Grounded: I Beat the Infected Broodmother (But You Probably Won't) 

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exactly, im fine with them nerfing the IBM eventualy, HOWEVER currently its acting as a final boss of the game so it should be incredibly hard. if they add a stronger boss later on im fine with them slightly nerfing the IBM

I've beat her 10 times now and I feel like it is a good end game kind of boss. My son plays with me, and he is 14, we do just fine. I can see why people are going to have a hard time with her though.

Dude the devs just need to add a hell and hell mode for you guys that have all the excess time to spend learning every enemy perfectly. That's a DMC reference, it's a mode where you die in one hit but enemies have normal health. That way, no need to balance for tryhards anymore, they have a mode just for them to spend entire days in their room mastering every enemy and never taking a hit.

with the initial bomb you mean the egg? Btw couldn't agree more, prepping is part of the fun and as he said in the vid, it's an OPTIONAL boss, so there's no reason to do it if you can't or don't want to.

@@ianbennekom1435 yes the egg sorry

It's funny how little he checks

@@dreamisbetterthentechno3199 the fight is a joke if you can parry well. there's a video on yt of a guy killing infected broodmother under 3 minutes with unarmed on whoa mode lol

@@xParaok the fight is not a joke

I didn't race through this save. This save has 240 in game days. I said I started a new save two weeks ago that I got through in 40 days.

Well said

Only 240? I expected a lot more.

I'm in same boat as Milton. My save has about 220 days on it. I struggle with smoothie materials, upgrade rocks. I'm a good player but doesn't seem like a fun boss to farm all day.

@@grungles1925 Learning the move sets and parrying the boss is actually one of the most fun in the game. She does the typical spider 5 hit combo in 3 different speeds and a jump side attack. I thought the wasp was more annoying because of the adds and you had to deal with her flying around. You don't really need hard to come by mats to prep for her either. Fuzzy rocks, Green Machine and Liquid Rage is all you need, and there are 30 sprouts that respawn in the pond lab to make the fuzz beefy. Maybe 1 ox burger and slider at the start of the match.

Exactly, I feel like the fact that you need to kill all the other bosses first should already say that this is going to be a hard boss. This is probably the one of the last things you would do in this game so it's supposed to be really hard.

Exactly it is a end game boss People be complaining so much Like they really want her to die in one shot

@@merku2day i think it’s fine that the boss is hard but the rewards are totally not worth it explosive armor which almost all bosses are resistant too and some dumb chairs

@@oju1iann I do think the rewards should have been better but the difficulty is great. It's meant to be the final challenge you face and a true test of skill. You don't have to fight it if you don't want to, it's just there for those who want the challenge.

I'm actually enjoying the new build. For the longest time everybody's been using the same builds I enjoyed mixing and matching different armor sets so the game doesn't get stale The Explosive build is amazing

Plenty of non streamers beat this game... streamers don't even make up 50% of gamers.

I mean this boss is supposed to be like the ultimate boss, the best of the best. And i don't think it's required to 100% the game unless the mutation you get for defeating it counts. This boss is probably meant for those who want to really push their limits and see if they can beat it. If you would like to save heaps though you can save before the fight and then reload the save if you die so you don't have to grind again.

Exactly it is end game content. To be honest I wish they Would spawn in the world

Hey look, someone with an actual good take

Honestly thats what i love about it. To many games now days are entirely to easy to the point where hardcore is pretty much normal to hard. Theyve dumbed games down way to much. With that said though they should always have many difficulty levels so all people can enjoy the games.

The material limitation is what drags out the playtime. I would love for a rare chance for hard mobs to drop toenails, pinecones, supreme crafting mats, etc.

Actually get necked.

I do think they should increase the drops of the boss

So was the boss supposed to die in one hit? I don't understand It is meant for end game

@@merku2day fr

I do agree with this understanding. The bosses should have definitely been scaled better to match a more progressive feel. I also think that making every boss completely skippable was a really horrible idea. They should have all been integrated into the story somehow. Perhaps brood dropping a story item needed for super sticky webbing to shut off the gas canister, mantis could have been a prying tool you craft to insert the fuse, venom stinger for something to access a new part of the map, asst. mngr at least gave the key card and moldorc could have provided necessary tech parts or a secondary key card for further story access and infected brood could have dropped an item necessary to activate the Java matic... see where I am going with this? Bosses that are required for progression of the game. All of them should have been integrated into the story in some way.

