Blister Borne (Chapel)
- Chapter
- 7 · Courtyard: Rooftops and Chapel
- Where
- The Chapel in Care Center Courtyard East: the nave on 1F and a 2F gallery up a narrow staircase. The chapel catches fire during the fight and the staircase ends up blocked.
Weak point
4 orange cysts: 1 on the back and 3 on the chest and stomach.
A rare mutation of a Blister Head: slow but very durable. It attacks with claw swings, grabs that take a lot of health and a full-speed charge that can't be parried. Pop all 4 cysts and it dies, but every popped cyst releases a red gas cloud that turns nearby zombies, even dead ones, into Blister Heads. On top of that, Zombie Patients keep dropping into the chapel throughout the fight, some with axes.
The key: pop the back cyst first, fight next to the red canisters and kill the Blister Heads before going back to the boss.
Reward
None.
No published HP. If you never took the MSBG 500 in the Attic, it's on the altar (first playthrough only). There are 2 Wooden Crates in the 2F northwest corner (on Insanity, another crate on 1F northwest and a large vase to the east). Insanity: Blister Heads everywhere, and normal zombies mutate on the spot when they die: finish every body with the Hatchet. Per the wiki, it can also be brute-forced with explosives and ammo without popping the cysts.
Step by step
- Pop the back cyst first with the Classic 70 from range: once it faces you, you can't see it.
- Go up to the 2F gallery early. The narrow stairs and hallway make the zombies come one at a time. Use it while you can: the fire eventually blocks the staircase.
- Before popping each cyst, stand next to a red canister (one at the top of the 2F stairs, another on the south side of 1F). MSBG 500 on the front cysts; when nearby zombies rise as Blister Heads and rush you, blow the canister among them.
- Combo: shoot a cyst to stagger it, throw the canister at it (A) and shoot the canister.
- Kill the Blister Heads before going back to the boss: stagger each one (head or leg shot, or a thrown axe) and finish it with the Hatchet (ZR); it counts for Chop Chop. Pick up the axes dead zombies drop and throw them (A): they stagger the boss and earn Can I Borrow This?.
- Sidestep as soon as it roars and lunges. Its arm swings can be parried (L), but that throws Leon off balance with no counter window: parry only when cornered.
- When 2F gets crowded, drop to 1F: open the silver case on the north side (Med Injector and Hand Grenade) and use the south canister. Grenades and the Stacked Hand Grenade also stagger it; while it's staggered, kick it (A).
- Last cyst → melee finisher prompt. Press the button and it dies. Clear the stragglers to end the chapter.