I've gotten it to work, I assume because I do aim for the middle, but then start to spam since it just felt like it wasn't working if I tried to press it once. Doesn't help that there is no feedback for success. If you figure out a way to unlock the gallery, please do share. I'd like to see what I'm missing, but the effort likely isn't worth it to fight for hours to find out.
Oh yah the no feed back on success i forgot about also.
I have a save with a lot unlocked, but not everything. Its possible that I just don't know the right unlock method for every animation but also entirely possible that I did the right thing but the game wants the timing to be extra perfect. Also the new bosses are still alpha so maybe it just is bugged. I had certain number like 48 Sol anims unlocked very early and then after trying to beat her 200 more times it never went up, so I think the rest are bugged except 2.
There are still two attacks from Sol that I have 0 idea how to dodge: in the gallery there is a "Combo2" that I did dodge and then ??? before it that I only assume is "Combo1" which is what she does in her 2nd stance. She does this combo that you can dodge every attack by just jumping to the side of her lead foot, but then she does this swinging kick and it hits every position. I know that with some attacks like her spinning kick in the third leg up stance, you don't dodge it, but instead you have to like be going *back* from dodge to neutral and it dodges, so maybe there's something ridiculous like that for the kick of Combo1. If I could dodge that last kick, it should unlock the combo.
The last thing I think I never dodge is the cat toy grab where she lies down and picks you up on her legs and starts slapping you. I always dodge to the side when she does the animation and that avoids the grab but then she does some kick after I have no idea what to do. I think I need to try ducking the grab, one time I will just get to that phase and duck everything just knowing I'll take too much damage to win but maybe unlock that gallery but again I am not bicurious enough to go through all that for this boss lol
I'll try to check a few more things and will put my save up. I have all cheats unlocked (i think) except inf health on Sol, is only at 1/3 because beating the next fight doesn't track progress. He had bugs like the cheats not tracking before and it was a while before it got fixed publicly. Even though I never got close to winning on hard, somehow I have the "always last phase" cheat probably from bug, that needed beating on hard to unlock. And as before, I unlocked outfit for her too but it does nothing. I just want to make sure some things don't revert on my save or anything since it did last time I closed.
Also I download a UE save editor and also try opening the file in notepad but the save editor crashes even though it doesnt look like its encrypted, but maybe it just has slight default base encryption. At this point it would be less frustrating and better for me as a trade to learn how to edit UE saves than get better at the boss fight. The dogs are supposed to be harder as 2nd to last boss but they are a cake next to Sol.