___ ___ ___ ___ ___ _[ _ ]== _( _ )== ===( _ )=== ==( _ )_ ==( _ )_ (_______) (_______) (_____) (_______) (_______) _______________________________________________________________________________ METAL SAGA FAQ/WALKTHROUGH _______________________________________________________________________________ Metal Saga: Sajin no Kusari Written by threetimes Developer: Crea-Tech First Submitted: 1/10/2007 Success: Japan 6/9/05 Latest Update: September 2011 Atlus Co.: US 04/25/06 Version 1.41 T rated game for the PS2 _______________________________________________________________________________ UPDATE: September 2011 Added more sites allowed to host this FAQ and a new Hunter title! This walkthrough and guide is based on the PS2 North American version of the game and does NOT relate to the DS version, as it is in fact a very different game with a different Japanese name: Hagane no Kisetsu. There are two separate published strategy guides for Metal Saga, both in Japanese, and not available in English. Metal Saga was also released in Japan for the Mobile as "Metal Saga Mobile", in May 2006. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------- Background to the game and guide ------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Metal Saga is a sequel to two games in a short series called Metal Max, developed by Crea Tech, published by Success and released in Japan in 2005. It is the third installment of this series and the only one to be released in North America. It is published by Atlus, who are renowned for their localisation of sometimes obscure Japanese role playing games, and was first released on 25th April 2006 In an interview with ign.com http://rpgvault.ign.com/articles/695/695308p1.html Zach Meston, from Atlus, said this: "Metal Saga is non-linear, turn-based, and offers an obscene amount of missions to complete and areas to explore. According to our testers, there are roughly 800 events in all. The Japanese strategy guide for Metal Saga rivals Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for sheer beefiness, so I have no reason to doubt them." This goes part way to explaining why writing a walkthrough for the North American version is a bit daunting, without being able to get hold of the full Japanese guide. I did manage to get the short Japanese guide to the first third of the game, but even this was of very limited help without access to a translation. However, many people have generously contributed their information and ideas to this FAQ and I am very grateful for all the help I have received. The full list of credits and acknowledgments is given at the end. Despite this, there are still things of which I am uncertain, and where that is the case I have indicated as much. So all errors and omissions are mine. But here goes. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* IMPORTANT: BECAUSE OF THIS WAY OF ORGANISING THE GUIDE THERE WILL BE MASSIVE SPOILERS FROM THE START. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Please use the search codes to help find sections in the guide. To do this press Control + F and then type in the code in the box that appears. Then press Enter. If you are using a Mac it is either apple command button at the side of the space bar, + F, then type in the code and select "next". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents ................................................ Search Code ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. OVERVIEW: P.O.S.T.E.D. .............................................. 0101 B. CHARACTERS .......................................................... 0102 1. Playable Characters 2. Which Characters to Use? 3. Which Dog to Use? 4. Character Skills 5. Character Titles C. TANKS ............................................................... 0103 1. Obtainable 2. Rental 3. Controls for equipping and fighting 4. Tank Weight: overloading and armour tiles 5. Towing Tanks 6. Washing Tanks 7. Compare Parts 8. Painting Tanks 9. Beginner's Guide to Tank Modification 10. Which Tanks to Use? D. OUTLAWS' LOCATIONS (and search code) ............................... 0104 B2 Manta Ray walkthrough! E. SHORTCUTS ........................................................... 0105 F. TEN TIPS ............................................................ 0106 G. WALKTHROUGH AND GUIDE 1.0 JUNKYARD P.O.S.T.E.D. ......................................... 0107 1.1. Junkyard Later Events O.E. 1.2. Junk Mountain O.T.D. 1.3. Impound Lot 1.4. Junkyard East S. 1.5. Finding Newfolk 2.0 NEWFOLK P.O.S.T.E.D. .......................................... 0108 2.1 Newfolk W. S.T. 2.2. Trader Camp O.E. 2.3 Abandoned Ruins T.E. 2.4. Finding East Zero 3.0 EAST ZERO P.O.S.T.E.D. ........................................ 0109 3.1 MC Hamir and the Maus Tank O.T. 3.2 Train P.O.E. 3.3 Bio Energetics Lab P.E.D. 3.4 Finding Beldaire 3.5 Funding Alice One 4.0 BELDAIRE P.O.S.T.E.D. ......................................... 0110 4.1 Ruins of a Fort O.T.E.D. 4.2 Beldaire W (Bomber Prince) O.S. 4.3 Finding Torikami 5.0 TORIKAMI P.O.S.T.E.D. ......................................... 0111 5.1 Orochi O.E.D. 5.2 Ghost Tank and Panzer O.T.E. 5.3 Finding Morgue Town 6.0 MORGUE TOWN P.O.S.E.D. ....................................... 0112 6.1 Sewer Demon O. 6.2 Sodam Insein 6.3 Jack and Wayne O. 7.0 ALICE ONE P.O.S.T.E.D. ........................................ 0113 7.1 Monkey Mountain O.S.E.D. 7.2 Site for Second Tunnel O.E.D. 7.3 First Continental RR Tunnel O. 7.4 Wild Bus and Annihilator T.O. 7.5 Alice One West S. 7.6 Tiamat and Finding Alpha O 7.7 Finding Forever Land 7.8 Finding Dowan 8.0 FOREVER LAND P.T.E. ........................................... 0114 8.1 Wirbelwind T. 8.2 Barbarossa T. 9.0 DOWAN P.O.S.T.E.D. ............................................ 0115 9.1 Salvage Shop 9.2 Dowan Outlaws and a Tank 9.3 Muscle Cathedral O.E.D. 9.4 Dr. Palm's Tank Lab T.E. 9.5 Lake Bridge East O.S. 9.6 Lake Bridge O.T. 9.7 Boat 9.8 Finding Lorelei Bay 10.0 LORELEI BAY P.O.S.T.E.D. ...................................... 0116 10.1 Retirement Home O.S.D. 10.2 Isle W. and Firetruck S.T. 10.3 Sunken Ruins O.T.D. 10.4 Scavenger Isle P.O.S. 10.5 Finding Fort Gears 11.0 FORT GEARS O.T.E.S. ........................................... 0117 11.1 Anti Tank Fort P.O.S.E. 11.2 Dr. Optica's Lab S. 11.3 Harehead E. 11.4 Wilco's Garage E. 11.5 Finding Hell's Keep 12.0 HELL'S KEEP P.O.S.T.E.D. ...................................... 0118 12.1 Hell's Keep NE S. 12.2 Medical Lab O. 12.3 Grand Master's Tent O. 12.4 Ziggurat P.O.E.D. 12.5 End Game 13.0 MYSTERIOUS CAVE ................................................ 0119 13.1. Getting There 13.2. Preparation 13.3 Strategy 13.4 Outlaws in Cave 13.5 The 10 Win Pin 13.6 The 20 Win Pin 13.7 The 30 Win Pin 13.8 The 40 Win Pin (or is it?) 13.9 The Final Prize 13.# APPENDIX H. LISTS AND LOTS OF OTHER STUFF 1. ARMOUR ........................................................... 0120 1. Head Armour 2. Torso Armour 3. Arm Armour 4. Foot Armour 5. Dog Armour 6. Protectors 7. Armour Found in the Field 2. ASSEMBLING, ASSEMBLY SHOPS AND OTHER ASSEMBLY LOCATIONS .......... 0121 1. Garage Assembly Shops 2. Guide to Assembling 3. Custom Weapons Assembly 4. Tank Parts Assembly (Main Guns, Sub Guns, SE Guns) 5. Junks: Types and Yields 6. Monkey Mountain (Maps and Models) 7. Retirement Compound (Figurines) 8. Professor Grey (LOVE Machine) 9. Dr. Optica's Lab (Lenses) 3. BARS AND WHAT TO DO IN THEM ...................................... 0122 4. BIG MEDALS: THE FULL LIST, BUT ARE THEY WORTH IT? ................ 0123 5. ENDINGS AND HOW TO GET THEM (script details) ..................... 0124 1. Mechanic: 3 2. Marriage: 2 3. Muscle: 2 4. End of the World: 2 5. Save the World: 2 6. EVENTS EXTRA (script details) .................................... 0125 1. Charlene and Forever Land 2. Marrying Rachel 3. Emily's Suitor 4. Dr. Mortem's "Challenge" 5. Jack and Wayne 6. Professor Grey and Hunter's New Arm 7. Professor Grey and Scarlet 8. Rosa and Carl 9. Rosa and Tank and Carl 10. Arthur and Rosa and Marriage 11. Kiriya and Disassembler 12. Nikolai and Growgaine 13. Murasame in the Ziggurat 14. Eddy helps out in the garage 15. Rumoured Events 16. Alpha's Tank Part 7. GIFTS ............................................................ 0126 1. Gifts and Rewards a) How to get people on your gift list b) How to give gifts c) Limits d) Reactions e) Conditions for Reactions f) Rewards and Financial Benefits g) Gift List People 2. Gifts by Type: Shops and Costs 3. Examples of Gift Responses 4. Dresses Responses 8. ITEMS FOR SALE, FOUND IN THE FIELD, AND MAPS ..................... 0127 1. Shop Bought Items 2. Map Items 3. Found in the Field (items, weapons and tank parts) 9. MINI-GAMES MINI-GUIDE ............................................ 0128 1. Gambling Games a) video poker b) blackjack c) roulette d) slots 2. Number Hunter 3. Frog Race 4. Crossfire 5. Arthur's Game 6. Barrel Rolling 7. Dog Fight 8. Drinking Game 9. Dancing 10. Muscle Training 10. MONSTER LIST ..................................................... 0129 1. Bio 2. Cyber 3. Machine 4. Vehicle 5. Unknown 6. Outlaw 11. NAMED CHARACTERS: NON-PLAYABLE ................................... 0130 12. OUTLAWS: ALPHABETICAL LIST ....................................... 0131 13. PAINTING TANKS (step-by step instructions) ....................... 0132 1. The Hard Way 2. The Easy Way 14. SHOPS, VENDING MACHINES AND BLACK MARKET ......................... 0133 15. SKILL MASTERS AND ALL SKILLS ..................................... 0134 1. East Zero 2. Beldaire 3. Alice One 4. Lorelei Bay 5. Grand Master's Tent 16. TANK PARTS AND ALL GUNS (bought and found) ....................... 0135 1. Main Guns 2. Sub Guns 3. SE Guns 4. C Units 5. Engines 6. Shells 7. Accessories 8. Found in the Field 17. TANK MODIFICATION ................................................ 0136 1. Mod Shops 2. What to Mod 3. Best Equipment for Tanks a) Engines b) C Units c) Guns 18. TRANSPORT POD LOCATIONS .......................................... 0137 19. WEAPONS .......................................................... 0138 1. Hunter 2. Misha/Mechanic 3. Kiriya/Mechanic 4. Rashid/Soldier 5. Charlene/Soldier 6. Dogs 20. X? EXTRA BITS AND PIECES + 20 F.A.Q.s .......................... 0139 1. 20 F.A.Q.s 2. 10 Things That Can Easily Be Missed 3. You Got Mail! 3. Dogs Extra 4. The Right Stick 5. The Safe 6. Stairs 7. Sad Facts 8. Tanks Extra 9. The Big Medal Answer *** ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND THANKS *** .................................... 0140 *** Update Details *** *** Legal Notice *** *** Contact *** =============================================================================== A. B A S I C O V E R V I E W : P.O.S.T.E.D. .......................... 0101 =============================================================================== The first page of the manual says this in the overview of the game: "..there aren't any required missions. There are simply optional tasks that you'll find as you encounter various people and places during your adventuring. It's up to you which ones you choose to undertake. It's not as complicated as it sounds. Just try doing whatever you feel like doing. When you encounter an event that sound like fun, give it a shot." Organising this walkthrough gave me a problem because of the free roaming nature of the game. I have cut it up into segments based on the places you can teleport to with your tanks. However there are many other places that must be visited to get more tanks, to find outlaws, shops and items, and to trigger events. I have included these as subsections related to the nearest teleport place. That way, if you are following the guide at least you know where to go to find a particular dungeon/shop etc. To help in locating these essentials I have invented my own system of coding called P.O.S.T.E.D. So while most towns will have all five, other places may only have one or two. I hope this will help. P. = PEOPLE O. = OUTLAWS S. = SHOPS T. = TANKS E. = EVENTS D. = DUNGEONS The other problem is that there are events which occur at the same town but at very different stages of the game. This is particularly the case with Junkyard and Alice One. I have indicated this in the place sections and so if you don't want to know about future events just skip these sections until you are ready for them. Full descriptions of the most significant events are contained in the separate section: H.6 EVENTS EXTRA ITEMS NOW INCLUDED I have tried to include every item and its location, but there are some field items that I have not been able to find. All town and dungeon items are listed. Use the mine/metal detector or Dog Sniffer skill to find hidden items in the field. The best places to search are the obvious ones:ruins, old tanks, broken bits of machinery or bits of rock, and the end points of narrow valleys. Pressing X just before entering a town or near to a wood or rock sometimes results in an item. The detection skill does not work in towns or dungeons. =============================================================================== B. C H A R A C T E R S .................................................. 0102 =============================================================================== CONTENTS 1. Playable Characters 2. Which Characters to Use? 3. Which Dog to Use? 4. Character Skills 5. Character Titles ---------------------- 1. PLAYABLE CHARACTERS ---------------------- 1. HUNTER: you, the player, main character, select a name at start. 2. KIRIYA/MISHA: Mechanic found in NEWFOLK join at level 4/2 3. RASHID/CHARLENE: Soldier found in ALICE ONE join at level 12. 4. DOG: Choice of four found in BIO-ENERGETICS LAB, south of EAST ZERO. All join at level 12. 5. ALPHA: obtained very late in the game after defeating TIAMAT. Joins at level 140, and does not gain experience. NOTE: SCARLET IS NOT RECRUITABLE, AND NEITHER IS ANY ONE ELSE! --------------------------- 2. WHICH CHARACTERS TO USE? --------------------------- It is a good idea to swap them around from time to time if you want to get extra EVENTS and dialogue. If you give a girl gifts you want her responses so she cannot be in your party. (Actually this is not the case for Charlene, because she will respond when you visit her in the house at Alice One, but it IS the case for Misha.) If you want to fight MURASAME you must have RASHID in your party to first talk with him and then to meet him and fight in the ZIGGURAT. CHARLENE has an EVENT at FOREVER LAND if she is with you when you first visit and in ALICE ONE when you can buy her a house. KIRIYA has an EVENT with the DISASSEMBLER outlaw,in BELDAIRE. KIRIYA and MISHA have an event with the Forever Land people at your first meeting and both can chat to CARL but with different results. MISHA also can receive gifts so to get her reaction she needs to be at home. CHARLENE has more specific weapons available which only she can use. ALPHA is very powerful but does not gain experience; she cannot equip weapons or armour. ------------------- 3. WHICH DOG TO USE ------------------- Because of the healing skill I use BERNIE, but if you change dogs you get a nice dialogue with EMILY when she first meets the new dog. ----------------------- DO NOT LET THE DOG DIE! ----------------------- It is probably best to choose your dog and stick to that one as you can feed it dog food which increases the shininess of its coat, and, most importantly, its defence and intelligence in fighting. Since you have no direct control over the dog except when in the field you have to rely on it to do its best in battle and not run away. The most important thing about the dog is: DO NOT LET THE DOG DIE! If it dies it loses a large percentage of its shiny coat and you are forced to feed it up again. Always make sure that the dog has the very best dog armour you can buy and the very best protectors you can get. If you trade in scrap armour and get the first of the stronger protectors early on in the game, give it to the dog and you should have no problems keeping it alive. Keep feeding the dog Gourmet Dog Food, to increase its shiny coat, and this helps it to fight intelligently and not run away. The limit to its "shiny coat" is 259. Thanks to Valeisla for testing this out. ------------------- 4. CHARACTER SKILLS ------------------- You can only equip SIX skills per character. The important thing to be aware of about skills is that although they are generally inexpensive to get once you access the relevant Skill Master, most of them cost money to use. If they are auto skills you may find that at the end of a battle you have actually lost money. Some skills are more useful than others. Some are essential, although that depends on which stage of the game you are at. Some skills can be used on the field, others can only be used during battle. A detailed summary of all Skill Masters, skills, and costs is given in the lists section. 1. I have given a star rating to show the most useful skills in my opinion. 2. Remember that skills cost money when used, and if they are auto skills, every time you fight you run the risk of losing money. 3. The most useful ones which can be selected for use when required are the SEEK and ANIMAL INSTINCT combination which can help to find elusive outlaws, without having to fight lots of random battles. 4. /RUN is essential for some outlaws to prevent them from fleeing. 5. LOCKDOWN and other shutdown skills which shuts down all machines are useful. 6. QUICK FIX/REPAIR is essential for mending broken tank parts in battle/field. 7. Dog skills that are for battle are a bit hit and miss since if they are auto they cost money, and if they are not, the dog may use them too often or not enough. 8. When you gain access to better and more powerful skills it is a good idea to upgrade them. 9. IMPORTANT: THE RECYCLE SKILL IS ESSENTIAL TO HELP GET YOU TWO TANKS 10. Misha and Kiriya have roughly similar skills, except that she has the useful default skill of "Cheer" which boosts attack, and can get the healing skill of "Guardian Angel" which restores 100HP to everyone when used in battle. -------.--------------.----------------.--------------------------------------- DOGS | TITLE | DEFAULT SKILLS | SPECIFIC SKILLS -------+--------------+----------------+--------------------------------------- BERNIE | Rescue Dog | Medicine Keg/ | Barrier/Medicine Keg 2/Epidermythril | | Revival Keg | -------+--------------+----------------+--------------------------------------- SHIBA | Loyal Friend | Foxhunt | Shooting Star -------+--------------+----------------+--------------------------------------- TOSA | Yokozuna | Headbutt | Headbutt EX, Sumo Stomp -------+--------------+----------------+--------------------------------------- TERRY | Mystery Mutt | Eye Beam | Fire breath, Transparency _______|______________|________________|_______________________________________ ---------.----------.-----------------.---------------------------------------- HUMAN | CLASS | TITLE (default) | DEFAULT SKILLS ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- HUNTER | Hunter | Newbie | Remote laser ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- KIRIYA | Mechanic | Mechanic's Son | Quick Fix 1, Crash Landing ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- MISHA | Mechanic | Novice Mechanic | Repair 1, Crash Landing, Cheer ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- RASHID | Soldier | Swordsman | Groundbreaker ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- CHARLENE | Soldier | Gun for hire | Dead Eye. ---------+----------+-----------------+---------------------------------------- ALPHA | Soldier | Reanimated Girl | Aegis System, Laser Rifle, Iron Claw, | | | Pilebunker, Homing Missile, | | | Flame Sprayer _________|__________|_________________|________________________________________ ALL CHARACTERS CAN HAVE THESE SKILLS (including dogs) DECOY: Draws the enemy's attention to the user SCREEN: Turn's the enemy's attention to the hunter (I never bothered to use these defensive skills as there are others that are more useful.) ALL DOGS CAN HAVE THESE SKILLS UNEARTH: Digs up underground enemies HYPER SNIFFER: Searches for treasure in the field***(initially useful) ANIMAL INSTINCT: Deters low level enemies (for a short time)***** REGENERATION: Slowly recovers HP during battle (Auto) ***** FOXHUNT: Draws an out-of-range enemy closer TRACKER: Locates an enemy in stealth ------------------- 5. CHARACTER TITLES ------------------- As you can see from the above list, all the characters have titles. At various points in the guide I have mentioned the titles that might be expected to be seen in the characters' status screen. There are many of these and despite trying to keep a check on them all as I play I am not sure that I have managed to find them all, and I am not exactly sure what the preconditions for gaining the some of the titles might be. I have included the ones I know about and made a guess at the possible basis for the titles, but I am a bit in the dark on some as there are so many variables. I think that the mechanic and soldier titles are level based only, but as for the hunter there are many more titles and therefore there must be more variables. Also some titles are event dependent, e.g. Ruthless Killer. Note that it's easy to miss a title. You might have obtained it, but then got another one and this will overwrite the earlier title. There does not appear to be a master list of all titles obtained. Hunter can get 40 titles in total. So far some are unknown or unconfirmed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hunter's Title Comments ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Newbie: default title Rookie: after defeating Trash Heap (1 outlaw) Item Finder: pick up more than 50 items in towns Man's Man: enemies defeated/battles won? The Modder: after doing a certain amount of modding: spending 10K gold. Rich Kid: after getting 50,000g Monkey Masher: after defeating Grand-daddy Kong and Dr Zeus Palm's Friend: after becoming Dr. Palm's friend Seasoned Hunter:defeat 10 outlaws Ace Hunter: defeat 20 outlaws Veteran Hunter: after killing 30 outlaws Ultimate Hunter:after getting all outlaws, including Jack and Scarlet. Battle Maniac. .after engaging in 500 battles Executioner: after winning 500 battles. Lens Collector: after getting a couple or more lenses Ruthless Killer:after killing Jack in front of Rachel (optional) Bio Trader: after selling off a lot of items in the bar (100 at least) Cyber Hunter: after getting cybernetic arm Item Collector: after getting goodness knows how many items from the field Scaredy-Cat: run away from enemies. Over 100 times? credit goes to blackpyre and Silva Shado for finding this one! Poor Boy: after losing money and being MINUS 20,000g you get this title. credit to Neutral-bob for finding another title! Bargain Hunter: after buying many items on sale: spending more than 5K gold (credit to Valeisla and Lia Tria) High Roller: Win over 80-90K gold at roulette (the amount might be less) (credit to Shadow) Mr Tater Fan: Cook a Sweet Potato with Kaede in Torikami (credit to st4rmunky) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Unknown Conditions (thanks to Paull and Japanese MS site) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tow: Tow a tank 30 times? might be more. Rental: Spend over 10K at the tank rental Kaede: Complete the sweet potato event with Kaede Nina: Give her presents Sister: Give her presents Black Market: Buy stuff from them (need to sell them things first!) Lose a lot: Less than 50% win percentage ----------------- Additional Titles ----------------- Ladies' Man: use Misha and Charlene in your party Man's Man: use Rashid and Kiriya in your party Millionaire: have 1000000G Gambler: win a lot at the casino Undead Hunter: die and get revived 100 times (Credits and thanks to Micheal Meeker from Atlus for this additional information) ------------------------------- Mechanics' and Soldiers' Titles ------------------------------ The Mechanics and Soldiers have 7 titles each based on their levels Charlene can get an additional title for completing the Golem event Rashid can get an additional title for getting the last hit on Dr Zeus. The level required at which the other party members get a new title seems to increase the higher they go. My guess is that the others just go up by level reached..at 15, after 20, then 30, then 40, 60, then 100. It seems to vary a little for each character. MISHA: Novice Mechanic/Repair Girl(level 15?)/Tinkerer (20) / Pro Mechanic(30?)/Auto Doctor (40)/Tank Wiz (60)/Motor Genius (100) KIRIYA: Mechanic's Son/Grease Monkey (level 16)/Gearhead (22)/ Pro Mechanic (30)/Tank Doc (40)/Steel Maestro(60)/Ace Assembler (100) CHARLENE: Gun for Hire/ Bazooka Babe (level 20/Ms Missile (30)/ Gunslinger (40)/Rouge Rogue (55?)/Bulletproof Gal (60/65)/ Lethal Weapon (100) RASHID: Swordsman/Desert Samurai (level 20)/Blade Master(30)/ Desert Prince(40)/Steel Scorpion(60, and same at level 120) ALPHA: No change ---------- Dog Titles ---------- DOG: No change =============================================================================== C. T A N K S ........................................................... 0103 =============================================================================== CONTENTS 1. Obtainable Tanks 2. Rental Tanks 3. Controls for equipping and fighting 4. Tank Weight: overloading and armour tiles 5. Towing Tanks 6. Washing Tanks 7. Compare Parts 8. Painting Tanks 9. Beginner's Guide to Tank Modification 10.Which Tanks to Use? ------------- 1. OBTAINABLE ------------- Full details of how to get each tank are given in the location section. AA = Anti Aircraft tank, which requires special AA guns. Search = you have to search the ground to find these tanks. BUGGY (see JUNKYARD: in JUNK MOUNTAIN) DEMAG (search: see NEWFOLK) MOSQUITO (see NEWFOLK: The Abandoned Ruins) WILD BUS (see ALICE ONE. In desert to north. Need bus stop sign) WIRBELWIND(AA) (see FOREVER LAND, need scrap metal) PANZER (search: see TORIKAMI } BARBAROSSA (search: see FOREVER LAND) FIRE TRUCK (see LORELEI BAY:at ISLE W. Bought: need boat) TIGER (search: see DOWAN ) RODINA (see LORELEI BAY: LAKE BRIDGE: fight Man o' War outlaw) S.TANK (see LORELEI BAY: Sunken Ruins, need fire truck first) GEPARD(AA) (see BELDAIRE: Ruins of a Fort: fight Col. Blueberry) MERKAVA (search: see HELL'S KEEP) DR. PALM'S TANK (see DOWAN need scrap metal) One of 5: TYPE 90/ABRAMS/LEOPARD/LULUBELL(Roulbel) /ROMMEL (JagdPanther) MAUS (see EAST ZERO and fight Binramen in Anti Tank Fort) ----------------------------------- Tank Default Settings And Equipment ----------------------------------- Tanks do not come with guns as default. You have to buy/make/find guns. They are also at their maximum with armour tiles when you find them, so if you add any guns it will immediately overload them. This is one reason why it is a good idea to travel with an extra tank in tow. The mountings vary from tank to tank. The numbers indicate the total number of mountings available and their type: e.g. the S. Tank is listed as 6/1/3/2. So it has the following mountings: 6/1 = main gun, 6/3 = sub guns, 6/2 = SE guns. -----------.------------.--------------.----------.-------.-------------------- Tank | Engine | C Unit | Mounting | SP | Load -----------+------------+--------------+----------+-------+-------------------- Buggy | Donkey | Spasibo II | 2/1/1 | 167 | 8.00t Demag | Donkey | Spasibo II | 2/1/1 | 323 | 8.00t Mosquito | Tiamov | Mozniak | 2/1/1 | 568 | 13.40t Wild Bus | Kuhli | Emmy | 3/1/1/1 | 1678 | 29.60t Wirbelwind | Rudolf | Axel Noman | 6/4/1/1 | 2109 | 45.80t Panzer | Kuhli | Emmy | 4/1/1/2 | 1488 | 29.60t Barbarossa | V24 Hulk | Reactor | 3/1/1/1 | 2283 | 40.00t Fire truck | Rudolf | Daroth | 5/0/2/3 | 2267 | 45.80t Tiger | Rudolf | Daroth | 4/1/2/1 | 2318 | 45.80t Rodina | OHC Carmen | Solomon 2 | 4/1/2/1 | 3135 | 56.60t S. Tank | V48 Cong | Metatron | 6/1/3/2 | 3310 | 62.00t Gepard | Bull | Legendary 99 | 5/1/1/2 | 642 | 18.80t Merkava | Fairy | Sigma 80 | 5/1/3/1 | 3662 | 67.40t Maus | Fairy | Sigma 80 | 7/3/2/2 | 3526 | 67.40t -----------+------------+--------------+----------+-------+-------------------- Dr. Palm's | -----------+------------+--------------+----------+-------+-------------------- Abrams | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1433 | 51.20t Leopard | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1281 | 51.20t Lulubelle | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1331 | 51.20t Rommel | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1331 | 51.20t Type 90 | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 730 | 51.20t ___________|____________|______________|__________|_______|____________________ Dr Palm's Tanks: These tanks come with three guns already equipped, and 0 SP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tank Engine choice Historical Name (when different from game name) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abrams Abrams Leopard Leopold Lulubelle Roulbel Roulbel Rommel JagdPanther Type 90 Type Zero ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- 2. RENTAL TANKS --------------- Tanks can be rented from these places for free, but 20% of battle earnings is automatically deducted. They cannot be modified but their set-up gives some ideas for what is possible for your own tanks. If you add a part to them such as the teleporter be sure to remove it before giving the tank back. If you rent a tank and then find another one you can just abandon it and it will be automatically returned it the rental place. You can also take a tank back to any rental place. The descriptions are taken from the game, and there are 9 different tanks. JUNKYARD 1. 50mm Cannon, 7.62 Gatling, Spasibo II, Donkey(not open at first) Perfect for towing vehicles! NEWFOLK: 1. 50mm Cannon, 7.62 Gatling, Spasibo II, Donkey (same as Junkyard) 2. 75mm Cannon, 9mm Vulcan, Wozniak, Tiamov Allows you at attack all enemies at once! BELDAIRE 3. 90mm Long T, 30mm Vulcan, AT Launcher, Legendary 99, Kuhli Equipped with a main gun and a sub gun 4. 105mm Rifle, 20 Gatling, Bloodhound, Swatter, Legendary 99, Kuhli Effective against airborne and out-of-range enemies TORIKAMI: 5. 92mm Spark, Fire Dragon, Emmy, Kuhli Chicks really dig it! DOWAN 6. 220mm Gaea, 35mm Vulcan, Drill Gun, Solomon 2, OHC Carmen Underground enemy? No sweat! TORIKAMI 7. 25mm AA Cannon, 25mm AA Cannon, 12.7 Gatling, Emmy, Kuhli Here's an anti aircraft tank for you! DOWAN 8. 35mm AA Cannon, 35mm AA Cannon, 35mm Vulcan, Crispy Cannon, Soprano Cannon, Solomon 2, OHC Carmen Say goodbye to high-altitude enemies! SCAVENGER 8. 35mm AA Cannon, 35mm AA Cannon, 35mm Vulcan, Crispy Cannon, ISLE Soprano Cannon, Solomon 2, OHC Carmen 9. 225mm Hydra, 35mm Gatling, Windbreaker, Headbanger, Metatron, V48Cong 2 SE weapons at your disposal! --------------------------------------- 3. CONTROLS: for Equipping and Fighting --------------------------------------- Every tank can be named if you like. To change the name there is a shop in BELDAIRE (far left of town). I will refer to all tanks by their original default names. Driving To get in a tank go to the menu [using triangle] and press drive. Then when it says select vehicle to drive/tow chose [TANK name] and when you leave the screen you will enter the [TANK]. Steer using the left stick exactly as when walking. If you want to leave the tank go back to the drive screen and press exit. To change the view and zoom in and out move the right stick up and down. Equipping/Unequipping When you look at the status/equip screen the [TANK] is listed on the right. Click the right directional button and press X to see [TANK] status. To remove a part /engine or anything from your tank you must first unequip it from the tank. Go to the status/ equip screen and select (press X ) "vehicle select" on the right of the screen and then the tank you want to look at. Then you get a new screen showing the status of that vehicle. Press X again to get the list of vehicle parts, shells and armour tiles on the left. THEN press vehicle parts and the cursor will move to the right and you can scroll up and down the list of parts that are equipped. Select whatever you want to remove. You get a little message come up on the left of the screen that says: "install/remove, transfer or discard." So then press X again on the command you want. How to Check for Guns If you look at one of the guns that you have on the tank you see it has a little yellow number next to it if it is equipped: 1 for the first slot, 2 for the second and 3 for the third if you have a tank with that many mountings. If it is unequipped this will disappear. You can see if a part is not equipped as the lighted icon at the front of the item will go grey. Moving Remotely REMOTE Click X on the C Unit and there is a screen on the top left, highlight configure C Unit and a blue highlighted function "remote" appears on the right hand screen. Click on this and now you can remotely move the tank from the satcom if you need to. Some tanks have other useful functions as well so you have to chose which one you want. Fighting in a Tank To fight using the tank check the menu at the bottom left corner of the screen. Look at each in turn and on the right side of the screen the moving information will tell you what each one means. When everything that can be equipped is equipped, the options for battle are. =================== Skill Main Drive Item Sub Defend Ammo SE Flee =================== Skill "Use skill" Foot fighting skills cannot be used in tanks. Mechanic skills can. Item "Use item" Items cannot be used in tanks. Ammo "Fire selected shell" This refers to any auxiliary shells you can buy. Click on one to use. Main "Attack with main gun" Limited ammo. The next part of the screen shows exactly how much ammo remains for each main gun that you have equipped. Select to fire all main guns at once. Sub "Attack with sub gun" Unlimited ammo. Shows as 99, but never runs out. Use sub guns as much as possible and save your expensive ammo for the enemies that need it. SE "Attack with SE weapon" Special weapons that have particular uses, e.g. against underwater or high altitude enemies. Very limited in ammo. Drive "Get in/out of vehicle" Use this command if you want to exit the tank and fight on foot, and use it again if you want to re-enter the tank during battle. Useful especially for your mechanic when they need to repair a tank during the battle, or if you want to use an item. Defend:"Guard against attacks" Increases defense by +50. Flee: "Withdraw from battle" Exactly as it says. Nearly all battles can be successfully fled, including OUTLAWS. This is essential if you meet a too powerful random encounter OUTLAW that you are not equipped to defeat. Run away and you can find it again! ------------------------------------------- 4. TANK WEIGHT: Overloading and Amour Tiles ------------------------------------------- Overloading means that the tank is too heavy to move. If this occurs open the status screen and look at the [TANK] screen. On the right is the name of the vehicle and its current status:chassis, engine C unit [control] together with any guns that are equipped. Also listed will be any guns or scrap metal or other tank items such as a new engine that you might have just bought or picked up on the field. Whether or not something is equipped, the fact that you are carrying it means it has added weight to the tank. So all you have to do is remove armour tiles to compensate for the added weight. Look at the armour tiles screen and it will ask you how many armour tiles you want to discard. Although these cost money to replace and give the tank protection, you must discard the number stated or the tank will not be able to move. ARMOUR TILES are basically the tank's defence and they represent SP or SHIELD POINTS. They cost 1G each. YES, that is all, but if you lose a lot in a battle the cost can soon mount up. So for example, if your tank's free weight is 10.00 tons then you would need to buy 1000 tiles to fully defend the vehicle. Generally this is not necessary as fighting with a lighter weight gives you a speed advantage against many enemies. You can keep spare tiles in your inventory for emergency repairs and your mechanic can fix broken tank parts, though not increase the armour tiles. All garages have a service station where you can choose to have a full service replacing all tiles and used ammo, or select to custom order just a specific number of tiles. --------------- 5. TOWING TANKS --------------- An alternative method for moving an over-loaded tank or one that has been disabled in battle is to tow it. Select the drive command and exit the vehicle. Then select the tow command, and a new screen will appear naming the tank you want to tow. Select "tow" and the name of the towed tank will appear as"towed" To stop towing select the command "stop towing" If you have a party member who is walking and you want them to re-enter the tank select their name and the vehicle. ---------------- 6. WASHING TANKS ---------------- If you leave a tank out in the open for too long it can acquire additional weight in the form of "Mushroom": 0.10t. Bird Poo" is another addition which does not weigh anything but doesn't look or sound nice. There are mechanic skills to cope with this, but the easiest way is just to go to a TANK WASH. Certain monsters can drop acid on your tanks, (you will know if this happens because your tank will flash red), and although there are items that can neutralise the effects a tank wash will do the same. Although the tank wash guy will hint that the dog might be effected by going through the wash he should suffer no ill effects. There is one at JUNKYARD which costs 100g. Tanks wash facilities are also found at Beldaire, Scavenger Isle and Fort Gears, though this one costs 1,000g. ---------------- 7. COMPARE PARTS ---------------- Once you own more than one tank you can easily compare their relative merits and equipment by pressing X on "Compare Parts" on the left side of the character status screen. This shows a new window with chassis/engine/main/sub/ SE and C Unit listed. Click on any of these to see what you have got equipped. This is very helpful when you want to check say, gun ammo and durability on all tanks at once. ----------------- 8. PAINTING TANKS ------------------ Once you get to NEWFOLK you can access the option to customise your tanks by painting them. If you speak to NIKOLAI in the garage he will offer to paint your tank. Select paint edit/custom, and you get a new screen where you can customise the tank. To return to the normal screen press start. Press "set pattern" and you get a selection of automatic paint jobs. Choose one and you can give it any name you like. You can save the paint on to a separate save file. This is really for the custom paint job, but you can do it for any paint job. When you re-start a game after switching off you will have to re- load the paint save as well if you want to keep the tanks with their paint job. This is simple to do as it only takes one command to load data on all tanks with paint jobs. Painting is free, and loads of fun! -------------------- 9. TANK MODIFICATION -------------------- This is the best bit of the game! You can start modifying as soon as you get your first tank, the BUGGY. ------------------------------------------------ THE BUGGY: Beginner's Guide To Tank Modification: ------------------------------------------------ 1. Go downstairs in the garage in JUNKYARD to find the mod shop. 2. Durability is the most important factor as high durability will help protect each part of the tank from damage. You can also increase the amount of ammo for the Cannon . 3. Every increase has a corresponding increase in weight. There is a weight limit so increase this weight limit first by modding the engine. 4. Select the Buggy in the mod shop and look at the Donkey. You can increase its load twice. Do this and also increase durability. You will see on the lower right part of the screen that you have more "free" weight available. This allows you to increase other items. The tank now has a load of 10 tons and is stronger and better able to withstand attack. 5. You have a choice here. The Buggy is a very useful tank and I used it throughout the game for its high speed and manoeuvrability, however you will be able to buy a better engine and C unit, so spending more money on them might not be such a good idea. But the Buggy chassis stays the same, so this is the one to spend money on as it won't be wasted. I would recommend increasing durability. 6. While you are here un-equip the two guns. They stay as added weight to your tank, but now appear with unlighted icons. Go back into the mod shop and look at the Buggy screen again. At the bottom of the list of modifications is the title "mounting". Press X and a message comes up to say all weapons must be removed. As you have already done this, continue and a new screen shows a list of mountings. 7. Select a mounting: the X means not available, and the O means available. For the Buggy the sub is mounted. It can be disabled at a cost. This is not advisable as it would mean you had no sub gun, but the effect would be a decrease in the overall weight. The knock on effect of less weight is more speed. In heavier tanks this can be important, and extra weapon mountings can be disabled if you choose. 8. Now look at the main gun. This shows an O under main and SE. This means that you can either mount a main gun, which you have now, OR change it to allow an SE [special effect] gun. There is no point in doing this now as you only possess a main gun. But this is what is possible depending on the particular set-up of a tank. 9. Close this window pressing O, and leave the mod shop. Re-equip your guns. 10. Each tank has different mountings and you can experiment with these, enabling and disabling depending on what guns you want to use and which enemies you are trying to defeat. However there is always the cost involved so I would advise not changing the mountings too often. ----------------------- 10. WHICH TANKS TO USE? ------------------------ Obviously you want to use the best tanks you have got, however there are things to consider. If you find you are fighting a lot of airborne enemies then using a tank with an AA (anti-airborne) main gun makes sense. These are the Gepard, and Wirbelwind. If you find that enemies get in too many attacks before you do then consider using the fastest vehicle, the Buggy, with a sub-gun that attacks all enemies and don't load it up with too many armour tiles. Tanks with more mountings can give you more fire power and versatility, but they will be slower: for example the Maus and S Tank. Both AA tanks are useful especially early in the game as they have more mountings than other tanks, so using one of these can help. =============================================================================== D. O U T L A W S ' L O C A T I O N S ................................. 0104 =============================================================================== An alphabetical list of outlaws is in the lists section of the FAQ. Each Hunter's Office gives a bounty for different outlaws so I have included their details in each town. I have given details of these in the place guide. A list of all the monsters I have found is in the separate section in the lists. You can see all those you have killed on the satcom under HUNT. There are a total of 232 monsters in the game. I also have listed the ones found in each area and what they drop, as you go through the place sections. Most outlaws are listed as wanted in the Hunter's Office, but some are not. The reward can be claimed anywhere for these, but I have included them in the nearest town to their actual location. There are a total of 40 Outlaws in the game. This is a list of all outlaws with the relevant place where the bounty is posted and where I have detailed their precise location and defeat. I have listed my level (on my first play-through) when defeating them which gives some indication of their comparative difficulty. (Or in the case of one or two, the difficulty I had in finding them!) I have included another more realistic level in brackets where my original game was way out, as a guide As a further aid to finding your way around the outlaws I have added a search code based on their individual names so you can trace them precisely in the FAQ if you want. ----------------.----------------.-------------.----------.-------------------- OUTLAW | TOWN | SEARCH CODE | MY LEVEL | COMMENT ----------------+----------------+-------------+----------+-------------------- Trash Heap | Junkyard | *TH | 6 | You need a tank Derringer Jack | Junkyard/ | *DJ | 100 | If you kill him - | Morgue Town | | | can't fight Scarlet Red Fox/Scarlet | Junkyard | *SCAR | 150+ | Hardest in game Bugsy | Newfolk | *BUG | 10 | Random encounter Mad Maxwell | Newfolk | *MADM | 10 | (Scarlet talk) Hammer Hydra | East Zero | *HH | 12 | Random Disassembler | Beldaire | *DIS | 26 | Trigger needed Bomber Prince | Beldaire | *BP | 129(20!) | Hard to catch Col Blueberry | Beldaire | *COL | 22 | Usually lower Tankasaurus | ? | *TNK | 16 | Event Eagle 1 | Torikami | *EAG | 19 | Random Orochi | Torikami | *OR | 24 | On foot or in tanks Sewer Demon | Torikami | *SD | 123(25) | ! Hard to find Ghost Tank | Torikami | *GT | 27 | Puppetmaster | (train) | *PM | 81 | Not this hard! Frederick | (train) | *DB1 | 32 | The 3 Daltons Roberto | (train) | *DB1 | | The 3 Daltons Shasta | (train) | *DB1 | | The 3 Daltons Tiamat | Alice One | *TIA | 131 | Very tough Granddaddy Kong | Alice One | *GKONG | 54 | Dalton Brothers | Alice One | *DB2 | 81(60) | Round 2(one reward) Mega Mole | Alice One | *MOLE | 54 | Tank Eater | Alice One | *TKE | 56 | Shaka Khan | Dowan | *SK | 62 | Father Muscle | Dowan | *FM | 130(55) | Didn't bother until Optimus Swine | Dowan | *OS | 123(55) | later in the game Red Mobster | Dowan | *RM | 123(60) | Daidarabotchi | Dowan | *DAI | 51 | Commi Chameleon | Lorelei Bay | *CC | 130(90) | Man o' War | Lorelei Bay | *MoW | 80 | Willy | Lorelei Bay | *GDUO | 72 | The Geriatric Duo Helga | Lorelei Bay | *GDUO | | The Geriatric Duo B2 Manta Ray | Lorelei Bay | *MRAY | 140(100 | Hard to find Krak Cannon | Scavenger Isle | *KRAK | 62 | In Dowan Catsub | Scavenger Isle | *CAT | 121 | Will run away Hydrobug | Scavenger Isle | *HBUG | 94 | Random Imperial Bomber | Antitank Fort | *IMPB | 129 | Will run away. Marduk | Fort Gears | *MARD | 83/100 | May be harder Binramen | Hell's Keep | *BINR | 79 | Easy Storm Dragon | Hell's Keep | *STD | 132 | Hard Annihilator | Alice One | *ANNI | 73 | Random Gassy Long Legs | Transport Pod | *GLL | 137 | Random Johnny 6 | Iwasaki Lab | *JO6 | 140 | Random Marceau | (train) | | 81 | With puppetmaster ________________|________________|_____________|__________|____________________ ALERT: if you find that you are not getting the drops that you expect, first check your inventory. It is easy to fill it up quickly and if you have 64/64 items then you cannot carry any more. Sell them off. =============================================================================== THE B2 MANTA RAY WALKTHROUGH: LOCATION: ANYWHERE! *MRAY =============================================================================== This may seem a strange place to put a walkthrough for one of the outlaws but the Ray cannot be located in any town as he roams the whole world map. He also needs special attention for other reasons. There are two separate write-ups for the B2 Manta Ray as befits its name. ----------- Preparation ----------- To tackle the Ray with any chance of success you must have three things. 