by aligning a proper railcannon.
It's super quick and easy, even if technically not the most efficient use of the weapon.
Two lil snip-bits of info:
1. The Sawblade Launcher can also be used in the bossfight, while it's not direct damage and might not land, the dmg for it is exceptional.
2. Rockets also get attracted by nails, use this to your advantage. (3 rockets on the ground would break it, and ~2 midair would break it.)
backwards rocket jumping is a pretty cool method i’ve seen used as well
I love you sir. You are my hero.
Also, question, I have trouble swapping to weapons I need to use quickly, is there any way to improve on that?
you can set custom keybinds in settings
other tips:
you can drill railcannon a idoled mindlfayer from the start so it can't teleport and will get stuck behind, which is a easy kill
parry and electric railcannon are your best friends in here
magnetic on sisyphus and a burst of nails just to keep track of where he teleported to
scrongling enemies is a valid strat
ignore the eyes, just damage the panopticon enough since the healing phase is the trigger for sissyphys spawn
It's impressive you managed to do this without the saw blade. I didn't think Nailguns would do very well with single-target damage combos
the nailgun is okay, not that insane for damage or anything and takes quite a while to do good damage, but the sawblade is infinitely better for sure
Btw you can also use the cannonball for nukes, just gotta time to shot it after the rebound
I've noticed that Sisyphus struggles a lot of with diagonal movement. For example, his 5 hit combo that finishes with an overhead kick can be easily parried and dodged at the same time by jumping to the side and torwards him. His clap is also dodgeable with this logic. I also recommend interrupting his "this will hurt explosion" since it's a BIG opening for damage, just parry whenever his eyes flash.
Staying on the ground is a big survival tip, whenever you lose sight of him just jump, and inmediately slam back to the ground after the shockwave.
after dealing with the first flayer u can use any explosion based insta on the other if ur good on time
a strategy i found to work during flesh panopticon is to slide jump in circles. that's enough to avoid the homing bombs and the virtue things
Hey, I know it sounds dumb, but what's the key to change weapon variants? (Like Nailgun and Sawblade launcher) Thank you in advance.
yo btw at 2:00 i recommend doing the funny whiplash then shotgun swap repeatedly on the mindflayers
its really effective and my friends and i call it the hum-
another tip for the hell mortars in the panopticon fight:
they dont last long so just go ontop of the panopticon and have them pass through it, mentions it during the terminal entry
also you dont have to kill the eyes, just damage it and sisyphus will come out faster
Is it just me or the gameplay sounds bass boosted? Cool guide btw
Here is an advice: right before entering the room with the two idol mindflayers shoot your screwdriver to the one who is already with you and rapidly enter the room, that way you will only have to deal with one.
P.D: When you finish the room you have to go to the entrance to the room to kill the mindflayer
You prolly know by now, but you can parry almost every attack he does, especially after this patch that made his 2nd phase as parryable as first.
The 'this will hurt' is easy free damage (and prevents him from exploding, unless this was changed)
also nice vid. came here not for advice but just to watch, and still learned a thing or two.
The audio is WILDIN'
1:50 actually a great strategy against Mindflayers is to whiplash them and and blast them with a shotgun shot and KB, while also using the shockwave from KB to keep yourself safe from homing projectiles.
Also on the Sisyphus Prime part (7:01) I recommend setting up a sawblade trap, throwing 4 coins into the air DURING the cutscene, then SKIPPING the cutscene and shooting the coins with piercer's charge shot (Slab version is better for that), after which you can follow-up with a railcoin. If you're lucky and do everything correctly, you should be able to skip the first phase entirely.
4:47 “this is where pain starts”
Bro, this is literally easiest part in this room
"and i was able to do the double trouble mindflayer part easily no sweat"
*casually hides the 514 restarts that i did on violent*
fun tip i've learned while trying to P-rank:
Sisyphus completely falls over to both the saw and the screwdriver surprisingly. I open with a saw trap + railcoin then stick a screwdriver on him and as long as you're somewhat good at parrying then he'll almost phase by the time the screwdriver is done. The hard part is setting up ANOTHER saw trap mid-fight. So i just like to play the long game.
The more i try (and fail) at P-ranks the more i'm realizing sisyphus was probably coded to be a "no breathing room" type fight. The closer you are the more parries you can hit and the longer you can keep him in the sawtrap and leech off your own screwdriver.
1:55 for the mindflayers, I recommend learning the instakill timing. I personally find instakilling with the malicious rail the easiest of them, as it can be done from any position and at the most consistent timing. So, if there is an alive mindflayer, and you happen to have a rail charge that's currently sitting without a better use, I would try to perform the instakill rather than go for a railcoin or a drill.
you don't need an instakill if you can parry the blue orbs that are slow as fuck to get you back to 100 (or 50 because I can only maneuver with the whiplash) health
Quick question: why not use the sawblades? Or at least swap to them before the Sussypuss fight starts? They do increased damage to him, I'm pretty sure literally 3x the damage. When I use them they take out a quarter of his health in an instant.
attractor nailgun? heresy
Prepatch Sisyphus prime on Violent made me wanna drink
i like starting p rank bossfights with a 4 coin slab revolver ultraricoshot. it's incredible how much damage a slab URC does, a lot of people are sleeping on it ive seen it take out half a gabe phase. plus, if you skip the cutscene, you have another 4 coins for railcoining/coinadding
Ay man thanks!!
