Prototype Walkthrough

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PROTOTYPE HARD MODE GUIDE
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By Uberschveinen
Version 1.0
Contact at uberschveinen@hotmail.com
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INTRODUCTION-(INT)
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Welcome to my guide to Prototype’s Hard Mode. This is,
obviously, a guide intended specifically for Hard Mode and the
inherently much greater difficulty there. The events in the game don’t
change, and it will work just fine for Normal or Easy, but these are
much more cautious strategies and are probably wasting your time.
Needless to ay if you’re playing on Hard you’ve already beaten
the game once, and should know the very basics of it, and have some
grasp of the effective strategies against the tougher opponents. Good,
because you’ll need that from the get-go. Basically, in Hard, every
enemy is bumped up one tier in threat. Civilian Infected go from
irrelevant to nuisance, Military and Evolved Infected go from nuisance
to minor consideration, Military with good weapons and APCs go from
minor consideration to slight threat, Hunters and Tanks go from slight
threat to moderate threat, and Leader Hunters and Helicopters go from
moderate threat to genuine danger. The bosses all become much harder to
kill.
All in all, Hard is exactly that. It’s going to take a few more
deaths and a lot more strategizing to win, but it’s going to be worth
it.
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CONTENTS-(CON)
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+ INTRODUCTION–------(INT)
+ CONTENTS–----------(CON)
+ HARD MODE GUIDE–---(HAR)
+ ACHIEVEMENT GUIDE–-(ACH)
+ EVENT GUIDE–-------(EVE)
+ FAQ–---------------(FAQ)
+ CREDITS–-----------(CRE)
+ LEGAL--------------(LEG)
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HARD MODE GUIDE-(HAR)
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This is where things get serious. You’ve played through Normal.
Where Normal left off is about where Hard begins, and it only gets
harder. I hope you were paying attention in the tough battles.
This guide is going to address each individual mission in a row.
I won’t talk about events until the events section, but I can’t
recommend enough you do them the moment they become plausible, because
you really do need all the EP and upgrades you can afford to win. I’ll
mention when events and upgrades become available, and tell you which
upgrades are mandatory to success. I also recommend you go Landmark and
Hint hunting as soon as you have the powers to get them all, because
that’s basically free EP, but if you start grabbing orbs outside of a
single coordinated attempt you’ll make getting the Streetwise and
Polymath achievements a nightmare.
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GUIDE CONTENTS
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+ Tutorial mission--------------- (M00)
+ Escape the Gentek Facility----- (M01)
+ Look for Clues About Your Past- (MO2)
+ Behind the Glass--------------- (MO3)
+ Escape the Hunters------------- (MO3)
+ The Wheels of Chance----------- (MO4)
+ A New Order-------------------- (MO5)
+ Open Conspiracy---------------- (MO6)
+ In the Web--------------------- (MO7)
+ The Altered World-------------- (MO8)
+ Errand Boy--------------------- (MO9)
+ Confessions-------------------- (M10)
+ Under the Knife---------------- (M11)
+ The Stolen Body---------------- (M12)
+ Biological Imperative---------- (M13)
+ The Door in the Wall----------- (M14)
+ First and Last Things---------- (M15)
+ The First Monster-------------- (M16)
+ Making the Future-------------- (M17)
+ Defeat the Supreme Hunter------ (M18)
+ Men like Gods------------------ (M19)
+ A Dream of Armageddon---------- (M20)
+ The World Set Free------------- (M21)
+ Things to Come----------------- (M22)
+ Defeat Elizabeth Greene-------- (M23)
+ Shock and Awe------------------ (M24)
+ The Last Man------------------- (M25)
+ Two Tickets-------------------- (M26)
+ Defeat the Supreme Hunter------ (M27)
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TUTORIAL MISSION-(M00)
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Although not technically a mission, I’ve included this for the sake of
completionism.
After your little cutscene, you show up in Times Square again, with
your full suite of powers, with a platoon or so of Blackwatch shooting
at you. But what’s this? They’re actually doing damage!
You’ll soon find this is the story of Hard. Kill them quickly before
they hurt you too much, which shouldn’t pose a challenge. Then move
forward to the objective.
Now there’s more to kill, but you’ve got your claws. Diveroll and
slash, just like you did all the way through Normal, and they’re done.
