Hunt: Showdown 1896

Hunt: Showdown 1896

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A stealth and easy guide for killing all four bosses
By Keks0800
This guide shows you an easy way to kill the Spider, the Butcher, the Assassin and Scrapbeak in less then a minute without making any loud noise.
   
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After they buffed the sticky bomb damage the most common method to kill every boss is using it. For just 64 $ you reduce the boss health by 3/4. After that you just have to wait until the frenzy mode is over and u can finish them with just 2-3 melee hits. You can shoot them aswell.
Because this variant is so much faster there is no more need to care about the noise.
This wont work with the Assassin anymore.
Killing the Spider


Killing the Spider is super simple if she is in any room without a high roof. You only need a strong meele weapon. Just look for a sledgehammer and attack her with charged attacks. After some charged hits she should be dead and you only need about 30-60 seconds to kill her.
Take care of the frenzy mode. After she lost 1/4 of her health she start screaming, gets reduced damage and instantly starts attacking. Until she calm down after some seconds. Just leave the boss location for some seconds and wait until she screams again.(You can also throw lanterns on her, which deals good damage but isn't as stealth as just hitting her with meele weapons.)
Killing the Butcher


If u want to kill the Butcher fast and stealth you only need 48$ for an concertina bomb. Just throw it into a small passage and lure him into the barbed wire by making him agressive. You can do this with a silenced weapon or just with your presence. Avoid getting hit if you are close to the barbed wire because the Butcher can break it if he is too close to it.(They nerfed the damage form this method. It still works but it deals much less damage then before.)
Like the both other bosses you can hit him with a sledgehammer. Just hit and run and avoid his fire attack.
Like the other bosses he also have a frenzy mode after loosing 1/4 of his health. He will start to chase you with the same speed as a sprinting hunter and constantly attack with his hook. Leave the location and wait some second until he clams down.
Killing the Assassin
Killing the Assasin is very easy and basically like killing the Spider. Just search for a hammer or an axe or use any other meele weapon and wait that he chases you. Now you just have to wait that he materializes so you can hit him, but take care that you run if he dashes to you. If he hits you while he dashes you will bleed. Do this a few times and he get stuned for some seconds and you can give him hell. At long last a silenced weapon works also but it will be much faster with a meele weapon.
Take care of his frenzy mode which will start when he lose 1/4 of his health. He will spawn clones which deals some damage and blinds you.
What also deals a good amount of damage is to set him on fire with lanterns for example. He is also weak against poison.
Killing Scrapbeak
Yaaay finally they released a new boss. Scrapbeak comes with a lot of crows in his compound, so it's very easy to spot him. He should be one of the easiest bosses in this game cause he is weak to poison, quite slow and his only specail attack is throwing barbed wire.
What makes him special is that this greedy magpie collected every single item around him. But you can beat everything out of him. If u attack him with melee weapons (piercing damage is the best option) or guns he drops his loot every time he gets enraged. The important thing is that you shouldn't burn him or throw explosives if you want the loot, because otherwise it gets destroyed. But at the end the stress isn't worth it. Just use a sticky bomb like on the other bosses and you save a lot of time.
Silencers

With the latest update they added silencers for the Winfield and the Sparks. But the silenced Winfield is the only gun with enough dps with which you can kill the bosses. It could be especially used for killing the spider in rooms with a high ceiling where you can't reach it with the sledgehammer. At last you get just a small advantage with buying a silenced Winfield for the price of loosing some firepower. After they added levering perk it made the winfield much more valuable.
Ps
If you want to be much faster you can just throw 1 big dynamite bundle right next to them which should kill both bosses instantly if thrown right.

Thanks for reading, good luck and enjoy the hunt! :)
36 Comments
IzekMonUwU 13 Feb, 2023 @ 2:23pm 
Assassin, i recommend finding an axe, if you heavy melee him 2 times, he should start raging, when that happens, just light melee him every time his clones start to form, cause it'll cause him to repeat this animation of always spawning clones, and he'll never "enter his rage phase", or at least, he will never be a danger in it.. this is my first time making any post in text, so i hope its not too wordy, or bad, or anything, i'd just like to share my way of killing every boss, I play lots of solo too, so its applicable in solo's as well! hope this helps... *someone*...
IzekMonUwU 13 Feb, 2023 @ 2:23pm 
for scrapbeak, I NEVER use a sticky bomb, if you have a piercing knife, like knuckle knife, or the normal knife, stab him twice while hes stunned, and stab him in the backpack when you run away if you do it right (its kinda hard), you can stab him another three times when he's stunnable again, and he'll rage, then you stab him as much as your stamina will allow, when hes screaming, then just leave the boss layer, and rinse and repeat. for bayoneted weapons, or saber, or pitchforck, just stab him twice, run away, then stab him twice again, simple.
IzekMonUwU 13 Feb, 2023 @ 2:22pm 
ithe fastest, and riskiest way to kill the butcher requires a stamina shot, and kills faster than a sticky bomb, (i think). If you have stamina, you only need about 30 seconds, you can start meleeing him with the axe, but when he rages, dont stop meleeing. very crucial, stay BEHIND him, where he cant hit you, you'll constantly be burning, buut if you do it right, you should only be knocked down half of your health, if you have a bomblance its much faster, and you can banish right after to get all of your health back.
IzekMonUwU 13 Feb, 2023 @ 2:22pm 
i actually have techniques for each too, the best (and fastest) way to kill the spider with melee, is actually the axe, its always the axe, cause its much stronger than the hammer, and if you heavy melee, then light melee, then heavy melee, it'll obviously rage. BUT the important thing is you chip away an extra chunk of health and if you rinse and repeat, you can skip an ENTIRE rage phase! the spider only rages two(?) times with this technique. im also gonna send my methods in chunks, because it was over 1000 characters... haha...
楽しんでいた 27 May, 2022 @ 2:10am 
didnt know the last one has been added recently :huntbounty:
Keks0800  [author] 27 Feb, 2021 @ 3:59am 
Thats right same thing with the concertina and the Butcher :sad_creep:
THE GREENED WIZARD 26 Feb, 2021 @ 1:52pm 
true true, it was more relevant before antidote nerf. you could stand in the cloud while it killed itself trying to get to you. the good ol days.:huntbounty:
Keks0800  [author] 26 Feb, 2021 @ 6:43am 
Yeah you can use it but in my opinion the damage of the posion bomb is not worth it. Lanterns deals nearly the same damage.:lunar2020ratinablanket:
THE GREENED WIZARD 26 Feb, 2021 @ 3:12am 
Poison bomb for assassin
Keks0800  [author] 22 Aug, 2020 @ 12:04pm 
Hey just try to run out of the building when the spider is on frenzy mode and take care that she don't jump at you, good luck :steamhappy: