Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Extreme Prejudice.

The first mission. You are briefed and dropped into hostile territory on Geonosis. Your mission: find and eliminate Sun-fac. *Quick tip* First time playing? Make sure and listen to the instructions so you don't get yourself killed to often. After the first bacta dispenser there will be three battle droids on a cliff. Battle droids are week and terrible shots. They will hurt you if you don't take cover, but if you crouch behind some cover and only come up to fire a few quick bursts at the droids you should be okay. They will respawn right after you kill them but you'll easily have enough time to secure the downed ship if you kill two then make a wild dash for it. *Quick tip* Battle Droids are weak and easily beat down. If there are only a few just dodge their shots and take 'em down with a single melee blow.

  Move on and you'll encounter a ton of droids at the mouth of a cave. Now you have to ways to win against them. The first is to use a ton of ammo to gun 'em down or you could shoot the explosive barrel conveniently placed behind them. If any stragglers survive (though I doubt any will) just pick 'em off. Go through the cave and kill the droids at the end. A good habit to get into is to use any cover anywhere any time. Exit the cave and blow the explosive barrel to the left to save ammo. Go one droppin' droids till you get the next advisement. This will point you to one of my favorite items, explosives. Grab 'em and follow the next few advisements on how to use them. *Quick tip* Thermal detonators bounce off of things when they hit them. Use indirect fire to your advantage next time your enemies are just around the corner. Meet up with Scorch and start learning how to use your teammates best. The three of them will be your most powerful weapon.

  The next portion of the chapter is The Hive. Note that there are a lot of explosive barrels around, so use that to your advantage. You'll get to a closed door. Kill its guard and follow the prompts to retrieve Fixer. *Quick tip* As great as your squad is, sometimes you like to do things yourself. In that case just get close to whatever it is you'd like to do (i.e. door breach maneuver or slicing) and hold A. Slice the shield and proceed. The next room will hold your first (and certainly not last) geo or as I call them, fliers  They have a very strong melee attack but lack ranged weapons. They make up for that in agility. They can fly all over the place and can stick to walls and ceilings. The best way to beat the is not to melee them (which only takes one hit) but to avoid their staff and shoot the when they sit still. Take out the two in the next room with a well placed grenade. An advantage you can use against them is that if you catch them unawares, they pause on the ground to scream at you before taking to the sky.

  Move into the geo hanger and, dare I say it, gun 'em down. The explosive barrel on the ledge isn't close enough to the fliers to hurt them so shoot em down. fight your way to where the enemy ships are and blow them to kingdom come with with a planted charge. Enter the next room and switch your visor to night vision with the white button. Kill all resistance. At the end of the dark room you will have two doors. One will have blaster ammo and the other will progress the mission. Go into the progressive room (it's progressive!) and place the charge. I prefer to have a teammate do the planting and me do the protecting. Proceed through the next couple rooms and kill the droids. One room will have a lot in one area so I felt a primed grenade would be appropriate.

  Go down to the lower level and pick up 07. Pick up the EC detonators. When thrown they produce a large field of electricity that chews through shields of all types. Kill the fliers and the next door will open. This is your first taste of an SBD. Throw an EC and melee it. If you don't have any go up to it and hit it. Move out of the way before it can strike back. Then just wash, rinse, and repeat. Do the same with the droid in the next room. In the final room eliminate the guards and unload on sunfac's fighter that concludes the chapter. Nice work!

1 comment:

  1. Holy cow. I have no idea what you just said - but you get an A for composition.

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