Hellsinger Basics Part One!  Enemies!

Disclaimer!  This guide contains SPOILERS and reveals some enemies that only appear on Higher Difficulties or in Leviathan Mode!

Let's cover the ENEMIES you'll encounter while running Hellsinger.  (All ememy images yoinked straight from the codex)

We'll separate these into 3 distinct categories: **Standard** enemies, **Elite** variants, and **Judge Aspects**

# First, Let's talk about **Standard Enemies**.

These will range from Cannon Fodder to relatively durable demons, but they all gotta start somewhere.

- Here we start with the **Marionette**: Not strong or smart, but potentially dangerous in groups. Standard Hellish Cannon Fodder.  You can crystalize groups of Marionettes with Paz's charged attack for a quick damage down if you're running Last Breath Aegis.  These enemies are often high-priority due to their tendency to get stuck on geometry or clip out of bounds at times.  Kill early to prevent a softlock or time loss.
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- Next up: **Cambion** starts the Murder parade:  The standard issue ranged troop of the hellish armies, pretty slow, but a bit tougher than a marionette.  Burst fire is dangerous, but look out for lobbed projectiles as well.  A full stream of their pullets is enough to damage down into Aegis on Goat difficulty.  It'll take a few more hits if you're running on lamb, but in that case you can usually utilize a marionette.
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- **Behemoths** are next: Considered the shock troops of the Hellish legion. Got a big ol hook for a blade and love to jump right at ya. Might be slow, but hit hard enough to make up for it.  On higher difficulties, these enemies are near one-shot kills to you, so be wary.  However, they can be staggered pretty easily, so be sure to mix their prioritization.  **NOTE:** they also damage other troops with their AOE, so be careful of these if you're running All Torments.  Don't want them cracking your easy slaughter Marionettes.
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- Keeping in the vein of close combat are **Stalkers:** Mostly Invulnerable when teleporting, loves to use its bladed hands to deal rapid up close damage, but *can* fire a damaging bust from a distance on occasion.  I've taken more deaths to these than I'd like to admit, especially that snipe from a distance.
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- Next up is the greatest pain-in-my-speedrun: **The Eyeless**: A big ugly flying bug that spits acid that slows you down and can stick to you. Don't it just sound great?  The acid lasts longer than you think a lot of times, and can ruin an IL if you step in it at the wrong time.  But they still squish like bugs, and can be good for a bit of health restoration in a pinch.
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- Now it wouldn't be a Doom-Like without a summoner would it? That's where **the Hierophant** comes in: They conjure exploding marionettes while throwing landmines. Fun times.  Be warned, their landmines can linger after they die, and their Marionettes will explode upon death.  Plus, the Heirophant has some of their own defensive magic ranging from close to mid-range, so approach with caution, shoot from afar if you can.
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- Last up for Standard enemies are **Lesser Seraphs**: The All's foot soldiers.  Long range holy lasers and close range Holy explosions.  (But are also damaging to Hellish enemies)  Their close-range explosion is often more dangerous, and will wipe Marionettes, so be careful with guiding these around during an All Torments Run.
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## Let's kick up the difficulty and talk **Elite Variants** Elites are modified stronger versions of the standard enemies we see, often dealing more damage with more health and other fun modifiers that make them harder to kill.

- First up are **Shield Cambions**: Take a cambion, give it a shield, and make it fire more bullets(3 in a cluster per chain of fire) and make its thrown orb do AoE damage now.  Striking from Above or Behind is the best way to deal with these, though Terminus also works great in a pinch.
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- Now **Siege Behemoths**: They're like the normal behemoths but a hell of a lot meaner. Take away the hook and add a big ol cannon instead. These things can take you down just as fast as you can take them down so be careful.  However, the "Any Difficulty" speedrun does utilize them for a damage down and as backup damage downs at a few points.  So they have their benefits.  They take a bit more to stagger than standard behemoths, and can wipe out Marionettes with ease so be careful of these when running All Torments.
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- **Void Stalkers** on the other hand: they actually don't seem as bad as their Normal counterparts for once. They attack more often at a range with slow moving projectiles. They ain't so bad.
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- Now... Angels like Lesser Seraphs are bad enough. But their Biblically Accurate Counterparts the **Assault Seraphs** are a hell of a lot worse.  They have a number of High Damage AOE attacks, and force you to move to deal with them.  ONLY SEEN at higher Difficulties and on Leviathan mode.
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### Now, I won't go into too much depth about the Judge aspects here, but a few quick tips for some of them are as follows:

