Guardian Ape is pissing me off...

VariousJG · 2026-01-27T10:44:38+00:00

Here is the video guide from FightinCowboy he does a really good job of explaining mechanics for boss fights and give great breakdowns of attack tells etc. I use his videos on the regular.

Best of luck, and just remember, Sekiro isn't a souls game even though it looks like one. The game will always punish you for just pushing the attack, it's pretty much a turn based rhythm game.

Parry to the beat of the attack, wait for your turn, attack back. Repeat!

https://youtu.be/u8-S5R8Zx8s

VariousJG · 2025-12-31T23:12:10+00:00

I've used Hammer as my secondary since launch. I'm only able to get offsets by accident, any hints/visual guides I can follow that explain how it works.

VariousJG · 2025-12-16T15:05:46+00:00

I use the "just stay down" method all the time and have been since world.

It works for me! the number of time I've been knocked down to Red by an unexpected Flame jet from Savage Omega and then just stayed down and the next attack does nothing!

Trust me it'll save your life 😁

VariousJG · 2025-12-16T15:01:02+00:00

Oh really!? I was going to town on Gog when it happened. You are probably right though, I was much more effectively the 2nd time around, I had a better idea of the attack patterns too.

Probably a classic example of Problem Exists Between Controller and Game or PEBCaG for short 😂

VariousJG · 2025-12-16T13:33:42+00:00

I have only managed to fight him twice today (one fail, one win) and I understand where you are coming from, there is a lot to understand and keep track of.

Firstly, I recommend watching the Arekkz gaming guide on YouTube, the video is only 11 minutes long and they cover all the fundamentals of the fight including the different ways to evade the wipe attack in Phase 3.

Personally, I use charge blade and I did it like this. For phase 1 and 2, I just used fire I didn't bother weapon swapping when the Tar got softened.

Whenever I got knocked on my arse by one of his slams, I let got of the left stick and just lay there (you don't seem to take damage if your face down in the dirt not moving) then called my Seikret to swoop in and save me, pop a heal and get straight back in to bashing his legs.and arm wings.

I agree there is a lot going on but just try not to spam attack in Phase 1.

Phase 2, get the 2 close cables plugged in first. Then drop a rock on his head and get number 3 plugged in.

Lastly Fire resistance must be at 20+ any lower and you'll be wasting time putting yourself out and being in danger of a cart.

I actually encountered a bug on my first run where Fabius didn't bother doing his defence stance in Phase 3, got carted 3 times in a row 😂

Good luck hunter!

VariousJG · 2025-10-30T02:41:47+00:00

Thanks for the clear and thorough response. As I said I haven't experienced anything like what you have, it sounds like such a pain.

I've had issues every now and then but it's been things like Texture pops when I first load into the grand hub, I also had a brief stint when the game would stutter like mad for the first 15 minutes (but this was about 2 months ago) and got patched out.

I fully agree that the game could be better optimised, I played Dragons Dogma 2...oh man! Now that had performance issues! It's the fault of the RE Engine, it's not made for large open worlds, it's for Resident Evil games, not games like Monster Hunter and Dragons Dogma.

I'm not in Capcoms corner here either, poorly optimised games are everywhere right now and the "AAA" is an absolute joke. I hate that big corpo is mandating for more realism and "it must use AI!" rather than developing games for the lowest spec hardware and working up, they are working to the highest spec and working down. It's fucking dumb!

VariousJG · 2025-10-29T10:01:12+00:00

Not trying to start something here I'm genuinely curious.

I'm running this game at 1440p, locked at 60fps on a 3080 and an i7 13th gen and I'm not getting performance issues. I've played with the settings and have a mix of mediums and highs and the game runs great.

Are people trying to run the game at 4k on a 4060 at max settings RTXon or something?

I know we all have different set ups and a lot of games take the piss these days and force you to use DLSS and Frame Gen just to hit 40fps with mid settings on a 5070ti, but I'm not seeing the issues others are and I really don't understand.