Move forward again, and trigger the Tank spawn.
Now you’re up against about four tanks. Don’t stand still, because they
actually do fierce damage if they hit you with the 120mm cannon. Jump
above them, and charge up Y targeted on the tanks for a fully-charged
Hammerfist drop. You’ll notice that it does much less damage, and
that’s important. Jump, charge, drop, and repeat until they all go
down. As long as you keep moving you’ll be fine. If you got cut up,
consume some Infected Civilians for health, otherwise, move forward
again.
Hunters. Surely not a threat against the blade? Unfortunately, no they
are. In fact, they will remain a threat throughout the game so long as
you try to take them head-on. So, don’t. Jump up, and use the Air
Slash; target a Hunter and hold Y. Fully charged, it won’t kill them,
just to give you an indication of how tough they are now. It’ll just do
a bit more than half damage, so keep jumping and slashing and you’ll be
fine. Then, move forward.
Now, the Commander is in sight. Forget everything else, just sprint
forward, grab him, and consume. Try not to accidentally jump kick him;
that’s about the only way to fail unless you try and kill everything.
You kill everything anyway, and the scene ends. Enjoy your cutscene
even more in retrospect. Everything in the story fits much better when
you actually know the story.
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ESCAPE THE GENTEK FACILITY-(M01)
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Mercer’s escape is done, and you gain control in a back alley. You’re
powerless now, and because this is Hard, extremely vulnerable. Don’t go
picking fights unless you can do so with utter surprise.
Jump the fence, and see the helicopter. Throw crap at it, preferably
before everyone gets off, and notice how little damage it does. You’ll
need much more crap to throw, and that will probably mean the
Blackwatch. Make sure you charge your throws or you’ll have to go
looking for stuff.
Now you’ve got to run up a building and get to another. Easy. Then
suddenly, Helicopters. Luckily these ones don’t seem to actually want
to shoot you, because if they did they’d take you apart. Grab the
aircon units, and fully charge throws at the Helicopters. If you do it
right you’ll kill them, if not, you’ll have to relocate, find more
stuff, and throw that. These first missions are pretty good at showing
you just how much harder everything is to kill.
Now a cutscene, after which you can consume the officer. Do so, and
swap into that disguise. Run over to the objective, make sure you’re in
disguise, and head into the house for a cutscene.
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LOOK FOR CLUES ABOUT YOUR PAST-(M02)
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Now to look for clues. Head over to the objective and roll on in, only
to get blown up. Luckily, you take little damage from a massive
explosion and a fifteen-storey fall. Unluckily, you land in the middle
of a fight when the officer nearby calls in a strike team. Kill him and
run. You can evade the Strike Team or blow it up, either will do. One
way or another change into your military disguise, and go to the
objective. Walk straight through the cordon in disguise, radio the all-
clear, and consume the guy when he walks out. You now have to escape or
kill the military. Killing them all might be some practise, but running
is safer and much faster. Run, hide, change, and the mission’s over.
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BEHIND THE GLASS-(M03)
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And finally, time for some well-deserved upgrades. Get as many of the
movement powers as you can afford, because once you’ve got all of them
you can access a whole mess of EP from events. Buy Diveroll. BUY
DIVEROLL. This is perhaps the single most important power for Hard mode
in the entire game, and it costs 100 EP. That’s basically for free.
Make sure you also buy the first Critical Mass power because that’s
going to be vital, and Adrenaline Surge, because the number of time it
will save you in Hard is ridiculous. Maybe shield, if you like that
sort of thing, but I never used it.
You get your first event unlocks too, but you don’t have the speed for
the movement. Speaking of health, go get some. Make sure you’re full
before you start missions, because you may not always have the chance
once it starts. Once you’ve done what you want, go to the gold marker
and start the mission.
Now cruise over to Gentek and find the soldier on the rooftop. Consume
him, evade the alert you’ve set off before the Helicopter smacks you
down, change disguise, and come back. Now make sure you watch those
viral detectors, because they work about twice as fast on Hard, but as
long as you wait for the base commander to leave their area of
detection you should be able to consume him fine. Enter the base, watch
the cutscene, and brace yourself for the sheer rage of fighting Hunters
of Hard.
