Versus Match Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil) Vs Frank Horrigan (Fallout 2)

As stated before, the "dude" armed with semi-modern small arms managed to take down Lady D in a mutated form that was only triggered when she was stabbed with some super special dagger that was apparently laden with toxins or whatever. And even then, the "dude" had to shoot at Lady D in the humanoid form that was on the back of her monstrous form because the rest of her body was nigh immune to damage, like she is nigh immune to damage in her basic Humanoid form. If this scenario was a scripted boss battle, then surely Horrigan could pull off a similar feat, but this Versus isn't a scripted Boss Battle. She doesn't need to oblige.



If we're talking about shrugging off, Frank Horrigan is actually harmed by whatever an "industrial plasma caster" is as in he incurs hit point damage. Meanwhile Lady D can literally shrug off all manners of weaponry. This could be argued as due to gameplay mechanics as she's shrugging off M79 Grenades to the face and walking over anti-tank mines with nary a concern in the world. It is notable to state that her staggers tend to consist of her brushing off her dress or straightening her big hat. Compare this to say, Nemesis or Mr. X from the earlier Resident Evil remakes who actually visibly stagger when struck by things like overwhelming amounts of gunfire or explosives which would seem to imply Lady D is more resilient then those Tyrants would be, gameplay mechanics aside.

You're debating using game mechanics as gospel, that's a little dishonest, come on.

She's a nu-MrX type enemy who cannot die until scripted in their boss fight, by that logic can you nuke her and she'll walk it off? What about a tank?

Seeing as every other boss in the game is vulnerable to small arms fire (well, maybe not robot dude...) she is logically no different.

The dagger certainly weakened her, but I'm pretty sure that some of the most powerful fallout weapons ever seen should be able to at least match that level of damage lmao.

Horrigan ignores gunfire in one of his cutscenes, canonically he's tougher than the bossfight.
 
I could respond but I think the Strawman you erected might be offended.

You're debating using game mechanics as gospel, that's a little dishonest, come on.

Yes very dishonest

If we're talking about shrugging off, Frank Horrigan is actually harmed by whatever an "industrial plasma caster" is as in he incurs hit point damage. Meanwhile Lady D can literally shrug off all manners of weaponry. This could be argued as due to gameplay mechanics as she's shrugging off M79 Grenades to the face and walking over anti-tank mines with nary a concern in the world.

It is notable to state that her staggers tend to consist of her brushing off her dress or straightening her big hat. Compare this to say, Nemesis or Mr. X from the earlier Resident Evil remakes who actually visibly stagger when struck by things like overwhelming amounts of gunfire or explosives which would seem to imply Lady D is more resilient then those Tyrants would be, gameplay mechanics aside.

Oh look me literally not using gameplay mechanics as gospel in the very post you quoted.

She's a nu-MrX type enemy who cannot die until scripted in their boss fight,

A nu-MrX type? Like how I've been comparing her since the first post in this thread? Or the post you were responding to?

It is notable to state that her staggers tend to consist of her brushing off her dress or straightening her big hat. Compare this to say, Nemesis or Mr. X from the earlier Resident Evil remakes who actually visibly stagger when struck by things like overwhelming amounts of gunfire or explosives which would seem to imply Lady D is more resilient then those Tyrants would be, gameplay mechanics aside.

I believe the term you are look for in lieu of "NuMrX" type is Tyrant. You got the ol Tyrant, the Mr. X lad in RE2 and Nemesis in RE3.

Seeing as every other boss in the game is vulnerable to small arms fire (well, maybe not robot dude...) she is logically no different.

The dagger certainly weakened her, but I'm pretty sure that some of the most powerful fallout weapons ever seen should be able to at least match that level of damage lmao.

Considering they're all rapidly different mutations of the Megamycete I don't see any reason why applying the vulnerability to small arms fire for one is applicable to any other. Keep in mind I never argued she was immune to small arms or any other strawman you erected to imply I was proposing a nolimits fallacy, I was pointing out she was apparently superior to Tyrants of previous games die to the lack of reaction when struck with heavy weapons.

This is working off of my previous posts were I was trying to deduce a reasonable way we could guess her durability since we know canonically that Tyrant and Mr. X from the first games cant take that many rockets to the face but Tyrant can (though he's typically staggered) while Lady D isn't even considerably affected by similar amounts of firepower that can bring the highly resilient Nemesis to his knees.
 
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You can hit Nemesis with infinite rocket launcher before the scripted boss fights and he can take an infinite amount of them...Why are we using scripted gameplay segments so much?...

LadyD probably doesn't stagger to make her seem more imposing and because the entire gameplay system is different, FPS instead of Third person. The combat is a lot 'clunkier' so you shouldn't even try to stagger her, while staggering MrX might actually be viable in places.
 
You can hit Nemesis with infinite rocket launcher before the scripted boss fights and he can take an infinite amount of them...Why are we using scripted gameplay segments so much?...

I didn't make that argument but I'll grudgingly agree wholeheartedly with your assertion. 😁

LadyD probably doesn't stagger to make her seem more imposing

You can stop right there. Thank you. ;):p
 
I didn't make that argument but I'll grudgingly agree wholeheartedly with your assertion. 😁

You can stop right there. Thank you. ;):p
Yeh, so my original assertion of 'guy who needed a power armored elite team, turrets, and a bunch of elite warriors and a chosen one to beat, probably wins against a woman who was defeated by a walking corpse' seems pretty gud.
 
Yeh, so my original assertion of 'guy who needed a power armored elite team, turrets, and a bunch of elite warriors and a chosen one to beat, probably wins against a woman who was defeated by a walking corpse' seems pretty gud.

I'm just glad I was able to expedite bringing us (you really) to this point of the discussion so quickly. :)
 
I think it is reasonable to say that at the least Lady D just scales to other Tyrants and the reason why Ethan used a dagger filled with toxins because at the time of the fight (No Mods or New Game+) the heaviest weapons he'd have would just be a sniper rifle and some mines which wouldn't be enough to take down a Tyrant in the lore so he needed some kryptonite juice.
 
It's interesting to note that, as we established earlier with in game mechanics at least, Horrigan is almost clearly more resilient then either of the two Tyrant forms in the first two RE games. Horrigan has 999 hit points and a Fallout Rocket Launcher deals an average of 67.5 damage.
 
It's interesting to note that, as we established earlier with in game mechanics at least, Horrigan is almost clearly more resilient then either of the two Tyrant forms in the first two RE games. Horrigan has 999 hit points and a Fallout Rocket Launcher deals an average of 67.5 damage.
He's also immune to 1 hit kill super-crits as well IIRC. So you can't shoot him in the eyes with a 0 damage BB gun hit which kills him.
 

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