If you want to play the game as a glass cannon DPS machine, you can do that with the right parts. But there's nothing stopping you from actually reading boss patterns and dodging them. The only boss this doesn't apply to is the first one, and I suspect it will get nerfed because of how many people are complaining about it. Some damage is unavoidable but it's minor, every big attack is dodgable and even accompanied by a loud warning sound. I don't think it's unfair.

I've felt this, too. But actually I just hadn't figured out the right response to any given attack.

Manage your EN right, and everything is avoidable.

I guess we are playing different games if this has been your experience.

I haven't played AC6 yet but the fact that you're bothered by unreactable damage makes me think you're playing this like Souls. But it's not Souls, it's a shooter. Be preemptive? Make your own movement pattern hard to follow.

A very glorified DPS race is more or less what a duel is in a shooter.

So it's a Fromsoft boss

Maybe it's just the only way I learned to play, but armored core 3 I found only the floating legs were very viable. Then I would equip self aimed missiles and found arena quite simple. The missions you could use different set ups, but I could never win arena much with any other legs.

Don't overuse dodges, a lot of attacks will miss if you're just boost-moving around the boss, so save the dodges for stuff that you actually need it for, so you always have EN to spare.

Don't be afraid to burn your EN on flight when warranted, the spinny thing that the Spider does in its final phase is really easy to avoid if you just fly over it.

Don't stop doing damage, consider having something that you can use to at least poke at the enemy just enough to keep the stun bar from decaying, so you can build it up to get a stagger. Or switch to weapons that have a high impact stat to build stagger faster.

Don't sleep on melee weapons. They do MASSIVE damage if you can land the hit.

Pile driver, 2 songbirds and some other high impact you can carry

Open with charged pile driver, immediately unload all your cannons into it, slap another charged pile driver while it's stunned

After that only go for pile driver when it's stunned

I played with reverse joint, but i reckon quad would be the best, as you can just stay above it, outside its melee range.

If it pounces at you while you're on the ground close to it, dive under it

sir this is 2023

16GB is the new 8GB of 2014. Even so, we're starting to see top triple A games use upwards of 20GB.

I somehow read this as 128GB and was ready to share your shock.

Dude you're seriously still stuck with 8GB?

If you're still on DDR3, I have a spare 8GB 1600MHz stick in my old PC. I'll sell it to you for a good price.

That's not unusual. Or do you mean vram? Still not surprising with the detail level in the game.