Run. Just run. Even if you could kill these Hunters you’d die long
before, since you have to real powers and hardly any health. In fact,
until you pick up the Hunter Dirtnap power and later the Blade, they
will be incredibly hard to kill. Get to the base where you can start to
fight them.
Now this is where it gets tricky. You’re in an enclosed space and these
Hunters can kill you in a single barrage attack if you didn’t buy
Adrenaline Surge, so you need to be all movement, all the time. Consume
your way to health, since the military is smart enough to recognise the
Hunters as the real threat and go for them. There’s only one at first
and it’s easy to avoid if you keep jumping and airdashing, so try and
create a big enough gap that you can grab a Missile Launcher to take it
out. It’ll take at least two full loads of missiles to kill it, and
just as you do, more show up, two this time. Oh goody. But you have
claws now! A pity they’re useless against them  Do the same, but this
time keep moving faster and try to grab the Missile Launchers from the
military on the rooftops since you have a few seconds more to do it.
Focus fire on one to kill it and it’ll make it much easier to finish
the job.
Now when you do, there’ll be EVEN MORE Hunters, fie this time. It’s
about now you’ll realise why the call it Hard mode, because if you stop
jumping and hiking across the room like a housefly on speed you’ll get
the crap beaten out of you. Eventually you’ll make enough space to grab
another Missile Launcher, and try to aim for the one the constantly-
respawning military hurt the most. Kill one, and you’ll get prompted to
hit the Fuel Tanks, because EVEN MORE HUNTERS are running in. This is
insane. You won’t see this many Hunters in one place again until the
Bloodtox Pumper fight. Keep running, keep grabbing Missile Launchers
whenever you can, and hope there were plenty because the military stops
respawning. The tanks aren’t any harder to kill, as long as you only
fire in the air when you don’t anchor yourself, because with this many
hunters anchoring means death. Hopefully you won’t run out of missiles,
but if you do jump kick the tanks. Once they all explode the Hunters
die and you’re FINALLY done. That was a real challenge, took forever,
and it was one of the easiest set-piece battles you’ll fight in the
entire game. Like I said, when they called it Hard they weren’t
kidding.
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THE WHEELS OF CHANCE-(M04)
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Stealth consume. Finally. This is not an optional power, literally, but
you’d take it if it wasn’t because more than a few times in the game
you will badly need health and not be able to survive an alert, plus
even when you normal consume Civilian Infected it sometimes sets off
alerts. Sprinting grab is similarly not optional because if you need
health in a fight you can’t afford to stop.
Cruise over to Dana’s safehouse, start the mission, and head over to
Karen Parker’s place, with a scenic overlook of a Hive. Watch those
Hunters, they hurt as much outside the story as in. Once you’re done
you’ll be needing to consume a soldier, so move before the Hunters get
to him. Consume, preferably stealth, and head to the base it indicates.
You should know plenty about base infiltrations by now, but basically
sneak in, stealth consume commander, enter base, stealth consume
targets, and try not to do anything stupid like a Tendril Barrage
Devastator, because being trapped inside with a whole mess of military
is not conducive to your continued survival. Drive the APC through the
gate and over to the Hive, and watch in awe as you realise just how
idiotically tough the things are. Watch out for Hunters since they can
munch your armour, but there shouldn’t be more than one as it’s usually
occupied. Get on the marker to let Karen in and drive off, trying NOT
to hit the military, as they get alerted a whole lot faster on Hard,
and they have more than enough firepower to take you apart and cost you
the mission. Get there, and done. Too easy.
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A NEW ORDER-(M05)
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More upgrades. Sprint and Jump are not optional, since you need all the
speed you can possibly get for survival. You can now get all but two of
the Landmarks and all of the Hints, so go get all of them if you want
the achievement, or even if you don’t. The extra few million EP will be
necessary to buy the upgrades you’ll need. For reference, the Landmarks
you can’t get are the one under the Brooklyn Bridge, and the one in
Times Square on the tallest lightning rod. Do the events you care to
do, and start the mission.
And Karen wants genetic material, which means we’re hunting the
hunters. Lovely. Go to the marker then towards the indicated tower, but
the giant flying circle of crows should make it pretty obvious anyway.
