Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots Cheats & Tips

Ok, it takes place in an eastern European tower, and the battle against this airborne boss can be quite lengthy. You'll need to find a position that offers cover and the opportunity to attack, so immediately head up to the very top of the stairwell. Don't venture out onto the walkway at the summit, instead wedge yourself into the left hand corner of the doorway. This way you'll be protected from the missiles fired at you, and you'll be able to duck out of cover to fire SAM missiles at Raven's support units. Take these out first (they fly circuits of the tower, so train your sights at one point from cover and let the support units fly into the point of your sight). After you've taken care of the support units, focus on Raven.

She'll often dodge rockets, so you might be better off with a heavy machine gun. Stay covered and pick her off little by little, then she'll shed her suit and you can quickly finish the fight for good downstairs.

Good luck!

Each encounter with the B&B squad gets progressively trickier. Crying Wolf is particularly touch because the battle against her takes place over a large area, with many buildings and a constant stream of Haven Troopers to fight. Wolf prowls the snowy wastes, stopping every so often to survey the area. As with Raven, your best bet is high ground, so clamber up one of the towers, switch on your night vision (keep an eye on the battery - without it you're snowblind) and watch and wait. You'll hear her stalking in the snow beneath you. When she stops it's your chance to snipe her as she peeks out from her suit. Be careful though - if she sees you, her attack is devastating - throwing you from your spot into the Haven Troopers range. Four to five sniper rounds should do it.

Good luck!

First up you'll need to use your syringe to regain your senses, and once you're up and running get to the perimeter of the room where the sinister puppets are less troublesome. Ignore these, but keep an eye out for Screaming Mantis' scythes - dodge these and keep moving around the outside of the room; if Meryl is sent after you, use CQC to knock her cold. Use one of your assault rifles to attack Mantis and Sorrow, the two puppets Screaming Mantis is holding (fit a sight to your rifle if you haven't already) until she drops them, then pick the puppets up. Then use the Mantis puppet to posses Screaming Mantis, shaking the Sixaxis to drain all of her energy while she's under your control in order to finally defeat her!

Good luck.

During the boss battle with Laughing Octopus, equip the Solid Eye System in Night Vision mode. This will show any heat sources in white, including Snake, the hanging lights, and also Laughing Octopus.

You can buy a magazine with pictures of the models that the Beauty And The Beast unit were based on from Drebin.

In Act 1, when in the underground hanger/cave, you can also use the Mk II to listen to the wounded PMC soldier's conversation. He will talk about the Beauty And The Beast group before you actually meet them.
Aswell as by just walking yourself in, but when you use MK II and it's stealth mode, you might not disturb the conversation, as it sometimes might happen when the other guy did notice you coming in, and then the conversation will be cancelled.

Shoot five tranquilizer rounds into the legs of a Gekko. It will collapse and thrash around on the floor. You can walk past without being spotted while that is happening.

Or:

Shoot one Tranq. round in each of the legs, and it will also fall down.

Set the PS3 system date to a Wednesday or Sunday, and Drebin will have cheaper prices. Additionally, all of Drebin's prices are cut by 50% during Act 5.

When you're running and perform a roll, simply hold the roll button longer and you'll finish laying on your front in the crawl position.

Assassin's: Successfully complete the game in Single Player mode with killing more than 50 enemies with the knife, having over 50 CQC holds, and getting discovered less than 25 times.

Big Boss: Successfully complete the game in Single Player mode on the hardest difficulty using no continues, instigating no alerts, killing no enemies (including Bosses), using no life recovery items, using no stealth suit or bandanna special items (can possess, but not activate), and with a completion time of less than 5 hours.

Fox: Successfully complete the game in Single Player mode on the Naked Normal or higher difficulty using no continues, instigating no more than five alerts, killing no enemies (including Bosses), using no life recovery items, using no stealth suit or bandanna special items (can possess, but not activate), and with a completion time of less than 6 hours.

Fox Hound: Successfully complete the game in Single Player mode on the Big Boss Hard or higher difficulty using no continues, instigating no more than three alerts, killing no enemies (including Bosses), using no life recovery items, using no stealth suit or bandanna special items (can possess, but not activate), and with a completion time less than 5 hours and 30 minutes.

Hound: Successfully complete the game in Single Player mode on the Naked Normal or higher difficulty using no continues, instigating no more than three alerts, killing no enemies (including Bosses), using no life recovery items, using no stealth suit or bandanna special items (can possess, but not activate), and with a completion time less than 6 hours and 30 minutes.

