Run 1 of 2. 0 of 318 items. 149 missables still open. 1 ending. About 30h to go.
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This is the start of run 1, the full sweep. It covers the prologue: the landing in Dremuchij South, the swamp, the first guards in Dremuchij North, the rope bridge at Dolinovodno and the factory at Rassvet, then the walk back to the bridge and the riverbank where the mission ends. On the way it takes five Kerotans that exist only here, 13 of the 48 food types, the first weapons and the trophies that can be done at once. You start with the Survival Knife, the Fake Death and Revival Pills, the Cigar and the Binoculars; the backpack adds the Mk22 and, on Very Easy, the EZ Gun. Nothing carried here comes with you into the next mission, which begins in the next section.
The 100% route is two runs. Run 1 on Very Easy takes everything: all 64 Kerotans, all 48 food types, every camouflage, face paint and weapon, the boss stamina kills, the hidden views and every trophy that can be lost, with no kills and no alerts. Run 2 on Extreme, a brand-new game rather than one loaded from the run 1 clear, is the FOXHOUND run and stays lean. There is no chapter select and no free roaming after the story, so anything missed in run 1 can only be taken in a later run that passes the same spot, and run 2 has no time to spare and must do without special items such as the EZ Gun. Treat every count (Kerotans, food types, hidden views) as starting from zero in each run. The one menu trophy, for reading the Screenplay Book, is earned from the launcher whenever you like.
Run 1 ends with PEACE WALKER (no kills) and The Coast Is Clear (no alerts), and a clear with no alerts also gives the Stealth camo. Put guards to sleep with the Mk22 or the EZ Gun, knock them out with CQC, or stun them; win boss fights on stamina the same way. Four trophies need a kill: Close Shave, Snake Bit, The Early End and Problem Solved, Series Over. For each one, save first, earn the trophy, then load that save at once: keeping the kill breaks PEACE WALKER. Animals don't count as kills, but leave dogs alive to be safe. An alert still counts if a guard sees Snake in the moment he is being knocked out, and a dog's bark gives only a few seconds before the alert starts.
There are no save points: once you have the backpack, open the Radio and call 140.96 to save. Loading a save puts Snake back at the start of the area he saved in, and a death or a reload can undo what was taken in that area since he entered it (Kerotans, food, items). So in an area where you plan to save, earn something and reload, do that first and collect afterwards, and where the guide can't avoid it, it says what to take again. Run 1 has no limit on saves; only run 2 counts them.
A food type counts for King of the Jungle once it has been in the backpack: caught alive (put it to sleep with the Mk22 or EZ Gun, then pick it up) or killed and picked up as raw meat. Eating it is not needed, and one of each type is enough. The game shows no running total, so tick each type here as you take it. Food from this mission counts toward the 48.
Four trophies come from the guards here, and the last of them is a kill. As soon as you arrive, call 140.96 and save. Earn Mama Said, Tell Me Where the Bomb Is and Like He Just Doesn't Care on the guards, then Close Shave last, and load the save the moment it pops. Collect this area's food, Kerotan and gear only after that reload, since the reload undoes anything taken before it. The guards are back on their rounds after it, so put them to sleep again before you collect. If a guard raises an alert while you work, load the save and try again.
Entering the scientist's room starts a long run of scenes, and afterwards the way only leads back to the bridge, where the mission ends. Nothing from this mission comes with you. Make sure you have these first. Kerotans: Kerotan: Dremuchij South 1, Kerotan: Dremuchij Swampland 1, Kerotan: Dremuchij North 1, Kerotan: Dolinovodno 1, Kerotan: Rassvet 1. Optional gear: Weapon: SVD (Virtuous Mission copy), Weapon: Stun Grenade (Virtuous Mission copy), Weapon: Grenade (Virtuous Mission copy) and Thermal Goggles (Virtuous Mission) in Dremuchij North, Weapon: XM16E1 (Virtuous Mission copy) at Dolinovodno and Weapon: M37 (Virtuous Mission copy) here at Rassvet. The food types taken so far all appear again later, so a missed one isn't lost yet. Don't approach the room during an alert.
If the reload put Snake back at the Rassvet entrance, the Kerotan and the shotgun taken there before the scenes may have been undone with it. On the way back in, stop at the first ruined building: shoot Kerotan: Rassvet 1 through the hole under the stairs again (a frog that was already hit only croaks again) and pick up the M37 if it is lying behind the crates.
Stepping back onto the Dolinovodno bridge with the scientist starts the scenes that end the mission. Finish these at Rassvet first: Problem Solved, Series Over (save, earn it, reload) and the optional Weapon: Mousetrap (Ocelot's). Check Kerotan: Rassvet 1 once more if the reload put you back at the entrance. Every other Kerotan and pickup of this mission should already be in hand.
Operation Snake Eater starts here. This stretch runs from the night landing in Dremuchij East to the morning fight at Rassvet, and takes every Kerotan, food type, camo, face paint and weapon on the way. You land with the knife, an M1911A1, Stun Grenades, the Cigar and, on Very Easy, the EZ Gun; nothing else from the Virtuous Mission comes with you. The cliff at the end of Dremuchij East is one-way, so finish that area first. The EZ Gun carries the Kerotans and captures until Rassvet, where the Mk22 takes over. EVA's Radio line opens in the next area, and the last two medicinal plants grow in Svyatogornyj South.
Right after the riverbank, a song plays over the opening credits, once per run. The optional Opening song controls work only while it plays.
The path north ends at a cliff, and once you drop off it there is no way back up into Dremuchij East. Finish Kerotan: Dremuchij East 1 first. The Otton Frog, the flying squirrel and the Amur Kudzu turn up again later, but they are easiest here.
