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Subject: Beat "Into the Belly of the Beast" EASILY on Legendary!
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I played for a couple hours & was nearly exhausted when I came upon this approach.
This is considered the hardest level but i beat it easily (no lie) with the following tactics.
Might take you a few tries to get it right...

To beat "Into the Belly of the Beast" easily on Legendary (without cloaking or using health pack):

Watch for the 1st Flickering Red door & blast the 1st cloaked Elite as he comes through it.
This starts a melee. Quickly enter one of the long hallways as a door opens (try to pick one with 2 side exits - even better if one exit has a sealed door). You can always rush the 1st Elite while shooting & enter the door directly behind him before it closes.

The reason you need a long hallway with 2 side exits (v.s. one with a dead-end) is so you have enuff room to back up & take out the Golden Elites as they rush you. Also, meanies may decide to attack you thru 1 of the side exits while you're hiding, so with your back to a sealed door you have a better chance of surviving. I tried several other hiding places & none worked - you simply don't have enuff firepower. Life isn't fair, even in virtual reality :-)

Now, hide & wait patiently until your marines kill & get killed. When things quiet down,
creep forward until the door opens and lob a grenade at anything that comes near. Great if they're all bunched up just asking for it! By the way, taking this hide & wait approach reduces the number of waves to one!

Only plasma grenades & consecutive sniper rifle shots work well on the Golden Elites (unless they're rushing you, in which case only a fully loaded clip in the sniper rifle will stop them). Heaven help you if one rushes you and you miss a shot - it can take 3 or even 4 direct hits to stop them - fewer if their shields are down).

Anyway, to the point - their will be 3 gold Elites left after the melee dies down. They will eventually rush you if you poke your head out occassionally and snipe a few targets.
When they rush you, you MUST take them out with consecutive shots from the sniper rifle! Only use a plasma grenade if they are not rushing you (for obvious reasons).

ALL 3 Gold Elites rushed me at the same time & I still easily wiped them out with only the sniper rifle - 3 or 4 shots (without missing or you're dead) load a fresh clip 3 or 4 shots to the next one and then the last. Even if he jumps at you, he's still dead when he lands if you don't miss! So, reload, fire 3 to 4 shots, reload & repeat for the next one. This is why you need the long hallway - you have to be able to get off up to 4 rounds while they are rushing you.

Last, find some ammo, poke your head out and carefully pick off some of the remaining monsters. Hopefully, they're clustered & you take out several with a grenade. What usually happens is they're clustered and there are grenades on the floor nearby which all go off & blow most of the meanies to bits for you.

At this point, I had full health & hadn't even used the health pack in the corner or the cloak!

When the last 2 Hunters come out, pick up the cloak, snipe them in their orange flesh (in their back or tummy & while you still have some time left on the cloak, run thru the door
next to where the Hunters came out & past all the unwitting monsters in the hallways to the next level (take the 1st right turn & just follow the hallway). That's all. 1 shot in the orange flesh takes a Hunter down for good. Very satisfying.

The most important part is to save the sniper ammo for the 3 Golden Elites that will eventually rush you when you're hiding in the hallway, because you will need as many as 12 rounds to take them down. Just don't miss!

[Edited on 6/17/2004 5:59:23 PM]

  • 06.17.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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I agree with all the stuff you said, but it just narrows down to one thing: Legendary is all about how you play the game. Rushing into a group is never the answer. Patience is the key to all the levels. Especially Library. If you trigger too many waves at once, it is impossible.

  • 06.18.2004 3:28 PM PDT
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rushing into a large group of enemies is always the answer. but only if theyre all grunts. if not it loses its humor and turns ugly fast.
oh yeah, and why waste so much ammo on the elites? I use almost the exact same strategy, and yes, it works wonders, but why not replace the first two sniper shots with a single charged plasma shot? that reduces your sniper bullet expenditure to three or four at most, total, as opposed to your twelve+

  • 06.18.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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Yup, gets somewhat frustrating on "Legendary" when you've been playing for 3 hours & you have no patience left so you keep thinking you might make it thru a level by just blowing stuff up. The enemy seem to like playing "Cat & Mouse" quite a bit. Wait for the dumb Cyborg to do something dumb THEN attack! I see how that works for them now.

To reduce frustration level on "Legendary", occasionally use the "F" key to smack a few meanies around. You can't live forever - you're going to die a few times no matter what your tactics. Running & hiding makes Cyborgs look embarrassingly cowardly...

  • 06.20.2004 5:51 AM PDT
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I am just playing this level myself and just got past this part after a few hours. Now I am stuck on the 3rd level of the ship, where there is a gold elite and maybe 2 or 3 blue elites...

  • 06.21.2004 7:02 AM PDT