Is mission 31 the end for me?

[BAK]

Hi,
I've been playing for a while now, enjoy stealth and other gameplay stuff, but just PLAIN HATE boss fights. Every time this happens, I lose interest in this game. Only to proceed, I read guides and watch tube walkthroughs, but this doesnt give me any satisfaction. It s like going for a 2nd job. Now I m stuck in mission 31 (just hardened version of prev sahelantropus fight), this all feels very unfair and stupid - I have to fight gigantic-almost-indestructible robot.
This is not what stealth action game should be about.

P.s.: Well during my childhood times it was okay to replay missions 10-20 times in a row (hello konami's contra hard cops!), but is mgs5pp a game only for "true" gamers? Does it suppose people to replay that much?

[Dyne]

It took me several tries as well but it's worth it to get to the next chapter. What I did was bring the FB MR Rocket Launcher Mark II, a grenade launcher (think I only had the first one at the time) and Tornado-6 along with Quiet. Quiet does a pretty good job of distracting it... the first thing you should do is destroy those cylinders on his back with the rocket launcher and then just keep hammering his belly when it lights up with rockets or grenades. It takes a little while but the Mark II launcher does a lot of damage to him especially when you hit those cylinders.

The pistol is for the last portion of the boss fight... don't want to spoil it but you'll know it when you see it.

Other than that just keep moving. His whip strike is really easy to avoid. His machine guns do almost no damage... flamethrower is almost unavoidable if you're close but it won't kill you. The attack to watch out for is when he jumps on top of a mountain and starts aiming with his railgun... just hide behind something until he's done firing. I got lucky and he mainly shot at Quiet lol. Whatever you do DO NOT go out into the open when he's aiming because you will die.

[Dyne]

If you're really having a hard time and you don't have very good gear yet, just do side ops and replay earlier missions to get stuff you missed (like Materials Engineer from Mission 14) until you have some pretty OP weapons. I had to give up after my first few tries and build up that mark 2 rocket launcher.

P.S. I agree the boss fight is kind of ridiculous since it's supposed to be a stealth game... reminds me of Deus Ex before they fixed the boss fights. They were all combat and quick time events even though the whole rest of the game was stealth. But... wouldn't be Metal Gear without fighting a giant robot in a field.

[ReeNoiP]

Can't say I understand you. I love a good boss fight, and this is the best in the game (not that it has much in terms of competition). But to each their own I guess.

Here are a couple of tips:
You can destroy the rock spikes it creates with ordinary assault rifle fire. Very usefull for escaping before he jumps on you.
There is a tank, rocket artillery and a LAV in the area. If you can drive them decently, you can do a lot of damage before it uses the attack where it destroys all vehicles.

[Udenszirnis]

Isn't the damn thing telegraphing its attacks a month before? They are all easy to avoid. I used 6-shot greanade launcher, GROM rocket launcher and some damaging SMG for those last shots at the Foating Boy.
Only thing you could have problem with is when it decides to go sniping. Quite often you won't have any cover, so just run like Sanic and dodge-jump.
And take Quiet with you with damaging rifle. Tranq rounds do not work because guess why.

[Dyne]

Originally posted by Udenszirnis:

And take Quiet with you with damaging rifle. Tranq rounds do not work because guess why.

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[Hammer Of Evil]

Sorry that you're having trouble. All I brought was a rank 2 or 3 carl gustav, and I used the vehicles that are conveniently available. Didn't lose pequod. Didn't need 9000000 gmp worth of items.

If you really want to cheese it, use placeable explosives. 1 AT mine and put groups of 4 C4 (or more) in single locations. wait for him to walk over them, kaboom. You also have the option to manually detonate if needed. Cheesiest win ever.jpg. I'd suggest playing a deadly game of ring around the rosey around one of the large stone pillars in the area.

If you're still not able - just farm up more material and GMP and just research max AT, bring vehicles, Max pequod (i'd use rocket pods for higher dps), then roll in and spend 100k on your deployment cost. Literally just go battle armor + spam rockets, i'd be pretty surprised if you died. The way to die in the battle is to prolong it - you wanna dump all your ordinance asap, then get reloading and resupplying. Learn the attack timing, you'll be alright. all mgs bosses have the same pattern of attacks once you've figured them out and the range/HP% that they trigger at.

[!RJ_Truth]

It is easier than you think. Follow what Dyne said and you'll get to a point where you won't have a problem. I was frustrated with him at first too, but quickly realized that I'm probably not up to the power that I should be because I minimalist my development items the first play through. Now I go through taughting him. Nah nah nah, you can't catch me before I destroy his @$$. A bit childish I know, but hey, that's what games are for. :)

[thegodsend]

Originally posted by BAK:

I have to fight gigantic-almost-indestructible robot.
This is not what stealth action game should be about.

Its called Metal Gear. You actually fight a Metal Gear in every Metal Gear game. Just this Metal Gear fight is worse than every other in the MGS series. The other ones are actually good. in MGS4 u get to fight Metal Gear Ray vs Metal Gear Rex. The 2 most iconic Metal Gears in the series. Its a pretty stupid fight in this one and kills 2 bosses in a really stupid way.

[BAK]

Hello everyone, thx for replies. I've beaten that level on 2nd time after reading this discussion. Your advice helped!

[Birdy.J]

Here is a no trace mission 31 damn this guy is the best MGSV player.

[Pckables]

A little late, but if you drive the LAV and use its .50 cal cannon on multiple different parts of Sahelanthrapus, both shreds and stun locks it as it keeps exploding. It doesn't even get the opportunity to use its Archea mist.

Felt a little cheesy, honestly. Only took about 2 minutes to kill it.