The scene leaves you with the knife, Stun Grenades and, on Very Easy, the EZ Gun. Use the EZ Gun for every Kerotan and capture until Rassvet, and get past guards with it or CQC. Without the EZ Gun, a Kerotan counts only if a thrown grenade itself touches it; otherwise leave the Dremuchij North, Swampland, South and Dolinovodno Kerotans and the King Cobra, take the AK-47 at Rassvet, and walk back for them before you visit the old room there: stepping out of it starts the overnight scene.
This stretch runs from the gate north-east of Rassvet through the swamp of Chyornyj Prud, the electric fences of Bolshaya Past South and the relay base beyond them. You carry the Mk22 and the Thermal Goggles from Rassvet: the Mk22 puts animals, dogs and guards to sleep, and the goggles show buried Claymores and hidden animals. Keep to the run's rules: no kills (dogs included) and no alerts, and save with a Radio call to Para-Medic on 140.96 as you enter each area. The base holds the two Mousetraps, so the section ends with a short walk back into Bolshaya Past South to trap a Tsuchinoko. North of the base lies the Crevice, which allows no return: everything from Dremuchij up to the base has to be done before you walk into it, and the next section opens with that warning.
Leeches cling to Snake in the water and drain stamina: remove them in the Cure menu by burning them with the Cigar, or put on Bug Juice to keep them away. The gavials bite hard while you swim, so give them room. Near the north exit the ground is rigged with traps: walk slowly, and stop when a blue ! appears over Snake's head.
This stretch runs from the north edge of Bolshaya Past Base through the Crevice and down into the Chyornaya Peschera caves, ending at the rock drop above Ponizovje South. It holds two boss fights, both won on stamina with the Mk22, Stun Grenades, Smoke Grenades and, in the second, the M37 found on the way. The caves have no guards but are pitch dark until you find the Torch, so keep the Cigar and the Thermal Goggles handy. Three doors close behind you here, one after another: the walk into the Crevice, the end of the fight there, and the slide into the last cave. Left for later: the SVD and the river beyond the caves.
North of Bolshaya Past Base the path leads into the Bolshaya Past Crevice. Ocelot's fight starts as you arrive and ends with a fall into the caves, and none of the areas behind you can be reached again in this run. Check that you hold every row below before you go. Dremuchij: Food: King Cobra; Kerotan: Dremuchij North 2; Kerotan: Dremuchij Swampland 2; Kerotan: Dremuchij South 2. Dolinovodno: Camo: Raindrop; Kerotan: Dolinovodno 2. Rassvet: Kerotan: Rassvet 2; Face Paint: Zombie. Chyornyj Prud: Kerotan: Chyornyj Prud 1; Camo: GA-KO; and the optional Croc Cap. Bolshaya Past South: Kerotan: Bolshaya Past South 1. Bolshaya Past Base: Face Paint: Snow; Camo: Water; Kerotan: Bolshaya Past Base 1. Pick up both Base Mousetraps as well (the Tsuchinoko needs them), and any food type you still lack from these areas. Anything missed here comes back only in a later run that passes this way, and run 2 is a lean Extreme run with no time for it. Save on 140.96 once the Base is done.
The fight ends the moment his stamina runs out: a scene plays, Snake falls into the caves, and the Crevice is gone for this run. Before that last hit, have Kerotan: Bolshaya Past Crevice 1 and, if you want it, the optional Ocelot and the markhor. Make sure the win is on stamina (Stamina Kill: Ocelot): a lethal finish loses the Animals camo waiting below.
The fight ends the moment either of his bars runs out. Only a stamina win counts for Stamina Kill: The Pain and drops Camo: Hornet Stripe, one of the uniforms for Fashionista; a lethal finish loses them for this run. Strip his hornets with the M37 or grenades, but do the real damage with Mk22 darts. Save on 140.96 now, after the Snow camo, so a lost fight can be replayed: a reload puts you back at this cave's entrance and can undo the M37 and the Snow camo, so take both again on the way back to the lake. Reload that save if his life bar is the one falling.
The north exit of The Pain's lake leads to a steep slope that opens the Chyornaya Peschera Cave Entrance. Sliding down it is one-way: the Cave Branch and The Pain's cave can't be reached again in this run. Check you hold: Cave Branch: Camo: Animals; Food: Russian Glowcap; Kerotan: Chyornaya Peschera Branch 1. The Pain's cave: Camo: Snow; Kerotan: Chyornaya Peschera Cave 1; Camo: Hornet Stripe; Weapon: Torch; Weapon: M37. Take the other cave food now too, rather than relying on later spots.
This stretch starts where the caves drop you into the Ponizovje river. It takes the left fork for the SVD, then the warehouse docks, where The Early End is earned on a save and undone with a reload, the warehouse, the trapped forest of Graniny Gorki South and the lab on the hill, where the director hands over Key A. On the way back south the forest holds a boss fight with a stamina-kill camo, and a short detour down the river collects the Water face paint before the warehouse's red door. Bring the Mk22, the AK-47, Stun Grenades, the Thermal Goggles and the Scientist disguise; the Fake Death Pill and the Revival Pill you started with are used in the boss fight. The rule stays the same: no kills and no alerts, so tranquilize, choke or slip past every guard, and leave the red barrels by the guards alone. Everything here except The Early End, the boss's stamina reward and the Water face paint stays reachable until the drop into Krasnogorje Mountain Base, later in this run.
The next area opens with a scene on the dock, and right after it you can shoot The End with the SVD for The Early End. That shot is a kill. The plan: with the SVD equipped, save with a call to 140.96 at the Ponizovje South fork just before you head into the docks, then go in, watch the scene, shoot him and take the trophy. Then reload that save at once and never save after the shot. The reload puts you back in Ponizovje South: swim up to the fork again and go on to the docks. Leave the Kerotan and the Tarantula on the docks until after the reload: the reload undoes anything you take there before it.
