Before anything else, i'd like to point out that i didn't wrote this walkthrough, the credit goes to the GameFaqs user SENIORBILL[www.gamefaqs.com] and for anyone who wants to see the original complete version just click here[www.gamefaqs.com]. I'm only putting this here because i wanted a handy place for me to use it, and since private guides aren't an option, here we are.
The walkthrough is not spoilers free, and most of the times it prevents the scares too, it's meant for a second playthrough or something like that. I did some small changes of course, to fit on the guide, but the essence of it is here. Now onto the walkthrough itself...

After a cut scene recalling past events and horrors connected with the ill-fated events aboard the Ishimura, a dazed Isaac Clarke awakens, confined in a straightjacket. A frightened orderly named Franco has located him for someone named Daina, and tells him he is in grave danger. An Infector then attacks Franco; and Isaac, still in the straightjacket, must immediately flee for his
life.

When you gain control of Isaac, sprint down the left hallway without pausing. Pass through the left opening and then bear right after the first large support column in the broad hallway. You can run past the rampaging Necromorphs if you just keep sprinting. Pass through the two open doorways and turn left, sprinting ahead through the open doorway, bearing right and right again toward the large door ahead. Go through the door and pump the action button to fend off the clutching Necromorph, which, if you’re successful, is crushed in the closing doorway.

Move forward and you will find a SAVE STATION. Use the adjacent doorway. Turn right to see two security guards succumb to the Necromorphs. Follow the passage. It is linear and fairly easy to follow. Go up the stairwell and into the “Observation Room.” Go left down the stairs, over the glass-roofed patient rooms and watch a truly disturbed Nolan Stross on the monitor. He is being badgered about the “symbols.” The procedures have completely broken him and have brought back fearsome memories of his past and dread of his current predicament.

Continue out the door beyond, and go down the hall and into the next room where a troubled medical research officer, after a disquieting encounter, cuts Isaac free of his straightjacket. Take the Med Pack and the flashlight from the locker and exit the room after witnessing the bloody suicide.

The locator will now be operational, giving a path to the objective. Pressing the right thumbstick will momentarily lay a “blue” path to your objective. If you toggle the “D” Pad,” it will also point to the nearest STORE (yellow path), WORKBENCH (purple path) or SAVE STATION (green path).

The mystery woman, Daina, addresses Isaac before he enters the “Patient Rec Room” elevator. She tells him she can cure his induced dementia and can help him get to safety. He wonders how and why she knows these things, and why the interest in his safety? She gives him an escape route to follow.

Now free of his confinement Isaac, can use melee and stomping tactics. Take the elevator and use the blue objective path and the flashlight to make your way through the dark corpse-strewn “Rec Room.” Turn right as you exit, off the path, and grab the first

TEXT LOG

, “Popsicle Sticks” from the dark side corridor.Continue along the path and you will come to another SAVE STATION.

Go into the shower room. After experiencing the first of many hallucinogenic episodes, follow the objective path to a service duct. Crawl through it and you will fall into a sealed chamber. The assertive Daina again offers help and Isaac again wonders why she is so intent on helping him. Someone named Tiedemann is mentioned for the first time.

Interact with the Telekinetic Surgical console. The suspended corpse will fall and you will acquire the instrument’s Kinesis Module during the cut scene. You are now trapped in the chamber. Use kinesis to grab a rod from the floor and shoot it at one of the two all-glass wall panels. After it crumbles two Slashers will attack, one at a time. Impale them using kinesis to propel rods into them. Grab another rod and stomp or melee the corpses to get their booty-ammo, Med Packs, credits, etc.

Take the rod with you into the “Surgical Observation Area” elevator. Take the Med Pack and activate the elevator. Exit the elevator and turn right carrying the rod into the short-railed dead end alcove and wait there for the three Slashers.

They will come one at a time. Use the rod you brought along and the two lying there to impale them. You can also use melee punches if you miss with the rods- they are fairly effective against weaker opponents. Stomp or melee their corpses for their item drops. Make your way to the exit door, using the lower path to get there, since a heavy, unmovable object blocks the locator’s path.

As always search fresh-killed corpses and the environment for pick-ups. From this time forward, I will take it for granted that you do so-you won’t survive if you fail to do so. Generally only POWER NODES, valuable SEMICONDUCTORS or SCHEMATICS will be individually flagged. will also be flagged. They are frequently encountered and often provide insight into the activities and intrigues of the Sprawl. Pick-up items are largely random, but heavily favor the weapons you are carrying. Plasma Energy will, therefore, dominate munitions items in the early part of the game.

Exit the “Surgical Observation” Room, stomp the crate, as instructed by the tutorial, and stomp or melee the corpses for pick-ups. Only fresh kills typically produce pick-ups, these two are exceptional.

Proceed into “Intensive Care.” On an operating table a terrified patient in restraints pleads for help. Raid the three empty medical rooms to find some Plasma Energy and other items. Ignore the writhing Slasher on the gurney for now. Enter the surgical chamber with the pleading patient. Interact with the console to release the man but a Slasher will enter and kill him.

You will receive the Plasma Cutter during a cut scene. Dismember the Slasher to destroy it. Another follows it. You can dismember it or grab a claw from your first victim and use kinesis to propel it into the second Slasher-this tactic is fairly effective when conditions allow it. It won’t always kill the enemy but it can still help conserve ammo. Stomp both corpses to build up your supplies. Shoot a limb off of the thrashing Slasher on the gurney, melee it, and take its drop. Move out of the room, following the objective pathway.

After Daina informs Isaac that dismembering the creatures is the best strategy- at fact he is well aware of-continue on to another SAVE STATION.

Enter the “Intensive Care Waiting Area” and after the fire suppression is triggered, three Slashers will attack. Two from the corridor near the scorched area and one from behind. Dismember them and stomp the corpses and then loot the area.

If you look into the burning area with the collapsed wreckage you can grab a crate using kinesis-every little bit helps. You can also retrieve the first called “♥♥♥♥ The Bed” in the same area. Use kinesis to pull it out. These logs can be found throughout the game and can be played by pressing the corresponding button when you find them or by bringing them up on the HUD. They provide official and personal information and insights on the progression, effects, intrigues, ethics, secrecy, etc. of the Marker research and of life in general in the Sprawl.

Continue along the objective path, looting the Necromorph-free areas until you reach the “Upper Lobby,” where a warning horn is sounding. Before exiting, grab the , "Orderly TPS Report: 1411” from the small patient room.

Nolan Stross, the distressed patient you saw earlier on the video, is now on the loose. He entreats you to follow him out of the area. Follow him, but your pursuit falls short when there is a security lockdown. Stross seems to know Isaac, but Issac doesn’t remember him. Stross is patient number five.

Daina’s route is now blocked. Stay near the exit where Stross led you, because
five Slashers will come at you from the lobby area. They will enter one at a
time. If you’re pressed, you can cripple some of them and then finish them off
as they crawl toward you. Loot the bodies and then the area. You can even return
to the “Upper Lobby” for any items that you missed because of your pursuit of
Stross. After a brief spat with the pushy Daina, she sends you an alternate
route and Tiedemann-obviously the bad guy-now seems to be hampering your rescue
by jamming communications.

You will acquire your first POWER NODE and the , “Anxiety Spike” from
the circular receptionist’s desk in the lower lobby. Looting complete, follow
the objective path to another SAVE STATION.

Enter the nearby “Triage Room.” Grab the , “Heisenberg.” You must now
hack your first console. It will be on the left side in a brown cabinet.
Interact with it to remove its cover and simply rotate the mouse,
clockwise or counterclockwise, or back and forth if you pass a desired field, to
locate a blue field on the monitor, press the action button to select it and
repeat the procedure two more times before the timer, as indicated by the bar at
the top of the monitor, runs down. You will encounter identical consoles
throughout the Sprawl. They all work the same way. If you hit the action button
on any field other than blue, you will be pushed away and will have to try
again.

You now have your Stasis Module and you must immediately put it to use as a
Slasher’s charge is briefly slowed as it moves through a stasis field. Quickly
hit the Slasher with stasis to slow its charge and then dismember it. Refill
your Stasis Mod from the wall Refill Station. The Stasis Mod also has the
capability to slowly recharge itself over time.

Activate the barred exit gate from the console, freeze it in the open position
with a stasis shot and run out of the room.

Note: Stasis places a person or object in extreme slow motion but if you get too
close they can still deal a bit of damage. Your Stasis Module will auto recharge
over time or can be filled from a Stasis Refill Station. Portable Stasis Packs
can also be found or purchased and carried in inventory. Survival in the Sprawl
would be impossible without this technology. Upgrading it is likely the best
“upgrade” path to take when you reach your first WORKBENCH.

As you proceed, you will witness a grisly death and two repulsive Pukers, will
need killing in the corpse filled morgue.

Pukers project an acidic stream of vomit from short range and spew sticky
material from longer range that will briefly make normal movement difficult.
They are priority targets, if you can distinguish them from their brethren
freaks in the poorly illuminated Sprawl. Try to use the environment to stay out
of their line of “fire.”

Look around the doorway; hit the Puker with stasis and then dismember it. Give
its buddy the same treatment. Always wait until a Puker is completely down and
out. They can release a damaging flood of acidic vomit while in their death
throes. Loot the area and the corpses. Be sure to seize the POWER NODE from the
sink’s countertop.

Take the “Elevator to Patient Care,” and say how-de-do, in the dark, to a spooky
manifestation of Nicole-it definitely won’t be the last of her! Exit the
elevator and raid the area. Be sure to grab the POWER NODE and the ,“Secrecy” from the near the roses on the Gift Shop’s desk.

Enter the “Critical Needs Patient Room.” The window ahead will begin to
fracture. During the ensuing cut scene, the room will depressurize, sucking
everything but you out into the void. When your weapon is enabled, shoot the red
triangular emblem above the fractured glass to bring down the emergency barrier,
sealing the breach. This scripted scene is to demonstrate what must be done when
a room depressurizes. There's also a Power Node floating here (thanks Ed130-The Vanguard for pointing it out). From now on you will have to seal breaches by shooting the
symbol to prevent being swept out into space or being mangled by the slamming
blast door. At times creating a breach is your best bet of survival as you
battle your way across the Sprawl.

Exit the area and you are near a SAVE STATION and your first STORE, but beware
of the corpse lying on the floor, just past the entrance. It will ambush you if
you proceed into the room. Kill it as it lays, and then take the POWER NODE from
the wall box. Enter the STORE cubicle.

The Engineering Suit is a mandatory purchase and since there is a 1,000 credit
chip on the nearby table, it’s certainly affordable to all. It will allow you to
travel in Zero-G and has a small built in O2 supply. It also provides a 5%
increase in protective armor and has ten inventory slots. It will cost only
1,000 Credits. Nothing else is available for purchase at this time.

Proceed into the Zero-G area, following the objective pathway to get through the
tangled area. Just beyond in the large “Emergency Arrival Area” a Tripod will
attack from the window area. Too bad you can’t shoot this glass out.

The Tripod travels on three legs and two of them have glowing weak spots. In
additional to battering ram tactics it will lash at you with a glowing stinger
on the end of a whip-like tentacle. Put it in stasis and concentrate on one of
its legs. Destroying one of the glowing knuckles will cripple it, hampering its
pursuit. Run to keep your distance, using the large central column to slow its
movement. When your Stasis Mod is depleted run for the re-charge station. If
you’re the patient type you can use one stasis shot to damage it and the last to
freeze it, allowing you an unhindered re-charge. Take off the other leg and it
will crumble; but you must shoot the stinger tentacle off before you approach it
for the GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR that it drops. Ransack the room and refill your
Stasis Mod before exiting.

After Daina fills you in about your three missing years and raises your hopes
about a cure, follow the objective path into the “Vehicle Maintenance Bay”
workshop, grabbing every item along the way. The path will lead you to a
maintenance duct. Use kinesis on the distinctive blue “grip enabled” symbol to
expose the portal. This symbol will be present whenever environmental obstacles
or routes can be manipulated with kinesis.

You will emerge into a room with a STORE and a WORKBENCH. The WORKBENCH will
allow you to upgrade your equipment, using Power Nodes, which can be picked up
during your trek or purchased after they become available at the STORE. Take the
, “Cut Off Their Limbs.” It is located on the floor near this store.

The STORE will now have the Line Gun, Javelin Gun, Plasma Energy and Small
Medical Packs for sale. Sell your GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR for 3,000 Credits and
purchase one of the other weapons. With credits still building-only 17,000-I
purchased the Line Gun for 9,000 credits. It will provide excellent service
throughout the remainder of the game, but the Javelin Gun, new in Dead Space 2,
is also a decent weapon.

Note: The Line Gun is a powerful weapon but you can only carry six rounds of
ammo per inventory slot. It therefore is obviously not a utility weapon and
should not be routinely used against weaker foes, like Slashers. Use the Plasma
Cutter as much as possible to conserve its ammo. The Line Gun’s alternate attack
is an energy grenade that is a valuable resource and is lethal. I will
frequently advocate using it in challenging encounters.

If you have plenty of Plasma Energy or Med Packs, put some into your safe to
free up inventory slots so you don’t have to pass up too many drops. Keeping 75
rounds of Plasma Energy should easily be a sufficient safety margin. I was able
to store 40 rounds of Plasma Energy and two small Med Packs. This freed up four
inventory slots. From now on ammo drops can include Javelin spears as well as
ammo for your equipped weapons; so don’t pass up the chance to grab ammo for
what you’re carrying. With additional items available the drops will be somewhat
less productive.

You should now have four Power Nodes, which you can spend at the WORKBENCH or
maintain in inventory. I spent three nodes updating the Stasis Module, placing
the first in “Duration,” then a “Connecting” slot and the next in “Energy,”
allowing an additional longer shot before the Module is depleted. What you
update is a matter of personal preference, updating the Rig or a weapon is also
a good path. ALWAYS keep at least one Power Node to allow access to locked
storerooms-these locked storerooms often contain critical Schematics as well as
other lucrative plunder.

A Slasher, playing dead on the automated walkway, will attack as you enter the
adjacent room. Use stasis to freeze it and then dismember it. One of the pick-
ups in this area is a Stasis Pack, which will allow you to quickly re-charge
your Mod.

You will find out that Tiedemann is the Director-the bigwig-of the Sprawl and
that a station wide emergency is now in effect. Watch out! He says looters will
be shot on sight. Guess you better stay out of sight.

At the far end of the area, past the SAVE STATION, there is a locked storage
room. These locked storage rooms are often encountered and will require the use
of a power Node for entry. Use your remaining Power Node to open it. The room
contains the POWER NODE SCHEMATIC, the , “Quarterly Report” as well as
other useful items. Once downloaded this schematic will allow you to purchase
Power Nodes at the store. This will be quite important later in the game. This
room may also contain a random SEMICONDUCTOR. Occasionally it will be a valuable
Ruby Semiconductor worth 10,000 credits.

Use the locator’s yellow pathway to backtrack to the STORE to download the POWER
NODE SCHEMATIC and the SEMICONDUCTOR if you received one, freeing up the
inventory slots. You can then re-enter the storeroom to pick up anything that
you were unable to carry. Use the SAVE STATION.

Return to the objective pathway. It will guide you into the “Titan Heights
Apartments.” Take out the Slasher attacking a civilian at the end of the
hallway. Grab the POWER NODE from the alcove on the left side of the corridor.

Chaos now reigns in the adjacent area as Necromorphs wreak havoc on the locals.
Board the elevator after looting the corridor and the corpses.

A brief cut scene plays depicting a civilian attempting to board the elevator.
After you exit, Nolan Stross will wave frantically from across the central
overlook and will ramble about the dreadful memories coming back.

As you look at Stross on the other side of the apartment block, a Leaper will
climb up over the rail and attack. Leapers have only front limbs but also have a
clawed tail. Use stasis on the swift Necromorph and then dismember it. These
low-slung Necromorphs will oftentimes run along walls and ceilings and leap onto
you from a dark corner or an unexpected location.

Move into the next area, and after the two civilians flee, a Slasher will burst
through the wall and be quickly in your face. Watch out for a crippled Puker
crawling out of the bathroom when you enter the left apartment. A lone Slasher
will also charge into the apartment as you ransack it. Who flushed that toilet?

Many of these early Slashers maintain noticeably human features, but as the
story progresses they will degrade.

Work your way into the laundry room. As you try to exit, the lights will fail.
Six Necromorphs will now confront you. Run back toward the glassed laundry room
to deal with the first Slasher. A Puker will be followed by another Slasher and
a Leaper, and finally by a Spitter and a Slasher. This is a tough close quarters
struggle in subdued light. The key is putting the foe down quickly before
another foe is triggered, so you’re not overwhelmed. Under pressure the Line
Gun, if you have the ammo, and stasis shots are your best bet, especially
against the Leaper, Spitter and the Puker, but don’t exhaust all its ammo. Swap
to the Plasma Cutter whenever you can. It may be worth your while to allow your
Stasis Mod to recharge before continuing.

Gather the loot and follow the path onto the “Terrace” and into the “Titan
Heights East Wing” apartments.

Grab the scattered items, including the , “Titan Part 1” and take the
elevator.

Daina will address you about the machinations of Tiedemann and his construction
of a new Marker. She says he is after the power he believes he can acquire from
manipulating the alien technology. The Necromorph outbreak is his fault. She
tells you to get to the tram.

Use the SAVE STATION and proceed, raiding the apartment and the area. A Slasher
will burst through the wall near the poorly barricaded “Galilei Transit Station”
entry.

In the long gallery beyond a Slasher, feigning death, will spring up as you
approach it and a Leaper will attack from ahead. The exit to the “Galilei
Transit Station” will not be enabled until four Exploders, three from behind and
the last from nearer the exit, enter the skirmish.

