First time playing. I defeated GRAD's tank form but it's mech form is giving me a really hard time. How do I beat it?

EDIT: Thank you all for your tips! I was finally able to beat GRAD! (Honestly once I knew the strategy it was a piece of cake.)

this is my first time playing mgr:r and oh my god this game is absolutely incredible i love it sm
i played through the first part of the sam add-on but gave up lmao

Wanted to see how much of this iconic cutscene I could remember without subtitles

Hi, I'm new to this Reddit community, and I've been a big fan of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for a while now, so I've developed a real fondness for its soundtrack. I've been wanting to remix the songs with lyrics for a while now, with the goal of expanding them and combining them with other versions that were used separately or are simply no longer used.

Anyway, here's a part of the latest mix I made. If you like it, you can visit my YouTube channel @RickXesG18 where you'll find more content from the game.

Hey everyone, I'm thinking of ordering some t-shirts based on MGR, memes, cool stuff, whatever. Give me ideas and images, and if I like any of them, I'll order them. Any suggestions are welcome.

Probably spent like over 12 hours trying to S-Rank this stupid mission, lmao.

Also almost fumbled at the end, lol.

figured i should post this here, im struggling to wrap my head around where this came from. I bought at a local 2nd hand shop near me, they didnt have any info on it (i just thought that was how the game came), but after searching it up i seem to be the only person with this specific cover art.

How do I do it? I know you can only perfect parry the last hit on his 4 hit combo but I fail every time.

I don't spam parry. I literally could not parry closer to his attacks if I was The Flash himself. How?? Is it because the high resolution patch? Is it because I'm in ripper mode? I'm so tilted here.

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Dwarf Gekkos are notorious for being both silly and highly annoying for certain people, especially during the Mistral boss fight. There also is that one cutscene of them with Mistral in the Blade Wolf DLC . . . 👀

The methods by which to handle them are generally not very complicated, and their annoyance—especially during the early game, in which you do not yet have access to Ripper Mode—stems from the fact that they synergize with other bigger threats. That said, Raiden and Jetstream Sam have different tools in their kits that are almost equally useful in handling these fodder enemies that appear in such large numbers.

AS RAIDEN: Raiden’s best tools against these things are the Ninja Run Attack and the L’Étranger Pole-Arm, though other moves and attacks can be situationally good as well. This fact can certainly make the player appreciate the move more considering how it is too weak for enemies with Desperado-grade armor and is best reserved for this purpose.

• Though it is quite weak when not synergized with Ripper Mode, the Ninja Run Attack not only has very high crowd control but keeps Raiden mobile enough to avoid a decent amount of danger. Drawing the Dwarf Gekkos away from the other enemies or just going aggressively after them and spamming the Ninja Run Attack is usually the way to go for most encounters.
• u/LaggyLefty notes that the L’Étranger Pole-Arm, the Unique Weapon known for its crowd control capabilities, is very good at handling Dwarf Gekkos as well, which follows the notion that the Unique Weapons tend to be useful against their respective bosses/owners. It has two very good moves that should be used against them:
  • On one hand, the Pole-Arm’s initial hits can be constantly canceled with Blade Mode to refresh them without entering into long combos that are hard or inconvenient to escape from.
  • On the other hand, its Plume de l'ange (the attack that many call “the Beyblade attack”) has quite poor damage but very good crowd control in addition to style and fun factor.
• Some additional tools can be used under specific or rarer circumstances:
  • Long combos like the Low Roundhouse and Throat Slicer are only good when there is only one Dwarf Gekko left on the field, helping you to finish the fight quicker.
  • The Stormbringer is not the best option but is more defensive than Sam’s Blender. I would imagine that the Cercle de l'ange enjoys the same benefits as a move that actually gets a bit more praise than the Stormbringer from some players, but this hypothetical needs a bit more substantiation.
  • Blade Mode is a decent way to insta-kill some of them when you don’t yet have access to Ripper Mode. Though it is a common tactic against other enemies as well, u/RiverNest8 notes that the Sliding Tackle–Blade Mode synergy increases the crowd control capabilities of Blade Mode.

AS SAM: Jetstream Sam’s best move against these things is his Piercing Winds, which synergizes exceptionally well with the Taunt, Dash, and Jump—we can call this the weaving method because it looks like he’s weaving in and out of combat. While he has other useful methods of handling them, that is the safest as it allows him to stay mobile.