Going into the warehouse ends The Early End for this run. Check two things first: the trophy has popped, and the game you are playing now is the reloaded one, in which The End was not shot. Keeping that kill is not a small loss: it costs the PEACE WALKER no-kill trophy, and it removes his later fight, which takes the hold-up trophy You Snooze, You Lose, the Moss camo and the Mosin-Nagant with it. If you shot him and carried on, reload the save you made at the Ponizovje South fork now, then shoot Kerotan: Ponizovje Warehouse Exterior 1 and catch the Cobalt Blue Tarantula again before you go in.
The fight in Graniny Gorki South starts as you walk back in from the lab. Only a stamina win counts for Stamina Kill: The Fear and drops Camo: Spider, one of the uniforms for Fashionista; a lethal finish loses them for this run. Read the stamina row below before the fight: the AK-47 is safe only while he is stunned. On the way out of the lab, once you are back outside its walls and before you crawl under the fence, save on 140.96: nothing on that walk out needs taking again, so a lost fight is replayed from there.
Camo: Spider is gone once you leave Graniny Gorki South after the fight. Pick it up first.
If the Tsuchinoko is not in your bag yet, this forest is a known spot for it now the fight is over. Set your Mousetraps round the doorway to the warehouse, step into the warehouse and back, and check the traps; release whatever else you catch and repeat until one holds a Tsuchinoko. There are many animals here, so catch or clear the others first, or try Svyatogornyj South later, which has fewer. The warehouse food store and the last cell in B1 East each held a spare Mousetrap. Keep the Tsuchinoko once caught: never eat it or throw it away.
Treat the warehouse's red door as the deadline for Face Paint: Water (the river in Ponizovje South, after the lab visit). Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki themselves stay open until the drop into Krasnogorje Mountain Base, but the paint is not promised past the door.
This stretch starts on the far side of the warehouse's red door. Svyatogornyj South has no guards and is full of plants: the last two medicinal plants, two mushrooms and the Vine Melon. Svyatogornyj West has a guarded right-hand side and a quiet left path with the last mushroom, and a side trip east reaches a cabin with the M63. To the north, Sokrovenno is one long sniper duel over three areas: catch the parrot, hold the sniper up three times for his camo and win on stamina for his rifle. The Krasnogorje Tunnel then leads to a very long ladder. Bring the Mk22, the Thermal Goggles, Stun Grenades and the Cig Gas Spray, keep to no kills and no alerts, and save with a call to Para-Medic on 140.96 before Sokrovenno. Everything here except the sniper fight's own rewards stays reachable until the drop into Krasnogorje Mountain Base, later in this run.
If the Tsuchinoko is still not in your bag, Svyatogornyj South is one of the better places to trap one, since no guards walk here. Catch or tranquilize the other animals first, lay all your Mousetraps, then wait, or step out and back in; release whatever else turns up and try again. Keep it once caught: never eat it or throw it away.
The sniper fight with The End starts as you walk into Sokrovenno South and runs across Sokrovenno South, West and North. These are gone once he goes down, so take them during the fight: Food: Parrot (catch it before he falls), You Snooze, You Lose and Camo: Moss (sneak up and hold him up three times), Stamina Kill: The End and its reward Weapon: Mosin-Nagant (empty his stamina, never his life), and the two optional extras, Map code for the sniper's position and The long wait (the long wait first, on a spare save). Go back to Svyatogornyj West, save there with a call to 140.96, and play the fight in one sitting: a save made inside Sokrovenno and loaded on a later day changes the fight and can cost his rewards. If a squad of Ocelot soldiers waits here instead of the sniper, the shot at the docks was kept: the Parrot may still sit on its log near the entrance, but the other rows can't be done this run.
Each dart he lands keeps draining your stamina, at double speed, until you take it out in the Cure menu; eat often to keep the bar up. If your stamina empties, you wake up back at the Graniny Gorki lab and have to walk all the way here again. When he throws a flash bomb, turn away from it. Low on stamina, he may stop to call on the forest, and the screen's colours change while he does: that is your moment to find and hit him, because left alone he recovers nearly all of it. He also dozes off now and then, which gives free shots. If you reload, you start again at Svyatogornyj West with this fight's pickups undone: before his last stamina point, check that the Parrot and Camo: Moss are in your bag and the three Sokrovenno Kerotans are hit.
This stretch starts at the top of the long ladder out of the Krasnogorje Tunnel. A short cliff there closes every area behind you, so the first callout is a checklist. Then it climbs Krasnogorje: the Mountain Base with its vultures and scorpions, the Mountainside armory with the RPG-7, the trenches of the Mountaintop and the ruins at the summit, where a meeting hands over Key B and a long scene looks out over Groznyj Grad (the first of the six hidden views). Key B opens a red door into the tunnel, and at the bottom of its ladder a boss waits. Carry the Mk22, the SVD, the Mosin-Nagant, the Thermal Goggles and a Cardboard Box; the Animals camo suits the bare slopes. The rule stays the same: no kills and no alerts. The air up here is thin, so stamina drains faster than usual: eat when it runs low. Nothing here waits for later: Krasnogorje closes at the tunnel ladder, and the fight's reward must be picked up before the ladder out of the tunnel.