@@XyphonXero didnt schmector try to control the wasp queen or something but failed? they shouldve made it where he succeeded and when you got to the javamatic part of the story that the wasps would swarm it making it impossible to do until you were to kill the mind controlled queen after which the swarm would spread over the entire yard allowing you to finish the story with a final defence

@Fierce Deity Gaming Not a bad idea tbh. It's story linking. Why can we come up with this stuff without much effort but these developers seem to be disconnected on their end? I had some hope when I saw the EA community make such a clamor about going under the shed and the potential for black widows and they said they originally never intended for that to be possible but somewhere they seemed to stop listening to the community and just dropped the ball. I get that not all of our ideas can come to fruition but throughout the community there was so much that could have been done with this game.

take out the bombs to stop her from healing

@@meribarecentes6255 thanks for the tip!

Here’s some tips, Corporate Kickback bypasses the healing debuff, so does the compliance badge. Get the fungal charm through breaking the haze fungus, reduces the explosions damage by a lot!

yea the end of the game requires tons of useless grinding and is basicly a check to how perfectly you can run a boss with the required gear they want you to use

@@thearmedbandit yeh I saw a video on that. Need to dupe these for the fam!

I’ve been farming with my friend and we only got chunks. Can you get venom or fangs from sticky fingers and rascal rogue? Edit: got the trinket, but still no venom or fangs.

@@patrickritacco3361 I've only got chunk as well. Doesn't seem like you can get the others. I'll fight her again to test just to make sure.

@@fiftymakdaddy7201 Thanks!

Yea i just completed the game without the bosses and the whole time i was like well maybe theyre super late game stuff and the next thing i know im at the credits with not even the broodmother recipe found.

Virtually no one has completed the story as is. Making it even harder would mean no one does it lol.

@Damien Rafalowski I don't see how this makes any sense. The game is ridiculously easy and the story is painfully short. While I can agree with Milton that balance is important this game borders on being designed for speed running because as far as the "story" goes... it is more like a clift note version of what _could_ have been. Right before release, for those of is that played a lot of the early access, we expected that we had only uncovered roughly 50% of the game. Instead... all we got at release was one more _real_ dungeon/lab and a few more optional content pieces that took under 15 minutes to complete (stump jumping puzzle, moldorc and the red ant hill). Moldorc wasn't even a real piece of content and niether was the stump. The early access version in the end covered 90% of the entire game story. I personally expected another lab on the deck area before the door and another one on the far left side of the map as well as the sandbox behind the castle... REAL labs more akin to at least the black ant lab or the undershed lab. None of that happened and it would have greatly enhanced the story and exploration.

@XyphonXero I mean to say, statistics of the game on steam show almost no one completes it. So it does not really require a fix to make it harder. The game is grindy enough. And the spider does not need to be a wall to finish the story. As an optional element, it is fine.

@Damien Rafalowski I just do not see the reason many not completing it having anything to do with difficulty. Personally I would be more inclined to see it as boredom so people play it and give up on it before completing it. The game is not really hard in any real way to "complete" and that is not coming from an elitist point of view or anything. Sure, whoa mode can be rough for average players but mild is a walk in the park. Maybe some of those people are just refusing to complete it because they are waiting/hoping for the game to be truly finished. I'm sure some also get lost in the building aspect for months on end and just end up falling off.

I killed her 11 times and she’s so easy for me and I play on medium, I do agree she has mid drops should probably drop something that has slightly better stats then toenail scimitar, or something game breaking like terraria does with the moon lord. Most people complaining about her difficulty just have skill issue. Literally just learn to perfect block it’s not like your dodging and perfect blocking at the same time. Not that hard. If you think it’s super hard good luck if you ever play dark souls.

The fight is definitely not balanced correctly. I would suggest any 1 of these 3 different changes. 1- remove her ability to heal off explosions. 2-scale back the debuffs to a reasonable degree(i.e. no stacking heal debuffs, and/or make the attack debuff less insane) 3-remove 3rd phase entirely, make 1st phase more similar to 2nd, and 2nd more similar to 3rd. Any of these changes would remove the unnecessary time consuming nature of this fight is while still maintaining its endgame difficulty. As it is now, you are correct, its just artificially extended to an insane degree.