Hitting their yellow explosive sack can easily kill exploders. The sack can also
be severed and used as a weapon; but you will still have to kill the Exploder,
which can be done with a single shot or a melee punch. Oh, and don’t hit the
sack if the Exploder is too close to you. They seem to have a way of getting
close to you even though they are ungainly.

Be sure to grab the GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR from near the “Titan News” sign near the
automated walkway.

The eerie wail of the Tram and an apparition of Nicole will greet you at the
Tram Station. An Infector is animating a corpse inside the closed Tram. Position
yourself close to the Tram’s door and as it opens, hit both Necromorphs with
stasis and kill them with an energy grenade from the Line Gun’s alternate fire
before they can exit, otherwise the resurrected Slasher will come at you while
the Infector starts to reanimate more corpses.

As you ransack the station area, a lone Slasher will need killing, regardless of
whether you killed the Infector. Be sure to grab the STASIS PACK SCHEMATIC. It
is located on the depressed trackway opposite the active Tram. You must use
kinesis to retrieve it from the track below. Let your Stasis Mod recharge before
boarding the tram.

Enter the Tram and loot your way to the console. Hack the console to get the
tram operational and be prepared for a charging Slasher as you begin to
backtrack. When you reach the car’s exit door it is locked. Turn around to face
a Slasher and then a Puker. Use stasis on the Puker to avoid its ranged attack.
Stomp the corpses and another Puker will appear, either near the unlocked exit
or in the next car depending on the amount of time you linger. Continue into the
next car.

When you reach the end of the Tramcar, you will be thrown out. You will now have
to boost your way onto the tramcar ahead, aiming for the open doorway. Pump the
action button to get aboard. An Exploder and a Slasher will emerge ahead. Hit
the yellow explosive sack to kill them both with a single Plasma round. Another
Slasher, however, will come from behind you as you attempt to exit the car.

In the next car, there is a crash and you will be flung forward as the Tram
decelerates, past threatening but harmless Necromorphs and then thrown out. You
will now be dangling upside down.

A crippled Slasher is the first to emerge ahead and then an Exploder. Four
Slashers will then quickly close from the flanks and, as you take them out,
another Exploder will lurch toward you. Use stasis on any that get too close;
and when they are all down, while still suspended, you must shoot one arm off of
a Tripod that will loom up over the wrecked Tram. Three or four well-aimed
Plasma rounds will do the trick. You will finally be free as the car crashes
beside you.

Stomp your victims and search the area thoroughly. There is a POWER NODE in the
rear of the area, and the PULSE RIFLE SCEMATIC is on a rear shelf as well as
many other useful items. Daina, surprised that you’re alive and at your present
location, will now tender a viable but perilous new route. The locator‘s path
will lead you past some lockers and to a SAVE STATION.

Follow the objective path through the doorway. A shadowy Juvenile will screech
and you may catch a glimpse of it at the turn. Turn left, off the path, at the
intersection to get the POWER NODE in the wall unit in the dead-end corridor.
Reverse course and resume following the path; but, before the path doglegs to
the left, a Slasher feigning death will jump up and assault you.

Go up the ramps and into the mall area. Turn right and grab the credits from
near the squirrel mascot mural. Proceed along the stalled automated walkway, and
Juveniles will begin to emerge from the door of “Fashion Kid” and from the
“Titan Station Elementary,” from near where you picked up the credits.

Sprint forward and make a stand at the far end, near the STORE where they can’t
surround you. Take out this first wave of a half dozen with your Plasma Cutter
as they pursue with intent. You can even melee some of this first bunch to save
ammo. Their numbers, however, will quickly swell as more shrieking fiends join
the screeching pack; but they will be coming from only one direction. Use stasis
shots, if need be, to freeze groups and to then shoot or melee them or to
reload. Quickly shake off any that get to you and when their numbers shrink,
just melee the last of them.

While each of these Juvenile terrors do only minor damage, unless not shaken
off, the cumulative effect of these swarming tactics is very unpleasant and will
prove fatal if you are overwhelmed as they claw and bite to kill you. Always try
to funnel their attack by getting against a wall or into a doorway where they
must approach from a single direction.

A paranoid Stross will again talk about the returning memories, and the
“symbols.” He wonders if Isaac is seeing them to. He thinks-he knows that
someone is after him-after them!

Gather the drops and use the nearby STORE for any overflow. Download the STASIS
PACK and the PULSE RIFLE SCHEMATICS and sell the GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR. With 34,500
credits available, I purchased both the Pulse Rifle (7,000 credits) and the
Javelin Gun (11,000 credits). You can’t have enough firepower.

Note: The Plasma Rifle is a utility weapon. It carries 50 rounds in its initial
magazine and an inventory slot holds up to 100 rounds. It has a very high rate
of fire, making it excel at dispatching small weaker enemies; but that high rate
of fire can quickly exhaust your ammo reserve. It takes second place to the
Plasma Cutter in the utility role, but is an important resource during the early
part of the game. Its alternate attack deploys a deadly contact grenade that is
lethal but expends 25 rounds of ammo. I would favor picking up ammo for it over
the Javelin Gun if inventory space becomes an issue.

Note: The Javelin Gun is a new weapon to Dead Space. It fires a spear to impale
the enemy that must generally be electrified to kill its victim. In its original
state even this is not always fatal, so it takes at least two rounds to kill an
enemy. It is also rather slow and it is easy to miss any fast moving enemy. An
ammo slot holds only 10 spears. If a player dedicates enough Nodes to its matrix
to acquire the “explosive” special it becomes an excellent weapon when
conditions allow its use-that luxury is likely for subsequent playthroughs.

You will now have the Plasma Cutter, the Line Gun, the Javelin Gun and the Pulse
Rifle in your weapon slots. From now on you will have to make hard decisions on
what to keep. I always favor the Plasma Cutter and the Line Gun over the other
two because they will remain key weapons until the end of the game-the others
won’t. Use the SAVE STATION.

Enter the “Concourse Mezzanine” elevator. As you exit shoot the lone Juvenile
before it gets away. Grab the , “Titan Part 2” from near the “Bold
Stylings” beauty parlor. Daina will fill you in about Nolan Stross’s dark
history. Follow the path to the “Unitilogy Resource Center” elevator. Grab the
, “Altman’s Footsteps” near the elevator. Hack the elevator for access.

Note; If you dismember the spinning figurine near “Levitations” you can earn the
“Lightspeed de Milo” trophy.

Issac wonders: why the shady Unitology Recruitment Center? Daina assures him
that a service conduit there will get him to waste disposal and closer to
sanctuary. Take the elevator and take the , “Recruiting” from the desk
in the short hallway.

Turn right into the long corridor. An Exploder accompanied by a Slasher and
several Juveniles will appear ahead near the large window. Shoot the window out
and the area will depressurize. As you are pulled toward the vacuum, hit the
symbol above the fractured glass to bring down the barrier. This will prevent
your demise and using this tactic will only cost two rounds, and any ammo
conservation may pay dividends down the road.

You can also allow the Exploder and its entourage to approach rather than
depressurizing the room, taking them out individually. A small pack of five
Juveniles will, whether the room depressurizes or not, assault you in this area.
If you quickly take refuge in the lounge on the right, you can channel their
approach through the door. This is a good opportunity to try out the Pulse
Rifle, but you can also just save ammo by punching them as they file through the
narrow doorway.

Thoroughly search the area to build up your stores and then take the path, which
will take you into a duct, down a corridor, with several item crates to stomp,
and up two ramps and into the refuse system’s “Control Room.” Along the way a
critically injured security officer will offer an instructional video on
impalement. Interact with the refuse system’s console to shut down the garbage
compactor.

If you use the WORKBENCH, remember to reserve a Power Node for locked
storerooms. Having three Power Nodes, I spent one on the Rig for “Hit Points,”
which will allow you to take more damage, and one on “Damage” for the Plasma
Cutter. This left me one Power Node in reserve. Use the SAVE STATION.

Raid the locker, equip the Line Gun and exit the control room. A Puker will
first appear as you start down the ramps. Fire a Line Gun energy grenade at its
feet and then freeze it as it inhales to vomit on you. Back off. Both the Puker
and the Slasher that follow it should perish in the explosion. Another Slasher
will drop down and is closely followed by an Exploder. Quickly freeze the
Slasher that appears or cripple it and then hit the explosive sack of the
entering Exploder to finish the scuffle. Loot the corpses and the crate.
Enter the “Zero G Garbage Compactor” enclosure. Use kinesis to grab the floating
items and release your magnetic grip (press the left thumbstick to release or
land in Zero G areas). Glide over to the control room on the opposite side of
the chamber. Zero G areas can sometimes be disorienting, just press the right
button to properly adjust to the environment.

Use the control console to power up the sanitation system and then exit the
control compartment. Release your magnetic grip and enter the brightly lit Zero
G passage, avoiding the harmless debris as you boost your way toward the
circulating fan. Turn right into the opening and exit into the “Cassini Towers
Infrastructure.”

You are now in a poorly lit corridor with several crates to stomp. A lone
Slasher will drop down near the locked storeroom ahead. This is a good
opportunity to check out the Javelin Gun if you haven’t already. Impale the
Slasher and then electrify it to hopefully finish it off.

Use a Power Node to access the storeroom. This room usually contains some credit
chips and a random SEMICONDUCTOR as well as other welcome items. Limited
inventory space will likely require you to make some difficult choices. If it
comes to a Med Pack or ammo versus a Bronze Semiconductor; well unless I was
replete with the other item, a Bronze Semiconductor is only worth 1,000 credits-
so I’d take the item instead. Gotta’ stay alive to spend it. I took the Medium
Med Pack and left both the Bronze Semiconductor and 25 Pulse Rifle rounds
behind.

With the power out to the “Elevator to Cassini Towers,” you must use kinesis to
insert the Power Cell into the open slot on the right of the access door. Grab
the POWER NODE as you exit the elevator.

Enter the apartment block. A slithering mass of tiny crawling Necromorphs called
a Swarm will emerge from the restroom of the first apartment on the left, and
another Swarm and a Slasher, playing dead, infest the next apartment. If you
purchased the Pulse Rifle a grenade from its alternate fire will easily dispose
of these pesky Swarms. This tactic, however, will cost you 25 Pulse Rounds. The
Line Gun’s alternate fire mode will easily do the job as well and will only cost
one round, but it must be properly placed and timed and its precious rounds have
better uses. The Javelin Gun fired and electrified will cost two spears but may
leave a few critters crawling to stomp.

Wanting to conserve Line Gun ammo and with only 50 Pulse Rifle rounds available,
I used the Javelin Gun and had to stomp a few Swarm creatures in the second
apartment.

Note: Grab the , “Sally 3” from the table in the first apartment.

Note: Swarm creatures are small and a few can easily be shaken off. In large
numbers, however, they can do substantial, even fatal, damage and you will be
susceptible to attacks by other Necromorphs while in their grasp. While these
vermin always erupt from ruptured Pregnants, they can also be encountered when
none are around.

Search the now vacate apartments and then return to the path. Nicole’s
apparition will try to elicit pity as you near the exit, but Isaac knows it’s
not Nicole, but is he really convinced that it isn’t?

Continue out of the apartment block and Isaac will inform Daina that he is being
tracked by a Titan Gunship. She informs him that he isn’t far from her position
and must hurry to her location for sanctuary.

Tread lightly because a lone Slasher will burst from the daycare placard as you
enter the carpeted “East Wing.” The path will guide you to another elevator.

Look over the rail before boarding the elevator. There is a large lobby below
with an expansive view through huge glass windows. Too bad these windows can’t
be shot out. When the time comes, and it will, don’t waste your ammo trying.

Take the elevator and use the nearby SAVE STATION. As you approach the low side
of the large lobby, opposite the windows, an Infector lurks, and you must battle
any Necromorphs that it raises. Equip the Line Gun.

The first Infector will appear as you approach the first short stairwell going
to the low area. As the Infector goes toward the corpse, hit it with a Line Gun
grenade, killing it and its victim. This will have to be done quickly or the
Infector will move along before the grenade does its work. A shot of stasis can
help but isn’t necessary if you’re quick and the stasis is best reserved for the
Pukers. A Puker or an Exploder, usually a Puker, will next appear in the
Unitology Church doorway. Freeze and kill it with the Plasma Cutter or the Pulse
Rifle. Another Puker will enter the fray. Freeze and kill it with the Plasma
Cutter or the Pulse Rifle. A pair of Exploders will next emerge-use a burst from
the Pulse Rifle to neutralize them. Quickly locate the other Infector in the
upper area. Use another Line Gun grenade to take it and, hopefully, its victim
out. If you have disposed of the Infectors cleanly you won’t have to face the
Slashers that a slow take down yields.

The JAVELIN SPEARS SCHEMATIC lay in the windowed area. If you’re not using the
Javelin Gun, taking the schematic for its ammo isn’t necessary. Its ammo just
won’t be available for purchase. I didn’t have any free space, and, knowing it
wasn’t going to be an essential weapon, I didn’t take it.

Take the time to stomp the corpses and loot the area. If you’re the cautious
type, you can return to the nearby SAVE STATION before moving on. The recently
closed shutters are now open, allowing you to go back. There are some tough foes
before the next save station.

Enter the “Church Of Unitology” and take the long dimly lit but Necromorph-free
corridor into the high-vaulted chamber where Daina informs you that you are
about to be apprehended by Tiedemann’s security forces. Sprint to the exit
avoiding the damaging glass shards raining into the room’s center by staying
close to the right wall. You will briefly go on oxygen as the roof is breached
by the gunship.

Note: If you need to visit the STORE, lay down a yellow path and enter the “Gift
Shop,” “Reading Room,” “Acquisitions” doorway. Go up the stairs and into the
“Gift Shop.” There is a STORE, a WORKBENCH and a SAVE STATION in the shop. I
will strongly advise a trip to this shop shortly to download a suit schematic.
Upon exiting you can go left up the stairwell and into the “Reading Room” to get
a POWER NODE. A Slasher will accost you after you acquire the Node.

Continue along the path into the “Unity Library” complex to find a room strewn
with corpses. Loot the chamber, including the small niche where you will find
the , “Harsh Pressure.”

Take the stairs, onto the libraries curving balcony. An Infector is at work just
ahead. Kill it and its victim with a Line Gun grenade before it can escape to
infect additional corpses. If you act quickly you won’t even need to use stasis.

Below the balcony two more Infectors are at work.

Descend and turn right to find an Infector at work. Expend another Line Gun
grenade to kill it and its victim. Waste no time retreating back to the balcony.
Your incursion will draw the enemy onto the stairwell, but their approach will
now be channeled in the narrow aisle. Take out individual Slashers with the
Plasma Cutter, the Javelin Gun or the Pulse Rifle. How many opponents you have
will depend on the actions of the Infectors. If you took out the first two
clean, this will be minimal. Regardless, the last Infector will soon be coming
to call. Freeze it to take it down. Don’t let your guard down when the scuffle
seems to be over. Two or three Slashers and a Puker will attack as you descend
to pilfer the premises.

Take the central elevator and make your way through the doorways to the large
“Indoctrinations” observation room. Grab all the scattered items, and check out
the expansive view beyond the big fragile window. The destination door is not
enabled, so you must enter the room across the chamber to restore it to service.

Listen to the propaganda video of the Unitologists. These lunatics advocate
convergence for all mankind, courtesy of the Marker. They are striving to make
it happen.

Enter the control room, and appropriate the items including the ,“Recruit Test Results.” Use kinesis to pull the cover from the diagram near the
entry door. The blinking red symbol indicates a problem with the observation
center door. A good fuse must be placed in the socket above it. Pull the cover
from and then grab the “grip enabled” fuse from the panel near the seated
corpse. Insert it in the upper right fuse slot in the panel. The door can now be
seen and heard opening and closing rapidly.

As you exit the room three Slashers will attack from near the windows. Shoot the
glass behind them, sucking them out into the void. Just be sure to hit the
symbol above it to prevent your own demise. If you hit the symbol too quickly,
however, one of the Slashers may also survive. You can also take out each
Slasher individually, without hitting the glass-a waste of ammo.

Use stasis on the slamming doorway. As it slowly travels up, sprint through it.
Try again if the timing isn’t right. There is a Stasis Refill Station well
positioned right next to the door.

After Nicole’s tirade-shut up Nicole!-loot both rooms and don’t miss the
SECURITY SUIT SCHEMATIC. Take it even if you must drop something precious to
you. Visit the SAVE STATION.

Enter the duct and emerge to a scary-did I imagine that-needle in the eye
episode with an irate manifestation of Nicole. Hit the action button to remain
intact. Take the POWER NODE from the desk.

As you emerge from this area, you can make your way to the nearest store by
backtracking through the Church by laying down a yellow pathway. This is highly
recommended if you have the needed 20,000 credits. (I had 35,200) You must melee
the two fuse blocks to access the locked doors. Just follow the yellow pathway-
down the stairs and go through the “Gift Shop” entry. Go right into the small
niche to get the , “Tour Staff.”

Continue up the stairs and into the Gift Shop to the STORE. Sell the
SEMICONDUCTOR, if you have it, and download the SECURITY SUIT SCHMETATIC and the
JAVELIN SPEARS SCHEMATIC.

Purchase the Security Suit. It has 15 inventory slots, a 10% armor bonus and a
5% Pulse Rifle damage bonus. Another perk is that the new suit will max out both
your health and stasis.

I spent one Power Node at the nearby WORKBENCH, placing it on “Damage” for the
Line Gun.

If you went to the STORE, backtrack using the blue pathway; but first make a
left as you exit the store’s chamber and go up the stairs and into the “Reading
Room,” where you will find the , “Two Tines,” another item and a POWER
NODE. Watch out! A lone Slasher will drop down to pay its respects.

Start back using the objective pathway, harvesting any items you didn’t have
room for earlier. Enter the high-vaulted “Basilica” where you will hear and get
a brief glimpse of a Stalker. Loot the area and then take the elevator to the
lower level. Lay a pathway and sprint along it until you reach a doorway that
becomes disabled as you approach.