Right after the long ladder, Krasnogorje Mountain Base starts with a short cliff. Once you drop down it, none of the areas behind you can be reached again in this run: the caves, Ponizovje, Graniny Gorki, Svyatogornyj, Sokrovenno and the Krasnogorje Tunnel. Check every row below first; save on 140.96 at the top of the ladder once you are sure. Chyornyj Prud: Food: Milk Snake; Food: Coral Snake (easily mistaken for it); Food: Poison Dart Frog. Food whose last spot is behind this cliff: Food: European Rabbit; Food: Baltic Hornet's Nest; Food: Yabloko Moloko (still in Sokrovenno and Svyatogornyj if missed). Chyornaya Peschera: Food: Taiwanese Cobra; Kerotan: Chyornaya Peschera Entrance 1. Ponizovje: Kerotan: Ponizovje South 1; Kerotan: Ponizovje West 1; Kerotan: Ponizovje Warehouse Exterior 1; Face Paint: Desert; Kerotan: Ponizovje Warehouse 1. Graniny Gorki South: Food: Fly Agaric; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki South 1. Graniny Gorki Lab: Food: Red Avadavat; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki Outside Walls 1; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki Inside Walls 1; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki Lab 1F 1; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki Lab B1 East 1; Kerotan: Graniny Gorki Lab B1 West 1. Svyatogornyj: Kerotan: Svyatogornyj South 1; Food: Spatsa; Food: Ural Luminescent; Kerotan: Svyatogornyj West 1; Kerotan: Svyatogornyj East 1. Sokrovenno: Kerotan: Sokrovenno South 1; Kerotan: Sokrovenno West 1; Kerotan: Sokrovenno North 1. Krasnogorje Tunnel: Kerotan: Krasnogorje Tunnel 1. Two more checks: a live Tsuchinoko must already be in your bag, since every known trap spot lies behind this cliff, and the Water face paint from the Ponizovje South river must be in your face paint list. Anything missed comes back only in a later run that passes this way, and run 2 is a lean Extreme run with no time for it.
Going upstairs starts a meeting and then a long scene looking out over Groznyj Grad. That scene holds Hidden view: Krasnogorje Mountaintop, the first of the six hidden first-person views for Snake Eyes, and it plays only once. Save on 140.96 before the stairs. You may skip the meeting's talk, but skip nothing once the view over the base begins. The cue: when The Boss turns to leave, saying she is off to fetch the Davy Crockett, hold the first-person button (R1, RB on Xbox) until she has ridden away. If the view is missed, reload that save and watch again; the reload puts you back at the door, so take this area's Kerotan and any scorpion after the scene, not before.
Beyond the red door, stairs lead down to a ladder into the tunnel, and once you climb down it there is no way back up: the rest of Krasnogorje is gone for this run. Check these rows first. Krasnogorje Mountain Base: Food: White-Rumped Vulture; Food: Emperor Scorpion; Kerotan: Krasnogorje Mountain Base 1. Krasnogorje Mountainside: Weapon: RPG-7; Kerotan: Krasnogorje Mountainside 1. Krasnogorje Mountaintop: Kerotan: Krasnogorje Mountaintop 1. The ruins: Kerotan: Krasnogorje Behind Ruins 1; Kerotan: Krasnogorje Ruins 1. From the caves: Food: Thai Cobra, which also crawls on the Mountain Base slopes if you lack it. From the docks: Food: Cobalt Blue Tarantula, which also crawls on the floor of these ruins if you lack it. The vultures and the scorpions live only on these slopes. Save on 140.96 once you are done.
The fight ends the moment either of his bars runs out. Only a stamina win counts for Stamina Kill: The Fury and drops Camo: Fire, one of the uniforms for Fashionista; a lethal finish loses them for this run. Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Underground Tunnel 1 also has to be hit before he goes down. Save on 140.96 at the rails before the ladder. A death or a reload in the tunnel can undo the frog: after one, look for it on the red pipes again and hit it if it is back.
This stretch starts at the top of the ladder out of the tunnel and ends at a door in the Weapons Lab's West Wing. It crosses the four outer yards of Groznyj Grad at night, Southwest, Northwest, Southeast and Northeast, with a Kerotan in each and a second one inside the Southeast guardhouse, then goes into the Weapons Lab's East Wing for an officer's uniform, a Kerotan and the Scorpion behind a radio-locked door, and ends in the glass corridor to the West Wing, where one more Kerotan needs the SVD. Carry the Mk22, the SVD and the Mask face paint (in the face paint list from the start on most files). The rule stays the same: no kills and no alerts, so tranquilize, choke or slip past every guard, and leave the dogs alive. A death or a reload undoes what you took in the current area, so save with a call to Para-Medic on 140.96 as you enter each yard. The Weapons Lab's hangar and the East Wing lockers are left for a later visit in this run; nothing here asks you to open them.
The ladder at the far end of the tunnel takes you up into Groznyj Grad Southwest, and there is no way back down. If you won the fight by stamina, Camo: Fire lies next to where it ended: check your camo list and pick it up now, before you touch the ladder. (The tunnel's Kerotan and the stamina win itself were settled when the fight ended.)
Taking Raikov's uniform means putting him to sleep, and once he is out the optional Interrogate Raikov is gone for this run. If you want it, hold him and question him first.
Four doors in the East Wing open only for the guards' uniforms or a radio frequency. Wearing the Officer camo with the Mask face paint walks you through; so does following a guard closely or dragging a sleeping one to the door. Otherwise stand at the door and call its frequency. On Very Easy: - 1F, east door: 148.13 - 1F, west door: 145.86 - 2F, north door: 147.86 - 2F, south door: 143.45 A door opened by its frequency stays open. The locks work from both sides, so keep the uniform on inside a locked room, or keep its number to hand to get back out.
