Defeating the Omega Pirate hints and tips for Metroid Prime

Defeating the Omega Pirate

Defeating the Omega Pirate is actually easy if you simply know what to listen for and what to use and where to look. The battle starts out with the Omega crashing out of it's cyrostasis container, and the battle begins.

First off, start by firing the Plasma Beam, charged, at one of it's four Phazon-plated hinges on it's needs or shoulders.

If the Omega keeps deploying a spiral shield that deters your progress from this, switch to the Power Beam and nail a Super Missle across the hinges instead.

After destroying all 4 Phazon platelets, the Omega will shriek and 3 reverse-engineer Pirates of random type will fall onto the battlefield.

The Omega will then disappear out of plain sight. Don't worry about the Omega as of now, just focus on the Pirates. I suggest that as the Omega calls the Pirates down that you back as far away from the red hatch that you came is as possible so as you give you a panoramic view of where the Pirates are onstage.

Switch to the appropriate beam and atttack them with everything you have- Super Missles or Ice Spreader even. As you combat the Pirates, you will hear the Omega laughing; after it laughs twice, pull out the Plasma Beam, charge it, and if there are any Pirates still onstage, try to jump around to avoid their blasts, unless whatever Pirate is bugging you happens to be a Plasma Pirate- then you can unleash your charged beam on it to quickly finish it off.

With the Plasma Beam charged and the X-Ray Visor activated, listen for a strange teleporting noise that sounds rather magical, and immediately scan the three Phazon pits around the room. With the X-Ray Visor, you should see the Omega standing in one of the Phazon pits- unleash your charged Plasma on it when you see it, then fire regular Plasma shots at it to make the Omega shriek again and disappear totally from view.

The Omega may call down Space Pirates when you do this, and if this occurs, put the Combat Visor back on and do whatever damage you can. Shortly afterward, another magical teleporting noise should be heard- throw on your X-Ray Visor and charge the Plasma Beam, then search for the Omega and repeat what you did before.

Repeat all of these steps again and again until the Omega Pirate dies, but more likely than not you will have to destroy the Omega's Phazon platelets again after it recovers them. Just repeat as usual.

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