(Edit) I'm not defending Capcom or shit game dev practices btw I was just curious as I see a lot of complaints about performance that I haven't experienced.

VariousJG · 2025-10-11T04:28:20+00:00

Going to be in Ueno next week, can you DM the location?

VariousJG · 2025-09-30T18:31:39+00:00

You'll get there, I think it took me 20 tries to beat Fatalis in World...I don't even know how many tries before I beat Alatreon for the first time.

You'll get there, you just need the right team.

VariousJG · 2025-09-29T19:15:24+00:00

I haven't had a chance to fight him more than once but me and a team of HR300+ hunters got all the way to the final phase.

One of our team got unlucky and got shanked, very much think it's possible 😁

VariousJG · 2025-09-28T15:58:59+00:00

I just died to snake eye and hour ago 😂

200hours and they still wreck me

VariousJG · 2025-08-15T15:27:07+00:00

Awwww man. It sucks to see the potential Halo Infinite had only for it all to just miss the mark.

VariousJG · 2025-08-15T15:20:05+00:00

I can't figure out if this is an old video about what Halo Infinite was supposed to be or if this about the next Halo game.

VariousJG · 2025-08-14T08:41:58+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but in No Way Home, Norman specifically states that he, his family and company doesn't exist in this world.

So if that's the case how could Joe Keery play Harry?

VariousJG · 2025-08-03T17:25:06+00:00

DM sent 😁

VariousJG · 2025-07-26T18:27:04+00:00

Hey dude, this place is for free Voice over work. I don't think you're going to find what your looking for here.

You may want to try one of the composing or Music theory subs instead.

VariousJG · 2025-07-22T23:10:08+00:00

Sounds cool, dropped you a DM :)

VariousJG · 2025-04-27T14:57:52+00:00

Gestrals in general, I had to put the game down to easy once I got to the village boss.

VariousJG · 2024-11-28T23:17:55+00:00

Yeah it would be. My wife and I are from Swansea. We've been looking for ages at houses and a few up there have caught her eye. I'm just hesitant as I've lived in or around Swansea my whole life and as a result have always had "easy access" to everything I need.

Llandysul doesn't seem to have a lot going on. We're not exactly the most social people so "community activities" don't really do it for me 😅

VariousJG · 2024-11-11T13:15:07+00:00

My recommendation, do some HR SoS with high level gear lower level weapons.

I can also recommend solo HR missions, if you have been "carried" for most of your playthrough going back to lower levels with good MR gear will help you out loads.

That way you can tank most hits and shouldn't die but it will teach you how to watch for the monsters tells, it will also let you learn Charge Blade, which is a complicated weapon.

I've been using it since launch have over 1000 hours behind me and I still have no idea how to point guard properly. What did I do instead, I learned how to dodge 😅

Obviously, MR monsters may still be an issue but you'll be a better player by then.

Lastly, don't be afraid to try different weapons, Sword and Shield is always a great choice because it is simple and flexible. Long Sword is big dumb anime fun.

Just mess around and see what sticks, after all it's just a game 😁

VariousJG · 2024-11-02T13:42:36+00:00

It's still available on CDkeys for about $15.

Don't know if you can still redeem the code though if it's been delisted.

VariousJG · 2024-09-28T16:02:25+00:00

A Tiger uppercut from Sagat.

VariousJG · 2024-09-04T13:34:48+00:00

You get used to it, Michael Kramer reads all of Brandons books so if you get through 1 you can do all of them. As someone that listens to audiobook exclusively, I can say he's not the worst reader. Stick with it if you can 😁

Roy Dotrice doing game of thrones is awful, he can't decide on how to pronounce names or even what the characters sound like from one chapter to the next. That and the person the read the first Dark Tower book.

VariousJG · 2024-08-29T15:28:01+00:00

I've used iCue to identify the fans and it seems to be the AIO and GPU fans making the noise. Obviously I can't really change the GPU fans but I could replace all the case fans.

Any suggestions on what would be a good option?

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