Going through this door to the scientist starts a long run of scenes, and you lose everything you carry: weapons, items and food. The weapons come back later in this run; the food does not. Check first: - Weapon: Scorpion is in your weapons, because With All Guns Blazing checks that list a few minutes later. - Food: Tsuchinoko (trap it with Mousetraps) is alive in your bag and Believe It or Not has popped. The snake is lost here with the rest of the food, but having caught one is what lets another appear later in this run. The scenes ahead hold Hidden view: the guardhouse scene, one of the six for Snake Eyes. Skip none of them. In the long scene inside the guardhouse, hold R2 (or L2) the whole way through, which keeps your health from draining; near its end, when Ocelot has a last word and turns to walk out, press and hold the first-person button (R1) until he is through the door. Save on 140.96 in this corridor before you walk on, and keep this save until you know the view was caught: it is the only way to watch the scenes again.
This stretch starts where the scenes after the West Wing leave you. Get out of the guardhouse in Groznyj Grad Southeast and across the base to the sewer grate in the Northwest sector without a single alert, follow the sewers to the river and walk the river all the way to its end. From there, go north through Tikhogornyj to the cave behind the waterfall, where EVA meets you with Key C and the C3. Before you climb the ladder out of that cave, catch the Tsuchinoko again and take the Kabuki face paint, two Kerotans and Cardboard Box B. Everything from Tikhogornyj on closes at the ladder.
The scenes after the West Wing hold one of the six hidden first-person views for Snake Eyes, Hidden view: the guardhouse scene, and it can only be seen while they play. Don't skip any of them. The cue and the R2 (or L2) hold are in the callout before the West Wing door, in the previous section.
Opening the door ends the optional The guard's meals for this run, and the route treats it as the deadline for Use the Fork in the Cure screen (do it first, or an ambush may wait in Tikhogornyj). Plan the way out before you start: once the guard is down you have a short time before he wakes and calls an alert, so take the north office on your way to the outside door and keep moving.
If Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Southeast Guardhouse 1 didn't count on your first walk through Southeast, it still sits under the desk in the small north office by this building's entrance: from your room's door turn right, then left. With no bullets yet, throw one of the guard's Smoke Grenades so the grenade itself strikes it, but only while the guard is still out cold. Otherwise you can come back for it with your guns later in this run, until the fourth C3 goes on in the hangar.
Running into the light ends the sewers with a one-way drop from the outfall into the river, and Groznyj Grad is out of reach until you climb back up from the cave behind the Tikhogornyj waterfall. Treat the optional Camera in the guardhouse's north office as lost after this drop. The guardhouse Kerotan is not: Groznyj Grad stays open for it until the fourth C3 goes on in the hangar.
The river is The Sorrow's fight. It has no stamina kill, but it has a reward: walk all the way to the end before you fall there, and Camo: Spirit comes back with your kit. Drown, or let the ghosts and the blasts finish you, and the fight ends with nothing: Walk the River to Its End is lost. Save in the sewers first, so a failed walk can be reloaded and tried again.
This stretch closes run 1. It climbs from behind the Tikhogornyj waterfall back into Groznyj Grad by day, empties two lockers in the Weapons Lab: East Wing, and plants four C3 charges in the Shagohod hangar. From the fourth charge on, everything is one way: a fight in the hangar, a motorcycle chase through the base and down the runway, the rail bridge, a chase through the Lazorevo forest, a slow walk through Zaozyorje with EVA, the final fight at Rokovoj Bereg and the closing scenes. Fourteen Kerotans, three snakes and four camos live in this stretch, and most of them can be taken only during a single fight or chase stage. Carry the Mk22, the Mosin-Nagant, the SVD, the RPG-7, Stun Grenades and the Thermal Goggles. The rule stays the same to the credits: no kills and no alerts, so every boss goes down on stamina and every soldier in the chases is hit only with the Mk22 or a Stun Grenade. The results screen and its trophies come after the credits, in the next part of the run.
The ladder in the room at the end of Tikhogornyj: Behind Waterfall climbs back into Groznyj Grad Northwest, and the river, Tikhogornyj and the waterfall can't be reached again in this run. Check every row below first. The river: the Spirit camo you earned on the river walk comes back with your gear (below). Tikhogornyj: Kerotan: Tikhogornyj 1; Catch the Tsuchinoko again (keep it alive in your bag to the credits); Face Paint: Kabuki, in the pool at the foot of the waterfall. Behind the waterfall: Camo: Spirit in the returned gear; Kerotan: Tikhogornyj Behind Waterfall 1, on the pipe facing the ladder; and the optional Cardboard Box B. Food whose last spots are here: check the food list for Food: Giant Anaconda, Food: Rat, Food: Japanese Flying Squirrel, Food: Markhor, Food: Arowana, Food: Kenyan Mangrove Crab, Food: Vampire Bat, Food: Maroon Shark, Food: Bigeye Trevally, Food: Baikal Scaly Tooth and Food: Vine Melon; a missing one can still be found in Tikhogornyj or behind the waterfall, and nowhere after. Anything missed here comes back only in a later run that passes this way, and run 2 is a lean Extreme run with no time for it. Save on 140.96 once all of it is done.
If you picked up Cardboard Box B behind the waterfall, a truck in Groznyj Grad Northwest gives you a ride: climb into the back and wear the box, and it carries you into the Weapons Lab. Check where you are when it stops, then make for the East Wing locker room. Walking works just as well.