Whilst on the NOMAD during the mission briefings, you can find batteries whilst controlling the Metal Gear MKII/MKIII. You can find one in the Mission Brifings for Act 1 - Act 4.

During act 4 after the mantis boss battle, you will enter the several long corradors. continue through the first set until the cut scene. After the cut scene you will enter the corridor filled with several of the small robots with three arms. kill and go across the first bridge and into the 2nd room.. now stay in the 2nd room in the area between the 2nd and 3rd corridors just enough so the door top the 3rd room opens but dont go in. Stay there and buy a ton of grenades for the XM grenade launcher. equip it and have at them. tehy wont get close enough to jump on you but they will shoot at you. your dificulty will determin how fast theyll kill you. buy a ton of rations and equip them and youll never die.

You can keep killing them forever and once in a while send out the MK.III and grab up the guns they drop

Each kill = 50 DP
Each gun = 1500 DP

After about 45 min I farmed 2.3 million and got the bandana. After doing that you can get the 200 round machine gun, equip the bandana, laydown facing the 3rd room and tape down the L1 and R1 buttons(use masking tape for no sticky resedue) and go to sleep for the night. (only works on very easy mode or you might die.) come back to about 4 million more DP in the morning.

Instead of rotating the Right Analog-stick to control the iPod, use Triangle, Square, Circle, and X.

Hold up a FROG soldier, and body search them. When you would normally ball crush a male prisoner, they will say "You men are all the same", "You're disgusting!", or "Ugh" and kick you.

When you search a FROG soldier when they have no items, she will giggle as if ticklish.

When you search a FROG soldier and touch her chest, sometime she will moan or say "You're pretty good at this".

*you must use a sniper rifle for this to work*
when you start the fight look to your right and you'll see a 6-8 wheel military ATV. if you crawl under it you can watch for Crying Wolf to pop out of her shell and aim at you. that's when you snipe her. the frogs don't get close enough to shoot you very often, and if they do, they have to crouch first, so it gives you the advantage. if Crying Wolf doesn't come for a little while, crawl half way out so some of you is exposed. she'll howl if she's on her way. depending on your rifle, it may only take you 5-10 hits. and you won't take any damage!

This is the tip I found when I finally got to Liquid Ocelot on the boss extreme mode and this tip also helps with people who are not good at mashing buttons and can't do numerous combos to beat him. I used a similar stratagey on lower difficulties but when I got to boss extreme it didnt work because he got more aggressive so I had to tweak my old way until I came up with this new way and here it is....
Phase 1: You start by immediatley blocking and trying to move in close to Liquid Ocelot to get him to start his 4 punch combo when he starts it move back slowly while still blocking as he throws his final elbow press up and R1 directly after he goes "ahhh" and you will get him in a CQC choke and punch once he gets up block immediatley block because he will most likely do his rush attack that will break your guard and take off minimal life but thats okay just reblock and try to get close to him again to him to restart the 4 punch combo again and repeat what I just stated above until you get to phase 2 now this may seem like it could take forever but trust me once you get the timing down it really doesn't take that long. Note: you can sometimes do extra punches while choking by pushing R1 or triangle, maybe its both in unison I'am not sure which but it does work to help take extra health off him everytime it does happen. It does work for all phases.
Phase 2: Start by moving in to him right away and get your free CQC as he pauses a few seconds between phases. Once he gets up he 95% of the time goes directly for the "take this" punch once he starts the animation dash either way and get him right back into another CQC. Occasionlly he trys to dash in and regular punch you thats okay just block and try to keep backing up around the sub top to bate him into another "take this" punch and just CQC him again until you get to phase 3.
Phase 3: Start like last phase getting your free CQC once he gets up he will say "take this" and try to do his own CQC on you. To counter this just throw your own CQC almost exactley when he tries to throw his and a brief animation will occur offsetting his CQC attempt and yours bring you back to regular fighting stances were he dashes in and out throwing normal punches and if he gets in to close he will do that retarted headbutt you can't seem to block but thats okay just reblock and keep trying to back up until you get about arms length away throw a CQC and somehow it gets him everytime but make sure its not to far away because snake will whiff at throwing the CQC. Also note he likes to switch back to his own CQC form just watch out for when he does and try to do what I stated above. Until stage 4
Phase 4: Its straight forward just keep pressing R1 until he dies.

This is just a stratagey for people who aren't particullary good at doing combos which involves mashing R1 pretty fast which I can't do all that great.