I mean if you use something trash then it will take longer

@@Iusta-ny7mq I mean everyone I've watched fight her, it took them a while. Bc her health bar doubles twice and she zips around the map faster and faster. She's weak to mint tho which is why he used that.

Not everyone has a shit ton of raw science.

​@@ramby4436 1000 Raw Science can be achieved in a single daily burgl quest. The point is that if people don't want to have to farm Wasp Queen to keep getting summoning mats then they have an alternative. If you think that's too much work then I think at some point you just like to complain.

It's not an "end-game" boss though if you can complete the game's story without ever even discovering that she exists.

and that is why extra bosses exist (:

Agree

@@Clafton2579863 haha, you have to have _real_ bosses before you go around making "extra" bosses js.

@@XyphonXero facts xD

That's a good question

Yes you can steal 2 items from her and you can increase loot luck with the stuffed bug and dissection expert

Yes you can only get infected chunk I’m pretty sure .

Well they already have forest, desert, lakes, jungle, caves, and even a barren wasteland. The only other biome I can see them adding is a tipped over cooler to make a tundra biome.

@@stumbling_ I was thinking about a whole new map similar to the different maps in ark

more than 40 hours tho.... also why make only content for the hardcore gamers when the nomal player base doesnt even complete the game after 40-50 hours?

I have over 100 hours in the save I did it on and didn’t have all the resources needed. Considering only 1% of players even finish the game does it make sense to add a boss like this? It’s not going to bring back the 99% that didn’t even finish the story which can be done in 20-25 hours.

@@MediocreMilton Two benefits for adding harder bosses and increasing quantity. One is it did attract me back. 95% completed never actually finished the game. It can get boring when you only have the one target left to accomplish, and if that is the mixRs they are time consumingly boring to make sure you can beat them. Big bosses can really break up the monotany, especially if you have to do multiple kills for making the gear. You can now take time, do some coziness building, hit a mixR, then kill a couple of bosses, grab some special trophies etc. When you have time to play, you are usually on the clock. I have a spare 30 minute. Might do some resource collecting, etc.. The game breaks up that boredom and time constraints with different activities, and really two easy-ish repeatable bosses don't quite break up the monotony like 4 or more will. The second thing is kids. Kids are the main people the company wants to attract. And the best marketing is if a kid is visiting a friend's house and he is playing Grounded. And that friend is show boating killing a boss or two. They will want to get the game themselves. And in that, join each others worlds. So drip feeding big updates, for end game content, and hopefully they move into a tier 4 level will continue to and hopefully keep this game current and long term popularity. I believe this game is more fun than ARK Survival, and could match it in popularity and longevity. At this moment, gamers are not finishing it, because once they have explored somewhat, they feel that is enough. And also the wolf spiders that are everywhere are probably too difficult early game. We do need the jump scares. But maybe add a wolf spider repellant in the game for early gamers to get until they are strong enough to start killing them. Just a few times so they can make it to the oak tree and resource farm acorns just to get to that first stage of survivability. But I do love the fact, every creature was capable of killing you and when you get to a certain stage, no creature is scary any more, even the bosses are playthings once you discover mass producing smoothies. Luckily, the infected brood mother now changes that, and we now at end game have something to fear and achieve again.

@@fireworkstarter It's a game that you are continuously improving in. It is not monotonous. I do think the Wolf Spider is the main creature that is stopping a lot of people from going further. It is too hard for a new player and two of them protect the oak tree and the first lot of resources that can make a real difference in moving forward. I don't want the wolf spiders nerfed. I'd rather new players discover a wolf spider repellant they can use until they start wearing tier two armour. But really, survival games, are not fun unless they have 100+ hours of, massive variety of content to discover while growing in power. If you made the game start to finish, campaign 8 hours only, nobody will play it, it is a survival game, not a simple conquer game. In that, we know not many players will get to the stage of actually fighting the infected brood mother. But it is one massive advertisement when a kid goes to a friends house who is playing Grounded, and that kid shows him a different boss or area each time he is going to want the game. This game has tons of variety and is just enjoyable to watch. Even though I don't watch streamers, I'm pretty sure this game being that great in variety is attracting a lot of people to watch the streamers playing.

