Only a couple minutes in, and he’s already a lot more aggressive, but not sped up to the point of insanity. Makes for a pretty intense looking battle where you can’t just WAIL on him a bunch, and I like that about this.
What would make this fight better is Raiden gaining infinite ripper mode, like in Monsoon's fight. Edit: 3:01 I love how Armstrong just stops you from dealing any more damage against him when you stop him from healing.
Watching the full video through, there’s a massive shift in tone here vs the vanilla Armstrong battle. The original version felt like a triumphant and heroic battle to the death for the fate of the world, against a punishing but fair opponent. Here, it feels like a tense battle for survival against a Juggernaut of an opponent, where what little moments you have to breathe are just ones where he’s trying to aggressively beat you into a bloody paste. Between the new attack patterns, the new music, and how he’s presented, this is ironically the first time I’ve taken Armstrong completely seriously as a threat. “It Has To Be This Way” makes you feel like you’re about to be the new hero the world needs, but the new music just puts it into perspective how intense this guy is.
Ironically, the song is used against Urizen when Dante finally starts to overpower him with Sin devil trigger. Here, Raiden gains the murasama in order to beat Armstrong. In both cases, the hero acquires a new power up to defeat the main villain, but it won't be an easy task. One misstep and you get shredded.
Biblically accurate Armstrong Now seriously, GOAT mod, this is the real final boss that this game deserves. I think you could add 2 things for some other update: 1) The dash of the DLC. 2) Smaller Zandatsu marks like the Sundowner mod.
Jesus seeing Armstrong cancel his moves after hitting you just to follow it up with a barrage of attacks just to see if you are quick enough to react. + Can't wait to see boss raiden next
This is totally cool. Really good work you've done. Armstrong does two "flame-punch" attacks nearly back-to-back instead of a reasonable charge up time, still enters his berserk explosion phase when you cancel his healing, and my eyes might be deceiving me but his "attack range" (when he lashes out with fists and kicks) looks to be increased... on top of his more aggressive pathing. Ooooh, Blade Wolf speaks, that's actually a great way of implementing that bit of info instead of locking it behind codec. This is probably what should have been in Jetstream Sam's DLC instead of just a sped-up Armstrong. I'll also note that I agree with @josephbriggs2257; the music choice really changes the tone of the fight. Armstrong's original theme makes it sound like a final struggle between two individuals who believe in the same thing but have gone down two wildly different paths on achieving it, with Armstrong more passionate about his belief whereas Raiden's weaksauce "protect the weak" was merely a thin shield for his true Ripper side. The DMC5 theme... well, I'll be honest, I've never gotten into DMC and apart from Vergil and Nero's themes haven't listened to much of the music either. The most I've done is look up the Yamato on the wiki article and get terribly confused by it all. So, from an outsider's perspective, the change of music means that Raiden is up against an unstoppable beast of a man who will stop at nothing to bring about the America he wants to create, and that includes carving up children's bodies and minds to turn into super-soldiers, a complete and utterly depraved monster beyond redemption, more machine than man, twisted and evil. And when you defeat this guy, it's with less triumph and more "it has to be done", with not even the self-reflection that comes about in the vanilla aftermath of the fight.
I nearly ragequit while fighting him on hard difficulty... Currently playing again on very hard to get to the revengeance difficulty. This looks insane. Insanely difficult.
I know this is a very late comment, but I still find the way that you made Armstrong more difficult interesting without just buffing literally everything to an extreme. The fact Armstrong stops you from attacking after YOU cancel his healing just works better for a final boss, along with (I assume given I haven’t tried the mod) he would counter if the player tried to hit him when he’s starting up an unblockable explosion. It makes it feel like he doesn’t want Raiden to win rather than the more duel like function their fight had in the original, making a pretty interesting contrast between the two and the duel to the death with Sam earlier. Along with that, having Armstrong have his red glow throughout the fight, and having unwavering bravery from dmc 5 play(ironically the tone is way different with the track in the battle that it actually happens in.) Overall, if I can actually understand how to mod my copy of rising on my pc, then I’ll probably download this mod to give a proper final challenge for the s rank run of revengance difficulty.