First, acquire the drum can. You do this by finding the soldier that is hiding in the can, and using it as a bathroom. After that, go up ahead a few feet, where you will see three crates. When you have gone past them, you will see just two crates. You will also see about three rebel soldiers fighting. One is carrying an RPG and the other two have machine guns. They will die and respawn continuously. You will have a chance to pick up the RPG after the soldier has died three times. Do so because each RPG is worth 6,000 Drebin Points. The important thing is to stay anywhere behind the two crates, otherwise the trick will not work. Going further than the two crates will stop the respawning loop of the soldiers dying. The only way to get the RPG without breaking the respawning loop is to use the Mk II.

At the third part of the final fight, when Liquid Ocelot grabs Snake by the neck, allow the controller to idle. After some time, Liquid Ocelot will kiss Snake on the cheek.

Sneak through the first part after the opening, and go through the buildings. At the building to the right of where the APC shows up, crawl under the rubble. You will see a militia soldier get brutally shot after pleading for his life.

You can step up on statue pedestals, and press Triangle to assume various poses. With one of the statues, you will grab its crotch. Do this several times, and that part of the statue will break off.

After defeating any of the four Beauties, there is a second round where they walk towards you, trying to grab Snake. During this phase, run from them for three minutes, and the screen around you and the Beauty will turn white. Take out the digital camera you obtained from the mission briefings. The Beauty will stop chasing you and do sexy poses for your camera.

Play the "Oishii ChuhanSeikatsu" Japanese pop song on your iPod while fighting a Beauty. She will start dancing. If you aim a camera at her, she will pose.

Crawl around the vents in Shadow Moses to encounter Rats. When they see Snake, "!" will appear above their heads, accompanied with a sound. They will run away. Keep chasing them, and they will repeat the "!" alert. Following the rats is a good way to get in. If you call Otacon after you see the rats, Snake will talk about them and how they helped him before.

Sit in a box to reduce stress faster.

Successfully complete the game, and create a cleared saved game file. Start another game session, and encounter Metal Gear II in the first stage to get the Drebin points, weapons, ammunition, items, and special items from your original game.

Shake the Sixaxis controller to revert the back to the default neutral (black and blue) appearance.

When you speak with Rose on the Codec, shake the Sixaxis to make her breasts move.

There are dumpsters throughout the game which you can use to hide. Move in front of them, and press Triangle when the prompt appears. Once inside, if you have a handgun, The Operator for example, you can hold L1 to lift up the lid of the dumpster and aim your gun from inside.

After you leave the park but before the cutscene triggers. After the Resistance member goes down the flight of steps and turns left, go out on to the street and turn right, (might help to equip NV) and go down a little way. The street bends a little to the right, and then bends again. If you turn around to face the way you've come, and then turn around again quickly, you'll see a Figure quickly duck behind one of the corners on the right (I think which one depends how far down the street you are). If you don't move, and equip binos or a zoom lens, you can aim at the figure and examine it. It wears a trenchcoat similar to Snake's, and a fedora hat (I think - you know, the Sam Spade kind). Its face is completely hidden and its figure obscured, so there's no telling who he/she is. If you aim with a scope-equipped weapon, the figure quickly ducks away out of sight, but remains if you use the camera or binos. Even if you have the shot lined up, shooting the figure has no effect. Sadly, contacting Otacon doesn't trigger any conversations.

Seemingly Snake is being tailed...

To earn some extra DP at Otacons office in shadow moses when he ask's for the code punch in these numbers "14893" and be reward with 100,000 DP.

To switch between crawling and crouch-walking (and back) faster, move forward while pressing X. Use this trick to get prone behind cover quickly after crouch-walking past an enemy.

I just found this out last night and I did not know this, it maybe is common knowledge among Mgs4 players. You can strap c4 to the backs of militiamen or pmcs and let them walk away then detonate. It helps to have stealth equiped and just sneak up behind them and plant the c4. This tip is really just fun to do its not really helpful but nevertheless I thought I would share anyway

1. When you get the drum can, you can press x and roll around on its side for a little while until snake gets dizzy and has to exit the drum can in order to vomit.

2. Press start, then go into the camoflauge menu. While in the menu, use the right analog stick and turn it to the left or right. Snake will start to spin slowly, but if you keep spinning snake for a couple of seconds he'll spin faster. At this point leave the menu and get back to playing the game. As soon as you get back to the game snake will automatically vomit.

After dying, call Rose to hear a conversation about Snake having dreams of being killed or a comment from Snake saying that he feels like he has died once before.