1. The mechanic needs the skills of CRASH LANDING and NOSE DIVE 2. Strong main guns on all tanks. This means the Maus with three main guns. 3. RAP shells to target out-of-range, and AA shells or specialist weapons for airborne enemies. The best SE weapons for high altitude and airborne enemies are the assembled Tindalos and Thunderkat, and the CIWS (bought at Lorelei Bay) -------- Location -------- The Manta Ray has no specific location and flies literally all over the map. This makes locating him extremely difficult. He does not appear on the satcom. He also has a tendency to appear in the early stages of the game when you and your tanks are nowhere strong enough to defeat him. However this provides a clue to tracking him down. The best place to find him when you are ready to fight him may be in the desert to the southeast of East Zero where you found the Hammer Hydra. Enemies here are Dragon Choppers, Punks and Bazooka Pooches. Travel there and wait in your tanks and eventually you should spot his large shadow. He might not attack you in you are not directly in his path so move into the shadow to begin the battle. To be honest I had hoped that I could repeat this experience of finding him quickly, but it did not happen. Nevertheless most sightings appear to be around the eastern area and south of Alice One. Confirmed sightings I found him again while sitting in tanks near the woods to the southeast of the road from East Zero to Beldaire. He has also been found to the west of Muscle Cathedral, south of Alice One, and at Newfolk west of the town. Advice from blackpyre which I quote in full as it is the best so far! --------------------- "Step 1a: While playing the game take note of where you see the B2 Manta Ray. If this doesn't happen for you don't worry. Step 1b: If you never saw it or are uncertain about the exact location you can try the location I used. Start at Newfolk (Teleport there). Then head left until the town and road are off the screen. Stop there. That is the spot you want. Step 2: Once you are fully ready to fight the B2 Manta Ray, place your tanks in the exact spot you saw it (Or the spot in step 1b). Step 3: Go watch a movie. The B2 Manta Ray will eventually come back to that spot. For me, it took somewhere between 2 to 3 hours. Note: I've only tested this method once due to the large amount of time required for this technique. This should only be used as a last resort when all your searching has failed." (Thank you for permission to quote this.) ---------- The Battle ---------- He will start at high altitude so get your mechanic out of their tank and use the NOSE DIVE to bring him down to airborne. This skill is not available until you get to Lorelei Bay. Then use CRASH LANDING to bring him down to normal range. While the mechanic is busy have the others use SE weapons and AA shells to hit him at altitude. Once he is within range blast him with your main guns. He will then probably go out of range but the main guns can still hit him despite this, so continue withe the Maus firing all three main guns and the other tanks using RAP shells. He may try to fly high again so again use the mechanic again if necessary and the altitude guns if you have them. Or just wait until he comes down again. His attacks are machine gun based and although damaging, if your levels are high enough and your tanks strong enough his attacks are not the worry. The main thing is finding him and then keeping him down. You get High End Junk from him, and a reward of 50,000G. ------------------------------- B2 Manta Ray: The Personal View ------------------------------- You don't have to read this. It is for my own satisfaction only. I hate the B2 Manta Ray. This is the worst enemy I have ever...nearly not...encountered in years of playing RPGs. Yes my struggle with the Manta Ray became very personal. Near the start of the game I encountered him and had to run. Then when I had the necessary skills and equipment to defeat him I could not find him. I asked for help. Where had other people found him? Where would be a good place to go to find him? Everyone else seemed to have found and defeated him, but not me. I tried roaming around. That was pointless and I never once saw his shadow. I tried sitting in my tanks outside the various towns hoping he would pass by and attack me. It never happened. I decided to calm down and that maybe he would show up when he knew I wasn't looking for him, so I made sure I had the necessary skills and equipment with me at all times and continued to play the rest of the game. Eventually I got to the point where I had defeated every outlaw and only had the final battle with Alex to fight and Scarlet waiting to challenge me. Still no Manta Ray. In a final act of total despair I decided to leave my tanks in the desert near East Zero, which was the one place I KNEW I had seen him before, and then go to bed and leave the PS2 running and hope that when I got up he would be waiting for me. I got to the position, and was about to leave the game when suddenly I saw that elusive shadow! YES. At last I had found the B2 Manta Ray. I even had to take a picture just so I could prove that after all this time I had finally caught up with him and that this was not a dream. And so I got him eventually. I hope your experience will not be as frustrating as mine. And levels for winning? Well given that this was the end of the game Hunter was at 140, Rashid at 115, and Kiriya at 115, with Bernie at 140. I am sure you could beat the Manta at around level 100...if you can find him. And yes, I did manage this another time with Hunter at level 100 and the rest at 73/4, so he is not hard to beat, once found. Good Luck! =============================================================================== E. S H O R T C U T S .................................................. 0105 =============================================================================== 1. Use L2 in battle to speed through the animations and turns. 2. Use R1 to enter and L1 to exit tanks quickly. 3. Use your satcom to help pinpoint outlaws that are hard to locate. 4. Use R1 on the menu screen to jump from the top to the bottom of the screen. L1 jumps from bottom to top. 5. Use a shortcut for the metal detector. From the satcom/configure choose Button functions, select square or R2 and choose detector. Confirm the choice. Then press square to use the detector. It saves extra button presses. 6. Use the item menu to change equipment fast. Select a weapon or piece of armour and you will be shown a screen with all four characters and the new item with its stats for increase or decrease. Pick the person to equip it and their current equipment will automatically be removed and returned to the item inventory. =============================================================================== F. T E N T I P S ..................................................... 0106 =============================================================================== 1. NEVER THROW AWAY JUNKS. AND KEEP MOST ITEMS. When you find or acquire items keep them, the only exception to this rule is "cells" and other monster drops which tell you they can be sold. Cells, honey, fish fillets, magic beans, and many others can be sold in bars for a set price. The junks are exchanged for valuable items used for assembling. The exchange can be random so if you have gained valuable junks (from fighting outlaws) it can be a good idea to save before the exchange. Some apparently useless items also can be assembled to make new weapons and other things. Check what they are for from your item inventory. If you select an item and then select USE. You will get more information on its purpose, and whether it can be used. 2. SPEAK TO EVERYONE MORE THAN ONCE: and revisit places and people for new information and hints. As you would expect. The first and most important rule of every RPG that has ever been made. It is particularly important in MS as it is often the only way to progress the story and trigger certain "events". According to the developers there are 800 "events" in the game though many are minor things. An example of this is when the Hunter gets a new arm. Revisiting everyone will trigger new conversations. Getting a different DOG can do the same with EMILY. Visiting family and friends when a party member is dead (and in their coffin) gets various reactions. There are some key EVENTS that help move the story forward. 3. KEEP ALL SCRAP ARMOUR AND TRADE IT to the trader in JUNKYARD. You get rewarded with the best protectors in the game. Keep buying extra protectors and replacing them whenever they break. 4. SAVE WHEN YOU CAN/RUN AWAY WHEN YOU MUST. You can only save at the memory centre inside towns, so save often. If you run into an outlaw which might destroy you: RUN AWAY. If you don't, you risk not being able to fight the outlaw again and thus losing the reward. You can have as many separate saves as your memory card will allow. There is no game limit to saves: you could have up to 99 saves on an ordinary memory card. 5. THERE IS NO DEATH. Yes! Although you kill lots of people and monsters, you and your party cannot die. Even if you are all defeated, you will be rescued by IGOR and revived by DR MORTEM. This means that there is never a game over screen except when/if you choose to end the game. 6. EVERYTHING COSTS MONEY. Even using most skills cost cash, and tanks are costly to upgrade and repair. Money is not hard to get, but easy to spend. 7. USE THE SATCOM. It is very useful, for everything, especially for pinpointing locations of outlaws. It contains information on EVERYTHING: - Shops, Remote, Info, Hunt, Wanted, Mail, - Alert, Music, Games, Configuration, Diary, Help 8. FIGHT FAST. By pressing the bottom left shoulder button, L2, during a battle while inputting attack commands, you can whizz through battles in record time. I know I am repeating myself here, but people seem to miss this useful device, so I am saying it again. This works on foot and in your tanks. 9. USE TELEPORT AND REMOTE. SET C[control] UNIT on tanks to REMOTE. If you do this you can transport a tank to any town you have previously visited. EQUIP TELEPORTER to tanks. You can teleport with tanks if you equip the teleporter device, and you can move tanks from one location to another if they have the C-unit set to remote. You can also teleport on foot using the green transport pod building which is found in every town. 10. READ THE MANUAL:if you have one, as it is jam packed full of information =============================================================================== =============================================================================== G. W A L K T H R O U G H A N D G U I D E T O A L L L O C A T I O N S =============================================================================== =============================================================================== --------------------------------------- SUMMARY: TEN THINGS TO DO IN EVERY TOWN --------------------------------------- Just a quick reminder. You don't need a detailed description for every town, but since this is a complete FAQ I have gone overboard a bit and done just that. If you want, just skip those sections and play it by ear. You can always go back if you think you have missed something, and in fact it is a good idea to revisit for more events. So, in brief: 01. SAVE before doing too much (in case of events/choices/surprises). 02. Speak to MACKINLEY and HARE HEAD. 03. Check every building and area for items and people to talk to. 04. Check latest target monster at Hunter's Office, and OUTLAWS. 05. Collect any bounty owed. Sell excess items at bar. 06. Update tank equipment especially listening to any advice you have been given (usually from people in the local bar) about specialist weapons for local monsters. 07. Modify tanks where possible, buying better engines and C units as well as weapons and shells. 08. Check vending machines for best protectors for local monsters. 09. Stay at the local inn to heal/find things, or return to JUNKYARD and sleep in Hunter's room. This heals everyone for free. 10. SAVE again, before leaving. =============================================================================== 1. J U N K Y A R D P.O.S.T.E.D. ..................................... 0107 =============================================================================== 1.0. Junkyard 1.1. Junkyard Later Events 1.2. Junk Mountain O.T.D. 1.3. Impound Lot 1.4. Junkyard East S 1.5. Finding Newfolk =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.0. JUNKYARD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: KEY EVENT: SPEAK TO SCARLET IN THE BAR AND ACCEPT HER OFFER OF HELP Here you can store your tanks, exchange your scrap armour, store your unwanted items and parts, (Maximum of 200 allowed for items). Give your BIG MEDALs to the BIG MEDAL collector, check with DR.SOLOMON with your monster defeated list, heal up for free if you go to sleep. Get resuscitated by DR MORTEM if you or your allies die. PEOPLE COMMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NINA Mother EMILY Sister JACK Barman and man with a past RACHEL Daughter of Jack DR,SOLOMON Collects monster data DR. MORTEM Revives the dead IGOR Picks up the bodies HAREHEAD Makes strange comments MCKINLEY Gives town information BIG MEDAL COLLECTOR Collects BIG MEDALs SCRAP ARMOUR DEALER Exchanges scrap for strong protectors BLACK MARKET SHOP OWNDER Buys and sells unusual items SCARLET Mysterious helpful lady ROSA Tank challenge CRAZY WAYNE Challenger LLOYD " DUKE " GUERMO " SCARLET " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOD SHOP The garage has no shops as such though you can modify your tanks and get a service and repairs. RENTAL Not open at first: rent a tank after getting to NEWFOLK. EQUIPMENT/ The shops selling items and equipment/weapons are one building. ITEMS BLACK MARKET Here you can sell some very few items and buy them back when you need them. This is the the only function for this shop. SCRAP ARMOUR Exchanges scrap for protectors ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE BUGGY Found at JUNK MOUNTAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many events here at different times during the game. These include: talking to Scarlet in the bar at the beginning of the game. Fighting when challenged, Jack events, Gift events involving your mother:NINA, sister: EMILY, and RACHEL at the bar. Marry Rachel. Game Ending At any time, if you tell Emily that you want to be a mechanic the game will end there and then. Locked Door Later in the game you will be able to find the key to open the locked door of the small house near the Church. (see Lorelei Bay: Oliver event) Later Events 1. ROSA'S TANK CHALLENGE 2. HUNTER CHALLENGES 3. JACK EVENTS 4. EMILY'S SUITOR 5. DR. MORTEM'S "CHALLENGE" 6. SCARLET CHALLENGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNK MOUNTAIN Right next to JUNKYARD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNKYARD WALKTHROUGH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------- 1. Decision Time ---------------- The game begins with a woman (your mother) called NINA, asking you if you want to become a hunter When she finishes talking there are two options: - I'm going to become a hunter/I'll be a mechanic. If you choose to be a mechanic.....the game ends! GAME ENDINGS; this is the first of many possible game endings. (See ENDINGS) Assuming you opt for Hunter, Nina then tells you where to go, and about NICHOLAI, a mechanic in NEWFOLK, a town to the northeast [but you can't get there yet]. EMILY [your sister] speaks, and then you are outside the garage, your home. Now you can explore your hometown: JUNKYARD. Movement is simple, using the left stick. ----------------------------------- 2. Saving The Game At Memory Centre ----------------------------------- First things first. The save point is diagonally to the left of the garage. Go there and save. You can have as many saves as your memory card will allow. It is a good idea to have more than one save in case you miss some event and want to retrace your steps. Also, make sure to save when you can because you can only save inside towns, and you may run into an enemy that you cannot defeat. So saving before you leave a town is also a good idea. ---------------------- 3. The Hunter's Office ---------------------- Go inside the place where you saved. It is a HUNTER'S OFFICE, and there is one of these in every town. A hunter will tell you to get a vehicle/tank from JUNK MOUNTAIN. This will be your first tank. Talk to the hunter office clerk and you will be shown a list of four options: - This Week's Target/Outlaw Info/Collect Reward/Leave. View the message board in the hunter's office for repeat information on outlaws. This feature is in every hunter's office. Speak to the old woman if you want. ---------------- 4. Getting Money ---------------- Find out that the TARGET is the spider tank, and the OUTLAW is Trash Heap, If you press "collect reward" you will get a message: Defeat outlaws and target monsters to earn rewards. Obviously you can't get a reward yet. But every time you defeat a target monster or outlaw you will get a cash reward. There is a limit to this nice system. While outlaws can be defeated whenever you like, the target monster changes over time. This can be annoying as you go out and kill lots of spider tanks, return to collect your reward and then find out that the spider tank is no longer the target monster and you get nothing. In the end I stopped bothering too much with trying to get the targets and just relied on outlaws and general monsters for cash. Money is very important to the game as you will need lots for buying weapons and tank parts and for repairs. All defeated enemies yield cash, but not a great deal, and once you acquire skills you will find that using them also costs money. You will find various items some of which can be sold, and many monsters drop items that can also be sold. Later there is an easy way to get lots of cash by playing a minigame, but for now you only have 200g. --------- 5. Titles --------- After pressing "leave", the Hunter Office clerk will say "Good luck Mr. Newbie". This is your default title, and you can get other and better ones as you progress through the game. Titles are awarded for having lots of money, killing lots of enemies or outlaws and other things such as increasing levels. See Section B on Characters for more details about the titles. ----------------------- 6. Press Triangle: Menu ----------------------- Menu controls are obvious: - Triangle for menu - X to highlight and select - Circle (O) to return or cancel the selection. You also get the message that new information has been added, so press the triangle button and a menu will be highlighted at the top left of the screen. Check these. - Item At present you have 4 healing capsules to restore 50 HP and at the top right of the screen is the information 4/64, which tells you the item storage capacity. You can sort items by pressing triangle in the item screen and then sort by type, alphabetically, or in reverse alphabetical order. - Status/Equip This shows you the Member List. At present it's only Hunter, but you will get more party members. You are at level 1 with 100 HP, and you gain a level for every 100 experience points. Equipment is self explanatory, with slots for weapon, headgear, body gear, hand gear, footwear, and the last slot is for the additional breakable protector armour. Every character's list is the same but their equipment will be different depending on whether they are male/female, mechanic/soldier, or dog. Compare Parts Appears at the bottom of the left hand Status/Equip screen. This is very useful once you have a tank or two or more. Chassis:mnt [mount] ammo, dur[durability] wgt[weight] Engine: load, dur. wgt Main: atk [attack of main gun) ammo, dur, wgt Sub: atk, dur, wgt (no ammo as the sub gun can be used as often as you like) SE: atk, ammo, dur, wgt [SE guns are guns with special effects and can only be used with certain tanks or mountings) C Unit: dur, wgt (this is the control unit) - Skill This shows the skill list for each party member (when you have some!), and some, such as healing skills, can be used directly from this menu screen. At present it lists Hunter's unique skill: Remote Laser. IMPORTANT: note the 200g. This is what it costs to use, every time you use it, so be sure you have enough money if you want to use it. - Drive Select your vehicles to drive/tow. This is where you can select your tank, and if you find a new one you can tow it. - Satcom Takes you to your computer where you'll find masses of valuable information, including maps. - Teleport This option is only available when outside on the world map or in a town. But first you need the Teleporter item equipped to one of your tanks. You will be able to find and buy these in the next town. ------------------- 7. Explore Junkyard ------------------- Go outside and explore. First of all, visit the two green tents to the left. SCRAP SHOP This is where you can bring all scrap armour to trade, and in return you will get stronger armour when you have redeemed enough stamps. There are four items listed and the number of pieces of scrap required for each piece. This is the only place where you can redeem the scrap. The Items are : Armour Cost in Scrap Damage Reduction Ceramic Armour 20 150 Body Shield 30 200 Ultimate Shield 40 300 Dog Protector 50 For Dogs BLACK MARKET The trader says he is interested in all items. This is not true. There are a select few items that he will buy, usually for very little, and you can buy them back if you want. I only used this when I found that I had too many items and ran out of storage space. Staying on the left side move up the screen and find two brown warehouses with open doors. Go in the first. MEDAL COLLECTOR This Harehead collects BIG MEDALS and will reward you for giving them to him. (Or will he?) As the collector says they can be found all over the place, so searching every corner is important if you want to get all medals. (See the section BIG MEDALS: is it worth it? Short answer is: it's not. There's a glitch that prevents you from collecting them all, so the best thing is to sell them off, or give them to him just to get rid of them, but don't expect anything useful.) TREASURE CHESTS/BOXES At the back of the warehouse you will find your first treasure box. Press X to open and receive a REPAIR KIT for a tank. The box will not disappear once opened and this can be a little confusing if you forget which ones you've already opened. Go into the next warehouse where there are two more chests. One contains SANDALS. Go to the status menu and equip these at the footwear Icon. VENDING MACHINES (These are found in all towns) Leave the warehouse and go round to the side of the building and you will see a white machine on the wall. Here you can buy various items. These machines are found in every town and most dungeons and in garages. The further you get in the game the better stuff they sell. If you get lucky you can win a better quality item, or additional items if you time the button press correctly. Try it out now to buy Stick-on-Armour for 20g. Equip it in the final equipment slot. It reduces damage by 10, but it will break after a few hits. You can talk to the small boy on your left if you like. Carry on up the screen to the small locked building on your left. Remember this place, as you will later get a key to open the door. For now, continue to explore and go up the steps to the graveyard. Press X on the small barrel and you will get a BIG MEDAL #02. --------------------- 8. Dr Mortem And Igor ---------------------- Go inside the church, and talk to IGOR and DR. MORTEM. He will revive you if you die. This is very useful as you will end up in a coffin and get dragged behind your tank convoy if you have allies, or by Igor if you don't, and then Dr M will electrocute you back to life. Go into the back rooms. The first has nothing of use, the second has a STICKY CELL in the fridge and a REPAIR KIT under the sink. At the end of the corridor to the left of the junk piled up is another BIG MEDAL #03 ---------------- 9. Transport Pod ----------------- Outside again, go right, and find a small building with a green roof. Go inside. You can chat to the little girl. I don't think the answer matters. This is the tranporter, which you cannot use yet. When you can, it will allow you to travel from town to town without using your tanks. It is important to use this machine as it sometimes goes wrong, and when it does it lets you find two important locations in the game that can ONLY be accessed this way. These locations are visible on the map, but cannot be reached on foot or by tank, and they are THE IWASAKI MEDICAL LAB and THE GRAND SKILL MASTER. Getting the transporter malfunction seems to be a matter of luck and a function of multiple use, but it probably won't happen until later in the game. -------------- 10. Dr Solomon --------------- ALERT: after meeting with Dr Optica, Dr. Solomon will give you a lens. Continue to the right and enter a large building with a green door. Here you will find DR. SOLOMON. Agree to help him research monsters and he tells you to come back and see him every now and then, with the information you have collected automatically on your satcom. Do as he says and he will reward you. Go to the sink to find SOLOMON'S GLOVE. If you try to use it [click on the glove and press use] it fits over your head. This is a joke. There is a pair of WORK GLOVES in the first brown box in his room, and TILE PACKS for a tamk in the next two. You can also find the DRILL CLAW MEMO in the brown cupboard just to the left of Dr. Solomon. There are other memo items like this one, and if select one and choose "Use" it will tell you the recipe for assembling a weapon. This one gives you the recipe for the Drill Claw: Drill Blade, Claw Blade, Drill Sheath and Junk and you'll be able to make this weapon when you reach the next town, if you've found all the components. (Thanks to joesilver72 for this location.) As you collect more data on monsters the Doc will give you additional items: 30% completion gets you the SOLOMON'S BOOTS, and 60% completion gets you SOLOMON'S HELM. I have not managed to complete the monster list and so have got got the final item for 100% completion. I wonder what it is, and if all these items amount to anything useful? The next building to your right is a small house. There is a STICK-ON-ARMOUR in the right hand wardrobe. Further to the right is the Elder. Speak to him and he tells you that Junk Mountain is ahead, but that you will need equipment before you go in there. He is right. Go down the screen and talk to boy. Answer as you like. To his left is another building with an icon outside. This is the store selling equipment and items. ----------------------------- 11. Shop: Gun And Torch Icons ----------------------------- The shop icons are not always easy to spot. The gun icon is for equipment and the torch for items. Upgrading can be critical, but it is as well to search around towns first as you often find equipment that would be expensive to buy. ------------------------- 12. HAREHEAD and MCKINLEY ------------------------- From the shop, come back down the screen and talk to HARE HEAD, who will give you some background information on the world of Metal Saga. He then disappears. To his left is a small hut with a barrel at the far left corner. Another BIG MEDAL #01. Go up and talk to the man outside the garage, who greets you with the words "Hey Eddy". This is MCKINLEY, a friend of your father Eddy's. After talking to him, he leaves. You will meet him in every town. He is basically there to give you information about the place so it is always a good idea to talk to him. He is never a playable character. OK. You have now explored the town, with the exception of the two most important places. Your home garage and the bar/inn. --------------------------------------- 13. Junkyard Bar: Things To Do And Find --------------------------------------- 1. The hunter sitting on the right next to the wall will give you helpful tips on hunting. 2. The trader sitting upstairs will tell you about Newfolk and East Zero. 3. The man sitting at the bottom of the stairs will tell you how to get to Newfolk. 4. Talk to the red haired girl at the bar: this is SCARLET, THE RED FOX. You will meet her again, but unfortunately she is not a playable character. It's essential to talk to her whenever you see her. 5. Speak to JACK the bartender. Press X to speak again and you will get a menu: Sell Material/Sell All Materials/Place An Order/Buy A Round/Leave. You will have more dealings with JACK later in the game. Buy a drink if you like, and each one gets a different response. 6. EVENT TRIGGER: go to the back door and SCARLET speaks to you. Agree to her offer of help. She then leaves. 7. Go through the door to the back. 8. The far left door leads to a room where you meet RACHEL. Choose the first option and she will respond and you get a message telling you that you can now give gifts to Rachel. A PINK LIPSTICK can be found in the wardrobe to the left. 9. The next room has a HEALING CAPSULE in the left hand chest of drawers. 10. The sink at the back has TILE PACK S. You can leave at the side door and find yourself outside, next to the garage. ---------- 14. GARAGE ---------- The icons above the entrance indicate what services are available. Inside, signs show the functions of the garage. REPAIR SHOP = The crossed spanners. Where damaged and broken tank parts can be repaired by your mom. SERVICE STATION = The red oil can. The service station, where ammo can be reloaded for a price, armour tiles added and a complete service paid for. I tend to use the custom order which allows you to select how much ammo, or armour tiles you want for each vehicle. This is cheaper than a complete service. STORAGE FACILITY = TR At the top right hand corner of the garage is the storage facility. You can store up to 200 items and a large amount of vehicle parts. This is only available at JUNKYARD. At the back of the garage is another vending machine selling items and equipment. Go down the slope and straight ahead is a treasure chest with a HEALING CAPSULE. MOD SHOP = A sign with a cog. Nothing to do here now, but this is very important once you have a tank. RENT-A-TANK = R above a picture of a tank. Not yet open. TANK WASH = Pipe with water flowing out. Talk to SHINY and he will tell you why you might wash a tank: to get rid of bird poo, or fungus. It costs 100g and I only used it once or twice. (You can also use it to wash off acid) Go back up the slope and carry on to the right. This is your home tank parking lot. The little machine with the red button can be used to line up your parked tanks in order. This useful when you have a lot of tanks: which you will. Once you get 7 tanks Eddy will expand the parking lot. Finally, go upstairs. You are back where you started the game. Turn right at the top of the stairs and go straight on and outside to find another BIG MEDAL #04 at the side of the building. Go back inside and straight ahead into your own room at the top of the stairs. Here you can rest for free whenever you like, and restore your health. The middle room is your sister's and there is a SISTER'S TOWEL by the dressing table. The next room belongs to your mother: FATHER'S SHIRT is obtained from the table, and there are photographs to get some extra information. By the way, "Father's Shirt" is a crucial item for assembling a powerful weapon so do not sell it. You will also find HANDKERCHIEF hiding in the small statue ar the corner of the bookcase. There is a REPAIR KIT in the fridge. You can talk to Emily: if you say "taking a break" you will end up in your room after sleeping. You can quit the game, or say I came to see you, or "nothing really". Sometimes Emily will be asleep, or in her room. And Nina will be upstairs if she is not in the repair shop. ----------------------- 15. Ready To Leave Home ----------------------- Go outside. Now that you have found everything and talked to everyone you are ready to find your first tank. Save first before leaving. Of course you could go outside town or to Junk Mountain before this if you like. This is a game with few restrictions on your movement, but on foot, and alone, you would not get very far! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.1. JUNKYARD LATER EVENTS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Later in the game there are many more Junkyard based events. If you are at the beginning of the game ignore this section for now. 1. ROSA'S TANK CHALLENGE 2. HUNTER CHALLENGES 3. JACK EVENTS 4. EMILY'S SUITOR 5. DR. MORTEM'S "CHALLENGE" 6. SCARLET CHALLENGE CHALLENGE FIGHTS: THESE DO NOT BEGIN UNTIL LATER IN THE GAME The challenges fights begin when you reach the "Seasoned Hunter" rank, which you gain after killing 10 outlaws. Although you don't get a reward for these you do get to add the challengers to your list of defeated "Bio" enemies. Rosa will appear in the bar for the first two tank battles after you have got 5 or 6 tanks. Rachel will always be in the bar until Rosa leaves it. This very useful piece of information and advice was posted by LegoTechnic on the Metal Saga message board at GameFAQs. Many thanks for this as I was stuck trying to give gifts to Rachel, when she wouldn't appear in her room. Now I know why. ------------------------ 1. Rosa's Tank Challenge ------------------------ After you have gained 5 tanks, and chatted to Rosa about tanks, you get an email from her challenging you to a "mock battle". She will wait in the bar for you to accept. You can use your whole party and she will have Sebastian and Carl with her. (This is likely to be when you have the Buggy, Demag, Mosquito, Barbarossa and Gepard.) She will not allow you to use rented tanks. For a cheap and easy win get the mechanic to use the Lockdown skill on Rosa's tanks. This will shut them down with mechanical failure and unable to fire for around 10 or so turns. Rosa and Carl will not appear as defeated monsters or Outlaws, but Sebastian will be in your list of defeated "bio" enemies. BATTLE 1. JUNKYARD After getting 5 tanks you get an email from Rosa challenging you to a friendly tank battle. She is waiting in the bar. If you select the second option, to change your shoes! she will go. The third will just have her wait in the bar. So if you want to fight her choose the first option. Sebastian will remain out of range so you need a Bloodhound SE gun for him. I tackled her with the Tiger, Barbarossa and Panzer, and the party were all around Level 60. Exit the bar, get in your tanks and they are waiting just inside the entrance. Speak to Rosa to start. She will comment on your tanks and then the battle starts. Destroy the two tanks first using main and SE guns and then the Bloodhound and RAP shells on Sebastian who just stands there. When he moves into range let him have it with everything. If he gets a chance his "Chop" attack can do a lot of damage, maybe 800 or so SP and his "Punch" attack even more. You get nothing for winning. BATTLE 2. JUNKYARD Same drill as before but she has better tanks. This time Hunter was level 80, and had the Rodina, Tiger and Barbarossa with much better everything! By the time both of Rosa's tanks were destroyed all my tanks had no SP left and most of the guns were damaged too. However, with a few judicious RAP shells and the soldier attacking with a weapon, once Sebastian moved into range it was just possible to win. It took 23.000g to repair everything so that was an expensive battle. Use Lockdown and this will be much easier. (I nearly beat her at the same level and with the same tanks as the previous battle using this trick). If you lose this battle Rosa will say:"Yes! In your face! We did it--we won!" She suggests doing it again someday as the score is tied now. Also if you lose you are not dead even though your tanks might be. At least now that Rosa has left the bar you can give gifts to Rachel and see her reactions by visiting her in her room. -------------------- 2. Hunter Challenges -------------------- You can fight challengers here. You do not get a reward. An email will alert you to the fact that the challenger awaits. These battles are on your own. I guess that the trigger for this is when you have reached a certain level of number of titles, or it maybe when you have defeated a certain number of outlaws. You can choose to fight each one when you like, but it may be that the next one will only appear once the previous one has been dealt with. I am not 100% certain about this. There are specific conditions that must be met to fight Scarlet. LLOYD: first challenge after defeating 10 outlaws. (whether or not you have collected the reward). Title: Seasoned Hunter. BATTLE 1. LLOYD After the email, talk to Lloyd at the bar in Junkyard. Accept the challenge. It is just you without tanks against him. A Nutcracker or Noise grenade does a lot of damage against him and is a good start. He also throws a Grenade to begin with and then uses a machine gun. I cheated and waited until I was level 60 to fight him, and had the best equipment from Dowan, but you could win at a lower level than this. Try equipping a protector to defend against the grenade blast. After you win Igor comes to take him to Dr. Mortem. BATTLE 2. DUKE Another email and he will be in the bar. Three options: - Put up your ..dukes - Look! Over there! - Let me think about it: allows you to save first. He starts by throwing a bomb that can do a lot of damage and break a weak protector. The rifle then will do 300 HP amount of damage. A Noise Grenade at 300 or so HP only takes off a small amount of his total HP. You are going to need strong protection, good weapons and a high enough level to beat him. At 68 Hunter is not strong enough. At Level 98 with the Polymer Pads for protection and the Kunuhiro Katana, Hunter can defeat Duke without damage, and it takes around 6/7 rounds. So it's best to leave this fight until a time when you know you can win. BATTLE 3. GUERMO Receive an email from him after the Jack event and after the Leon event. These may or may be the triggers required, but that is when the challenge was made. Meet him in the bar, and you are given three choices: - I'd be honoured - Pah no way - I need some more time Save if you need to by choosing the last option, and then select the first. He attacks wielding an enormously long sword which can take off over 600 HP and shatter the protector at the first swipe. However, the good news is that sometimes his attacks can miss altogether. The Katana can do a lot of damage to him but without very good protection you are soon defeated. At around the 100 level mark I failed at the first attempt against him. Fight him at around level 125 with Polymer Pads and the best armour from Hell's Keep. Make sure you have a few Energy Drinks. This time, although he will still break the protector, each swipe does around 175 HP damage so it is possible to heal using Energy Drinks. Hunter was doing around 500 HP damage a go to Guermo. A Minerals to increase attack power can help too. At this level you should win after a few rounds. And you can always use the old trick of a Petrol Bomb to help things along the way. ------------- 3. Jack Event ------------- After beating Duke and Rosa too, so they have both left the bar, when you go to speak to Jack in the bar at Junkyard a series of events will begin. The condition for this is that you heard about Derringer Jack and Crazy Wayne from the guys in the station at Alice One, and that you met Wayne in the Hunter's Office there. After the initial event in Junkyard when Jack leaves town, if you leave to go elsewhere you get an email from Eddy to say that Jack has gone to Morgue Town. These series of events can be a bit confusing. The BEST scenario in terms of money and keeping Jack and Rachel sweet, and being able to fight Scarlet later on, is to: 1. Refuse to fight him in Junkyard. 2. Refuse to save him or Rachel in Morgue Town sewers. I know that second one sounds a bit strange but it is fine. It gives you the bounty, Jack's Derringer, Rachel's pendant, and avoids any unnecessary killing of anyone. However if you want to add Wayne to your list of defeated enemies (not outlaws, as he is not one), then forgo the bounty and kill Wayne. You cannot add both Jack and Scarlet to your defeated outlaws list in one game. The full details of these events covering what happens in the case of all the possible options are in the EVENTS EXTRA section. STAGE ONE - JUNKYARD After the initial event with the hunters Jack will admit that he is a wanted criminal. And then he asks: Which side are you on? You're my friend I'm a hunter ..I can't let you go. Now you can choose to fight Jack. If you do, you get his bounty BUT the bar is then closed. Rachel is lost to you forever and you cannot fight Scarlet. Oh, and you get a new title: Ruthless Killer. And the comments you get...not nice at all. So say: You're my friend. He then leaves. The bar is closed, though you can still get in using the lock pick. It is odd finding the whole place deserted. Hm. Maybe you shouldn't pick the lock. STAGE TWO - MORGUE TOWN Once you leave Junkyard there will be an email from Eddy telling you that Jack is in Morgue Town. Go there and into the bar and speak to the trader nearest to the bar. He will tell you that there is a new guy in town. The other trader also gives you information. Go down the corridor and into the last room on the right and speak to the Hunter dressed in green. He tells you that Crazy Wayne is here too. You can save your game at the room next to this if you need to and then go down the ladder. In the next room there is a soldier who will tell you that the new guy went down into the sewer and that he was trying to get away from someone. So Jack is down there and Crazy Wayne is after him. Go down. Go right and down the steps into the water and straight on into the room with the raised platform. Go round and to the left to the next screen and up the steps and back to the right. As you move you suddenly hear gunshots. You are now in the raised platform room and Wayne has Jack tied up on the end of a rope. Choice: - Rescue Jack - Stay where you are Select STAY for more scenes and another choice: - Rescue Rachel - Watch how this plays out Select WATCH. More scenes and finally an end. Collect the bounty. Visit Jack again in the bar and he will thank Hunter and you get his DERRINGER GUN! Visit Rachel in her room and she will give you her PENDANT. If you choose to rescue Jack or Rachel you end up fighting Wayne and there is no bounty. ----------------- 4. Emily's Suitor ----------------- This event occurred in the latter part of the game having defeated 30 outlaws and spoken to Emily saying I came to see her, (the third option on screen), and after giving Emily a few gifts. I am not sure what the trigger is for this event as in another game I got it much earlier. On the way out of the garage someone runs up to the tank asking about Emily. There are three options when you have a chance to respond to the question about Emily having a boyfriend: - My sister? I assume so - My sister? Ha! No way. - That's none of my business Select the third option to make him happy. He runs off. (I don't know if there is a sequel to this.) -------------------------- 5. Dr Mortem's "Challenge" -------------------------- I am not sure what triggers this event but it happened after triggering the Ziggurat and defeating the Storm Dragon. Return to Junkyard to find a soldier outside Dr Mortem's. He is in the graveyard. Speak to him and he talks about Dr. Mortem's machine. An Agent in black is suddenly shown at the bottom of the steps overhearing this. After a comment he disappears. You can now save if you need to. Go inside the church and speak to Dr Mortem. Then suddenly there is a loud crash. Events then unfold. Eventually after a lot of chat Hunter and party end up fighting Biff and Montoya. My party were at over 100, and all of them with the best protectors, so despite the direct sword attack Charlene took no damage. Dog and Charlene were doing 600 HP damage each attack so the two were dust within two rounds. At a lower level they could have been a lot harder to defeat as they must have had around 3000 HP each. After the fight there are more scenes at the Junkyard bar with Connie and Clive, and then finally with Dr. Mortem and Igor. END NOTE: If you lose this battle, Igor will rescue the party and Dr. Mortem will revive everyone. Igor take your place and defeats them, but you won't see the scene with Connie and Clive. (Thanks to EriconIX and others for this information.) ---------------------- 6. Scarlet's Challenge: *SCAR ---------------------- ALERT: Do NOT try to fight her without a tank. Hunter needs to be at least level 150. CONDITIONS She sends you an email after you have defeated 35 outlaws. Meet her in the bar. Follow her outside. Accept her challenge and then ask for time. (The last option.) Then you can save and in fact she will wait outside the bar for you to be ready to fight her. You can leave her there while you go off and do other things. In fact even after the end of the game you can still fight her if you haven't already done so. PREPARATION You will need the very best tank (the Maus) with the very best equipment. Make sure you have Energy Drinks from Hell's Keep or Alice One W. which can heal for 1000HP. She is fast and furious but what is especially annoying is that she goes into stealth, so unless you have weapons to deal with this you won't be able to touch her. Oh and the fight is just you and her. No allies. LOSING STRATEGY: Skip this section of you like. Prepare the tank by removing excess weight in terms of sub gun mountings and stack up, so you have three main guns and two SE guns. The Maus then has no sub guns, three main and two SE, one Excalibur and one Bloodhound. You may have to decrease any modifications to these guns and disable the sub gun mountings to cope with the increased load. Get the Ultimate Shield and equip Hunter with a weapon that targets enemies in stealth. You also need some Hound Bombs. After all this the Maus had 1100SP which is not much defense, so maybe the three heavy main guns is not such a good idea. (I usually prefer to use the Ghost as one of the main guns because of its light weight) The Sonic Blaster from Dowan is the only stealth weapon that Hunter can equip. so Hound Bombs are probably better to use. Get these from the trader camp at Lake Bridge West. Let's see... The Battle She begins in the out-of-range position. A RAP shell only does around 500 HP damage. Whilst her attacks are inflicting over 1500 SP damage on the tank. However despite her status as out of range two out of three of the main guns may hit her. After three rounds or so she moves forward into normal range. The guns do massive damage and so next she moves into stealth. The good thing about these changes of position is that they take up a turn. That means that she is not firing at you. She does an auto recover move that heals for 100 HP. The Vibro sword move missed altogether one time and the next took over 1000 SP off the tank and destroyed it utterly. Threw a Hound Bomb. 500 or so HP damage, and again her sword attack missed. Her life bar is now low. But the next Vibro sword destroyed the protector: the Ultimate shield is not well named, and she killed Hunter with over 1000 HP damage. Round two. Try with the Bloodhound? Only got four attacks in from the tank before it was destroyed. Though the three main guns managed to hit her. Lose, and she yawns and says it was boring and leaves. Conclusion: The Ultimate Protector will not protect and level 138 is too low. ---------------- WINNING STRATEGY: Final Defeat ---------------- After a number of attempts trying out different strategies this is the one that finally worked. At Level 150. Maus equipped with three main guns: 2 Rail Cannon and 1 Plasma Gun. One Excalibur to hit her when in stealth, and as a bonus, the assembled Crimson ATM SE gun which has attack of 1027 and weight of 2.56t. One lightweight sub gun will help defend the body of the tank. Although this means that the tank only has 103 SP it seems to work better than having fewer guns equipped and a higher SP. The Ultimate Shield from the scrap trader and the Kunihiro Katana as well as all the best defensive equipment bought from Hell's Keep in case you lose the tank. Petrol Bombs just in case, Hound Bombs too and Energy Drinks. With this set up and a bit of luck she was defeated before she managed to destroy the tank. Ignore the out of range status and just blast with main guns and chances are they will hit her. When she goes into stealth use the SE Excalibur. If you get ejected from your tank before she is dead then keep healed with the Energy Drinks and attack her directly if she is not in stealth. Eventually she comes out of it and uses a less damaging attack Concussion Wave, so you still have a chance. After you have won she says: "Huh!? The regeneration..isn't working...I guess my body finally reached its limit...You're strong Hunter. Strong men...were always my...type..." She falls to the ground. You get her gun the PZB 39 EX a ranged weapon against all, which is only equippable by Charlene. You can also claim a massive bounty of 300,000g at the Hunter's Office. I don't think I really wanted to kill Scarlet. *sob* =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.2. JUNK MOUNTAIN: O.T.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NOTE: If you want to increase your stock of scrap armour buy and equip the cheapest stuff found at JUNKYARD and it will break more quickly, so the number scrapped will increase that much faster. However, the downside to this is that you have to remember to change them frequently or you run the risk of dying. DUNGEON Explore fully. TANK Find first tank, the BUGGY. OUTLAW Fight the Outlaw, TRASH HEAP, using the tank. Exchange junks with the boy opposite the entrance for parts which can be used to make new things. (Not yet though, so store them for now in your storage facility at home) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= JUNK MOUNTAIN AND TRASH HEAP WALKTHROUGH *TH Map: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/926834-metal-saga/faqs/52714 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Psycho Cycler, Giant Slug, Scrap Zombie, Junk Zombie, and Spider Tank. Drops: Syrup Cells, Junks, 1. Go into JM and speak to the three people there. The boy opposite the entrance will take any JUNK you find and give you items in exchange which can be used for making various items of equipment. JM is probably one of the most annoying parts of the game. At least I find it so. The reasons for this are: - there is no map and it all looks the same so it is easy to get lost. - your protector doesn't last long against the slug enemy attacks. - you are alone with no allies and no tank: until you manage to find it. Go right. [Left takes you out of JM to the overworld map]. Stay left and you will find a boy who will tell you to go away. Hug the right wall of junk and just before the next right exit go up to find a large piece of Junk and get a piece of JUNK. 2. Enemies appear out of nowhere. Yes, it's the random encounter at work here. Fighting is turn based, so just press 'weapon' to attack. If you get hit you will notice that the protector takes the damage, and you may only lose 1 HP. After a couple or three fights the protector will break. So equip another. After about 6 or 7 fights you will level up. But by this time you will probably have lost both protectors and need to heal. Use a healing capsule and/or return to Junkyard and rest up if you like. 3. On the next screen hug the left wall and find another piece of JUNK. Continue diagonally to the right to find the next exit. On the next screen hug the left wall until you reach a broken pylon and get another piece of JUNK. Go to the opposite wall and there is another piece of JUNK. The exit is at the top right of the screen. On the next screen you will find a hunter. At the top right there is another JUNK. Hug the opposite wall down and there is an exit. Leave this for now and continue across back to near where you came in and there is another JUNK at the bottom left of the screen. Back to the other side and there is a second exit. So, to make this clear there are two exits, both to the right. The top exit leads to a busted tank to the right. Go up and left and through the exit to the next screen. The enemies here can be tough so run away if you meet two or more scrap gun enemies. Go down a ramp. Carry on down to the next screen. At last! 4. YOU HAVE FOUND YOUR FIRST TANK: THE BUGGY. To get in the tank you go to the menu [using triangle] and press drive. Then when it says select vehicle to drive/tow chose Buggy and when you leave the screen you will enter the Buggy. Steer using the left stick exactly as when walking. If you want to leave the tank go back to the drive screen and press exit. To fight using the tank you will notice the Buggy menu at the bottom left corner. Look at each in turn and on the right side of the screen the moving information will tell you what each one means. For now you only have sub guns so press "sub" to attack. You can fight more quickly if you hold the L2 button during battles. 