This room is the domain of four Stalkers. They operate like a pack of Raptors,
hunting you with stealth, cunning and a bit of patience. They even sound like
the movie-versions of the voracious Cretaceous terrors. Try to confront them
only when near the disabled doorway. The gated archways on either side are now
closed but will open once the battle commences.

The Stalkers will snarl but remain largely hidden until you provoke them into
activity by advancing toward the central circle, below the skylight. Get back to
the doorway without delay. You’ll know they are sufficiently provoked if the
side gates have opened. Once they begin to reveal themselves they will begin to
charge straight in; or will, rarely, come in from the flanks via the now opened
archways.

You have four Stalkers to deal with. The optimal way with your current weapons
is with the Pulse Rifle’s alternate grenade attack. If you have 100 Pulse rounds
and a Stasis Pack the task is quite easy. Let them charge, freeze them and take
them out with the grenade. Its immediate effect trumps the Line Gun’s timed
grenade attack in this case, since they usually come out of stasis before the
Line Gun grenade times out. Occasionally you can kill two with a single shot, if
one is peeking around a corner at the right time. If you run out of Stasis you
will have to place the grenade in their path as they charge.

When a panicky Dania contacts you, the skirmish is over. She will direct you
into the Church’s burial chambers.

Gather the booty and use the objective path to find the elevator. Hack its
controls to gain access. There is a POWER NODE near the corpse to the left of
the elevator. Continue along the path into the “Funerary Wing,” looting the
candlelit Necromorph-free corridors and then enter “Reunion Chapel.”

Advance slowly toward the Altar. A Swarm and then a pair of Slashers will emerge
near it. Use stasis to freeze the Slashers, and then fire a grenade from the
Line Gun into the mix. Finish off the Slashers if need be, and be aware that
this Swarm will likely need further attention. I used the Javelin Gun to
eliminate the surviving vermin, shooting a spear into their path, electrifying
it and repeating it to eliminate this endless Swarm.

Stomp the corpses and shake off any pesky Swarm creatures that refuse to die.
You will find credit pick-ups near the altar. The corpse near the exit will
arise as you approach it, so dismember it while it’s still prone to eliminate
it.

Take the elevator and follow the path, unopposed, to a SAVE STATION.

Enter the Crypts. There are no Necromorphs in the first crypt so just melee the
wall containers for items as you go. Only a spooky hallucination will manifest
itself in the second. Nothing happening in the third crypt, but you will find a
, “Thawed Bodies” in the central corridor. A lone Puker will confront
you in the fourth just around the first left turn. Freeze it and dismember it
with the Plasma Cutter to avoid being fouled in the cozy corridor.

Things will, however, get nasty in the fifth crypt. Allow your Stasis Mod to
fully recharge before entering the fifth crypt.

There are potentially six Necromorphs in the fifth crypt-four Slashers and two
Pukers. A Slasher will first appear ahead as you make the first left turn. Try
not to use excessive force by using the Line Gun too much on the Slashers, its
ammo is better spent on tougher foes. Take the initial Slasher down as you back
up and quickly look left toward your entry area. A Puker will emerge on your
left flank. Use stasis on it and place a Line Gun grenade at its feet to kill
it. Don’t go for the Puker’s drop yet.

Two Slashers may or may not emerge here-there is no specific trigger point, but
another Puker will be triggered as you make the left turn toward the door. Once
again use stasis in the cramped quarters and then dismember it. The middle
corpse near the exit is playing dead, and will charge if you don’t deal with it
first. Now, the crypt is cleared, so you can return to stomp the first Puker and
collect the loot; but, if you didn’t encounter the other two Slashers, exiting
is the more prudent choice. They will attack from random locations if you stay
in the crypt.

Exit the Crypts to find yourself on a walkway above a spinning Gravity
Generator. Grab the GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR from the central mechanism near the
actuators.

Take the cargo lift down and pick up the RIPPER SCHEMATIC, even if you have to
throw away your last bullet. Grab the POWER NODE from near the console. Daina is
adamant that you need to go up, so you must now lockdown the rotating artificial
gravity rings to allow it.

Hack the Gravity Generator’s control panel to disable it and then use stasis to
slow the spinning rings. Lock down the three rings, outer to inner, by pulling
down on the overhead grip symbols when each ring aligns with the grip stations.
Each of the three rings requires a restraint on opposite sides of the ring. If a
ring isn’t secured when the beeping timer times out you will just have to try
again. When all the rings are secured it will stop and go dormant. You will be
in Zero G.

Refill your Stasis Mod and locate the large spinning blades above. Launch into
Zero G. and quickly slow the spinning blades with a stasis shot. Boost past the
blades.

Coffins will periodically emerge from the rotating hatch. Get close and boost
through it as a coffin just clears the hatch. Use kinesis to grab the MEDIUM MED
PACK SCHEMATIC floating about.

Land on the catwalk and use the console to restore gravity. Daina is very
concerned about the lurking Gunship that is jamming her communication signal and
urges you to hurry. Tiedemann’s forces are in hot pursuit.

Take the exit. At last-a STORE! Purchase the Security Suit-if you didn’t
backtrack earlier or didn’t have the funds. Download the SCHEMATICS in your
inventory and sell the GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR.

Purchase the Ripper for 8,000 credits. This weapon will prove to be your most
useful tool for close quarter combat for the balance of the game. Don’t leave
home without it. Remember to exchange one of your equipped weapons for the
Ripper. I moved the Javelin Gun and its ammo since I had only a few spears for
it and generally found it less useful than the Pulse Rifle. Assign the Ripper a
permanent slot. It will still be there at the end of the game. You are now
carrying the Plasma Cutter, the Ripper, the Line Gun and the Pulse Rifle.

There is a WORKBENCH in the dark area and a credit pick-up. I had four Power
Nodes and applied one to the Stasis Mod’s matrix for “Duration.” I also placed
two on the Ripper’s matrix, one to “Capacity” and one onto “Damage.” This left
one Power Node in reserve. Use kinesis to move the three suspended “grip
enabled” coffins and use the SAVE STATION hidden behind them.

Note: If you returned to the Store earlier, you will have placed a Node in the
Line Gun for “Damage” and found an extra Node in the Reading Room. Line Gun
upgrades from here on will reflect that.

Climb into the duct and you will soon fall into a dark room. Search it
thoroughly. You will find a 10,000 credit chip and, if you’re lucky, some Ripper
blades. Just outside this room you will find the LINE RACK SCHEMATIC, behind the
high stack of bundled containers, as well as a few other items.

You will hear the rasping calls of a pair of wall climbing Lurkers as you make
the turn. Take off the tentacles they display to kill them. Don’t hesitate to
freeze them after they display the tentacles. They will shoot three punishing
projectiles from those tentacles, and they are difficult to dodge, especially in
the cramped corridor. Force them to come to you by ducking back around the
corner. A lone Slasher will greet you near the incline.

Note: Lurkers can be a pain. They are small, scurry about unpredictably, hide in
dark areas and often come in groups or accompany more in-your-face types when
necessity make them secondary targets. Their ranged projectile attack can be
very damaging. Whenever possible, freeze them and aim for the area where the
tentacles sprout from the tiny body for maximum effect. If you have the ammo a
timed Line Gun grenade will vaporize a frozen Lurker and only cost a single
round of ammo and the tactic will oftentimes take out more than one.

Stomp the crates. Allowing your Stasis Mod to re-charge is also a good idea
before continuing but isn’t really essential. Enter the high vaulted chamber. A
Tripod sporting a single golden orb on its flailing tentacle will attack and
must be driven off. Hammer the glowing orb with the Plasma Cutter or the Pulse
Rifle. The wounded Tripod will retreat and it’s bellowing will summon a pack of
about fifteen shrieking Juveniles.

Equip the Ripper and retreat into the entry portal to meet the rush. Allow the
fanatical pack to rush into the suspended blade as you rapidly sweep in back and
forth in the narrow doorway. It will take two or three blades to accomplish the
carnage, and if any Juveniles get past the deadly blade it will interrupt the
devastation. Just back away and deploy another when you can. The fast firing
Pulse Rifle is also a decent choice against the Juveniles, especially if you use
the entry to channel their attack. A lone Slasher will come from the far side
after the onslaught. Collect the bounty. Goodies should be scattered everywhere.

Follow the path onto the balcony and an Exploder will emerge at the far end. A
Slasher will drop in front of you and another behind. As you raid the corpses, a
Puker will come around the corner ahead to be closely followed by another
Slasher. Use stasis to quickly put down the Puker. Another Exploder will show up
late if you linger in the area.

In the next chamber a crippled Stalker will claw toward you as you enter the
broad hallway; and, if you exited before the last Exploder made its appearance
in the previous room, it will show up now.

After Nicole’s ravings in the high-vaulted rotunda, the elevator will be
enabled. Take it to the top of the church, but a Slasher will drop into the
elevator after Daina’s communication. Shred it into Necroburger with your
Ripper.

Grab the pick-ups in the observation room, including the DETONATOR SCHEMATIC-
don’t miss it-and the POWER NODE in the alcove where you will also find a SAVE
STATION.

Equip the Plasma Cutter or the Pulse rifle and make your way to Daina. If you
have a full clip-at least 50 rounds-the fast-firing Pulse Rifle is your best
choice.

When you reach Daina, her henchmen will immediately seize you. She is a
Unitology fanatic and means to use the codes stored in your brain to create
Markers. She is at odds with Tiedemann, but she has an even more sinister goal-
the convergence of the entire galaxy-a pretty tall order for someone about to
die badly.

When the gunship fractures the window, everyone is sucked toward the vacuum. Hit
the action button to prevent your own demise and you will grasp a hatch and will
then tumble through a system of ducts only to be seized by a raging Brute. You
must now substantially damage its ragged weak spot to be released. All this
happens while you are upside down, between intermittent cut scenes when you
cannot fire your weapon. Whenever your weapon is enabled hit it or you’re the
Brute’s lunch.

Once the creature is sufficiently damaged, you will be tossed aside, but the
Brute will again pursue you. Don’t fire at it. Turn and immediately run toward
the closed door, quickly use kinesis on the grip symbol and sprint through the
door.

You will both be sucked out into space when the Gunship destroys the window-no
breach symbol this time. In the silence of space you will be pushed against a
piece of debris and the raging Brute is still trying to seize you. Target any of
the red explosive canisters floating about and you will be propelled back into
the Sprawl. If you die, the checkpoint will allow you to retry from when the
Brute releases you.

A panicky Stross will ramble, but will inform Isaac that he has been manipulated and is largely responsible for creating the Marker, but he also has the capability of destroying it. This tirade gives substance to the late Daina’s recent revelations. Stross says that the Marker is housed in the Sprawl’s Government Sector but time isn’t on Isaac’s side. He must get there before it’s
too late.

You now find yourself in a candlelit corridor. Don’t take the path until you loot the two small apartments. Be sure to grab the POWER NODE from the dresser. Ransack the next area and use the SAVE STATION in the laundry room.

Go through the unlocked doorway opposite the laundry room and onto the overlook. Take the SEEKER RIFLE SCHEMATIC and the other random item. Below you can see some Divider Spawn cavorted about in the spacious lobby.

Return to the path and loot your way through the two open apartments and the storage room. Take the elevator in the candlelit corridor after Stross once again rants about the “machine,” the “sessions,” and the “steps.”

You will learn that Tiedemann has begun to withdraw his forces with his “Operation Endgame” plan now in effect. He has contingencies in place for his lost assets-Isaac and Stross.

Use the well-placed SAVE STATION and as you make the turn into the large lobby. A gangly Pregnant will attack from well ahead. Take off its lower limbs with the Line Gun, while trying to miss its torso, and then take off an upper limb with a Plasma round to kill it.

Hit the bulging torso and it will release a Swarm, greatly complicating the skirmish as they swarm onto you, hampering your movement and slowly but steadily draining your health bar. Killing the Pregnants without releasing the pestiferous Swarm is the key to surviving this area.

Turn around. Another Pregnant will come from the opposite direction-treat it the same way, but don’t take too long because half a dozen Leapers loiter in this area and will start attacking one or two at a time.

Before you are surrounded by Leapers rush back to the save station where you entered the area and put your back to the wall in the short corridor opposite it. Use stasis and the Ripper to tackle them in the corridor where you can’t easily be surrounded. They will show why they are called Leapers as the two- legged terrors leap at you, attempting to claw and bite you to death and
slashing with their tail claws. By staying in the side corridor, looking toward the save station, they won’t be able to leap onto you as easily. One may not take the bait so be aware as you move back into the broad lobby. Another Pregnant will arrive late-you know the drill.

You can kill a Leaper by taking off its low-slung front limbs or by taking off a leg and its slashing tail. Stomp the numerous corpses for their drops. You can stomp a dead Pregnant without releasing a Swarm.

Use the STORE, to the right of the path where the corridor splits. Download the LINE RACK SCHEMATIC, the SEEKER RIFLE SCHEMATIC and the DETONATOR SCHEMATIC. Purchase the Detonator and retrieve any items from the battle you didn’t have room for.

Put the Pulse Rifle or the Javelin Gun, whichever you are carrying, in the safe and replace it with the Detonator. Keep the Line Gun, the Ripper and the Plasma Cutter or if Plasma Energy is short, take the Pulse Rifle instead. The Detonator is an excellent weapon, and by carrying it, the game is much more likely to provide mines as random pick-ups. The game usually provides ample mine pick-ups.

Enter the “Public Areas and Transport Hub” and you will hear the deep grunting of a Cyst. These disgusting little Necromorphs plant themselves on any available surface and will blast a nasty stream of very damaging acid on anyone intruding into their space. Pop the first Cyst. Always stay to the side or well away from Cysts as you kill them, the spray will burst out for a fair distance.

Continue into the long hallway. You will hear the grunting of more Cysts. Take out the first four, two on each side of the corridor and then advance a bit. You can use available environmental objects against them-rods, crates, legs from deceased security guards, etc. to save on ammo. Hit the one on the floor, dead ahead. A crippled Slasher will then appear ahead. There is another Cyst on the floor in the alcove near the SAVE STATION and another, dead ahead on the floor
near the locked doorway.

Use a Power Node to open the Secure Storage room. It contains one or two random SEMICONDUCTORS and sometimes one is a RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR-a 10,000 credit
windfall. Several other items are also scattered about-hopefully some mines for the Detonator.

Use the WORKBENCH. I placed one of my two Nodes in the Line Gun matrix, upgrading the upper “Capacity” slot. Since the Semiconductor is taking a slot, use the yellow locator path to backtrack to the STORE to unload it-or not. Use the blue path to find your way back if you do so. Whenever you backtrack through a previously cleared area it will remain safe.

Use the SAVE STATION and continue on into the “Hyperion Hall Apartments.” The area has suffered severe damage and you are now in a Zero G area but one with atmosphere and there is a fire raging. You cannot continue until you douse the flames, since there is no alternate route. There are three atmospheric O2 generators in this area and you must disable all three to deprive the blaze and yourself of oxygen.

From the entry area, as you face the fire, look up. There is an O2 generator, identified by the horizontal blue bar, overhead, just to the right of the overhead blaze. Remember to avoid contacting any active flame. Release your magnetic hold and boost up to it. Use kinesis while hovering to pull off the cover plate and then pull out the Power Cell. Use kinesis to grab the two
floating item crates and propel them against a hard surface. Retrieve the items with kinesis-you will frequently acquire Detonator mines.

Pull the ground level O2 generator’s cover, pull the Power Cell out and stash it in the entry so it can’t float away. Pull the Cell from the other O2 generator to deprive the fire and yourself, for a few seconds, of oxygen. Replace it to restore the O2 once the fire dies.

Grab the Power Cell you stashed and place it in the threshold ahead, where the fire was. A pair of Lurkers will confront you as you enter the dark passage around the corner. Freeze the little nuisances and shoot off their tentacles to kill them. The Line Gun will take out the pesky Necromorphs with a single shot if they are aligned vertically, but a grenade will also do the job if they are placed in stasis and it will likely get both Lurkers in the narrow corridor. Loot their corpses and take the Power Cell along into the next area. Grab the Med Pack and replace the dead Cell.

Allow your stasis to at least partially recharge and be prepared for a Puker as you open the “Maintenance Elevator.” Hit it with stasis before it can foul you and then take it out with the Ripper. Step back to avoid its “pukey” death gurgle.

An apprehensive Stross will again contact Isaac with his “steps” and “crawl into the dark machine” rhetoric. Grab the POWER NODE from the wall unit and the item. Use the SAVE STATION. Melee the fuse block near the hatch and enter the “Concourse Supply Storage” area.

The large storage warehouse is filled with cargo containers and the distinctive sound of Stalkers. Grab the Detonator mines near the entry. Equip the Detonator and run to your right, past the Stasis Refill Station and then go left past two cargo containers to position yourself near the line of storage lockers. Immediately place a mine so that the tripwire goes horizontally between the
containers ahead and another mine to cover your right flank. The six Stalkers will waste little time attacking at this deep incursion into their realm.

They will come at you, one at a time, charging into the mines. The blast
normally kills them outright. Immediately re-deploy your mine as each Stalker
goes down. Occasionally a Stalker will only be crippled so hit it with stasis,
re-deploy and then rip it to pieces as it claws its way to you. If you run out
of mines or you don’t have time to re-deploy, stasis and the Line Gun or the
Ripper are your best defense. Ransack the areas many lockers and crates and
stomp the corpses.

You must now hack the “Maintenance Access to Concourse,” doorway. As you
traverse the misty corridors and ramps, Stross will talk about his “crawl into
the dark machine” and the “screws going tight all around,” nightmares. As you
enter the large Concourse, enjoy Ellie’s bravado as see taunts the numerous
Necromorphs attacking her, but make sure you kill the Leaper that attacks you
near the center of the concourse.

