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Flawless victory.
You beat \"Conjunctivius\" without taking a single hit! Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
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How to unlock the Flawless victory. achievement in Dead Cells - Definitive Guide
Conjunctivius is found by traveling through the prison -> Toxic Sewers -> Ancient Sewers - Insufferable Crypt. You will need the Ram and Vine rune to access.
The above solutions are great, but I found an easy strategy was to use the heavy crossbow, wolf traps, and double cross-bo-matic. If you place the traps on the first platform, you can bait him into getting stuck in the wolf traps. Assuming you have collected enough points in tactics and have decent level gear, you can kill him without him performing any attacks. This one really isnt too bad - ratio is really deceiving.
Short 30 second clip below demonstrating.
The above solutions are great, but I found an easy strategy was to use the heavy crossbow, wolf traps, and double cross-bo-matic. If you place the traps on the first platform, you can bait him into getting stuck in the wolf traps. Assuming you have collected enough points in tactics and have decent level gear, you can kill him without him performing any attacks. This one really isnt too bad - ratio is really deceiving.
Short 30 second clip below demonstrating.
7 Comments
How do you have 14 tactics by the time you get to him?
By SirPhobos on 29 Jul 2021 01:23
I increased my tactics almost exclusively, killed basically all the enemies before getting here. Plus, got a little lucky with my items which had 3 tactics total boost on them.
By ShadowEchelon91 on 04 Aug 2021 13:41
Conjunctivius is the eye-monster in the Insufferable Crypt, found by using the Ram Rune to take the lower path in the Toxic Sewers, through the Ancient Sewers.
There are two main components to the fight, which you'll want to practice several times before trying for a perfect run. Conjunctivius largely floats around the chamber attacking you, but at approximately 90% health, 70% health, and 40% health he will retreat behind a shield and summon tentacles to attack you from under the ground.
Floating phases: It will move around the chamber, periodically making these attacks.
* A ramming attack telegraphed with a ghostly red chain.
* Shooting equally-spaced green spit projectiles (more bursts at lower health).
* A close-range area-of-effect burst, telegraphed by a red circle.
* At half health or less, a long barrage of chaotic green spit projectiles reminiscent of a bullet hell. You should be doing enough damage that Conjunctivius doesn't get a chance to do this.
Tentacle phases: These phases, especially the third one, are the hard part of unlocking Flawless victory. I'll describe the tentacle behavior here.
* There are three tentacles in the first tentacle phase, four in the second, and five in the third.
* Each time you kill a tentacle, lightning flashes onto the other tentacles. The lightning doesn't hurt you; this is a brief respite.
* In general, tentacles will be submerged in the ground and follow your movement. It's unclear, but I do not think they can take damage over time while they are submerged.
* Tentacles will burst out to attack when you or a turret is over them. This is fairly easy to dodge if you keep moving.
* In the second and third phases, after the tentacles appear and after a tentacle is killed, one tentacle will make a sweeping attack that is the trickiest part of the fight. It will move, submerged, all the way to one side of the room, and then emerge and sweep across the room before submerging again and moving to your location. This attack is also easy to dodge in isolation, but in combination with avoiding the other submerged tentacles it will trip you up.
Strategy
If you're aiming specifically for this achievement, focus entirely on one stat to maximize your DPS. On my successful attempt, I went all-in on Tactics, using a Wolf Pack trap to get Conjunctivius trapped on the lower platform so I could unload a few Heavy Crossbow blasts into it at a time. The Wolf Pack also traps the moving tentacles, making that phase much easier. Of course, any ice attack is very useful for that too. I would not recommend relying on turrets or DoT effects because they can obscure the ground and you need to see where the tentacles are moving around under there.
Recommended gear (I'll add recommendations from the comments as well):
Skill: Wolf Trap
Weapon: Ice Bow
Weapon: Heavy Crossbow
Grenade: Ice Grenade
Mutation: Efficiency / Fireworks Technician
Mutation: Support
There are two main components to the fight, which you'll want to practice several times before trying for a perfect run. Conjunctivius largely floats around the chamber attacking you, but at approximately 90% health, 70% health, and 40% health he will retreat behind a shield and summon tentacles to attack you from under the ground.
Floating phases: It will move around the chamber, periodically making these attacks.
* A ramming attack telegraphed with a ghostly red chain.
* Shooting equally-spaced green spit projectiles (more bursts at lower health).
* A close-range area-of-effect burst, telegraphed by a red circle.
* At half health or less, a long barrage of chaotic green spit projectiles reminiscent of a bullet hell. You should be doing enough damage that Conjunctivius doesn't get a chance to do this.
Tentacle phases: These phases, especially the third one, are the hard part of unlocking Flawless victory. I'll describe the tentacle behavior here.
* There are three tentacles in the first tentacle phase, four in the second, and five in the third.
* Each time you kill a tentacle, lightning flashes onto the other tentacles. The lightning doesn't hurt you; this is a brief respite.