5. Now retrace your path. Up and to the right takes you back, then up the ramp to the next screen. You can easily defeat any monsters now with no damage to yourself or your tank. On to the right to the next screen, where the dead tank is, then down and to the right to the next. This should be the screen with the Hunter. You can talk to him while in the tank and then take the bottom right hand exit. On the far side is a brown box with a vehicle part 37MM CANNON which you can take as you have a tank. However this will result in overloading the vehicle. Discard armour tiles so that you can move, and make sure the sub gun and main gun are equipped. 6. Above the box is a dark puddle and if you press X near the wall you will get a message" dark smoke from the fire is drifting this way". To the right is another exit. At the bottom of the screen near another broken pylon is a piece of JUNK. Again, there are two exits on the right. Take the lower one, for another piece of JUNK. Return to the previous screen and go up to the second exit. (The one next to the dark puddle smoke message). The next exit is to the right and up a wide ramp. There is a soldier at the top of the screen who will give you a warning that a monster awaits. and that you need to be at least level three to defeat it. By this time you will probably be at level four and anyway you now have a tank. 7. Now that you have the Buggy and the main gun you are ready to face your first real battle. If you want to save first, you will have to return to Junkyard. ======================================= || OUTLAW: TRASH HEAP (Level 5) *TH || ======================================= 8. The battle is not too difficult, just use your main gun and defend when it looks like the monster is preparing for a stronger attack. You may lose your engine, but you can still use the gun. It takes about 14 or 15 hits at this level to defeat him. You get a SPECIAL JUNK. Keep it for future trade. If you are damaged you can use the repair kit on the damaged part, but only out of battle. Also a S[small] Tile Pack will restore 40 armour tiles. 9. Exit the area and continue to backtrack down and left and then up twice until you reach the entrance. Trade the Junks with the boy for items, then return to Junkyard. 10. Save and collect your reward. You are now a Rookie. And you should be at level 5 or 6. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.3. IMPOUND LOT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Junk Zombie. Magnum Cycle, Iron Slug Drops: Junk, Gelatin Cells Location: Slightly SE of Junkyard. Nothing to do or see here. Apparently this is where your tanks might end up if you leave them out in the open or some place too long. Never happened to me. Edit: if you lose a tank while fighting enemies in the lake it will sink to the bottom and be salvaged and end up here. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.4. JUNKYARD EAST S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Junk Zombie, Iron Slug, Power Flower, Dud S, Black Hawk Fly, Pogo Cadet, Gatling Bee (these last three are in the woods) Drops: Junk, Getatin Cells, Eyeball Items: Sling Shot, Uzi Drive northeast from the Impound Lot, roughly following the road, towards the pink dot on the edge of the river, and you'll find a useful shop for this early in the game, and information concerning a Tank. There is SLING SHOT in a box inside the left hand tent. And you can find an UZI gun to the south of this trader camp just to the west of the bottom of the green area, but you need the Mine Detector for this. SHOP ---- TANK PARTS: 50mm Cannon, 7.62mm Gatling, Pitching Bomb, SE (all) Donkey Engine, Spasibo II, C Unit. PART SHOP: 57mm AA Cannon. There is no point in buying the AA gun until you have an AA tank to equip it. Go into the right hand tent and the trader there will give you a hint about the location of the DEMAG tank, which is up the river. You cannot get it until you have the mine detector item from Newfolk. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1.4. FINDING NEWFOLK =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies:Junk Zombie, Iron Slug, Power Flower, Magnum Cycle, Dud S, Spider Tank.Black Hawk Fly, Pogo Cadet, Gatling Bee (these last three are in the woods) Drops: Junk, Getatin Cells, Syrup Cells, Eyeball There are two ways to get to Newfolk. You can go west, and then, north from Junkyard, and drive east towards the bridge. OR head east from Junkyard to the trader camp, and then follow the river northwards until you reach the bridge. Since you may also want to find the useful Uzi and the other items from the trader camp make sure that you go this way at least once. As you cross the bridge use the detector once you have it (found or bought in Newfolk) to get the LEATHER JACKET. Once over the bridge continue to the east keeping to the southern edge of the desert and you will soon see a pink dot: that is Newfolk. ================== Found in the Field ================== UZI Description: A submachine gun attack 4 (all). Location : South of Junkyard trader camp just to the west of the bottom of the green area. LEATHER JACKET Description: Defense 7. Location : On the first bridge you cross on the way to Newfolk. SHARP ROCK/SMOOTH ROCK Description: A rock that can be thrown at enemies. Location : Outside Junkyard. Random find. =============================================================================== 2. N E W F O L K : P.O.S.T.E.D. ........................................ 0108 =============================================================================== 2.0. Newfolk 2.1. Newfolk W. S.T. 2.2. Trader Camp O.E. 2.3. Abandoned Ruins T.E. 2.4. Finding East Zero =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 2.0. NEWFOLK =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: HERE YOU FIND YOUR MECHANIC, PAINT A TANK, AND MEET PEOPLE IN BAR. ALSO BUY THE TELEPORTER FROM GARAGE. Find a mechanic ally in the garage. Choose either Kiriya or Misha. Although you can only have one of them at once they can be swapped at any time you wish. They have different default skills and use different weapons, but it is up to you which you prefer. I prefer Misha to start with, as she needs her levels boosting more than Kiriya, also she can get the skill "Cheer" which boosts attack and another which heals, but I swap them around from time to time. PEOPLE COMMENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIKOLAI Father of K and M Paint your tanks with his help if you like. MISHA Mechanic, possible wife! KIRIYA Mechanic MARTHA M and K's mother CONNIE One the three people you meet at various places CLIVE " ALEX The leader of the three MCKINLEY HARE HEAD OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUGSY Random, nearby MAD MAXWELL Trader camp, southwest of East Zero SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Healing Grenade, Tile Pick M, Mine Detector EQUIPMENT Pot Lid + other stuff PARTS Vulcan sub gun: all, Electrifire SE: all, Teleporter + others SHELLS Thunder and Spare Shells ASEEMBLY Weapons RENTAL Tanks for rent TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DEMAG Search upriver on the western side. See NEWFOLK W. MOSQUITO In Abandoned Ruins to the north EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inside the Hunter's Office. These vary depending on whether or not you lost to MAD MAX. Inside the Bar You will meet Connie, Clive and the well-dressed man (ALEX) here. You must do this if you want to progress the story part of the game. MARRIAGE You can marry Misha, and give her gifts. If you marry her the game will end. But it is worth while seeing it. Nikolai Growgaine: a series of events when you give him Growgaine items. Kiriya A special event if you use Kiriya to defeat the Outlaw Disassembler, first found in Beldaire. DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABANDONED RUINS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWFOLK WALKTHROUGH: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- 1. The Bar ---------- 1. The bar is at the far end of town next to the garage and if you go in there you will get another EVENT. CONNIE, the WELLDRESSED MAN and CLIVE are talking together. Speak to them individually and then speak to MAX, the leader, who will tell you about "THE GREAT DESTRUCTION" if you answer "not really" to his question. He also gives you information about two locations: a ruined place to the north: ABANDONED BUILDINGS, and a research facility: THE BIO ENERGETICS LAB, south of EAST ZERO. After this conversation, they leave. 2. The trader will give you a hint about the camp to the NW of NEWFOLK. He is worried about his friends and this is a hint that there will be trouble when you go there. (The old man at the bar will give a comment about RED FOX.) 3. The Hunter female at the bar will give you information if you pay for it. (But here it is for free.) - Hunt Dragon Choppers for their eyeballs using a Thunder Grenade. - Go east to find Dragon Choppers - A large field north of the bridge you crossed on the way: Dragon Choppers 4. Talk to the soldier and answer "-------" and he will give you information about your main gun concerning power and durability. Basically, it is no use having a gun if it gets broken too easily, so it is important to boost durability as well as power when modding your guns. 5. The man at the far right table will challenge you to a DRINKING GAME. You play this if you like. You have a minute to finish 5 different drinks. Success at this does not seem to have any obvious benefits. The other guy will mention the League of Uncivilised Barbarians. 6. Frog Race, and music are available for downloading or playing. ------------- 2. The Garage ------------- 1. Go to the garage to meet NIKOLAI, MISHA AND KIRIYA. You can name both Misha and Kiriya if you want. NIKOLAI will talk to you as soon as you enter. MISHA is at the back of the garage and KIRIYA is in a room upstairs. 2. MARRIAGE AND GAME ENDING EVENT Misha is in pale pink and in the garage. Speak to her, name her if you wish, and marry her! Just joking, though you CAN marry her if you want to see a nice scene and one of the game endings. When she asks "do you have a proposition for me?", answer "Let's get hitched", and if you continue to refuse to wait or save for the marriage, you can speed on through to the wedding. (See Endings section) If you want to add her to the party choose the first answer. She comes at level 2 but with three useful default skills and you can also give her home furnishings, i.e. gifts. 3. NEW ALLY: A MECHANIC Assuming you want to continue with the game, select either MISHA or KIRIYA to go with you. They are both mechanics, but have slightly different skills and weapons and armour. KIRIYA is at level 4 and MISHA at 2 when they join you. Special weapons for each of them can be found in their rooms. You can chose either one, and if you want to change to the other one just go back to Newfolk and ask the other one to join you. I swap between them from time to time but again, it's up to you. Choosing MISHA gives you the option of sending her presents. If she is an active member of your party you will not be able to marry her or see her reaction to any presents you give her. 4. PAINTING TANKS If you speak to NIKOLAI again he will offer to paint your tank. Select paint edit/custom, and you get a new screen where you can customise the tank. This initially looks daunting, but in fact it is relatively straightforward and an enormous amount of fun to do. You can literally paint your tanks in any colour or design that you want. There are detailed instructions on this in section 13 on Painting Tanks and in the game manual. To return press start. Press "set pattern" and you get a selection of automatic paint jobs. Choose one and you can give it any name you like. You can save the paint on to a separate save file. This is really for the custom paint job, but you can do it for any paint job. Painting is free. 5. THINGS TO FIND Check out the vending machine which sells Healing Capsules Tile Pack M and Pot Lids. Getting the Pack of 4 is a good deal. (Don't forget your mission to hand in as much scrap armour as possible) Go upstairs to meet Kiriya and Martha. There is a BIG MEDAL #08 in the blue bin behind Martha, an INSULATOR between the beds, in the first room, a LIGHTENING ROD at the far end of Misha's bed and a METAL BAT in the locker in Kiriya's room. Speak to him and get him to join instead, that way you will have got them both operational so to speak. He joins at Level 4, with two skills and can equip the Metal Bat. -------------------- 3. The Second Garage -------------------- 1. ITEM ASSEMBLY SHOP This where, for no cost, but with the correct items you can make new items. Different towns have assembly shops with different specialties. Some make weapons and others make parts for tanks. These assembled items can be extremely useful as they are often things that cannot be found elsewhere. However, this is an optional extra and you do not have to assemble anything in order to complete the game. Each assembly item requires 4 component parts to be assembled. There is a very good FAQ on this for more details, but also see the section here on assembling. A new section is added to the Satcom "help" which explains the assembly system. 2. PART SHOP This is where you can buy upgraded tank weapons and parts. I suggest getting the sub gun 9mm Vulcan which targets all enemies. Also, buy a couple of teleporters, one for each tank as they make it possible to teleport from town to town and out of dungeons. (You don't need two of them, but when you acquire more tanks it's useful to have a spare rather than keep moving your only teleporter from one tank to another one.) 3. SHELL SHOP This is for buying Spare Shells and Thunder Shells. These are called AUXILIARY SHELLS, and other shell shops sell different kinds of shells for use against a range of enemies, including flying, out of range or hiding enemies. These shells are not equipped to your tank and do not add to the weight, so they are useful to have. The number you can carry is limited to 20 in total. 4. RENT-A-TANK If you want to, or need to, you can rent a tank. This costs money and though the rented tank can be modified to some extent it is not really worth doing so as you will lose the modifications when you return the tank. Renting is free, but each battle will cost you a percentage of the winning cash: 20%. This means that renting can be a good option if necessary, and the rental tanks increase in power and capacity as the game progresses. However, since you are likely to find a good number of tanks I never used them, preferring to keep all the battle winnings. If you are using a rental tank and find another tank you can just abandon the rental if you wish. If you call in at the rental place the tank will still be in your possession, but all you have to do is say you are returning it. ----------------------- 4. The Rest Of The Town ----------------------- Find a BUGLE and PHOTO 1 in the small house near the south entrance. HARE HEAD is opposite this house to the right and you can talk to him if you want. The house next to the transport pod has a CAMO CAP in the bedroom chest. There is a BIG MEDAL #05 to be found on the left side of the three pipes in the brown lot. There is another BIG MEDAL #06 in the northeast corner of the fence. Stay at the inn in the economy room to find the MINE DETECTOR. This is a very valuable re-usable item that allows you to search the field for buried items and tanks. You can also buy it from the item shop. Stay in the Regular Room #2 to find HOLY BOOK between beds. There is another BIG MEDAL #07 in the plant in the inn corridor. ------------------ 5. Leaving Newfolk ------------------ Once you have found everything and kitted up your mechanic, you need to find him or her a tank. You may as well rent a tank from the second garage building, as it only costs a portion of your earnings (20%) from battles, and even when you find the new tank it will not have guns equipped, so won't be much use immediately. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.1. NEWFOLK W. T.S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Pogo Cadet, Spider Tank, Magnum Cycle, Giant Slug Drops: Junk, Syrup Cells From NEWFOLK head west again, back to the bridge. As you leave there will be an email alert, so take some time to read your new mail. It's from Scarlet and she gives you lots of helpful tips. The Pink dot close to the bridge is another trader camp.with a shop selling items and tank parts. ITEMS: Healing Drink, Thunder Grenade PARTS: Thunder Blaster (sub gun) From here, you can find the tank, by crossing the bridge back to the west. ================ || DEMAG TANK || ================ Get the DEMAG tank, AFTER you have found the mine detector in the inn at Newfolk, or bought one at the shop. Go north on the west side of the bridge that leads to Newfolk. Keep going, following the river, until you reach an area bordered by woods to the north. Use the mine detector to search the ground. It is buried there. Tow the tank back to Newfolk and get it kitted out. Make sure you equip a teleporter and guns. NOTE: If you have difficulty finding the location, wait until you get a Metal Detector which has a wider search area than the mine detector and that makes things much easier. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.2 TRADER CAMP O.E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Killer Bee, Black Hawk Fly, Pocket Rocket, Gatling Bee Drops: Eyeballs, Directly north from Newfolk W. is another Pink dot and another trader camp. This is the location of MAD MAX the outlaw. Do not attempt to fight him unless: a) you have already spoken to Scarlet in the bar at Junkyard. b) you have two tanks and two allies. If you do fight and lose you will miss any chance of getting him again and miss the reward as well as the chance to have another event involving Scarlet. Even if you leave this battle until later in the game they will still still be there. ================================ || OUTLAW: MAD MAX *MADM || ================================ The traders are dead and the League of Uncivilised Barbarians are on the rampage. You have a choice: you can leave or say "They won't get away with this!" No contest if you want to fight Scarlet at the end. So fight. The first part of the fight is with 4 enemies. Then Max Maxwell himself turns up with a tank and two henchmen. After the henchmen are downed but before the tank is destroyed, so long as you leave something for her to do, Scarlet will turn up and destroy the tank. Now the third stage of the fight is with Maxwell alone. So long as you stay alive until the end of the first round of fighting, MAX will then get serious. Keep alive a bit longer and SCARLET will join in the battle and save you. Afterwards she will be in the bar at Newfolk and you can speak to her. She tells you to toughen up! You can also get another scene inside the Hunter's Office at Newfolk. And if you lost the battle you will also lose the bounty. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.3 ABANDONED RUINS D.T.E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Killer Bee, Black Hawk Fly, Gatling Bee, Pocket Rocket Drops: Eyeball Go due north of Newfolk and find a pink dot, which is the RUINS, and the location of the tank, THE MOSQUITO. There are events here involving Connie and Clive, and Rosa. They occur automatically and you can't miss them. You can do this quest before or after you get the DOG. I am going to do it before, but it really is up to to you. You can do this before getting the EVENT in the bar at NEWFOLK and if you do that CLive and Connie will not appear. To trigger their event at the Ruins you must have spoken to Alex in the bar first. You can do that after finding the tank if you want and still get the event. EVENT ===== Clive will speak as you arrive. Connie replies and then you can speak again to Clive, standing at the corner next to your tank (he looks like a lamppost!) to get another comment, and they will go. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ABANDONED RUINS WALKTHROUGH =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Rice Cooker, Security Cam (in shelter), Pogo Cadet Drops: Rice, Junk, You might pick up a SMOOTH ROCK as you enter the Abandoned Ruins. At the end of the track there is a vending machine selling Healing Capsules, Thunder Grenades and Pot Lids. The buildings are confusing to navigate because of different lifts and stairs. -------------- Third Building -------------- 1. I am starting here because this is where you will find the tank. =================== || MOSQUITO TANK || =================== 2. Go through the open door straight ahead of you and down the left hand ramp. The Mosquito Tank is in front of you. To claim if simply go up to it and a naming screen will appear. As soon as you claim it an event will occur with Rosa, Sebastian and Carl. This is your first meeting with them. Go and check out the white spot. This the INGRAM FRAME, an assembly part. If you go the the top of the room there is a lift to take you to other floors. 3. You are now on B1, so go up to the top floor 3 and then work your way back down. The first room has nothing, the next has LARGE ORE on the table. 4. Go back to the lift and down to Floor 2. Immediately to your right there is a BIG MEDAL #11, in the locker. Continue in your tanks to the next room and go through the right hand door. Keep going and you come to a stair well. 5. Leave the tanks and go up the stairs. There is a room with two exits. Take either door: they lead to the same room. There is a REVOLVER in the locker between the doors, and a SKI MASK in the box at the far end. On the other side is a security device. Activate it. This gets all the lifts working. (You can deactivate it again.) ------------------------------ The First Building On The Left ------------------------------ 1. STRANGE HILT is on the table as you enter. Go into the next room, and up to the enclosed area. Go on foot to find a HEALING CAPSULE in the first locker and THUNDER GRENADE in the next row of lockers. 2. If you go left there is a lift to take you up to floors 3 and 2. If you go straight through up to the next room there is a stairway that you have to go by foot. There is a new main gun, the L 75MM CANNON at the far end of the large room through the door to the left of the stairs on floor 3. However you want to get that with your tanks, so go into the lift and up to floor 3, and from that room go up through the door and turn right. You see the stairs and turn down into the room with the gun. 3. Go back to the lift on Floor 3. There is a SNEAKERS inside the locker just to the right of the lift. Go in and down to floor 2. The lockers to the left have a BIG MEDAL #09. This room has two exits at the top end. Both lead to the same large room with the stairs in the right hand corner. ------------------------------- The Second Building On The Left ------------------------------- 1. If you get out of your tanks you can go behind the counter and down to find a FLIGHT JACKET and POT LID. Now, go back to enter the first door you passed. There is a very useful weapon for the mechanic to be found, and a door to be unlocked, so best to do this first. Go through the other small door and up the stairs on foot to the top floor. 2. Another small door leads to another room, and stairs going down. Go down and there is a machine with a switch. Press this to have a door unlock. Go on down and the locker on your right has a BIG MEDAL #10. In the far corner of the room is a box with BOOMERENCH, a mechanic only weapon that is very useful as it targets all enemies and is anti-aircraft too. Attack 20. 3. Go back up the stairs again, up to the top of the stairs, through the door, and then back down the stairs to the first floor, and straight on through the door. Whew. 4. Now for the second door behind the counter. Go through the door here, and at the end of the room in a locker is LEATHER GLOVES. Then go up these stairs. Go through the room and right through, into the next. (This is the door that you unlocked). Here, down at the left end there is a white spot. Take this. It is STRANGE SHEATH. Back and up the stairs to the top floor. The locker on the left has ZAPPER, an electric ranged weapon with attack 16. 5. Back down to your tanks again. Down the ramp and you are in another underground garage. Go on through the door to the right hand side and down this room to the end. There is another assembly item by the last left hand pillar: the ASSAULT SLIDE. Go back up and out. ================================ || OUTLAW: BUGSY *BUG || ================================ Enemies: Giant Slug. Pogo Cadet, Pocket Rocket, Magnum Cycle, Spider Tank Drop: Syrup Cells This cute yellow bubble car roams the desert, near Newfolk and the Abandoned Buildings, and it appears at random anywhere in this desert. It is so pretty I didn't want to destroy it, but the bounty swayed me. It attacks firing missiles from under the bonnet. Simple to defeat using main guns. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.4. FINDING EAST ZERO =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Magnum Cycle, Spider Tank, Pogo Cadet, Black Hawk Fly, Pocket Rocket, Punk Drops: Junk, Eyeball From Newfolk go northwest following the direction of the road out of Newfolk. Then, when you hit the edge of the woods, go north and follow the southern edge of the desert as it turns northwest. You will go past a pink dot that is the camp where you can fight Mad Max. Continue going northwest following the edge of the desert. Eventually you will come to a greener area and a road T junction. From here go due north to see a blue dot that is East Zero. If you go north too soon you will end up in a large desert area. If this happens turn west again. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== STORM CANNON Description: Sub gun. Attack 20. Location : Northwest of Newfolk in the white sand there is a pile of three stones. This Tank weapon which hits all enemies and is electric can be found here. On the satcom large map the location is at the point of an imaginary upside down V between Newfolk and Newfolk West. It is also direct south on the line from Beldaire. This is a very useful sub gun. TAP DANCER Description: SE (all) discharges blasts of energy. Attack 40. Location : Found to the northeast of Newfolk in the sandy part of the desert. To the upper left corner of the screen where it is found, is a triangular shaped bit of scrap pointing northwest and three small stones below it. On the small map it is when Newfolk is visible to the right of the southwest corner and the tank is roughly in the centre of that screen. You have gone too far north if the northern pink dot is visible. Look at the satcom map location for Junkyard E shop and it is on the blue line up from here. FIREPROOF COAT Description: Defence 11. Location : Where the roads to the southeast of East Zero form a T junction, search in the south east corner where the roads meet. Opposite is a pylon to the north east. PPSH 41 Description: A low attack (all) submachine gun. Attack 6. Location : Due South of Beldaire on the satcom, and at the furthest north west corner of desert to the East of East Zero. Go up into the green area and to the furthest point to the East. Next to the river. =============================================================================== 3. E A S T Z E R O P.O.S.T.E.D. .................................... 0109 =============================================================================== 3.0. East Zero 3.1 MC Hamir and the Maus Tank 3.2 Train P.O.E. 3.3 Bio Energetics Lab P.E.D. 3.4 Finding Beldaire 3.5 Funding Alice One =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.0. EAST ZERO =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: speak to the hunter standing nest to a tank in front of the station. This begins a series of events involving MC HAMIR By the way, don't forget to read your mail for extra information and check your diary. This will tell you where you are in game: new member information is logged here, and stuff about places and people. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MC HAMIR Speak to him in the bar sitting at the table with the waitresses CURRY GURU Buy healing curry. SKILL MASTER Buy skills MURASAME Speak to him in the bar with Rashid in party OUTLAW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HAMMER HYDRA Random encounter in desert east of EAST ZERO: check satcom SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ITEMS Healing Drink, Grenade, Tile Pack M, Alkaline Wax:for tanks EQUIPMENT Explosive weapons, Dog Cannon, Shock Absorber PARTS A range of parts including teleporter SHELLS Bombshell, Spare Shell ASSEMBLY Weapon TANK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MAUS Begin the series of events that will lead to the MAUS tank EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MURSAME Rich Old Woman At station. Begin event involving Catherine's teddy bear. MC Hamir NEW INFORMATION MINI-GAME:DANCING Play the dancing game in the bar and receive a reward. The first level here nets you Dance Earrings. There are more of these games elsewhere and they get progressively harder. ============================== MC HAMIR:ALERT: THE MAUS TANK ============================== * IF you intend to pursue the BIG MEDAL quest do not attempt to buy a tank from him until AFTER going to the Retirement Compound outside Lorelei Bay. He will still he here, so don't worry about missing him. ** You MUST engage his services eventually IF you want to get the best tank in the game, THE MAUS. CURRY GURU: speak to him twice and press X on the cart and you can buy a curry lunch which will restore HP by 1000. He also appears again in other towns. SKILL MASTER: in the SE corner of the town you can find the skill master. Others are found in other towns and they will teach you character specific skills. The skills list tells you at the bottom of the screen which are available to whom. Some skills are automatic and others have to be selected to use in battle, or out of battle. Most cost money to use, so be careful when you decide on an expensive skill especially if it is automatic, as you can find that battles are losing you money. Skills do not cost a lot to acquire and for now the best ones to get are the specialist mechanic skills which can be useful against specific enemies. Since the skill slots are restricted to SIX per character, if you later find better skills, you can chose to "forget" a skill and add others to your stock. Make sure you also get the skills Animal Instinct and Seek, for use with avoiding encounters and finding outlaws. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR EAST ZERO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- 1. The Station -------------- Go inside the station. A vending machine sells the usual healing capsules, Tile Packs(M) and Shock Absorbers. EVENT Speak to the rich old woman about a teddy bear. This begins an event that happens on the train (though it is just for fun). Go to the warehouse on the far right of the station and at the back on the left is the weapon JAMIYA, a curved short sword for Hunter or Kiriya. Speak to the cowgirl near the water barrels and she will give you information about the place to the southwest: that is the Bio Energetics Lab. Be polite in your responses and she will tell you it is DOGS. --------------- 2. Skill Master --------------- Continue to the bottom right hand corner to find the Skill Master. Get the skills: SEEK, for Hunter and Crash Landing, Short Circuit, Moonshine Bomb and Immobolise for Kiriya. By the fence nearest to the entrance is a water trough. Inside is another BIG MEDAL #13. Go to the entrance of the town, and inside the first house on the left. TILE PACK S in fridge. In next room there is a BIG MEDAL #12 in the plant by the bed. The fourth house up has a BUG SPRAY in the upstairs left hand side wardrobe, useful in case you stay at an inn with a bug in the room. ------------------ 3. The Bar and Inn ------------------ Further up towards the station is the bar. Go in here and talk to the regulars. One of these is MURASAME. Return here later when you have recruited RASHID for a scene. The red haired hunter will give you useful information if you ask him to tell you a story. This is about a cheat and a soda shop. Ask him for his secret to success and he will say "Shock Absorber" stops bomb damage. Ask him about making cash and he will tell you to hunt Bazooka Pooches in the southeastern desert, or NE and SW fields. Talk to the girl on the stage and do the dance test, Level 1. You can button press as quickly as you like so long as you get them right! It takes about 10 button presses to get the whole thing completed. Upstairs is the game Crossfire. The inn: Economy Room has a GRENADE, the Regular nothing, the Deluxe: ROYAL SOAP, ROYAL SLIPPERS, and ROYAL TOWEL. ------------- 4. The Garage -------------- In the garage a hunter will explain about the assembly shop. You must bring four components to the shop for them to assemble. By this time you should have enough for the DRILL CLAW, (the fourth item needed is a Junk) Buy tank weapons for the MOSQUITO or DEMAG for Kiriya. You can upgrade your vehicles with a new engine that increases the load you can carry. BELDAIRE has better equipment in general but does not sell engines so you might as well upgrade the engines here. You can increase the load capacity if you want by going back to JUNKYARD to modify the BULL engine to OMEGA BULL. In my view increasing the load is the best use of your money. ------------------ 5. Hunter's Office ------------------ Check information on the outlaw Hammer Hydra and current target enemies. Before leaving, save at the memory centre to the left of the station. Best place to go next is the BIO ENERGETICS LAB to get a DOG. Make sure you have bought 3 Shock Absorbers (from the vending machine at the station), and the DOG CANNON from the shop, next to the Hunter's Office, and new equipment so that both characters have the best defensive armour you can buy at this time. You will also need a few Healing Capsules. There is a vending machine in the dungeon but best to be prepared. However, you will soon find that one of the dogs can heal you if you choose that one. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.1. MC HAMIR AND THE MAUS TANK O.T. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WALKTHROUGH FOR MC HAMIR AND MAUS TANK ----------- Explanation ----------- Because these series of events begin in East Zero I am going to explain them all here. However in case people use the walkthrough in a different order I will repeat part of this section in the Fort Gears location where the tank is actually found. You can do this quest whenever you like but obviously you need to have access to all these places first. --------------------- 1. The Bar: East Zero --------------------- The hunter standing next to the tank by the station tells you about MC HAMIR. There are a number of EVENTS linked with this guy. You can find him in the bar. Speak to him and say you need a tank. He asks how much you will pay him. You then have an option. Now the first time I played the game I kept offering him cash going higher and higher until eventually he agreed on a very high figure. If you offer the wrong amount he will refuse and tell you to come back later. Which of course you can do. However there is a trick to this . I do not know who discovered it or how, or how it might be discovered from any information that is available in the game. So all I can do is tell you what it is. Then it is up to you if you want to use this trick or not. You offer him 12501g. Exactly that figure. ******************************************* I did not know this on my first play-through and ended up paying him a vast sum of nearly 100,000G, so it is worth while to accept this trick. Even though I still haven't a clue how anyone discovered it. But many thanks to whoever it was. ------------------------ 2. The Casino: The Train ------------------------ The next step in this sequence of events is to meet him on the train. He will be at the bar in the casino. (Provided that all the outlaw events don't get in your way.} Ask him about the tank. He then leaves. ----------------------------- 3. The Dog Betting: Alice One ----------------------------- Obviously he is a betting man so the next place to find him is in Alice One outside the dog fight location to the right of the station. Whatever you say he will fob you off with excuses and leave again. ----------------------------- 4. The Bar again: Lorelei Bay ----------------------------- His next location is Lorelei Bay. You find him in the bar. His money has, of course, been stolen. Speak to him a second time and he asks for more money, the same amount as before. Give it to him. (And you know that you can get the original sum back again when you go to the Retirement Compound.) -------------------------- 5. Another Bar: Fort Gears -------------------------- Next find him in the bar at Fort Gears. As soon as you enter the bar there will be a cut scene where MC Hamir is accused to taking advantage of tank- lovers. A bounty has been placed on his head. The town leader now makes the statement that you have been waiting for: "I will offer my beloved tank to the person who captures that outlaw!" At last you have tracked down the MAUS. The very best tank in the game and a prize worth fighting for. ------------------------------- 6. Hunter's Office: Hell's Keep ------------------------------- The next place to go is Hell's Keep. You might think he would be in the bar, but not now that he is on the run. Go inside the Hunter's Office and speak to the man in green standing in the far corner. He exclaims: "AAAAAAARGH! You bastard! I'm going to kill you!" No, not you, but MC Hamir! Check the poster and you discover his real name is Binramen. (No comment) The bounty is tiny, but that is not the point. It's the tank you want. Now where next? You can guess: the only place where no-one will mind that he doesn't get people their tanks. --------------------- 7. The Anti-Tank Fort *BINR --------------------- This is where you can finally track him down and defeat him. MC HAMIR (aka BINRAMEN) can be found in the bar. Talk to him and ask about the tank. Then tell him you saw the wanted poster and he leaves. Speak to the homeless man to the right of the bar and he tells you that some "buck-toothed guy" ran into a back alley. Go down the alley and turn right. Binramen is in a wired off lot between two warehouses. Speak to him and he offers you your money back. REFUSE. Come on now, don't you want the MAUS? Fight him. He uses a hand gun but before the party could get in a blow my Dog had singlehandedly defeated him, so he's really easy to subdue. Now he offers to go to the Hunter's Office with you and turn himself in. DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN! If you do happen to accept his word he will laugh at you but then discover he is out of rounds so you can capture him anyway. You then find yourself in the Hunter's Office with Binramen in a "capsule" that is, coffin, but alive. Get the meagre reward. ------------- 8. Fort Gears ------------- NOW go to down the steps to Fort Gears for the real reward. Go inside the bar, and the Leader will be there. The events unfold automatically. ------------- 9. Success!!! ------------- The MAUS is yours! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.2. TRAIN P.O.E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The train runs between East Zero and Alice One. This a big decision: to go to Alice One now, or not. Personally I prefer not yet. There are tons more places to explore before heading out west. Up to you though, and you will be able to do a lot of things at Alice One, including obtaining another party member. ALERT: SAVE when you use the train PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CATHERINE The teddy bear girl LADY Catherine's mother MCKINLEY RICH LADY In dining car (no event with her) OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PUPPETMASTER On train. Not there for first journey DALTON BROTHERS On train. Not there for first journey EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Teddy bear. TRAIN NOT RUNNING At a later stage in the events of the game the train will stop running. This prevents you from hunting down the Puppetmaster and doing any gambling and from completing the teddy bear quest. The reason for the train being out of commission is because the Dalton Brothers will have demanded a return match, and are camped out in the tunnels waiting for you to go and defeat them. You will get an email from them and until you respond the train will not run. The train is good for three things. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Getting to Alice One the first time, before you can just teleport there. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEVER bother to try driving through the tunnel to Alice One until the time when you have to to fight OUTLAWS. It is deadly boring and the enemies give hardly any experience and come at you every two or three seconds. I expect you will ignore this advice. I did when I read this on the Metal Saga message boards. I spent ages in there, thinking just a little bit further now, but in the end I barely got out alive and all my tanks were smashed up and I had to rent one to go rescue the others. Later you will be stronger, but even then the tunnel is a pain. ------------------------------------------------- 2. Fighting outlaws to get your reward and tally. ------------------------------------------------- Fight both on train at a later date. PUPPETMASTER: requires a level of around 60/70 to defeat. DALTON BROTHERS: can be defeated at level 25 or so. ----------------------------------------------- 3. THE CASINO! Here you can win serious money. ----------------------------------------------- ALERT: get 1000000G and you get a new title. Gamble a lot and another new title will be yours. They are so kind to the player in this game. You can nip down the corridor to save first in case you incur heavy losses in the casino and want to reload. The best game is NUMBER HUNTER, and it is easier than it looks. Just bet the highest amount you can and save when you win. And go for the hardest difficulty once you get the hang of it. You might risk a lot, but you can gain a lot too. It really isn't that hard and yet it is addictive fun to play. Serious testing has demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that this is the BEST way to get lots of gold. Of course you can also test your luck on roulette and a number of other games. EVENT: TEDDY BEAR ================= Involving girl and her mother and the teddy bear that was found by the old rich woman waiting at the station in East Zero. You can get this event by talking to the old woman at the station who tells you about the teddy bear she found, and then by talking to Catherine twice on the train. (See the walkthrough to find her.) Then you get the bear back from the rich old lady by talking to her at East Zero station after the first set of events with Catherine on the train. Then go back on the train to give the bear back to Catherine. Having first got the teddy bear from the Rich Old Woman go through to the upper floor first class carriages towards the back of the the train and you will find Catherine again in the hallway. Speak to her and she will apologise for her mother yelling at you before. Then she says ..."Hey! It's Gluttony! You found my Gluttony!" You give her the bear and she is pleased. Her mother comes in again. And Catherine tells her that you found Gluttony. They leave. If you try to follow there is no-one there. You can speak again to the Rich Old Woman at the station in East Zero, but all she says is that she is glad you returned the teddy bear.."Such a kind boy" I went through this whole scenario of returning the teddy bear, after lots of events and chatting, hoping for a reward. There was none. So do it if you want. It is quite sweet. There is no event with the Rich Lady in the restaurant car. Why not I have no idea. She appears to be a potential event character but nothing happens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR TRAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Once you have enough cash get on the train. Just pay the lowest fare. If you go to the very end of the train on the right at the middle level, there is a Hunter's Office where you can save the game. The top level has the conductor's office. Talking to him you can choose for the train ride to end. If you go to the casino you will be able to play a range of games, including, of course, Number Hunter. 1. Buy a ticket from the maid at the window. You can do this in your tanks. 2. Go left through the carriage where you start and to the end of the next carriage. Speak to the girl at the end and she will ask about Gluttony. Her mother will come and drag her away. 3. MCKINLEY is sitting in the centre of the carriage so speak to him. The rest of the passengers just say boring things. If you speak to the Attendant near the side exit and ask "Are we there yet?" You will be! The train will arrive at Alice One so don't do that yet. Select the second option and he will explain what is available on board. 3. Keep going right. Boring again, and then you can go on further, so go upstairs. Go right through two doors and you are in the dining car. Speak to the Rich Lady. You can record music from the piano. 4. Continue right through two more doors and you will reach the Memory Centre and Hunter's Office. Check out the information here and SAVE YOUR GAME. 5. Right again and into the first room on the left. WAR TORN BOOTS are in the right hand box. The next room is empty. Go back through office and up the stairs. Turn right. First room on the left has BRASS KNUCKLES in the left hand box. Next room, nothing, so carry on right. This is the conductor's office. Again you can ask "Are we there yet?" and this is the trigger for the train ride to end. 6. Go back to the stairs and this time go straight on. You are in the casino! Now is your chance to make serious money. 7. Continue on from the casino and through two more doors into the first class carriages. The first door on your right reveals Catherine again. Again mum comes in and takes her away. The next room has a SHOCK ABSORBER between the beds. 8. Going left and checking the rooms. Another SHOCK ABSORBER by bed. The next room has two rich people from Beldaire. That is the end. So go back right and down the stairs to the second class area. If you go left, some doors are locked, and you can chat to people if you like. Doors will open on both sides of the corridor. Nothing of much interest. Go right, same thing. And that is the train. ================== NUMBER HUNTER GAME: how to play and win! ================== The Number Hunter Machine is on the right of the machines. Start with the easy level 1. Place a bet using the directional button and keep the up button pressed until you reach the amount you want to bet. The highest possible is 999g. Select the level the same way. Starting with level 1. A new screen comes up showing three question marks and a board with the possible winnings listed on the right and the answers you can give listed on the left. All you have to do is to guess the correct 3 figure number by choosing three numbers and entering them as an answer. The simplest way to do it is to use the three already showing so: 0.1.2. I do that and it says 1 blow. That means that one of the numbers is correct, but it is in the wrong column. So next I randomly pick one of the numbers I picked before and allocate it a new position, and choose two other new numbers. So, again keeping it simple: 1.3.4. That now says false. That is good because I can now discount all three numbers. Next line I select 2.5.6. Great! 1 hit, 2 blow. So all three are right, and one is in the right position. So that must be the 2. (From the first row) Swap the other two around and select 2.6.5. YES. That is TRUE. So I won by the fourth answer and that gets me twice my initial stake. Rinse and repeat as often as you like. Bet a Lot, Win a Lot -------------------- If you bet the highest amount allowed which is 999g, and play the top level game which gives you more numbers to choose from but better odds, you have a good chance of winning a lot. If you get the numbers right on the third guess your stake is given back x30, and this usually happens by luck once in a while. I don't worry about a few losses and just keep going until I hit a good win and then save. After about 15 to 30 minutes play you can earn around 200,000g or more. One win on the second row betting 999g, the maximum possible, nets you a cool 99900g in one go. END OF THE JOURNEY =================== When you have done enough gaming and betting speak to the conductor or attendant to end the journey. ================ OUTLAWS ON TRAIN ================ ============================= || DALTON BROTHERS *DB1 || ============================= ALERT: The trigger event for their appearance on the train occurs some time after your initial journey and when you re-visit East Zero. Equip Muffle Armour to protect against Sonic damage (bought in Dowan) 1. After witnessing the event in East Zero where the Dalton Brothers are discussing robbing the train, take the train to Alice One and go into the casino. On the way there you will see people fleeing the casino and a guard dead. Go in and there is an event taking place where the Dealer is being threatened by Frederick. They leave and you automatically find yourself on top of the train. 2. Best to target them one at a time. One of them (Roberto) uses a sonic wave which targets everyone at once. Frederick will increase their attack strength but with the Muffle Armour this won't be too much of a problem. A few petrol bombs (bought from the vending machine outside Morgue Town) can do extra damage to each of them and is a cheap way to guarantee a win. 3. After the battle you will be thanked by the conductor. 4. You can now explore the train again if you really want to but I would not advise it as if you go back into the casino you will have to face another enemy: this time the Puppetmaster, and he is NO pushover at this low level, if you have defeated the Daltons at level 25-27 or so. Now you know where he is you can get the train and he will be there waiting for you again. 5. The best thing for now is just go and finish the journey by speaking again to the conductor. You can collect the reward in Alice One Hunter's Office. ========================== || PUPPET MASTER *PM || ========================== ALERT. He will be in the casino if you return there after beating the Daltons on the train, so if you fought them at a low level don't bother. Or if you have left this fight until later, save after the Daltons and then take on the Puppetmaster. 1. The easy way is to do them one at a time. Though this means an extra train journey to pay for. The next time you get the train they will be there in the casino. 2. The battle begins when Marceau says: "It's Showtime!" And his eyes turn green. You have a choice here. Go for Marceau only or do it the hard way and try for the Puppet Master first. 3. There are two targets here as Marceau in fact is the one controlling the puppet master. Marceau does a Marceau Missile all party attack which is devastating if you are at a low level and do not have good armour. 4. If you kill the Puppet Master then Marceau will get back up and say: "Surprise! Eeheehehee!" as he was controlling the PM, not the other way round. "But since he's all washed up now I'll just find a new one!" 5. He then attacks again. After he is defeated the Puppet Master gets up, confused and explains:that he had found the puppet outside his house and that is all he can remember. ("My name is Joe. I'm just an ordinary guy!") Marceau revives and confirms this, and says he can't believe he lost. Oh well. And that is that. 6. The casino is back to normal and open for business. If you have already defeated the second lot of the Daltons you will get more chat with people in the dining car, and can collect the reward on the train for the Daltons and the Puppetmaster from the train Hunter Office on the second floor. And then go and celebrate with a bit of Number Hunter or whatever other gambling game you like. This is a good chance to get more serious cash to be able to afford a new tank that will soon be available, and to buy and modify new tank parts. Also the more cash you have the sooner you can start buying all those gifts for your girls. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.3 BIO ENERGETICS LAB P.E.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Dragon Chopper, Punk, Bazooka Pouch Drops: Eyeball, Dog Tail Location: South of East Zero. ALERT: find your DOG Travel south of East Zero to find this location. You have to go through the woods on foot. Explore this dungeon to find the dogs. Select one. You can swop them if you want, but you can't teleport in here and have to walk back through the place. The plus side of that is that enemies drop Gourmet Dog Food which if given to the dog will improve his coat, making him more intelligent in fighting and less likely to run away. However, if he is killed his coat stat will decrease, and you will have to feed him up again. Once you have completed this place to go back and change dogs, go in the front and down the corridor, which forks right. Go through the brown door. Go down the room and through the second door to find your dogs. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONNIE CLIVE EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With C and C when first enter. Another when you leave with DOG DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR BIO ENERGETIC LAB ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Groin Gun, Canine Cannon, Grenade Turret, Killer Blob Drops: Sticky Cells, Junks, Gourmet Dog Food You should be at about level 10 when you enter and 12 when you leave. FASTEST ROUTE TO DOGS 1. Enemies here are often in shelter. There is nothing in either of the first three side rooms so go on around the corner. Hidden in the corner is a BOMB PACK. Next is a brown door. It is locked for now, but this is the way through to the DOGS. Go down the stairs, first room on the right has nothing, The next room leads to more stairs so go up these. Go up these stairs and you emerge into a large room. There is one door. Go through that and you are in the DOG room! 2. Go to each microwave in turn and answer "Yes" to the question about releasing the storage. When the dog says: "Woof", or any bark noise select yes if you want that dog to join your party. You will be asked to name the dog. Chose anything you like. I will keep their default names for the walkthrough. You can release them all and name them all and then select which one you want for now. The other dogs will remain in this room so you can return at any time and change dog ally. I always start with Bernie as he has the healing skills Medicine Keg 1 and Revival Keg 1. You will need these skills at this stage. Medicine Keg will restore 250HP to one character while in the field.(Cost 50g) Revival Keg will restore 200HP to each party member. (Cost 200g) Equip your dog with the spare Shock Absorber and and Dog Cannon, bought at East Zero. You will not yet have any dog armour. 3. Exit by the door opposite the four dog containers. Hidden in the corner of the corridor to the right of the door you have just come out of is the USP BARREL. The opposite corner down to the right end of the corridor has USP SLIDE. Check the corner to the left of the four plates on the wall and you'll find a USP FRAME. The other door on this side of the corridor leads to a transport pod that is not operational. It never is, so forget about it. Try to go through the opposite door and you will find that it is locked. This is the brown door that leads back to the entrance corridor. So for now retrace your steps back into the dog room and to the left and down the stairs, and out of that sitting room. Go through the opposite door (heading left) and into a work room. Go down the stairs here. Go into the first door you see and straight through this room into a control room. There are two switches. Press them both. Exit back to the stairs room. You will fight battles with dogs which will drop Gourmet Dog Food. Feed these to the dog as they increase its ability to fight well. 4. Go through the next brown door, now opened. In this room on the left is a vending machine selling Healing Capsules, Tile Packs and Shock Absorbers. By this time your protectors will be wearing thin so buy three and replace any that have broken. The 2 rooms have nothing of use. Go up the stairs. The first room on the left has 3 items: a SMALL BLADE in the furthest left corner. This is an assembly item. The first green couch has a SMALL HILT. A SMALL SHEATH is on the second table to the right of the room. If you go up the stairs again you will find that you are back in the entrance corridor again should you need to go back to a town for healing and rest. Or, as happened to me, if you forgot to replace a protector and one of your party accidently died before you noticed. (Oops) The brown door is now unlocked. 5. From here (the entrance corridor), go up the stairs again to the next floor. Go upstairs. The first room you enter is a store room and in the far left corner is a BIG MEDAL #14. The next room along has a GRENADE in the left cabinet, and GROWGAINE in the far left corner cabinet. There is a box at the far end of the room with EGYPTIAN HOOD. Equip this as it gives an extra +2 defense. The third room yields a SATCOM STRAP in the furthest cabinet on the left. The fourth has another BIG MEDAL #15, in the first cabinet. And a weapon, the SLUGGER in the far left cabinet. Now for the doors on the left of the corridor. Going from the stairs, the first has a HEALING DRINK in the cabinet, and an E1 CHIP by the bed at the back of the room. This is important for an assembly item much later in the game. The next room has another important chip the L2 CHIP in the bookcase to the right of the door. There is a TILE PACK S in the locker. And yet another chip, the 01 CHIP, by the table. The third room has a KEVY SHIRT in the locker, and an L1 CHIP in a pile of boxes to the right of the door. The fourth has a PANDEMONIUM GUN in the first locker and JUICE in the second. 6. That is your lot. Once you emerge from the building you get an EVENT with Connie and Clive. Leave and return to EAST ZERO. Sell extra stuff that you don't need like the sticky cells and any additional weapons that are now too weak. You can assemble Twin Fang from the items you acquired. Go to a Garage to do this. Return to JUNKYARD and exchange junks, (store a couple for assembling use later), and visit home. Go upstairs there will be a scene with EMILY about the DOG. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SAVE AND HEAL AND REPAIR. Drop off BIG MEDALS, SELL CELLS, DEPOSIT ITEMS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check your titles on the status screen. You should now be an Item Finder, and Kiriya a Grease Monkey/Misha a Repair Girl. If you check in at the Hunter's Office you will find that the target of the week has changed. It is now the BB-in-a Barrel. This can be found at the next dungeon location in the RUINS OF A FORT. ================================= || OUTLAW: HAMMER HYDRA *HH || ================================= Enemies: Dragon Choppers, Punks and Bazooka Pooches Drops: Eyeballs, Dog Tail Check on satcom to see the location of this outlaw in the desert to the southeast of East Zero. It is a cruising land shark and to fight just touch the fin that appears above the sand. It will burrow to escape your fire power, and recover 250 hp each turn. So if you want to destroy it quickly you need weapons and shells for underground enemies. Or, just wait and defend until it resurfaces and then blast away with your main guns. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.3 FINDING BELDAIRE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: BB Assault Jeep, Suicide Bomber, BB Trooper, Scorpion, Mr TNT, Misery Maker Drops: Gourmet Dog Food, Luxury Item Northeast from East Zero is the large city of Beldaire. Follow the track until you cross the river. Keep going northeast with the river on your left and you will see the blue dot that is BELDAIRE. There are flying and tank enemies on the way. Take a detour on foot into the woods to the east for more enemies and items. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== AK 47 Description: A rifle: attack 8 (all) Location : On the northern edge of the bridge leading from East Zero to Beldaire. CAT EARS Description: Hat. Defense 14. For girls only. Location : Found in woods to the southeast of Beldaire. In the centre of the wood to the north of the one that has a round pond in the middle of it. Can only be accessed on foot. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 3.5 FINDING ALICE ONE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The first time you go there the best (and really the only sensible) way is to catch the train from East Zero. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== HAMMER Description: Tank gun assembly part Location : Go to the east of Alice One down the rail road tracks and then search in the first indent in the north mountain. =============================================================================== 4. B E L D A I R E : P.0.S.T.E.D. ...................................... 0110 =============================================================================== 4.0 Beldaire 4.1 Ruins of a Fort O.T.E.D. 4.2 Beldaire W (Bomber Prince) O.S. 4.3 Finding Torikami =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.0 BELDAIRE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There is a lot to do and find here, and a number of events. ALERT: Make sure you get the skill /RUN from the Skill Master. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARTHUR Head of BELDAIRE and father to ROSA and CARL CARL Mechanic for ROSA ROSA Mad about tanks. Can give her gifts. SEBASTIAN Butler SODAM INSEIN Map store inside tent. SKILL MASTER MCKINLEY HAREHEAD OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DISASSEMBLER Must return to Beldaire: not listed at first BOMBER PRINCE The awkward one that flees COL. BLUEBERRY In Ruins of a Fort TANKASAURUS In Ruins of a Fort SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Healing Drink, Tile Pack L, Grenade, Remote Grenade EQUIPMENT Dog Armour Lv1, Dog Gun, Shock Absorber +other stuff PARTS SE Bloodhound + other stuff SHELL AA Arrow, Napalm, RAP Shells GIFT Bunny Costume, Maid Uniform, other stuff at 820g CHANGING NAME For tanks and people MOD SHOP ASSEMBLY Weapons RENTAL For tanks TANK WASH TANK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GEPARD In Ruins of a Fort EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are many events here, involving the Disassembler, Rosa, Carl and Arthur. DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUINS OF A FORT After exploring and ransacking BELDAIRE, upgrading equipment and saving head out for the next dungeon and two major outlaw fights. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BELDAIRE WALKTHROUGH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 1. Hunter's Office ------------------ Go right, to find the Hunter's Office and Memory Centre. On the way there are three figures. Click X and they have a discussion about their rich relatives. Keep to the right and up and the Hunter's Office is a small building just before you reach the grassy patch. Enter and save and check the outlaw details. There are three listed, but the DISASSEMBLER is not listed until you've found and defeated him. The house just below the memory centre has EARPLUGS in the sink. --------------- 2. Skill Master --------------- Carry on up to the grass and the Skill Master is there. Get Disarm, /RUN, and Lockdown for Kiriya. Barrier will help protect your DOG if you have BERNIE. --------------- 3. Rosa's Tanks --------------- Go to the front of the mansion and speak to the man there. Answer yes and he will talk about a garden tank. Search the right side of the right hand fountain for a BIG MEDAL #19. Drive down below the house to find a tank wonderland. Mechanics will offer to repair your tanks. This is the only time that will happen. Talk to everyone and go on to the next room. There are loads of tanks, and each has a name label. Read them all if you like. Exit. ------------------- 4. Beldaire Mansion ------------------- You can explore the mansion on foot. Go through the door to the right, downstairs, and then through the large opening. The first room on the right has a CAT TAIL between the beds. The second, nothing, the third a SHOCK ABSORBER in the box. Look at the picture and you will get 1000g. The end room coming back down the corridor has SAFETY BOOTS in the box on the right, and a MIRACLE KEY in the next box. A BIG MEDAL #23 is inside the chest. The centre room has a BIG MEDAL #22 in the right hand chest. The last room has a RABBIT TAIL in the chest to the right. Cross the hall to the opposite door. Again click on the picture to get another 1000g. Go through the opening and ransack these rooms: first on right, empty, second, dining room, BIG MEDAL #21 in chest. If you go straight through this room to the sitting room the exit here leads back to the main entrance hall. Return to hallway and take the first room on the far side, the scullery has a BIG MEDAL #20 in the sink. The centre room has a BOW GUN in a box, and a TILE PACK M in the right hand box. The kitchen has nothing except two chefs you can speak to. Go through the last door on the right and there is a dead end corridor with a door leading back into the dining room. Go right and left and out into the entrance again. ------------------- 5. Now for upstairs ------------------- Take the left stairs and left door. Another 1000g from the picture at the end. Go through the opening into other corridor with rooms off it. First on the right is Carl's room. Chat to him a couple of times and depending on whether K or M is with you there will be a different response. The next room is Rosa's. Speak to her again and there will be tank related talk. Speak again and she will tell you about her tanks. After all this chat you can now send gifts to Rosa! There is a HALF OF A MAP piece by Rosa's bed. The first door on the left is a bedroom with a REMOTE GRENADE in the chest. The central door is Arthur's bedroom, and he will be here on this first visit. Talk to him and tell the truth and there will be more chat. Talk to him again and more information concerning Eddy and Jack. Just next to the bed where Arthur stands is the item CACHE MAP. Go through the last door on the right and you are in another corridor. The centre room has nothing and leads back to the entrance hall so carry on to the right. (If Arthur is not in his bedroom, he can be found in this centre room) The next room is Arthur's study and the bookcase has the BOMB CLAW MEMO. There is a BIG MEDAL #24 on the desk. The door out leads to a large library. The shelf to the right of the door has the TOY SWORD MEMO. The centre low bookcase has the BEAM CLAW MEMO. Go back to the entrance hall, (Arthur keeps moving rooms: very disconcerting!) and to the right hand door. But there is nothing in these rooms except cleaning maids. The first room has nothing and leads to the next corridor. So just go through the large opening. You can talk to the maid, but she won't be much help. There is another maid cleaning in the middle room. Other than that there is nothing to find here. Later in the game speaking to a maid on the ground floor will trigger the Arthur game. ------------------------------- 6. Back outside: Changing Names ------------------------------- Go to far left side of mansion and Harehead will talk more about the Great Destruction. The transport pod is in the corner. Go all the way down the left to the river and enter the house there. Chat to old woman and get GAS MASK from fridge. Upstairs is a BIG MEDAL #16 in corner at top of stairs. There is another BIG MEDAL #17 in the chest to the left of the room. Continue down to the next exit and the yellow roofed building is where you can change tank and party member names for the fee of 100g. The cost increases if you try it again, I think. -------------- 7. Bar and Inn --------------- To the right of this is the bar. Chat to everyone there. You are advised to get the Bloodhound or Tindalos SE tank weapons. Crossfire, Frog Race and music are here as usual. The inn has a mosquito in the cheap room, and a HEALING CAPSULE. Also in the regular room. Find a BUG REPELLENT there too. De Luxe, no bug, but a ROYAL ROBE, ROYAL TOWEL, and ROYAL SLIPPERS. ------------------------------------ 8. Gift Shop and Item/Equipment Shop ------------------------------------ These are found in bottom right hand corner of the town. Sells Maid Uniform and Bunny Costume, and many other items. Buy DOG armour LV 1 in the shop, and also the Dog Gun which is for hitting out-of-range enemies. Go over the bridge below the Item Shop and search the bench on your left nearest the river for a BIG MEDAL #18. ----------------- 9. The four tents ----------------- Starting with the tent nearest the mansion: SHOCK ABSORBER in box to the right. ROCKER GLOVE in box in the next tent. REMOTE GRENADE in the next. Enter the fourth Tent, nearest the entrance and speak to SODAM INSEIN. He will sell you maps, and for now buy the cheapest one for 500g. SODAM INSEIN: SELLS MAPS IN BELDAIRE FIRST TENT ------------------------------------------------ Treasure Map: 500g Secret Map: 5000g Pirate Map: 8000g Dubious Map: 1000g (not listed) After buying all three maps Sodam Insein will tell you that he has no more left, however he then asks you if you have found the treasure. Say yes (even if you haven't) and he will say that he has "the special map. Very rare it is!" He will sell it to you for the right price. This is Dubious Map:1000g. Buy it if you wish to see another event. That is all. If you speak to him again all he will do is wish you luck. If you look for him again another time he will be gone. (And can be found in the Sewers in Morgue Town for another event.) --------- 10. Tanks --------- Finally, before leaving check your tanks and their equipment. The coming battles will be harder so getting a few modifications done now is a good idea, and you should have enough money to afford it. Carl will often be in the garage. There is a DUSTER in the box to the right as you enter. (Better armour: a long coat) Go downstairs in the far left corner to find the mod shop. Lots of chat here if you speak to everyone. The awkward thing about modification is that you have to buy your new tank parts and this will immediately overload your vehicle before you can get the load increased. The best way to manage this is to tow one tank and load it up with the new parts and then swop over and do the same with the other tank. OR always travel with a spare tank! This does not add to your load and I don't know why it took me so long to think of this idea. The need to upgrade is further stressed in an email from Scarlet that you will get once you leave Beldaire. Get the sub gun 12.7mm Vulcan for two tanks as this targets all enemies. The Bloodhound is useful to equip as an SE weapon. It targets out of range enemies and has to be mounted to the SE slot. When you are done messing around with tank modification save before leaving. (If you have fought a few more battles on your way to BELDAIRE your level will have increased and you may now have the title: Man's Man.) EVENTS IN BELDAIRE =================== There are other events that are triggered here details of which are in the separate EVENTS section. To get them you have to keep talking to Rosa and giving her gifts. Rosa and Carl ============== After giving Rosa quite a few gifts and visiting her in Beldaire she will tell you that Carl is really a girl. Go and see Carl and chose the second option and he will say no, and she will come in the room. It was just a joke. Rosa, Selling a Tank and Carl ============================== After a lot of conversations about tanks, where you tell her about yours and she tells you about hers, eventually Rosa will ask to buy a tank. Say yes. (I lost the Wirbelwind *sob*) Go to the garage under the mansion and speak to Carl who will tell you that she is treating the tank as her prized possession and keeping the same name so she must really like it as she usually names her tanks after songs. Rosa, Arthur and Marriage ========================== This only happened after the previous events so I think selling her the tank may be the trigger. However, I also gave her a wedding dress, though she did not wear it. Rosa visits Junkyard for a date ================================ This was confirmed by Micheal Meeker of Atlus as a random event and destoynova1 gave this description: "If you give enough gifts to Rosa, she will appear in your hometown for a date" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.1. THE DISASSEMBLER two chances to win! *DIS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: have Kiriya in your party when you defeat him for an extra event. It's a good event giving a lot of background story for Kiriya and worth seeing! To trigger the fight you must have finished up with Beldaire and gone on elsewhere. I am not 100% sure if you must also have travelled west to Alice One. But if this event is not appearing for you I would suggest doing that. Anyway you really could do with the help of another fighter to defeat him. This is my experience with the Disassembler. Firstly I lost to him fighting at too low a level, (22 for Hunter and the others lower) so beware taking him on too early in the game. You can still fight him later on if you prefer. Return to Beldaire after getting Charlene in Alice One and finishing the Col. Blueberry hunt, though with many other outlaws still to find. When you enter, an event will then occur with the Disassembler "sniffing" He is smelling vehicles...and ends by saying "Mwhahahaha". Go on down to the tanks store (under Beldaire mansion) and Rosa says that she does not want you to go there. Speak to her again and to Sebastian and Carl who will tell you about the Disassembler. If you try to enter the garage where Rosa's tanks are stored you will not be allowed in. You MUST hear Carl's description. Keep trying to talk to him until you get it. There is nothing else you can do, so leave the garage and the enemy will be waiting for you at the entrance to Beldaire. You must approach him to fight him. If you are in tanks he will soon have them in tatters. If you lose he will go to "work" on your other vehicles. In other words, when you go back to the garage in Junkyard after being revived he will be there! If you have no other tanks there he will be angry and ask where they are. He then attacks you again and you are shown fighting in Junkyard. Any damage you may have already done to him does not figure so you are back to square one for the fight. His attacks are fun: Horrific Wrench and Wild Laughter. The wrench attack will miss if you are not in a tank. But the Boom Wrench when he chucks his wrench like a boomerang can do a lot of damage to everyone at once. If you lose this second fight you have lost the chance to defeat him. After defeating him he says:" ..Dis..assemble..into..pieces..! Mwahahahaha!" Have Kiriya in your party when you defeat him and there is an additional scene. After he drops down dead: he drops something that looks like a photograph. What do you want to do? Choose: Pick it up. Kiriya comments. Now teleport to Newfolk and go to the garage. Speak to Nikolai. A series of scenes follows at the end of which Kiriya re-joins your party. ALERT: YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND HIM AGAIN Having decided to go and level up a bit more I returned to Beldaire to find he was no longer there. However you can get him to return by going back down into the garage and talking to Carl until again he says about what has happened. Go back out and the Disassembler will be waiting at the entrance to Beldaire again. Once I found him again I teleported back to Newfolk to pick up Kiriya so I could see the event with him and the Disassembler, and when I returned he was still there. Rosa, Carl and Sebastian will remain in the garage until you have defeated the Disassembler. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.2. RUINS OF A FORT O.T.E.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Misery Maker, F-16 Falcon, Trader Hunter. Go northeast from Beldaire and cross the two bridges. If you then head up the valley road to the north you will see a pink dot that is the RUINS OF A FORT, near the coast. There is a lot to do here, with two outlaws to defeat and a tank to find. OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TANKASAURUS COL. BLUEBERRY TANK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GEPARD EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connie and Clive DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ruins of a Fort ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== 25mm AA Cannon Description: Main gun for anti-aircraft tanks. Attack 45. Location : On the way north from Beldaire to the Ruins of Fort, just to the south of the fort is a pile of large stones. Root around to find the gun. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH for RUINS OF A FORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: BB Trooper, BB in-a-Barrel, BB in-the-Box, BB-in-a-Can, Laser Gun (in shelter), BB Paratrooper (out of range), BB Commando. Drops: Nothing Go inside and drive right, into an area with stairs. Connie and Clive are speaking about the "thing in the basement". If you continue through the opening to the right, there is another large room with an exit to the field and a slot machine at the top end. This sells healing items, grenades and shock absorbers. There is also an anti-aircraft tank. Speak to the BB Trooper, but he refuses to fight you for it. You can now decide to go down to find the basement outlaw or up on foot to find the owner of the tank. ------- ON FOOT ------- Navigation of these floors is slightly complicated. At least, I found it confusing. The aim is to unlock the lift doors, but there are various stairs that lead to nothing useful and doorways that are almost hidden. If it helps to get your bearings imagine that you are looking at a floor plan of the fort. It is shaped like an H, with the lifts in the top right corner of the H and the stairs going up and down in the centre cross bar. There are 5 floors including the ground floor where you enter which is floor 1. 1. Go back into the room with stairs. Go up here on foot to floor 2. At the top of the stairs are 4 bouncing barrels blocking your path. Kill these. (If you have left this until after getting Charlene and have equipped her with the NiroliZer gun which attacks all enemies and in stealth then, this is a breeze. If not, then the fire blaster (all) weapon can be useful. 2. You will notice that there are two doors leading back from the direction you have come in. Take the upper door. There is a lift at the far end of this room. It shows that you are on 2F, and it will not move. Your next task is to get the lift operational. Go down the room and into the bottom door. Search this bedroom for a TILE PACK M in and GROWGAINE 3 in the two lockers on the right. There is a HEALING DRINK in the locker on the left hand wall. Go back out the left hand door to find yourself next to the stairs again. 3. Go straight across the stair hall through the door and on into another room. The two central lockers contain PHOTO 3 and JUICE. The locker on the left wall has a HEALING DRINK, and a MIRACLE KEY is hiding in a locker in the bottom left corner. Now go through the door to the right as you entered the room. This is a large room with a conference table in the centre. The lockers on the left have BIG MEDAL #25 and BIG MEDAL #26 and PHOTO 8. At the far end is a machine with a switch. Activate it. Back down, and turn right, back into the room with the two sets of stairs. 4. If you return to the lift it is now ready to take you to floor 3F. If you do this and then, go through the door on the right of the new room, you are in a hallway and can avoid the ambush at the top of the stairs. Or: 5. Going up the stairs will take you facing right and facing 4 boxes blocking your way. Defeat them. There is a BIKER SUIT in the green box to the left of the screen. Go right and through the door to the right side of the stairs (near another green box that contains nothing) to find another machine to the right at the end wall of the room. Activate this to open the next lift door. 6. If you go down this room and through the door at the end to another room, there are another set of stairs going up, and two more rooms to explore with nothing in them. The lift door at the end is blocked. 7. Now return to the stair area with the green boxes. (If you go on up the stairs you get to another control room with nothing that works so don't bother) 8. Go through the door at the top right side of the green box stair area to see the lift at the top of the room. The lift now goes up to floor 4. 9. There is another switch and machine on your right. Activate it. (Go down the room and through the door, and down the stairs to take you back to where you were before. So don't bother) 10. Get back in the lift which will now take you up to floor 5. At last! You are now in a swanky looking area with some more boxes to fight. Finish them off and walk through the lasers without a problem and through the next door into another posh room. There is a door on the right. Go through here and through the brown right hand door to finally confront Colonel Blueberry. =============================== || COLONEL BLUEBERRY *COL || =============================== He hops onto a Blue Bearer and the battle begins. There are 4 enemies including the Colonel. Aim for his allies first and then finish him off. He is very laid back and just drinks wine. Go back into the corridor and into the end store room. Go through the right hand door to see another treasure room. All this stuff and you are not allowed to take anything! Go through to the next store room, and on the left between two paintings is the item FANCY MAP. That's your lot. Now go back down in the lift to the bottom floor. Having fought the outlaw COL BLUEBERRY, after defeating him you will get the tank, GEPARD, which is waiting for you to claim on the ground floor. It is probably a good idea to do this first. Then can go and get your tanks upgraded and modded and will now have some money to do it with after wandering around that confusing place. -------- IN TANKS -------- Enemies: BB Commando, BB-in-a-Box, BB-in-a-Can , (shelter) Drops: Luxury Item In tanks: go up the tank room and take the top door to the left. Then go through the upper doors. Carry on down until you get to the bottom where you will fight the outlaw, TANKASAURUS. You have to decide to fight him, as he will not attack otherwise. ALERT: there is a confirmed glitch. If you go into one of the side rooms and take an item, when you come out the white spot item at the end of the corridor will have disappeared! 1. As you enter you hear a loud roar. Continue to the right and then down.. You are in a long corridor with doors off. First, go the end and take the white spot item, otherwise it will disappear. This is STIRM BARREL. 2. Now you can safely ransack the other rooms. Going back to where you entered, and heading down the corridor again, the first room on the right has STIRM FRAME. Centre room on right has STRANGE BLADE. (Just stay in your tanks and press X on the boxes in the rooms.) First room on your left has 105MM RIFLE which is a Tank main gun. If you had heeded my advice you should have a spare tank with you so give the weapon to that tank and look at which vehicle you want to equip it. After sorting that out, carry on into the centre room to find STIRM SLIDE at the top right hand corner. 3. There is another white spot so grab the ASSAULT FRAME. Go on down and don't miss the next white spot to the right, INGRAM BARREL. Down again and another white spot to the right, INGRAM SLIDE. Down and on to the end of the short corridor: another white spot to the right, DOG HARNESS. All these odd sounding things are assembly parts. 4. You reach a door so enter here. There is a machine with a red switch so press it. Go through the now open doors. Be amazed! Drive down the left side of the room and take the white spot: DOG CONNECTOR. Now prepare for battle. ========================== || TANKASAURUS *TNK || ========================== 5. Poor old Tankasaurus is just sitting there and not hurting anyone. But a hunter must do what a hunter must do so Press X at him. He roars. Now you can pet him if you want or poke him. Pet him and he settles down. Poke him and..well of course you know. At around level 20 you should have no problems with him. He can attack all vehicles at once but his attacks are not strong. 6. There is no need to travel the long way back up: just teleport out and you will be back on the field and can collect the reward. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.2. BELDAIRE W. O. S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Balloon Sniper, Thunderbird. F16 Falcon, Misery Maker Drops: Nothing Leaving Beldaire as before, going north and crossing the bridge, then head due west down the road. This will take you past the T junction and to the Trader camp which is the blue dot to the south. This is a shop, but worth remembering because the elusive and hard to defeat outlaw, Bomber Prince, roams around north of here near the road T junction. After visiting the camp, keep heading west to find TORIKAMI. Most of the enemies on the way are flying ones, so make sure you have suitable weaponry if possible. The Sub Gun Vulcan will help a bit as it attacks all enemies at once. You can buy the useful AA Cannon for the Gepard AA tank at the trader camp. (Also just before entering you might pick up the Old Coin as you click on the location) SHOPS ===== Tank Part Shop: Selling 20..AA Cannon, Tail Chain, Spiked Fender, Decal, Red Flag, Blue Flag. These are nifty tank accessories which do not carry any weight. Item Shop: Healing Capsule, Antidote, and the useful Miracle key, which allows you to start a vehicle from shutdown. Go into the right hand tent and speak to the trader there for information. This is the Bomber Prince that he is describing when he says it has a yellow head and ran off. ================================== || BOMBER PRINCE: OUTLAW *BP || ================================== Enemies: F-16 Falcon Balloon Sniper, Thunderbird,(flying: need AA weapons) Drops: Nothing Directly to the north of this trader camp and between the map edge and the road T junction is where this crafty and difficult to pin down outlaw can be found. This is the one that Hunter should be out of his tank with no equipment, (increasing his speed), and have the skill /RUN. You can get this skill at Beldaire. Use the skill as soon as you can to prevent the outlaw from running away. He can be found more easily if you also use the skill SEEK which makes enemies appear. If you want to avoid fighting too many low level enemies have the dog use the skill Animal Instinct. Both of these skills are available from the Skill Master at East Zero. So: to summarise You need to use a particular method to find and defeat him. Un-equip Hunter, and let him be walking. This will give him a speed advantage. Use the no encounter skill, Animal Instinct, on the dog, to desist low level enemies, and the high encounter skill, SEEK, to encourage the prince to turn up. It may take a while. When he appears use the /RUN skill to prevent him from fleeing the battle. Just blast with main guns to defeat him. If he is still faster than you with all this preparation then just level up a bit more. Don't forget to re-equip Hunter after the battle. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 4.4. FINDING TORIKAMI =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Misery Maker, F16 Falcon, Balloon Sniper, Thunderbird Drops: Nothing From Beldaire go to your right and cross the bridge over the river. Then keep heading northeast and over the next bridge. At the road head due west, and follow the line of the road as it turns down the north side of the river heading southwest. Keep going past the pink dot that is the Beldaire W trader camp and keep to the south side of the brown area. Keep going due west and you approach a green and wooded part. Follow the narrow light green pathway between the woods still going west and you will see a blue dot where the path curves to the north. That is the location for Torikami. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== OLD COIN Description: Location : Random find outside trader camp. Press X. CRIMSON SHIRT Description: Defense 19. Red shirt with a stylish pattern. Location : In the narrow green area between the woods to the east of the village. As you approach from the east it is the first patch of wood you come to. =============================================================================== 5. T O R I K A M I : P.O.S.T.E.D. ....................................... 0111 =============================================================================== 5.0 Torikami 5.1 Orochi O.E.D. 5.2 Ghost Tank and Panzer O.T.E. 5.3 Finding Morgue Town 5.4. Found in the Desert (Eagle) O. Past the BELDAIRE W. trader camp and further west, following the edge of the wooded area slightly you will see that the light green colour narrows to a path. Follow this further west and there is a visible blue dot: the location of TORIKAMI. This is a nice little Japanese village with a gift shop so you can start buying gifts if you like. I would wait until you have more cash to waste. After completing the quests you can add KAEDE to your gift list. To get to meet KAEDE, GOROU AND SUZU go through the village and up the stone steps. The Hunter's Office and Memory Centre are in the right hand garage. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOROU: Village elder SUZU: His wife KAEDE: Daughter of elder MCKINLEY HARE HEAD OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EAGLE 1 Random encounter: appears near BELDAIRE and in northern desert OROCHI North through wooded path and into dungeon SEWER DEMON In Morgue Town GHOST TANK North in desert SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Healing Drink, AA Grenade, Tile Pack L, Mine Detector EQUIPMENT Dog Armour LV 2, Dog Mortar, Crimson Manzier + other stuff PARTS 30mm AA Cannon, main (all), Swatter AA SE gun + others guns GIFT Kimono, Maiden Wear, + other stuff at 1000G ASSEMBLY Weapon RENTAL Tanks TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PANZER Search by the monument, in the desert to the northeast EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KAEDE DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SNAKE'S DEN Also known as OROCHI'S CAVE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TORIKAMI WALKTHROUGH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT: unless you want to get your bearings and talk to everyone there is not much point in searching for items BEFORE defeating OROCHI. Apart from the map items and the Big Medals everything else remains hidden. ---------- 1. Garages ---------- Go and save first in the memory centre in the right hand garage. Check for new target enemies, (probably free-range fowl) and the OUTLAW list. Here you can buy the useful Swatter SE gun: an Anti-Aircraft weapon, and you can upgrade your engines and C Units. Leave your tanks in one of the garages as you cannot take them into the village itself. Continue on foot. ------------------------ 2. Exploring the Village ------------------------ As soon as you begin to talk to people, starting with the old man in blue outside the garage, you learn that something very bad is happening and it involves: a young girl, a sacrifice, and OROCHI! Of course. Go through the gate into the village. Go right into the equipment store to find a BIG MEDAL #28 on the left. Buy stuff to upgrade the DOG, if nothing else. The next small building is the item shop. They sell AA grenades that could be useful fighting on foot against airborne enemies. Speak to the nearby woman, and HARE HEAD who is distinctly unfriendly. The building in the corner is an inn. There are mosquitos in the economy and regular room #1. The old man sitting on the bench outside will lie, saying the inn is wonderful! Go in the building behind him to find a bar. The hunter will advise you to use AA weapons and let you touch his muscles. Each touch will get more information about where to hunt. The best spot is the mountain to the east. The next building to the east is the gift shop. A new topic will be added to the help menu about buying gifts. The next small house has nothing. Speak to the old man nearby for information about the tank graveyard. There is an old woman in the corner down from the man, speak to her if you can find her hidden in the corner near the building to the left of the bell tower. Another hut yields nothing. ---------------- 3. Kaede's House ---------------- Walk up the stone steps for a couple of screens until you reach the elder's large house at the top of the hill. The left hand entrance has OLD MAP behind the screen. The centre room has PIECE OF A MAP in the chest to the right of the door. Speak to Gorou who explains the current situation regarding the "Snake's Den" and Orochi, and that he has posted a large reward for any hunter that can defeat it. So let's do just that. Go into the next room and if you keep talking Kaede will tell you about the Ghost Tank. Leave and return to your tanks. (The shrine in the garden is shut for now.) There is a BIG MEDAL #30 at the shrine side of the bridge on the right. There is a BIG MEDAL #29 as you go down the stairs eleven steps down before the second steps screen. See the next section for details of all the items you can find in Torikami after beating Orochi. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.1. OROCHI O.E.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The dungeon is called SNAKE"S DEN by the villagers of Torikami. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OROCHI WALKTHROUGH *OR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Snake Charmer, Green Snake (shelter) Ant Commander (calls for back up) (other coloured snakes appear here too, in the lower caves) Drops: Nothing ALERT: Equip Ice Armour and use fire based weapons against Orochi. Go out of Torikami and north to find the dungeon where Orochi resides. The enemies in here are annoying and the dungeon is too. You think you are going to find something interesting but you don't. Just more bloody annoying ants and snakes. Explore the holes and pathways if you wish. If you get lost, don't say I didn't warn you. You can fight Orcohi in tanks but I didn't know this the first time through and fought on foot. I'll explain how you can get a tank across the little bridge. 1. Go through to the first large area and get the THROWING KNIFE from the box on the north wall. Go on to the next area, and straight through. The next area has three exits. The top one has nothing so first take the bottom one. Follow the path until you come to an open area and take the 92MM SPARK from the top wooden box. Go back and up to take the top right exit from the big room. 2. Carry on into an area where you must go south and then come to a wooden bridge. You then have no choice but to exit your tanks and cross by foot. Again there are two possible exits. 3. The top one leads straight to Orochi if you want to fight him on foot. Go through here to meet Orochi who challenges you to a fight. He uses ice attacks so you need to have Ice Armour equipped if you are on foot. However you can fight him in tanks. Yes. There is a way. 4. Take the bottom exit and not the top one. You enter a room with a large hole in the centre. Go down here, and take the lower exit with another ramp going up. Ignore this, as it is a dead end. Go left into a large room. (If you take the top left exit from the area where you came down here it leads to the same place.) Go on through here. There is another wooden bridge on your left that leads nowhere. There is another ramp up. (The track down leads nowhere useful except to another hole down, though there are more of the coloured snake enemies down here.) Take the ramp up. In this room is a brightly coloured blue and red bomb guy. Mr. TNT. Give him a light when he asks. You find yourself back on the ramp. Go up again to find that he has blown a hole through the wall. Go through. And yes! You are back where you found the wooden box. Go down and left, and then up. Keep going straight up to the next area and down to find that you have returned to your tanks. Now you can go and fight him with your tanks. Check everything and go forward. Despite his ice breath it won't take long to defeat him now. BUT... he runs away. (If you want to leave first the next section: 5. explains how to get back to this point.) 5. You might want to teleport out and go save after all this trekking around if you want a break or need to load up your guns. Simply go back to the hole, following the track down then continue going towards the right. Then go up the narrow track which turns right into the next area. Then go right a little and UP this ramp. Continue and you are back where you started on foot at the other side of the bridge. 6. After the first skirmish when Orochi runs away you can teleport out. Then, go back inside again, and he will now be waiting at the first pool. Same as before. When he inhales the next attack will be ice breath so you can defend if you want. I just go for broke and give him all I've got. The fire based weapons can do good damage if you get ejected from your tanks. 