@@sp00ky-tv Just wondering if you could try this improved bosses mod on a level 0 character wooden sword upgrading the sword to -5 on Revengeance difficulty is it even possible
Is there a way to mod replacement UI elements in this game? I wanted to try making one for Nintendo button layout prompts, for example, since I haven't seen one.
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I think this is how the final battle against Armstrong had to be.
0:57 That walk looks like an actual in-game cinematic.
Only a couple minutes in, and he’s already a lot more aggressive, but not sped up to the point of insanity. Makes for a pretty intense looking battle where you can’t just WAIL on him a bunch, and I like that about this.
What would make this fight better is Raiden gaining infinite ripper mode, like in Monsoon's fight.
Edit: 3:01 I love how Armstrong just stops you from dealing any more damage against him when you stop him from healing.
Thats how his nanotech is SUPPOSED to function, instead of him being open to attacks for 10 seconds straight lmao.
Watching the full video through, there’s a massive shift in tone here vs the vanilla Armstrong battle.
The original version felt like a triumphant and heroic battle to the death for the fate of the world, against a punishing but fair opponent.
Here, it feels like a tense battle for survival against a Juggernaut of an opponent, where what little moments you have to breathe are just ones where he’s trying to aggressively beat you into a bloody paste. Between the new attack patterns, the new music, and how he’s presented, this is ironically the first time I’ve taken Armstrong completely seriously as a threat.
“It Has To Be This Way” makes you feel like you’re about to be the new hero the world needs, but the new music just puts it into perspective how intense this guy is.
Ironically, the song is used against Urizen when Dante finally starts to overpower him with Sin devil trigger. Here, Raiden gains the murasama in order to beat Armstrong. In both cases, the hero acquires a new power up to defeat the main villain, but it won't be an easy task. One misstep and you get shredded.
Btw the music is not included in the mod, but I'm planning to make a DMC5 battle music mod.
@@sp00ky-tv That sounds great, really looking forward to it.
Yeah, Armstrong has always been my least favorite boss fight in this game. He lacks that "threatening aura" the other bosses have.
@@sp00ky-tv its like the mundus fight in dmc 1, you are not getting the power up to destroy the boss, you are getting it to have a chance to survive.
Plot twist: Metal Gear Rising 2 Armstrong's Revenge
True Revengance Mode.
Lore accurate Senator Armstrong fight be like:
Armstrong health bar is not his health. It's the percentage of nanobots left in his heart.
Biblically accurate Armstrong
Now seriously, GOAT mod, this is the real final boss that this game deserves.
I think you could add 2 things for some other update:
1) The dash of the DLC.
2) Smaller Zandatsu marks like the Sundowner mod.
Maybe not for the base game only for Revengeance and maybe very hard
The fact that "it has to be this way" didn't play causes me physical pain
With the amount of damage Armstrong has to sustain here to run out of stamina the whole fight now looks believable atleast.
Jesus seeing Armstrong cancel his moves after hitting you just to follow it up with a barrage of attacks just to see if you are quick enough to react. + Can't wait to see boss raiden next
This is totally cool. Really good work you've done. Armstrong does two "flame-punch" attacks nearly back-to-back instead of a reasonable charge up time, still enters his berserk explosion phase when you cancel his healing, and my eyes might be deceiving me but his "attack range" (when he lashes out with fists and kicks) looks to be increased... on top of his more aggressive pathing.
Ooooh, Blade Wolf speaks, that's actually a great way of implementing that bit of info instead of locking it behind codec.
This is probably what should have been in Jetstream Sam's DLC instead of just a sped-up Armstrong.
I'll also note that I agree with @josephbriggs2257; the music choice really changes the tone of the fight.
Armstrong's original theme makes it sound like a final struggle between two individuals who believe in the same thing but have gone down two wildly different paths on achieving it, with Armstrong more passionate about his belief whereas Raiden's weaksauce "protect the weak" was merely a thin shield for his true Ripper side.