Planting the fourth charge starts a long scene and a fight, and after that Groznyj Grad and every earlier area are closed for the rest of this run. Check every row below first; any Kerotan missed on the first visit can still be shot today. Groznyj Grad: Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Southwest 1 (in the gap of the middle hangar's doors); Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Northwest 1 (on the stairs in the west searchlight tower's yard); Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Southeast 1 (on the roof of the big building); Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Northeast 1 (behind bars in the underground ditch); and Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Southeast Guardhouse 1 (under the desk in the small office by the big building's entrance). Weapons Lab: Kerotan: Weapons Lab East Wing 1 (on the bookshelf in the 2F room by the lockers); Kerotan: Weapons Lab West Wing 1 (on the pole outside the corridor window); Search the East Wing locker room again, with Camo: Sneaking Suit and Camo: Maintenance. The hangar: Kerotan: Weapons Lab Main Wing 1. Take any supplies you want from the armory in Groznyj Grad Northwest too. Then save on 140.96, and switch to the Sneaking Suit before the last charge: the fight that follows hits hard. A reload puts you back at the hangar's entrance and can undo Kerotan: Weapons Lab Main Wing 1: after one, shoot it again before the fourth charge.
The fight with Volgin starts straight after the fourth charge, on a lowered platform in the hangar, and it is the only chance at three rows: Kerotan: Weapons Lab Main Wing 2, high on the rim of the arena; Stamina Kill: Volgin; and Camo: Cold War, which he drops only after a stamina win and which you have a few seconds to grab before the next scene. A lethal finish loses the camo and is a kill, which breaks the no-kill run. Shoot the Kerotan early, and if you die and continue, shoot it again.
Once the chase reaches the rail bridge, the base and the runway are behind you for good. Before the runway ends, have Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Bike Chase 1, Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Runway South 1, Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Runway 1 and Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Runway 2. If one is missing, reload the save from the start of its stage.
The Shagohod fight comes in two halves: first from the sidecar, then on foot with Volgin riding on top. The Kerotan on the roof of the small building at the foot of the radio tower can be shot in the second half. Volgin goes down on stamina here too: Mosin-Nagant or Mk22 shots to his head, never the SVD. Don't skip the scene after the fight: it holds Hidden view: rail bridge. When Snake says it is finally over, hold the first-person button (R1) for a while.
When EVA swerves off at the roadblock, the chase heads into the forest and the rail bridge stages are gone. Before that, have Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge 1, Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge 2, the Hidden view: rail bridge and Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge North 1. A missed Kerotan means reloading the save from the start of its stage; a missed hidden view can't be brought back without replaying the bridge fight from your last save before it, and after that reload, shoot Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge 1 and Kerotan: Groznyj Grad Rail Bridge 2 again.
The chase ends in Zaozyorje West and doesn't come back. Have Kerotan: Lazorevo South 1 and Kerotan: Lazorevo North 1 before it does; reload the save from the start of the half you missed one in.
Walking out of Zaozyorje East leads to the final fight, and Zaozyorje can't be walked back into. Have Kerotan: Zaozyorje West 1 (below the log bridge) and Kerotan: Zaozyorje East 1 (behind the big tree at the fork), and, if you want it, the optional EVA's Cure screen records. The final fight is timed: equip the Sneaking Suit or the Snow camo with the Snow or Oyama face paint, have the Mk22, Mosin-Nagant, SVD and Thermal Goggles to hand, and save on 140.96 here.
The fight with The Boss is the only chance at all of these: Kerotan: Rokovoj Bereg 1 (the 64th), Food: Snake Liquid, Food: Snake Solid and Food: Snake Solidus (one by each fallen log), which complete Charmer: all eleven snakes; Stamina Kill: The Boss and Camo: Snake, dropped only after a stamina win and gone once the next scene starts; and the Hidden view: final battlefield in the scene after the fight. The fight has a time limit of about ten minutes: the weapon and item menus don't stop the clock, but the Survival Viewer does. Take the Kerotan and the snakes in the quiet moments while she hides. A full food bag can't take the snakes, so eat or drop something before the fight. If you die or reload, take the Kerotan and the snakes again. The hidden view's cue: in the scenes after the fight, when the horse comes over and lifts its head to neigh, hold the first-person button (R1) for a while.
Three rows sit in the scenes that end the run. Keep the Single Action Army (optional) is the duel in the row just below: pick the gun on the right. The Cat's out of the Bag: hidden view 5 and Snake Eyes are hidden views in the closing scenes, each a single chance. Up to the scene in the hall you may skip: the WIG scenes after the duel, the jets, and, after the save prompt, both scenes with EVA. Once the scene in the hall starts, let everything play through to the credits.
Run 1's last stretch is all menus. Once the credits end, the results screen judges the whole run and hands out four trophies; pressing on past it, the game awards a few special items, and three of those bring four more trophies: the last uniform for the camouflage set, the last face paint for the face paint set, and the Stealth camo. Nothing here can be earned or fixed now: each row only checks what the run already did, and says what to do if something didn't unlock. FOXHOUND is left for run 2, and the Screenplay Book can be read from the launcher at any time.
Everything is judged on run 1 as a whole, so there is nothing left to do but watch. Like a Boss needs only the finish. PEACE WALKER needs no kills on the record: every kill trophy was loaded away straight after it was earned. The Coast Is Clear needs no alert phase in the whole run (alerts the story forces don't count). King of the Jungle needs all 48 food types held at least once this run, for the MARKHOR title. After the results, the rewards follow: the Stealth camo for a run with no alerts or with all 64 Kerotans shot, the Tuxedo for any clear, and the Infinity Face Paint for ending with the live Tsuchinoko from the waterfall still in your bag.
The results screen shows a single codename, and the game picks the highest one the run qualifies for. Shooting all 64 Kerotans earns the KEROTAN title, which ranks above MARKHOR; some also place the live-Tsuchinoko title and the no-alert title above it. If the trophy didn't pop, play one more short run with that in mind. Must: a new game on Very Easy, and all 48 food types held once each, inside the same windows this route marks (the Tsuchinoko counts too: catch it, then eat it before the end). Must not: shoot all 64 Kerotans (leave at least one alone), finish with a live Tsuchinoko in the bag, or finish with zero alerts (let one alert happen). Play it as a normal run otherwise: a careless run can earn a low title that also ranks above MARKHOR, so stay far below 100 saves, 60 continues, 10 uses of Life Medicine, 50 hours of play, 250 kills or 250 alerts. No one has confirmed that this run gets the MARKHOR title; it follows the title order the game is described as using.
