Bosses Overview

Loop scaling will make enemies progressively more difficult each loop by increasing their HP and letting them spawn in clusters. However in the case of bosses, they will continually gain more HP than enemies by loop and have some of their attack patterns changed to become more aggressive, and added together this makes them significantly more challenging on each loop of the game.

Bosses will be listed in order, however they can roughly be ranked by difficulty in the list below. These bosses aren't instantly difficult but rather become progressively more dangerous due to their attack and HP scaling.

• High Difficulty: Big Bandits, Mom, Throne 2
• Medium Difficulty: Hyper Crystal, The Throne
• Medium-Low Difficulty: Lil Hunter
• Low Difficulty: Big Dog
• No Difficulty: Technomancer

Cursed Hyper Crystal can be viewed similarly to Hyper Crystal but can vary due to webs. Captain is unlisted as she can only be fought in L1-L2.

HP scaling works as follows:

• For Enemies: BaseHP * (1 + (1 / 20) * Loop)
• For Bosses: BaseHP * (1 + (1 / 20) * Loop) * (1 + (1 / 3) * Loop)
• For Big Dog: BaseHP * (1 + (1 / 20) * Loop) * (1 + (4 / 5) * Loop)

This means that enemies will gain 5% of their base HP for every loop, while bosses gain the 5% multiplied with 33% of their base HP, or 80% for Big Dog. These are always rounded to the nearest whole number, with Scarier Face modifier going into effect after the full value has been calculated.

Big Bandit strategy

Special scaling:.

• Every loop will add two more Big Bandits that spawn starting with two on L1.
• Big Bandits = Loop * 2
• They will attack much more aggressively, firing at the player far more frequently. They can also start firing again mid-attack to prevent the player from sidestepping their attack.
• Will also charge pretty much instantaneously if they are able to.

Strategy: Big Bandits are considered one of the most difficult bosses in deeploop because they continually grow in numbers which can overwhelm the player. Their aggressive attacks lets them constantly put pressure on, and quickly spread out throughout the level making run-ins a constant. Particularly dangerous moments happen when they initially are spawned in and are all grouped together, or if they happen to corner the player and whittle down their rads. However there are tried and true strategies to handle the fights much more safely, giving the player far more control over this fight than they would Mom or Throne 2.

(Mention spawning strategies, charge iframes, other weapons, small mention of using music)

Mom strategy

Special scaling:

• Every loop Mom will increase in speed, outpacing normal player speed by just L4 and Vans by L13.
• Speed = 1.7 + (Loop / 2)
• Her egg attack cycle will include one more per loop as well.
• Eggs = Loop + 2

Strategy: The sole issue with Mom's loop scaling is that her speed makes her a constant unpredictable threat to the player. Her egg and toxic attacks are not much of an issue, rather the main problem is that she deals 10 contact damage and can easily take the player by surprise. For this reason she's considered one of the hardest bosses in the game, often forcing the player to fight from a corner and being able to avoid much of SPC damage.

Note low windup after shooting toxic

Big Dog strategy

Special scaling:

• Big Dog's HP will scale an extra 80% per loop on top of the normal enemy multiplier, where it's only 33% for other bosses. (Equation in intro section)
• His bullet spin attack will include two more lines per loop.
• Lines = 6 + (Loop * 2)
• His missile attack will include one more missile with each loop.
• Missiles = Loop + 3
• Missiles will shoot out bullets in loop and increase rate of fire with each loop.
• Frequency = 10 / Loop for frames
• Missiles start shooting so fast at one point they will only shoot out one bullet then fail to fire anymore.

Strategy: Big Dog is considered one of the easier bosses in the game as his attacks do not pose that much of a threat. While he has much higher HP scaling than other bosses, in general there are very few reasons a fight against Big Dog could go wrong, though it can still happen.

By Loop 10 Big Dog has more health than any other boss except Throne 1, though it would take ages for him to have the highest HP.

Hyper Crystal strategy

Special scaling:

• Hyper Crystal will gain another two Laser Crystals spawned in its circle per loop.
• Crystals = 3 + (Loop * 2)
• If the Hyper Crystal explodes Laser Crystal during its seeking phase, it will explode into additional lasers scaled by loop.
• Lasers = 5 + (Loop * 2)

Strategy:

Cursed Hyper Crystal strategy

Cursed Hyper Crystal has the same properties (HP & loop scaling) as the normal Hyper Crystal, however it will spawn Cursed Laser Crystals instead and will rarely include Lightning Crystals in its circle.

Strategy: Include circling around CHC and avoiding telefragging.

Lil Hunter strategy

Special scaling:

• Lil Hunter will initiate fighting the player much sooner based on time spent in the level, scaling by loop.
• Seconds = 7 / (1 + Loop / 2)
• In close range he will fire his bouncy attack much more aggressively in loop, and will fire more bullets based on loop.
• Bouncy Bullets = 11 + Loop
• His long range attack will also gain more projectiles, increasing it in length.
• Bullets = 10 + (Loop * 2)
• His death explosion will add more explosions each loop, thus increasing the explosion radius as they are pushed outwards.
• Explosions = Loop * 3

Strategy:

Technomancer strategy

Special scaling:

• Technomancer can gain more 'outposts' based on loop that they can switch to. This is not guaranteed based on limited level space.
• Outposts = Loop + 2
• They can also spawn more Turrets per loop, however this may be limited based on space around them.
• Turrets = Loop + 1

Strategy:

Throne 1 strategy

Special scaling:

• The Throne's tri-shot attack will gain one more bullet per loop for each row, making the attack last longer.
• Bullet Rows = Loop + 8
• Bullet Rows = Loop + 3 (Low HP)
• The large orb attack will break into more rows of orbs when broken.
• Orb Rows = Loop + 7
• Upon breaking broken Guardian Statues will spawn additional guardians per loop.
• Guardians = Loop + 1

Strategy:

Throne 2 strategy

Special scaling:

• Throne 2 will shoot out more large orbs (unlike Throne 1) dependent on loop, in addition to breaking into additional rows of orbs.
• Orbs Fired = Loop + 2
• Orb Rows = Loop + 7
• It will also shoot out more laser orbs per loop, each shooting out more packed green bullets making them last longer in duration.
• Laser Orbs = Loop + 3
• Laser Duration (seconds) = 0.87 + (0.33 * Loop)
• The star attack will include one more row of orbs per loop, as well having more orbs packed onto the end making it last longer in duration.
• Orb Rows = Loop + 10
• Star Duration (seconds) = 0.5 + (0.17 * Loop)

• 'Duration' for the laser and star attack is due to extra projectiles at the end, which is better explained by seconds. However, here are the exact formulas, while not as useful:
  • Laser's Packed Bullets = 26 + (Loop * 10)
  • Star Attack Orbs = 15 + (Loop * 5)

Strategy: