Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater: How To Defeat The End of Old Age

The End in Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater is a unique boss. He’s the only boss that you can effectively kill much before you face off with him out in the open. To do that, you’ll have to take a long-range shot at him with a sniper rifle. However, if you decide to do so, you will lose out on a useful reward from the boss.

Nevertheless, it does make things easier for you later on, since you don’t have to go through the extended boss battle with him. Still, if you choose to take him on rather than killing him early, you can also defeat the boss by simply letting him die of old age. In the following guide, we take a look at how you can go down this particular route.

How To Kill The End in Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater of Old Age

You can change the clock on your console or PC to take down The End of old age. This is the system that players could exploit after the release of the original Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater in 2004.

However, if you’re new to the game and you have no experience with the original, you might not know about this old age option. Moreover, make sure to check out our guide on how you can kill The End early. However, if you want to go down the old age route, this is what you need to do.

• Step 1: Save the game once The End boss battle starts.
• Step 2: Now exit the game completely. Make sure that the game has shut down before you proceed to the rest of the steps.
• Step 3: Now, manually change the date and time on your console or PC. You can do that from within the settings of whichever platform you’re on. The date and time have to be at least eight days ahead of the actual one. For instance, if the real date is September 1, change the date on your system to reflect September 8 or later.
• Step 4: Once you have modified the time, restart Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater and load the most recent save you made during The End boss fight.

If you’ve followed the steps correctly, loading the game should trigger a cutscene. In it, Snake will sneak up on The End, only to find that the sniper has died of old age.

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Should You Let The End Die of Old Age?

While this is a fun method of tackling the boss fight, it won’t yield any rewards. Alternatively, you can try to get through the boss fight as intended by the developers. We suggest taking a shot at him earlier to wound him. This will reduce his health considerably before the boss battle finally begins. After that, you can sneak up on him and hold him at gunpoint for a certain period. This method unlocks the Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle and his Moss Camo uniform for Snake.

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