Her humorous outburst is reminiscent of Ripley’s assault on the Alien Hive.
“Come on, come on you mother----ers!! This is the last stand! You like that!
Come on, come un’ get it. What, what, I’m still here! You want a piece of me.
I’m still standing, you pieces of sh..!

Ah, but you may now be the target of the brazen lass, so talk to her to ease her
fears and to avoid being killed by one of the Sprawl’s few human survivors. She
will unlock the gate but warns you not to follow her, even though both of you
have the same destination-the Government Sector. This won’t be the last you see
of Ellie.

Grab the PULSE ROUNDS SCHEMATIC before taking Ellie’s Ellie-vator, ha, ha.
Destroy the two Cysts on either side of the elevator. Use the STORE to the left
of the elevator to download the PULSE ROUND SCHEMATIC and then save your
progress at the nearby SAVE STATION.

A Spitter and a Pregnant will attack as you advance from the save station. As
they come from the far end, deploy a mine ahead of them. A well placed mine may
eliminate them both, but the Pregnant or perhaps just its Swarm may survive.
Finish off anything surviving the mines.

Take out the grunting Cyst on the floor to the left of the railing and another
farther ahead on the left wall. Grab the POWER NODE from the entrance to
“Fashion Kid,” and then take out the Cyst on the ceiling near the two long
narrow signs before advancing.

As you advance past the “Fashion Kid” entry, a Spitter and a Puker will appear
ahead. When you see them, hit the aggressive Spitter with stasis and place a
mine in its path and then quickly retreat out of range of the Puker. Place one
in the path of the Puker or use the Plasma Cutter or the Line Gun to kill it.

Another Spitter and a Puker will attack from behind as you pass “Trixies.”
Freeze the Spitter to prevent taking damage and place a Line Gun grenade in
front of it. Duck into the small alcove. With a little luck the slower moving
Puker will advance and be taken out with the Spitter. If not use the cover of
the corner to eliminate it. Take out the Cyst near the “Titan Station
Elementary” portal and the one high and to its right.

Return to the STORE and exchange the Detonator for the Pulse Rifle and its ammo.
If you’re short on Pulse Rifle rounds, you will need to take extra Plasma
Energy. This will allow your Stasis Mod some recharging time as well. Use the
SAVE STATION again.

You should now have the Line Gun, the Plasma Cutter, the Ripper and the Pulse
Rifle.

Enter the “Titan Station Elementary” and appropriate any items in the room to
the sounds of a nursery. As you make your way, watch the Crawler go to momma and
then explode-be forewarned.

Enter the “Daycare Center” room 305, every room seems to be 305 in the
Elementary, and use kinesis to move the cribs cluttering the floor ahead. Six or
seven Crawlers will soon enter the room using the door or via the hole in the
wall. Use the Pulse Rifle to take them out to economize on Plasma Energy.
Another group of five or six Crawlers will come into the next room. This is
close in, so retreat to nail them as they come for you through the door. Try to
hit groups to save ammo. Beware of one dawdling Crawler wiping up the rear as
you re-enter the next room.

Move along into “Nurse John Jones office,” also 305, and then use the SAVE
STATION. The wall containers always contain Med packs so don’t miss them. There
is also a , “School Nurse Report 8022” on the desktop.

After the migraine moment in the adjacent hallway, enter the next 305. This time
it’s the gym/theater.

Address the initial rush of three Juveniles with the Pulse Rifle or melee blows.
Equip the Ripper and follow the path under the bleachers. Freeze and kill the
dark Super Puker as you near the right turn.

Note: Enhanced variants of the Necromorphs will now begin to frequently show up
among the enemies’ ranks. The Super Puker is a tougher breed than the standard
Puker, and their ranged attack definitely makes them a high priority target. If
possible, always use a stasis shot on them, and if you kill them close up, step
back to avoid their acidic death gurgle.

Continue around the stage, past the falling star and then on to the control
console, grabbing any items along the way. Bring the stasis canister along and
then hack the console to lower the props and tables.

Be prepared for the onslaught of a pack of about fifteen screeching Juveniles
with several Crawlers mixed in among them. They will straggle in from above the
bleachers on the opposite side of the gym. Let the first group cross the gym and
use the stasis canister on those coming off the bleachers behind. Begin picking
off the nearest ones with the Pulse Rifle while remaining near the hacked
console. Watch for the sneaky little Crawlers that will be trundling toward you.
Hit them before they get close to help thin out the pack. If you run out of
Pulse Rifle ammo, switch to the Ripper.

Even before the large pack of Juveniles is eliminated, an Infector may approach
or will begin to infect corpses. If it does manage to raise corpses you will
encounter your first dark Super Slashers. You may encounter as many as three if
the Infector does its worst-or none at all. Use stasis and the Ripper to put
down these tough Necromorphs if they apear.

Ransack the area and the numerous cadavers. If you have no room for pick-ups you
can backtrack, without opposition, to the nearest STORE by laying down a yellow
path. You can then return to the gym and take any items you couldn’t carry
earlier.

Keep your slotted weapons-the Ripper, the Line Gun, the Plasma Cutter and the
Pulse Rifle. If you haven’t got around 100 rounds for the Pulse Rifle, take the
Detonator instead. The pick-ups between now and when you’ll next need the Pulse
Rifle are plentiful but random.

Exit the gym/theater and follow the path. You can now enter the classroom on the
right, with the large window, for a couple of items, including the FLAMETHROWER
SCHEMATIC, found in the back room and the , “Kids Gone Crazy” on the
desktop.

In the next 305 the “Playground” room you will have another contentious
encounter with the Nicole apparition. Grab the POWER NODE from the colorful
rocket near the merry-go-round. Exit and take the “Transport Hub” elevator.

Ellie will contact you as you use the elevator. She has found Stross. He seems
“twitchy” she days and she doesn’t trust him; but Isaac believes he needs him
for his information, so he urges Ellie to resist killing him. Everyone is now
heading for the “Transport Hub.” Continue on after the rather lengthy elevator
ride, and loot your way to the nearby SAVE STATION.

Ellie will contact you as you use the elevator. She has found Stross. He seems
“twitchy” she days and she doesn’t trust him; but Isaac believes he needs him
for his information, so he urges Ellie to resist killing him. Everyone is now
heading for the “Transport Hub.” Continue on after the rather lengthy elevator
ride, and loot your way to the nearby SAVE STATION.

Enter the spacious “Transport Hub.” Ellie and Stross are on the upper level, you
the lower. Locate the stasis canister near the C E C doorway while you learn
that Ellie also worked for C E C and that the horror for her started in the
adjacent C E C facility. Isaac gets labeled a nerd. Use this calm time to
scavenge. It’s likely you’ll get extra Pulse Rifle rounds if you’re carrying the
weapon.

Tiedemannn suddenly kills the power in the hub, taking out life support and
transportation to prevent his last runners-Isaac and Stross-from getting
anywhere near the Government Sector and his precious Marker.

Suddenly as Ellie begins battling Necromorphs on the upper walkway, a Brute pays
you a call, coming down near the large red “TRANSPORT HUB” sign. Use stasis to
slow it down. The canister you identified earlier will give you an extra shot.
You will now have to shoot off both of its arms and it will take a couple of
additional stasis shots and about 75 to 100 Pulse Rifle rounds to accomplish the
trick. Keeping mobile is also helpful, since any momentum it has when you re-
freeze it may allow it to ram you with force. If you’re willing to expend a Med
Pack or two you can use stasis, get in close and apply the Ripper, freezing it
again as it breaks free-it’s a bit risky but it can work. Be forewarned; once
it’s crippled, it can shoot a deadly boulder-like fireball at you. Take the
valuable RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR when it dies.

You must now get to and activate the mothballed Solar Array to restore power to
life support and transportation. Ellie will open the collector panels and try to
keep Stross alive and in check. Ransack the large area, though your inventory
will likely make you make prudent decisions. Upon exiting you will find several
more crates.

Exit the Hub, smash the crates and toss some debris into the two security lasers
blocking your passage. Peek around the corner. A watchful Guardian lies just
ahead. Use the Line Gun’s alternate fire to place a grenade at its feet. A
single well placed round should take it out. Eliminate any pods that it has
slung and grab its GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR. Don’t even try to sneak past. It will
have your head even when placed in stasis.

Take the “Solar Array Elevator.” Stross’ noisy ravings have Ellie scared that he
will compromise their position. Near the WORKBENCH a Leaper will charge and a
crippled Puker will attack from the other side of the chamber. Use stasis on the
Leaper and then the Ripper. Take advantage of the central mechanism to hit the
crippled Puker with stasis from cover so you don’t take any unnecessary damage.
Then dismember it.

Download the FLAMETHROWER SCHEMATIC and sell your RUBY and GOLD SEMICONDUCTORS
at the STORE. Try to free up some inventory slots. A Ruby Semiconductor sells
for 10,000 credits so your credit supply is growing. Soon it will be time to
think about purchasing some Power Nodes.

Note that at the WORKBENCH the ability to “respec” is now unlocked. For 5,000
credits you can remove installed Nodes and reallocate them. With four Nodes in
stock I allocated one to “Capacity” on the Plasma Cutter, and two to the Stasis
Mod’s Matrix-a “Connecting” space and “Duration,” leaving one in reserve. Use
the SAVE STATION.

You should still be carrying the Ripper, the Line Gun, the Plasma Cutter and the
Pulse Rifle. Only take the Pulse Rifle if you have at least 100 rounds. I had
116 and took it. If its ammo is short of that, take sufficient Plasma Energy.

Head for the hatch “To Solar Array Elevator,” but pause and kill the corpse
feigning death near the exit. A couple of Swarm creatures will emerge from its
corpse-freeze and stomp them.

Go down the ramps only to find that the “Solar Array Elevator” isn’t
operational. Its docking pod has collapsed to the bottom of the shaft. Start
out, following the path, to fix it via the “Elevator Maintenance Bay.”

You will now be in Zero G but will still have atmosphere. Shoot the red thrust
canister with the Pulse Rifle, as prompted, to move the large hunk of debris out
of the way. Stay out of the thrust plume. Lift off the catwalk and go down to
the platform below. Grab the RIPPER BLADES SCHEMATIC and any other items
scattered about the walkway. There will also be a couple of crates and a few
loose items floating about.

Locate the two thrust canisters on the octagonal elevator above and hit each
with a shot to get it moving upwards. Your locator will now point the way back
into the facility. Before thrusting up, thrust down to get the POWER NODE at the
bottom of the shaft. Thrust up and head for the repaired elevator. You will hear
the snarl of a lone Leaper and it will confront you as you approach the
elevator.

Note: You can backtrack without opposition to the nearby STORE to offload the
RIPPER BLADES SCHEMATIC if so inclined to free up inventory space and to save
your progress.

Board the repaired “Solar Array Elevator” and activate it. Stand in the central
octagon. As you go up, Tripod’s will attempt to get into the cab. It will slow
and you will go on O2 briefly. Shoot the glowing parts of their tentacles with
the Pulse Rifle or the Plasma Cutter. Each spot destroyed will yield an item
drop, so hammer them to drive them off and for the loot. The Tripods will change
sides and then come in pairs, but their ranged slashing attacks are easily
survivable if you maintain your position in the center. When the attacks stop,
gather the bounty.

Move out of the lift and go counterclockwise on the circling catwalk. Retrieve
the red explosive canister with kinesis and propel it into the recess to kill
the two Cysts grunting near the item lockers. Raid the lockers to acquire the
FORCE GUN SCHEMATIC and other items. Continue around, past the target doorway,
and use the explosive canister to take down the two Cysts before raiding those
lockers. Knock out the Cyst above the exit door, staying to the side to avoid
its noxious spray.

A small Swarm will perish as you enter the domain of the late watchman, Howard
Phillips. Kill the Cyst in the STORE area and download the FORCE GUN SCHEMATIC
and the RIPPER BLADE SCHEMATIC if you didn’t do so earlier. Purchase the Force
Gun (11,000 credits) and fine-tune your inventory. Grab the other items,
including a POWER NODE from the left side of the store.

Replace the Pulse Rifle with the Force Gun. You will now be carrying the Plasma
Cutter, the Line Gun, the Ripper and the Force Gun.

The holographic image informed you upon entry that access to the “Main Array
Access” complex requires Howard Phillip’s authorization. Go to the far end and
retrieve Howard’s corpse from his bedroom. Take the

TEXT LOG

, “Personal Log:
Howard Phillips (1)” from the bedside table and the other item in the bedroom.

Use kinesis to tote him to the “Main Array Access” doorway. Howard is scanned
and the holographic voice announces acceptance. Use the SAVE STATION, open the
gate and tote Howard’s corpse in with you-you ain’t done with the poor ole fella
yet.

Howard can again provide further access into the facility. Use kinesis to propel
Howard into the obstructing lasers and then pieces of him into the remaining
laser barriers. You can also just use other debris despite the holograms
insistence that you need Howard’s authorization. Grab the POWER NODE and raid
the area before going into the next chamber.

In the next area a crippled Slasher will crawl towards you. Take off its front
limbs to kill it. The cargo lift on your left, however, isn’t working. Equip the
Force Gun and move ahead only to be trapped by parallel laser barriers. Allow
the charging Leaper to trigger the laser fields. The glass window blows out,
depressurizing the chamber. Shoot the triangular symbol to bring down the blast
barrier and prevent your demise. This is made easy by the wide beam of the Force
Gun.

Mop up the five or six Crawlers and the Leaper if it somehow managed to survive
the depressurization. You must now restore power to the lift. Enter the “Power
Grid Room,” raid the room. There is a , “Personal Log: Howard Phillips
(2)” in one of the lockers. Hack the control station. Grab the stasis canister
and exit.

A Leaper will attack from ahead. Use the stasis canister and then shred the
Leaper. Grab the other stasis canister and move forward. A Slasher will climb up
through a floor vent. Use the stasis canister and the Ripper and turn to take
out another Slasher coming from near the control room. Raid the corpses and
board the lift. Another Slasher will swipe at you and will attack once you get
off.

Exit the elevator, run toward the workbench and turn around. Grab the rod lying
there and save a few rounds of ammo by impaling the Slasher. Don’t worry about
the Leaper flashing past outside the window.

There is a WORKBENCH here if you have spare Nodes. I had four and upgraded the
Stasis matrix with a “Connecting” space, one in “Energy” and one in “Charge.”


Move around the catwalk, slide the hatch aside with kinesis and pull the walkway
down. Shoot or toss something into the laser barrier and continue, turning left
toward the lockers. Another laser barrier will activate. Use kinesis to grab the
crate at the opposite end and fire it through the beam. Raid the lockers, which
will yield another POWER NODE and other items. Waste the Slasher leaping from
the vent before the doorway as you head for the SAVE STATION.

Enter the dark corridor and security will evacuate the atmosphere upon your
unauthorized intrusion. Advance to lure the two Stalkers into attacking and then
back off, hit it with stasis and shred it with the Ripper. A second crippled
Stalker will claw toward you as you dispatch the first. Quickly hack the control
station in the rear area to restore the atmosphere, and then loot the item
lockers and the corpses.

Enter the “Computer Mainframe Access” chamber. As an unauthorized visitor,
security, prompted by Tiedemann, will lock down the Mainframe and the Solar
Array. You must now release the lockdown by disabling the computer.

Grab the pick-ups and enter the lighted control area. The normal access doors on
either side are now locked. Use kinesis to remove the cover plate from the
maintenance access duct in the center of the room and then crawl into the duct
to access the right terminal room. Equip the Force Gun and pull the cover
plates. A small Swarm will come from inside the right cover plate. Use the Force
Gun to neutralize them.

On the right side of the room, as you face the fuse panels, there is a fuse
diagram on the floor. Pull the fuses from the left side and arrange them to
match the diagram’s configuration. When properly positioned they will glow green
and a console will rise where the diagram was. Deactivate the station. The
Mainframe’s electrical shield is now disabled.

Crawl back through the duct and use the control station to reroute the duct to
access the left terminal room. Crawl through the duct. After you remove the
cover plates, a Super Slasher will join you. Hit it with stasis and shred it
with the Ripper.

Unless you encountered a Super Slasher in the gym of the “Elementary,” this will
likely be your first. This dark creature’s necrotic state has progressed, making
it a much tougher version of the more human-like Slasher. You will now begin to
encounter these enhanced Slashers quite frequently. Use stasis on these tough
foes to make your life easier whenever possible.

Follow the diagram on the left side of the room to reposition the four fuses.
When the console pops up, deactivate it. Before the shutters close you will see
a Slasher outside. Mainframe containment is now compromised.

You will see a diagram to the right of the exit hatch that doesn’t match the
repositioned fuses. With containment already compromised, reposition the four
fuse blocks to match the new configuration. The fuses will display blue and a
reroute station will now be available on the diagram’s panel. Reroute the hatch
and crawl into the small chamber. Inside there are two POWER NODES, a random
SEMICONDUCTOR, oftentimes a Ruby, as well as other items. There is also a small
statue called the Peng. Picking it up allows you to garner the Peng Trophy.

Exit via the duct and you will find yourself back in the terminal room. Reroute
the duct and crawl through to the exit. Take down the charging Super Slasher and
the Slasher that follows it with the Ripper. Stay in the control room and let
them come to you.

Step forward until the five fragile computer circuit cores rise up. Step back
into the control room and shoot the two circuits on the left. A lone Slasher
will charge from the left. Shoot two circuits on the right to trigger a Slasher
from the right side. Shoot the last circuit.

When the Mainframe is locked out and off line, follow the path to the “Solar
Array Control Pod” access hatch. After being startled by the harmless corpse
dropping onto you, Ellie will come on line. Nolan Stross is getting
progressively worse and is now in a panicked state.

Four skittering Divider Spawn will come at you one at a time. The Force Gun will
easily neutralize the pesky Necromorphs. Just stay near the back area until they
are all down. Take out the Cyst on the floor ahead and the one near the item
locker in the left corner. Another Cyst guards the exit hatch. Save some Plasma
rounds by launching the scattered item crates into the Cysts.

