Ustanak (lava arena)
- Chapter
- J5 · The Underwater Facility: the Batteries, the Lava Arena and the Tram
- Where
- 5-3 Underwater Facility 2: walkways over a sea of lava, a small platform and a catwalk for the fist fight
Weak point
The head; at the end, Jake's fists
Jake's final boss, now with a ball-and-chain flail. Three stages: walkways, a platform by the lava and a fist fight with Jake alone. Never stand in front of it.
Reward
Jake shows no health bar in stage 3.
Step by step
- Don't fight yet: turn around, take the left path, drop down, cross to the right, climb and push the crate together.
- Serpent Emblem #19 first: at the base of a pillar in the lava, in the maintenance-walkway area (after pushing the crate, 90° right along the edge). On later runs you can snipe it from the entrance before triggering the Ustanak.
- Stage 1 (walkways): there are 9 crates. Use the sniper rifle and the 909 and save the heavy stuff. The Chain Shot (sometimes dipped in lava) is dodged by moving sideways; up close it uses the Chain Swing.
- Stage 2 (platform): it turns slowly: circle it and stay off its right side and front (the flail sweeps right). Its ground slams leave lava pools; items sometimes pop up in them, so wait for them to cool. This is where you spend the magnum and explosive rounds.
- Once staggered: both players melee → prompts: Sherry's stun rod, then Jake's kick. The flail breaks.
- Stage 3 (Jake only, fists only, no stamina limit): charged combos (aim + melee) to drive it back, hit the counter and dodge prompts and mash at the end. 3 failures = it knocks you into the lava (game over).
- Meanwhile, Sherry can send containers down 5 rails at it to unbalance it, though they often miss.