Press on through the results screen without quitting: the game then awards the run's special items one after another, and four trophies pop with them. The Stealth camo and the Infinity Face Paint count as special items, which the FOXHOUND title forbids; run 2 is a fresh game, so they never come with you.
The second run is a new game on Extreme, played once through without a kill, an alert or a continue, inside the limits in the table below. Nothing carries over from run 1: you start with the starting gear, and any boss camouflage you want has to be won again. Everything else is done, so this run skips every Kerotan, food type, hidden view and gag, skips every scene and every Radio conversation the game starts, and takes only the gear the fights need. Each checkpoint below covers one stretch of run 1, names the gear to pick up, gives the Extreme tips for the bosses and suggests where to spend your saves. Read the Screenplay Book (next section) before you start, so the Platinum can arrive with the final trophy.
| Limit | For FOXHOUND | How to keep it |
|---|---|---|
| Difficulty | Extreme | Picked at New Game. European Extreme may count as well, but there a single sighting ends the game. |
| Clear time | under 5 hours | The clock runs on through pauses and menus; only suspending the console stops it. Skip every scene and every Radio conversation the game starts. |
| Saves | 24 or fewer | Every call to Para-Medic on 140.96 counts; count a save the game offers as one too. Some lists allow 25: plan for 24. |
| Continues | 0 | After a game over, quit and load your last save. Never choose Continue. |
| Alerts | 0 | A guard who spots Snake just as he is knocked out still raises one, and a barking dog gives only a few seconds before one starts. |
| Kills | 0 | Nobody dies by your hand. Win every boss on stamina as well: empty the stamina bar, never the life bar. Dogs count as kills; other animals don't. |
| Damage taken | under 5 life bars | Some lists allow up to 10; plan for under 5. The total counts every hit of the run, so avoid any fight you don't need. AUSCAM cuts the damage you take by a third. |
| Serious injuries | under 20 | Not every list counts these; keep them low anyway by taking as few hits as you can. |
| Meals | 20 or fewer | Only some lists count meals; stay inside it anyway. Each Healing Radio frequency refills much of your stamina on its first call, which saves food. |
| Life Medicine | 0 | Never use one. |
| Special items | none | No EZ Gun, Stealth camo or Infinity Face Paint. A fresh game has none of them; the run 1 clear save carries them, so don't start from it. |
FOXHOUND is judged on the whole run, from the opening to the credits. A kill, an alert or a broken limit can't be put right by playing on: quit and load your last save, which should restore the counts and starts you again at the beginning of the area you saved in. After a game over, never choose Continue. Alerts the story starts on its own don't count. If the title on the results screen isn't FOXHOUND, the trophy doesn't come.
Stamina: call each Extreme Healing Radio frequency once when your stamina runs low: 140.16 and 141.42, 142.42 and 145.18, 146.45 and 148.66, 148.78 and 149.39. Each refills a large part of the gauge on its first call only. Silent steps: equip a grenade and hold the weapon button (Square on PlayStation) without throwing: while Snake holds it ready, guards don't hear his footsteps. Peeking: lean round corners and over ledges with the lean buttons (L2 and R2 on PlayStation) to line up headshots unseen. Ammo: ammo drops follow the guns you carry, so leave the lethal guns you won't use on the ground and the Mk22 gets more. Uniforms: AUSCAM takes a third off the damage you take, DPM doubles life recovery, Flecktarn gives the goggles endless battery and Desert Tiger endless suppressor use. The biosensors don't work on Extreme, and guards see much further, even at a 50% camo index: slow is fine, the five hours are generous.
The Platinum needs every other trophy. If you haven't yet paged through the Screenplay Book from the launcher's main screen (Cover-to-Cover Solid 3: Book Eater, in the next section), FOXHOUND pops alone at the results and the Platinum waits until you finish the book. Reading it before you start this run saves that wait; reading it afterwards still works.
Nothing here depends on the runs except the Demo Theater, which waits for a finished game. The book trophy can be done at any point, even before the first run starts; if it isn't done yet, do it before the last results screen of run 2, so it doesn't hold up the Platinum.
The two runs in sections 1 to 12 and the Screenplay Book in section 13 earn all of these. A count trophy is listed at the row where this route completes the count, and a results trophy at the results screen of the run that earns it.