Engage these FROM A DISTANCE. For now, you almost don’t have the damage
to kill them up close before they hatch, so grab rooftop junk and hurl
it. If you’re lucky enough to find someone with a Missile Launcher
stealth consume him and borrow it. When it goes down run over and
collect the yellow orbs. Four towers later and you’re done.
Now to get it from a hive. Unfortunately, for some reason it’s not good
enough to let it explode and collect the small shower of genetic
material that rains out, no. We have to protect the damned thing. It
isn’t tougher than on Normal, because its extra durability is negated
by the military’s extra damage. Hijack APCs (in disguise so you raise
no alert) and get out, because when they explode they respawn soon, and
focus on collecting the material that comes out. If you stay disguised
this is a cakewalk. If you lose it, it gets a whole lot harder,
especially if you didn’t eliminate the two APCs, who can smack you down
something fierce since on Hard they have no qualms whatsoever about
using their high-damage missiles. Helicopters are even more damaging
but they don’t use their rockets or missiles on the Hive, and have a
tendency to kill themselves, so they’re no concern until you are
detected, a which point they are a very considerable concern indeed. If
you’re caught run like hell and change before coming back. Eventually,
you’ll be done, and you can leave.
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OPEN CONSPIRACY-(M06)
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Go do some events, get some EP, upgrade what you like. You’ll need it,
because you’re about to start seeing UAVs, so named for the
inarticulate sounds of rage you’ll make when they come from nowhere to
raise an alert while you’re in the midst of a horde in military and get
you killed.
Hit the marker, talk to Dana, leave, and go to the base. You’ll need to
sneak inside, so standard drill. In, stealth consume, out. You now need
to take down a whole mess of patrols, so do whatever you can to hijack
an APC. The missiles make it much easier, although you’ll still have to
change it frequently. Get behind them and blast away, so you get an
extra second of firing while they traverse turrets. Apparently if you
take too long a timer appears for losing, but I’ve never even seen it.
There’s really no reason this should take long, even on Hard. Finish
all the patrols and you’re done. Just don’t try to sneak up on the
patrols because those damned UAVs will ALWAYS spot you first. You can
kill them from a distance with thrown crap to make it easy to run and
change, if you really want to avoid confrontation. Interestingly, you
don’t actually have to kill the UAVs to defeat a patrol.
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IN THE WEB-(M07)
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Events and upgrades, as always. Buy nice things.
Hit the mission marker, and try not to smirk at what Mercer thinks. He
hasn’t played this game before. You’ve got to smash a viral detector.
Hammerfist elbow drop followed up by some smashing works. You can kill
the Blackwatch guarding them, but you don’t have to, and usually you
won’t want to because you’ll be running before they call in a Strike
Team.
Go smash the next one they mark in the same way, and then smash all of
them. Unfortunately you don’t know how to sabotage them yet, so no
sneaky routes available. Once they all go down and you successfully
flee, cutscene.
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THE ALTERED WORLD-(MO8)
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Once you’ve done what you need, start the mission. Run over to the
Hive, and consume the Commander, preferably by stealth. Now, go
sabotage the Detectors, something you know how to do by now. McMullen
shows just in time for the Hive to begin raining gribblies, and he
elects to run, but not before telling everyone who you are. Fight, or
run (PROTIP: RUN), to end the mission.
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ERRAND BOY-(M09)
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Buy the Whipfist and the Y attack. DO IT. Even if you need to do events
or get landmarks or even kills Hives for it. You NEED it. Also,
anything else you think can help you survive, because you’ll damned
well need them. Try to grab an Assault Rifle on the way
Once that’s out of the way, roll over, and start the mission. Cruise
off to the Hive, and hit the marker to jump inside. You’ll spend a
minute or so gathering genetic material, in fact, exactly enough to get
you to full health, and not by coincidence, because Cross drops in for
a visit at that exact moment.
This is where things get hard. Cross was irksome on Normal, on Hard,
he’s a beast. He takes very little damage from anything and his every
attack hurts something fierce. Instead of having his shockrod out some
of the time, he now has it out pretty much every single second he isn’t
actually shooting, and speaking of shooting, now does so with more
accuracy, more frequency, and a hell of a lot more damage. Getting hit
by even one grenade hurts pretty bad, and if you take the whole set
watch your health bar disappear.
