Enemies

Standard patrollers guarding every installation. If they spot you, they open fire with their AK-47s and immediately call in their squad by radio — they'll also spread out and sweep an area with grenades once alerted.

Elite commando infantry, recognizable by their black or high-end camouflage uniforms. If spotted, they flank aggressively and fire with far better accuracy than regular patrols.

Large military dogs that track by scent — camouflage does nothing against them. Once they catch your smell, they pin you down by biting your arm while barking to summon every nearby soldier.

Infantry patrolling loud floating platforms over the swamps and cliffs, firing rifles at high speed from above. Their elevated vantage point makes them tough to sneak up on.

Unarmed lab staff. They never attack, but if they get suspicious of your disguise, they'll panic, run, and slam the nearest alarm switch.

Soldiers armed with stolen M2 flamethrowers, sent by Volgin as payback after you take down The Pain, The Fear, and The End. Their fire travels faster than you can run, so don't try to outpace it in a straight line.

A member of Cobra Unit whose entire body is covered in a living bee-and-wasp armor that shrugs off conventional bullets. Dive into water to dodge his insect swarms, then break his shield with a shotgun or grenades before finishing him off unprotected.

An extremely agile Cobra Unit sniper who leaps between branches using active optical camouflage. He fights with a pair of named crossbows — William Tell and Little Joe — switching between normal, poison, explosive, and incendiary bolts. Equip the thermal goggles to track his body heat and fire while he's reloading or distracted feeding.

A century-old master of absolute camouflage who never engages in close combat, sniping from hundreds of meters away. If he tranquilizes you, he captures you and sends you back to redo the whole approach — the fight is a slow, tense hunting duel, not a firefight.

A Cobra Unit member in a bulletproof cosmonaut suit and jetpack, who torches the dark tunnels with a powerful flamethrower. Hit-and-run attacks from behind work best in the claustrophobic corridors he fights in.

A literal ghost — not a fight so much as a reckoning. As you wade slowly through the river, the souls of every enemy you've killed appear and drain your stamina bar toward "death." Reach The Sorrow's body, then use the Revival Pill to wake from the nightmare.

The rogue GRU colonel leading the coup, able to store millions of volts in his body and block frontal shots with electromagnetic shields. He attacks with electric arcs and shotgun/machine-gun blasts fired straight from his own hands.

The nuclear-armed walking tank prototype, driven by Volgin himself after the motorcycle chase. Cripple its treads with the RPG-7, then finish it with rockets aimed straight at the cockpit.

Snake's mentor and the creator of CQC — unmatched in close combat. She rushes in to break your guard, throw you down, and fire the Patriot point-blank. You have ten minutes to defeat her before incoming missiles level the field.