My strategy for the first phase is to almost rush it not to aggressively to the point it causes you miss perfect blocks, with the build I shared, you should almost take no damage for this phase. The second phase, for the second phase there is this area to the right as soon as you enter the fighting area where almost no explosions are, I recommend fighting there for the rest of the fight, continue to hit perfect blocks and you can also beat this phase with full health. Third phase, for the third and final phase you need to really concentrate and look for indicators that show when you need to block this goes for every attack in all the stages for example when it does the close range jump attack you need to block as soon as it starts coming back down, as for healing use the black ox burger at the start of the boss or in the beginning of the third phase I also recommend using a bandage after every phase so you regenerate health, you should only use/need the smoothies on the final stage when you get hit by an explosion or when you think it is necessary, continue to fight in that corner for the rest of the fight, hit as many perfect blocks as possible and you are almost guaranteed to beat it. Extra tips, every time you get hit by the scream attack it decreases your attack damage for a certain amount of time so try to time a perfect block right as it’s head start to move up and it’s fangs move apart, also if it hits you with while it is doing the the quick 6 hit combo in either the first or third stage every hit decreases your healing effectiveness for the rest of the fight and it stacks I had it at 48 once, last thing I don’t recommend the mosquito healing item for this fight because it takes to long to use, it is kinda expensive, and if you have a high decreases healing efficiency it heals just as much as the initial heal of a bandage.

I'm sure that's an oversight. They'll probably drop a patch increasing it's cost to 5k or more.

I believe FIre Ant Armor is the best set in general. Poison was nerfed again in 1.2.

If you think this boss is too hard. Try Sekiro.

@@thelopper43They won’t because they probably can’t get pass the first boss.

You have to click customize when looking at the shelf after it's placed. I think it's G on Keyboard, not sure what it is on controller.

@@MediocreMilton Awesome, thank you!

I haven’t tried it on medium tho so that might be the case

they should have a 4th difficulty thats for all the sweaty people that want to max farm a gearset before they can fight the next boss. as a casual player the game is too punishing and grindy. the fact that 3% of players finshed the game shows thaty too many people quit half way

Just use the super duper the summon is only 1000 raw science

I haven't tested this yet, but in the new update they made it so that if you lose to the broodmother she gives the summoning item back. It's probably like that for all bosses now.

You know that when you die fighting the Infected BM, you get your Hoagie back, right?

Unarmed was nerfed. If you take damage you lose all your damage stacks so using it in a fight like the BM where a lot of ads spawn in makes it very hard to keep your damage stacks up.

You can parry the scream. Just gotta get the timing right. New BM is a bit more difficult but using the poison build I beat her but it took a bit longer than usual. Mantis was a lot easier for me when you realize you can just side step all of her attacks. Learn to parry and life will be easier.

This game is not for most people when 1% beat it and less than half bother to rescue burgl lol.😅😂😮

They most likely are going to add bosses in between, since they brang wasps back from the cramp in it's safe to assume they make bring other scrapped bosses back like the fire ant queen and lizard boss.

Infected Broodmother is nothing like an Elden Ring boss. I guess maybe some of the easier bosses. Yet it’s nothing compared to the harder ones.

My guy it’s a survival game. Grinding/farming will always be a thing in these type of games. The game isn’t even hard at all. This just sounds like you’re not as good at games like you used to be or you were never good at them to begin with.

Gathering resources that serve a purpose is fine. The game was fine before the upgrade systems were added. The only thing they add is grind. It doesn’t feel good to spend hours farming upgrade resources to get gear back to the stats they had before these systems were added. The only reason they made the change was because the game would be less than 10 hours long. Instead of adding content they added time wasting mechanics that aren’t fun or challenging.

The devs were keen to mention that 15M people have played the game but most of them did so via GamePass and quit in under an hour. I asked them directly after they mentioned that number how many people were actively playing and they wouldn’t answer me.

​@@MediocreMilton yea misleading advertising at its finest. They only present a half truth. It is like saying a billion people bought your product, but failing to mention 99% refunded it the next day.

@@MediocreMilton Well then their numbers were disingenuous just as yours were. Also checking achievements the day after a new boss is released is the worst sample size I could think of

I said the boss achievement percents would go up since they were new but the others won’t change much so the fact is somewhere between 50% and 80% of players quit within an hour and 97-98% didn’t finish the game.