This is where the Hard boss strategy comes in. Run. Jump. Don’t stop
running and jumping until he starts shooting, and even then, only as
long as it takes to let off a Whipfist Y attack. If you see him start
the attack it’s okay to charge it, otherwise, don’t, because he has
that shockrod out pretty much the instant he stops shooting and if you
Whipfist him then you get zapped for a fat chunk of health. Take him
down slowly with the Whipfist, and at all costs don’t take damage,
because until you get him weakened, you have no way to regain health.
Above all never go next to him or he’ll have that shockrod out and
beating you down before you can even diveroll away, and it does massive
damage. Once you’ve got him down to 75% health he pulls out, just as a
wave of infected come in. If you were smart enough to pick up a Rifle
you can shoot him for a little damage even with the spark on him, but
one hit and you drop it. You can try throwing stuff at him, but there’s
not nearly enough to throw, and he actually diverolls away from it
FINALLY. Consume to heal and as fast as you can, because he only waits
about ten-fifteen seconds before dropping back down. Then ignore them
because in the time it takes to consume one he’ll do the damage of
four. He’ll kill them in the crossfire and you can grab their health
for a little gain. Continue with the Whipfisting until he gets down to
about 25-30% health, at which point he calls in an entire Blackwatch
squad. You need to kill these guys FAST because if you don’t they will
eat away at your health unsustainably fast to the point you cannot
physically beat Cross before you die. If you were smart you saved
yourself enough health for a Devastator to take them all at once. If
not, Whipfist them while moving. TAKE THE MISSILE LAUNCHER BLACKWATCH
OUT FIRST. They can hit you while moving for big damage, and while you
recover, Cross will hit you with all three shots for a whole lot more.
When they’re all down, get back to hitting Cross. What I wouldn’t have
given for Aerial Critical Pain in this fight. Same strategy, run, jump,
and Whipfist as he shoots. Don’t bother picking up the Missile
Launchers off the ground, because it takes so long he’ll hit you, do a
heap of damage, and you’ll drop the damned thing. The exception is if
one ends up in that one corner out of his LoS. Eventually you’ll knock
him down to about 10% health and the fight’s FINALLY over. Watch the
cutscene, and prepare for the nightmare of Hard mode without powers.
If you used this strategy the fight took an age but only took a reset
or two at most. If you tried to beat him by fighting him, you’ve
probably had a rage-induced aneurysm and are reading this in hospital.
Now run. Don’t fight, you’ll get hammered. Get away, and you end the
mission.
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CONFESSIONS-(M10)
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An extremely easy mission to make up for the Cross fight. Show up at
Dana’s once you’ve bought what you want for a chat and for a mission
that literally completes itself. What a waste of a heading.
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UNDER THE KNIFE-(M11)
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It’s cancer. Or at least what cancer wants to be when it grows up. I’m
pretty sure a doctor would be somewhat concerned that your cancer was
glowing red and moving, but they’d probably be concerned about your
ability to punch a hole through a man’s chest and absorb his dying body
too. Time to go see the good doctor.
After the cutscene go to the marker, hijack a tank IN DISGUISE. You
REALLY don’t want to set off unnecessary alerts here, because you have
no powers and those tanks are incredibly dangerous. They will also
shoot you off of other tanks you try to hijack. They’ll direct you to
Captain Lim’s command, where you’ll have a hell of a fight. It would be
damned hard had you not just come down from an even harder fight.
Hijack a tank in disguise, take out the Helicopter first since it only
takes one shot to kill, then go for the tanks. You’ll keep getting
blown out of tanks, so keep moving and hope to hell you hijack
successfully. You’d better be mashing Y like the index finger of the
North Star. Always keep driving in circles so the tanks can’t hit you,
and kill the Helicopters, which can. WATCH THOSE DAMNED HUNTERS. Not
only do they rip through your tank, but they knock it about so you
can’t get a fix on anything that isn’t directly above you. Eventually
you destroy so much heavy armour that Lim decides the only way to save
the day is in his tinpot APC, so jump out and hijack it to consume him
before the Hunters blow it up, and watch your cutscene.
