[Reach]

Originally Posted by hi19hi19

My buddy is practicing speedrunning this as well, apparently the weapon swap glitch allows for some phase skipping and generally reliable fast kills and so the run is like 90% mashing the X button as fast as possible. tbh looks like he's sitting there fapping for hours every time he practices the run.

Yeah basically. Because all of the bosses have a fixed amount of total HP and a certain amount of HP per phase, if you can kill the next phase in the current phase you can either insta gib the next phase or skip it completely (with an exception with Cala Maria where you can actually crash the game). This was absolutely unintended because I don't think the devs knew WSG could be used to basically double your damage and allow this to happen. I think it's getting patched.

There are a few really weird interactions with this, Roller Coaster boss is one where he gets stuck on the death animation and you can just damage him until he dies which saves like a minute. Dragon does the same.