Gunfire Reborn Gunfire Reborn - All Bosses Strategies and Tips

A guide to beating all the bosses this game has to offer.

How To Beat All Bosses

First Boss: Lu Wu

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Lu Wu is the first boss you'll encounter and is, in essence, more of a tutorial boss that shouldn't give you too much trouble even with no talent upgrades unlocked.

Lu Wu's Arena is made up of a giant square room with 2 pillars near the entrance, each with an exploding barrel, with an outside area straight ahead where the boss jumps down from and will occasionally go back to to regen his shields.

Lu Wu starts of by jumping down into the arena with the player and will then proceed to do a few different attacks ;

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Laser shot: The boss will very briefly power up his fist to shoot a laser towards the player (indicated by a glow around his fist). Very easy to avoid by dodging, can also be avoided by jumping while moving to the side (although abit inconsistent). Damage = Low.
Boulder throw: The boss will pick up a giant boulder and throw it at the player. A white circle will appear below the player for a brief moment before the boss throws the boulder to that specific location. The trick to avoiding this attack is all about timing your dodge. Too early and you'll get clipped, just barely, at the outside of the damage AoE. Too late and you'll take the attack straight to the face. You have to wait to dodge just a split second after the circle shows up underneath you. Once you master the timing it'll rarely hit you again! Damage = Medium.
Leap attack: The boss will prepare himself to leap towards the player and smash the ground when landing. I'll have to edit the tell for the this attack since I can't remember how to recognize it, but as far as avoiding is concerned as soon as the boss jumps in the air you just dodge. I've never been hit by this attack on purpose yet (I let myself get hit to test the damage done) since you've got plenty of time to react so it shouldn't be too much of a concern. Damage = Medium.
Triple Laser shot: The boss does the exact same thing as the first Laser shot attack, except this time he shoots 3 lasers one after the other. He only does this if he's low enough HP (Around 30% I'd say). Completely avoiding this attack is possible, but very unlikely. Each shot does so little damage however that even if you get hit by all 3 lasers (which you shouldn't) you'd still live with a comfortable amount of HP left. The way I avoid all 3 shots is dodging the first laser and keep jump strafing the other 2 shots.

Lu Wu will occasionally jump back up to his outside spot where he originally came down from at the beginning of the fight to regen his shields and send a wave of minions out from both the left and right side of the outside hole he jumped through. The minions can be either beatles, kamikaze bombers (the guys carrying the exploding cubes) or a mix of both, never anything else.

Weakness: Electric to strip his shield, Fire to drain his health.

Weakspot: His head.

Second Boss: Ichthyosaurus Offspring

Ichthyosaurus Offspring (I'll call him saurus as a reference to make things easier on me) is the second boss you'll encounter, and this is where the game makes a real big jump in difficulty compared to the first boss.

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The arena is made up of a big circle-ish sand area, completely open with no cover at all!

Attacks.

Phase 1

Laser beam: The boss will always start the fight using this attack. He'll come out the sand with his head sticking out and tilt his head towards the left or right and start firing a laser beam in the direction of the player. Avoiding this attack can be real tricky but there's 2 ways to do it. 1st way is to stand still until the boss tilts his head, then circling the other direction dodging when nescessary for the little boost in distance the dodge gives you. 2nd way is to keep circling the boss in a specific direction, if the boss tilts his head the other way - good! If not and he tilts his head towards you then quickly dodge through the laser attack as soon as it starts to take as little damage as possible.
Slam attack: The boss will melee slam the player and will only do this if you come too close to the boss. Avoiding this attack is just a matter of staying away a comfortable amount from the boss.

When you get his armor down to about 50% the boss will submerge into the sand and 2 minions will spawn in the arena that you have to kill for the boss to reappear. These can be either fire lizards or hyenas. I've never had the minions be a mix and I've always had the hyenas spawn first, then the lizards (sometimes skipping the lizards entirely with enough damage done to the boss). After the minions are killed the boss wil emerge from the sand again and phase 2 starts.

Phase 2

The boss will be emerged from the sand, this time with only his tail visible. A few new attacks will be added to his roster.

Poison bombs: The boss will lob a series of poison bombs into the air that will explode into a poison AoE field when they hit the ground. Both the explosion and the damage AoE field can hurt the player. The trick to avoiding this attack is having either a good AoE weapon OR a rapid fire weapon and shooting the orbs before they have a chance to hit the ground. If some orbs got through and hit the ground you'll have to be wary of your positioning, however the AoE damage fields will disappear after a short while (+- 10 seconds).
Tail Shockwave: The boss will whip this tail onto the ground creating a shockwave of sand going towards the player. This attack can easily be avoided by jumping over it. When enough damage has been done (30-40% HP remaining) he'll do 3 shockwaves one after the other instead of 1. Jumping over each one does the trick. IF you get caught by the first shockwave however it's incredibly difficult to recover and you'll most likely end up eating all 3 shockwaves which can easily put you in a dangerous low HP situation.

Weakness: Corrosion to strip the armor, Fire to drain the health.

Weakspot: Head in phase 1 (although the hitbox seems incredibly wonky and shooting towards the throat seems more consistent). Tail in phase 2.

Note: I've had the boss swap from phase 2 to phase 1 once in my multiple runs which seemed more of a bug rather than an intended game mechanic, just be aware that this can happen.

The most dangerous attack this boss can do has got to be the laser beam. The hitbox for the laser and his weakspot are so wonky that I've gotten killed by his laser multiple times while I was on the complete opposite side of the laser!

Third Boss: Yoruhime-Maru

Yoruhime-Maru is the third and currently final boss and feels like an epic raid boss from an MMO game! An absolute blast of a boss to finish a run with.

The arena is made up of an old boat dock with 3 giant guns mounted near the entrance.