Exit and you will see three Lurkers scramble below. A Super Slasher will come
over the rail ahead and charge. A Leaper will be close on its heels and the
three Lurkers will follow. The Lurkers can be hard to keep track of and hard to
hit as they skitter about, climbing walls and over ceilings. If you still have
stasis, don’t hesitate to use it on them. Since it takes a well-aimed Line Gun
round to sever the three tentacles, consider using a timed Line Gun grenade
against the frozen pests. The grenade will adhere to walls or ceilings and is a
one shot kill and will oftentimes eliminate two.

Stomp the corpses and go past the objective hatch toward the save station. As
you attempt to access the nearby storeroom with a Power Node, a Leaper will
attack you from behind, coming from the direction where you entered. Rip it to
shreds.

Inside the storeroom is the CONTACT BEAM SCHEMATIC-don’t miss it. There may also
be a random SEMICONDUCTOR among the other items. The last of Howard
Phillips is also in the room, “Personal Log: Howard Phillips (3).” Use the SAVE
STATION.


Hack the “Solar Array Control Pod” hatch, and make your way through the long
airlock into the lift. After Nicole’s ramblings, activate the lift. Exit into
the void-Zero G with no atmosphere. Closely monitor your O2 level. The locale,
however, provides several well-placed O2 Re-fill Stations.

Immediately use your locater to highlight the route to the mirror assembly dead
ahead. Release and boost to it, using the action button to take control of the
mirror panel’s superstructure. You will be looking through a glass similar to a
windshield. Use the right thumbstick to move the mirror array to the right and
up so that the bright beam of light hits the central collector and is centered
on the “windshield.” You will be released from the panel.

You now have another mirror array to align but a large Blob Necromorph will
prevent you from easily accessing it. There are several O2 Stations on the
catwalk below so determine the next array to be aligned with your locator and
take notice of the huge Blob pulsing on the outside of the catwalk below and to
the right. The Blob will brandish three glowing tentacles and will shoot
projectiles at you if you get near it or go for the last array while it stands
guard.

So boost down to the catwalk on the left, staying away from it while you top off
your O2. Raid the crates. Boost over to the O2 station near the Blob, staying
below the level of the catwalk before rising up to land on the “rocky” area just
past the catwalk’s end and close to the nesting Blob. It cannot hit you there.

Boost upward a short distance to draw out its tentacles and put them in stasis.
Use the Line Gun to park a grenade on it to take out all three orbs. Use your
locator to find the last defective array and use kinesis to grab the glowing
blue item floating near its support structure. It’s the RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR
released by the dead Blob.

Top off your O2 and boost to the control station. Guide its mirrors to align,
using the right thumbstick. Go left and down to align it with the collector. Use
the locator to find your way back into the facility and to re-enter the control
area. Ellie contacts you urging you to hurry, but you can return to the catwalk
before exiting to check out the numerous scattered crates anyway.

With Ellie’s new intel on the massive influx of Necromorphs, access to the
Government Sector seems to be in jeopardy. Necromorphs are rampaging-oh really-
and movement is rapidly becoming impossible. You must now get into the escape
pod to get back into the Sprawl.

You are launched into space and there is a lot of debris to dodge, so don’t
boost during the fall. As soon as you gain control, veer hard right, steering
with the left thumbstick to dodge the first obstacle, then immediately veer left
to dodge the next two. A large demolished structure must be dodged by again
veering hard to the right. The next obstacle cannot be dodged. It is a long
hollow pipe that you must fly through by orienting yourself to the opening.
After clearing it steer a bit down into the glowing green opening of the large
fragment of a concrete structure. You will pass through a doorway. When clear of
it, veer hard right to clear the last of the large debris. Now just aim for the
light, which is a hatch into the complex ahead. You will crash through a conduit
and then you are back in the complex.

Before raiding the many containers, visit the STORE to download the CONTACT BEAM
SCHEMATIC. Sell your SEMICONDUCTORS and the Peng Statue for 10,000 credits and
to free up some inventory space.

The Contact Beam is now available for purchase. Purchase it but place it back
into your safe for now. Take the Detonator along into the coming skirmish. Since
there is a STORE just beyond the next chamber to re-structure your weapons, take
your Force Gun, the Line Gun, the Ripper and the Detonator into the battle.

Now raid the item containers. With the Detonator and the Force Gun in weapon
slots, you may get lucky and get some additional ammo for them.

Note: What to expect in the coming battle? Ellie and Stross are just ahead in
the “Transport Hub” but they are on the upper level. The Hub is large and Ellie
is trying to get the C E C door open for you. Complicating the situation is the
fact that Necromorphs of many types will pour in after you enter and during that
time the Hub will decompress. There is no end of the enemy, so just keep them at
bay until Ellie can open the door. Then get out as the door seals them in. Grab
what you can, but don’t leave the doorway.

Enter the “Transport Hub” and immediately make for the hatch with C E C on it.
Juveniles will first enter the fray. Let them get over half way and waste them
with blasts of the Force Gun. When they stop, begin deploying mines in front,
spacing them out, mostly toward the center and the right side. Few Necromorphs
will come from the left side. Leapers, Slashers and Pukers will pour in with an
occasional Juvenile in the mix. Switch to the Ripper if they get close and re-
deploy mines whenever you have the time. Timely stasis shots will also help keep
ranged attackers like Pukers at bay. The Force Gun can also help push groups
away to gain space. Snatch anything near you but duck through the C E C hatch as
soon as Ellie gets it opened. It will seal them in.

Activate the console to release the next hatch after Ellie’s distressing account
of her morning. Only a short time before her friends and co-workers were
infected, and she had to kill them, mutilate them just to stay alive, and now
she is back where it all began. She will send you new coordinates to follow to
the main facilities central hub.

Follow the path into the “C E C Main Facility Entrance.” Take notice of the new-
look item containers. Go into the C E C facility and use the STORE to select
your weapons. I swapped the Force Gun for the Plasma Cutter, keeping the Ripper,
the Line Gun and the Detonator. Grab the , “Ellie’s Story (1)” from the
chamber. Use the SAVE STATION.

Enter the “Administration Entrance” hatch and take the POWER NODE from the right
wall and the other items. Enter the “Operations Control Room” and you’ll see an
Infector and other Necromorphs through the window. Quickly place a couple of
mines near the windows ahead.

Equip the Ripper and stay near the locked storage room. As you attempt to use a
Power Node on the locked storeroom, a Slasher will drop down virtually on your
head. Have the Ripper ready. The first Slasher won’t survive the mines, but a
Super Slasher will, and will come at you and then another Super Slasher right
after it. Use stasis and the Ripper to survive the onslaught.

Open the Secure Storage room and grab the POWER NODE the VINTAGE SUIT SCHEMATIC
and the RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR. (Sometimes this room has one Node, sometimes two,
sometimes none-I got one) Harvest the items and return to the STORE, use the
yellow path, to download the VINTAGE SUIT SCHEMATIC. Buy it. It has 20 inventory
slots, a 15% armor increase and allows a 10% discount on store purchases. It
costs 40,000 credits.

Consider purchasing a few Power Nodes if you have surplus Credits. The next suit
upgrade is several chapters away. I had 79,900 credits and purchased six Power
Nodes at 10,000 credits each. If you have surplus ammo, unlikely on “Normal,” or
ammo for weapons you’re not using, you can sell it as well to raise funds. Use
the SAVE STATION again.

Return to the “Control Room” and get any items that you had to leave in the
“Secure Storage Room.”

Move on into the “Break Room.” A Pregnant will greet you at the corner, freeze
it, turn the other way and when the Slasher drops down, kill it with the Ripper.
Carefully take down the Pregnant-freeze it again if necessary. If a Swarm
emerges, hit it with a mine. Loot the corpses and the container and pick up the
, “Ellie’s Story (2)” from the floor.

Enter the “Records Room” and an Infector scurries away. Grab the POWER NODE on
the left wall and after Nicole’s harangue, pass through the dark corridor,
across the catwalk and into “Fuel Processing Control.”

Ellie and Stross are in the next room but, naturally, the door lock is fused and
Isaac will have to take a route through the processing plants “Pressure Control”
area to reach them. Raid the lockers and then use the SAVE STATION near the exit
that Ellie forces open.

Grab the DETONATOR ROUNDS SCHEMATIC, near the corpse. When the machinery starts,
deploy a couple of mines near the stairwell ahead and one on the solid metal
flooring in the side passage to your right, where you entered. This should
adequately cover your right flank. Advance toward the stairwell to draw the
enemy out and then retreat. A Super Slasher will trigger the mines. Take it out
with the Ripper, if it somehow survived the mines, and the Slasher following it.
A Puker will next appear. Freeze it and take it down. The mine will take down
the lone Slasher coming in on your right flank. There is a WORKBENCH near the
actuators below the catwalk.

Continue through the circular hatch into the Zero G area. Ellie’s manipulation
of the fuel processing equipment has caused the large pressure valves to cycle
closed. You must now find a way to open them. Grab the thrust canister near the
pivoting valve and place it at the top or bottom of the valve. It will adhere
when in the correct place. Shoot the canister and then thrust into the large
chamber beyond. Stay out of the canisters plume. It will damage you.

Don’t waste ammo on the floating crates. Use kinesis to propel them against the
walls and kinesis to grab their contents. As you round the bend following the
objective path, Tiedemann has the processing machinery activated and locked on,
blocking you in.

Locate the floating corpse just beyond the spinning vertical blades and thrust
carefully toward it past the first set of spinning blades and then the second,
moving through the second opening with spinning blades on each side. You
shouldn’t need stasis.

A lone Lurker will appear as you start into the right turn. Freeze it and save
yourself some ammo by firing a Line Gun energy grenade near it. The grenade will
adhere to the walls and ceilings it contacts and is a one shot kill.

Ahead there are four plasma streams with a traveling apparatus briefly blocking
each stream in turn. Use stasis on it when it blocks the top stream, and boost
past it. A pair of Lurkers will then appear ahead. Freeze them and take them out
with a Line Gun grenade. Don’t conserve your stasis; there is a Stasis Refill
Station before the inevitable next obstacle. Take their drops.

Stross is again going crazy and the transmission is terminated as Ellie screams.

Top off your Stasis Mod. You must now pass a system of rotating gears. Use
stasis to slow a gear and boost past when there is an opening. Another pair of
Lurkers greet you near the next closed pressure valve.

Use kinesis to grab a red thrust canister from the wall dispenser and place it
on the valve. Shoot it and boost past it.

There are now three flaming rings that activate in turn and on the other side a
Blob will start launching projectiles at you as you move toward it. Fire a Line
Gun grenade at the Blob when its tentacles are exposed to kill it-you may have
to pass one or two of the rings to get it to cooperate.

Boost past the rings as they alternate off and grab the RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR that
the Blob released. Grab a thrust canister from the wall bracket. Use it to open
the valve and boost past it.

Exit the Zero G area via the hatch and be prepared to kill a crawling Stalker in
the room where Ellie and Stross should now be. Grab the POWER NODE. Enter the
“Fuel Pressurization Tower” to find Ellie and Stross. Take the LARGE MED PACK
SCHEMATIC from the back of the room and raid the other containers. “Twitchy” is
frenzied, gibbering about “step four.” It’s time to get the Industrial Transport
operational so you can make it to the Government Sector. Use the SAVE STATION.

Remove the flimsy barricade and exit onto the metal grating. Leave a mine on the
grating behind you as you move toward the elevator. It will take out the Slasher
that will emerge near your entry point. Be prepared for a Leaper to come from
the vent or down the wall as you get near the left turn going toward the
elevator. Place a mine below the vent to address it and another for the one that
follows. Another Leaper will follow, so use stasis and the Ripper to eliminate
it.

Take the cargo lift and a Slasher will burst through the vent on the first turn.
Eight or nine Crawlers will come down the wall around the next turn. Smash the
green crates in the little niche.

Enter “Fuel Pressurization Control 2.” Be prepared for a Puker and two Lurkers.
Don’t spare the stasis on the Puker. Freeze it and place a Line Gun grenade at
its feet. It may also get one of the pesky Lurkers. Scavenge and stomp the
corpses. Take the , “Ellie’s Story (3)” from the floor.

Visit the STORE to download the DETONATOR MINES SCHEMATIC and the LARGE MED PACK
SCHEMATIC. Sell the SEMICONDUCTORS and adjust your inventory.

Enter the “High Pressure Modulation Area.” A Divider will charge at you from
around the corner. Its wail is distinctive. Deploy a couple of mines in its
path. The two mines should kill it, but some of its Spawn may survive. Use the
Ripper to eliminate them if they do. Don’t underestimate the little walking
skulls. They will lash you with tentacles and then tear off your head, turning
you into a lurching Necromorph much like an Infector does. The Divider will drop
a GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR, though it may be lost to the detonations.

Follow the path to the “High Pressure Storage” elevator. Exit and turn right to
get the POWER NODE but a Super Slasher will appear next to you. Hit it with
stasis and you will hear the suicidal squeal of an approaching Exploder. Shoot
the glass window out and quickly hit the red symbol to prevent your demise-be
quick, you’re very close to the fractured window. This will dispose of both of
the Necromorphs. Alternately you can freeze the Exploder after you freeze the
Super Slasher, cut the Super Slasher to pieces with the Ripper and sever the
explosive sac from the Exploder with your Plasma Cutter and punch or shoot the
Exploder. Either way, be sure to take the POWER NODE.

Follow the path into the towers “Mid Level” and you will see a set of tripwires
blocking a dead-end side passage. Toss the crate into the tripwires. Take the
item and remove the makeshift barricade to find the FLAME FUEL SCHEMATIC and the
, “Ellie’s Story (4).”

Around the next corner you will see a Guardian at the end of a long catwalk.
Grab the red explosive canister at the base of the ramp and launch it at the
Guardian to kill it and to save a Line Gun round. Kill any Pods it might
release. Take its GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR.

Take the cargo lift and a Slasher will greet you at the top. Freeze it even
before the stalling lift reaches the grade. Hit the rapidly closing Exploder’s
sack before it gets too close, taking it and the frozen Slasher out. You might
get knocked on your butt if you let the Exploder get too close. Stay near the
elevator, and freeze and carefully dismember the Pregnant that comes to call.
Take down the Spitter that follows from catwalk ahead.

You will find yourself in the “Transport Mechanism Control” maintenance room.
Looks like you might be a while so deploy a couple of mines across both
entryways, just in case. If your short on mines, just mine the far entry,
closest to the Stasis Refill Station. I had 14 mines and only mined the one
entry.

Use the WORKBENCH to upgrade. I had thirteen Power Nodes and used three to fully
upgrade the Stasis matrix. Eight were spent on the Detonator for “Capacity,”
“Reload,” “Connecting,” “Connecting,” Damage” and “Connecting,” “Connecting” and
“Damage.” This left two Nodes in reserve.

Activate the Tram’s control station. The gearbox has a malfunction, and needs
maintenance-big surprise. The gearbox assembly is directly behind you. Grab the
large upper gear from the right side, near the Stasis Refill Station. A
Divider’s Spawn will scurry out from under it. Freeze it and stomp it to save
ammo. Fit the large gear into the assembly.

Use kinesis to lift the housing cover to the right of the gearbox and hit it
with stasis. Grab the central gear and insert it in the gearbox. Use the same
tactics to grab the lower gear from the left housing.

Save your game at the SAVE STATION and top off your Stasis Module. Call the Tram
and as your communication with Ellie ends, start along the path. Two Super
Slashers will normally charge into the station, one from each side, but they
might come in together from only one side. The mines may get one or both if they
enter from opposite directions. You have a full Stasis Mod, so have the Ripper
ready for any survivor. Grab their drops. It will now usually take two mines to
kill the “Super” variants.

Get to the Tramcar and activate it. Nicole’s apparition will appear-talk about
bad breath! Open the doors for Ellie and an increasingly unbalanced Stross.
Ellie gets the car moving and the Ishimura appears ahead, bringing back
memories; but now something is blocking the track.

Exit the Tram and check out the green crates. One has a 10,000 credit chip in
it. You can hear Stalkers even before you enter “Pressurized Fuel Storage.” Save
at the nearby SAVE STATION.

Kill the three Cysts on the floor near your entry point. The sound of Stalkers
is clear. Move left from the entry and grab the POWER NODE and the ,“Ellie’s Story (5).” Begin moving along the left wall, deploying mines
horizontally to cover your right flank. If you have plenty of mines deploy two,
one atop the other. These Stalkers may only be crippled by a single mine.

Let the first of the eight Stalkers come to you. Equip your Ripper and try to
stay hemmed in by your mines, so they can only get to you from dead ahead. If
the mines do their job, retreat and re-deploy them, but keep your guard up. You
will have to eliminate several Stalkers closer to the exit because they won’t
attack until you advance farther into their stomping ground. Couple these
tactics with stasis and the Ripper and the Stalkers will soon be ready to stomp.
On the cluttered deck, stasis and the Ripper are a better choice than the Line
Gun. Watch out for a pair of sneaky Exploders on the far end as well.

A Guardian guards the storage room’s exit elevator. Use the Line Gun alternate
fire or toss a mine at it to get its RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR. There is a dark passage
near the Guardian’s resting place where you will find the SEEKER SHELLS
SCHEMATIC and other items. Since you have cleared the large area pilfer all its
goodies before boarding the “Elevator to Fuel Mega Storage.”

Take out the five grunting Cysts in the hallway and be prepared for a Slasher
emerging from the nook on the left. Sell your SEMICONDUCTORS and download the
FLAME FUEL and SEEKER SHELLS SCHEMATICS at the STORE and police your inventory.

If you have an extra Stasis Pack in your safe or in inventory-great-if not
seriously consider buying one. Having a Stasis Pack will make life infinitely
easier in the coming encounter. Place the Plasma Cutter in the safe and take the
Contact Beam and its ammo. There is a SAVE STATION adjacent to the STORE.

