Ok, it's climactic when he appears and surprises your party and immediately guns one person down with his mini-gun.
But usually the scenario is-
1. See cutscene.
2. Wait.
3. Wait some more.
4. Shoot him until he heals and runs off (unless you weld him into a room.)
5. Wait some more.
6. Kill 5 or 6 clots while waiting.
7. Kill him finally.
There's just too much waiting on average for the patriarch to show up. Is he spawning too far away? Is he spending time sneaking around pointlessly in stealth while his victims are standing around waiting for him? Whatever the reason is, after the intensity of the second to last round, the Patriarch fight feels a little flat.
Suggestion-
Make him part of a larger, final wave. I sort of expect the patriarch to lead his 'children' into battle, not skulk around until 95% of them are dead. He can take his sweet time getting there then, if he wants, because players will be defending and killing. It will make his arrival more dramatic and a lot more challenging. He doesn't need a full ~160 specimen wave or whatever backing him up, but only being backed up by a handful of clots and maybe some crawlers is a little pathetic for the nastiest of nasties.
But usually the scenario is-
1. See cutscene.
2. Wait.
3. Wait some more.
4. Shoot him until he heals and runs off (unless you weld him into a room.)
5. Wait some more.
6. Kill 5 or 6 clots while waiting.
7. Kill him finally.
There's just too much waiting on average for the patriarch to show up. Is he spawning too far away? Is he spending time sneaking around pointlessly in stealth while his victims are standing around waiting for him? Whatever the reason is, after the intensity of the second to last round, the Patriarch fight feels a little flat.
Suggestion-
Make him part of a larger, final wave. I sort of expect the patriarch to lead his 'children' into battle, not skulk around until 95% of them are dead. He can take his sweet time getting there then, if he wants, because players will be defending and killing. It will make his arrival more dramatic and a lot more challenging. He doesn't need a full ~160 specimen wave or whatever backing him up, but only being backed up by a handful of clots and maybe some crawlers is a little pathetic for the nastiest of nasties.