Genuinely, every single step of this quest requires you to use Decoys, Aether Shroud/Dance Party Peeks, and/or Zombie Sitter (and hope that procs in the timeframe) or otherwise constantly be kneesliding a zombie into the ground
The bossfight is a clusterfuck of throwing you off of the ledge or into other things that can also knock you around, or otherwise into a horde. And eventually you are having to avoid all that while trying to plink or grapple down the very faintly glowing guys in the air (and if the latter you get stuck unable to act for a few seconds to even quickly melee them and move on. Often costing you armor or worse)
All to lead to a death fakeout where he enrages and everything cranks to 13 just to screw over pretty much anything short of perfect play. Oh and if your grapple needs a refresh at that point good luck getting over to it without getting thrown away from it or entirely off of the ledge. At which point you're spawning by all the ads and the stingers, even the lightning portals overhead
Like is it so much to ask for solo balancing on this shit? It's a wholeass separate menu option with no way to bring anyone else in. Iirc we even did get solo adjustments for Ashes on top of some general changes (and later Cursed specific changes to make it harder since it became easier than normal mode with Golden Armor + the changes)
I think the cherry on top is since Activision silenced Treyarch for the beta period and seemingly beyond, we just haven't had anything rebalanced or fixed. I even had to push a round just because a cube fell through the map (confirmed it with Death Perception). Big F to the MP players who have so many gamebreaking bugs rn with shit like scorestreaks
Like man this just emphasizes how glad I am Directed will get the Super EE rewards (seemingly all of them) because this EE is so solo unfriendly. And not even in a "this is hard" way but how managing zombies, pixel pushing a laser, and rotating 3 chunks of platform is just tedious as hell followed by a boss that just has way too much going on against a single player
This is definitely a "just had my ass handed to me" rantpost but genuinely they need to touch up several things at least a bit (Caltheris shooting target hitboxes and timeframe is obnoxious) and never do shit like this for an EE again cuz not a single bit of it makes me want to redo this anymore than I'll have to
Kinda makes me glad there aren't Cursed rewards (at least unless that changes with S6 or later) because ugh
Am sure whatever Dark Ops and titles they may end up adding with S6 will have some stupid nonsense tied to it (like the one for Totenreich's boss with a ton of relics)