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Boss Tips & Tricks
By Rico
Struggling with the bosses of Dead? Need a tip to get a step closer to beating that hard boss? This is the guide for you! Tips are in steps, one tip given in plain text, and then further tips (if needed) hidden behind spoiler tags.

With that being said this is a guide with spoilers. If you like the challenge of learning the move sets and mechanics for each boss, dont read this guide.

This guide is still a work in progress.
   
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Guide Introduction
Since this is asked a lot, Im going to go over some of the questions of this game that a lot of people tend to ask.

  • How do I dodge
    Its a ability unlocked once you complete enough bosses, specifically, "Eremite & Spectre" and "Vesicle".
  • How do I heal?
    It was in the tutorial, don't move, let the green circle complete. you'll heal by one HP.
Progenitor

This boss is pretty straight forward, however, if you need assistance beating him, heres how it is done.

His idle behavior is going towards the player. His primary methods of attack are Summoning Biters, and Summoning Spinning Biters. Gernade can be used to knock him back if needed.

Move Set: Summoning Biters
Cue: He'll scream and circle the arena while the biters are summoned off screen. The biters come straight at you.
Best Tactic: Fire at the biters and always have a escape plan ready. Gernades are great for when you get in a pinch and need to escape.

Move Set: Summoning Spinning Biters
Cue: He'll move downwards, and flash as spinning biters spawn off screen. The spinning biters come at you from a angle.
Best Tactic: Basically same as the other biters, but be aware that you can get screwed pretty easily.

It'll help if you can land your shots to kill both biters and Progenitor at the same time.

Achivements
  • Progenitor Dead
    Easy, kill Progenitor.
  • Progenitor Erased
    This isnt too hard to get. Just be sure to kill all the biters and not get surrounded. Shooting prog is the best method anyway.
  • The Law of Motherhood
    This is tricky. This means no moving and no dodging. You'll want to use your gernades to push back Progenitor, otherwise you're going to get killed fast. Prioritize the biters when they spawn. if you're lucky, you'll get RNG on your side and breeze through this.
Vesicle
This boss is pretty straight forward, however, if you need assistance beating him, heres how it is done.

His idle behavior is going towards the player. His primary methods of attack are Firing a laser, Bombing the stage, and Summoning Healing Biters. Grenade can be used to knock him back if needed.

The best place to stay on this stage is as close to the middle as possible.

Move Set: Firing Laser
Cue: He'll stop in place, look as if hes clenching and shake. A few seconds later, he'll fire a laser in a counterclockwise motion.
Best Tactic: When he starts this move, his rotation will be locked to you at that moment. Meaning, if you move out of the way by a few degrees of where his laser will fire, you'll be fine. Since he moves in a counterclockwise motion, stay behind it and out of the way. He makes one complete 360 spin before stopping.

Move Set: Summoning Healing Biters
Cue: He'll stop, roar and move again. When this happens. He'll create a ton of biters that'll heal him if they get to him.
Best Tactic: Kill all the biters before they reach Vesicle. A well placed gernade blast can take a majority of them. If you beat the level without him healing once, you'll get the "Vesicle Erased" achievement.

Move Set: Bombing half the stage
Cue: He'll stop, growl and the leap into the air. Shortly, the half of the stage you're on will get covered with explosions.
Best Tactic: Move to the other side of the stage to avoid this entirely. It is common misconception that you have to time your movements and stay within the blasts.

It'll help if you can land your shots to kill both biters and Progenitor at the same time.

Achivements
  • Vesicle Dead
    Easy, kill Vesicle.
  • Vesicle Erased
    Dont let him heal. This is easily done by killing all the purple healing biters he spawns.
  • The Law of Growth
    Kill Vesicle without leaving the bridge. As long as you gernade and push him back, you'll be fine. being on the bridge is also the perfect place to kill most, if not all, the healing biters as they approach. Try and stay on the right side of the bridge, that way if he starts to fire a laser, you can move to the left side and avoid it. Again, some RNG may help.
Eremite & Spectre (WIP)
  • Eremite will rush you faster when attcked during his "Idle" stages (not attacking)
Furnace (WIP)
Puppeteer (WIP)
Totem (WIP)
Glass Master (WIP)
The Silenced (WIP)
Scourge (WIP)
Dying Ember (WIP)
Literally Eight Bears (WIP)
This boss is a easter egg on the level select.

Tips
  • Keep to the edges of the level
  • Don't stop shoooting.
  • They are one hit kills (just like real bears)
  • Shooting the bears will cause them to stagger, try to be shooting all the bears while they're clumped up.
11 Comments
Rico  [author] 25 Oct, 2021 @ 1:45pm 
Dodge is obtained by defeating Vesicle AND Eremite and Spectre. Use dodge with the shift key.
réverie 12 Oct, 2021 @ 12:28am 
eatmadust probably mean "with what button you dodge" "how to unlock the dodge"
réverie 12 Oct, 2021 @ 12:18am 
i cant see the info about bosses, it lloks like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15UuFgwwmEhJet1ipoPxMtJPvVueqW0dM/view?usp=drivesdk
InvictusGamerIA 28 Apr, 2021 @ 1:31pm 
To beat the 8 bears I recommend starting by hitting the bottom left and going down. Once that is done they position themselves to kill you and dodge (Shift or right click) and gather them all then you move around the map almost hitting everyone together, do not worry about those who rotate around, in case they get too close you use the gernade. And when they lock you in, you dodge to the side quickly and keep doing the same thing all the time. They should not hit you even 1 time.
mahruf 28 Dec, 2020 @ 1:06pm 
To not take damage from the clock, you have to dash right before it deals damage.
The Red Baron 9 Nov, 2020 @ 10:52pm 
How do you not take damage from the clock though? I have all the achievements except for that one
Audity 14 Feb, 2020 @ 9:15am 
Yo any tips on beating eight bears?
Ito 16 Nov, 2018 @ 9:17am 
pls, someone know how to unlock the Literally Eight Bears?
undefined_ 8 Jul, 2018 @ 4:23pm 
Hurry up and get to the Silenced, I am very stuck.
LilMilky 20 May, 2018 @ 3:29am 
You unlock the dodge after killing the first 3 boss.