7. Go back to TORIKAMI where everyone you speak to will be happy and nice to you. ------------------ Return to Torikami ------------------ AND NOW A SURPRISE: you can finally get all those items I thought were missing. The equipment shop has a TIGER CLAW in a red box, the item shop has COWBOY BOOTS in a red chest. Enter the gift shop to find TILE PACK M inside the right hand white chest, and HEALING DRINK in the left chest. The small house in the left corner has TEN GALLON HAT in a chest. The inn has CRIMSON MANZIER in a chest inside Regular room #1 and TILE PACK M in Regular room #2, and HEALING DRINK inside the red chest in the kitchen. Go back up the steps and speak to the boy about his mum and a washing machine. I have tried out both answers to him and so far I have not discerned a difference in the effect beyond his different reply. The shrine is open and has a BIG MEDAL #31. Go inside the house and in the first room you'll find BATTLE KNUCKLES in the chest. Speak to Gorou and then Kaede and tell her your name. You get the EVIL SWORD, and get her on your gift list. Talk to her for longer and she tells you about the story behind the Ghost Tank. The kitchen has PEACEMAKER in the red chest. Go back to your tanks and there is one last BIG MEDAL #27 in a barrel next to the bottom left corner stone. And that is over with. Well just about... ----------------------- EVENT: Items from Diver ----------------------- This is probably classed as an event. After fighting Orochi go back in the cave a few times to the entrance lake area. The man in the first cave is a diver and he will find various things for you. These are all assembly items. Items from diver: you can just go in and out again to receive one at a time. Each item costs 500g 1. Cement Frame 2. Body Part 3. Cement Barrel 4. Right Hand 5. Body Tube 6. Small Hand 7. Cylinder Piece 8. Large Backbone 9. Handle 10. Horn 11. Left Hand 12. Iguana Tooth 13. Cement Slide 14. Fang 15. Talon 16. Large Jawbone Stops at that point, though he says his friends are diving to find more? Do they? No. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.2. GHOST TANK O.T.E. *GT =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Ghost Tanks (out-of-range), Ghost Cadets, Ghost Tiles, Manhunter, Black Quacker, Balloon Zombie, Deathbringer Drop: Free-range Fowl ================== || TANK: PANZER || ================== ALERT. You can in fact find the Panzer without having to destroy the monument. So you could get the tank, upgrade your stuff and then take on the Monument. (Confirmed by killera on the GameFAQs message board.) After the Orochi event and speaking to Keade she will tell you about the Ghost Tanks and then you can just go straight for the monument and destroy it. The monument isn't the outlaw, but you cannot kill the Ghost Tanks for the bounty until you're destroyed the monument, and then the fog will disappear. Go east from the village and then north into the desert. Northeast where the fog lies you will encounter Ghost Tanks. Kill a few, and find the monument in the middle of the desert. This is situated on your satcom on the line due east from Morgue Town. Check the line up from Beldaire and it is to the west of this. These two reference points should give you an idea of its location. Read it, and choose to destroy it. The monument does not attack so just blast away using your best main guns. When you have finished the fog will clear and you can use the detector to find the PANZER TANK which is buried next to the destroyed monument on the left hand side. Return to the village and speak to the elder's daughter, KAEDE, who tells you that the spirits are now at peace. Now you can go back to the Tank Graveyard and find and defeat a few more, now visible, Ghost Tanks. Have 2 Bloodhound SE guns equipped and give the dog the Dog Gun which also targets out-of-range enemies. I checked for the reward after fighting the Monument and nothing shows. But after going back and fighting a few tanks the reward was mine. At this point I got mail from Rosa asking to battle and from Dr Palm asking for a friend. Both of these invitations are dependent on the number of tanks you have acquired. You can battle Rosa in Junkyard. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.3 FINDING MORGUE TOWN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Deathbringer, Black Quacker, Manhunter, Ghost Tiles M, Ghost Cadet, Balloon Zombie. (Enemies will be Ghost Tanks until the Monument is defeated) Drops: Free-range Fowl ALERT. There are very many items found in the field near Morgue Town. You can reach Morgue Town by driving due west from the Monument area if you want and check for items on the way. However, until the Ghost Tank mission is complete there will be a lot of fog. You can also drive there from Beldaire. 1. Getting to Morgue Town is easy but fighting all the enemies on the way can be a test of your stamina and tanks. You might want to try and run away from battles or just wait until you are stronger and have access to better equipment. 2. From BELDAIRE go northeast over the bridge and then turn southwest and follow the road. Enemies are flying here too. And nasty fowl will drop egg bombs on your tanks. There are even flying tanks! When you see the track veer north from a T junction, follow it. You will come to a desert and it will become misty. 3. At this point the enemies become difficult so run away. If you have equipped the SE gun Bloodhound you should be able to defeat the out-of-range tanks that appear. Keep heading northeast and the mist will clear and you will see a blue dot hiding behind a small hill. This is MORGUE TOWN. 4. Press X to enter and park your tanks. You have to leave them outside, but the good news is that once you have been there and discovered the transporter inside Morgue town, you can visit again by using the transport device from any town. No tanks obviously if you do that. You can also use the tank teleporter to return to MORGUE TOWN. 5. Don't forget to set your tanks C UNIT to remote if you want to move them somewhere else while you are transporting around the place on foot. 6. Speak to HARE HEAD who will say very little and then go. There is a vending machine selling Healing Drinks and Petrol Bombs, L Tile Packs, and Ice armour. You might want some Ice Armour for the sewer, and a few Petrol Bombs are always handy. However if you are low on cash you will find one in the town. To the right of the vending machine and to the left of the door is a BIG MEDAL #32. 7. Leave the tanks and go inside. MCKINLEY is there to guide you on the town. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 5.4. FOUND IN THE DESERT (EAGLE 1) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= I decided to make a separate section for this as it involves finding the Eagle 1 and many many items and useful tank parts. The desert that stretches all the way west from Morgue Town is where many items can be found. Credit goes to blackpyre and Silva Shado for identifying many of these locations and to Eleinia for the location of the 20mm Sub Gun. ================== || EAGLE 1 *EAG || =================== The Eagle appears randomly flying around the eastern continent. He can appear outside Beldaire, in the desert to the north of Torikami, and on the northern edge of the desert near Morgue Town. I have encountered him in all these areas. To defeat him use AA shells or SE weapons for airborne enemies. The Swatter SE Gun will also be useful as it is for airborne enemies. The alternative strategy, if you encounter him and lack these weapons, is to have the mechanic use the skill of Crash Landing which brings airborne machine foes down to normal level. Then use main guns. With levels of around 20/25 you should defeat him easily. Drops Special Junk. Reward 12,000G ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== In the Desert to the North of Torikami: the Tank Graveyard area. ---------------------------------------------------------------- POPCORN CANNON Description: SE (all) A ball of light divides and strikes all targets. Attack 83. Location : This is found in a pile of broken parts just a few feet from the furthest west and northern corner of the desert right at the edge of the mountains. FIRE DRAGON Description: Location : This is in the middle of the lower part of the desert. The location is just to the west of a line up from Beldaire West and due east as the crow flies from Hell's Fort, (if you have found this place yet). There are a couple of tank bits just to the north of the stones which are located to the west of the top of the road which goes up to the desert from the T junction to the east of the Beldaire W. trader camp. In the Desert around Morgue Town -------------------------------- MOLE EYE Description: Location : At a round block at furthest southwest of western area. POLYMER COAT Description: Torso armour: defense 27. Location : Just to the right of the eastern corner of the town in a couple of bits of debris. 20MM VULCAN Description: Attack 41, (all). Location : Continue due east from the eastern corner of Morgue Town, and it is just before you reach the mountains. GRENADE GUN Description: Attack 13 (all) Location : Due south of Morgue Town near the edge of the map is a collection of bits on ground. DRAGON FRAME Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather. Location : At the southern edge of the mountain in the desert just below Morgue Town. NAPALM CANNON Description: SE Gun. Attack 155. Location : Continue to the southwest going down the edge of the map to find an SE weapon in a pile of bits. Location is to the east of a line up from Junkyard E. and to the west of Morgue Town. 160MM SPARK Description: Main Gun. Attack 155. Location : Directly north of Morgue Town and where the sand goes northeast to a point there is this main gun. FLAMETHROWER Description: Sub Gun. Attack 41. Location : Go due west from here to the next sand bulge on the satcom map and just in front of it northwest of Morgue Town is a sub gun (fire). DRAGON BARREL Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather Location : Also to the northwest of Morgue Town and slightly to the south west of the previous location there is a collection of three small bits of debris in the sand, one of which is a broken chassis. Here is an assembly part for Firebreather. 120MM SBG Description: Main gun. Attack 178 Location : A useful main gun for the early part of the game. Continue hugging the far northern mountains and travelling west of Morgue Town and the previous location to find yet another tank weapon. This is located in a bulge to the north of the mountains where there is a collection of debris. A dark triangular shape is the location and there is a broken chassis with a long pipe pointing at it from the southwest. Check the location on the satcom by following the line up from Junkyard to the top of the map. It is to the right of this. DRAGON SLIDE Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather Location : Continue on, still hugging the northern mountains. At the point where the satcom line from Junkyard touches the northern mountains you will find this assembly item. It is just a few steps inside the desert where the mountains show a part that juts out into the desert. (It is also northeast from the monument) SWORD HILT Description: Weapon assembly part Location : A small black rectangular bit due south from the northern edge of the desert where it bulges south. =============================================================================== 6. M O R G U E T O W N : P.O.S.E.D. .................................... 0112 =============================================================================== 6.0 Morgue Town 6.1 Sewer Demon O. 6.2 Sodam Insein 6.3 Jack and Wayne =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 6.0 MORGUE TOWN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is the hiding place for rogues and the destitute. ALERT: You can buy Gourmet Dog Food here! ALERT: Morgue Town is well worth exploring as there are many free items so don't bother buying anything until you have found them all. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KLEPTO COBAIN In bar MCKINLEY In entrance HAREHEAD Outside OUTLAW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEWER DEMON SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EQUIPMENT Fire based weapons and Ice Armour, Dog Armour 3 ITEMS Petrol Bomb, Vitamin, Sugar Pill, Gourmet Dog Food + others EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JACK A series of events later in game. Dependent on events in RACHEL in Junkyard. WAYNE SODAM INSEIN Appears here in the sewers, after selling all his maps DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEWER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR MORGUE TOWN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enter the building after leaving your tanks parked outside, and speak to McKinley: ------------ 1. Floor B1F ------------ Go to the area in the top left corner and a manhole cover will open. Go down the ladder. (Press the directional button down.) You will arrive in a store room with another ladder. Go through the opening ignoring the ladder for now. All the rooms in this corridor are functional. The room opposite is the bar. Go in here and talk to everyone. The man standing on the left side of the room half hidden behind some boxes will give you lots of information if you choose the second option in relying to him. (ie. don't say you want money!) He then stops talking...event related? Next along is the inn, with ICE ARMOUR in the locker. Next is the memory centre. SAVE HERE. There is a CHINESE SWORD in the locker. The last room on this side just contains another ladder down, so leave this for the moment. The room opposite has a lot of items in lockers: TILES PACK, DOG FOOD and NITROLIZER weapon. This is jolly useful as it hits enemies in stealth and fires on all. Hunter and Kiriya cannot equip this unfortunately. And neither can Misha in case you were wondering. The next room has a woman standing there. This is the equipment shop. The locker next to her has BATTLE SPIKES. These are boots. Buy Dog Armour Lv3. The final room has another woman who runs the item shop. HEALING DRINK is in the locker next to her, and PETROL BOMB in the one immediately behind her. ------------ 2. Floor BF2 ------------ Go back to the last door in the corridor and take the steps down. There is a message that something is not human. This of course refers to the SEWER DEMON. Leave him alone until you have finished finding everything. Exit the room and you are in a miserable looking corridor. The room opposite is the transport pod, so you can use this to come and go more easily if you need to. The next room on the transport pod side has a hunter. Speak to him and you hear about the Ziggurat for the first time. The right hand locker has ICE ARMOUR, and the locker to the left, third in from the end, has a FLAME GUN. By now the hints for what is to come should be clear. Use fire to attack and ice to protect. The room opposite has barrels and lockers. You can get a BOONIE HAT, BIG MEDAL #33 and HEALING DRINK from the lockers. Continue along to find another locker bedroom. First locker has BERETTA, then another BIG MEDAL #34, and an ANTIDOTE. The room opposite has beds and lockers. Centre locker has SUGAR PILL. Then to the right FIRE BLASTER weapon. This can be equipped by Hunter or mechanic and fires at all including stealth enemies so although the firepower is low, the effects are valuable. To get the best result you might give this to the best fighter, which at this stage is the Hunter, and the mechanic can have the Flame Gun. The end top room has the ladder that goes back up to the previous floor, near the entrance. The lower room has more beds and lockers. GAUNTLET, VITAMIN, and UNPARALYZER items are found here. At this stage you can go back up, leave by the transport or tanks, or go down into the sewer. My first time playing, it took me so many futile attempts to find the outlaw here that I did not actually defeat the Sewer Demon until near the end of my first game, by which time one shot was enough to defeat it. However, you may not want to leave it that long. The second time I played I got him at level 24, and this is what the guide will cover. There are also events in the sewer and more items to be found. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 6.1 FLOOR B3 F: SEWER DEMON *SD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Dead Guy, Samurant, Metalmite, Ghost Cadet, Dud M, G.E. Simmons (a fridge with a long tongue!), Refrigiderilick, Drops: Ant Guts ALERT: Don't forget to keep healed and replace any scrap armour as the Sewer Demon is a random encounter. 1. This is the SEWER DEMON'S floor. You enter opposite the transport pod room and go down into the manhole cover. Go straight on. There are places where you can get down into the water (ugh). The Sewer Demon is only found in the water. 2. Let's try and pick up some items first. Turn right, go to the corner and down into the water. Go straight down until you come to a room with a square central floor that you cannot access from the water. This is the scene of future events. Go through the left exit. Go on to the opposite side of the room and through the opening. Go up the next steps and through again still going left and there is a box with HOCKEY MASK. This is probably better than anything else you have equipped so use it. Retrace your steps to the previous area, down the steps. 3. SEWER DEMON: I encountered the Sewer Demon here twice so this is a good place to expect to meet him, but he might be elsewhere. Immediately use a Petrol Bomb. His gas attacks are powerful on all the party if you are at a low level and do not have ice armour equipped. But you have a secret weapon. The Petrol Bomb sets him on fire and does massive damage. Make sure you have good protectors and plenty of healing items if you want to defeat him. I managed it this time on Level 25 - 23. 4. Continue to the right and go up the steps that are immediately on your left as you enter the area. Go down and turn to the right and then you will see another path beginning down the screen. Go down here. This leads to another room with a ladder down. Go down. The two enemies G.E. Simmons and Refrigiderilick can only be found down here if you want them for your record. Check the left side of this pathway to find DOG WINGS, a more powerful weapon for the dog. Continue to get SWORD BLADE, and V1 CHIP, and finally, after a lot of empty boxes, and what feels like miles of empty corridor...you realise that this is a trick. Turn back and face the other direction and go through to the next screen and you are back at the entrance ladder! 5. To return to the entrance go ahead and down the steps. Then straight on and up. At the corner, where the two metal grids cross the channel, turn right. Keep going until you get to the large area of water. Up the steps to the right, follow the path down and left and then right again and you are back at the beginning. Up the ladder and save, and claim the reward. NOTE: By the end of this you should have enough scrap armour to get the first strong protector, Ceramic Armour. I would suggest doing this so you can, at least, protect the dog. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 6.2. SODAM INSEIN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= After buying all his maps including the final unlisted one, check that Sodam Insein is no longer in the tent at Beldaire and go into the sewers at Morgue Town. Go down as usual and turn right, and then, down again to go down the steps into the water. This time, go left, and up through the upper left exit. Continue going left to the next screen and at the end you can go right, under a metal grid bridge. Continue up, and to the right of this corridor (there are no higher level paths just the water), until a cut scene occurs. Here is Sodam Insein with two companions. He says: Hehehe...sorry, but there is not being any treasure there. Are you not understanding the situation? You see, I will steal of your loot and be making money easily, yes? There is a battle with two punks. They are only level 10 so hardly any trouble at all. Then there is the matter of Mr. Insein After a number of silent responses he says: Huh? ...Er, that is, I wasn't being the expectation you guys would beat me. B-But, I'm having the sick wife and child! Yes, and parents as well! The Grandma...a-and...A-As you can see I am having the many responsibilities.. I was not in the right mind! Please, be having mercy...? Now you have a choice. It is obvious he is lying, but still... Forgive him. Don't listen to him. Choose the first and he says you are a real man. And he says he will see you later, gives you 100g and runs off. Don't listen to him and he says: Y-You are having to be kidding me..Noooooooo! And that is it. No fight. No money. No nothing. Of course the Dubious Map is a fake and led you into his trap. You just paid 1000g to get a possible 100g back and see a small event scene. Worth it? You decide. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 6.3 JACK, WAYBE AND RACHEL =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The full descriptions of how to trigger these events and what responses to make are given in the walkthrough for Junkyard, Later Events. The details of the script are in the separate Events Extra under the heading Jack and Wayne. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THIS MARKS A BREAK IN THE GAME AS YOU ARE NOW A THIRD OF THE WAY THROUGH. OF COURSE THAT DEPENDS ON HOW YOU HAVE PLAYED IT, BUT THE FIRST TIME YOU SET FOOT IN ALICE ONE YOU ARE IN THE WESTERN CONTINENT: AND THINGS GET TOUGHER. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =============================================================================== 7. A L I C E O N E : P.O.S.T.E.D. ...................................... 0113 =============================================================================== 7.0 Alice One 7.1 Leon's House Events E. 7.2 Monkey Mountain O.S.E.D. 7.3 Site for Second Tunnel O.E.D. 7.4 First Continental RR Tunnel O. 7.5 Wild Bus and Annihilator T.O. 7.6 Alice One West S. 7.7 Tiamat and Finding Alpha O. 7.8 Finding Forever Land 7.9 Finding Dowan =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.0. ALICE ONE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: GET YOUR SOLDIER HERE IN THE BAR. CHECK OUT STATION AND HUNTER'S OFFICE. ALICE ONE IS THE KEY LOCATION FOR MANY EVENTS LOCATION FOR TIAMAT AND ALPHA (final party member) BUY METAL DETECTOR Key location for finding fighter ally and for events concerning Charlene and provides a trigger for the Ziggurat and the replacement arm. Also you gain access to information which leads to a new tank. In the station you can speak to the hunter who will tell you about DERRINGER JACK. A second hunter will mention CRAZY WAYNE. A vending machine in the station sells Ice Armour. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEON Scientist RASHID Soldier ally CHARLENE Soldier ally ALPHA Soldier ally found inside TIAMAT later in game SKILL MASTER ALEX Can be talked to again in the bar CRAZY WAYNE In Hunter's Office OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRANDDADDY KONG At MONKEY MOUNTAIN DALTON BROTHERS 1. On the train: must get train and see event in East Zero first. 2. In first tunnel: get an email from them first. MEGA MOLE In second tunnel: follow train tracks to west of Alice One TANK EATER In desert to southeast of LAKE BRIDGE TIAMAT Avoid for now. Roams the desert to the north of Alice One. Only attempt to defeat it once you have all the very best tanks and equipment. It is tough. Very tough. SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Energy Capsule, Tile Pack L, Metal Detector EQUIPMENT Dog Armour 4, Dog Bayonet + other stuff PART Drill Gun + other stuff SHELL Photon, RAP:for out-of-range enemies ASSEMBLY Tank Parts TRADER Barter DOG FIGHT Not really a shop, but earn money here TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WILD BUS Northwest desert. Known as Sea of Sands EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LEON KEY events in Leon's house, including optional "arm" event CHARLENE Buy house DUNGEONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MONKEY MOUNTAIN SECOND TUNNEL FIRST CONTINENTAL RR TUNNEL NOTE ABOUT ALPHA After defeating TIAMAT and getting to Alpha you can give her gifts and use the transporter to leave the Tiamat and return. She has a room in the left hand red marked door in the room that you enter when you exit the transporter area. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR ALICE ONE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ 1. The Bar:Charlene And Rashid ------------------------------ Go into the bar, and as you arrive, Charlene and Rashid are in the middle of an argument. Select one of them and answer with the weapon they like most. Speak again (or at least press X again) and the soldier will join the party. You can change their name if you want. I am not 100% sure about this, but when I recruited them at a low level: 14, they joined at level 12. They might join at a higher level if Hunter is higher? The man sitting at the bar will tell you about the location of the WILD BUS, and the trader at the bar will give you a hint about the WILD BUS in the Sea of Sands. The female hunter will give you information about the area and the monsters, and the usefulness of the DRILL GUN against moles. I guess she must be right. Go upstairs and to the end of the corridor. There is a BIG MEDAL #36 in the fire extinguisher. Speak to the man with red hair and get more information about the Wild Bus. Economy Room has a mosquito and ICE ARMOUR. Regular Room has nothing, and the Deluxe Suite has SAFETY HELMET between the beds, ROYAL SLIPPERS, ROYAL SOAP to the left of the beds. A ROYAL ROBE is by the sofa and ROYAL TOWEL by the table. ------------------ 2. Hunter's Office ------------------ Save at the MEMORY CENTRE on the left. Go into the office to check on monsters and there you can meet WAYNE and get information about DERRINGER JACK. There is a BIG MEDAL #35 at the cactus in the top left corner of the town. ---------------------- 3. Items and Equipment ---------------------- From the save point on the far left, go in the next building to buy items and equipment. If you have won a lot on the train you will be fine for money and can give the guy who asks 200g. I guess this is a hint for what might happen to you too. Make sure to upgrade the DOG armour to level 4 if nothing else. You can buy the Metal Detector from the Item Shop to give a wider search range, making it easier to find items on the world map. --------------------------------------------------- 4. Garages: Custom Parts Assembly and Core Exchange --------------------------------------------------- Next is the garage and service station. The man in green will mention DOWAN. The RAP shells are useful to keep a supply of for those pesky out-of- range enemies. At the parts shop you can get more information about places from a man in green, and chat about decals with the other guy. The Drill SE gun sounds useful as it targets underground enemies. There will be a lot of these in the second tunnel location. Don't neglect to buy new engines if you can afford them:the V24 Hulk is sold here. Here you'll find the trader who will barter with you. He exchanges CORES for weapons and Ores for Scrap Metal. If you do a lot of tank part assembly you will see a lot of him. Large Ore: 2.50t, Medium Ore: 1.70t, Ore: 0.70t The essential custom tank part assembly shop is also here. Although these facilities are also found in other more western locations I tended to use the Alice One location for all my assembling and exchanges, partly because it is the first time you can access this, and partly because a lot of other things happen at Alice One so I was often coming back here. --------------- 5. Leon's House --------------- The Transport Pod is at the far left corner. Go to the entrance and speak to the woman who will tell you about LEON. Go inside the house to meet him. There is gun UDAR for Charlene, in the box on the right. The next room has a MECHANIC KIT in the right hand chest and MECHANIC GLOVES on the small table next to the bed. There are other events that take place inside Leon's house later in the game. See the next section for more details. --------------- 6. Other Houses --------------- Go up towards the station and enter the next house. Speak to the man and raid the upstairs for an ENERGY DRINK in the chest. The next small house next door has another ENERGY DRINK in the left hand sink. Go back down to the entrance and continue to explore the next row of houses. If you first speak to the man beside the entrance he will mention Lake Bridge and Lorelei Bay. ------------------------- 7. Charlene's House Event ------------------------- The first house has a note on the door. Make sure Charlene is in your party and she will comment. This begins the Charlene's house event. The next house has a very good weapon on the fridge: the SAMSHIR, for Hunter or Rashid, and more information about the house for sale. Go upstairs and steal the METALLIC SUIT from under their noses: next to bed. Speak to Banjo. He wants 3000g for the house. Say you'd like to buy it and you can then, or at a later date if you lack the cash now. After paying him the money he talks more about Charlene and her family, and her father, who used to live there. You can now enter the house and Charlene starts to remember things, and suggests that there are not so good things that she remembers too. She asks if she can use the house. Be nice. After this ow you can give gifts to Charlene too. Search for a MOLE GRENADE at the sink, and a RED BANDANA in the chest upstairs. There is a DOG TAG in the chest by the bed. Keep these last two items in your inventory as they may help to trigger the Charlene event at Forever Land. (Not certain about this.) --------------- 8. Skill Master --------------- Head right, to the lower right hand corner of the town, and find the Skill Master. Repair II is a must, and Recycle if you have the money for it. Guradian Angel too, and Bernie's defense skill Epidermythril. But beware of this one as it is an auto skill and costs 170g for every battle you fight. Rapid Fire is another useful skill for Charlene if you can afford it. ---------------------- 9. Muscle Man Training ---------------------- Continue up and HARE HEAD is near the water tower. As usual, pleased to see you...not. There is also a Muscle Man wandering around here who asks if you would like to train. Ask: who the hell are you and he will tell you about Gluteus Maximism and Father Muscle. You can train with him. Level 1 training. This is harder than it looks. ------------- 10. DOG FIGHT ------------- At the top of the town to the right of the station is the Dog Fighting Colosseum. Ask for information and he will explain. You can win prize money if your dog wins. You pay 1500g to enter the dog in a series of battles. Of course as usual you have no control at all over what the dog does so it is a risk. With the dog at a high enough level and with good armour and weapons you could win a some easy money. The fights just continue one at a time and each time you are asked if you want to carry on. The rewards get better as you continue. If, as happened to me, an enemy decides to flee from the battle you still win. My favourite dog, Bernie decided to defend more than attack, though somehow still managed to win when the final tank enemy fled the scene. Five battles nets you 5000g. This can be another easy way of getting money as you really don't have to do much besides agree to carry on to the next fight. Finally, the Curry Guru should be outside the station. He moves around so is not always there. To buy healing food click on the wagon, not the Guru. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.1. LEON'S HOUSE EVENTS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= --------------------- 1. LEON'S HOUSE EVENT: KEY EVENT FOR TRIGGERING ZIGGURAT AND END OF THE GAME --------------------- At some point when in Alice One, call in at Leon's house and you walk in to an event. I had thought that perhaps this happens after the Jack events because that is when you get an email from Eddy that says he cannot go after Jack because he is involved with something very important. But this is not so. You can trigger this event by the time you reach Fort Gears even before getting to Hell's Keep. But if you have only got as far as Dowan nothing will happen. I think you also need to have met him first, before this event. Enter the house and an Agent says: ! There are three people standing and someone lying on the floor. There is a battle with four agents. This is dead easy as their HP is only around 300-400 each. After the battle Leon says Thank you, and explains that the guys in black suits came and ordered him to show them his research on the Great Destruction. When he asked them why they started beating him. He says that although he doesn't know what they want with it, he is sure they are up to no good. He warns Hunter to stay away as they might return. He does not want to put you in any danger. If you try to talk to him again he will repeat the same thing. So leave. As you go to leave he says: Oh I get it now! It's your cap! Do you remember me saying that I thought I saw you somewhere before? Well I know a person who wears a cap just like yours. He's a hunter too. His name is Eddy. He's known as the Explorer. Have you heard of him? Hunter replies as usual: ..... Leon is surprised that Eddy has a son, and explains that he has been helping with his research, and excavating ruins. If you see him say Hi. That is it. Leave Alice One and you should get a new email from Eddy. This isn't good! I'm working with Leon. Meet us beyond the storm curtain, near Hell's Keep. Be extremely careful along the way. This is the trigger required for the events in the Ziggurat and the final stages of the story leading to the end of the game. ---------------------------- 2. LEON'S HOUSE: "ARM" EVENT (full details in EVENTS section) ---------------------------- After Leon has left town for the Ziggurat (check this is so by speaking to the woman outside his house), go inside and you find a scene of carnage. Follow through the scenes that play out until you are all again inside the house and can leave. Hunter can speak to all character portrait people to get their reactions to his damaged arm. Go to Lorelei Bay and Professor Grey will operate and you get a new arm and can get more reactions. This new arm does not affect Hunter's appearance or give any new skills, or increase to attack power. NOTE: you may have to revisit Alice One, or see the first Ziggurat event to trigger this. New Title: Cyber Hunter. ------------------------------------------ 3. LEON'S HOUSE: After the End of the Game ------------------------------------------ Speak to the woman outside his house and she says he is cooped up in there all the time. Speak to him and he says you are doing well and that they were able to take care of the Ziggurat, but he warns that there may be other similar structures and others who will try to follow in Alex's footsteps. He will continue to gather data and locate these other structures. His final words are: "We don't need another Great Destruction" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.2 MONKEY MOUNTAIN O.S.E.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Hilt 'n Head, M61 Mutt Drops: Unknown Junk ALERT: Have Rashid in your party and make sure he has the final blow killing Dr. Zeus for another title. Take in an extra tank as there are some heavy tank parts inside. Northeast of Alice One. Not right up into the desert area but just a little way to the NE, at the edge of the map. My level here around 30. Title:Modder. OUTLAW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GRANDDADDY KONG SHOP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRADER: ASSEMBLES ITEMS (eg dinosaur), and MAPS SLOT MACHINE IN TANK PARK: sells Healing Drinks, Mole Grenades, Mechanic Kits, and Ice Armour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH: MONKEY MOUNTAIN *GKNOG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Chopper Chimp:level 39 (use AA guns), Chimpyro (uses flame attacks), Postal Primate Drops: Biotic Junk 1. The tracks here can appear a little strange as when you first enter and go up you see empty space ahead of you: in fact if you look closely there is a squared off edge to the track indicating the way on to the next screen. Just continue into the space and you emerge at an area with a soldier and hunter to speak to. The trader here will assemble maps and items. Details are in the Assembling section of the FAQ. 2. Go right and to the next screen. Now you should facing downwards. Continue down and to the right, and up again. Stay in your tanks and follow the path upwards. It may appear that there is no path at times, but that is just because you have to drive through to the next screen. Keep going up until you see a waterfall. Enemies should start to appear by now. Most will fall to your sub guns. The path turns to the right. On to the next screen. Up again, and you should see a wooden bridge going to the right. This is the way to KONG but for now take the left hand slope upwards and go left. 3. Keep going up.until you reach another bridge going to the left and another waterfall. Follow the track over the bridge, and on to the next screen, and then down again. There is another bridge to the left. A message comes up asking you if you want to jump. Yes, children, don't do this at home! Answer "Look out below!" and you have jumped down to see yet another bridge to the right. There is a MINI VULCAN in a box right beside the top post of the bridge. This is a gun to attack all at once, but has low attack so probably you have better equipment by now. Continue to the right and again you can jump down. Do so. Go right now, and up again, and you are back at the right hand bridge from before. 4. This time, go right over the long bridge. Keep going right, then down again towards the bottom of the screen. Follow the path to the left and down and eventually you find a cave entrance at a dead end. Go inside and at the back of the cave is 177MM AMORPH a powerful main gun with attack of 228 and weight of 5.43t. If you have brought an extra tank just pick this up in it, and then sort out your tank parts to the maximum benefit. I had the main gun 205 Cannon already on one tank, so put the Amorph on the Panzer, a useful four mounts tank at this stage of the game. Retrace your path to the right and back up until you reach the end of the bridge again. 5. Now turn right and go on to the next screen. If you go down here there is a house! I got out of my tanks to investigate but there is nothing here. If you too can't resist checking for yourself and get attacked, you should be able to defeat the monkeys easily, but beware if a protector breaks and make sure to replace it. 6. Go on up again, then left, and up again and you will arrive at the spring where KONG awaits. Be as well to check your equipment and make sure everyone is at full health, and bolster your tanks SP if any seem a bit too low before moving forwards to meet GRANDDADDY KONG. Who is, of course, doing what Kongs do, and er..having a bath. He gives you the option to scram, or as the message choice expresses it: "Run like a sissy" 7. Since I doubt you will want to trek all the way back up here again if you can avoid it... "Stand Your Ground" is really the only sensible choice. He calls DR. ZEUS. Zeus eats bananas and has an all tanks attack called Paper Slash that can miss or do some damage. Let him have your main guns. After 3 or 4 rounds that will be it for him. The only additional thing is to get Misha or Kiriya to repair any major damage before the end of the battle as there is another one to come immediately. Have Rashid in your party to administer the final blow on Dr Zeus for another title. 8. Now for KONG With no chance to repair. His main attack is Breathe In, so you can defend as the SHRIEK attack will be on the next round. He also might just "Ponder" and do nothing. This took about 5 rounds of main guns. I just keep firing even when the tanks are damaged as they tend to hold out until the end of the battle with at least one gun still firing. 9. After the battle do any repairs that are essential and check for items. There is ROYAL TOWEL by the right fence, BIG MEDAL #38 in the corner of the bath and fence, and ROYAL SOAP at the front, to the right of the centre brown bench. 10. Now teleport out, (unless you really want to fight more monkeys) and go to ALICE ONE to collect your reward, and do the usual save, heal and sell. You also should find that the Hunter now has the title Monkey Masher and everyone will be around level 36 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.3 SITE FOR SECOND TUNNEL O. E. D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Hilt 'n Head, Drops: Unknown Junk Follow the train tracks to the northwest of ALICE ONE. The first time you do this, on the way there will be an event with JARED and JULIE from FOREVER LAND. When you arrive speak to all the three people and discover that the tunnel is "off-limits to unauthorized persons" The MEGA MOLE is in fact a construction machine and this is a construction site. Go into the building closest to the field and speak to the men there. There is a BIG MEDAL #39 in the locker at the back of the room. You need to receive an email telling you that Mega Mole has gone crazy before you actually get access to the tunnel. There is another BIG MEDAL #40 in the pile of rubble to the left of the buildings below the two grey crates and at the bottom of the screen. I am not certain what the trigger for this is, but it may be once you have defeated 10 outlaws. You receive an email from the Hunter Office telling you that the Mega Mole has gone missing from the construction site of the second tunnel and so they have put a bounty on it. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= MEGA MOLE WALKTHROUGH *MOLE =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Rocket Mole (hides in a hole), Mole Master(underground), Kamikaze Mole Lost Mole. Drops: Bronze Bar, Biotic Junk Take the Drill gun, though I did not find it that helpful. The SE Soprano Cannon seems to work well and this targets sonic waves at all enemies. 1. This time you can go in. As well as the visible Moles there are some random encounters. Enemies here are often in stealth or underground. There are many items to be found in the rooms. Go to end of tunnel area and then take an exit to the right. 2. Meet Mole Monster (MM). He (hard to tell) tells you that humans are the enemy and the Mega Mole is in fact their God of Steel. Defeat him and continue. These Moles can be avoided if you wish. To fight them you must try to talk with them first. 3. Go and explore through the doors on the left. Another MM, and JACKET SCRAP in a box. Exit, and go into opposite entrance. Another MM and box with SARATOGA SUIT. (Defense 58). Enter the second doors on the left to find a MINI VULCAN. Go on through the next doors at the top of this room. Fight another Mole and get more talk from him and find NAMELESS BLADE in box. (This is a very powerful sword). Go back out to the corridor. Enter the room opposite for IRON BUSTIER, armour for females only. After defeating the Mole here go on through to another room. SHADES FRAME is in the box and there's another Mole. Return to the corridor and continue up to the next screen. 4. You are now in a large area. As you approach the ramp on the right, leading down, suddenly a hole opens in the wall ahead and the MEGA MOLE leaps out at you. He will probably start by being out-of-range, but he will come into range most of the time. His drill attack can do a lot of damage, but only to one tank at a time. "Tackle" will target all tanks to the tune of around 200/300 SP damage. I just ignored his attacks and the damage and carried on regardless for about five rounds. With characters at mid 50s levels and using a boosted main gun, the Gaea, bought from Lake Bridge trader camp, he gave no real trouble. 5. Clive and Connie then appear in the entrance to comment on your victory. Connie wants to know if they have retrieved the objects the moles had been collecting. Agent also appears and speaks about a blockade. Something seems to shake. Strange things are afoot! 6. From where you fought Mega Mole there is a ramp going down. Get out of your tanks here and go on foot. There is a dead Mole. Carry on down and enter the door on the left: nothing here, but go through the bottom door into the next room and there is RATCHET 9 in the box. That is all there is down here. 7. Go back to your tanks and drive or teleport back out and to collect the reward from Alice One. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.3 FIRST CONTINENTAL RR TUNNEL O. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ------------- 1. ROUND ONE: on Train ------------ This is triggered by seeing them planning to rob the train in East Zero. Then when you get the train to Alice One they are in the casino and you can defeat them on the roof of the train. Details of this are in East Zero section. ------------ 2. ROUND TWO: in First Continental RR Tunnel ------------ This is triggered by getting a email from the Daltons challenging you to a re-match in revenge for killing the other brothers. They stop the train from running until you have met and defeated them. You normally can enter the tunnel from either end, but although the bounty is at Alice One if you try the tunnel from this end a guard will be standing some way in and refuse to let you through. That means that you must go in from the East Zero side. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH: DALTON BROTHERS ROUND 2 *DB2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Public Enema #1, Golden Ant, M61 Mutt, Golden Colony Drops: Cyber Junk, Gold Dust, Biotic Junk Warning: the ant enemies can drop acid on your tanks so you will need some alkaline wax to neutralise the effects. This can be bought at the Item Shop at East Zero. 1. Head west into the tunnel. This is an annoying place because battles are so frequent. Even if you use the dog skill Animal Instinct the effects don't last very long, so I just fight as many battles as I have to to proceed. Ignore the first turning right and continue on until you spot a box to the right just before a new screen and this contains Drill Gun. 2. Immediately you go through to the next screen you will see a large tank and Zed will say "They're a'comin." Francine asks if you are the varmints who "done killed our brothers?" Whatever you say they will attack you. 3. After about five rounds of blasting with your main guns from well defended tanks they will be defeated. Go on and turn right. Continue on and you will end up at a loading bay. Go on foot up to the yellow machine and there is a BIG MEDAL #37 at the right corner of the digging bit. On the right side of this raised platform there is another box with FIRE WALKER, a fireproof suit. 4. That is the lot so now get out of there as quickly as you can. You should have a good supply of junks to appraise after all this! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.4 WILD BUS and ANNIHILATOR T. 0. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Hilt 'n Head, Wild Buses, Foreman, Blocko Mechanic, Pogo Fett. AT Hornet Drops: Unknown Junk, Vehicle Junk, Unknown Ore, Medium Ore First talk to the man sitting at the bar in Alice One and when he says: Hey, kid. don't you wish you could get your hands on a wild bus? Answer "Yeah man!" He asks for 5,000G cash to tell you how. Agree instantly! You DO want a Wild Bus don't you? He tells you to buy the bus stop sign. NOW it will be for sale. So go and pay out more cash at the Alice One West trader camp, right hand tent. It is a bargain at 3000G. =============== || WILD BUS || Tank. Instructions on how to catch a bus. Or not. =============== ALERT: Need to have bought the bus-stop sign first from Alice One West. Beware Tiamat! Follow the railway to the west and then, when it gets to just before the woods and FOREVER LAND, drive north into the Sea of Sands. You will see a Pink Dot: this is the Bus-Stop. There are a number of buses on the field which you can fight if you want, but beware of running into Tiamat who cruises these sands. Find the bus-stop: The Bus Stop Remains. Go inside, that is, to the far side of the bus shelter and press X on the bus stop from the road side and place the bus-stop sign. If you are having trouble placing the sign, press Use on the bus stop sign item and it will tell you that you are very close to the right place! Or that you are at the right place: which is the left hand pillar of the shelter. You then get a message telling you how long it will take for the bus to arrive and you will find yourself back on the field. Go back inside the Bus Stop. And just wait for the bus. The bus will arrive in a few minutes. Just stop the bus and get on and it is yours! That is the simple version of events. However there is another side to this task. Basically it is the same as waiting for a bus in real life. You have to be patient and wait for the time stated, which can be anything up to 10 minutes. It will arrive eventually. But it can seem to take forever as it counts the minutes out in real time. You can stay out on the field killing a few enemies to kill the time. But I found that this made me miss the bus on more than one occasion so I would recommend staying put at the bus stop until it arrives. *Taps foot impatiently* If you go and check the sign to see how long is left you will be returned to the field again and risk missing the bus. It arrives from the right of the screen so keep an eye on it so you can nab it when it stops. After all this waiting around I hardly ever used the bus as a tank, but maybe it is worth it to add to the collection. I THINK that you have to wait in the shelter and not on the road, or the bus won't arrive. I confess that I hate this waiting around: I once cooked and ate my tea while waiting for this bloody bus. Oh. Maybe that was the reason I kept missing it. I waited and waited, and then checked again and it said 10 minutes to wait. The time before it was only 5 minutes so where was the bus? I had just about given up and, on foot, approached the bus stop sign for the nth time to check it, when the bus turned up. So I am sorry, but my expertise on how to catch a bus without pain is sadly lacking. EXTRA NOTE: Actually what you have to do is keep a check of the time yourself and approach the bus-stop sign when the time is up. ========================= || ANNIHILATOR *ANNI || ========================= Whilst getting the Wild Bus you might run into this rather snazzy lorry type outlaw as it cruises the wilds of the desert north of Alice One. It can go out of range so be prepared for that, and it will flee is you don't destroy it quickly enough, so use /RUN just in case. Other than that just blast at it with the main guns. Now according to the game information you receive an Ancient Junk after this defeat. But I got nothing. Strange. I can only guess that this might be because the first time I fought it I had not used /RUN and just before defeating it with only probably a couple more hit to go it ran away so I had to find and fight it again. (Or it might have been that I'd filled up the item inventory and not noticed.) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.6 ALICE ONE W. S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Marauder, Hilt 'n Head Drops: Unknown Junk ALERT: HERE YOU EXCHANGE ALL THOSE JUNKS YOU HAVE BEEN HOARDING. AND BUY THE BUS STOP SIGN. Just north of Dowan, and way out to the west of Alice One you'll find this vital Trader Camp. From Alice One, drive southwest and you should eventually find this camp on the shore of the lake. This is an important trading post where the junks you have accumulated can be exchanged. Here you get the bus stop sign that allows you to catch a bus! Which is, in fact, another tank. SHOP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS In middle tent: Mole Grenade and Mechanic Kit and Energy Drink GIFTS In left tent: cheaper furnishings, all 3300g BUS STOP SIGN In right hand tent On your first visit there the right hand tent has the bus stop sign but the trader tells you that it is not yet for sale. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.7 TIAMAT AND FINDING ALPHA O. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =================================== || LAND BATTLESHIP TIAMAT *TIA || =================================== Levels needed around 130 for Hunter and 110 for the others. -------------- 1. Preparation -------------- Prepare your best tanks with the best weapons. You don't need high altitude or stealth weapons for this fight but equipping your tanks with a lot of different guns, for example, all sub guns available, can assist in protecting the tank from too much damage. Also make sure that each tank has one Bloodhound SE gun as the Tiamat will go out-of-range towards the end of the fight. Equip the Rail Guns and Plasma Cannon main guns for the best results. Put the Hunter in the Maus with heavy fire power. Make sure all personal armour and protectors are in order in case one of your tanks is destroyed. And also equip weapons that can target out-of -range enemies. --------------------- 2. Finding the Tiamat --------------------- You will probably already have run into the Tiamat while looking for the Barabarossa tank or the Wild Bus. It is situated in the desert to the northwest of Alice One and roams around as a visible large machine on the field. It is NOT shown on the satcom but just go and wander around for a bit and you will be sure to run into it, or the other way round. In fact you can just sit tight if you want. And within a minute or two it will come into view. The best place seems to be near the Bus Stop, maybe to the north a little. Make a mental note of where you find the Tiamat after the first battle as you will need to return later. ------------------------ 3. First Battle Strategy ------------------------ It is in normal range and to begin with there is only one target so use the main guns. They may sometimes miss as the Tiamat is very well defended. Attacks with subguns from the outlaw don't hurt too much doing around 300/400 SP damage. The all tanks Missile attack does more. The worst attack is the "Run Over" when it literally does just that and crushes your poor tanks and makes the dog squeal. At nearly the end of the battle when its life bar is low it moves out of range. A few uses of the RAP Shells, which you should always have available might finish it off, but if you are not fast the Main Gun comes out. It is worth seeing this animation. The RAP shells will only hurt it for around 400/450 HP so it is a slow way to kill it. You really need the Blood Hound SE guns for this part of the fight. Unusual Junk is your reward. ------------ 4. What Now? ------------ Hang on. Even if you are eager to get inside and see what is there. DON'T. Not yet anyway. Note the location of Tiamat as it is never located on your map. Then teleport out. First of all go back to town and save and heal. After reloading and repairing, return for the second stage of the battle. There will be another major fight as soon as you go inside the Tiamat. The Tiamat will stay exactly where you left it and never move again. ------------------------- 5. Second Battle Strategy ------------------------- As soon as you click on the Tiamat's location you will be inside. Move forward and the battle begins. This time there are multiple enemies, 6 in total, and this is a time for sub guns to begin with to decrease the life on all the enemies. Then start defeating them one by one. The main gun and side guns fire on one tank at a time, or sometimes all at once. They all seem to do around the same amount of damage, at about 300/400 SP a go. In some ways this is a straight forward fight with no special requirements beyond blasting away. However, there is a neat trick to save your tanks from too much expensive damage. At the start of the battle get the mechanic out of their tank and use the skill LOCKDOWN. This has the effect of shutting down these enemies. It might not work on them all but it will work on some of them which means that they cannot fire at you! At the end of the battle do the same as before and go back to town to save and repair. ---------------- 6. FINDING ALPHA ---------------- Enter the Tiamat to find another party member: Alpha. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR INSIDE TIAMAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Crater Maker, Crimson Grizzly Items : No items are found here. This place is confusing as you travel via transport pods so it is hard to keep a track of your precise location. Some routes lead nowhere of interest. 1. Enter Tiamat in your tanks and go in through the left hand open doorway. (The right hand one has no access.) You are in a large aircraft hanger with planes and lights. To progress further on leave your tanks and go on foot through the door at the far end. 2. The next large room has one exit to the right. Go through here, and on into another large room. The left side is an entrance to a lift. Go in the lift. You are on floor 1. Down to B1 first. 3. Exit the lift and there are two doors on opposite sides of the room. Take the one at the top. Go on through and there a room with two transport pods. The right one is operational and takes you to another transport room. You are in the left hand pod and there is another to your right. Leave the room and this is where you will find ALPHA. {If you re-enter the left hand transport you will end up in a different location. The right hand one takes you somewhere else where there are four doors off a long corridor and two operational pods.) 4. ALPHA is activated Go straight up to the green lighted machine and press the red button at the right hand side. A recording plays and begins the Alpha X02D start up procedures. You must have Hunter alive for her to identify herself and join the party or else she will go back inside her sleeping capsule. Answer yes to her question. You can name her if you want. Put her in your party and you can give her gifts. There will be new information in the satcom help about her. 5. The two doors from this room lead to Alpha's waiting room where any presents you give her are kept and she will be here too if she is not in your party. The upper room is the transport pod. (6. If you want to explore. Go back into the transport pod area. If you go inside the right hand transport pod, you end up in a room with four pods and no other exit. Go inside the right hand one. You are in yet another transport pod room and emerge from the 3rd one. Go now into the first one. Only these two are lit up. Now you are in a room with two pods and you emerge from the left hand one. Leave the room. Another empty space and no exit!) 7. From the room with the two operational pods next to Alpha's area, go back inside the one on the left, out of the next room though the door to the bottom left and you should be back at the lift. 8. Floor 2. One empty room. Floor 3. Another empty room. Floor 4. Now we are getting somewhere. Go straight through here. This is the Tiamat control room. Go forward and a message will come on screen. **** Self-destruct sequence initiated. **** Currently standing in Wait Mode. **** Please enter key code to continue with the final phase Enter Key Code Two options: Guess I'd better/Ha! No way! Select No Way unless you want to see the end. (The details are in the ENDINGS section) 9. From floor B1 lift exit head to the left and there are two pods. Go in the left one. Room with one door. There is an engine room in here. Nothing to do. Go in the right hand one and you end up in the corridor with four doors. These are all living quarters with nothing to see or do. Go into the right hand pod. Exit and in the only door into a large room with lots of yellow containers. Go forward to the red machine and cancel the security protocols. This gets rid of the enemies. 10. Return to the lift area and keep going right, into the transport pod and back into Alpha's room. Exit Tiamat. Once you have Alpha the exit transporter next to her room will be operational. You can now enter and exit without having to use tanks and the lift. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.8 FINDING FOREVER LAND =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Hilt 'n Head Drops: Unknown Junk Head northwest up the train tracks away from ALICE ONE towards the site of the SECOND TUNNEL. I suggest having Charlene in your party for event related things. As you approach the second tunnel there will be an event involving JULIE and JARED. Kiriya/Misha will repair their truck. They then invite you to come and see them. Do so now if you want, or carry on. Forever Land is the blue dot just the other side of the wooded area to your left near the lake. ================== Found in the Field ================== 30MM VULCAN Description: Sub gun. Attack 66 (all). Location : South of the Bus Stop in the sand. Just slightly to the west of a line due south from the bus stop pink dot and in the white sand. (In desert to the northwest of Alice One) V2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go north up the beach, and it is in the Building the Red Mobster was in. You have to have defeated him first before you can get this item. (North side of building) CRISPY CANNON SE Description: SE Gun. Attack 133. Location : Shoots heat rays (all). In the beach area near lake half way between the Red Mobster Building and Forever Land. KEVY VEST Description: Body Armour. Defense 66. Location : Between the brown and green areas, next to lake, to the southeast of Forever Land. OLD COIN Description: Coin Location : Next to the lake a short way in from the brown desert in the northern most part of the white sand below Forever Land. May be random. Same location as Crispy Cannon. CRISPY CANNON Description: SE (all). Attack 133. Location : Next to the lake a short way in from the brown desert in the northern most part of the white sand below Forever Land. E2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Directly to the southeast of Forever Land in the pale brown area half way between the green area and the white sand. AXEL NOMAN C UNIT Description: C Unit Location : At the left edge, two thirds up to the north of the mountain just to the northwest of F L. AMP Description: Location : At the Forever Land side of the mountain on the east side of the railway tracks. Due northeast from the blue dot. ARAMID TURBAN Description: Hat. Defense 58. Location : On the far side of the mountain on the east side of the railway track. Halfway between the blue dot of Forever Land and the pink dot of the bus stop. Next to the edge of the mountain where the desert is brown. CRIMSON KNIFE Description: Knife. Attack 107. Location : The mountain to the north of Forever land across the railway tracks. Just to the left of the centre northeastern point, on the desert side. MOLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : To the north of the point of the mountain. THUNDERPUNCHER Description: Weapon. Attack 90. Location : Due east of the location of the second tunnel which is situated at the end of the railway track. Just south of where the terrain becomes darker brown is a large structure sticking up from the desert with a metal plate next to it. CANNON GUIDE Description: Assembly part. Location : Northeast of the Tunnel on the edge of dark and light brown area. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 7.9 FINDING DOWAN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: M51 Mutt, Hilt 'n Head Drops: Biotic Junk, Unknown Junk From Alice One head west, keeping below the railway line. You will see a blank area to the north on the satcom small map. That is a mountain, but ignore it for now and carry on to the lake side that is to the west. You should hit the lakeside shore and then go south a short way to a pink dot. This is the trader camp Alice One W. which is situated just to the north of Dowan, at the edge of the lake. Once you have found this, just continue down the lakeside to the next blue dot and that is Dowan. Some of the items found near here need access to a boat before you can get access to them. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== 03 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Island to the southwest of Dowan, in the top of the wooded area. By boat. V3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Inside the wood southwest from Dowan. Go down to the first small patch of wood and search. FLUTE CANNON Description: Sub Gun that targets all enemies (sonic). Attack 88. Location : A useful sub gun is found at the lake side of the same small wood. STINGER Description: Gun (Charlene only). Targets airborne and out-of-range enemies. Attack 150. Location : East of Dowan just before taking the road south between the two mountains, at the edge of the western mountain point. O2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : East of Dowan, head south down the road, and this is at the narrowest place between the two mountains. HAMMER/CYLINDER Description: Assembly part Location : Continue down the road into the white sandy desert to the southeast. There is a single stone southeast of a bunch of cacti. =============================================================================== 8. F O R E V E R L A N D P.T.E. ....................................... 0114 =============================================================================== 8.0 Foreverland 8.1 Wirbelwind T. 8.2 Barbarossa T. ALERT: You can only get inside FOREVER LAND after an event. E2 Chip is found near here. Key location for getting a tank and giving gifts and an event involving Charlene. Once accessed it can be re-visited through the walk-in teleporter or via your tanks. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JARED: Leader JULIE ROBBY Makes tank SYD GASPAR DANNY Gives you Solar Lens after meeting Dr. Optica. And Sweet Potato. REMI PATRICIA PATRICK GOLEM Event with Charlene. TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WIRBELWIND EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARLENE and GOLEM DANNY and Sweet Potato ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH: FOREVER LAND ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There will be an event with the GOLEM as you approach the building. Then you will be inside and they introduce themselves as: Remi: Jared's sister, Julie, Danny, Syd, (who is a little strange), Patrick and Patricia, (brother and sister), Robby The Professor, who loves tanks and lastly Gaspar, (a girl). After this introduction you can now send gifts to Forever Land. 3. Go outside and there is a BIG MEDAL #41 to the left in a barrel. You can drive your tanks inside the building now and park them while you explore on foot, although you can drive into the the room at the left. Go left and there is a BIG MEDAL #42 by the table near the red cylinders. A vending machine sells Healing Drink, Photon Grenade, Tile Pack L and Kevy Vest. Talk to ROBBY and he asks for scrap metal to build a tank. You don't need a lot, just ten tons, and in exchange you will receive the WIRBELWIND TANK. (Obtain scrap metal from exchanging Ore with the trader in the garage at Alice One.) 4. Go right to speak to SYD and continue to get a long description of how they came to be there. EXTRA: Syd also quotes from The Beatles song Helter Skelter. (Another character that you meet a bit later on in the game will quote from a Rolling Stones song. So I guess this is to be fair.) 5. On foot, walk to the back of main room and through the door, turn right and go to the far end of the corridor to find a BIG MEDAL #43 in the south facing corner. Now, go left and climb down the stairs in the corner. 6. The first room in the next corridor contains GASPAR. There is a BIG MEDAL #44 in the first locker to the left, and TILE PACK L in the next bunch of lockers at the end of the locker row. Turn right to get a THUNDERPUNCHER weapon in a hidden box. Another box on the back wall contains an ENERGY CAPSULE. The next room has a KEVY WIG in a locker and a CRIMSON KNIFE in a box. The third room has a LEGENDARY MEMO in a locker, a TRIGGER BRACER in another locker and a BIG JACKET in a box. 7. Go down again using the stairs in the right hand corner. The first room has OMEGA BLASTER in the box straight ahead. A BIG MEDAL #45 is in the next box to the left. KEVY VEST is in the box on the door side. The room has DANNY. Speak to him and decide to leave him alone. He will then give you a SWEET POTATO. (If you keep this in your inventory and go to visit Kaede in Torikami from time to time you may come across her in the garden burning leaves and this triggers another event.) 8. The second room along here is where you will find REMI and PATRICIA. ALERT: Any gifts you give will be in this room. The locker on the far right has ENERGY CAPSULE, the one next to it has BLUE MOON, a sword, and the locker to the left side of the room has PHOTON GRENADE. 9. PATRICK is in the next room. There is a BIG MEDAL #46 in a box on the right and BIG MEDAL #47 in the far right locker. DOG ARMOUR LEVEL 5 in the centre, CRIMSON GETA (sandals) in the box, and DOG LASER in the box nearest to the door. A good haul! 10. Go down again and at the end of the corridor is the room with the transporter. NOTE: Re-visit after meeting Dr Optica and help Danny in the garden to get the Lens. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 8.1 CHARLENE AND GOLEM E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There is an event that is triggered with the Golem outside Forever Land, with Charlene in your party. This then is followed by going to Dowan, and finally defeating Shaka Khan. However I have not yet been able to trigger it. Try it for yourself and if you get it please tell me precisely how! However I was fortunate enough to receive some other ideas on this which are all courtesy of Michael Meeker at Atlus and these instructions are based on his email. For which many thanks. a) You must have Charlene in your party for all these events. b) After defeating Colonel Blueberry one of the Hunter's Offices will have a man who mentions that Shaka Khan wiped out a group of hunters. b) Take Charlene to Forever Land and keep walking in and out the front entrance until Golem comments about Charlene. c) Then Golem will be missing from Forever Land. d) Go to Dowan to see an event where Golem will be confronting Shaka Khan. e) Go and defeat Shaka Khan. f) You can choose to revive Golem and if you do there will be a scene at Dr. Mortem's church at Junkyard. g) Then Golem will be back at Forever Land and Charlene will get a new title. NOTE: Try equipping the Red Bandana found inside the house at Alice One, to Charlene. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 8.2 WIRBELWIND TANK T. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In Forever Land go left and speak to ROBBY who will offer you make you a tank. Collect scrap metal up to the weight of 10 tons and he will provide you with the WIRBELWIND. SCRAP METAL: this is found by exchanging CORES with the yellow dressed trader in ALICE ONE garage and in other later garages. Also can be gotten using the RECYCLE skill on spare tank parts, but this is expensive to do. The best place to get enemy dropped cores is around the desert near Lake Bridge East and in the desert to the northeast of Forever Land. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 8.3 BARBAROSSA TANK T. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Pogo Fett, AT Hornet, Gamma Wasp Drops: Nothing ALERT: Buy the metal detector from Alice One Item Shop first, or find one in the garage at Dowan. It's wider search area makes this easier. Found to the north of Forever Land. In the desert. A tricky tank to find. Search on the edge of the desert northeast of the tunnel and north of Forever Land. I will try and help you find this tank easily: look at your satcom map and locate Morgue Town from the remote menu and then locate Forever Land as well. Look along the line extending west from Morgue town and north from Forever Land. Try and locate your search at the point where these two lines meet. This is at a mid point between the dark brown patches at the top of the satcom map. And on the ground it is inwards from the indentation if you point your tanks to the northwest corner of the small field map. The point where the tank is found is in the palest coloured sand. And if you still have trouble after all this, please don't blame me. =============================================================================== 9. D O W A N P.O.S.T.E.D. 0115 =============================================================================== 9.0 Dowan 9.1 Salvage Shop 9.2. Dowan Outlaws and a Tank 9.3 Muscle Cathedral O.E.D. 9.4 Dr. Palm's Tank Lab T.E. 9.5 Lake Bridge East O.S. 9.6 Lake Bridge O.T. 9.7 Boat 9.8 Finding Lorelei Bay =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.0 DOWAN =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: Free Metal Detector in box in garage! GET A BOAT HERE! Tons to do here. This is where you eventually get access to a boat, allowing free exploration of the lake and islands and access to Lorelei Bay. However, at first you can only hire a boat to take you to Lorelei Bay. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MCKINLEY HAREHEAD OLGA Prevents a thief: another Denture Squad member CURRY GURU OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHAKA KHAN Hidden in Dowan OPTIMUS SWINE Roaming near cliffs to south of Dowan: use the satcom RED MOBSTER Inside a building on the shore of lake between Dowan and Forever Land DAIDARABOTCHI In Giant's Valley, jagged area southeast of Dowan FATHER MUSCLE In Muscle Cathedral SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Energy Capsule, Noise Grenade, Nutcracker, Tile Pack L EQUIPMENT Muffle Armour + good armour and weapons for stealth/shelter PARTS Soprano Cannon SE (all) sonic + other stuff SHELLS Sonic and Piercing Shells (for sheltered enemies) GIFT Chinese Dress, Swimsuit + other stuff ASSEMBLY Tank Parts SALVAGE Can use this to search lake for items, or lost tanks RENTAL Tanks TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIGER This is found east then south of DOWAN RODINA This is found after fighting an outlaw on LAKE BRIDGE DR.PALM'S Visit Dr. Palm's Tank Lab EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLGA Meet in the bar to trigger the ~Geriatric Duo OCTOPUS Invasion. Deal with it to get the boat DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WAREHOUSES SHAHKA KHAN'S hideout ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH: DOWAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------- 1. Garage: Hunter's Office and Salvage Shop --------------------------------------------- In Dowan the Hunter's Office and Memory Centre are up the stairs at the second garage. Hunter Office targets include Crotch Cannon, Buuny, Snail and Wild Bus. Also here is the facility to search the lake if a tank gets lost during battle on the lake. However this is unlikely to happen if you run away before defeat! The important thing here is that salvage searching is the only way to find some key items for assembly. See the next section (9.1) for all the details about what can be found. THE SALVAGE SHOP You can select the scale of the search from: LARGE: 20000G MEDIUM 8000G SMALL 3000G Select a search and the map of the lake will show the area of search for you to choose. It is a good idea to save first after you have completed a few searches as you may end up spending a lot of cash for a large search and nothing is found. After having defeated a few more outlaws and racked up some more cash, you could try a few searches. Downstairs and to the far right of the garage is DESERT EAGLE a gun for Charlene, and a barter trader. At the far left of the floor you'll see a bookcase: check this out to find 165MM MEMO.which tells you how to assemble the 165 Ghost Main Gun. Talk to the two soldiers for information on the area. Buy a few Piercing Shells from the Shell Shop as these will be useful against certain outlaws. The two vending machines sell Healing Drink, Noise Grenades, Nutcrackers Tile Pack L and Muffle Armour. You can see the hints here about sound and fury to come. There is also a Rental Tank Shop. ---------- 2. The Inn ---------- Go back to the entrance to the town, and enter the inn. Economy Room has an insect and CVC HELMET. The Regular Room has nothing, but the Deluxe has the usual haul of ROYAL SOAP x2, ROYAL TOWEL, ROYAL ROBE and ROYAL SLIPPERS too. ---------- 3. The Bar ---------- The next open building is the bar. Ask questions of the coughing hunter at the bar and and chat to the others if you like. The Homeless Guy next to the bar will give you more information about the "ghost" factory buildings in the town. OLGA can be found in here later in the game. The drinking game can be played here as well as Cross Fire. And music can be downloaded. ---------------------- 4. Garage: Repair Shop ---------------------- The next building is the Part and Repair Shop. There is also a Vehicle Part Assembly Shop and Mod Shop. I recommend upgrading engines and getting the Soprano Cannon SE gun which targets all enemies and is a sonic weapon. Plus, purchase the better Main and sub guns if you can afford it. The Parts Shop sells the Daroth and Rudolf C Unit and Engine upgrades. There is a METAL DETECTOR in the box: for free! Sorry. I forgot about this one. The Repair Shop has a BIG MEDAL #48 in the shelves to the right above the Mod Shop. --------------------------- 5. Buildings near the Water --------------------------- Go down to the water's edge and speak to the man about Scavenger Isle and the Muscle Guy to do the next stage of training. Go inside the open building. There is CVC ARMOUR in a box at the back, and a trader and three workers to speak to. Next to them is a box with CVC GLOVES. If you are getting overloaded with items take a quick trip back to Junkyard to offload, or sell off excess armour and weapons now that you have better stuff. ------------- 6. More Shops ------------- Go right and back down the next road. The Curry Guru may be at the corner. There is a Gift shop, and the an equipment and item shop. Given all that you can find I usually don't bother buying much. There is a small house where a woman will tell you more about Gluteus Maximism, and people disappearing. She has a DAMASCUS SWORD in her fridge and doesn't seem to notice when you take it. Go inside the next house and get TILE PACK L from the fridge, and CVC BOOTS are between the 2 beds in the next room. Finally, there is a BIG MEDAL #49 in the boxes in the corner at the end of the road. Speak to the Worker. ---------------------- 7. Boat to Lorelei Bay ---------------------- Go back towards the lake and to the right and speak to the little girl. The transporter pod is here and at the next building a ticket seller selling tickets for the ferry service to Lorelei Bay. They cost 1500g. You can now get the boat to LORELEI BAY if you like, and get better equipment there too. Go down the longer road leading north and out of town to speak to a woman and HARE HEAD, who is a bit more talkative than before. From here, you can explore the warehouses and find Shakha Khan. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.1 SALVAGE SHOP SEARCH =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= In DOWAN the Hunter's Office and Memory Centre are up the stairs at the second garage and here is the facility to search the lake if a tank gets lost during battle on the lake. The important thing here is that salvage searching is the ONLY way to find some key items for assembly. You can select the scale of the search from: LARGE: 20000G MEDIUM 8000G SMALL 3000G Select a search and the map of the lake will show the area of search for you to choose. It is a good idea to save first after you have completed a few searches as you may end up spending a lot of cash for a large search and finding nothing, even with this guide, as there is some degree of randomness about what is found where. ALERT: Most items are essential assembly components. Some others can just be sold. ------------------------------ Things to find from which area ------------------------------ The map of the lake is divided into squared sections. Look at the salvage map and locate the sections as I have numbered them. I am only going to consider the large search which basically covers a square if you place the red dot in the centre of the square. However a smaller scale and cheaper search will often get the same results. If you move the dot too far off the lake the light will dim to indicate that you cannot search there. Where there is only a tiny amount of water in a square, place the red dot there (eg. C5) and use the cheaper option. You will see that some items appear more than once on my search chart. This is because I checked out the locations twice, using different saves; so there seems to be a certain latitude in where exactly something will be found. So..the map is divided into an 8x8 square. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A1 = top left (4th) | B1 = top central (5th) | C1 = top right (6th) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shell Shell - Bronze Bar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A2 B2 C2 Cyclops Head Magnum Slide Dog Barrel(corner) Evil Booster ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A3 B3 (Scavenger Isle) C3 - Beam Pack Dog Barrel Gold bar Silver Bar Torn Map Golden Axe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A4 B4 C4 Backbone Silver Axe Arm Segment Treasure*** Unknown Item Gold Bar (top) Holey Boot Beam Pack Lump of gold ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A5 B5 C5 Jumbo Ear Head fragment Arm (in top left corner) Chest Piece Unknown Item Arm Segment ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A6 B6 C6 Fabric Swatch Head Head (in tiny inlet) Magnum Frame Steel Can Strap ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A7 B7 C7 Magnum Frame Magnum Barrel - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A8 B8 C8 Fossil Bouquet - - Large Fang Meat Slab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fossil Bouquet is also found in the very end of the south channel of the lake, as is Large Fang. A4 Treasure*** This is the "legendary treasure" identified as such by the legendary map. All credit to Upstater who noted this. MAP LINK! http://i441.photobucket.com/albums/qq136/threethymes/Metal%20Saga/salvage_map. jpg Use this link to see a map of the salvage area. Many thanks to enomosiki who made it specifically for this FAQ! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.2. DOWAN OUTLAWS AND A TANK =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =============================== || SHAKA KHAN OUTLAW *SK || =============================== 1. To find SHAKA KHAN'S hideout in Dowan, start from where HAREHEAD can be found and walk to the right into the warehouse area. Go down and right, and there are two blocks of grey containers. There is a BIG MEDAL #50 to the top right of these blocks. Continue right and down and right again as far as you can go, then up and there is a brown door. There is another BIG MEDAL #51 in the green barrels to the left of the door. Enter here. 2. In the top left corner of the room there is a hidden stairway. Go down here. As soon as you enter you will be in a fight with 4 punks. Easy. 3. After this you can explore and the people will talk to you thinking you are a new recruit. There are no enemies here, just a confusing layout. You can explore, but the quickest way to SK is as follows. Start by going up the stairs on the right as you enter and carry on through the next room, and then down to the right. 4. MUFFLE ARMOUR is in the fridge through the bottom double doors. Up the steel steps to the right of these you find a new recruit. Go through the double doors to his left and down the stairs. There is GROWGAINE L in the fridge. Go through the next double doors. Go down the stairs from here, and straight on, and through again to the next room. Go to the end and down again. 5. Through the next double doors, and you'll find a hidden set of metal stairs at the end of the room. Climb up here. The cook will talk to you in this room. More double doors lead to the canteen. You can talk to everyone here. More stairs lead down from here in the top left corner. Go down this room and through the exit and on into the next room Here there are two guards. 6. You can go through the doors to confront a huge SHAKA KHAN. He attacks. His Sonic Roar attack can be defended against with the Muffle Armour. His single person Scythe attack can do a lot of damage once the protectors have been broken: if it doesn't miss. You probably need to be at least level 40 with decent equipment to defeat him, though higher than that would not hurt. At level 60 he is no problem at all and down in 3 rounds. Oddly, he is seen lying on the floor and the reason for this soon becomes clear when you try to leave. He is not dead! Round two. A Noise Grenade thrown by a soldier does a lot of damage and is better than the good old Petrol Bomb. Another 3 or or so rounds and that is that. This time he is gone for good. Now return to Dowan. There is nothing for it but to walk all the way back out. (A bit more exploring will yield the SARATOGA ARMOUR on a shelf in the basement. (Credit and thanks to holypriest's Enemy and Item Location FAQ) ) =============================== || RED MOBSTER OUTLAW *RM || =============================== If you travel up the coast from the Alice One West trader camp to the north (towards the Site of the Second Tunnel and Forever Land), you will come across what appears to be a large building on its own. Touch it and you find it is in fact a large crab with the building on its back. Blast away at him. He uses a single tank attack of pincer with his claws, and an all tank blast. After three or four rounds he will retreat and hide in his shell. Now you must use guns that can target him in shelter, or Piercing Shells. However there is another even easier strategy. Lob a Petrol Bomb at him at the start and sheltered or not he loses around 500 HP every turn. Poor thing hasn't got a chance against that. Oh and despite the general view that he does not come out again after he retreats into his shell, he did, in fact emerge again in one fight I had. Or maybe it was because of the flames? The bounty can be collected from Dowan. =============================== || OPTIMUS SWINE OUTLAW *OS || =============================== Random encounter: he can be extremely reluctant to show up. Use /RUN when he does to prevent him from escaping. Enemies: Escargunner, Rocket Snail (shelter) Drops: Cyber Junk Use the satcom to locate this outlaw directly south from Dowan at the edge of the cliffs. Although visible on the satcom he is not visible in the field. You can use the SEEK, and Animal Instinct combination to help track him down, or just kill a few snails for some extra Cyber Junks and Shells. If you get tired of looking for him just leave it and return another time. (I must have spent about half an hour sitting in the precise position as shown on the satcom and seeking until I was sick of it. Still no Optimus Swine. ) When he does appear as he will eventually, ensure that Hunter is on foot and without armour to prevent him escaping by using /RUN immediately. His attacks include Bite which targets an individual tank and a sub gun assault which attacks all tanks. Just fire all main guns at him. He drops Amazing Junk. ================================= || OUTLAW: DAIDARABOTCHI *DAI || ================================= Enemies: Sonic Sunflower, Dud XL, Drops: Nothing ALERT! There are a number of items that can be found in this area. This outlaw can be found in the Giant's Canyon: a dark brown jagged area due south of Alice One and on a line to the west of Junkyard in the satcom. Basically the furthest to the east of the canyons. He is clearly visible, lumbering around the area, and he can be avoided if you wish. To fight him simply approach, and engage. His Stomp attack targets only one tank. His rather sweet little Flick attack can miss. Tremor, when he jumps in the air and crash lands down damages all tanks. Destructive Ray does a lot of damage and took out the dog one time I fought him, despite him having the best protective equipment. Don't forget to use /RUN or half way through he may well run away: even if he is winning. Another Petrol Bomb will speed thing up so you may be able to defeat him within four rounds or so before he even has time to think about running. ================= || TIGER TANK || search for tank ================= From Dowan head east along the toad and then south down the road where the canyon is very narrow. The road continues to a T junction. At the point where you meet the road crossing from right to left (west to east), head due south. Just below the T heading south is a large brown ruin. Use the Metal Detector to find the Tiger here. If you miss it and carry on south you end up seeing another road heading southwest. ================== Found in the Field ================== Giant's Canyon is he name for the jagged area that lies between the eastern and central continents to the far south of Alice One and east of Dowan. PLATE/MONKEY EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Continuing south from the previous location and then going up the narrow canyon to the northeast, about half way up, you'll find this itme in the centre of the dark brown area before reaching the first green patch. SARATOGA ARMOUR Description: Armour Location : In the same area to the southeast of Dowan where the land is dark brown and jagged, it's found at the top of the first canyon. DOG AMP Description: Dog weapon. Attack 124. Location : Same area at the top of the most easterly canyon that is green at the end. DOG ARMOUR LEVEL 6 Description: Dog armour. Defense 232 Location : At the very end of the smallest southwestern facing canyon that is all brown on the map. O2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : From Dowan head east along the toad and then south down the road where the canyon is very narrow. You'll find this item on the road at its narrowest place between the two mountains. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.2 MUSCLE CATHEDRAL O. E. D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies:Brigand, Marauder, Dud XL Drops: Nothing ALERT: E3 Chip is found near here Situated due south from ALICE ONE. Go a short way and you will see a dark wooded area to the east, with a pink dot. It is also reached from DOWAN by going east and then south a short way. You have to leave your tanks on the edge of the wood, and walk southeast towards the pink dot. ================== Found in the Field ================== CROW EYE Description: Assembly item Location : On the edge of the wood directly west of the pink dot. E3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go to the southern area of woods to the south of MC. If you are in the centre of the screen at the correct location them you cannot see the mountains. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR MUSCLE CATHEDRAL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Masked Muscle, (Level 56), Muscle Chic, Muscle Wheel Drops: None ================================ || FATHER MUSCLE:OUTLAW *FM || ================================ ALERT: You will be able to trigger an optional game ending inside Muscle Cathedral. Remove ALL equipment before talking to anyone IF you want to find a BIG MEDAL. There are no enemies here until you decide to finally NOT join the cult. You will need to equip Muffle Armour when the time comes, so make sure you have that equipment available, although you will find one set inside the building. 1. Go inside and there will be a scene with a girl asking to see her husband Marco. After she is escorted out speak to one of the muscle men at the corners of the room to begin muscle training 4. You have to give the appropriate answer first (which is not silence). You can explore the side areas without a problem, but there is nothing to get here. Speak to the man in the centre. If you say no to his question about the tour he will then ask you if you are here because you have become a believer. If you say you want a tour you will get just that and no access, but some other people will be impressed by the guard's speech. So first say "Um no" Then say "Why not?" 2. You may think this is the end but it isn't. You get lots of chances to back out of the final end scenario if you want to continue playing the game and to defeat Father Muscle. In fact, so long as you continue to play along with them you can explore everywhere, pick up all the items and then get to the final scene and at that point stop pretending. 3. GAME ENDING The quickest way to get this. Fantastic! Under the teaching of Father Muscle we shall nurture the flower of love and bonding between our hearts! Now allow me to show you around our glorious home, my brother! After removing your weapons and armour (It happens automatically if you have not done so) you then hear Father Muscle speak. His basic message is this: "Our world is a wilderness where only the buffest survive. That makes it necessary to diligently train and build our bodies to perfection. Healthy spirits dwell within hot, muscular bodies. This is the first step on the pathway to world peace. As I said these things are quite simple." He continues to talk about the Great Destruction: and that people lost sight of what was important: "the gentle sheen of sweat on a set of finely-shaped abdominals." He then addresses you: as a new believer and asks if you understood his sermon. Answer "Makes sense to me". He tells you you have potential and can take the executive test, and to come to his room on the upper floor. *** see 4. NO GAME ENDING at this point, if you plan to continue with the game and to defeat Father Muscle. Otherwise, carry on...Exit from the room you are in and you are in a corridor. Go through the large double doors at the end and and up the stairs, to the top and along this corridor and through the doors at the end. Up more stairs. Straight on and through the doors at the end. This is Father Muscle's room. Agree to take the executive test. There is a scene. Watch this and wait as you are told. The two people emerge completely altered to look just like the rest of the muscle girls and boys. Now it's your turn. Go on in and on to the device. You still have a choice. Say: I don't mind if I do. At this point the game ends! For all the details see the ending section. 4. NO GAME ENDING: Get the items and refuse at the end. Do as before, but at the point when you find yourself inside the room after Father Muscle's speech, go and explore the rooms on each corridor and talk, if you want, to the muscle people. Obviously there is no point in getting items if you just want to see the optional ending. 5. Get the items here: NOISE GRENADE in left hand cupboard, and GROWGAINE T in second cupboard down on the right. Now leave this room and go down to the end of the corridor and then, retrace your steps going first into the left room. There is a NOISE GRENADE in the right cupboard, and NUTCRACKER in the cupboard at the end of the room. Third room on the left has INTRUDER, a gun, in the centre cupboard. Room on the right (entrance visible on floor plan but no door) has JUICE in the first locker at the back of room on the left. MUFFLE ARMOUR is in next to right, then TILE PACK L, BIG MEDAL #52 and ENERGY CAPSULE. 6. Now back on through the double doors and up the stairs, and down the screen through the doors. First room on your right, a bedroom, has Maximism in the table between the first two beds on the right. Nothing in second room, third has SONIC BLASTER in a cupboard on the right, and PHOTO 7 in the chest between the two beds on the far left. The room on the right has BIG MEDAL #53 in the picture at the end. 7. Continue on down the corridor and up the stairs. Down the red carpet and through the door to meet Father Muscle. Equip Charlene with the strongest weapon: probably the Desert Eagle. If you have found the Nameless Blade then that is a very powerful weapon for Rashid or Hunter. Equip everyone else and check they are fully healed. This a a bore, so if you are not bothered about the BIG MEDALS at least you only have to re-equip the stuff and not also take it all off as well. Agree to take the test, and go on through. At the very last minute say no and they will say it's too late. But don't worry. It isn't. Now you have to fight your way out! The nice thing about these enemies is that they often just pose and do nothing. IF you lose a battle against the muscle people the game will, in fact, end, and you will see the same ending as described above. So be careful fighting if you intend to continue with the game. 8. After the easy battle against the four cult members, check the room carefully for a BIG MEDAL #54. It is located at the top right corner of the top one of the four metal body pods on the floor. Leave the room and there is a box on the left. It contains the BIG MEDAL #55 OR all your equipment if you had not removed it before hand. After checking your protectors are in order and everyone is at full health, carry on out and up the stairs. You now have to get out of the place. Go up the stairs ahead of you and down through the opening. Now you are attacked by Muscle Men. They use a Muscle Praise which increases their attack, and a Muscle Wave at you. Of course if you have Misha you can do the same and increase attack with Cheer. Continue down the corridor and up the stairs. More enemies. This time with one being held up by another whose main attack is "Muscle Brag" in other words another pose. You are now in the corridor leading to Father Muscle's room. You must go this way because the 2 guards on the front entrance will not let you leave or fight you. You can fight more of them if you go into one of the side rooms. (One on the left on the ground floor.) There is a guard at the door to FM's room who forms a wheel of four bodies. Down in two hits if you are at the same level as him. 9. Enter the room and FM congratulates you: you could have been his right hand man and created a perfect world. Oh well. Time to end his dreams of buff bodies. Start with the soldier throwing a Petrol Bomb. I know this is a cheap trick so you may not want to do this, but a few good hits and he will bite the dust. His main attack hits everyone, so keep an eye on protectors and heal up if needed. His final words are "How could the writings of St. Arnold have proven false..?..Turboflex, why have you forsaken me!?" ...???!!! 10. Now make your way back down and leave. In the entrance hall are the two guards standing in the corners, and you can still do the Level 4 Muscle Training with them. Go to Dowan and claim your reward. