Metal Gear Excelsus is the next generation of Gear. It is the largest walking Gear ever created with eight legs and two large arms capable of cutting through anything. It is said that the Gear was originally designed to level entire cities to the ground. It is capable of burrowing underground and is operated by Senator Steven Armstrong during its use in Pakistan.
Combat
Metal Gear Excelsus has several attack patterns that are each very different but all very simple to avoid when you are aware of how. The first set of attacks areoverhead swings. Blades will appear and the arm is lifted high into the air. It will alternate using each arm and you simply need to Ninja Run in either direction to avoid it. After it comes down, immediately turn around and hit the blade a couple of times. This will happen several times before it will use both arms at once. Run towards the center of the area to avoid this. When it lands, you'll have a good window of attack.
He can also use the arms for horizontal swings. He'll place one of the blades close to the ground and you merely have to jump over these (Jump and swing your blade to stay airborne). After several attempts, he may place both of the blades down together in a manner that prevents you from jumping over them. When this happens, Ninja Run directly towards the blades and Raiden will dive between them.
After dealing a decent amount of damage, it will lift one of the large feet over to the field. The foot has a different attack pattern. The most dangerous is ahorizontal slide. The foot will glow red when this happens and you want to try to start at the front of the area and run backwards (or vice versa) to avoid this attack. He also has a stomping attack where the foot will stomp several times in one place. It may move a little but not much. Avoid the attack and then try to get a hit in after it lands but don't overstay your welcome because it will almost certainly stomp on you again.
When you get health down to below 70%, you'll be able to cut parts off of the leg. This will allow you to Ninja Run up the left and then severe the leg further along at the joint.
With the leg severed, you'll land back on the ground and you'll have a chance to get in quite a few hits on Excelsus' head. Get as much damage in as you can and after he retracts his head, he'll drop a couple of Gekkos on the ground. Don't bother with them though because he's going to charge up a huge set of energy beams that will move towards you from the front of the area and almost certainly take out the Gekkos in the process. Just run horizontally to avoid this attack and then clean up the Gekkos is they've only been wounded. If they haven't been destroyed then he will perform a horizontal beam sweep which you avoid by running back towards the camera.
After this, Excelsus will resume its regular attack pattern. You'll be able to avoid attacks and deal damage as you did before. After you cut off the second leg, you'll start a QTE:
- Rapidly tap Heavy Attack
- Rapidly tap Light Attack
- tap Heavy attack
- tap Heavy Attack
- Heavy Attack + Activate
- Rapidly tap Light Attack
- Blade Mode