There are two posters of Akina Minami in the Vista mansion. Look at them in first person view, and Snake will say her name and his Psyche gauge will increase.
This works with all the posters you find in the game.

Rose will be wearing a different shirt with the day.

In Act 4, kill one of the wolves after you defeat Crying Wolf. The others will attack you. Call Otacon, and he will wince. Call Rose, and she will tell you that animal cruelty is the first sign of criminal behaviour, and says that she will have you psychologically assessed if you continue to kill them.

During an intermission sequence, press D-pad Up to zoom the camera in, then use the Right Analog-stick to pan the camera around. The harder you press Up, the more zoomed in the camera view. Also, some intermission sequences have prompts to see it through Snake's eyes by holding L1 (look for the icon at the top left of the screen) or view flashback images by repeatedly tapping X when a prompt appears (look for the icon at the top right of the screen). You can also pause an intermission sequence by pressing Start.

When starting a new game, you are shown two random commercials. You can change the channel by pressing Up and Down to get new commercials. There is also a Hideo 1 and Hideo 2 channel, which are like Video 1 and 2.

Play the "Oishii ChuhanSeikatsu" Japanese pop song on Snake's iPod. During that song, press Start to see Sunny dancing at the bottom left corner.

Use the Solid Eye with the Raiden A mask to make Snake's eyes glow.

While tracking Naomi, get to where there is a PMC soldier standing next to a claymore. Move northeast from there to find a metal plate on the ground with signatures and handprints from the game's developers. Note: Lay down on it to get the handprint design for your camouflage. Register it to memory, and you can use it whenever desired.

After defeating Screaming Mantis and immediately after Psycho Mantis vibrates your controller, keep pressing X to see Hideo Kojima.

If you prolong the Psycho Mantis fight long enough, the game will show the opening screen, except the word "Kojima" will replace "Konami". The game will then resume the Psycho Mantis fight.

Press L1 to examine the .50 Cal Anti-Material Sniper Rifle to see "Recommended by Hideo Kojima."

When Snake hides from the two Irvings next to the box of watermelons, the box reads "No Place For Hideo."

You can see a ghost image of Hideo Kojima in Otacon's lab using the camera. It is between Policenauts and the poster that from a distance reads "Final Fantasy VI".

On the computer, the term "Video 2" is called "Hideo 2".

Sometimes, during cutscenes, Snake will do something, which will reduce his psyche. For example:



To prevent this, just tap X during the action, and the psyche bar will not fall.

During the following intermission sequences, press L1 to see secret events:

Laughing Octopus: Laughing Octopus quickly leaps away outside the window during one of the L1 sequences when you first meet Naomi.

Naomi's chest: In Act 2, after Snake loses his Psyche when Namoi tells him how long he has, press L1 to look at her chest and recharge Snake's Psyche.

Naomi upskirt: In Act 2, when Snake's talking to Naomi and drops his cigarette, use the hidden L1 option to look up her skirt.

Psycho Mantis' ghost: During the first intermission sequence with Beauty and the Beast, after using the option to look through L1, look to the left to see the ghost of Psycho Mantis.

Sorrow: During the Psycho Mantis intermission sequence, keep L1 held. When Psycho Mantis disappears, you will hear Sorrow say something. Hold L1 (even though you are not prompted), and you will see Sorrow. Press X to start a flashback.

During the mission briefings, touch the the radio on the table upstairs with the Mk II, and it will play music.

By switching the radio on and off in Act 4, you will get different songs, including a remixed version of the "Love Theme" from Super Smash Bros. Brawl and the ending theme from Policenauts.

When the game first begins, the channels on the television are numbered 15, 16, 23, and 42, which are part of the number sequence from the television show Lost.

Call Rosemary with a ration equipped to see a reference to a sequence that happened in Metal Gear Solid 2, when Raiden calls Snake on the Codec with a ration equipped and comments about Rose's cooking.

When Drebin and Little Grey jump off of the Stryker, they will land in Naked Snake's pose from Metal Gear Solid 3, when he first arrives for the Operation Virtuous mission.

Equip the Patriot gun to hear music from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater.

Press L1 to view the description for the Mosin-Nagant. It mentions The End and his sniper duel with Big Boss.

During the Act 1 FROG attack sequence, attack Meryl. She will say the same things she said when you attacked her in Metal Gear Solid.

You fight Crying Wolf in the same area you fought Sniper Wolf.

You can find the Hind D still in the Snowfield where you fight Crying Wolf.

During the Mantis fight, switch your controller ports when your television switches to "Hideo 2". Otacon will come on the Codec and notify you that the trick does not work twice. You will also get a suggestion about destroying the bust.

