Painkiller Part 43: Defeat Lucifer and Unlock Trauma

Q: How to beat Lucifer in Painkiller?

Part 43 focuses on finding secrets, defeating the boss Lucifer, and preparing for Trauma difficulty. Secrets include armor and health in ruined buildings and on a molten rock. Lucifer is defeated by reflecting his sword and using falling rocks. Trauma difficulty is unlocked by collecting all tarot cards and offers a different experience with no souls and more reliance on gold cards.

Q: Where to find secrets in Part 43 Painkiller?

Part 43 focuses on finding secrets, defeating the boss Lucifer, and preparing for Trauma difficulty. Secrets include armor and health in ruined buildings and on a molten rock. Lucifer is defeated by reflecting his sword and using falling rocks. Trauma difficulty is unlocked by collecting all tarot cards and offers a different experience with no souls and more reliance on gold cards.

Q: How to unlock Trauma difficulty in Painkiller?

Part 43 focuses on finding secrets, defeating the boss Lucifer, and preparing for Trauma difficulty. Secrets include armor and health in ruined buildings and on a molten rock. Lucifer is defeated by reflecting his sword and using falling rocks. Trauma difficulty is unlocked by collecting all tarot cards and offers a different experience with no souls and more reliance on gold cards.

Q: Painkiller Mercy Tarot card?

Part 43 focuses on finding secrets, defeating the boss Lucifer, and preparing for Trauma difficulty. Secrets include armor and health in ruined buildings and on a molten rock. Lucifer is defeated by reflecting his sword and using falling rocks. Trauma difficulty is unlocked by collecting all tarot cards and offers a different experience with no souls and more reliance on gold cards.

Q: Painkiller Trauma difficulty differences?

Part 43 focuses on finding secrets, defeating the boss Lucifer, and preparing for Trauma difficulty. Secrets include armor and health in ruined buildings and on a molten rock. Lucifer is defeated by reflecting his sword and using falling rocks. Trauma difficulty is unlocked by collecting all tarot cards and offers a different experience with no souls and more reliance on gold cards.

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Walkthrough

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Secrets: Explore ruined buildings for medium armor and super-health. Find heavy armor on a building to the left by quick-jumping up a diagonal beam. Locate the final secret, heavy armor, on a series of molten rocks in mid-air, requiring precise quick-jumps.
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Prepare for Lucifer: Reach approximately 65 kills, then find armor or health pickups. Quicksave before proceeding.
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Defeat Lucifer: The 66th kill triggers a Morph and reveals Lucifer. Avoid his sword swings and falling rocks. When Lucifer throws his sword up, quick-jump backward to avoid falling rocks. Shoot the falling rocks to direct them at Lucifer. After a few hits, Lucifer will pause; attack his sword as he throws it at you to reflect it back, defeating him. If not defeated within a minute, you must kill another 66 monks.
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Post-Boss Exploration: After defeating Lucifer, the exit pentagram appears. Explore the area and consider a fun easter egg: quick-jumping to the top of a trebuchet near the level's start to be launched back to the beginning.
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Tarot Card: Mercy (Silver) is obtained.
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End Movie: Watch the first end movie, which sets up for Trauma difficulty.

Unlocking Trauma Difficulty:

Requirement: Collect all 23 tarot cards from the Nightmare game.
Starting Trauma: Press Space to skip Nightmare credits, choose 'Yes' to lock all levels, and 'No' to keep all your cards.
Tarot Board: Select a new card configuration. Note that tarot card conditions still apply even though all cards are collected.

Trauma Difficulty Differences:

Trauma is harder but has advantages: all tarot cards are available, reducing the need for gold and frequent tarot board changes.
There are no souls, meaning less health but no need for soul-based silver cards.
Demon Morphs are removed.
Gold cards are used more frequently, making the Mercy card valuable.

Tips

Conserve ammo by picking up mega ammo boxes only after exhausting your current supply.
Standing quick-jumps are helpful for navigating tricky secret areas.
Lucifer's defeat animation is not in slow-motion, so confirm he is dead.
The trebuchet easter egg is useless but entertaining.

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