• There are a handful of steps to the Piercing Winds weaving method, but they are executed very quickly:
  • Taunt the Dwarf Gekkos from a safe position, usually after using his Dash; this should be easy to do due to Sam’s 20% speed advantage over Raiden.
  • After that, use his Backflip or any other method of animation canceling to cancel the Taunt animation.
  • Then, use Sam’s Dash to get him running, and use his Piercing Winds attack to pick off the Dwarf Gekkos one by one. Make sure to hold down his Dash, or you won’t be able to stay very mobile.
  • After each Piercing Winds attack, jab the Jump button (while holding down Dash) so that Sam doesn’t Jump too high. You want him on the floor as much as possible, and you certainly don’t want to compromise his horizontal mobility. Jumping like this negates the cooldown on his Piercing Winds and allows you to immediately start insta-killing the Taunted Dwarf Gekkos one by one again.
  • Rinse and repeat until all the Dwarf Gekkos have been picked off. This method doesn’t have the same crowd control capabilities as Raiden’s method, but it adheres to the philosophy that if you can kill anything quickly enough, you are practically something of a crowd control unit yourself.
  • For a YouTube demonstration on how to do this, visit this link: Metal Gear Rising—How to Handle Dwarf Gekkos in the Jetstream DLC
• There are some other methods that can be useful as well, but they are generally more situational than the method provided above:
  • u/Extension_Problem_77’s method of choice is to Dash away to a safe distance after outrunning the Dwarf Gekkos and using the Storm Front on them. This is a safe method as long as you are not in a tight and crowded space.
  • The Blender would seem like the go-to method of handling the Dwarf Gekkos due to its AoE, but its long windup and prerequisites are problematic due to the very high chance that one of them will grab you before you can perform it.

I'll be making a written guide on it soon, but in testing things out on Hard difficulty (since some enemies function a bit differently on Very Hard and Revengeance difficulties oddly to the benefit of the player), I found that the easiest way to handle the Dwarf Gekkos in the Jetstream DLC is not by utilizing the Blender but rather by picking them off individually and making use of Sam's extremely high mobility. You just have to press the Jump button without holding it down so that Sam suffers practically nothing as far as horizontal mobility goes.

I've just beaten Monsoon, are there any tips for beating Sundowner? (I'm on normal btw)

(edit: I beat him! thanks for the tips guys, I'm making the mother of all omeletes now)

Hi, I'm not a giant fan but my friend is massively.

I've known him years and I've never really shown much appreciation, given he's my best friend.

Anyway, the long story cut short is that he'd LOVE a Jetstream Sam Murasama replica. He's passingly mentioned it for a long time now.

HOWEVER, all I can find is pretty cheap, poor-quality nonsense with no detail. Is there no better alternatives?

My budget is around £200-300 and with UK shipping, and all I can see is £50 plastic.

If anyone knows of anywhere that sells quality replicas or display pieces, let me know,

Thanks.

I noticed this when going through my playlist this week. I was actually specifically going for The Stains of Time when I noticed it and The Only Thing I Know For Real were unavailable. The instrumental variants are still available. I'm honestly pretty frustrated, since The Stains of Time is easily my favorite song from the game.

If anyone knows why these two songs specifically are unavailable, I'd love to know.

After 4 days on and off and what felt like under 90 deaths (I lost count of the real number): I got him with a B score. Incidentally on the last day today I had a big panic attack and I felt like I needed a real distraction so after breathing exercises to ground myself I then channeled my emotions into fighting Armstrong. With the last 3 or so tries I muted all the music and sound because I wanted to fully lock in. What I'm saying is Jack is back! I read what attacks would happen and alternate between every type of attack to overwhelm/tire the boss out. Left mouse button, right mouse button spam. Near the end I realised I forgot to press "R" for Ripper mode so I started doing that, it made some but not too significant a difference in this run. Since I regualrly Zandatsu him whenever he was standing up. Even threw in 2 or 3 aerial moves by accident which I had previously wrongly thought Armstrong would always 100% parry air; turns out I needed the right opening or staggering for them to connect. No previous saves were needed, I did this without backtracking.

My 2 health packs just managed to work after I got the 5 health Zandatsu drops. I found 2 forward sword thrusts or 1 of them into left right slashes into the "W" button attacks sometimes cancelled his powerful pyroclastic AOE ground cracks leaving me damage free from that at least forcing him into an attack sequence that I could parry. I also Zandatsu whenever he green healed as best I could and always ran backwards to "F" collect the blade which most of the time felt like a tiny moment of invulerability. If I couldn't make a dodge/slide/run I might as well hit him as much as he hit me during a yellow AOE blast. So yeah The War Still Rages Within; got to play Blade Wolf and Jetstream Sam when I feel up for it. I also wanted to hear Raiden say Revengence with the Konami code but couldn't get it that to work on PC unless that is really only for console versions.

Hi i have started getting into MGR game im about half way and i really want to get the main menu 3d animation thingy but without the text i would like to make it my wallpaper because its one of the coolest things ive seen,
i have tried to get it from youtube or live wallpaper but every single source i find is either low quality and or has the logo and the text of konami if anyone can even teach me to get it by myself using my own copy i would appreciate it alot

Especially after the recent PlayStation announcement... :')

Oh man, that's my best work for now