Has Hyperious been scaled back for Solo mode at OP 8?

Borderlands 2 Gameplay Discussion (Spoilers!)
#1

I know that the latest patch removed the automatic four player difficulty for Hyperious, But has that actually scaled his difficulty level back for a solo player? Because if it has, Then some of the older methods like Gunerang Chucking may be viable again.

Anybody know??

I mean theoretically, if he is at one player difficulty he should be a lot easier. Even at OP8.

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#2

I did notice that the message that used to pop up doesn’t anymore

#3

The one that says “players health reduced” or whatever it was?

#4

Yeah that one Idk if it has anything to do with him being based on player count tho. I still amused he was always at 4 player health And if he isn’t when I solo him I would hate to fight the 4 player health version

#5

Interesting. I’ll have to try and kill him solo, then I can try this gate smash thing on Gee.

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#6

I got the ‘Player health will be reduced’ message when I killed him recently with Sal but that was the first attempt as that was the mission from Shades- on a farming run it might be different.

#7

Yeah I did the mission before the last update so idk. But the farming runs do not say it

#8

I was getting the ‘player health’ message farming him today.

#9

I am going to check right now

#10

Just checked no message for me it may be a difference of system though I have no clue tbh

#11

I’m on 360. Getting the message right at the point where I engage him. I miss seeing it (tunnel vision) unless I have a dark backdrop, such as the back of the pipe.

Are you guys on different platforms?

#12

Nope- 360 here…

#13

PS3 here

#14

I didn’t hear the 4-player scaling was gone. As I understand it, what they removed was being able to go into Hyperious’ area, having the 4-player difficulty trigger, then you staying in 4-player while you go somewhere else. Now, if you leave his area, your game goes back to single player. In other words, the 4-player glitch is gone.

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#15

So this is weird. I got the message when I did Hyperious OP4, but not when I did OP3, and for the OP4 one, it only displayed on the first fight, not the subsequent ones.

#16

I don’t notice a difference in his health between first or subsequent runs. It seems that he’s consistently the same difficulty from run to run.

#17

Same difficulty yes I just never get the health message at 72 op7 or op8

#18

It still disappoints me greatly they didn’t sneak a difficulty setting for consoles in. 4 plyer difficulty had its uses and was extra challenge. : /