* In general, tentacles will be submerged in the ground and follow your movement. It's unclear, but I do not think they can take damage over time while they are submerged.
* Tentacles will burst out to attack when you or a turret is over them. This is fairly easy to dodge if you keep moving.
* In the second and third phases, after the tentacles appear and after a tentacle is killed, one tentacle will make a sweeping attack that is the trickiest part of the fight. It will move, submerged, all the way to one side of the room, and then emerge and sweep across the room before submerging again and moving to your location. This attack is also easy to dodge in isolation, but in combination with avoiding the other submerged tentacles it will trip you up.
Strategy
If you're aiming specifically for this achievement, focus entirely on one stat to maximize your DPS. On my successful attempt, I went all-in on Tactics, using a Wolf Pack trap to get Conjunctivius trapped on the lower platform so I could unload a few Heavy Crossbow blasts into it at a time. The Wolf Pack also traps the moving tentacles, making that phase much easier. Of course, any ice attack is very useful for that too. I would not recommend relying on turrets or DoT effects because they can obscure the ground and you need to see where the tentacles are moving around under there.
Recommended gear (I'll add recommendations from the comments as well):
Skill: Wolf Trap
Weapon: Ice Bow
Weapon: Heavy Crossbow
Grenade: Ice Grenade
Mutation: Efficiency / Fireworks Technician
Mutation: Support
4 Comments
Yeah, I never got comfortable with parrying. Use whatever equipment you are best with!
On a related note, I haven't played the game since August so balance changes may affect my equipment recommendations.
On a related note, I haven't played the game since August so balance changes may affect my equipment recommendations.
By Skeptical Mario on 02 May 2019 16:01
Did you mean Wolf Trap instead of Pack?
By Loxim on 23 May 2019 21:51
----------NOTE:-----------
Be aware this guide was written before a patch was done that changed the game's behaviors. I do not know the full extent of the changes, so I have not updated the guide outside of this note.
changes I do know have happened:
- assist mode no longer disables achievements. this should make getting this and any other no hit achievements much, much easier.
- supposedly the 'save state' system outlined in this guide has changed. I'm not 100% on the changes, but from what I'm told it still sort of works but you can no longer save scum your way to a no-hit victory.
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There's a trick to getting this and any other no-hit boss kill achievement.
Dead Cells has a sort of quick save/save state system. This is at any time you press , the game will save at exactly that point wherever you are. The moment you die (as in, hit 0 HP and do the death animation), this save feature is disabled so if you press , dashboard, and quit the game you will continue off the last time you pressed while alive. If you never did, you will restart at the very start of whatever level you made it to. This trick will allow you to retry for the no-hit achievement without having to restart from the beginning of the game.
note: if you get hit, you want to be completely DEAD (as in zero hit points) before pressing , or else you will create a save and void the achievement for that run.
Conjunctivitis is kind of easy as long as you haven't gone crazy unlocking weapons.
basically beat the boss down until there's that brief resting phase and he summons his tentacles. This is a great place to save.
obviously it helps tremendously if you have the +, ++, and S blacksmith upgrade chances as high as you get them.
my suggestion:
every upgrade scroll you find should be spent on TACTICS (purple lightning bolt)
Weapons:
x2 throwing knives (in general 2 throwing knives makes the whole game easier) - these are EXTREMELY GOOD against conjunctivitis since you will auto-aim your throws close to 180 degrees, so you can hit him as he moves around. update: the ability to x2 the same weapon has been removed. I have not played since this change, but:
throwing knife - this is a great weapon for conjunctivitis for the simple fact throwing knife will target enemies close to 180 degrees from your position. highly useful characteristic given this boss moves all over the place
Traps:
wolf trap
double crossbow-o-matic
(both of these are handy for the tentacles)
Mutations:
ammunition
support
Be aware this guide was written before a patch was done that changed the game's behaviors. I do not know the full extent of the changes, so I have not updated the guide outside of this note.
changes I do know have happened:
- assist mode no longer disables achievements. this should make getting this and any other no hit achievements much, much easier.
- supposedly the 'save state' system outlined in this guide has changed. I'm not 100% on the changes, but from what I'm told it still sort of works but you can no longer save scum your way to a no-hit victory.
---------------------------------
There's a trick to getting this and any other no-hit boss kill achievement.
Dead Cells has a sort of quick save/save state system. This is at any time you press , the game will save at exactly that point wherever you are. The moment you die (as in, hit 0 HP and do the death animation), this save feature is disabled so if you press , dashboard, and quit the game you will continue off the last time you pressed while alive. If you never did, you will restart at the very start of whatever level you made it to. This trick will allow you to retry for the no-hit achievement without having to restart from the beginning of the game.
note: if you get hit, you want to be completely DEAD (as in zero hit points) before pressing , or else you will create a save and void the achievement for that run.
