Gears of War: Reloaded Berserker Boss Battle Guide

The Berserker is one of the toughest enemies in the game, to the point that it can easily be classified as a mini-boss. Your weapons do not affect it, and if it hits you, your body explodes. It is also blind, which means that it tracks you down using its solid hearing ability. You can move past a Berserker silently, but any sound, such as running or even reloading the weapon, will alert it to your presence. Our Gears of War: Reloaded Berserker Boss Battle Guide will help you defeat the Berserker easily in the game.

Berserker Boss Battle Guide – Gears of War

You encounter a Berserker on three separate occasions throughout the main campaign of the game. Each encounter plays out fairly similarly, where you will need to use the Hammer of Dawn on it to kill it, apart from the last one. But in all three encounters, you will need to lure it first to a different location.

Encounter #1 – Act I: China Shop

This is your first encounter with a Berserker and also the most counter-encounter. The area is very tight, which gives little moving space, so this is technically the hardest encounter in the game. As soon as the level starts, the Berserker will chase past you towards Dom. Use this window and quickly sprint into the next hall and towards its door, which is locked at the moment. Use your weapons and shoot towards the Berserker to lure it towards the door. When it charges in your direction, quickly dodge out of the way so that the Berserker can hit the door and break it open.

Distract it again, so that you can lure it away from the now-open door. Dodge and make a sprint towards the next hall. You will find a similar locked door at the other end of the much-smaller hall this time around. Lure it once again and make it smash through the door to open the final hall. Inside the final hall, a timer will appear until the Hammer of Dawn satellite remains online. You will need to kill it before this timer ends. For the third and final door, use the same strategy to lure it and make it smash the door. Once you are outside, you will have a much larger open space, so run around and use the Hammer of Dawn to kill it. It will take two full Hammer of Dawn strikes to kill it.

Encounter #2: Act IV: Bad To Worse

You will encounter a Berserker again in the Conservatory. There is a lot more area to move around as compared to the first encounter. On your way to the Berserker, a Hammer of Dawn will appear on the ground, so make sure to equip it. Move towards the greenhouse, and suddenly, a Berserker will appear at the door. It will charge at you, so get ready to dodge. After dodging its initial charge, spring inside the small hallway that leads to the next greenhouse area. The Berserker will break through the walls here, so just walk quietly and avoid getting too close to it, or if you want to sprint, do so, but dodge any oncoming charges.

Once you arrive in the main greenhouse area, the berserker will break through another wall here and arrive at the party as well. Some crows will startle it, and it will break open the path ahead. Now, there are two ways to get rid of the Berserker here. There are six support pillars which are holding the roof in place and blocking a direct visual for the Hammer of Dawn satellite. You can try your luck to make the Berserker smash through all six of these pillars. This will open the entire area, and you can use the Hammer of Dawn anywhere inside the Greenhouse.

The second method is having the Berserker smash through either one or two support pillars and only remove the roof from that area, and then luring the Berserker there and using the Hammer of Dawn to kill it. This will give you a shorter place to lure and use the Hammer of Dawn, but it will save you the hassle of luring the Berserker again and again and using her to destroy all six pillars. Both methods have their own pros and cons. We prefer the second method because luring the Berserker to the same spot again is easier than dodging its charges all over the greenhouse.

Encounter #3 – Act V: Train Wreck

The final Berserker encounter is also the easiest one in the game. On the moving train, when you clear the initial train cars, a Berserker will jump onto it, and you will need to defeat it before progressing ahead. Luckily, there are a lot of solid blockades on the train, making it easier to move around even with the Berserker around. The Berserker spawns at the location where you begin your level, so it will slowly progress towards you.

Meet it in the middle, dodge out of the way, and run back to the first train car to lure it back as well. On your way to this car, make sure to check the green button at the end of the second-last car. You need to press it once the Berserker is on the last car. Once you lure the Berserker on the last train, quickly run back towards the second-last car and press the green button. This will disconnect the last car, and the Berserker will be taken care of quickly.

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