When you die in Act 4, the "Game Over" music from the first Metal Gear Solid will play.

At the very beginning of Act 1 when Sunny's cooking eggs, she says "Only two eggs? Solidus must've taken the day off."

Look at the two puppets dangling from Screaming Mantis. The two puppets appear to be Psycho Mantis and The Sorrow from previous Metal Gear Solid games.

When Snake and Naomi talk about war changing and how it used to be "just a game", all of the Metal Gear Solid titles appear in an indexed list. After MGS4, there are a few boxes titled "In Production."

When you first enter Big Mama's hideout and the guards start talking about Snake, press L1 to see posters from Metal Gear Solid, Metal Gear Solid 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, and Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.

In the Nomad briefing missions, take control of the Mk II, and go to the right of the helicopter. There are three separately caged chickens, each with its own label: "Solid", "Liquid", and "Solidus". This is a reference to the three Big Boss clones.

The rubber duck in the upper gantry of the Nomad can also be found in Capture The Flag mode in Metal Gear Online; in the GA-KO camouflage in Metal Gear Solid 3; and floating in the flooded Shell Core in Metal Gear Solid 2.

Otacon has a model of Rex beside his computer.

During a Codec transmission with Campbell, he will talk about the training PMC soldier's went through. Snake says similar to "...better than those VR missions".

If you stare at Meryl's breasts, she will blush similarly to how she did in Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes.

When Naomi is in the Nomad and on the computer talking, use the Mk II to look at Otacon's computer. His webcam is focused on Naomi's cleavage.

Whenever Snake is smoking there is always a no smoking sign behind him.

Call Otacon a few times in Shadow Moses at the part where Snake originally fought Vulcan Raven in the tank (and is now where two sleeping Geckos are found). Otacon will say that "Snake is the craziest bad ass who ever lived."

In the Act 1 briefing, there is a PS3 on the second floor of the plane.

During the Act 1 briefing, go upstairs on the Nomad to see Sunny unpacking her PS3 and PSP.

In the Act 2 briefing, there is a PlayStation 3 on the table.

After you defat Crying Wolf in Act 4, Otacon will call you as you enter that building and tell you to change discs. He then catches himself and starts talking about Blu-Ray and the PlayStation 3.

When you send out the Mk 2, look over Snake's shoulder by tilting the camera. He is using a PlayStation 3 controller to control it.

If you use a Sixaxis controller against Psycho Mantis he says, "What? No vibration!" and the flashbacks show the Sixaxis.

Onwards from the point of meeting the B&B unti in act one.
Whenever you die, Snake will have puppet strings attached to him.

The suit Snake wears in Act 3 is a homage to Gillian Seed, from Snatchers.

The "Dr. Madnar" mentioned in Act 3 is a reference to a scientist from Snatchers.

In Shadow Moses when Snake is about to get on the lift to fight Vamp, watch as the camera circles around the lift area to see a Darth Vader helmet on the floor.

In the Act 5 briefing, while Mei Ling is explaining the situation to everyone she says something about it being an impenetrable fortress or something similar. Snake then says, "He has his very own Death Star."

Drebin sells laundered guns, called "Naked Guns". Drebin's name is a reference to Frank Drebin from The Naked Gun movies.

When tracking Naomi in Act 2, look to the right when crossing the river to see a guard relieving himself.

Follow the resistance member in Act 3 to see him urinating in the fountain in the small park.

In the central park during Act 3, there is a statue that Snake can interact and imitate. Stay in that pose until a resistance member appears, and he will urinate on you.

During the briefings on the plane, use the MK.II to "shock" a remote control on a small coffee table near the screen Campbell shows up on. It will then display pictures of girls in swimsuits on the T.V. screen where Campbell usually shows up.

When a character is first introduced, press R2 to view that character's motion capture actor instead of his or her voice actor.

If you kill a large enough number of enemies in a conflict zone, you will hear Liquid from Metal Gear Solid say "You enjoy all the killing, that's why!", and Snake will vomit. Note: You can delay the vomiting by hugging the wall. The next time you kill someone, however, it will happen again until you finally vomit.

Leeroy Jenkins' grave can be seen directly behind Big Boss's. It will come into view when the camera pans around the area before Old Snake puts the gun into his mouth. You can also see it again while Old Snake is carrying Big Boss to The Boss's grave.

When you look at the briefing scene, Otacon's computer desktop picture is the main character from Zone Of The Enders, another game directed by Hideo Kojima.