- Mountain Trail

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Metal Gear Solid 4 Guide - Act 2: Solid Sun
Mountain Trail

In this section, as the cutscenes suggest, you need to use the Solid Eye's night-vision setting to follow the trail of footsteps around the mountainside. Keep to the densest areas of footsteps, collecting the Ration on the right as you move through. Continue to follow the path as it heads east, then north through the grassy patch.

Use night-vision to follow the footsteps

Once you get to the grassy area go straight on to find a guard going to the toilet into a ravine. Unfortunately there is a fence blocking a rag-doll fueled hilarious death, but an easy CQC kill is still easily enjoyed here. If you want no distractions and to bypass this section, turn left after passing through the grassy area (if you did visit the guard, then it's obviously a right turn on your way back down the track). Back to business now and you should cross a bridge if you're heading in the right direction – it should be roughly north, but if in doubt, retrace back to the grassy area and make sure you head west at those crossroads. Be aware of the guard up ahead as you cross, wait for him to move towards the left before taking him out before running past up the path to the right as his demise may be spotted if he's too far in the other direction.

As the path begins to open up you come into a sniper-alley. Pick off the first one with a silenced weapon from distance, he's up high on the ledge as shown below.

Take out the sniper

Take the first path on the right from here, ignoring the next sniper up high while staying close to the right hand side of the path so as not to be spotted by him. In the next clearing there is another guard who you can also pick off from range in Solid Eye mode. There is another enemy in the area, inside the shack up-ahead, but he's too engrossed in a Playboy to notice what is going on, so just CQC him to remove him from the situation. There is also an RPG-7 behind the shack itself. Take the northern path sloping downwards from here, which will ultimately lead to yet another clearing. Use the boxes for cover and move around the right hand side to take out the guard crouched down just past them, again using CQC if you want. Head down the grassy path east of the guard, or the first one on the right in the clearing if the guard is out of position. It will lead you to the river.

Cross the river, taking the central path, another grassy one until the clearing. Turn left and take the northeastern exit from the clearing (the one in the corner rather than the most immediate one on the left). Follow this path until the grass turns to sand at which point you should be aware of a guard up ahead by the two dead trees. Take him out with a silenced weapon. Take the southern path, straight ahead up the hill. Silence the guard in the area at the top of the hill. Go straight across in this area past the rock and long grass. Go down the next left at the thin path and then right into the cave to finally finish this area!

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