Conjunctivitis is kind of easy as long as you haven't gone crazy unlocking weapons.
basically beat the boss down until there's that brief resting phase and he summons his tentacles. This is a great place to save.
obviously it helps tremendously if you have the +, ++, and S blacksmith upgrade chances as high as you get them.
my suggestion:
every upgrade scroll you find should be spent on TACTICS (purple lightning bolt)
Weapons:
throwing knife - this is a great weapon for conjunctivitis for the simple fact throwing knife will target enemies close to 180 degrees from your position. highly useful characteristic given this boss moves all over the place
Traps:
wolf trap
double crossbow-o-matic
(both of these are handy for the tentacles)
Mutations:
ammunition
support
I was struggling with this one for a while today until I found a way to get through the tentacles consistently.
I had a buzz saw trap, which I would plant far right of the map so I could see the ground.
Getting through the first phase is easy enough. It’s that damn sweeping tentacle that caught me every time.
Immediately starting the second phase I would dodge and attack the first tentacle since it still moved slow. After killing it I moved immediately to the right trap and climbed the wall.
Once the tentacle swept to me (and there’s usually one waiting right below you, so if you straight drop you will take a hit). I found that if I jumped to the middle of the map, followed by rolling right as I was about to hit the ground I had enough time to land 2-3 attacks then head back to my trap and up the wall.
By the time you get back the tentacle is sweeping again.
This pretty much eliminated the randomness of that tentacle that caused much pain.
After I figured this out I got the flawless my second try with this stat. I’d imagine you could take any load out with you.
I had a buzz saw trap, which I would plant far right of the map so I could see the ground.
Getting through the first phase is easy enough. It’s that damn sweeping tentacle that caught me every time.
Immediately starting the second phase I would dodge and attack the first tentacle since it still moved slow. After killing it I moved immediately to the right trap and climbed the wall.
Once the tentacle swept to me (and there’s usually one waiting right below you, so if you straight drop you will take a hit). I found that if I jumped to the middle of the map, followed by rolling right as I was about to hit the ground I had enough time to land 2-3 attacks then head back to my trap and up the wall.
By the time you get back the tentacle is sweeping again.
This pretty much eliminated the randomness of that tentacle that caused much pain.
After I figured this out I got the flawless my second try with this stat. I’d imagine you could take any load out with you.
Get a Belmont's whip, get maximal strength and hope!
This guide was translated automatically.
The secret boss is also the most problematic for this trophy, because the battle is very long and intense. You can go to it when you get runes to create a path up from the slurry and break blocks on the floor. After the ancient canals, a boss awaits you. Without a trick with saves, killing him without damage is on the verge of impossible because there is a very long battle, a lot of phases, a lot of elements of randomness and it is almost impossible to dodge his shelling with slurry because he launches them in a fan a bunch of times, and then begins to constantly move when shooting, which is why they fly just wildly chaotically, sometimes with virtually no gaps. This is the hardest boss to kill without taking damage. And even the trick with saves on it only partially helps. The problem is that in the last 2 phases, if you save, he is guaranteed to immediately start shooting at the slurry, which you can dodge 1 time out of 20, especially in the last phase. If you save after every hit, you can get stuck on the boss for half a day. It took me more than 2 hours. Don't even try to do it without saving. And in the last phase, it is better to minimize these saves, only if they did not take away at least a third of his remaining HP.
10 Comments
The mileage bug works, but the trophy will not drop. version 1.7 patch 1.14. The run only works on this boss, it doesn’t work on others
By b52 on 12 Apr 2020 16:00
The easiest of all bosses for this trophy. You don't need to do anything AT ALL.
The whole tactic is to take the green leveling branch and take the ice shield.
That's it - we stand in the very left corner, turn to the right and continuously spam the shield throughout the entire battle, when the boss flies towards you - it freezes him and we do a couple of hits. Tentacles are reflected without damage, like green blobs. This is a 100% impenetrable story, the main thing is not to let the tentacles be born to your left. We stand and endlessly spam the shield.
The whole tactic is to take the green leveling branch and take the ice shield.
That's it - we stand in the very left corner, turn to the right and continuously spam the shield throughout the entire battle, when the boss flies towards you - it freezes him and we do a couple of hits. Tentacles are reflected without damage, like green blobs. This is a 100% impenetrable story, the main thing is not to let the tentacles be born to your left. We stand and endlessly spam the shield.
By Gofrein on 23 May 2023 13:42
This guide was translated automatically.
See the tip for Steam rolled. / Rolled out.
But be careful, it is very difficult to catch him in traps, as soon as you enter the door, take 2 steps forward, throw the trap and wait for a dash in your direction (running strike), he drops into the trap, pour all the damage into him.
Or if you know the "Tentacles" phase well.
But be careful, it is very difficult to catch him in traps, as soon as you enter the door, take 2 steps forward, throw the trap and wait for a dash in your direction (running strike), he drops into the trap, pour all the damage into him.
Or if you know the "Tentacles" phase well.
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