You will now be carrying the Contact Beam, the Line Gun, the Ripper and the
Detonator.

Enter “Fuel Mega Storage” and you will find the way blocked by a huge tentacle-
not so good! The volatile storage units in the area, however, easily overheat
according to Ellie, and the tentacle is coiled near the upper unit. Grab a red
explosive canister from the ground and shoot it at the circular unit with its
door ajar. It seems damaged, so hit it with the other canister. Take a couple
more from the wall dispenser to destroy it. This will allow Ellie and “Twitchy”
to get moving. The heat indicator on the storage unit will go from green to a
cautionary yellow and then red. It will take four canisters to do the job. When
you take the lift down, you will see that the tentacle has fallen down and now
blocks your way-whoopee!

Loot the area and hit the remaining storage unit with a red canister from the
wall dispenser. This will get the undivided attention of a Tripod-the reason
you’re carrying extra stasis. Hit it with stasis and remove one of its limbs.
Try the Contact Beam-it has to charge but with the Tripod in stasis a single
well-aimed shot will easily cripple it. This will slow it down and killing it
will just get you another healthy one.

The process is now a simple one, keep it snoozing with stasis shots, while you
grab five more explosive canisters from the dispensers and hit the unit to make
it overheat. The storage unit will then explode, and the large tentacle blocking
your way will pull back. Don’t waste any time vacating the area. Take the lift
and run into the shuttle as the place starts to come apart.

Tiedemann has blasted the Sprawl-now dead weight-in half with the solar beam and
with it the track way. Isaac cooks up a plan to use the Ishimura’s Gravity
Tethers, another of his bad ideas he assures Ellie, to link it back up. Now he
must go back aboard her. A familiar looking shuttle will transport you there.

Take everything along the pathway as you penetrate ever deeper into the
Ishimura. Use the first SAVE STATION. The nearby hatch, blocked by cases,
contains the , “The Clogger,” but the service corridor beyond contains a
POWER NODE and there are several items in the restroom, including the , “Cursed Ship.”

Follow the objective path through the quiet Necromorph-free areas to get to the
console for a system’s diagnostic. You will find that the main centrifuge is off
line for maintenance. Your destination is now engineering. Continue along the
objective path. The cluttered corridors remain eerie but quiet.

You will encounter a WORKBENCH. I used three of my four Nodes to upgrade the
Detonator-“Connecting,” “Damage” and “Special.”

Continue along the pathway’s meandering corridors and you will pass through a
door where the path will lead you to the right. Go left off the path to find
some credits and resume following the path. The inaudible computer static will
mark the location of another SAVE STATION. Raid the place.

Exit and continue on through the next door where the path goes to the right. Go
left down the twisting corridors to find the , “No Transfer” at the
locked exit. There is also an item in the footlocker.

Return to the path following the system of corridors until you enter a long
tubular passage. Loot everything along the way.

The next long dark corridor will have splashes of green light ahead. A Brute
will attack after you pass through the first green glowing area. Freeze it and
hit its weak spots with a couple of blasts from the Contact Beam to put it down.
Coupled with stasis, so the weapon can charge, the Contact Beam is deadly from
the time is comes out of the box. This Brute’s drop is random, but it will
oftentimes be a 3,000 or 5,000 unit credit chip.

After you advance about halfway down the corridor, another Brute will come
crashing at you. If your Stasis Mod is depleted, pause where the first Brute
went down to recharge it or to let it auto recharge. This is a safe spot-for
now.

As you advance farther down the corridor a second Brute will crash toward you
from the far end. Fire a couple of mines into its path, freeze it and take it
down with the Contact Beam.

Immediately deploy a couple of mines ahead and do an about face. Ellie will now
frantically tell you that the ship is being boarded by Necromorphs. No sooner
said than they are hot on your trail.

Take down the two Slashers ahead with the Ripper and run back toward your entry
point, putting distance between yourself and the Necromorphs. Turn and deploy a
couple of mines in front of the pursuing Necromorphs and change to the Line Gun
or Contact Beam if necessary. Use the Ripper on any that get in close. A
Pregnant will be a latecomer. Take it out carefully but if a Swarm erupts, lay a
mine in their path. A couple of Slashers will sometimes emerge from a floor
hatch when you start looting the corpses, so watch out for them.

Gather up all the drops and continue unopposed. Don’t miss the DIAMOND
SEMICONDUCTOR that the second Brute dropped. It’s worth 25,000 credits. Go past
the lift to the end of the passage where you will find a POWER NODE. Refill your
Stasis Mod and hack the cargo lift.

Climb aboard and loot your way to the STORE. Sell the DIAMOND SEMICONDUCTOR. Put
the Contact Beam in the safe and take the Force Gun and its ammo. With 108,200
credits, I also purchased five Power Nodes. Use the SAVE STATION to record your
progress.

You will now have the Line Gun, the Ripper, the Detonator and the Force Gun.

Take the elevator and grab the enlightening , “Re-animate.” Exit to a
place familiar to Dead Space players-the Decontamination Chamber.

Use the WORKBENCH if desired. I had seven Nodes. I spent two on the Line Gun-for
“Connecting” and “Damage.” Two went on the Ripper matrix-a “Connecting” space
and “Reload.” One went to the Force Gun to “Damage.” This left two in reserve.

Enter the Decontamination chamber and grab the Stasis Pack. Wow, decontamination
complete and no Necromorphs!

Exit the chamber and loot the lockers. The shrieking on the other side of the
doorway should tell you to get ready for action. A Puker will normally appear to
your left but will sometimes appear to the right. Move quickly into the hall,
hit it with stasis and deploy a mine in its path or use a Line Gun grenade. Duck
back into the doorway and deploy a mine to the side it didn’t appear on. This
should eliminate the crippled Stalker crawling toward you and hopefully the
pesky Lurker that usually accompanies it. If the Puker survived, take it out as
it approaches the doorway as well.

Start along the path and deploy a couple of mines behind you well before the
turn to the right. You will usually encounter a Pregnant near the corner. Place
a mine in its path to take it out. Use the Force Gun on an emerging Swarm if
necessary. A Lurker will follow it and then a Puker. The Super Slasher, coming
from behind, should trigger the mines. Another Slasher will trouble you from the
front.

Before continuing on the objective path, reverse course and go in the opposite
direction for some loot. A Super Slasher will charge followed by another
Pregnant. Use the Force Gun on any Swarm erupting. Grab the POWER NODE at the
end of the wrong way hall.

Expect a Slasher, a Leaper or a crippled Stalker and a Super Puker as you
reverse course to follow the path. Further along expect a Slasher, a Lurker and
another crippled Stalker. Enter the circular hatch and use the SAVE STATION.

The Centrifuge Chamber is under Zero G but has atmosphere. Four panels are
missing from it and can be found scattered about the area. You will see the
reddish glow of the first panel directly across and a bit to your left upon your
entry. Grab it with kinesis and fit it into the centrifuge correctly so its
tubes align and the red indicating light turns green-one down. The next is
floating nearby-fit it to the centrifuge. You will see the third under the
catwalk. The final piece is in the glowing blue area near the Stasis Refill
Station. Grab any items you can fit into your inventory and take the FORCE
ENERGY SCHEMATIC from under the centrifuge’s control console. Activate the
centrifuge. Head out and visit the SAVE STATION.

Follow the path and, after hallucinating about the clutching tentacle, enter the
Decontamination Chamber. This time, however, about eight Juveniles will come
from both ends followed by a Super Slasher and a Puker. Another Super Slasher
and a Super Puker will follow the first two. If you don’t have the Force Gun,
the wave of Juveniles will have to be tackled with the Ripper and melee tactics.
The Ripper and stasis is your best option against the Super Slashers and Pukers
that follow the wave of Juveniles in the cramped enclosure. You have four bad
guys and four stasis shots-four dead Necromorphs.

Grab their drops and exit the chamber. As you go around the turn near the ladder
a Super Slasher, playing dead near the elevator, will jump up. Hit it hard
before it can react. Use the elevator.

Follow the path. Download the FORCE ENERGY SCHEMATIC and fine-tune your
inventory at the STORE. Replace the Force Gun with the Plasma Cutter and some
ammo. Use the SAVE STATION.

You will now be carrying The Plasma Cutter, the Line Gun, the Ripper and the
Detonator.

When you reach the Tram Station a pair of Super Slashers, one at a time, will
charge from the glassed waiting area. Place a pair of mines near its entry to
address the first one and another pair to address the second. The mines should
do the job but man the Ripper if necessary. As you approach the Tram, a Swarm
will scuttle out. Place a mine in their path and greet the Slasher that will
charge from that direction with the Ripper. You will hear its growl as it climbs
out of the depressed area.

Get the Tram moving. You are now clear to your destination-the Ishimura’s
Gravity Tethers. Ellie calls advising you that Necromorphs are pouring into
Medical and that “Twitchy” has now bitten her. The Tram suddenly shudders and
stops. The lady’s voice, quite pleasant, welcomes you to the Medical Deck-joy!

After Nicole’s ominous prattle, enter a long corridor with iridescent blue drag
marks. Heed Ellie’s earlier warning and mine the hall well ahead. As you advance
several Necromorphs can be heard: a Lurker, a Super Slasher, a Spitter and a
Super Puker will encounter the mines. Fire a couple of Line Gun grenades into
the area after the mines are triggered. This may well take out all of the
survivors, en masse. If not feed them another, but have the Ripper ready for
action. Stomp the corpses and grab the POWER NODE and the Stasis Pack in the
next passage.

Enter the room with the central glass cubicle. Deploy mines near the glass
cubicle, one inside it and one or two on its left. Go to the right toward the
exit door. A Super Slasher will come up behind you. Cut it apart and watch out
for the Exploder coming your way-just hit it with the Ripper’s alternate fire
because another Super Slasher and an Exploder will then enter the room. It’s
difficult to not take damage due to the proximity of the Exploders and the need
to address the Super Slashers first. The mines should help thin them out.

Use the Stasis Refill Station, go to the exit and deploy several mines behind
covering both sides of the cubicle and then put one inside it, just in case.
Hack the console. Hopefully, the Super Puker that enters from behind will
trigger a mine or two. An Exploder and another Slasher will then follow a Super
Slasher. The mines will help but use stasis and the Ripper to shred any
survivors. Gain space from the Exploder by hitting it with stasis if it gets too
close.

Refill your Stasis Module, loot the corpses and take the exit. Loot your way
down the blue splattered hallway. Use the SAVE STATION before entering the next
room. Grab the POWER NODE as the real Nicole’s final message rolls. Loot the
place and head out.

Take the cargo lift and move the ladder aside. Be forewarned by the flying
debris and the Super Leaper scrambling into the overhead vent. This area will be
familiar to Dead Space players. Use kinesis to move the walkway over the gap and
then kill the annoying Lurker that jumps the rail at the left turn. Below you
will see your way blocked by a shorting electrical field.

Move the walkway to bridge the gap with kinesis. Near the lift you will see a
Super Leaper bypass the electrical field, and come at you along the far wall.
Another will perish in the arc. Greet the Super Leaper with stasis and the
Ripper as it approaches the lift. At the bottom a pair of Super Leapers will
pour from the vent, one at a time. Place a couple of mines below and activate
the lift. Greet the survivor with a stasis shot and a spinning saw blade.

Before continuing, enter the unlocked door near the lift. Take the POWER NODE
and the other items. This is an area unlocked in the parent game, Dead Space.
Allow your Stasis Mod to recharge or use a Stasis Pack to top it off.

You must now get through the corridor with the arcing electrical field. Pull the
Power Cell near the lift to kill the power to the arc. When you approach the
spot where the arc was, you will trigger a wave of Necromorphs, so quickly lay a
couple of mines on the other side of that area, and then advance until a
Necromorph shrieks in protest. Immediately get back to the Power Cell, freeze
the Slasher that attacks, reinsert the Power Cell and get ready to saw, starting
with the frozen Slasher. You have to be really quick, because a Super Leaper
will confront you as well. Your mines will slow but won’t stop the two Super
Slashers coming from beyond the arcing area; but if you’re quick replacing the
Power Cell, the arc will take them both down, leaving only the Slasher and the
Super Leaper for you to deal with.

Pull the Power Cell again to kill the electrical arc and take the path. Stomp
the dead. Use a Power Node to open the Medical storeroom near the WORKBENCH.
This room usually contains several Med Packs-as many as five-but sometimes
you’ll get only a couple. The crate on top of the two storage cartons always
contains an annoying Swarm-always!

Continue along the path without opposition until you reach the STORE. Save your
game at the SAVE STATION. You will now be packing the Plasma Cutter, the Line
Gun, the Ripper and the Detonator.

Take the path and you will emerge in a Zero G Tram tunnel. Lift off and move
along the objective path into the gloom. There is worthwhile loot along the
path, so grab what you can. The first of the Lurkers will appear above the
second large piece of wreckage. There is a POWER NODE just past the first wreck,
floating near the right wall.

Note: It will take several well-placed Plasma Rounds or a Line Gun round or two
to kill each Lurker. So freeze the little pests and quickly shoot a Line Gun
grenade nearby. You may get lucky and kill two with one shot. The energy
grenades will stick to any surface so it doesn’t matter if they walk along
ceilings or walls.

Four more Lurkers will prowl the gloomy tunnel ahead and will target you before
you reach the destination platform. Use the cover of the wrecks to avoid their
attacks and to thin them out. They can be really hard to see in the gloom. You
will usually only spot them when they fire at you. It isn’t necessary to kill
them all anyway. If you kill two you can usually boost past and get to the
destination platform. You can also finish them off from the platform and loot
the area in peace.

Continue forward through the corridors to the large cluttered deck. The sound of
Super Stalkers will come to you, but a pesky Swarm will appear first, dead
ahead. Deploy a mine in their path, and then have your Ripper equipped for a
charging Super Leaper. Once it’s down, deploy mines between the containers while
working your way along the path. A single mine, even with an upgraded Detonator,
is more likely to just cripple these tough Stalkers, so deploy two or be
prepared to deal with one crawling your way.

There is a side corridor where you can find two items, a WORKBENCH and the , “Framing Cho.” I had six Power Nodes and spent four on the Ripper matrix.
One went to a “Connecting” space and one each to “Capacity,” “Damage” and
“Duration.” One Node went to the Detonator for “Capacity.” This left one Power
Node in reserve. This chamber seems to be off limits for the bad guys.

If a Stalker avoids or survives the mines, hit it with stasis as it charges and
then rip it to shreds. Three Super Pukers will also enter the fight nearer the
exit. Use stasis and the Line Gun or mines on the Pukers.

Head down the stairs and use the SAVE STATION. Take the lift and enter the
Captain’s nest. Activate the Gravity Tethers-you have to hold the controls while
it counts down-to undo some of Tiedemann’s damage. He will shout in protest.

You must now board an escape pod, if Nicole will get out the way! You can’t
control the pod-its a cut scene-and naturally it crashes; and, oh, Stross is
totally cracking up and is assaulting a screaming Ellie with a screwdriver!

Go down the stairs, loot the place and use the SAVE STATION.

You can sometimes grab an item or two from the corpses to the left behind the
wall. You should also be able to grab the dead Super Stalker and get an item
from it as well.

Enter the large inclined area and be aware that it harbors five tough Super
Stalkers. Place a barrier of mines across the pillars to your right to protect
your flank. Put them a bit high for better coverage on the slope. Work your way
down the left wall, and be ready to freeze the Stalkers and rip them apart. A
pair of Crawlers will also appear when you least expect them.

Stomp the carcasses and exit. Stross’ increasing madness is apparent as he rants
about “step three.” Loot the area and hack the door’s control console. Enter the
mine. If you look to the right through the tangled wreckage you can see an item
container on the rock face. Shoot it with the Plasma Cutter and use kinesis to
retrieve a POWER NODE.

Just around the first corner the grunting of Cysts can be heard. There is a Cyst
and several items in the alcove just to the left of the passage. There are three
more Cysts before the next hatch and there is a POWER NODE near the last one. In
the next area another Cyst lurks in the next corridor near the STORE and the
SAVE STATION.

Maintain the weapons you have-the Plasma Cutter, the Line Gun, the Ripper and
the Detonator.

Enter the next area and be prepared for numerous Necromorphs. A Super Slasher
can be seen on the catwalk ahead and it will assault you if you annoy it with a
Plasma round. Stay near the doorway and drop a mine or two in its path, be ready
with the Ripper if it gets to you. Even with the Detonator extensively upgraded
it usually takes two mines to eradicate “Super” types-they are more often just
crippled. Another random Necromorph will appear as you advance.

Note the ramp going down into the area below as you make the 90-degree turn to
the right. Continue ahead, raid the two crates and place a couple of mines on
the catwalk you just crossed. When you reach the door at the end of the
locator’s path you will find that its power is off. Grab the Med Pack near the
lift beyond the door.

Backtrack toward the ramp going down into the low area. A pair of Super Pukers,
coming one at a time, will confront you. The ambush should kill the first Super
Puker. You can save ammo by toting one of the red explosive canisters from near
the objective door with you to address the second.

Place a couple of mines behind you, near the head end of the ramp. Stop halfway
down and be prepared for a Super Puker coming toward you from the far side of
the low area. Freeze it and park a Line Gun grenade at its feet to kill it. The
Super Slasher, creeping in behind you, should be killed by the mines. An
Exploder will also need killing before you can descend. Locate any troublesome
Lurker joining the fray and put it down.

Descend and make a 180 degree turn, following the power cables, to locate the
roofed area bathed in light. Another Super Puker will come rushing at you. Use
stasis and a Line Gun energy grenade to take it out. A lone Lurker will
sometimes attack as well.

The Power Cell is not functioning, causing the exit door to malfunction. You
will need a good Cell. Refill your Stasis Mod and move forward from the broken
Power Cell, along the power cables, and make a right. There is a metal hopper
where you will find a good Power Cell. Grab it with kinesis and you will hear
the hiss of Lurkers.

