This has been ruining a lot of my runs lately. Has anyone come across this? I can only guess it has something to do with the slowmo, that that's breaking the cutscene-trigger somehow.

Hehe... I remember that.

This happens when you kill any of the hairbangers before they "activate".

By "activate" I mean the exact frame where they stop mining and start doing the horns gesture.

Between the running swing and normal attacks wait a split second. I prefered to use audio cue - start attacking immediately after Mittens starts saying "Reserve security force, report!" or one of other random quotes he says in this place.

Thanks for the advice! Will give that a try.

P.S. Holy shit, welcome back from the dead!

P.P.S. The Hundo board is awful lonely ;)

P.P.P.S If you'd like to open up about your strategy on Lair of the Metal Queen, that'd be amazing!

First things first.

1. No problem.
2. Well... This isn't exactly "comeback". I just randomly wondered "Hey. I wonder how's the Brutal Legend speedrunnin doin". But since you got my attention, you can count on my advice.
3. I could post a guide regarding Metal Queen. Not in this thread though. It would be too much off-topic.

Late AF update: Seems to fix the issue 100% !