| Trophy | PlayStation grade | How this route earns it | Section |
|---|---|---|---|
| Snake Eaten | Platinum (PlayStation only) | FOXHOUND | 12. Run 2: Extreme, the FOXHOUND Run |
| Young Gun | Bronze | A story trophy that pops during the scenes at Rassvet. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Pain Relief | Bronze | The fight with The Pain | 4. Run 1: The Crevice and the Caves |
| If It Bleeds, We Can Kill It | Bronze | The fight with The Fear | 5. Run 1: Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki |
| The End | Bronze | The fight with The End | 6. Run 1: Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno |
| Houston, We HAD a Problem | Bronze | The fight with The Fury | 7. Run 1: Krasnogorje and the Underground Tunnel |
| River of Pain | Bronze | The fight with The Sorrow | 9. Run 1: Groznyj Grad Sewers to Tikhogornyj |
| Grounded | Bronze | The fight with Volgin | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Shagadelic | Bronze | The fight with the Shagohod | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| The Patriot | Bronze | The fight with The Boss | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Like a Boss | Bronze | The trophy for finishing the game on any difficulty. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| Mama Said | Bronze | Earned for knocking a guard out with a CQC slam. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Tell Me Where the Bomb Is | Bronze | Earned for interrogating a guard with CQC. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Like He Just Doesn't Care | Bronze | Earned for holding up a guard. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Close Shave | Bronze | Earned for cutting a guard's throat in a CQC hold. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Don't Touch the Sides | Bronze | The trophy for digging a bullet out of Snake with the knife in the Cure menu. | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Can I Keep It? | Bronze | Earned for catching any animal alive. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Snake Eater | Bronze | Earned for eating a snake of any kind. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| I Can Totally See You | Bronze | Earned for a camo index of 90% or more. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | Bronze | The trophy for a camouflage index of 100%. | 6. Run 1: Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno |
| Snake Bit | Bronze | Earned for poisoning a guard with a live venomous animal. | 2. Run 1: Dremuchij to Rassvet |
| Serenity Now | Bronze | Earned for calling one Healing Radio station: a hidden frequency that plays a song and tops up stamina. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Tune-In Tokyo | Bronze | Earned for calling every Healing Radio station of the difficulty you are on. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Beekeeper | Bronze | Earned for setting hornets on a guard. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Just Because | Bronze | The trophy for blowing up a munitions shed with TNT. | 3. Run 1: Chyornyj Prud and Bolshaya Past |
| Mostly Dead | Bronze | Earned for taking the Fake Death Pill, which you start with. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| You Snooze, You Lose | Bronze | The trophy for getting behind The End unseen and holding him at gunpoint. | 6. Run 1: Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno |
| Prince Charming | Bronze | Earned for shooting your first Kerotan. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Ralph Called | Bronze | Earned for making Snake throw up. | 2. Run 1: Dremuchij to Rassvet |
| Problem Solved, Series Over | Bronze | Earned for the time paradox: ending Ocelot during the Virtuous Mission gives a special game over screen. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| The Cat's out of the Bag | Bronze | The trophy for the fifth hidden first-person view, in the scene in the hall near the end. | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Snake Eyes | Bronze | The trophy for all six hidden first-person views, taken in this run. | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Just What the Doctor Ordered | Bronze | The trophy for holding every medicinal plant: the Amur Kudzu, the Ezo Comfrey, the Chinese Plantain and the Slav Horehound. | 6. Run 1: Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno |
| Everything Is in Season | Bronze | Earned for having all three fruit types: the Russian False Mango, the Golova and the Yabloko Moloko. | 1. Run 1: The Virtuous Mission |
| Fungus Among Us | Bronze | The trophy for holding every mushroom type, A to G. | 6. Run 1: Svyatogornyj and Sokrovenno |
| A Bird in the Hand... | Bronze | The trophy for holding every bird type: the Sunda Whistling-Thrush, the Magpie, the Red Avadavat, the Parrot and the White-Rumped Vulture. | 7. Run 1: Krasnogorje and the Underground Tunnel |
| Charmer | Bronze | The trophy for holding every snake type, SNAKE A to SNAKE K. | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Tall Tale | Bronze | The trophy for holding every fish type: the Arowana, the Maroon Shark and the Bigeye Trevally. | 5. Run 1: Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki |
| Them's Good Eatin' | Bronze | The trophy for holding all three frog types, taken in this run: the Tree Frog, the Otton Frog and the Poison Dart Frog. | 3. Run 1: Chyornyj Prud and Bolshaya Past |
| With All Guns Blazing | Bronze | The trophy for holding every type of weapon. | 9. Run 1: Groznyj Grad Sewers to Tikhogornyj |
| Cover-to-Cover Solid 3: Book Eater | Bronze | The only trophy earned outside the game itself: read the whole Screenplay Book in the Master Collection launcher. | 13. Screenplay Book, Demo Theater and Special |
| Believe It or Not | Silver | The trophy for catching a Tsuchinoko. | 3. Run 1: Chyornyj Prud and Bolshaya Past |
| The Early End | Silver | Shoot The End at the docks, long before his own fight, for this trophy. | 5. Run 1: Ponizovje and Graniny Gorki |
| It Ain't Easy Being Green | Silver | The trophy for shooting all 64 Kerotans, taken in this run. | 10. Run 1: The Hangar to Rokovoj Bereg |
| Fashionista | Silver | The trophy for every type of camouflage. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| Only Skin Deep | Silver | The trophy for every type of face paint: the six found in run 1 and the Infinity Face Paint. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| King of the Jungle | Silver | The trophy for the MARKHOR codename: every one of the 48 plant and animal types held at least once in one run. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| Under the Radar | Silver | Stealth (Under the Radar) | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| Fit For a King | Silver | Face Paint: Infinity | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| PEACE WALKER | Silver | The trophy for finishing a run without killing anyone. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| The Coast Is Clear | Gold | The trophy for finishing a run without ever entering an alert phase. | 11. Run 1: The Results Screen |
| FOXHOUND | Gold | The title for a clean Extreme run inside every limit in the run 2 limits table. | 12. Run 2: Extreme, the FOXHOUND Run |
| Platform | List | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| PS4 and PS5 | 52 in all: the Platinum, 2 Gold, 9 Silver and 40 Bronze | PS4 and PS5 each have their own list with the same names, and a save doesn't carry between them, so each console's Platinum is earned on its own. On PS4, play on Ver.1.3.1 or later: before that patch some trophies didn't always unlock, and a task done then has to be done again. |
| Xbox Series X|S | 51 achievements | The same names as PlayStation, with no Platinum. |
| Steam | 51 achievements | The same names as PlayStation, with no Platinum. The story and boss achievements stay hidden until earned. |
| Nintendo Switch | No list | Switch has no trophies or achievements; the same tasks earn nothing tracked. |