Having trouble with [EXTREME] Metallic Archaea

[Ill Queen Hydra]

I had absolutely no issues at all taking them out with D-Walker in the original mission, but I get my ♥♥♥ kicked to ♥♥♥♥ on extreme difficulty version. I'm wearing Battle Dress but I still get a severe wound to my chest every time a rock hits me, and they seem to come from nowhere. In the original mission I would always shoot down the throwing rocks and any barricades but I always get hit for some reason. I'm using D-Walker with an upgraded gatling gun. I've also tried using standard weapons that I thought might be useful (upgraded machine gun, fully upgraded rocket launcher, upgraded auto grenade launcher, etc) and they're not anywhere as effective as the gatling gun but the gatling gun still takes years to even just deplete their shields. One time I used all of my grenade launcher ammo, rocket ammo, hand grenades, C4, and 600 d-walker gatling gun shots and killed one of them and depleted the shields of a lot of others, but then I got killed in literally 4 hits from their weird arm SMGs after my D-Walker was destroyed by a rock. I have no other missions, I've extracted the 5 escaped children, and I see no other means of progressing.

What the hell do I do?

Update: TY for the add, 笹崎 花

[Ill Queen Hydra]

bump :(

[Jem]

I found using D-walker to kill them was rather Easy. When you're on him they start spitting out black smoke, just mow them down with the gatling gun and you can usually kill them before they finish.

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by Yuki Koneko:

I found using D-walker to kill them was rather Easy. When you're on him they start spitting out black smoke, just mow them down with the gatling gun and you can usually kill them before they finish.

Alright, I'll keep using D-Walker until I give up or succeed.

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by Yuki Koneko:

I found using D-walker to kill them was rather Easy. When you're on him they start spitting out black smoke, just mow them down with the gatling gun and you can usually kill them before they finish.

D-Walker got destroyed from a rock that was fired nowhere near it, and then I got shot with the arm-gun. It took 2 ammo resupplies of gatling gun rounds, that's 3000 gatling gun rounds. Two died, the rest had no shields. And then they ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shot me to death after a magical ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ rock killed my entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ family and destroyed Earth. I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ give the ♥♥♥♥ up.

[SLK]

use the rpg that shoots like 6 missiles, it makes the extreme difficulty missions very easy and i suggest quiet with the extremely powerful sniper she unlocks last.

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Did it, got rank S

[Fang]

Originally posted by PHANTOM PAIN DUDE:

Did it, got rank S

Share what you did? Might help others. Maybe even myself once I get to it.

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by Fang:

Originally posted by PHANTOM PAIN DUDE:

Did it, got rank S

Share what you did? Might help others. Maybe even myself once I get to it.

It was very ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hard still and not enjoyable in the slightest bit. I'm very surprised that it worked. I used all my gatling shots on them and then I scaled a ladder onto the roof and spammed rockets and grenades. They can only get onto the ladder by using melee attacks, just deflect them with CQC and they'll be stunned for a while and teleport back to the ground. The rocks are still very dangerous but I managed to jump to cover to avoid them.

Man, the Skulls have been amazing fights and very very fun and unique, and I usually play the regular difficulty Metallic Archaea mission when bored, but god ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ damnit with Extreme difficulty this was probably the hardest thing I have ever done in 2015

[SolidSnake]

how did you got the extreme difficulty?

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by SolidSnake:

how did you got the extreme difficulty?

It just got added to the missions list after Eli stole Sahelanthropus.
Beat it and still no new missions though.

[Berial-]

Anyone else is getting stuck at the loading screen after beating this mission on Extreme? I finished it, got S and Quiet got full bond, after that info being shown, the loading circle keep spinning and I can´t do anything.. :(

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by Berial-:

Anyone else is getting stuck at the loading screen after beating this mission on Extreme? I finished it, got S and Quiet got full bond, after that info being shown, the loading circle keep spinning and I can´t do anything.. :(

Never had that problem

[nikout13]

The best way is get the gatling for D-Walker to the Grade 3 so you can have ammo up to 1000 rounds. You just sit on a D-Walker, drive around and wait for one of the skulls to put smoke so they will be stuck in tthe deploying animation, shoot them and keep doing on every one of them. I've used this tactic as well as calling supplies close to me when I was out of ammo 3 times, it worked very well for me.

[Berial-]

The BEST way to do it is just to select Quiet and hide inside any building (the ones with blue doors and no windows), she will keep shooting skulls and kill them. Skulls will not chase you inside buldings. I wish i could fix the f***ing loading screen issue to keep playing this amazing game

[Ill Queen Hydra]

Originally posted by Berial-:

The BEST way to do it is just to select Quiet and hide inside any building (the ones with blue doors and no windows), she will keep shooting skulls and kill them. Skulls will not chase you inside buldings. I wish i could fix the f***ing loading screen issue to keep playing this amazing game

Good idea, it never even occured to me that Quiet would help.