Go quickly clockwise around the central framework to the lighted area and drop
the Cell. Don’t replace the bad Cell yet-that will trigger additional hostiles.
Three or four pesky Lurkers will now begin to target you. They can be hard to
locate and target, so don’t spare the stasis and use the I beam in the lighted
area as cover against their attacks. The best policy is to freeze them and drop
a Line Gun grenade near them.

When the Lurkers are dead, refill your Stasis Mod and replace the bad Cell to
restore the power. This will trigger a Super Puker. Place a couple of mines near
the base of the exit ramp and move slowly forward to lure it into the mines. If
the mines don’t do the trick, take it down. Don’t use the locator’s path yet.
Stay in the low area near but not on the ramp.

You must now eliminate several Crawlers and a late arriving Exploder before
starting up the ramp. Use the Plasma Cutter from near the base of the ramp.
Don’t use the path, it leads to the lift’s shaft and the lift isn’t there.

When the Exploder goes down, start up the ramp and place a mine or two at the
bottom of it. Equip the Ripper. A Super Slasher will meet you at the head of the
ramp and another Super Puker will come up it. Freeze and shred the Super Slasher
and quickly turn to freeze and kill the Super Puker if the mines didn’t kill it.

It is now clear sailing to the exit door, but a pair of Super Slashers will
pursue you if you loiter. You will find yourself in a rocky passage. Follow it
to a SAVE STATION, stomping the crates along the way. Before you reach the next
door, a shutter opens and Stross displays Ellie’s eyeball on the end of a
screwdriver. In a deranged state, he says that you’re next. As the shutter
closes they are fighting it out.

Go through the “Thermal Scanning Room Access” doorway and you are pulled and
released into the airless vacuum of space by a huge glowing tentacle. Below your
position you will see a huge Blob Necromorph. Above and to the left you will see
an O2 Refill Station. When the Blob pulses and starts to expose its three
glowing orbs, hit it with a Line Gun grenade. A single grenade, well placed,
will kill it. Take the time to grab the RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR that it releases.

Boost up to the O2 Station for a refill. Use your locator to lay a path back
into the complex. The entry hatch designated, however, is blocked by two sets of
laser beams emanating from two large generators. Your kinesis can’t budge them,
so you will need a couple of thrust canisters to move them aside.

The laser generator to your right, as you face the blocked exit hatch, has a
thrust canister attached. Shoot it to move it aside and stay out of the slewing
beam. Locate either of the round hatches near your exit portal. They will be
blinking sporadically as if partially shorted. Inside each there is a thrust
canister dispenser and an O2 Refill Station. Boost to one of the blinking
hatches and grab an O2 refill and a canister-one hatch actually has a floating
canister that can be had with kinesis. Attach the thrust canister to the other
laser generator to clear the exit hatch.

Boost to the exit but take the time to grab the CONTACT ENERGY SCHEMATIC before
entering the open exit hatch. It is floating on the outside and to the right of
the long tubular entry airlock. Take out the three Cysts in the first passage.
Land on the platform, fill up on O2 and take out the three living Cysts in the
next passage before exiting the vacuum.

Surprisingly a one-eyed Ellie hasn’t killed Stross. Grab the scattered items and
take the lift after visiting the SAVE STATION. As you exit the lift a Super
Slasher will start toward you along the catwalk from the far end. Deploy a
couple of mines near the first turn on the catwalk to your left. This should
address the charging Super Slasher.

Two Lurkers will scramble below. Grab a red explosive canister from the grating
below and shoot it at the Lurkers. Repeat if one of the pests escapes the first
attack.

As you make the turn on the walkway a Super Puker will drop near the rock column
ahead. Use Stasis and the Ripper to kill it. Deploy a couple of mines near that
corner for insurance, and quickly be ready for a pair of Super Slashers closing
from ahead, one on the heels of the first. The two mines to your rear should
provide relief from the Super Slasher coming in behind you.

When you get near the top of the ramp deploy another pair of mines to your rear.
A Super Puker will appear at the base of the ramp, to be followed by another
Super Slasher, but one will also come calling from your rear. Freeze the Super
Puker below and take it out with a Line Gun grenade. Address the Super Slasher
that follows it with stasis and the Ripper. Turn to address the Super Slasher
coming from behind if it survived your ambush.

If you look toward the rock wall from the top end of the ramp, you can retrieve
a POWER NODE with kinesis from the mesh netting. Loot the corpses and the crates
and continue on into the “Mining Hall B Access” doorway.

Ignore the lasers for now and use a Power Node to enter the storeroom. Grab the
ADVANCED SUIT SCHEMATIC, the random SEMICONDUCTOR and any of the other items
that you can carry. You will usually find a POWER NODE in this storeroom as
well.

Exit, grab the crate and shoot it into the lasers to clear the hatch. Take out
the three Cysts occupying the corridor. One is on the ceiling above the little
side grotto, one on the right wall and one on the left wall. Grab all the pick-
ups.

As you start to hack the door’s control console a demented Stross, Ellie’s
eyeball on the end of a screwdriver, will burst out of the “Main Mine Access”
doorway and attack you. Hit the action button to fend him off and give him a
good stomping to get his , “I Could Never Hurt You,” for Ellie and just
because you’re tired of his crap.

Take the lift in the next chamber-look familiar-and follow the locator’s path to
the elevator. After Nicole’s tiresome outburst, loot the area and continue on to
the “Elevator to Exploration Mine.” A Super Slasher will attack from below
before you call the elevator.

Before calling the elevator, grab the items on the other side of the dark
elevator shaft with kinesis, including the POWER NODE. The , “Personal Log, Rig 438642, #1” is among the pick-ups. Call the elevator, step aboard and
activate it. Select a corner to defend.

Equip your Ripper and soon the first of the Slashers will drop down. As you move
to address the enemy, switch corners when your sawing makes you pursue a
Necromorph. They will come from opposite sides so sweep the Ripper to damage
both and keep ripping because several more waves, over a dozen total
Necromorphs, will attack and there will be a wave or two featuring three. Most
of the enemy will be Slashers but there will also be several Super Slashers. Use
stasis on them so you aren’t overwhelmed. When the battle is won, items will be
everywhere.

Take what you can and as you enter the next area, a furious, rather inarticulate
Nicole seizes you. You will have to hit the action button to survive. After
Isaac speaks, the Nicole vision seems to believe he has been beaten- “step
four”-acceptance.

At last a STORE and a SAVE STATION. Sell the SEMICONDUCTOR, the RUBY
SEMICONDUCTOR, if you found it, and download the ADVANCED SUIT SCHEMATIC and the
CONTACT ENERGY SCHEMATIC. Purchase the Advanced Suit for 36,000 credits. It
features 25 inventory slots, a 20% armor increase and it reduces stasis recharge
time by 50%. Police your inventory and use the SAVE STATION. Place your
Detonator and its Mines in the safe and take the Force Gun and some Force
Energy. You’ll also need the Ripper, the Line Gun and the Plasma Cutter.

Your major purchases are now complete, so if you have a stockpile of credits,
start purchasing Power Nodes to upgrade your gear. I had 90,600 credits and I
purchased five Power Nodes. It is always a good idea to keep some credits in
case you need to buy Med Packs, heaven forbid, or ammo.

Note: If you had to leave drops on the elevator you can go back for them now.
Use the SAVE STATION.

Move down the ramp and access the WORKBENCH. I had ten Nodes and I used eight,
placing three in the Ripper matrix-one in “Connecting,” “Reload” and “Damage.”
Five went to the Line Gun-“Reload,” “Capacity,” “Connecting,” “Damage,” and
“Alternate Damage.”

Enter the “Exploratory Mine,” looting as you go. A one-eyed Ellie, freed of
Stross, is examining an industrial rock drill with a missing Power Cell. Isaac
assures Ellie that he isn’t running away from his past anymore and his goal is
now clear-destroy the Marker.

The drill rig may be able to get the two of you to the Government Sector so you
must now locate a Power Cell for the drill. Ignore the path and move behind the
drill toward the sound of grunting Cysts. Knock out the seven disgusting
creatures. You can save ammo by using the two nearby rods. Grab the Power Cell
from the metal container. Insert it and there is now a control circuit short.
You must now locate a new circuit board.

Go up the ramp nearest the drill’s control panel and use kinesis to acquire the
DIAMOND SEMICONDUCTOR from the rock ledge. It will be just beyond the green item
crate. The objective path is now viable so follow it onto the tram. Go across
and take out the two Super Slashers that come over the rail, dead ahead. Look
over the side and use kinesis to grab the POWER NODE and other items from the
rock ledge below where they emerged.

Use kinesis on the cover plate and grab the circuit board. Move back across the
cavern and a Super Puker will greet you as you exit the tram. It is a bit hard
to target since the tram’s structure blocks your sight line. Hit it with stasis
to prevent taking damage before taking it out.

Equip the Force Gun and insert the replacement circuit board. You must now hack
the drill’s controls to get it going. After a bit of verbal jousting with a
self-assured Ellie, go up the metal ramp and stand where it ends.

Ellie will have to turn the huge drilling rig so that you can get onto the lift.
From the ramp you can hit the Juveniles as they surge in from the incline above
and from below. A Slasher will also be in this mix of a dozen or so Juveniles,
but if you get onto the lift when it’s available you should miss the Slasher.
Set up shop on the drill, face the spinning blades and have your Ripper ready
for action.

As the drill moves forward Necromorphs of many types will climb onto the drill’s
deck-they will be Slashers, Spitters and Pukers, rather than the “Super”
variants. Use the Ripper and stasis to keep the deck clear. When Ellie says the
place is swarming with these things, you can use kinesis on several items lying
below on a rock ledge on the right side. Try to grab one or two of the red
explosive canisters as well. When the ride ends, you won’t be atop the drill, so
don’t wait to grab the enemy’s drops.

Lurkers will also used ranged attacks from the surrounding rock ledges. They
will attack from the right side and then twice on the left side. Use the
explosive canisters, the Line Gun or the Ripper’s alternate fire to address
them. You can also dodge or just endure many of their attacks because other
Necromorphs will be coming onto the deck during their attacks.

Ellie will bulldoze her way through the Government Sector’s foundation pilings
to finally get you within striking distance of the Marker.

You are now in the Government Sector. Somehow you ended up on an upper level and
Ellie on the lower. She speculates that the Marker is likely behind a giant
doorway visible from her position. Follow the path and use the SAVE STATION.
Ellie has located a Gunship and is excited at their prospects of escape. Isaac
has other plans on his mind.

Move along the path and when you see a white and green sign saying: “GOOD THINGS
ARE HAPPENING,” depart from the path momentarily. Go down the long hallway
toward the green crate. Melee the orange vending machine for a 10,000 credit
chip and continue on to grab the POWER NODE from the wall unit in the small
niche. Resume following the path after looting the area.

Move through the “Security Gunship Docking Bay” doorway and the one beyond. Send
Ellie on her way as she expresses dismay at your fatalism. Once again the plucky
lass labels you a “bosturd.” Resignation? Nicole wanting to be made whole again,
whatever that means. Adios Ellie, but it won’t be so easy to ditch the Nicole
delusions.

Now the locator doesn’t work. Tiedemann is annoyed by Isaac’s incursion, but he
has 200 security troops at his disposal to prevent any interference with his
plans. At the STORE sell the DIAMOND SEMICONDUCTOR. Place your Force Gun and
Plasma Cutter in the safe, and take the Detonator and its mines and the Contact
Beam and its ammo. Keep the Ripper and the Line Gun. Use the SAVE STATION.

Take the elevator near the STORE and look out into the large chamber. You must
hack a console that is on the left upper side of this entry area to open the
door, but Necromorphs abound in this room.

There is no set sequence to follow here, but some of the foes will enter from
just right of your entry point. Put a couple of mines there for starters. Take
out any visible foes before entering. An Exploder, sometimes a Super Slasher,
and a Puker are usually the first comers. Take them down.

Grab the stasis canister, and enter via the far opening and make an immediate
left. Go up the stairwell. The target console is there, but don’t try to hack it
yet. Use the stasis canister on any Necromorphs near the exit and engage them
with the Ripper. Face the stairs and deploy a couple of mines to your left,
because Necromorphs will pour in from that side as well, and place several on
the stairwell ahead. Place another horizontally overhead spanning the broad
entryway. This will likely address the first of the pesky Lurkers.

There will be Super Slashers, Pukers and/or Spitters, an Exploder or two and
several truly pesky Lurkers. As the mines go off to the left, try to re-deploy
them to keep this a largely one front battle. Use stasis and the Ripper on any
that get close and the Line Gun or Contact Beam on the Lurkers. They will
approach using the walls and ceiling to target you from above. When all is calm
quickly hack the doorway’s console. Run into the corridor opposite your initial
entry point and grab the POWER NODE from the wall unit. Grab any items you can
and get out before the next wave of Necromorphs hits, led by a pair of Lurkers.

Go down and around the circular structure and stop. You will need to go through
a doorway and into the restroom at the foot of and to the right of the long
stairwell, but as you descend Tiedemann’s security force confronts you. Sprint
down along the right wall and after they reveal themselves, continue to haul ass
for that open doorway. If you stay along the right wall you will easily make it
in.

Grab the POWER NODE from the sink and exit to the “Facilities Access.” Take the
duct to the lower security office after raiding the lockers. Outside the
security lasers make any route that way impossible, as does the locked doorway.
Raid the locker and go up the stairs and enter the upper security office,
grabbing all the items along the way. Use the SAVE STATION. Pull the cover plate
from the Power Cell and remove it to kill the power.

With the power off, Tiedemann’s forces are assailed by Necromorphs and they must
fall back to the Marker’s chamber. Below your position a steady stream of
assorted Necromorphs pour into the room.

Go back to the lower security office when the door is enabled and place a couple
of mines at the base of the stairwell. Numerous Necromorphs are still visible in
the next room.

Grab the stasis canister-its there for a reason-and be patient. Necromorphs,
coming from the upper security office, will soon be coming to call. An Infector
and a Super Slasher should be the first. The mines should kill at least one of
them. Use the stasis canister on the survivor and then kill it and the Super
Slasher that sometimes follows it. A few Swarm creatures may also accompany the
last Super Slasher. This will keep them off your back as you tackle the adjacent
room, which has seemingly emptied.

When you open the door, you should see the remnants of the Swarm ahead or to the
right. Place a mine in their path. If a Super Slasher appears, retreat back into
the security office to deal with it, but two Pukers, one a cripple, are more
likely the next enemies. Freeze the standing Puker and fire a Line Gun grenade
at its feet. This should kill them both. A lone Exploder will then need to be
put down as it lurches from the far end of the room-a single Ripper blade from
its alternate fire is the most economical way to eliminate it.

Move past the security detectors and through the doorway. Nicole’s apparition
and several corpses are in the next room, and the locator is back on line.
Ransack the area, defile the corpses with your boot and move toward the “Scan
Room.” When the security barrier intervenes hoist Lars Nordstrom, the corpse in
the hallway, for access to the adjacent area. Take the , “Patient Four”
and the item in the short corridor beyond. You may catch a glimpse of an
Infector as you go for the SAVE STATION. Grab the Med Pack near the corpse.

Continue along the path and a Slasher drops down just before you reach the door.
Take it out with your Ripper.

Equip your Detonator and open the door. Ahead an Infector is raising corpses.
Don’t go after it. Place a couple of mines ahead near the curved desk and
another to the left side near the power cables to protect your left flank. With
the Detonator equipped, take up position near the back wall.

As the Necromorphs dutifully charge into the mines, re-deploy them again.
Deploying two mines, if you have plenty, will, ensure nothing survives the
ambush. The Necromorphs will now also start to drop near you; so crank up the
Ripper, use stasis if pressed, and back away a bit to keep the blade spinning.
This group will include Super Slashers, Pukers, an Exploder and another round of
Slasher types and a Puker. The action is spaced out enough to be manageable if
you take them out quickly. A latecomer will usually interrupt the peace as you
begin searching the room for loot. Take the , “Shield Questions” from
near the exit.

Follow the path until you reach the “Project Annex.” A Corpse falls and
something wails as you enter-something is in there. Raid the lockers.

Use a Power Node to access the locked storeroom. It contains a random
SEMICONDUCTOR and other items. You will hear a crash before exiting. A Divider
will confront you upon exiting. Hit it with a stasis shot, and then twice with
the Contact Beam. This should kill it, but some of its pesky Spawn will probably
survive. Freeze them and stomp or kill them with the Ripper. The Divider will
usually drop a GOLD SEMICONDUCTOR.

Use the nearby WORKBENCH if you have Nodes. I had five and used four: three on
the Detonator for “Capacity,” “Connecting” and “Damage.” One Node went to
“Reload” on the Contact Beam. This left one in reserve.

Follow the path through “Core Sample Storage and Analyzation” and you will enter
a cluttered cargo area. Stalkers! Deploy some mines near your entry point. Since
a single mine won’t always kill them, deploy two, one atop the other on the
cargo containers nearest the doorway. This will protect your right flank.
Advance along the locator’s path to get the Stalker’s attention and retreat back
toward the entry area. They can only come straight in without hitting the mines.
Use stasis as they charge and then cut them down with the Line Gun or the
Contact Beam. If the mines take one out, try to re-deploy them between charges.

When the four Stalkers go down, a pair of Pukers will approach usually from the
direction of the path, but one will occasionally sneak in from the flank if your
mines were triggered. Use stasis and the Line Gun or the Contact Beam on them as
well, while avoiding their ranged attacks by ducking behind a container.

Follow the path and notice the overhead Power Cell as you go. Grab the , “Same Signal” from the sticky area to the left of the pathway. When you
reach the destination you will find that it has a dead Power Cell. Retrieve the
one you saw earlier and replace it, enabling the “Reconstruction Room Access”
doorway. Before exiting, loot the area, being sure to grab the POWER NODE on the
back wall.

