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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]