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.3 DR.PALM.S TANK LAB T.E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Gangsta Bunny, Sonic Sunflower, Dud XL Drops: Biotic Junk After getting an email from Dr Palm asking for a friend, go and see him. To find his lab go southwest from Dowan, then due south and in the furthest southeast corner you will find his TANK LAB. Don't get distracted by venturing into the valleys to the east. You can follow the road due south to the southeast corner of the satcom map. ----------- 1. Part One ----------- Go to the PINK DOT, and go inside in your tanks. Speak to Thursday, who is the green assistant, and then to Dr Palm. Ask him to tell you more. Agree to be his friend. Pick any nickname. Speak to him again and ask him to make you a tank. There are five options each of which will yield a different tank. You can then choose a main gun, a sub gun and an SE gun. He selects the engine and C Unit though you can change these if you want just as you can with your other tanks. . What ever choice you make his reaction will be that is random, and that you have poor taste. But never mind. It is your tank! He then tells you exactly how many tons of scrap metal you will need. You can change your mind if you want. You can be clever in your choices as gaijinplus1 points out in the excellent Tank FAQ on GameFAQs (all credit for this suggestion): if you choose the first weapons on the list this means the tank is lighter and therefore the weight/ wait! won't be so much. You then have to collect enough scrap metal to build the tank of your choice (one of the five). You can only have one of these tanks at once, but you can change it. TANK ENGINE COMMENT (see ?Extras Tanks section for more details) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abrams American tank Leopard (Leopold) German tank Lulubell (Roulbel) The historical tank name is Roulbel(German tank) Rommel The game name for the German JagdPanther tank Type 90 (Type Zero) Japanese tank ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arsenal: you can choose one of each type of gun. MAIN GUN SUB GUN SE GUN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 160mm Spark 20mm Vulcan Drill Gun 120mmSBG 20mm Gatling Crispy Cannon 140 SBG 30mm Vulcan Soprano Gun 177mm Amorph 30mm Gatling Cyclone Cannon 205 Cannon Flute Cannon CIWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All the tanks have the same engines, C Units and weight but their default possible SP varies, slightly dependent, I assume, on the overall weight of each tank. The tanks all come with three guns already equipped, but with 0 SP. These were the results when equipping each tank with the first and lightest guns on the list. ------------------.-----------.-----------.------------.---------.------------- Tank | Engine | C Unit | Mounting | SP | Load ------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+------------- Lulubelle | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1331 | 51.20t Rommel | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1331 | 51.20t Abrams | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1433 | 51.20t Type 90 | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 730 | 51.20t Leopard | Friend | Daroth | 3/1/1/1 | 1281 | 51.20t ------------------+-----------+-----------+------------+---------+------------- Go into the back room and by the bed is a BIG MEDAL #62. Return to the main room and there is ROSA! She wants a tank too but the condition is letting him choose a nickname. She leaves. If you leave and return there will be another scene with ROSA, still about the nickname. You can speak to Rosa, Carl and Sebastian who are encouraging her to be brave. (lol) There is a BIG MEDAL #61 in the small red toolbox at the right of Dr Palm and to the left of the grey sloping thing. ----------- 2. Part Two ----------- Re-visit and you will find another scene with Rosa who has decided to accept Dr. Palm's friendship only his idea of a nickname, "Princess", does not go down well. Hehe. Give the scrap metal to Thursday who will tell you how much you have given and how much more you need to bring. Once you have collected enough speak to Dr. Palm again and he will turn all the scrap into a tank. Go up to the new tank and claim and name it. ------------- 3. Part Three ------------- If at any time after getting your first tank you decided that you would like to try out something different you can return and ask Dr. Palm to make you a tank. Ask him to make you a new tank and he will agree to make a new set of blueprints. He cannot modify your existing tank. This will entail scrapping the existing tank and all its equipment so if there is anything you want to keep, remove it first. You must be in the tank to do this. Agree or say "Wait a second!" When you are ready he blows up the tank (of his), that you don't want. You now just need the correct amount of scrap for the new one. He recycles the old tank so it won't be a lot more to find depending on the tank you want. The Type 90 requires the most metal. Speak to him again and ask him about the tank and if you have given Thursday enough metal you will now have a brand new tank! -------------------------------- 4. Returning to Dowan: The S.O.S. ------------------------------ After leaving his lab and heading west it is likely that you will receive a new email. Check this: it is an SOS from someone who is caught in a Tank Eater's nest, and this is located to the east of Lake Bridge. For now, go west to the far side of the desert and then north to find the Pink Dot that is the Trader's Camp. (See the next section for details about the camp and the SOS.) A bit of fighting down here will also soon increase your levels if they are under 40. I suggest using this opportunity get up to Level 50 which will help in winning Outlaw battles to come. The enemies in this area can yield Ores which you can exchange for scrap metal. After this return to Junkyard and rest save and sell. And prepare for the next stage. Titles: M = Auto Doctor and C = Gunslinger. and H = Palm's friend. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.4 LAKE BRIDGE EAST O. S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This is a useful Trader Camp shop. If you can afford it, buy the powerful Gaea gun and equip to one tank at least. ITEMS: Very useful Strato Grenade for high altitude enemies and Hound Bomb for enemies in stealth. PARTS: The 220mm Gaea main gun attack 460 and cost 10000g. GIFTS: Selling only 4 items, Washer, Fridge, Chest and Locker. (all 14000g) ============================== || TANK EATER OUTLAW *TKE || ============================== Enemies: Gangster Bunny, Bunny Gunner, Crotch Cannon Drops: Biotic Junk, Medium Ore, Large Ore ALERT: While fighting in this area try to get enough Ore for the WIRBELWIND tank. You will receive a new email probably after first visiting Dr. Pahn. Check this: it is an SOS from someone who is caught in a Tank Eater's nest which is located to the east of Lake Bridge. Stock up on Nutcrackesr and Piercing Shells before you leave Dowan. These are very useful for fighting this outlaw. From Dowan, head southwest and towards the trader camp near the Lake Bridge. From there, go southeast across the desert as if heading to see Dr Palm again. Look at the wanted list of outlaws on your satcom and you will see a blue spot indicating the exact location of the Tank Eater. (This might seem a long way round but this outlaw can be awkward to find even with the help of the satcom, and this way seems to get better results in finding him.) He is in a dip in the ground and sometimes hard to spot. You'll know when you find him as the screen goes black and you are in a battle. Enemies on the way here are often in shelter. So a few Piercing Shells can be used to good effect. For foot fighting Nutcracker will get enemies in shelter. (All bought in Dowan) Most non outlaw shelter enemies will emerge if you wait and sub guns will be sufficient. Other enemies, the alluring Gangster Bunny (SW of Dowan) will drop Biotic Junk, and Bunny Gunner will drop Medium Ore which can be exchanged for scrap metal so you can begin your collection to help get the Wirebelwind tank from Forever Land. Crotch Cannon drops Large Ore. All these three enemies are found near the Lake Bridge E. trader camp. A few Tank Tiles will help replace armour tiles on tanks if they get damaged too much on the way by the self-destruct bomb enemy. This is annoying because you have to be on foot for the skill Disarm to work, and even then they act so quickly that you may not have time to activate the skill. His attacks are "Spray" of sand that is not very effective and "Bite" which targets one vehicle at a time. Best to use Piercing Shells and Nutcracker on him as he is hard to hit even when he above ground. "Cheer" can help and the soldier chucking things outside her/his tank is useful too. Exchange the Ore for scrap metal in Alice One and you need a low SP tank or spare one to carry it all. Each piece of scrap will weigh from 1.70 to 2.50 tons depending on the quality of the ore. So around 6 or 7 bits will do. Drive into Forever Land and hand over the metal. You then have to wait for the repairs. Just go away and then return. You have to pay 20,000g for the tank. ================== Found in the Field ================== SNAKE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Furthest west below the Lake Bridge trader camp in a pile of stones. PLATE Description: Assembly part Location : In the desert to the southeast of the trader acmp at Lake Bridge in two stones. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.5 LAKE BRIDGE O. T. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Escargunner, Brigand, Crotch Cannon, Bunny Gunner Drops: Large Ore, Medium Ore. Go southwest from Dowan, then southeast around the edge of the mountain, and then southwest again down the road following the edge of the desert. At the end of the road is a Pink Dot. That is the way onto the bridge. Note: you must first get to LORELEI BAY where this outlaw is listed as wanted. Then, return to the other side of the bay and approach from the east side. Situated just north of the trader camp and in a line as the crow flies to the southwest of Dowan. Check satcom to help locate the bridge. This is on the edge of the southern part of the lake. When you arrive the screen shows "Lake Bridge East Gate". Go in here. There are no items so don't waste your time searching for anything. Continue on across the bridge until you come to a full stop in front of the outlaw: MAN O' WAR. =============================== || OUTLAW: MAN O' WAR: *MoW || =============================== The Man o' War will talk to you first. You can choose to wait for another time to fight him or say "I'll make you a victim of war!" A bit more chat and the battle starts. He is quite slow, although his individual Glaive attack can do a lot of damage. The all tanks attack of Sonic Gun is less damaging. His position is normal and he will not run. He also uses an all tank flame and shock and freeze gun attack. Finally, there is the weird missile where he goes down on all fours and makes a strange howling noise like a dog. After that he did a one tank combo attack which seemed to include all the other forms. And after all my tanks were at zero SP, but with engines and guns still intact, partly thanks to the Lorelei Bay upgrade, he was defeated. It took about 7 turns with Hunter at level 68. It might have taken less time if everything had been upgraded and modded. At the end of it he says he was planning to become human by offering a thousand weapons ..to the gods. Crash. He is gone. ===================== || THE RODINA TANK || ===================== Continue on after he falls, and sitting beside the second tent on the right is a new tank, the RODINA. Carry on across to the other side of the bridge. You come to a broken edge and are told to push an old abandoned truck. Do so and the way across is now open. You arrive at a spot to the south of Lorelei Bay. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.6 GIFT OF A BOAT! O. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Defeat the Krak Cannon, collect the reward. And on your next visit to Dowan after receiving another email you should get the boat. ---------------- 1. Dowan Revisit ---------------- Enemies: Squid Pro Blow Lv 63 Drops: Nothing =============================== || KRAK CANNON OUTLAW *KRAK || =============================== Although the outlaw appears in Dowan he is not on the outlaw list here. He is listed in the Office at Scavenger Isle. Collect the bounty from here or anywhere else once he is defeated. This outlaw only appears in Dowan after you have reached Lorelei Bay and checked with the Ticket Office about returning to Dowan by ferry. You are told that there has been an invasion of "octopuses". Return to the town and drive down the main street, to see a pink octopus or two to your right. Go get 'em. Three will appear after saying "slosh". They are easy to defeat with main and sub guns. Go to the right where the Ticket Office is and there are two more sets to defeat. "squish, squish". Then "BLUUURP". Before going to defeat the final octopus check HP and SP. "squish, squish", and then the real enemy emerges from the lake. He fires a main gun, and can attack a single tank directly with "strike". These attacks all can do a fair amount of damage but after 4 or 5 rounds of main guns firing you should be able to defeat him even if your tanks have received a lot of damage. ------------ 2. The Email ------------ After defeating the Krak Cannon in Dowan you will get an email from there to say that they wished to present you with a gift. I think crossing the bridge is the trigger for this as well as having got rid of the Krak. NOTE: on the Metal Saga GameFAQs message boards Neutral-bob suggested that the trigger for the email may be that you must first collect the bounty for defeating Krak Cannon. (This has not yet been confirmed.) Return to Dowan, and go to the Ticket Office where an Old Man will be waiting for you. He tells you that: "You're the new owner of this ship!" Drive on the ship next to the office with all your tanks and set off to explore the Lake and beyond. ----------------- 3. Using the Boat ----------------- You move the boat just like a tank, and when monsters attack you will fight them from your tanks. You can land anywhere and if you teleport to a town the boat will be waiting at the nearest lakeside point. You simply drive on and off. The location of the boat is highlighted with a green dot on the satcom map so there is no fear of losing it! Before first embarking, check that you have guns to cope with underwater monsters. The assembled Brionic is especially useful. You also need the mechanic skill Resurface from Lorelei Bay to cope with these. By now you should have ten tanks and Eddy will have extended the parking lot to its maximum of 14 bays. Time for a little checking out all your tanks and doing a bit of decision making on which are the ones to use and which weapons to equip. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 9.7. FINDING LORELEI BAY =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You don't have to do anything to find this place, except pay 1500G to the ticket seller to get on the boat at Dowan. It will take you there directly. You could do it the hard way and defeat the Man 'o War on Lake Bridge E. and then cross the bridge. Then Lorelei Bay is to the north, on the coast. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THIS MARKS A BREAK IN THE GAME AS YOU ARE NOW TWO THIRDS OF THE WAY THROUGH. THE THIRD PART OF GAME BEGINS ONCE YOU HAVE ACCESS TO A BOAT AND CAN EXPLORE THE SEA AND ISLANDS AND ACCESS THE FURTHEST WESTERN LANDS You should aim to be at around level 50-60 by now, or higher, and with a good few defeated outlaws: perhaps 15-20, depending on how you have played things. Also you should have access to at least 6-8 tanks. Titles: Hunter:Seasoned Hunter, Misha:Tank Wiz, Charlene:Rouge Rogue, Kiriya:Tank Doc, Rashid:Desert Prince. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =============================================================================== 10. L O R E L A I B A Y P.O.S.T.E.D. .................................. 0116 =============================================================================== 10.0 Lorelai Bay 10.1 Retirement Home O.S.D. 10.2 Isle W. and Firetruck S.T. 10.3 Sunken Ruins O.T.D. 10.4 Scavenger Isle P.O.S. 10.5 Finding Fort Gears =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.0 LORELAI BAY =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT! You will be robbed on entry. but ONLY when you come into the place from the field, and not from the boat. If you have cash half of it will be gone, though later you will be able to recover it. If this happens you cannot get a BIG MEDAL in Retirement Compound. So, arrive with no cash if you want to find the BM OR raid the Compound before entering LB from the field. But if you do the BIG MEDAL raid there will be no cash recovery so spend your money before entering the town from the field. (I hope that is clear) ALERT! DOG ARMOUR LV 7 is found in the garage, so don't bother buying it. Important location for PROFESSOR GREY who will assemble the LOVE machine, and provide Hunter with a new arm. To get to Lorelei Bay for the first time buy a ticket for 1500g from the Ticket Seller at the dock side in Dowan. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OLGA Also found in bar at DOWAN, will save you from being robbed in Dowan, and triggers the Geriatric Duo PROFESSOR GREY Makes LOVE machine assembled items HAREHEAD MCKINLEY OLIVER Events with thieves OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMI CHAMELEON Inside Sunken Ruins just outside Lorelei Bay MAN O' WAR Get on to the LAKE BRIDGE from the east GERIATRIC DUO Leaders of the Denture Squad, hidden in the retirement home not listed at first B2 MANTA RAY Roams the whole world! VERY random encounter SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Energy Capsule, Tile Pack XL, Mechanic Kit EQUIPMENT Dog Tazer electric weapon hits high alt/stealth/underwater, + PARTS 35mm AA Cannon, 35 mm Vulcan, sub(all), CIWS SE high altitude + other stuff SHELLS Only sells Spare Shells GIFTS Waitress Dress, + other things at 1400G MOD AHOP ASSEMBLY Tank Parts ASSEMBLY LOVE machine SKILLS Top level of town near lighthouse TANKS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIRE TRUCK Buy at Isle W. RODINA Find after defeating Man 'O War S.TANK Find in Sunken Ruins EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Grey With Scarlet, Cybernetic arm, and Alpha healing. Oliver Boy with the key DUNGEONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUNKEN RUINS RETIREMENT HOME ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR LORELEI BAY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- 1. Choices ---------- Once you arrive in LB speak to the Mercenary on the left and he will warn you that the town is facing a crisis with burglaries and people going missing. Go to the right and enter the Ticket Office and you will be told that you cannot return to Dowan as the ferry is not running and Dowan has been over-run with octupuses, and that there is an outlaw on the loose. At this point you have a choice. Teleport back to Dowan and take care of the octopus infestation, leave LB by the exit next to the Ticket Office and explore the surrounding area, or continue to explore LB. If you leave LB and return in your tanks or on foot you will be robbed and unless you have no cash on you at all, this will prevent you from getting the BIG MEDAL in the Retirement Home to the north. Given the fact the the BM quest cannot be fulfilled you might not be bothered about this, but for the sake of completion so far as is possible I suggest avoiding this for now. You can also simply head north for Fort Gears, as it is not very far, and upgrade your tank equipment: OR CAN YOU!? Well no. You can get there easily enough but unfortunately, or cleverly, depending on your perspective, you can only buy tank accessories at Fort Gears. To get the best stuff you would need to travel even further north to Hell's Keep. And that is perhaps a bit too much to take on at this stage. Also, once you teleport out of LB, you can, of course just as easily return. So for now you can explore and do some serious shopping. ----------------------- 2. Upgrading Everything ----------------------- This is a good place to do some major upgrading of your tanks as the Tank Part Shop sells excellent equipment. I would suggest buying three of the Solomon 2 C Units and three OHC Carmen for your main three tanks. Then get these modified to increase the load. Buy and equip new sub guns, and the CIWS for high altitude enemies as these are common. Also this is where using the Wirbelwind tank can be useful with 4 fully maxed out main AA guns, including the 35mm AA Cannon from Lorelei Bay. Sort out the initial equipment at the part shop, load up your fourth tank with all the extras and go modding. You might consider keeping the Axel Noman on the Wirbelwind as it has the additional feature of ranged protect and melee protect. The Solomon 2 only has the usual remote function. Annoyingly you have to go to the other garage to do your modding. This garage also has a vending machine in the upper right corner selling: Healing Drink, Healing Drink x3, Tile Pack XL, Tile Pack XL x3, Fire Armour, and Fire Armour x4. There is a trader who will exchange ores and cores. ----------------- 3. Modding Garage ------------------ Take your time to get this done. You will be at a severe disadvantage in the battles to come if you don't have the best attack and defense that you can afford. If money is tight sell off extra bits and pieces from your storage, or take another train ride for a bit of gambling. The nice thing about this game is that it lets you do this skipping around the place if you so desire. But you know all that by now. Any how long before I was done, I had run out of cash. But once I get my hands on those damn robbers I will get it all back again since I have already got my BIG MEDALS from the Retirement Compound. (Er no, actually: you won't. Once the boxes have been opened for the BMs there will be no money to find. This is why it is a good idea to spend everything before the robbery. If you are tight on the finances then concentrate on increasing the load and wait to do the rest. Chat to the guy wandering around here. --------------------- 4. Item and Equipment --------------------- These shops are situated at the back of this level of the town. On the left as you enter is a BIG MEDAL #56. Chat to the man who tells you about the robberies. DON'T Buy the DOG TAZER, although it is an EXTREMELY useful dog weapon as it hits high altitude, stealth and underwater enemies and you are about to meet a lot of these. WHY? You can find this weapon in the bar. There are the usual armour and weapons upgrades too. Just behind the equipment shop between the two buildings on the right hand side is another BIG MEDAL #57. ------------------ 5. The Bar and Inn ------------------ The bar has the usual attractions of downloading music and the drinking game can be played with the waitress. The trader in the corner is in fact a hunter who will give you information about the monsters and the best places to hunt. He advises you to get the CIWS gun and to go to the small desert to the south to hunt Tin Tunas. The man sitting at the bar will give you information about the Rouge Rogues. This should sound familiar as it is one of Charlene's titles. The highly useful DOG TAZER weapon is found in a box at the back of the stage area. Go upstairs. Crossfire is here. The Economy Room has HOUND BOMB in the box and PHOTO 5 by the bed. The Regular only has a mosquito. The Deluxe has ROYAL SLIPPERS between the beds, ROYAL SOAP in the chest to the left, ROYAL SLIPPERS under the picture, ROYAL TOWEL on the table and ROYAL ROBE by the first bed. ---------------- 6. The Gift Shop ---------------- Not much use to you at present if you don't have much cash to spend, but if you buy the waitress dress from here as it is quite cheap it is fun seeing the various reactions of the girls. --------------- 7. Skill Master --------------- Go up the slope to the top part of town. The first house has a BIG MEDAL #58 in the blue barrel, and Photo 2 by the bed. Go down to the back of the town and the next house, where a woman will chat to you about the men and drinking. The guy at the end of this row of buildings will tell you about the Denture Squad. Carry on to the raised lighthouse where the Muscle Guy will give you Level Three Training. There is a BIG MEDAL #60 hidden behind the lighthouse. There is another Skill Master hiding in the corner. Useful skills here are the two mechanic ones Resurface and Nose Dive. I once gave Rashid the two auto skills and suddenly realised that I was losing money fast in every battle so I would advise against those even though they make him very strong. However, there are useful later in the game. ----------------- 8. Professor Grey ----------------- The large house in front of the lighthouse belongs to Professor Marilyn Grey. Speak to her. She asks if there is anything she can help you with. Ask her some questions about cybernetics, and after her long description ends, you are now able to give gifts to Professor Grey. Go through to the back room. Old Photo is in the chest to the right. Professor Grey has events around the ARM incident and with Scarlet. She also will heal Alpha if you go and see her when Alpha has low HP. She assemblies the LOVE machine components. These are found in the following locations: Chips location. Full details of how to find them are in the place sections. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- L1 Bioenergetics Lab L2 Bioenergetics Lab L3 Isle West, north of trader camp O1 Bioenergetics Lab O2 Dowan, SE road O3 Dowan, island to the SW V1 Morgue Town, lower floor of sewers V2 Red Mobster's building, south of Forever Land V3 Dowan, SW wood E1 Bioenergetics Lab E2 Forever Land southeast field E3 Muscle Cathedral southern wood All details of the LOVE machine assembled items are in the section on Assembling. Healing Alpha Go and see Professor Grey at Lorelei Bay when Alpha has low HP. I went with her at 129/1000 HP and if you select the option asking about treating patients Grey will offer to heal Alpha. It costs 10G for every 1HP, so the cost was 8710G She will ask if you want her to start on the repairs. Say no and nothing happens, say yes and she will heal Alpha. Hardly worth while given that you can just use a healing item or sleep at an inn. You can also obtain a tank part from Professor Grey if you follow a sequence of events starting with letting Alpha die. (See the events section for all the details about this.) -------------- 9. Locked Door -------------- In front of the Professor's house speak to the man and boy for more information about Hell's Keep and the possible outlaw in Sunken Ruins. The door is locked at the house in the corner. After this go back down and save, just in case. Then go down to the docks and investigate the warehouses for events involving Oliver. --------------------------------- 10. The Warehouses: Oliver events --------------------------------- Now for the warehouses. Go in the first one and you overhear a conversation where a young man is saying that they are making tons of money. A middle-aged man refers to someone called Oliver, a young boy. Another man, the vulgar man, also speaks. Oliver, it seems, has a lock pick! When the talking is over, they disappear and there is THIGH BOOTS in the box at the back of the building. Go next door where two boxes on the right give you KASTANE, a sword and FIBERGLASS HELM. Talk to the two men and learn a bit more about the area to the south and the outlaw guarding the bridge. Harehead is standing down the jetty. And that is Lorelei Bay. Or is it. No not quite. Go back up to the higher level and you will see the boy outside the locked door and a man hiding behind the first house. Speak to the guy and he tell you to get lost. Speak to Oliver and this triggers an event with a "Grumpy Old Man" whose house it is. The thieves all run off. Go back down to the warehouse again and there is another scene with the thieves talking. They tell Oliver to hand over his lock pick and he refuses as his dad gave it to him "when he gave me the lock-picking talk". He agrees to hand it over but suggests that they may have some other reason for wanting it..besides its ability to pick locks. Now you can get involved. Choose: Stop them, and they run, and there is no fighting at all. Speak to Oliver. He then gives you the lock pick. He says he has a "lot of stuff at home"...and implies it is a long way away...Guess? Yes! That locked house back in Junkyard. Before that though go back up and raid the locked house. The lock pick works from the screen. Just say yes to use it. You then can get all the items in here from right under the noses of the two old inhabitants. FIRE ARMOUR is in the far side cupboard, SILVER MEDAL is beside the first bed, BIG MEDAL #59 is at the sink, and 205MM MEMO, a recipe for a gun, is at the table. You can speak to them as well if you want. Now go to Junkyard. Probably a good idea anyway to drop off the BIG MEDALS and sell off any surplus and pick the lock on the small house by Dr. Mortem's steps. Oliver is there and you can talk to him. It is a strange conversation about the fact that your mother and sister run the garage. ================== Found in the Field ================== FLASH LAMP Description: Assembly part Location : Going due south from LB a short distance I picked up Flash Lamp at the corner where the lake comes in at a curve. This is a random find. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.1 RETIREMENT COMPOUND O.S.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Airwulf, Blue Thunder, (need AA weapons/tank or Crash Landing skill), Toxic Blob (in woods) Drops: Vehicle Junk, Fish Fillet Head north from Lorelei Bay following the edge of the sea, wood and then cliff until you see a PINK DOT to the right through the trees. Get out of your tanks and go towards the dot. This is the RETIREMENT COMPOUND. To reach it you must exit your tanks and walk through the wood going north to the pink dot. ALERT: NEED TO MEET OLGA TO TRIGGER THE GERIATRIC DUO I don't mind admitting that this had me worried. Although I had been through this all before I could not remember what triggered the appearance of the Geriatric Duo until kindly told. (Many thanks to Upstater) If you go to the Retirement Home you will not be able to find the G. Duo unless other things have happened first. 1. You must have been robbed in Lorelei Bay. 2. You must have been saved from being robbed in Dowan by Olga. 3. You must then go and meet her in bar at Dowan and talk to her. She tells you that she is a hunter and is involved in a "family affair" 4. Only then will you be able to find Helga and Wheelchair Willie. SHOP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSEMBLY: The Rich Old Man in far corner of the entrance assembles figurines. Details for this are in the Assembling section of the FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH FOR RETIREMENT COMPOUND AND GERIATRIC DUO *GDUO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Granny X, Old Man Wing (Lv 68/72) ALERT: you can only get the two BIG MEDALS in the basement room IF: you have had nothing stolen, and IF you have not yet given any money to MC HAMIR for a tank, as he gets robbed as well. If these conditions are not met you find cash in both boxes. However, if you were robbed after you get the Medals, and still had some money on you, the boxes will be empty and no money will be returned to you. 1. Go through into the next large area. Explore the rooms and upstairs before speaking to the man in the far left corner. People in the rooms can be spoken to without having to fight them. The centre room to the right has BIG MEDAL #70 in the locker by bed to the right of the door. The last room to the right has BRONZE MEDAL in the locker by the bed at the top right of the room. 2. Go upstairs and into the right hand room. TILE PACK XL is in fridge to the right of the door. There is nothing in the next room along. 3. On the opposite side of the hallway. The first room next to the stairs has OLD DOCUMENT In the right hand fridge, and the second room down from the stairs has MAP SCRAP in the fridge on the right. 4. Now go back down the stairs to the large room with the man in the corner. If you speak to him he will just say "Who are you?" and attack you. Win the fight and go through the door. (There are only two enemies.) 5. The third room on the left down the corridor has JUICE in the fridge. The room opposite has a person standing outside the door. To go in here you must fight them. It is an Old Woman. Two enemies again. This large room has ENERGY CAPSULE in the dark coloured locker at the top of the room. 6. Go down the stairs at the right into an underground room. Now if you speak to anyone they will fight you. Don't talk to them if you want to avoid a fight. 7. The room leading off to the right has ENERGY CAPSULE in the locker at the top left and PHOTO 6 in the next locker. Go through again to the right to another room. GROWGAINE A is in the lockers to the left of the door. Go back into the previous room. Then down again from here using the stairs at the top end of the room and into the left room (second door down) where just beside the door is BIG MEDAL #71 in a box. In the lockers at the far left end of the room is ENERGY CAPSULE. In a box to the right of the lockers is another BIG MEDAL #72. 8. Go straight through to the door at the bottom right of this room and in the next large room you find the Geriatric Duo. Only once the events with OLGA have been triggered, or there will be no-one here. When the battle begins Willie goes into stealth and Helga out-of-range. They then swap around, but eventually they both come within normal range. A few grenades like the Hound Bomb or weapons for stealth would help a lot. After the battle Helga insults you by calling you a twerp and gives you a lecture about not abandoning your parents just because they are old. There is PLAYBUOY MAGAZINE in the lockers to the left of the door, which show a girl on the cover that looks like Helga! 9. Go back to the larger room and up to the door next to the lockers. Go through here and straight up the stairs and down to the right hand bottom corner of the room. There is another set of stairs, so go up into a lab. There is ASSAULT GEAR in here in a locker at the back of the room. If you speak to the two people there they will mention their Power Suits. If you have defeated the Duo there will be no-one there. 10. Fastest way out: back down the stairs and straight on through the door ignoring the stairs down. Turn left down the corridor and back through the door at the end. Down this room and then up the stairs in the top right corner. Down the room and through the far door. You should be back in the main part of the building. Turn right and continue on through a door into the big entrance hallway where you first had to fight. Turn left and down, through the door at the end and you are back in the small lobby entrance and can now get out. Collect the reward. Even though the reward had not been posted you can still collect it at any Hunter's Office. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.2 ISLE W. S. T. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ===================== || FIRE TRUCK TANK || ===================== Lake Enemies on the way. Enemies:Jiminy Rocket, Toad Man, Frog Man Drops: Machine Junk, Biotic Junk ALERT: Fire truck is "sold" here. The location is in fact due east from the Retirement Home north of LORELEI BAY but it can only be reached by boat. It is due west from Alice One W. trader camp across the lake. Take the boat from Lorelei Bay and go north and land where you see the pink dot. As soon as you enter the trader camp you will see the Fire Truck to the right. SHOP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EQUIPMENT (Nameless Blade, Remote Wrench, Bunny Ears) Go inside the right hand tent and agree to buy the truck for 30,000g. Unfortunately Rosa then turns up and offers more money. (35,000G) Agree that you can afford to pay more than her, and the trader offers a deal. You have to wait until he contacts you and then return and offer the best price to get the truck. You then have to wait for a while until an email tells you to return. (If it's taking too long then sleep at an inn to make the time pass faster.) Watch out for the email and once it arrives you have half an hour of game time to get back and outbid Rosa. She goes first and offers 50.000g. Make your offer 50,001g and it's yours! (Assuming of course that you have the cash to pay that much.) She is gracious in defeat. Go up to the truck and claim it. Now you can get inside the Sunken Ruins near Lorelei Bay. ================== Found in the Field ================== L3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : This chip is found by the north rocks here using the metal detector. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.3 SUNKEN RUINS O. T. D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Close to Lorelei Bay towards the northwest from the town is a strange building with no apparent access. To get inside here you need the FIRE TRUCK. See: ISLE W. Call in at the sunken building and speak to the trader there who tells you that you need to fly or have a long ladder to get in. When I first played I thought I would get a plane, but no, just another tank of course, though this time one with just such a ladder! There is a vending machine at the right side selling Healing Drink, Strato Grenades, Tile Pack XL, Mechanic Kit and Fire Armour. Buy some grenades as there are a lot of high altitude enemies around the western deserts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WALKTHROUGH: SUNKEN RUINS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Enemies: Mutant Blob (in stealth), Acid Slug Drops: Gourmet Dogfood, Biotic Junk Equip Sonic Blaster which targets stealth enemies and the Demon Sword for Rashid when you get it. A few extra grenades, especially Hound Bombs for enemies in stealth, will help too. You need to have Hunter at about Level 90 for this. ----------------- 1. Getting Inside ----------------- When you arrive with the fire truck you will be asked if you want to extend the ladder. Do so. And you automatically arrive at the top of the building. You explore on foot. Rashid is useful to have in your party because of the sword you can find here, but you can use whoever you choose. ------------------- 2. Finding the Tank ------------------- Open the door and go down the stairs. Down four flights and behind the stairs is a box with DEMON SWORD, a sword for Rashid. Equip this sword as it targets enemies in stealth. Keep going down to the bottom floor, B1, either by stairs or lift, to find the S Tank. WOW. ============ || S TANK || ============ This is one serious tank, one of the best, and you will probably use this now until the end of the game. Unfortunately it is not of much use to you now as you have no tank weapons to use. You now have to find a way of getting the tank out of the building. ---------------------------- 3. Getting Out With The Tank ----------------------------- Now you have to use the lift so go up to the third floor. Go forward to the end of the corridor and through the door on your right. Go straight through the hole in the wall opposite and you are outside! Send one of the tanks back to Junkyard if you have one too many to tow, and return to save and reorganise tank equipment including modding whatever you need. Best to simply buy a Fairy engine from Hell's Keep for this mighty tank when you get there. Also equip it with a Rail Cannon. --------------------------- 4. Finding Items And Outlaw --------------------------- Go back inside the building, still having to use the Fire Truck, to defeat some enemies and collect the rest of the items there, AND to get the OUTLAW COMMI CHAMELEON. ---------- 5. Floor 4 ---------- There are no items on Floor 5 so ignore it. Go down the corridor and into the left hand room looking up the corridor towards the lift. The back row of lockers has PHOTO 9, MECHANIC KIT, and GIBSON, a gun. The next row has ENERGY CAPSULE and TILE PACK XL ---------- 6. Floor 3 ---------- Go down the corridor to the second room on the right. A STRATO GRENADE in the locker at the back of the room. ---------- 7. Floor 2 ---------- First room on right has PHOTO 4 in right hand locker and ENERGY CAPSULE in left hand one. ============================= || COMMI CHAMELEON *CC || ============================== Situated on Floor 2 in the last room on the left. It is a green coloured lizard that appears in stealth. It has an attack where it licks an individual called "Swallow". The item, Hound Bomb will do a lot of damage and so will Rashid with the Demon Sword, the best weapon for fighting this outlaw. Rashid is a must for this battle and at level 90 with the Demon Sword, he did 500 HP damage a go. The fight took about 5 or 6 rounds, but with three or four Hound bombs it could take less. ---------- 8. Floor 1 ---------- First room on the left has TILE PACK XL and HOUND BOMB in the middle set of lockers at the back of the room. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.4 SCAVENGER ISLE P. O. S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Enemies: Frog Man, Toad Man, Jiminy Rocket, Harboon, AT Bug Drops: Tentacle, Machine Junk Location: Scavenger Isle is due west as the crow flies from ALICE ONE (check on satcom and follow line going west from that location), and northeast of ISLE W. It is a single blue dot in the centre of the northern part of the lake. You can only reach this by boat, although once reached there is a transport pod for future visits. You will get a siren and "Monsters incoming" message as soon as you arrive by boat. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HAREHEAD MCKINLEY OLGA After the event in Lorelei bay and Dowan she appears in the bar WAYNE After the Jack event if you don't kill Wayne, also in bar OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KRAK CANNON Attacks Dowan CATSUB Near southern bridge in lake HYDROBUG Random in northeast of lake, use satcom to find SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEMS Healing Drink, Tile Pack XL, Torpedo Grenade:hits underwater EQUIPMENT All three things can be found. Ground Armour PARTS Excelsior: SE (all), hits underwater targets, + others SHELLS AA Arrow, Spare Shells ASSEMBLY Tank Parts TANK WASH MOD SHOP RENTAL Tanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR SCAVENGER ISLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Speak to the mercenary who tells you that you cannot hunt here. Odd, because you don't really do any hunting in any town. However, be that as it may. The first small building to the left is a receptionist for the ferry. Only there is no ferry. Continue left to speak to the fisherman and HareHead who is as cheerful as ever. There is BIG MEDAL #66 by the three pipes in front of him. Go inside the first warehouse and listen to the comical conversation. The box contains HEALING DRINK. The box at the far end has ALI BABA VEST. 2. The left hand garage has a DRAGUNOVA weapon for Charlene in the box to the right, so don't be tempted to buy one at the shop! There an unexpected BIG MEDAL #65 in the green shelves between the mod shop and the service station. The worker outside the garage will tell you a long story. There are two vending machines on the outside right wall on the garage. They sell Healing Drink, Healing Drink x3, Tile Pack XL, Tile Pack XL x3, Ground Armour, Ground Armour x3. There is a HEALING DRINK in the box in the right hand garage. You'll find Rent-a Tank here, and a trader to barter. The parts shop sells the useful Excelsior SE gun for underwater enemies. 3. In the main area just in front of the bar is the barrel rolling mini-game, Er..you just roll barrels. The barrel in the centre here has a BIG MEDAL #64 at the left hand side. 4. Go into the bar. Speak to the hunter in blue and get some useful hints from him if you ask him questions. You can speak to the worker sitting at the table and the two workers at the bar to discover more about the place. Dance lesson Level 3 is here and Frog Race. Upstairs is the inn, a mosquito is in Economy Room #1, as is TILE PACK XL, another insect is found in Economy Room #2, together with a ALI BABA TURBAN. Regular Room has nothing. 5. House in far right hand corner has GROUND ARMOUR in the sink. Speak to the guy in here and say it is a nice place and he will give you a lot of information. You can speak to another mercenary in the corner. There is BIG MEDAL #63 next to the corner watch tower. The next small house has TILE PACK XL In the sink. ==================== || HYROBUG *HBUG || ==================== You can locate the Hydrobug on the satcom as it shows as a blue spot to the northeast of Scavenger Isle when you check the Wanted list. It shouldn't take too long before it appears. Be prepared with Fire Armour protection and weapons for underwater and airborne attack. You need the mechanic skill Resurface and/or Brioniac and Excelsior SE guns. You need your best tanks and I found that the Wirbelwind was just not a good idea for the underwater enemies. So consider using the Rodina, Tiger and maybe Barbarossa. Or if you have better tanks than these, the S Tank and Merkava for good measure. Even with Hunter at level 98, and with the best equipment on the S Tank this took a while and the tanks were badly damaged by the end so this bug needs a lot more than Bug Spray. It will both dive and fly. =================== || CATSUB *CAT || =================== Look on the satcom and trace the line due south to see a green area right at the lowest point of the western continent. You can get there on foot through the wooded area but the tank weapon which can be found there cannot be taken when on foot. The only way to get it then, is by boat. Teleport to Lorelei Bay and use the boat to head south. Chances are that on the way for the first time you will run into the Catsub outlaw. First use /RUN on the outlaw. You will need SE weapons for underwater enemies, as the CATSUB will dive. You can also use the mechanic skill Resurface. It uses a powerful machine gun all tanks attack when it surfaces which is not so good. When underwater it fires a torpedo. After the battle all my tanks had lost their engines and were badly damaged. However at a higher level and with better engines and tanks it would not be so difficult. (Hunter at level 80, using Rodina, Barbarossa and Tiger tanks) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 10.5 FINDING FORT GEARS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Blue Thunder, UFO, Airwulf, Tin Tuna Drops: Machine Junk, Vehicle Junk Leave Lorelei Bay and head north. Keep going either straight up, or hugging the right or left hand edge of the desert. You will see a blue dot where the land narrows. That is Fort Gears and the Anti-Tank Fort at the same location. ================== Found in the Field ================== AMP Description: Assembly part Location : At a piece of brown debris at bottom of track leading south from near Lorelei Bay. SPRAY NOZZLE Description: Assembly part Location : In debris due west of west side of Lake Bridge, close to the western edge of the white sand Sunken Ruins ------------ SHARP ROCK Description: Location : Outside Sunken Ruins. Random item. By Boat ------- L3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go north up the coast to Isle W. trader camp. The chip is found by the north rocks here using the metal detector. 57MM AA CANNON Description: AA Cannon. Attack 161. Location : Go south from Lorelei Bay under the bridge and land on the patch of brown surrounded by green. It is in the brown area. IRON BIKINI Description: Defense 217. Only for girls. Location : Go right from the previous location and land on the patch of brown that is south of the desert. MYSTERIOUS ROCK Description: Location : At the entrance to Fort Gears. Press X. Random item. =============================================================================== 11. F O R T G E A R S : O.T.E.S. ...................................... 0117 =============================================================================== 11.0 Fort Gears 11.1 Anti Tank Fort P.O.S.E. 11.2 Dr. Optica's Lab S. 11.3 Harehead E. 11.4 Wilco's Garage E. 11.5 Finding Hell's Keep =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FORT GEARS =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT! REPEATED DETAILS OF MAUS QUEST Help the mayor out and you get the best tank in town. Indeed the best tank in the whole game, the Maus. I wanted to check out whether you could begin the first trigger event for getting the Maus even after getting all the way to Hell's Keep. You can. If you leave or enter without teleporting out sometimes you will have to fight enemies. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ROSA Will comment about the Maus and then leave OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MARDUK Seen in the desert near Hell's Keep TANK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MAUS Obtained from the leader of Fort Gears SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PARTS Windbreaker SE,all, cold air gun + accessories SHELLS All Shells: 8 different kinds GIFT Furnishing only, at 22000G ASSEMBLY Tank Parts TANK WASH MOD SHOP EVENT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Leader In bar Rosa Appears here. