ALERT! Our revamped walkthrough for Snake Eater will prove most useful on your mission to destroy the Shagohod, once and for all.
Boss: The Pain
You’ll meet The Pain in this cave pool chamber. He
stands on a rock across from your start
position. Like the battle against Ocelot, you won’t be able to reach The Pain at close-range
and instead must use long-range weapon attacks to defeat the boss. Thankfully The Pain doesn’t
bother to duck behind cover; however; he uses his control over hornets to create a shield for
himself that’s as good as any rock. While The Pain’s hornet shield is active, you can’t damage
him.
To force the hornet shield off temporarily, toss a smoke grenade at The Pain’s position. The Pain is vulnerable without his hornet shield active.
Initially, The Pain’s two most deadly attacks are his grenade and "Tommy gun" assaults. He’ll toss a hornet-made grenade to your position. If you’re within the blast radius, you’ll suffer serious damage--including damage that may require a cure. One of the best ways to counter the grenade is to watch when it lands on your position and see which way the explosive rolls. If it rolls to the left, then jump into the water on the right; if the grenade rolls to the right, jump into the water to the left. Swim away from the grenade to avoid the blast radius.
Avoid the Tommy gun attack in a similar fashion. The Pain creates a machine gun of hornets and fires them at your location. Dive into the water and swim down to avoid getting struck by the projectiles.
In fact the water is your best defense against most of The Pain’s attacks. When threatened, just jump into the water and swim down. Return to your start location and resume the attack after avoiding the danger.
After reducing The Pain to half health (or stamina if using the mk22), he’ll unleash stronger hornet projectiles. If you’re struck, check the cure section to see if you’ve been stung. Use the knife to dig out the stinger and mend the wound like a cut.
The key to the battle is to avoid The Pain’s attacks and wait for him to become vulnerable (out of his hornet shield) and strike effectively when given the opportunity. You can wait it out or toss smoke grenades at The Pain to speed the process.
Like the Ocelot battle, if you have the patience to defeat The Pain with only the mk22 (don’t use the suppressor), you receive a special uniform as a reward. After defeating The Pain with the mk22, move around the right side of the chamber and follow it to the ledge overlooking The Pain’s start spot. Perform a running roll to the location to find the hornet stripe uniform.
I tried using the Yoshi guide on gamefaqs.com it was useful, but the Yoshis on the runway during the chase are hard to hit, as is the one at the end when you fight the boss. They are hard to see, let alone hit! I got all Yoshis yp to that point, and gave up, for me that kind of ruins the fun of the game.
I am tryng to get the "whale" rank and capture all 48 animals, but can only get 45-47, can anyone help?, I need to know what all the animals are and where to find them?
After playing This game for what seems like the 100th time i noticed there was a climbable tree in Svatagornja west that had a place at the top where you could stand or crouch on, but when i went and restarted the game it wasn't there anymore, if it was I couldn't find it, it seems that there are a few things that are like that, they are there and you notice them, but when you go back to see them later they arfe gone!
Does any one know what the best effective way to stamina kill volgin is?, I have tried the stun guns, there's not emough time and a combo of stun guns and stun grenades, and I only get him half way, then time runs out!
@PadamanI got it, but I still cant get the cold war camo, but oh well, the stealthcamo is far better than all !btw what did you use for the photo camo in granins office? and... where are the locations of that "legendary snake" the tsukinoko?
@JGlascock for tsukinoko granininy(sp?) gorki south at night. use mousetraps by the closest climbalbe tree to the entry. i'll send you the pic for the photo-camo tomorrow
Is the stealth camo unlockable on the 3ds version?, if so, how do you sneak past the scientists when leaving Granins office so they don't cause an alert to go, since the stealth camo is only unlockable with no alerts in the game.
2 more questions, about MGS 3d, how do you get the crocodile cap?, and has the GA-KO uniform been switched for the fruit uniform for 3ds, I could not find the GA-KO unifoem in the northeastern end of the swamp, only the fruit uniform. one last question, what are all the obtainable uniforms and face paints and weapons?
On MGs what is the radio frequency to find TheEnds location on the map/, also what is the set of numbers displayed by the floating figure in the cut scene right before you fight Volgin? (MGS for 3ds).
1 Like @JGlascock Little Late, But It Is Not A Codec Frequency, It Is The Konami code, Up Up Down down Left Right Left Right B A. And That Is the Sorrow With A Timer for the C3.
@Padaman @JGlascock do you have to put it on pause, a different screen or what, because if the game isnt paused, it just makes snake move up and down, switch his weapons, and items, and thats it, but I do have a tutorial on YouTube on how to find The End (JGlascock100 on youTube).
@JGlascock I Havent Exactly Tried It My Self, A Friend Of Mine Said It Worked And He Is Usually A Reliable Source Of Information. Have You Tried It?
@Padaman @JGlascock will this work on the 3ds?, if so I will try it, next run through, right now I have killed him early and heading to the Grannin lab on a Yoshi search run.