Enter the next room and take out the Cyst you hear grunting in the left corner.
Use some of the junk lying about to kill it since you haven’t got the Plasma
Cutter. Use the SAVE STATION.

I hope Isaac is pretending when Nicole’s voice tells him he is close to her
beloved Marker. He says he doesn’t know what to do-hope he means how to kill it.

Enter the “Reconstruction Room.” You will now come to a chamber with rotating
arms sporting lethal laser beams. Look out the opening. You will see some
Crawlers and a crippled Super Slasher trying to get to you. Since you haven’t
got the Plasma Cutter, retreat from the opening and let them enter the short
hall, freeze the first to allow their buddies to catch up and then deploy a mine
in their path or use the Rippers alternate fire mode to take them out.

Equip your Ripper and as a rotating arm is passing, run to the right and duck
into the niche there. If you’re timing isn’t just right you’ll be starting over.
As far as I can see stasis doesn’t affect the rotating laser armature. Retreat
to the back of the niche and shred the Super Slasher and the two crippled
Slashers that enter from the laser bay. Grab the POWER NODE.

Now, after a successful run, you must avoid the lasers two more times and there
is no checkpoint. Once again dash to your right and into the second recess. Use
the Ripper’s alternate fire to take out the pair of Crawlers coming for you.
Make for the last niche and be prepared to take out two Slashers that will
immediately charge. A crippled Slasher will crawl in behind you as you deal with
them.

Take the lift and deactivate the Marker lasers. Lower the adjacent walkway with
kinesis and then the one on the opposite side of the central assembly. Go left
on the walkway and grab the pick-ups. A Slasher will drop down and then a Super
Slasher will climb up near the central hub.

Exit via the “Test Area 35561” doorway and approach the “Data Monitoring Room.”
An unholy racket greets you, but you will find only corpses to stomp. Grab the
items and the , “Marker Success!” Use the well-placed SAVE STATION.

Continue on and you will come to a double rotor assembly surrounded by a long
catwalk. Seems like a good place for an ambush. If they approach, kill the three
Crawlers with a single saw blade each. Look over the rail. You will see a group
of Necromorphs and they will scramble when they see you.

Place a couple of mines along the right walkway, near the turn. This will cover
your right flank. Place a couple ahead near the center of the left walkway and
another near the far end.

Start forward along the left wall. This will trigger an assault of about ten
assorted Necromorphs, entering in small groups from below and from the far end.
Hit the survivors of the mines with the Line Gun and if possible deploy mines
dead ahead while retreating as far back as you can. Use the Line Gun or Contact
Beam as much as possible since many of them are Pukers or Spitters. They will
stand off and spew at you before charging. Line Gun energy grenades can be very
effective against the Pukers and Spitters on the far end of the catwalk. If the
mines to your right are triggered, you will have to watch that side as well, but
mostly they come from the left if your initial advance was that way. Don’t
assume the all clear too quickly, several latecomers will straggle in-usually a
pair of Spitters and a Super Slasher climbing up from below.

A prudent player will now go back to the prior room and execute a save. Looming
is another skirmish very similar to the one you just endured, and if you’re
killed there you will get to repeat what you just accomplished-no nicely placed
checkpoint this time.

Exit the room and watch for a Super Puker at the bottom of the ramp. Hit the
Puker with stasis as it inhales to foul you and then hit it with the Contact
Beam. A Slasher will be dropping in on the action, and may meet its end with the
Super Puker. If not give it the business too.

Continue on to find another oval catwalk. Deploy a couple of mines behind as you
go clockwise around the catwalk. An Exploder and a Slasher will be the first out
and may meet their end hitting the mines. Once they are down quickly deploy a
couple of mines ahead and behind. Equip the Ripper or the Line Gun. Two Super
Pukers, a Spitter and a pair of Super Slashers will enter the action. Use stasis
on the Super Pukers and the Spitter, and don’t let your guard down when it seems
safe. A Slasher will climb up from below when the skirmish seems to be over to
interrupt your looting.

Exit and go down the ramp and into the next room. A guttural snarl will give you
warning, but all seems quiet as you move through the round hatch. Take the , “Tiny Marker” from near the entry and raid the containers nearby. Before
going for the exit, deploy a couple of mines in the center of the room and then
grab the stasis canister. As you approach the round hatch the guttural growl you
hear is a Brute dropping into the room. It will hit the mines. Hit it with the
stasis canister and then with the Contact Beam for an easy kill. Grab the RUBY
SEMICONDUCTOR it drops.

Hack the door controls and follow the path, unopposed, until you come to a
STORE, a WORKBENCH and a SAVE STATION. Sell your SEMICONDUCTORS and police your
inventory. If you have Stasis Packs in your safe, bring some along-buy one or
two if need be. The same is true for Med Packs. The area ahead is challenging.
Keep the Line Gun, the Ripper, The Detonator and the Contact Beam.

Take the , “Dire” and the ominous , “Its Making Us Make It!”
from the consoles near the Store.

Use credits to purchase Power Nodes-the end is near. I had 128,200 credits and I
purchased eight Nodes, giving me eleven. I placed four nodes on the Contact
Beam-“Connecting”, “Capacity,” “Connecting,” and “Charge.” Six went to the
Ripper-“Connecting,” “Capacity,” “Damage,” “Connecting,” “Duration” and
“Capacity.”

Exit the room, take the lift and you will see the colossal Marker surrounded by
a seething mass of Necromorphs. Tiedemann knows things have gone awry and Nicole
appears once again imploring Isaac to succumb to its power.

Tiedemann admits that Isaac’s brain has been probed for years, looking for the
Marker’s secrets; but the massive influx of Necromorphs has foiled his plans and
things have gone awry-badly awry.

Go into the “Project Interface Room.” Grab the items. The Marker pulses just
outside the windows. Activate the “dark machine” and Nicole appears again. This
was one of Stross’ nightmare visions-stick a needle in your eye.

You must now hack the door controls to get out of the lab, but you have a new
companion-a very bad one. A new type of Necromorph has surfaced-the Ubermorph.
This Slasher-like Necromorph will rapidly regenerate after you put it down and
is relentless in its purpose-your demise. That said, it is no tougher to put
down than a Super Slasher. It just fails to stay down.

As soon as it appears, dismember it and hit it with a stasis blast. The console
will be released at that time, so hack the console, take the Ubermorph down
again, refill your stasis from the nearby Refill Station and get out of the lab.

Turn right upon exiting the Lab, grab the POWER NODE and take the path until you
arrive at a SAVE STATION. It is to the right of the corridor in a small niche.
Grab any items along the way, including the , “Illegal Evacuation.”
Take the time to scavenge-the Ubermorph won’t attack again in this area.

Continue on past the Marker, through “Marker Access” and into the “Marker
Thermal Vent Conduits.” Hit the Super Puker appearing on your right with stasis
and cut it down before it does its worst. From your entry point, use kinesis to
retrieve the , “Evacuation Snafu” from the floor near the corpse lying
on the console. That corpse on that console will be required for a DNA scan
enabling the exit door-mark its location, but don’t go to the exit door yet,
raid the back area and let your Stasis Mod recharge-its safe for now. Grab the
POWER NODE in the wall unit.

Grab the body with kinesis and when you start for the exit, the Ubermorph will
block the way. Shoot the body toward the exit door.

Take the Ubermorph down and put it in stasis. A Super Puker and a Super Slasher
will now enter the battle, but if you’re really quick you can scan the body and
get out before the Ubermorph regenerates. Another Super Puker will also enter
the action if you aren’t able to get out quickly enough.

Exit the room and use the SAVE STATION if you put down the opposition in the
previous room, if not hoof it down the path. The Ubermorph, the Puker and the
Super Slasher may be on your heels but they will be easier targets in the narrow
corridor. Freeze them and hit them with a Line Gun grenade or mines and continue
on.

A Super Puker will next confront you in the long corridor, quickly hit it with
stasis, and then take it down. Turn to take down the Ubermorph, which may again
be on your heels.

The path will take a sharp turn in the middle of a continuing corridor. If you
continue on a little you will find a POWER NODE and an item locker.

Enter the side corridor where the path leads. Shoot a couple of timed Line Gun
grenades or mines around the dark corner. Retreat out of the blast zone and put
down the Ubermorph after it emerges from a wall vent. It’s possible that the
regenerating carcass may block your passage-not so good.

With the Ubermorph down, continue on. The Swarm and the Super Slasher should
have been destroyed by the explosive attack. Have the Ripper ready for two more
Super Slashers lurking near the poky elevator-hurry up! There is a short
interval between the two Super Slashers, so call the elevator before the second
one arrives to facilitate your exit. You will likely have to face the Ubermorph
here again if your takedowns are slow or you weren’t able to call the elevator
earlier.

Get into the elevator and run down the hall but stop at the corner. Ahead,
through the glass, you can see an Infector at work. Don’t go for the door. That
will bring the enemy onto you in tight quarters. Deploy four mines near the wall
by the exit hatch. Turn to take out the Ubermorph. Go forward to draw the
Necromorphs out of the vent and into the minefield. The mines should kill the
first comers, which should be a pair of Infectors. A pair of Super Slashers will
follow and attack. Make liberal use of stasis, you will soon be out of their
reach. By now the Ubermorph will be reviving, so get to the exit.

You will now have to pull the cover with kinesis, melee punch the fuse block and
then wait for the hatch to cycle open. You will not be alone for long. The
Ubermorph will probably be back before the door can open or you will encounter
it in the next area before exiting.

Deactivate the artificial gravity from the control station on the platform. You
will now be without atmosphere, so watch your O2. Lift off and follow the path.

You won’t need to waste stasis on the two sliding hatches, just float toward the
hatch and boost through when they begin to slide open. Make sure you clear them
or you will be crushed.

There are now three plasma streams to get past and beyond a nesting Blob, and it
will be shooting projectiles at you. Traverse the streams on the left side,
taking refuge behind each of the round support cylinders to avoid the
projectiles. The Blob ahead can be a bit hard to see in the glare of the plasma
streams. Pinpoint its location by its projectiles and plant a Line Gun grenade
on it for the kill. It isn’t even really necessary to kill the Blob, if you get
past the plasma streams, you can just boost past it, hitting it with stasis if
needed. If you kill it, it releases a RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR. Restore gravity and
exit.

Enter the next room and Nicole will again address you-pep talk! Exit into
“Marker Access” and use a Power Node on the Secure Storage room. There are
sometimes two POWER NODES in the room, and a RUBY SEMICONDUCTOR is also likely.

Continue through “Radiation Containment.” Grab the POWER NODE on the wall, and
then go into “Direct Marker Access.” This will feature your final STORE and
WORKBENCH so use your credits to purchase Med Packs and Stasis Packs, if needed,
and Power Nodes for your final upgrades. Consider selling surplus ammo as well,
though you can keep your inventory for a second round. You will be carrying the
Line Gun, the Ripper, the Contact Beam and the Force Gun into the concluding
battles. Upgrade these as much as your Node supply will allow. Reloading and
capacity are as important as damage so upgrade accordingly. Carry plenty of
ammo, stasis and health supplies.

Note: This is the final store and you will need sufficient ammo for the finale.
Get there short on ammo and you can’t finish the game unless you receive
fortuitous drops. If you use the advised weapons, you will need, in theory at
least, less than a single clip of Line Gun ammo, about eight or ten rounds of
Contact Beam ammo and around 25 rounds of Force Gun ammo but you must also run a
Necromorph gauntlet just to get there. Carry 4 or 5 Med Packs, (Medium are
sufficient) a Stasis Pack-two is better-and fill your slots with ammo for the
other weapons, no use economizing now-the penalty for an ammo shortfall could be
“Convergence” or, at least, re-doing chapter 15 from its beginning.

With 75,700 credits in stock, I purchased six Nodes, giving me twelve. I
assigned four to the Line Gun-two Nodes went to “Alternate Damage,” and two went
to “Width.” Eight went to the Force Gun for “Capacity,” “Damage,” “Speed,”
“Reload,” “Connecting,” “Reload,” “Capacity” and “Damage.” This leaves no Power
Nodes in reserve-you won’t need any.

As you leave the STORE, Nicole’s apparition says it will meet you at the Marker.
Exit and be prepared for a pair of Super Leapers near the door, one from the
left one the right. As you enter the corridor a Super Puker on a high walkway
will spew at you. Hit it with stasis to highlight its position and use the Line
Gun to take it out. Duck behind the corner near the doorway if you miss it to
try again.

Note: The Super Puker can be hard to see and hit at this distance, but you must
take it down before proceeding. You can even go back to the store and get the
Seeker Rifle, and then return it after the shot.

Raid the lockers that are to the right of the entry door. This is a safe spot if
you want to auto recharge your Stasis Mod to save your Stasis Packs for the
ordeals ahead.

The Ubermorph will greet you at the turn, so put it down and run down the path,
ignoring the Lurker-unless it’s on the walkway rather than above. Get into the
next room and two Super Slashers will assault you. If you freeze them, you don’t
even need to kill them. If you do kill them and stop to loot, the Ubermorph will
again need your attention.

Continue into the next room and a Super Leaper and then a Super Puker will block
the way, and as you dispatch them a pesky Lurker will fire at you from above. If
you’re pokey the Ubermorph will again come to call. Put it down again if need
be.

Continue on and a Super Slasher and a Super Puker will intervene. If you freeze
them both and immediately remove the small container from the doorway you can
get out and avoid a major confrontation since they don’t follow you. If you do
have to tangle with them, another Super Slasher and another Super Puker will
join in the battle and the Ubermorph will be back for more. If you fight them,
make liberal use of stasis on this tough bunch in tight quarters and shred
everything in sight with your Ripper.

If you battle them, heal if need be and use kinesis to clear the small crate
from the exit door. Be prepared for a Super Leaper to be right in your face as
you exit. Have your blade spinning as you enter. A pair of truly pesky Lurkers
will harass you as you take on the Leaper. The Lurkers have a bit of trouble
targeting you from above so try to again ignore them but they will sometimes
come to ground level. A Super Slasher will defend the exit, and the Ubermorph
may again be on your heels.

Exit and grab the last , “Tiedemann’s Last Hope” near the lift. Take the
lift and use the final SAVE STATION. Pause here if you are out of stasis and let
your Stasis Mod at least partially recharge. It is actually SAFE!

Move along and the Ubermorph will again need your attention. Put it down and
melee the fuse box on the right side and then run through the doorway. Follow
the path and melee the control fuses for “Test Area E4” and enter.

The Marker is just ahead, visible across the long walkway. Move that way and
Tiedemann nails you with a Javelin Gun. Lay on the action button to prevent your
demise. Catch the next spear, pump the action button, and shoot a spear from his
own weapon into his throat. Finish him when your weapon is enabled after the cut
scene.

You have to be glad he didn’t electrify that first javelin and even happier he
didn’t get the weapon’s explosive perk.

Good ole’ Nicole “thing” now shows her real self-the backstabber. Big surprise
there!

You can easily get a bit disoriented in the haze of the final battlefield, so
don’t move as Nicole’s initial tirade rolls-she will appear in front of you.
Drop a grenade at her feet with the Line Gun’s alternate fire. A single well-
placed round will make her flash and disappear. The “Heart” of the Marker will
now be exposed but will be lost briefly in the glare. Hit it with the Contact
Beam and it will disappear.

Note: You can also use the Contact Beam to drive her off, but it will take two
shots and the slow reload speed of the weapon will become a factor as the battle
deepens. You can also use it against her entourage of satanic Juvies, but its
concussive blast will only delay their assault and make you reload when there is
no time.

Once again Nicole will appear and from now on she isn’t alone. Equip the Force
Gun and use it on the deranged pack of Juvenile demons that will swirl around
you from everywhere. Stay away from Nicole as you run the perimeter shooting the
shrieking demons-which will take your head off if several are able to get hold
of you. Don’t run into Nicole. You are simply dead if she gets too close!

If you sprint the perimeter, you can get the little demons following and you can
turn and take out groups with a single Force Gun blast. Melee tactics will work
in a pinch, but don’t depend on them to do the job. Some of the little demons
will, at least, drop items as they expire.

When the mob is momentarily subdued and they will be briefly, shoot another Line
Gun grenade at Nicole’s feet. When she disappears hit the Marker’s pulsing
“Heart” with the Contact Beam until it disappears and immediately switch to the
Force Gun. Clear a path with energy blasts and when the pestiferous pack is
subdued, place another Line Gun grenade at her feet and follow it with the
Contact Beam to the Marker’s “Heart.”

You will have to repeat this until you damage the Marker enough so that it
vanishes in a blaze of light and the apparition of Nicole with it-good riddance!
How many rounds before you can rest-it all depends on getting accurate hits with
the Contact Beam. Three rounds will do it if your blasts to the “Heart” are
accurate. Four times if you’re shooting isn’t so precise. If you’re using the
Plasma Cutter instead, double it.

When the battle is over, Isaac slumps resigned to his fate as the Sprawl’s
containment field is compromised. The Sprawl and Isaac Clarke are doomed but the
Marker is finally destroyed.

The Game’s Credits will begin to roll, but don’t put down the controller. The
gritty Ellie is back in the gunship. Whether Isaac wants to be rescued or not
she is going to crash through the roof, depressurizing the chamber, forcing him
into action.

Isaac is flung into the void. You must now catch the shuttle, avoiding the
massive debris field, boosting when needed; and, when alongside the shuttle, you
take her hand to get aboard by pumping the action button.

Isaac has been in this situation before and the Nicole he knew wasn’t the one on
that fateful shuttle. He fearfully looks over at Ellie. She has been through a
lot, they both have, but does she appear more than a bit too rough around the
edges? Nahh!!!

Congratulations on completing Dead Space 2. You can now save your game and start
another round by selecting “new game +.” You will retain all of your equipment
and credits.