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How to complete the "Long live the Queen" achievement [0BC]
By Yours truly, Garbage
A quick tutorial video of one possible method of completion.
   
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Explanation
The Knockback Shield is the (only) essential piece here.
You want to get the queen to very low health, depending on the amount of damage your parry does this value changes accordingly.
Then try to kite her at the very edge of the arena as shown in the video; Grab onto the ledge then dodge roll back off it, double jump onto the wall and rinse and repeat until she stands on the very last tile of the floor.
Once her feet are on said tile, jump up into her, place yourself slightly to her left and see if she performs an attack from the right. If so, parry it with the knockback shield to knock her into the void.

Her placement and health have to be very specific, otherwise the achievement won't work; if she dies and THEN falls off, it doesn't count.
You can tell the achievement is complete when the final cutscene plays immediately after her death, rather than having to interact with her again.

If she dashes back to the left simply hug the ledge again and repeat until she gets in the right position.
It is also recommended to not have any effects such as freezing, poison, bleeding or burning on your shield to avoid her dying to those effects instead. I've had that happen several times, it is unbelievably annoying.
4 Comments
Yours truly, Garbage  [author] 19 Feb, 2022 @ 9:31am 
Most weapons and skills have had their knockback effect reduced significantly against all bosses. The only weapon unaffected/less affected are the spartan sandals. The sandals will launch even the queen quite a distance. The reason I did it with the shield is simply because it allows for use of a weapon you're actually good at using rather than having to rely on the inconsistant sandals to get a hit in once every 15 attack cycles.
Now obviously you could argue that using a weapon you're good at and the sandals in the other slot is a viable option but at my skill level the game is utterly impossible without the use of a shield, I need those quick heart-attack parries to stay alive.
And stashing the sandals in the backpack and swapping them out last second seems too impractible to be really useful, so the shield it is.
Look 19 Feb, 2022 @ 7:37am 
so, did it, can cofirm it works, for me, only with the knockback shield, but holy is that a stupid grind (copy and paste savegame), think i need nearly 10 try from the same save to get it.
Look 17 Feb, 2022 @ 8:29am 
well, i test it out with the "abyssal trident" - no effect like "normal" enemys, so no chance here. i tested today the "wave of denial", knock back effect is not really effective. really it is annoying, that the effect is so low @ bosses, i mean, come on...
Look 10 Feb, 2022 @ 9:46am 
did you test it with the "abyssal trident", normaly a unliked weapon, but for this action, maybe?