- With the Judge aspect in **Nihil,** it will ALWAYS follow the same pattern of which judge is the correct one and where.  Learn the pattern and you're all good.

- With the Aspect from Incaustis: there is a sort of "Safe Zone" to attack it from while dodging its hailstorm attack.  It's on the middle ring of the arena with safer locations being next to scorch marks / broken stones.  Most Effective on Lamb Difficulty, works well enough on Goat Difficulty, no notes on how it may work on higher difficulty yet.

- Acheron's aspect has a good amount of RNG as to whether or not the boss skips its attacks or ont, and can save or lose a good amount of time.  To my knowledge, there are no guaranteed methods of getting it to skip its attacks.

### Keep an eye out for PART 2 covering the 8 Hells Basics for Any Difficulty runs!

How to downpatch the game (Steam version)

Hey all, latest patch removed stuck boost and added additional invisible walls.

~~Lastly but not confirmed yet it also changed the cycles for some of the bosses loosing slight ammount of time for AFE as well (the ammount for this one still has to be timed).~~
*Edit: We found out that for AFE full game runs latest patch is actually faster overall. It's on several levels as they slightly changed the boss patterns. Huge timesave is in Acheron for example. (this is a subject to change as they release new updates fairly often, we are open to discussions about this on the discord)*

For the time being I'll post a guide how to easily downpatch your steam version of the game.

For consoles and xbox game pass there is no known way yet. I am sorry 😢 and I'll update the guide once we know about one!

I'll post the 2 ways I know about how to do this. The first one being slightly faster on the download speed but the result is pretty much same

**!!! Before we start make sure you switch Automatic updates on steam to 'Only update this game when I launch it' !!!**

# With DepotDownloader

- Download the latest [release](https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader/releases) (you also gonna need [dotnet](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) if you don't have that, easiest way to check is to write 'dotnet' to console)
- Extract the folder and open the terminal,cmd in the extracted location
- Run the command ``` dotnet depotdownloader.dll -app 1061910 -depot 1061912 -manifest 160345016487024864 -username username -password password ``` with your steam username and password credentials (it might ask for the steam 2FA as well)

- Wait for it to finish (it's gonna download around 12GB)
- Inside the depotdownloader folder navigate to '\depots\1061912\9642801' and copy all the content in the folder
- Continue to the final section of this guide as that's same for both 

# Through Steam Console

- First you need to access the steam console, you do that by creating a new steam shortcut, right click -> properties and putting '-console' after the path in the target field (ex. 'C:\Steam\steam.exe -console')
- After that exit steam and click on the newly created steam shortcut
- Navigate to newly created CONSOLE tab in steam
**Note:** you can also open the console by pasting `steam://open/console` in your browser and select to open it with steam
- Here you will enter the command ``` download_depot 1061910 1061912 160345016487024864 ```
- Don't freak out if it looks like it doesn't do anything, trust me it's doing it's job and it's gonna take a while
- When it finishes it should tell you the location which should be something like 'C:\Steam\steamapps\content\app_1061910\depot_1061912' navigate to this folder and copy all the files from there
- Continue to the final section of this guide as that's same for both 

# The final section

- Locate where is your Metal: Hellsinger installed with right clicking on the game in steam -> properties -> local files -> browse (it should be something like 'C:\Steam\steamapps\common\Metal Hellsinger')
- Delete all the files there and paste the ones you just downloaded/copied
- Open the game through Metal.exe
- Check that you don't have accessibility options in the settings (or check the version in settings)

If you have any questions or encountered any problems with following these steps, don't hesitate and go to our discord to the #help channel.

