Hellscape – Near the Dark Bastion
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Take everything back that’s yours…
Grab some cannon ammo
Ride in the tank and shoot down some planes
Gain control over the dark within
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Try to fire. Now leave via the hatch, and follow the path off the cannon. Speak to the dying ally. He tells you you must reload. To find the shell ammo you need, turn right from his location, and follow the tracks back the way the cannon came from. Get into it with some nazis, and make your way down. Use the Creeping Dark to scout ahead, and be wary of the small lights. They drain you fast. Kill your way towards a bunker.
You should have 230 or so hearts now. Your Darkness level has long been maxed way out. Good job. If you want the achievement, or just need to keep the soldiers dead, eat the hearts! I like the rifle here, but if it’s too slow for you, use the pistols when you get the ammo. They’re so fast that pumping like four rounds (2 from each side) into a soldier, even on Hard, should be no problem.
Get into the building, and search the area for letters if you want them. This is the only time in the game you’ll be in this particular building. Some of the areas you just came from have some too, see section 3 of the guide for info, though it’s still a big work in progress. Eventually, after the dead ends, you’ll find the correct path.
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Village
Press through the grate or Demon Arm it, and go right to get out of this canal. Seek out Anthony and find that the field hospital is closed up. Speak to the first two men you see here in town, eventually one gives you a lead. Head to…
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The Trenches (part 2)
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Deliver some payback, using the halftrack with Anthony
Shoot down six planes minimum if you want the achievement
Survive two Dark encounters
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Locate the sign in the village if you need help. Hop down the ladder that got you here the first time you were in this world, and follow the tunnels out and up into the trench area. Just as you get to go up (near it) there’s a man, a Charlie Hazelgrove. Speak to him until he gives you a locket and you get a mission objective update. Then head on up.
Time for a ride. Speak, then, while still down in the trenches, go to the side of the tank and look up for the ladder. Some folks get tricked here, you do not leave the Trench to man the gun. This is the section where you can shoot down planes, just so you know, for the achievement.
There isn’t much I can tell you here. My advice is to keep your aim true. If you keep dying (on Hard mode especially), just keep repeating the section and remembering where the enemy is. All infantry with rifles can be blown up, just hail fire in the direction of their burnt out areas and they’ll eventually blow. Unleash on the tanks before anything else, when you see them, and watch for a small fizzle explosion to know you killed the men inside. When you see pill boxes of enemies, aim inside the little slots to fire, and you should trigger explosions just like with exposed infantrymen.
As for the planes, repeat the checkpoint until you memorize the first nine or so planes, and you’ll very likely easily get all six done within the first couple tries. Go for groups, not singles. See my Achievements section below for more detail. Good luck to you!
Near the end of the section you will get a checkpoint save. Anthony warns of most dangers, 9 oclock, 12, etc. When he talks about Snipers, be cool and see what he does. Keep firing though as a distraction.
You finally ram in and flip, within the new base. You’re going to be down and out for a few, so relax and just listen to him and what’s going down. Then, you’re lifted up and…
Remember when I talked about a couple of encounters with Dark forces? Here’s one of them. He will swat at you and through your aim off. Just readjust yourself fast and keep on him. Repeatedly fire the miniguns into the creatures mouth, even when it’s closed. KEEP your aim centered and fire, and he’ll opens his mouth several times, letting you fire into the meat. Keep at this and don’t let your aim be thrown off for too long or it’s over for you. He will eventually drop dead, and you can free yourself from the tank. Go see Anthony real quick. And shoot that thing in the head a few times just to be sure.
After you learn some interesting stuff from Anthony, explore if you want for letters and eventually make for the exit passage. If you stand facing the gaping hole the creature made, look to the far right from that spot, for an alcove, with a door and some beams on the ground. To the immediate left of that dead end, go into the passage, through the door, turn a hard left right away and into that semi obscured door.
Follow this fairly straight forward path until you reach the next area.
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Castle Entrance
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Get the shell outta here! (sorry, couldn’t resist the bad pun)
Blow open the castle gates
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Head up the steps nearby, use the Demon Arm on every light, and be ready to shoot up two nazis. Locate the switch up top (near one nazi if you’re quick) in the corner, and activate it. Head back down to the shell cart’s side and climb up it. Now look a bit down and activate the cart engine. Weeeee!
Shoot down the plane and pick at the infantry as you arrive. Activate your shields and hop down to battle. Take out the four or five here, climb up and take out one more, and go into the hatch again. Fire the shell! Isn’t that cute, it’s begging now.
Now, with the way open and you up top for an advantage, take out the guys and rush down to eat the hearts before they can reanimate on you. Cross the scafold and search for letters if you want to. Enter the castle and get ready to free yourself.
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Castle Hall
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Penetrate the heart of Darkness
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Head down, and don’t forget to look straight ahead for a gate with a letter for collectables within it. See the four areas here to the sides, two each? Interact with each. Then, get ready for that other encounter with the Dark I mentioned earlier. This time, it’s quite serious.
When battling yourself, simply stay half the room away at the very least, and shoot each Darkling twice to kill it with pistols. They’re fast enough to work here. You have no powers or shield, so use speed with the guns and pray. When he summons a Black Hole void to kill you (once, twice, sometimes three times) just run backwards while facing him and you should be fine. Kill one more wave of Darklings off before they can shred you up, and do NOT shoot the Darkness.
Take a step towards it and see if it talks about you staying back. If so, rush into it’s body and you’ve won! Congrats!!
