My first playthrough sitting at 32 hours...

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My first playthrough sitting at 32 hours... - Sopuli

…and I’m not even done.

Oh look, a boss fight. Will this be a fair-and-balanced skill-based experience? Or will it be a DPS race against the clock and hoping I get good RNG on the enemy attack patterns so I don’t die to mostly unavoidable or unreactable damage?

I haven’t played AC6 yet but the fact that you’re bothered by unreactable damage makes me think you’re playing this like Souls. But it’s not Souls, it’s a shooter. Be preemptive? Make your own movement pattern hard to follow.

A very glorified DPS race is more or less what a duel is in a shooter.