[Steam guide I followed for the console option](https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=889624474)

How To Set Up a New File Run!  (Without Losing all your Progress!)

Opening Notes:  Massive Shoutouts to @Vojtas131 and @Ch1pset whose combined knowledge made this possible.  Currently this is only for PC Runners on Steam, but May be possible with other PC Versions as well.


Now, the actual Guide (Video Guide at Bottom):


1. TURN STEAM INTO OFFLINE MODE.  This is the most important step.  If you do not do this, you WILL genuinely lose all of your Leviathan, Archdevil, Coat of Arms, and other save file progress.

2: go to C:/Users/%your username%/AppData(Hidden Folder)/LocalLow/TheOutsiders/Metal/Save/

3: In that folder there will be a file called SaveData.  While Steam is in offline mode, delete that file (Do not delete any other file)

4. Boot up M:H (Do not turn Seam back into Online mode untile you're done with your run)

5. AFTER your run is done, you can close M:H, turn steam back into Online mode, and resync the steam save cloud and restore your cloud save from before your New File run, and it'll have all your previous progress still there.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhafWs9cBkQ


How to speedrun in Metal: Hellsinger

Want to learn how I speedrun this game and possibly learn something that could improve your times for Individual Levels (IL) or All Forced Encounter (AFE) runs? or is this your first time speedrunning the game and you want to learn what to do for each hell and what loadout to run? 

Well I made these quick guides that will show you how I personally run each individual level with speed and consistency.

For Voke watch this video: https://youtu.be/3MkDNcdTul0

For Stygia watch this video: https://youtu.be/Qs7v4zB00vI

For Yhelm watch this video: https://youtu.be/Uff_wVqv514

For Incaustis watch this video: https://youtu.be/XCszZBpOET4

For Gehenna watch this video: https://youtu.be/hwNPMgX_FqY

For Nihil watch this video: https://youtu.be/PCchhEHy8eE

For Acheron watch this video: https://youtu.be/_XqlQmFELPE

For Sheol watch this video: https://youtu.be/49jqLG25gq8

Some things I do not explain in these videos I will put down below.

Jump Dashing: Pressing Jump and Dash at the same time to get you off the ground and dashing while in air to give your a speed boost thats faster than normally dashing.

Resurrect Skipping: Spam the "ESC" key on your keyboard when you die until it brings you to the screen to choose the option "Resurrect" and then spam the "ESC" key on your keyboard again until your back in the game.

The shortcut up the staircase in Yhelm after its second forced encounter was founded by DrouwGon

The shortcut on Incaustis after the first encounter to save about a second or two to get to the bridge faster was founded by DrouwGon

The shortcut at the start of Sheol to save about a second or two was founded by DrouwGon

Skip all cutscenes by spamming or double tapping your "ESC" key on your keyboard

The "Space" key on your keyboard can be used to select most options in the main screen, hell select screen, and even the leaderboard screen after completing each hell.

To quickly change between Hells during a full 8 Hell All Forced Encounter run at the end of each level you would spam the "Space" key on your keyboard until you are out of the leaderboards. While it is loading your Hell Select screen you want to move your right hand to the arrow keys and the enter button. The moment you can select a hell just hit "Right Arrow" key once and "Enter" key once, and with your left hand spam the "Space" key until it starts loading the choose loadout screen. If you are fast enough you can click "Enter Hell" on the choose loadout screen before it even fully loads. After you choose your loadout and click "Enter Hell" then you will want to spam the "Space" key until you activate the next "Enter Hell" button after loading and spam the "ESC" key to skip cutscene and WALLAH! you just choose your next hell in just a couple seconds.

Name	Autor
Hellsinger Basics Part One! Enemies!	JamesSwan 5 months ago
How to downpatch the game (Steam version)	Vojtas131 3 years ago
How To Set Up a New File Run! (Without Losing all your Progress!)	JamesSwan 1 year ago
How to speedrun in Metal: Hellsinger	The_Casual 3 years ago