The crowds bayed for a new boss, and the ever-attentive team at Crytek has once again delivered. Along with an entirely new engine overhaul, new map, all new weapons, and much more comes the new roaming boss in Hunt: Showdown. Here are a few tips and tricks for you to quickly find and kill Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown Mammons Gulch.
How to find Hellborn in Mammons Gulch
Locating Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown Mammons Gulch is a completely new mechanic for the game. Unlike all the other bosses, this one will require you touse your headphones and the binaural sound they use. You and your team will need to listen out for where it is on the map rather than relying on clues.
Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown is a roaming boss, like RotJaw.However,it is mostly around compounds and in the centre of the mapand can attack at any moment.
To initiate the Hellborn location, you mustenter into darksight, and stay in there for about ten seconds. Eventually, you will start to hear the audio cues for Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown. This murmuring sound will come from the direction you need to head to find Hellborn.
Keep following the murmuring soundsyou can hear after being in dark sight for a prolonged period of time until you come across the moving lair for the Hellborn. Once you have reached the roaming boss it will immediately attack, so be on your guard.
How to beat Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown
If you go in unprepared to fight Hellborn, you’re not going to have a good time. It is able toburn your health down in almost no timeand has some pretty lethal projectile attacks. However, with these strategies, you should be able to take it down quickly and efficiently.
Hellborn is a fire enemy and has a number of attacks that can pose a lot of problems. It cancharge you down and then explode, akin to an immolator. However, Hellborn can explode as many times as it likes, immediately burning off 50 HP permanently.
Killing Hellborn should be doneas quickly as possible, and this means going loud. I recommend using dynamite, sticky bombs, and the bomb lance if you have it. Don’t worry about staying silent; as soon as you attack Hellborn in Hunt: Showdown, it will roar and alert the whole map to its presence.
When first triggered, Hellborn will do a roaring animation. This is the best time to use a stick bomb on it.
Hit it hard and fast, giving it as little opportunity to attack as possible.Shotguns and explosives are your friends. There is also no banish time with Hellborn, so as soon as it has been killed, it will banish, replenishing you and your team’s lost health and awarding a burn trait. There will be no period of waiting as it banishes, so working quickly to kill it is in your favor.
Attack Pattern
Hellborn has a few attacks to be aware of. Watch out for these, as they can quickly burn off all your health chunks and hit from range.
Banishing Hellborn
Unlike every other boss in Hunt: Showdown, this one has zero time to banish. As soon as you kill it, it will banish, restoring your and your team’s health. This makes killing it loud and proud much easier.
Once you have finished Hellborn off in Hunt: Showdown, it will drop Burn Traits, which can only be found in the game.
Mammons Gulch is an all-new map with many new updates. Check out some tips and tricks to getahead of the game in Hunt: Showdown.
Leo Gillick
Leo is a Freelance Writer for PC Invasion. He has a degree in English Literature and Film Studies and more hours buried into videogames than he cares to admit. He has worked extensively in the Videogame and Travel writing industry but, as they say, get a job doing something you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. He uses his writing as a means to support indefinite global travel with the current five year plan seeing him through Latin America.