The DMC5 theme... well, I'll be honest, I've never gotten into DMC and apart from Vergil and Nero's themes haven't listened to much of the music either. The most I've done is look up the Yamato on the wiki article and get terribly confused by it all. So, from an outsider's perspective, the change of music means that Raiden is up against an unstoppable beast of a man who will stop at nothing to bring about the America he wants to create, and that includes carving up children's bodies and minds to turn into super-soldiers, a complete and utterly depraved monster beyond redemption, more machine than man, twisted and evil. And when you defeat this guy, it's with less triumph and more "it has to be done", with not even the self-reflection that comes about in the vanilla aftermath of the fight.
basically armstrong remembers his fight with sam
This is why It Has To Be This Way.
Lore accurate Senator Armstrong
I nearly ragequit while fighting him on hard difficulty... Currently playing again on very hard to get to the revengeance difficulty. This looks insane. Insanely difficult.
Lore accurate Senator Steven Armstrong:
This is what I imagined the fight against him would be like
I like how you used Wolf's lines from codec
I know this is a very late comment, but I still find the way that you made Armstrong more difficult interesting without just buffing literally everything to an extreme.
The fact Armstrong stops you from attacking after YOU cancel his healing just works better for a final boss, along with (I assume given I haven’t tried the mod) he would counter if the player tried to hit him when he’s starting up an unblockable explosion. It makes it feel like he doesn’t want Raiden to win rather than the more duel like function their fight had in the original, making a pretty interesting contrast between the two and the duel to the death with Sam earlier.
Along with that, having Armstrong have his red glow throughout the fight, and having unwavering bravery from dmc 5 play(ironically the tone is way different with the track in the battle that it actually happens in.)
Overall, if I can actually understand how to mod my copy of rising on my pc, then I’ll probably download this mod to give a proper final challenge for the s rank run of revengance difficulty.
The music not being his theme is making me nervous
Meanwhile im still struggling with the "Nice Knife!" section on revengance 😅
@koboldwizard wait that actually works?!
Lore accurate armstrong
Great showcase as always, but quick question: what happened to your other improved boss videos? They seemed to suddenly poof out of existence.
I felt like they were too outdated so I simply got rid of them. I'm gonna redo them anyway.
@@sp00ky-tv I'm looking forward to 'em. Perhaps the jank with Blade Wolf's reinforcements (the Gekko cutscene anyway) will be easier to fix now?
@@sp00ky-tv Just wondering if you could try this improved bosses mod on a level 0 character wooden sword upgrading the sword to -5 on Revengeance difficulty is it even possible
@@thechosenone9257 nuh uh. They are designed for post revengeance mode. You need high damage and fuel cells
Raiden fights Sam's Armstrong boss
Arguably way worse.
Only problem : missing “It has to be this way”!
Senator Armstrong Boss Fight: Built Ford Tough edition
Next boss: Mistral.
Didn't know Armstrong is urizen all along
Is there a way to mod replacement UI elements in this game? I wanted to try making one for Nintendo button layout prompts, for example, since I haven't seen one.
Late response, but from what I remember it's very complicated.
I wished armstrong could have gone into his own "ripper state" in raiden's fight with him
U should probably make a playlist for all the boss improvements videos u made
bro you don't dodge away when he does the explosion move , you wail on him and then dodge at the last second to abuse the i-frames
Well go ahead and try. I wouldn't recommend wailing on this Armstrong.
@@sp00ky-tv *Challenge Accepted*
@@MGrey-qb5xz gl
How long till the next the boss raiden video ??
A few days perhaps. I just have to record it and do a release on nexus.
@@sp00ky-tv Awesome bro I can't wait !! :D
hey just a question, why did you delete or put in private your other videos ?
Kinda late but he told he is gonne redo them as they were outdated
@@kamabokoganpachiro4113 ohh okay thanks, I used to watch those videos because of the gameplay actually, sadge, welp thx ^^
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What happened to most of your metal gear rising videos, did you delete them?
Gray fox boss fight with an original move set? (If you need help with animations, I do blender)
Animations importing is not a thing yet.
Also are you familiar with how modding this game works?
urizen battle theme,right?its from Devil May Cry 5
WOW buena bro esta hermoso el juego sigue así
how do I install the mod?
Wow
С этим обновлением босс стал получать меньше урона?или что это за сложность?
Whats that boss music dude?
“Unwavering bravery” its a dmc 5 theme
You should do the music improvement. Just replace original songs with remixes or beta-versions of the song