randomness in vMA stage 7, can it finally be looked at

Sergykid

out of 4 runs, 2 have one death. In those 2 runs the one death is in the poison spores stage, especially the last (boss) round.

mushrooms spawn on the shielders, you get stunned and a mushroom spawns under you and arms instantly, if you wear any stun proc set it can stun the shielder before it makes the shield and so the boss kills you with his scream before you have a shield and if you enrage him you will have a harder time, these amongst other things.

can it be something done about it? randomness is not welcome in any content that requires strategy. I'm sure there's plenty of solutions, like make mushrooms not explodable while shielders alive, or shields to be cast automatically on the shielders regardless of them being stunned or dead.

Vicinia

Agreed. Nothing better than having a flawless run ruined by poison under the shield while killer croc is yelling

Sorry you had a rough experience bud.

Runefang

There is plenty of things you can do to control what happens though:
- Don't wear a stun set (duh...)
- Time the rounds prior to the final boss so the venomcaller doesn't spawn during the shield phase on the final round
- Worst case interrupt the boss and kite him if you absolutely need to escape the shield, I did that on my first ever flawless. It can work.

Danksta

I agree that being in the shield should give you immunity but you should be able to avoid any stuns. You can also just skip the shield phase if your damage is good enough.