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THE STOLEN BODY-(M12)
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First, buy Hunter Dirtnap. It’s useful for the entire game, but
imperative now. Roll over to Ragland, who for some reason doesn’t want
to walk around outside with paranoid Marines, psychotic Blackwatch, and
murderous Infected everywhere. Baby. Get into a military disguise AFTER
you’re away from the military at the door, and grab a tank. Problem is,
every one of the stupid things has another tank nearby and a UAV on
overwatch, and you can’t get in the tank without setting off an alert.
Ignore the UAV, drop into the tank, take it over, and blow up the one
in front of you. Drive over to Ragland QUICKLY before the Strike Team
takes your tank out, because getting him in automatically evades the
alert.
Now trundle on over to the indicated base, smushing anything in your
way beneath your tracks. You may kill some civilians, but I think of it
this way. If it’s not smart enough to hear an eighty-tonne steel
behemoth charging down the road and decide HEY I’D BETTER GET OUT OF
THE WAY OF THE GRINDING DEATH MACHINE it’s Infected. Try not to hit
military or you’ll set off an alert. Get to the abandoned base and
Ragland gets out.
Brace yourself for a pretty tricky time keeping the Infected away.
Before they come, grab two or three Missile Launchers and drop them in
front of the glass wall for easy access later. The guns, unupgraded as
they are, kill too slowly, so don’t bother. It turns out the fastest
way to kill the Infected is to consume them, as it’s a one-hit kill and
also sometimes and AoE knockdown. It also keeps your health nice. Soon
a hunter comes, so grad a Missile Launcher, and jump around while
firing. That keeps its attention, which is critical because they do
silly amounts of damage to the glass, and kills any Evolved Infected
near it. Ignore the Evolved Infected until the Hunter dies, then run
quickly over and resume consuming them before they do too much damage
to the wall. Then, two Hunters. Grab the other Missile Launcher you
stashed and fire away while jumping. Try to hit both on the first shot,
because that gets and holds both their attention, and if you let one
attack the wall while you kill the other it’ll usually break it. Take
out one, grab another Missile Launcher, and finish the other. When you
run out, go to the standby. Use Hunter Dirtnap, B to grab and B to
throw, hit it three times on the ground, then Diveroll away before it
hits you with the recovery attack.
When it dies you hopefully haven’t already lost, so finish consuming
the Evolved Infected and finish off the last handful that come out. You
only need to hold out for four minutes so you could technically not
have to kill the Hunters but it’s much safer to kill them as they don’t
actually respawn, just the Evolved Infected. You may have to hit the
checkpoint a few times on this one until you get decent at crowd
control. Pity you lost the Whipfist. When time’s up finish the
stragglers and leave.
OH GOOD, Hydras. Wonderful. Drive past them without stopping or even
slowing. Their throw attack is slow, but up close they slam you damned
hard and usually one-shot your tank. Keep moving, ignore them, and get
Ragland back to the morgue.
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BIOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE-(M13)
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Do the events and grab some upgrades if you want, or just start the
mission right off.
You’ve got to find a hunter and inject it with cancer, which is
obviously the best cure for cancer. This, naturally, requires a
helicopter. Get in your military disguise, and consume the nearby
pilot. Now you can pilot Helicopters, so you can get the last two
Landmarks, especially that stupid one under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Go find a suitable Tower by flying in a straight line until you get the
peak response, then going left or right, whichever increases its
strength, and you’ll find it. Then target, scan, and blow the Hunter
away with the rockets when it comes out. Hop out and grab it to apply
the injector, then it runs. Follow it, and when you can kill it, use
the standard grapple throw, hit three times, diveroll, repeat strategy
to beat it then consume it.
You somehow not just cure your glowing cancer but turn it into the
mediocre Armour and the godlike Blade. YES. The armour’s no use since
you can’t diveroll in it and it doesn’t prevent as much damage as being
fast, but the Blade is the best weapon you get.
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THE DOOR IN THE WALL-(M14)
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Buy the Longshot Grab this is singlehandedly the most utilitarian power
you have because it turns skyjacking Helicopters from nightmarish to
easy. Unfortunately Helicopters are now frail against military since
they die in one missile hit, but they’re still unstoppable killing
machines until they go down. Also, get Palm Slam so you can buy Air
Critical Pain, which is a brilliant move. Don’t buy ground Critical
Pain since Air is less than half the price and you use it against
bosses where you can