So what's the deal? I could understand if it was an 'did what I had to do' moment, in that he hadn't made any progress and Lazaravich's trigger finger was starting to itch. Nathan clearly trusted Harry enough to do the museum heist with him, so he doesn't seem to have any misgivings about Harry prior to his betrayal which would indicate there had been some bad blood between them in the past. He sells you out, shoots you, and even when Lazarivitch betrays him he chooses to try and kill you and Elena rather than hopefully seeing the nutcase he works for taken down. But once you get to the end of the mission and Harry betrays you he just seems to straight up hate your guts. Harry even mentions during the museum run that it's just like old times, clearly showing they've done heists like this before. What is Harry's gripe against Nathan? When he first shows up he's friendly and cheerful, and the two talk like old best friends.I am not sure which if any of the other sequences are necessary to successfully complete the fight, but I don’t think you can progress until you bite him once and that was by far the hardest task for me since simply hitting circle as fast as I could would only end with Talbot rolling Nathan away instead of Nathan biting him.
#Uncharted 2 train boss pro#
It’s spamming the circle button as fast as you can, which you should be a pro at by now. Then, after a few more counters (triangle), offensive strikes (square), or the other pattern where you just button mash circle as fast as you can to ward off the knife, you’ll get to the point where Talbot has you pinned near the edge and for the rest of the fight the game will now automatically give you on-screen directives regardless of difficulty. Not long after that, the sequence where Talbot switches the knife to his other hand also finally triggered for me (luckily as others mentioned you don’t seem to have to avoid getting cut here to progress, just make sure he doesn’t slash you a second time on "crushing" difficulty unless you want to start it over again for the 573rd time but who’s counting at this point haha). It’s hard to get it right and might take a few attempts but if you play around with it a few times and make a concerted effort to transition from mashing circle around 4-6 times, then pressing down on it more emphatically/longer once, and then immediately going back to mashing it a bunch of times, Nathan should finally bite Talbot. It might take a few tries to get this pattern right but after I watched that video and tried it out, I finally got lucky and triggered the bite once and pretty soon thereafter the fight was over. Rather than just aimlessly mashing the circle button to no avail (what I kept trying to do for what seemed like forever), there’s a point in the middle of this sequence where you’re supposed to hold circle down for longer (or harder?) once and then resume spamming the button. What I gleaned from watching the video on normal mode is that there’s actually a subtle pattern/rhythm to this sequence. I could never seem to trigger that as Talbot would always end up just pushing or rolling me away, but that seems to be the key to progressing through the fight. Where I would keep running into trouble was the grapple sequence where Talbot has you held from behind and you’re eventually supposed to bite him.
So I was also really frustrated with this for a long time and finally decided to look at a video of someone completing it on normal (with on-screen directives) to see if there was some sequence or combination I kept missing.
Here's a video of someone beating him on Crushing in about 2 and a half minutes, although there's no commentary or other prompts so it's tough to glean much information from it: It might just be a function of how much damage you do to him, as most of the videos I've seen where he goes down quickly, Nathan's always on the offensive, punching constantly when not involved in a QTE. There's a particular pattern to when he goes for the final kill (and Sully shows up to take a shot) and I don't see much of a pattern about when this happens. Screwing up more than one of these in a row on Crushing seems to be a recipe for game over. He knocks you down, and you kick him in the head to break his hold.You and he cross arms, but he drops the knife into his other hand for a quick slash (this appears to be the trickiest one - you have to go from mashing the circle button to hitting triangle and you have a very short window in which to do so).Talbot pins your arm behind your back, where you bite his arm to get out.He takes a swing at you, which you dodge and counter.Talbot's got a limited move set, and most of them involve quick-time events, for example: