Hey, old man, I ate your Parrot!
Okay, last night I fought the weirdest Boss fight in any game I've ever played. And I mean: weird! First off, though, I had no idea it was going to take me so long to 'fight' The End in MGS3. I'd read that it was going to take some time, but I didn't realise how much time! Or maybe I was just an idiot, but it took me about an hour-and-a-half to finally get that old coot... on my second try ^^;
First off, something really strange happened before fighting The End. Once I left the Ponizovje Warehouse and about to enter the next area, Svyatogornyj South, I was looking for something to hunt and just looking around - thinking I was safe (this is just outside the warehouse, so I wasn't even in the next map yet). Then Snake suddenly gets an arrow in his head! WTF? Is that old coot following my movement the minute I leave the warehouse? Obviously, I wasn't going to lie prone and mind my own business if the old fart is already taking pot-shots at me, so I move to the next area, Svyatogornyj South, and I hear weird sounds (unlike the animal sounds you hear most of the time), so... I had to make my way through the next 2 maps being aware that I'm being followed and keeping an eye out on the guards. Luckily, I had my thermal goggles on every now and then, because one of the guards was almost on top of me before I made use of my Hush Puppy! (Luckily, I was prone in the grass.) Shit, that guy almost gave me a heart attack :p
Before I move on to tell the embarrassing tale of how I finally got The End (no, I didn't wait until he died of natural causes, though it was damn tempting after an hour), I checked out several MGS3 Walkthrough's this morning, and not one of them mentioned that The End would be following your movements outside the Warehouse exit... Has this happened to anyone at all? You know when you'll be fighting a Boss if there's a certain cut-scene, so getting sniped at with an arrow out of the blue is NOT COOL!
Anyways, on to my tale:
I must admit, this Boss fight made me anxious because I didn't know what I was doing. I stayed prone in First-Person view for long periods time, trying to locate him but I later found out that if you stay in First-Person view for too long, the old fart will eventually sneak up behind you and punish your arse, then carry you all the way back to the cell. So, that's exactly what happened on my first try. Since I was definitely NOT going to walk back to The End's map from the effin' lab; I just re-started my game (I saved right before fighting him, even though Para-Medic adviced me not to - this morning I found out why).
The first thing I did when I re-started the fight, was snipe that stupid parrot belonging to The End, then went into the food menu and ate it. Snake didn't like the taste :p I tried to crawl around more and called Major Zero, so then I also made use of the Directional Mic, which definitely helped me to pin-point his location. So, I tried to sneak behind him (he fell asleep a few times), but I should've crawled, not walk, because he sniped at me a few times for that, hey, he even chastised me ^^; Of course, he moved to a new location after sniping at me, so trying to follow him took me a long time - but I'm sure I just went about it the wrong way. Anyways, I just didn't want to move on to the next map so I stayed in the South map (hey, if I stay, he stays, so what's the point of moving to a new map?). So I noticed the tree I could climb on and after more than an hour, I was ready to do something crazy, like NOT crawling around :p
Man, if I knew that a blasted tree was going to save me time!!! And I also noticed that The End went back to the same sniping spot he was at from the very beginning, since I could see the reflection of his scope. Instead of using a sniper rifle, I just used my Tranq' gun and tried to snipe at him from a distance. I missed on my first try, then he tried to snipe at me - and I was still standing on that tree branch - but he missed! So I got him after that. The end for The End. Blah.
This is one sniping contest I seriously wouldn't want to do again - but if I'm going to play for keeps on my 2nd game, at least I know what to do: climb the fucking tree = end of misery. I went to bed just after defeating The End at 3:30 am. At least I got his Mosin Nagant.
*big yawn*
First off, something really strange happened before fighting The End. Once I left the Ponizovje Warehouse and about to enter the next area, Svyatogornyj South, I was looking for something to hunt and just looking around - thinking I was safe (this is just outside the warehouse, so I wasn't even in the next map yet). Then Snake suddenly gets an arrow in his head! WTF? Is that old coot following my movement the minute I leave the warehouse? Obviously, I wasn't going to lie prone and mind my own business if the old fart is already taking pot-shots at me, so I move to the next area, Svyatogornyj South, and I hear weird sounds (unlike the animal sounds you hear most of the time), so... I had to make my way through the next 2 maps being aware that I'm being followed and keeping an eye out on the guards. Luckily, I had my thermal goggles on every now and then, because one of the guards was almost on top of me before I made use of my Hush Puppy! (Luckily, I was prone in the grass.) Shit, that guy almost gave me a heart attack :p
Before I move on to tell the embarrassing tale of how I finally got The End (no, I didn't wait until he died of natural causes, though it was damn tempting after an hour), I checked out several MGS3 Walkthrough's this morning, and not one of them mentioned that The End would be following your movements outside the Warehouse exit... Has this happened to anyone at all? You know when you'll be fighting a Boss if there's a certain cut-scene, so getting sniped at with an arrow out of the blue is NOT COOL!
Anyways, on to my tale:
I must admit, this Boss fight made me anxious because I didn't know what I was doing. I stayed prone in First-Person view for long periods time, trying to locate him but I later found out that if you stay in First-Person view for too long, the old fart will eventually sneak up behind you and punish your arse, then carry you all the way back to the cell. So, that's exactly what happened on my first try. Since I was definitely NOT going to walk back to The End's map from the effin' lab; I just re-started my game (I saved right before fighting him, even though Para-Medic adviced me not to - this morning I found out why).
The first thing I did when I re-started the fight, was snipe that stupid parrot belonging to The End, then went into the food menu and ate it. Snake didn't like the taste :p I tried to crawl around more and called Major Zero, so then I also made use of the Directional Mic, which definitely helped me to pin-point his location. So, I tried to sneak behind him (he fell asleep a few times), but I should've crawled, not walk, because he sniped at me a few times for that, hey, he even chastised me ^^; Of course, he moved to a new location after sniping at me, so trying to follow him took me a long time - but I'm sure I just went about it the wrong way. Anyways, I just didn't want to move on to the next map so I stayed in the South map (hey, if I stay, he stays, so what's the point of moving to a new map?). So I noticed the tree I could climb on and after more than an hour, I was ready to do something crazy, like NOT crawling around :p
Man, if I knew that a blasted tree was going to save me time!!! And I also noticed that The End went back to the same sniping spot he was at from the very beginning, since I could see the reflection of his scope. Instead of using a sniper rifle, I just used my Tranq' gun and tried to snipe at him from a distance. I missed on my first try, then he tried to snipe at me - and I was still standing on that tree branch - but he missed! So I got him after that. The end for The End. Blah.
This is one sniping contest I seriously wouldn't want to do again - but if I'm going to play for keeps on my 2nd game, at least I know what to do: climb the fucking tree = end of misery. I went to bed just after defeating The End at 3:30 am. At least I got his Mosin Nagant.
*big yawn*