Just adding a few tips on here:
There's some kind of bug, probably, that allows you to fight one Mindflayer in their arena. You need to shoot the Green Railcannnon (idk what it's called) to the Mindflayer that is chasing you, and quickly enter the arena. The one chasing you will get stuck at the hall while you only have to fight only 1 Mindflayer at the time. When you finish you need to use Projectile Boost to kill the remaining Mindflayer. Use this while you can because it probably would get patched.
Secondly, for the Insurrectionist you can fight only one by using your Rocket Launcher Ride, you need to go to the left abyss and wait until the second Insurrectionist arrives, he will get instakilled by the abyss, similar to killing him by making him fall through the glass of his respective level
That's a nice guide, but there is one more tip. You can save some time if you kill 2 virtues with one railgun shot, which is safe to do everywhere except the blood tunnel.
hey, a good strategy i have is saving the railgun in the first part of the blood tunnel (3:08) and using it in the second part (3:27) with a nuke, that way you push back the sentries killing them instantly and damage the cerberi enough to finish them off with a couple projectile boosts and rocket launcher
if you whiplash straight to the maurice and kill him, the shockwave knocks the 2 sentries up to their death, basically clearing the room instantly
just make sure to be careful when whiplashing to the maurice, that or you can rocket-ride towards him
You can overpump once you enter the blood tunnel which will kill maurice while also taking the virtues down with the shock wave, simply put maurice is top priority for chain reactions in blood tunnel
me watching this guide knowing full well that i cant preform half of these tricks
They just want to live but green nailgun said: " *BRRRRRRRRRRRRR* "
Its really interesting seeing how everyone handles these levels - clearly we all do it differently. Personally, I think killing the double mindflayers is a lot easier than dealing with all the virtues and maurices at blue skull area, and the blood tunnels I find to be INFINITELY worse than the stalker section
Tip with sysyphus, try to parry with the core eject shotgun. Punch+shoot when he does a parriable attack, also, you know you parry when pissy goes ''Hm..''
I don’t use any HUD at all, not even the crosshair or style meter. I only use the circle in the middle for health and stamina because V1 is a machine and i do need some way to tell my current state
Im pretty late to the party, but theres a strat i use in the 2 mindflayer room, when the sentry appears you gotta get the two swordsmachines in a line and just slide below them, if done right both the mindflayers and the sentry will instakill the two swordsmachines, giving you more spare time, it is kinda unreliable due to relying on the AI
on the second fight of the blood tunnell id recommend doing another core nuke, itll blow the sentries into the wall killing them instantly and do a fat chunk of damage to the cerberi
You can also kill Maurice there and the shockwave from it falling will launch the Sentries up to their death, saving the core nuke for the Cerberus
My favorite part about this level is the 2 cerberus that step on the snipers
Thanks for your tips and your time! I would like to give you back something in exchange (aside from a like, of course): when displaying text on screen, make sure to have it show enough time for you, the video creator, to read it 3 times at a somewhat quick pace. That way it will be easier for viewers to read everything in full. Again, thanks and have a good day!
I just wanna know how. What got nailed into your head to be able to do this?
My first p-2 attempt took 245 restarts and 114 minutes
Don't stress failing a lot, that's the point. This level is supposed to be hard.
You can do it.
A tip for sisyphus: when he says "thiis will hurt" its better to parry the explosion rather to escape from it, is more effective at 2nd phase
One trick in the insurrectionists is to rocket ride to over the install area on the side to the arena and get closer to the spawn area of them, one will spawn normally and the other will immediately die, leaving you with having to deal with only one, (there's a way to do this with both of them but I'm not sure on how to do it consistently)
Wait what did hakita remove or add in the patch you mention? Because I did notice a new door to skip right to the boss fight
removed 1 cerb from last arena in p-2, i think he made the ferrymen a little squishier too
Hakita also made every parriable attack in Sisyphus' fight parriable in Phase 2 again. You may rejoice.
You can also no longer cheese the idols by knuckleblasting in a specific angle
I HEAVILY recommend parrying his "This will hurt" attack, its just a free parry, free damage, and a free heal
damn bro these subtitles are going faster than sisyphus
I can't p-rank this stage for the life of me, but something I learned is if you're far away and he winds up the giant explosion (when he says, "This will hurt") you can grapple to him and parry him.
W guide
bros computer is DRENCHED in sweat
I have noticed not being able to see my health bar helps me play better,
no health bar means I don't know if I'm low, so I don't panic while fighting
ignorance = fearless
no hesitation to go in.
89 restarts
I'm incredibly surprised you didn't parry KS pretty much at all, especially since all the stuff he uses to attack needs stamina to be dodged, hence the need to parry for the HP and stamina recharge. I only beat him twice, Im MILES away from a P rank, but I just want to say Im genuinely surprised you can get by the way you did. I parry 2/3rd's of his attacks, telegraphed or not, and I still can barely kill him. Kudos to you.
I usually throw a nuke at 3:05 to instakill both of the virtues and (sometimes) hit the faces with their own shots
I have question for p-2 players it jsut me or does the gauntlet seem harder than the 2 bosses themselves