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR FORT GEARS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ 1. The Bar and Inn ------------------ If you have been following the sequence of events to track down the Maus tank when you first go into the bar opposite the entrance there will be a cut scene and the leader will offer a bounty for MC Hamir and his tank as a reward. After this speak to the man at the table who will offer the drinking game challenge. Download music beside the bar, and Crossfire is behind the stairs. The man at the bar is not much help. Go upstairs and stay in the inn. Economy Room has TILE PACK XL in a box. Regular Room has nothing at all, Deluxe Suite has the usual collection of ROYAL SOAP, 2 ROBES, SLIPPERS, AND TOWEL. If you really want more of these I am sure you can find them easily enough. ----------------------------- 2. Hunter's Office and Houses ----------------------------- The Gift Shop to your left sells a variety of things, but no dresses. Go straight down into the green warehouse to catch your first sight of the awesome MAUS! Talk to all the folks wandering around and be sure to tell them that you love tanks. Go to the right to find the Hunter's Office and the bounty here is for Marduk. Continue to the right and inside the house is DOG MASK inside the fridge. A pointless item: if you try to use it you will see why. Go down the right hand area and the next small house has nothing, but behind it in the right hand corner of the fort is a BIG MEDAL #75. The vending machine between the two garages sells: Healing Drink, Healing Drink x3, Tile Pack XXL, Tile Pack XXL x3, Mirror Armour, Mirror Armour x3. -------------- 3. The Garages -------------- The right hand garage has an assembly shop, a part shop which, apart from the Windbreaker, an expensive and cold based SE gun, only sells accessories. The service station sells a vast range of shells and is a good place to stock up on a variety of auxiliary shells. The right hand box has CAFFEINE PILL, which increases turn rate in battle. There are the usual repair and service areas, and down the ramp is the Mod Shop, a TILE PACK Xl in a box at the back, MINERALS in a box behind the Tank Wash, and the Tank Wash itself. You might consider increasing the ammo on some of your SE guns from 6 to 12. ------------------------------ 4. Rosa and Carl and Sebastian ------------------------------ Rosa will be here waiting: she seems to be there randomly. If you talk to her she will have some discussion about the Maus and then leave. Even if you are actually driving the Maus, the conversation will be the same as if you have not yet got it. MAUS QUEST: THE FULL DETAILS ============================ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WALKTHROUGH FOR MC HAMIR AND MAUS TANK (ALSO DETAILED IN EAST ZERO SECTION) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Explanation ----------- Because these series of events begin in East Zero I explained them there. However in case people use the walkthrough in a different order this is a repeat of the section since Fort Gears is the location where the tank is actually found. You can do this quest whenever you like but obviously you need to have access to all these places first. 1. The Bar: East Zero ---------------------- The hunter standing next to the tank by the station tells you about MC HAMIR. There are a number of EVENTS linked with this guy. You can find him in the bar. Speak to him and say you need a tank. He asks how much you will pay him. You then have an option. 2. Now the first time I played the game I kept offering him cash going higher and higher until eventually he agreed on a very high figure. If you offer the wrong amount he will refuse and tell you to come back later. Which of course you can do. However there is a trick to this . I do not know who discovered it or how, or how it might be discovered from any information that is available in the game. So all I can do is tell you what it is. Then it is up to you if you want to use this trick or not. You offer him 12501g. Exactly that figure. ****************************************** I did not know this on my first play-through and ended up paying him a vast sum of nearly 100.000G, so it is worth while to accept this trick. Even though I still haven't a clue how anyone discovered it. But many thanks to whoever it was. 3. The Casino: The Train ------------------------- The next step in this sequence of events is to meet him on the train. He will be at the bar in the casino. (Provided that all the outlaw events don't get in your way.} Ask him about the tank. He then leaves. 4. The Dog Betting: Alice One ----------------------------- Obviously he is a betting man so the next place to find him is in Alice One outside the dog fight location to the right of the station. Whatever you say he will fob you off with excuses and leave again. 5. The Bar again: Lorelei Bay ------------------------------ His next location is Lorelei Bay. You find him in the bar. His money has, of course, been stolen. Speak to him a second time and he asks for more money, the same amount as before. Give it to him. (And you know that you can get the original sum back again when you go to the Retirement Compound.) 6. Another Bar: Fort Gears ---------------------------- Next find him in the bar at Fort Gears. As soon as you enter the bar there will be a cut scene where MC Hamir is accused to taking advantage of tank- lovers. A bounty has been placed on his head. The town leader now makes the statement that you have been waiting for: "I will offer my beloved tank to the person who captures that outlaw!" At last you have tracked down the MAUS. The very best tank in the game and a prize worth fighting for. 7. Hunter's Office: Hell's Keep ------------------------------- The next place to go is Hell's Keep. You might think he would be in the bar, but not now that he is on the run. Go inside the Hunter's Office and speak to the man in green standing in the far corner. He exclaims: "AAAAAAARGH! You bastard! I'm going to kill you!" No, Not you but MC Hamir! Check the poster and you discover his real name is Binramen. (No comment) The bounty is tiny, but that is not the point. It's the tank you want. Now where next? You can guess: the only place where no-one will mind that he doesn't get people their tanks. 8. The Anti-Tank Fort ---------------------- This is where you can finally track him down and defeat him. MC HAMIR (aka BINRAMEN) can be found in the bar. Talk to him and ask about the tank. Then tell him you saw the wanted poster and he leaves. Speak to the homeless man to the right of the bar and he tells you that some "buck-toothed guy" ran into a back alley. Go down the alley and turn right. Binramen is in a wired off lot between two warehouses. Speak to him and he offers you your money back. REFUSE. Come on now, don't you want the MAUS? Fight him. He uses a hand gun but before the party could get in a blow the Dog had singlehandedly defeated him. Now he offers to go to the Hunter's Office with you and turn himself in. DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN! (If you do happen to accept his word he will laugh at you but then discover he is out of rounds so you can capture him anyway) You then find yourself in the Hunter's Office with Binramen in a "capsule" that is, coffin, but alive. Get the meagre reward. 9. Fort Gears -------------- NOW go to down the steps to Fort Gears for the real reward. Go inside the bar, and the Leader will be there. The events unfold automatically. 10. Success!!! -------------- The MAUS is yours! ==================== || MARDUK *MARD || ==================== Enemies: Killer Tomatoes, Space Invader, Savage Applecot, Creeper Drops: Magic Bean He appears just to the southeast of Hell's Keep and is a large bulldozer type tank. Blast him with your heavy main guns as quickly as you can. I tried Lockdown but it missed so I gave up bothering with this. He fires main and sub guns and will go into out-of range if you don't defeat him quickly. This nets the very useful Ancient Junk which can be appraised for Ratchet 13, so it is worth while getting him defeated as soon as you can manage it so you can assemble better guns. My levels this time round were higher than before and he was easy with Hunter and Dog level 125, and the other two at level 100. Make sure that you have the best main guns on the Maus: the Rail Gun, and similar on your other two tanks. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 11.1. ANTITANK FORT P.O.S.E. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MC HAMIR MCKINLEY HAREHEAD SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ITEMS Energy Capsule, Minerals, Caffeine: battle items EQUIPMENT Dog Vulcan (all} Dog Armour Lv8 Polymer Pads (reduces damage by 98) GIFTS Wedding Dress and Dress, + other stuff at 22000G and more OUTLAW ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPERIAL BOMBER Random encounter, related to Bomber Prince BINRAMEN After you get him Defeat Binramen here and the Maus is your reward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR ANTI-TANK FORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALERT! KEY EVENT FOR GETTING MAUS TANK The Anti-Tank Fort is located up the stairs on the left hand side of Fort Gears. It is the top floor of the fort and as such there is no access for tanks. ----------------- 1. The Maus Quest ----------------- You arrive in a small building in the upper left corner of the Anti-Tank Fort. Speak to McKinley and the woman who warns you not to say that you are a tank lover. Go down and to the right a little and you will find the bar. This is where you can finally get the end of the MC Hamir/Binramen series of events. The full details of the Maus quest are found in the previous section for Fort Gears. ====================== || BINRAMEN *BINR || ====================== MC HAMIR (aka BINRAMEN) can be found in the bar. Talk to him and ask about the tank. Then tell him you saw the wanted poster and he leaves. Speak to the homeless man to the right of the bar and he tells you that some "buck-toothed guy" ran into a back alley. Go down the alley and turn right. Binramen is in a wired off lot between two warehouses. Speak to him and he offers you your money back. REFUSE. Come on now, don't you want the MAUS? Fight him. He uses a hand gun but before the party could get in a blow the Dog had singlehandedly defeated him. Now he offers to go to the Hunter's Office with you and turn himself in. DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN! (If you do happen to accept his word he will laugh at you but then discover he is out of rounds so you can capture him anyway) You then find yourself in the Hunter's Office with Binramen in a "capsule" that is, coffin, but alive. Get the meagre reward. NOW go to down the steps to Fort Gears for the real reward. Go inside the bar, and the Leader will be there. The MAUS is yours! ---------- 2. The Bar ---------- The Video Game Frog Race is at the left hand side, and the Jukebox is beside the bar. Otherwise all three of the people there are depressed and have little to say. Next to the bar is the Homeless Man. ------------------ 3. Hunter's Office ------------------ Next is the Hunter's Office with only the Imperial Bomber listed. The target is likely to be the Killer Tomato. (weak vs Ice) ------------ 4. Gift Shop ------------ This is where you can buy a Dress to make a girl look like a true lady, and the Wedding Dress. This costs a lot: 135000g. ------------------- 5. Houses and Items ------------------- Continue on down to the right and enter the first small house. FLEA COLLAR is in the fridge. The next house has CAMO BANDANA. The next place is a tent. There is BIG MEDAL #77 in the first barrel, ENERGY CAPSULE in a hidden box at the back left, and MINERALS in the box on the right. You can speak to a man outside the tent. Go to the end and up to the back row of buildings to speak to Harehead who is ruder than usual. Next down is the Transport Pod, and then another tent. POLYMER PADS are in the box on the left, and ENERGY CAPSULE in the box on the right. The next warehouse building has ENERGY CAPSULE in the box on the right, and MINERALS in the box on the left. The area in between the two warehouses has a BIG MEDAL #76 in a box on the left. The left warehouse has POLYMER PADS in the left hand box, and more POLYMER PADS in another hidden box at the back between the drums and the row of brown boxes. -------- 6. Shops -------- Inside the shop a man will tell you about a Samurais who cut a tank in half with a sword. The Item shop sells the useful Caffeine Pill which increases turn rate, and Minerals to increase Attack during battle. These can be helpful in long battles. The Equipment Shop sells Polymer Pads and the Dog Armour LV8, as well as a Dog Vulcan which targets all enemies. ---------- 7. The Inn ---------- The last building before returning to the entrance is the Inn. Economy Room has CAFFEINE PILL in the box. Regular Room only has a mosquito, and the Deluxe room has everything you have come to expect. Well not quite, as it only has the ROYAL TOWEL, ROYAL SLIPPERS AND ROYAL SOAP. And that is the Anti-Tank Fort. ============================ || IMPERIAL BOMBER *IMPB || ============================ This outlaw is a random encounter to the northeast of Fort Gears. He is not that hard to find, and appears roughly in the middle of the desert, but not too far north. Keep Hunter out of his tank and with no equipment except for a weapon and a protector. At level 120 or so he will be twice as fast as the Bomber and therefore able to use /RUN before the outlaw has a chance to think. He also can then use Disarm to prevent suicide, that is, self destruction. Defeating him will not be a problem after this preparation as his overall HP is not that high. With your soldier on the Maus main guns he will only last three or four rounds. In fact his main move called "Suppress" seems to have no effect on anything. The strangest thing about this outlaw is his appearance, which is as a yellow sedan chair with a head, and blue supporting smaller heads along the sides carrying his weight. On winning the battle you get High End Junk. =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 11.2 DR. OPTICA'S LAB S. =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Frog Man, Octogun, Harbeen, AT Bug Drops: Tentacle, Machine Junk Location: Furthest point north of lake on the eastern shore. Teleport to Forever Land, and get the boat which will be waiting for you on the shore of the lake a little to the north. Then go north and east. After arriving by boat go inside on foot. Speak to the Doctor and there is a nice little joke as he says: "Hey, hey, hey! I can't get no refraction! That's what I say." (A reference to a Rolling Stones song: I can't get no satisfaction.) Be nice and he tells you about lenses. From now on you will be able to get hold of lenses from various sources. If you get the lenses he will assemble weapons that can be used by Charlene or Rashid. You can only assemble one weapon, but you can change the lenses and get a different weapon at any time. There are three Big Medals here. BIG MEDAL #67 in the fridge, BIG MEDAL #68 in the blue dustbin to the right of the sink, and BIG MEDAL #69 is downstairs at the back of the room at the right hand black target. Chat to Saturday if you like, and you can test out your weapons. In other words fight some monsters. These are 4 Dummy Turrets. It can be handy to check up on a weapon you've made with the lenses. --------------- LENSES LOCATION --------------- 1. Talk to Dr Solomon in Junkyard to get a Camera Lens. 2. Talk to Sebastian in Beldaire Mansion entrance hall (or some other location inside the mansion if he's not here) to get a Glasses Lens. 3. Buy from Alice One W. trader camp. The trader standing outside the right hand tent sells Ruby Lens for 5000g. 4. From Danny at Forever Land. He will be in the garden, and you agree to plough the field for planting potatoes. (You don't actually do anything!) He gives you Solar Lens. --------------- LENSES ASSEMBLY --------------- Bazooka Laser 7 is probably the most useful of all these, or maybe Laser 5. You can change them if you want depending on what enemies you have to fight though it means disassembling and reassembling the weapon with Dr. Optica. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLAR LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Solar Lens Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Camera Lens Lens Saber 1 Ruby Lens Camera Lens Glasses Lens Lens Saber 2 Glasses Lens Ruby Lens Camera Lens Lens Saber 3 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Ruby Lens Lens Saber 4 Camera Lens Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Lens Saber 5 Camera Lens Glasses Lens Ruby Lens Lens Saber 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lens Saber 1: 242 Melee lens weapon: explosive Rashid Lens Saber 2: 242 Melee lens weapon: stuns bio enemies Rashid Lens Saber 3: 242 Melee lens weapon: beam Rashid Lens Saber 4: 242 Melee lens weapon: sonic Rashid Lens Saber 5: 242 Melee lens weapon: fire Rashid Lens Saber 6: 242 Melee lens weapon: electric Rashid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUBY LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Solar Lens Camera Lens Bazooka Laser 1 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Solar Lens Bazooka Laser 2 Solar Lens Glasses Lens Camera Lens Bazooka Laser 3 Solar Lens Camera Lens Glasses Lens Bazooka Laser 4 Camera Lens Glasses Lens Solar Lens Bazooka Laser 5 Camera Lens Solar Lens Glasses Lens Bazooka Laser 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bazooka Laser 1 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits airborne enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 2 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits underground enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 3 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits underwater enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 4 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits out-of-range enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 5 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits high-altitude enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 6 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits enemies in stealth Charlene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASSES LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Glasses Lens Camera Lens Ruby Lens Solar Lens Lens Saber 7 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Solar Lens Ruby Lens Bazooka Saber 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lens Saber 7 242 Melee lens weapon: ice Rashid Bazooka Laser 7 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits sheltered enemies Charlene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 11.3 HAREHEAD E. (upgrades Remote feature) =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Location: Find this Harehead on the shore opposite Dr Optica's Lab. You have to use the boat to access this location. He asks if you have tried the remote feature. Answer: Yeah, or you won't get anything. He will upgrade the remote so it will work even if a vehicle is inoperative, that is, if it is broken or overloaded. It doesn't work if you lose a tank in water. From here if you go south using the boat and land, go a little inland slightly to the northwest and you can reach Hell's Keep as it is close by. This can give you a distinct advantage, as you can upgrade to the strongest engine here. =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 11.4. WILCO'S GARAGE E. =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ALERT: Defeat the two flying outlaws and speak to WILCO for extra events. Location: Due south from FORT GEARS, and west of the Retirement Home. Drive inside and speak to Wilco for a sub quest to destroy the flying outlaws. You must tell him that you are interested in aeroplanes, and he tells you about the B2 Manta Ray and the Eagle 1. If you have already defeated one of them speak to him again and he will be pleased. Once you have defeated them both return to speak to him and watch him take off in his plane. You are his hero! Leave and return again to find him inside the garage again. Speak to him once more and he says that he will repay you one day. IF you complete all these stages you get rescued by him from the Ziggurat. You may not want to bother with this as it means that you leave your tanks behind when exiting the Ziggurat at the end of the game. Of course they can be moved to Junkyard via the satcom function so you can use them again, and it's a fun scene to see. There are two Big Medals here, BIG MEDAL #73 outside at the back of the truck on the left, and BIG MEDAL #74 inside the small room inside in the fridge. (Where else?) =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 11.5 FINDING HELL'S KEEP =-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Airwulf, Savage Applecot, Creeper, Killer Tomatoes Drops: Vehicle Junk, Biotic Junk, Magic Bean Head due north from Fort Gears across the desert. The further north you go the more Killer Tomato enemies will appear. They give good experience but no drops. You will end up at a roadway heading northeast. Follow this to the blue dot that is Hell's Keep. ================== FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== PLATE Description: Assembly part Location : Go to the northeast up the edge of the mountains to find it. MOLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : South of Wilco's Garage and at the top of the white sand is a collection of three bits of debris that lie just inside the white sandy area FISH EYE Description: Assembly part Location : At the southern most point of the road to the right of Wilco's garage are two bits of debris. (To the southwest of the Retirement Compound) MAID'S UNIFORM Description: Torso Armour for girls. Defense 247 Location : Drive due east from the end of the road just in front of Hell's Keep. There is a single rock before you reach the lake. Defense 247. (I had a lot of trouble picking this up in my tank and on foot. I could not get close enough to the rock. Eventually I picked up Old Coin here! Not what I wanted at all. Here's the way to do it: even though the Detector shows it on the southwest side, pick it up from the north side. It's still awkard to do and best to attempt it on foot, and you might have to try a few times.) EAGLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Drive southeast from Hells Keep towards the coast. A rock standing near to another with the remains of a pylon in the top right hand corner of the screen. (Marduk often appears in this area) =============================================================================== 12. H E L L ' S K E E P P.O.S.T.E.D. ................................. 0118 =============================================================================== 12.0 Hell's Keep 12.1 Hell's Keep NE S. 12.2 Medical Lab O. 12.3 Grand Master's Tent O. 12.4 Ziggurat P.O.E.D. 12.5 End Game =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12. 0 HELL'S KEEP =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NOTE: sometimes when you try to leave or enter this place rather than teleporting out, a siren will sound and you will have to fight some enemies. PEOPLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MCKINLEY HAREHEAD ROSA OUTLAWS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BINRAMEN Found in Anti-Tank Fort and very easy STORM DRAGON Found in Storm Curtain and very tough SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ITEMS Energy Capsule, Tile Pack XL PARTS Dog Armour 9, Mirror Armour, mainly Ice weapons + SHELLS Ice Shells MOD SHOP PARTS Fairy Engine:the best in the game especially when modded. ASSEMBLY Tank Parts TANK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MERKAVA Search west of Hell's Keep EVENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DUNGEON ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ZIGGURAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR HELL'S KEEP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------- 1. Shops and Rosa ----------------- After talking to McKinley go forward into the item and equipment shop. You can buy the best Dog Armour here and the best equipment, as well as Ice weapons. Rosa and her crew will be waiting in the left hand corner. Speak to her and she will say that she has heard rumours concerning your father. She comments on the difficulty of the monsters in this area, and that she is very excited at the thought of testing out her tanks against them. ---------- 2. The Bar ---------- Just in front of the bar to the left of the door is BIG MEDAL #78. Dance lesson Level 4, Crossfire, and Juke Box for downloading music are here. Talk to everyone as usual, and they all mention the dangers and the Storm Curtain. The man sitting near the door will tell you to go northwest to the Storm Curtain if you want to make money. Go upstairs to find four more people to talk to. Economy Room #1 has POWER GLOVES in the box, Economy Room #2 has MIRROR ARMOUR, and the Deluxe Suite has ROYAL SOAP between the beds, P90 (a weapon for Charlene) in the left hand wardrobe, ROYAL ROBE at the end of the right hand bed, ROYAL SLIPPERS by the plant at the door, and ROYAL TOWEL by the table. There is a BIG MEDAL #80 in the fire extinguisher in the inn, but ONLY if you have not already taken the medal from the drum in Junkyard. (This is the glitched medal that prevents you from collecting them all.) --------------------------- 3. The Garage and the Fairy --------------------------- The right hand garage has an assembly shop, trader and part shop and tank wash. Here you can buy the best engine, the Fairy and the best C Unit. The left hand service station sells Ice shells and has a mod shop as well as a couple of people to talk to. To the right is a box with a KUNIHIRO, an Ice Sword for either Hunter or Rashid. ------------- 4. More Items ------------- The left hand warehouse has more people to talk to and ICE BLASTER in the box at the back wall, together with a TILE PACK XXL in the box on the left. Check out the tents at the back of the fort to find KEEN EDGE in a box on the left in the first left tent, (another sword for the chaps). The tent next to it has KAISER CROWN in a box on the left between the beds. The tent on its own to the right has ARMY GREAVES in the left hand wardrobe and a soldier who tells you about a huge tower. Yay! First mention of the infamous Ziggurat. Talk to the soldier in the right hand top corner who will tell you a bit more about the monsters. HareHead is behind the tents, with something odd to say. To his left go down to what looks like a door and get a BIG MEDAL #79. That is all the looting you can do. Note the transporter in the top left corner. You should be trying to get the malfunction if you haven't already. ------------------ 5. Hunter's Office ------------------ 6. Finally check in the Hunter's Office for information about outlaws and current target monster. Save and make sure you have equipped everyone with their better equipment. ==================== || MERKAVA TANK || ==================== Go west from HELL'S KEEP, and keep following the curve of mountains. At first the sand is white on the small satcom map and then it changes to brown: head south into that small brown section. Search in this area of sand right next to the right hand edge of the area to find this tank. The location from the main satcom map is due west of Hell's Keep. Then just teleport out and celebrate by a shopping spree at Hell's Keep, modding the Fairy engine for your new tank and equipping it with the best weaponry. As the Merkava only has mountings for one main gun and one SE gun it is not quite as useful a tank as the S Tank, in my view, as by this stage of the game I like a few SE options. But with the chance to equip 3 sub guns it is still a good option especially when killing normal enemies. STORM DRAGON OUTLAW This is such a tricky outlaw to find and defeat that I have to do it justice with a proper analysis! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= WALKTHROUGH FOR STORM DRAGON *STD =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= --------------------- 1. Recommended Levels --------------------- Obviously the higher your levels the easier this battle will be, but you can defeat him at around level 125 for Hunter and Dog and 105 for the mechanic and soldier. Any lower than this probably won't succeed unless you are lucky or can find a better strategy. --------------- 2. Preparation --------------- You must prepare your tanks before going after the Storm Dragon. As the name suggests he is a flying outlaw and in fact starts the battle at high altitude, so you might think that the CIWS and Tindalos SE weapons would be best. But there is another problem in that before long he goes into stealth and shelter, so you also need weapons to target these states. The damage he can do is also great so if you are not careful you and your tanks will be gone before he is defeated. One way to defeat him is to bring him down from high altitude and blast him with main guns, equipping, for example, three rail cannons on the Maus, and hoping to do major damage before he goes into shelter or stealth. However, I found that the best equipment to use was Excaliburs on every tank with one CIWS and plenty of supplementary Piercing Shells. Excaliburs are easy to assemble as they use common finds and do not require a high level Ratchet or rare item: just Plate, Hawk Eye, Snake Eye and Crow Eye. You should be able to make at least two if not three of them. Increase the ammo for the Excaliburs to make sure you will not run out before the Dragon is dead. Equip one Rail Gun on the Merkava and S tank and two on the Maus, or one plus the Plasma Cannon if you have managed to assemble it by now. I also found that the best tank for the mechanic to use is the Merkava, as it gave a speed advantage which is essential. Ensure the the dog and mechanic have the best protectors. You need to protect the mechanic who will be out of the tank for a couple of rounds. Also you really don't want your dog to die at this stage of the game and lose all that nice shiny coat you have been carefully building up. There should be a good protector available by now at the scrap trader's shop in Junkyard, and you could use Mirror Armour since one of the Dragon's range of attacks is a beam attack. Equip the dog with the Dog Taser which will hit the Dragon in stealth or shelter. --------------------------- 3. Finding the Storm Dragon --------------------------- He is found inside the Storm Curtain to the northwest of Hell's Keep. Sometimes he turns up immediately, at other times he is elusive. The best way to find him if he doesn't find you first is to identify his precise location from the satcom world map and place your tanks on that spot. Then use SEEK. If he still doesn't appear kill a few groups of Killer Tomatoes which give good experience and will increase your levels quickly, and then return to Hell's Keep to save this progress. Then try the same strategy again. ----------------------- 4. Storm Dragon Attacks ----------------------- The Dragon has a range of possible attacks. You might be prepared with the Mirror armour for the beam attack only to find that he doesn't use it at all. I have fought him a few times and cannot discern a pattern to his attacks, except that he will use the stealth and shelter defense. His Tail Swipe can do 500SP/HP damage to all tanks and he often begins with this attack. He also uses machine guns and the beam attack. "Switch Armour" means that he is changing to shelter defense. His most powerful attack is when he uses "Charge Mode" and hits all tanks with a fire attack. ------------------- 5. Winning Strategy ------------------- At the start of the battle the Dragon will be at high altitude and therefore a difficult target. The first thing to do is to get the mechanic out of their tank and use the skill NOSE DIVE. This will bring the Dragon down to airborne range. Attack using AA shells and SE weapons. Hope that the mechanic can hold out for another round and then use CRASH LANDING to bring the Dragon down to normal range. Then let rip with your main guns. If the mechanic's protector gets broken, which is highly probable, they may be dead before you can get them back in their tank and safe again. This is not necessarily a disaster as the three remaining party members can still win the battle. After a couple of rounds blasting the Dragon will go into shelter and then into stealth as well. This is where the Excalibur comes into its own. It can do around 1000 HP damage a go and quickly knocks down his HP. Even with these modest levels and without the mechanic, by the end the only major damage I had was one broken engine on the Maus. At higher levels the battle should be easier. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12.1. HELL'S KEEP NE S. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Killer Tomato (gives good experience), Creeper, Sunny D' Light (use ice weapons) Drops: Magic Bean Way up to the far northeast is a shop. PARTS: Laser Cannon. Sub Gun: all (beam) SHELLS: AA Arrow ITEMS: Tile Pack XXL,Ice Grenade and Energy Drink. Garage facility to get a service. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12.2 MEDICAL LAB (IWASAKI LAB) AND JOHNNY 6 O. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SECRET LOCATION: accessed by teleporter malfunction. To get this to happen use it a lot, in the latter stages of the game. Some people suggest that it is more likely to malfunction when trying to go to Forever Land, and that has been my experience, but no-one really knows if this is true. Enemies: Firegunner (tanks) level 120 Drops: None Outlaw: Johnny 6 This is situated to the northeast of the trader camp at Hell's Keep NE and can be spotted as a pink dot. The ONLY way to get here is by the transporter malfunction. You go here for an outlaw (random encounter, not listed at a Hunter's Office, though there is a reward), and for the only revive item in the game. Enemies can be disabled with Lockdown and easily defeated. NOTE: the locked doors will never open! You exit into the lab from a door on the left. Go up and click on the grey square on your left. It is a map and tells you that there are two floors: the first floor and the basement. The next door will deny you access, as indeed will most other doors. Don't let this worry you. You will never be able to access these shut doors so don't bother to try. Go to the far end and you go through a door into a large room where a message comes up to say you will be sterilixed. Go on and you are in a grey area with machines. This is the miracle dispenser and it will allow you to have ONE Revitaliser item at a time. So if one is in your inventory you cannot get another. This allows you to revive a character during a battle (or anywhere) without having to go to DR Mortem. Go back into the room and look at the tree if you like. Go through the only other open door opposite the tree between the 2 open doors to the sterilization room. Take the lift up to floor 1. If you go straight through the door at the top you get into another grey machine area. Access still denied. All the other doors are locked. Go to the opposite door and exit to the field. Look at the satcom map and you see that you are right at the top of the map to the northeast of the Hell's Keep NE trader camp. Return the way you came. ===================== || JOHNNY 6 *JO6 || ===================== Although he is a random encounter he appears quite easily. He can be beaten with characters of 120 or so level provided you have Kiriya use Lockdown on the two extra machines. This did not seem to work on Johnny himself. Once these are destroyed, unless you use /RUN he is likely to do just that! You are, of course, fighting him on foot and so you need the best armour and weapons that you can get. The Remote Laser upgraded skill, only obtained from the Grand Skill Master, is very useful here as it targets all three enemies. ================ FOUND IN THE FIELD ================== GOLDEN STATUE Description: Can be sold. Location : Found in green area to the right of the Lab. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12.3 GRAND MASTER'S TENT AND GASSY LONGLEGS O. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SECRET LOCATION: accessed by transporter malfunction. To get this to happen use it a lot in the latter stages of the game. Some people suggest that it is more likely to malfunction when trying to go to Forever Land, and that has been my experience, but no-one really knows if this is true. Once you get the transporter malfunction and find yourself here if you look at your satcom map you will see that you are due south of East Zero. You might have noticed the location on your travels as two pink dots that you could not access. This is the location of the Grand Skill Master's tent, where you finally gain access to all the best skills in the game. Enemies: Nitro Spider, (level 120) Drops: none When you arrive, go to the pink spot to the south. This is the final Skill Master. Some of these skills cost nothing, others are expensive. Some are repeats and others are new. I have organised the list by character. If you want to check the list as it appears in the game it is included in the later section on "Skill Masters and all Skills" By this time in the game you probably have money to burn, so worrying about skill cost is not a problem. For the final stages in the Ziggurat you need all you can get. H = Hunter K = Kiriya M = Misha C = Charlene R = Rashid A = Alpha (her skills are all with no cost) DOG = all dogs T = Terry TOSA = Tosa (!) B = Bernie S = Shiba HUNTER ------ REMOTE LASER(H) fires a laser from a satellite REMOTE LASER EX(H) fires a huge laser (costs 1800g) ***** BULL'S EYE(H) attack increased in battle (auto) ***** CRACK SHOT(H) hit rate increased vs airborne (auto) BULLDOZE(H) charges into enemy: need to equip Spiked Fender /RUN(H)prevents enemies from fleeing 80% of the time ***** DISARM(H AND K/M)prevents certain enemies from self-destructing MECHANIC -------- QUICK FIX I(K/M) fixes tank in battle (500g) QUICK FIX II(K/M) complete fix to part or chassis in battle (costs 2500g)***** SHORT CIRCUIT(K/M) electric damage on machine enemies MOONSHINE BOMB(K/M) throws a bomb at enemy IMMOBOLIZE(K/M) forces shutdown on a machine/vehicle enemy LOCKDOWN (K/M) forces shutdown on all machine/vehicle enemies ***** CRASH LANDING(K/M) brings down airborne machine enemy RESURFACE(K/M)surfaces machine enemy from underwater (costs 700g) *** NOSE DIVE(K/M)forces all high altitude machine foes to descend (700g) ***** CAN OPENER(K/M)pulls a small enemy out of shelter KIRIYA ONLY ----------- SABOTAGE(K) low chance of shutdown on machine enemy/outlaw *** MISHA ONLY ---------- GUARDIAN ANGEL(M) restores 100HP to everyone in battle ***** CHEER(M) boosts attack ***** CHARLENE -------- RAPID FIRE(C) hits airborne/stealth **** INTERCEPT(C) chance of nullifying ranged attack costs 2500g (auto) SNIPER(C) hits out of range and high altitude enemies: 2500g) ***** LOCK ON(C) hit rate increased vs normal (auto) DEATH SHOT(C) attack increased during battle (auto) 700g **** DEAD EYE(C) hit rate increased vs airborne (auto) *** SHADOW SHOT(C) stuns bio enemy RASHID ------ GROUNDBREAKER(R) hits underground and underwater enemies ***** DEFLECT(R) chance of nullifying ranged attack (auto) (costs 2500g) SPINNING ATTACK(R) hits stealth/shelter (dual-wield) (costs 2500g) CONCENTRATION(R) defense is increased during battle (auto) ***** SHURA(R) attack is increased during battle (auto) **** ALPHA ----- AEGIS SYSTEM(A-FREE) turns enemy's attention to party leader LASER RIFLE(A) inflicts beam damage IRON CLAW(A) attacks with an iron claw PILEBUNKER(A) attacks with a pilebunker HOMING MISSILE(A) inflicts explosive damage on all enemies ***** FLAME SPRAYER(A) inflicts fire damage on all enemies ***** DOGS ---- REGENERATION(DOG) slowly recovers HP during battle (auto) ***** UNEARTH(DOG) digs up underground enemy FOXHUNT(DOG)draws out-of-range enemy closer TRACKER(DOG) locates enemy in stealth SHOOTING STAR(S) a devastating jump attack HEADBUTT (TOSA) charges into enemy HEADBUTT EX (TOSA)charges into all enemies (costs 2500g) ***** SUMO STOMP(TOSA) stuns an enemy EPIDERMYTHRIL(B) defense is increased during battle (auto) ***** BARRIER(B) increases defense FIRE BREATH(T) inflicts fire damage EYE BEAM(T) inflicts beam damage TRANSPARENCY(T) goes into stealth (costs 2500g) ALL --- DECOY(ALL)draws enemy's attention to user SCREEN(ALL)turns enemy's attention to the hunter =========================== || GASSY LONG LEGS *GLL || =========================== Finding the outlaw can be hard work as he is a random encounter that does not like to appear. You could use the skills of SEEK and Animal Instinct to help find him. Unfortunately the Skill Master does not offer the seek skill so if you have already got rid of it, as I had when seeking this elusive outlaw, you would have to go back and re-buy it from the Skill Master at East Zero. I didn't bother in the end as I found him by walking around at the point to the south where the sandy coloured area goes to a point. He is a bigger version of the smaller petrol tank loooking enemies. Use /RUN to be on the safe side, and Ice weapons work well on him. His attacks are a sub gun and all party attack and Trample, where he stomps on one person. Rashid with a good sword and the skill of Concentration will do a lot of damage in one go. At Level 115 he was hitting for 1200 HP a pop. Otherwise, just normal attacks will soon finish him off. He can do a bit of damage with a whole party attack but not a lot. You get an Ancient Junk for your efforts. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12.4 ZIGGURAT P.O.E.D. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Creeper, Hekatonkheires, Ghost Tiles L, Killer Tomato Drops: Magic Bean, Vehicle Junk Scene of final events and battles. The Ziggurat is situated to the northwest of HELL'S KEEP in the middle of the desert. You have to get an email from EDDY before you can get access inside. You get this email after the event in Alice One with Leon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WALKTHROUGH FOR ZIGGURAT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are no items to be found here. Battles inside the Ziggurat are quite challenging and it's best to leave and save your game between each stage. (My levels for this stage were around 140 for Hunter, 120 for Kiriya, Charlene on 90, and Rashid and Misha, at around 110, with DOG at about 130) --------------------------- 1. Arriving at the Ziggurat --------------------------- After getting an email from EDDY, go to the Ziggurat for an event. Drive to the northwest from Hell's Keep and the screen will go black, and suddenly there is a large tower and Alex talking. Alex: ...So, you were on your way here. I'm glad I didn't waste any time. Eddy: Man, you're persistent. What in the hell are you up to? Leon: ..... Alex: I won't bother to answer that. since it won't make any difference. Eddy: ...True. I don't really care who you are, or what your purpose is. If you plan to use what's inside, I'm gonna stop you right here. Simple as that. Alex: Hahahahaha! how amusing. What could you possibly do to stop me, hunter!? Black screen and sounds of fighting. And you are in the same place as before with not a sign of the tower. But simply drive northwest to find it. After this scene, go to the front of the Ziggurat in your tanks. You arrive to find Eddy on the ground injured. He tells you about Leon and the Ziggurat. It is a missile silo, and it has a warhead inside that must be destroyed. Alex beat them up, and Leon was taken. You are given the task of getting inside the Ziggurat, finding Leon and stopping Alex from launching the missile. ----------- 2. The Lift ----------- Get back in your nicely lined up tanks and press the lift button on the left. (McKinley appears to help Eddy so don't worry about him.) The next three fights happen one after the other. Three agents jump down onto the lift to attack you. They will use stealth so be prepared with the Excalibur. Their attacks are submachine gun based and not very strong against tanks. Three more jump down. This time they use a laser attack and also the stealth defense. Another pause and three more agents. Same deal as before. Another pause as the lift goes up. As you enter the Ziggurat you are shown two figures going into a door in the centre area. After this go out and save and heal. Then you can return. Make sure you have spare shells for tank weapons, spare protectors, spare tiles, extra Healing Capsules and Curry Lunches, and maybe a spare tank too. You could of course, just keep leaving and healing and returning but after a while you won't want to bother as you will have to go quite a long way to get yourself back to the place if you leave. ----------------- 3. Fight MURASAME ----------------- Press the white button on the left hand side to use the lift again. Once at the top, go left, circle round until you reach the ramp, and go down. Turn back and go between the two ramps. Provided you have already had an event where Rashid talked to MURASAME in the bar at AlICE ONE and EAST ZERO (and also in BELDAIRE) he will be waiting for you when you go down the ramp. There are no other enemies here. Approach Murasame and after some talk the fight will begin. (Details of the chat are in the EVENTS section.) You can use tanks and all your party members. His Moon Strike and Reverse Moon single tank attack can do around 500 SP damage and his all tanks attack is strong too. The Moon Strike can also miss from time to time. If you have the strongest main guns on all tanks you can do around 3000 HP damage with the Maus alone and around 1000 or more from the other two tanks. After the battle, if your tanks are badly damaged, it might be as well to repair them first as the next battle is hard. Actually it is VERY HARD!! ------------------------- 4. Fight CONNIE AND CLIVE ------------------------- Otherwise go forward and enter the lift. Go to floor 60. As soon as the lift stops an event occurs involving CONNIE and CLIVE. They attack you. You can fight in tanks, although they are on foot. Their attacks are very powerful and will disable your tanks. I found them hard to defeat without a couple of deaths the first time I fought them. In fact I found this one of the hardest battles in the game. If you happen to get totally defeated by them, don't worry. You cannot run away from this battle but IGOR will rescue you all without cost, and once repaired you can return and try again. Here is a strategy for them. Levels: Hunter at 138, Kiriya at 128 and Rashid at 107, Dog at 138. Tanks : Maus, Merkava and S Tank. All with Rail guns and Maus with Plasma Cannon. Connie is the one to get rid of first as her attacks disable all your weapons. Start by firing the main guns at Connie. She responds with a horrid Volt Whip attack that completely disables all tank weapons including the ammo. The good news is that this attack only targets one tank at a time, and even after smashing all the weapons on one tank she may stupidly attack the same tank again, thus leaving the others still intact. This will not happen the next time, so using Hunter on foot and Kiriya repairing the tank may be the best policy. If all your tanks are disabled then this fight is very hard to win. After four rounds Connie was defeated and now it's just Clive to take care of. Clive also has a single tank attack called Whirlwind that did around 1000 SP damage in one turn. His Flame attack on one tank or person is also strong doing 400 HP damage or so. Clive also has a nasty Throwing Star attack that hits all tanks for anything from 300/500 SP damage. With only one tank still firing the battle was finally won after about eight or nine rounds and everyone was alive. The tanks were not too badly damaged as the disabling effect is lifted after the battle. After the battle I chuckled at Connie's comment "Crime doesn't pay", and Clive realises that they were just a diversion. "Life's not fair". Leave and save and repair, as after this you have to face monster enemies. Also make sure that you bring an extra tank so you can keep one in reserve for the final battles. --------------- 5. The Way Down --------------- ALERT: Agent X gives good experience. Enemies: Ghost Tiles XL Gorilla Agent X (in stealth) Shishkadog (strong against sonic), Whammers (tank type) Tank Killers (flying) Power Suit (machine type, strong against ice). Drops: Nothing After the battle with Connie and Clive, go left to the end and turn down through the door into a new corridor. Continue to the next. The off shoot rooms have nothing in them. There is a T junction and if you go right there is another lift. OR you can go through the centre door on the right and this takes you into the main chamber, circle around again to the far side, through the door and into the same area, go right into the lift. Go down to B1. Again both small rooms are empty. Go straight through to the large area again, and circle around to the far side and through the metal looking door. This is slightly confusing as when you emerge it appears as if you have turned round and come back in to to the same place. Carry on going around again to the right side of the area and there is a ramp going down. Go down and again you have turned around and are in the large area again. Go to the far side, left, through the metal door. Again you are facing right. Go to the right and down the ramp again. Go to the left across the area and through the metal door again. (All these areas look exactly the same.) AGAIN: to the right, and down the ramp. Then left. Again to the right. Down the ramp, and right and FINALLY! You emerge into a room. Go straight through the far door. Now you are going right again. Veer to the left, around at the end to the opening and finally there is a brief glimpse of a man in black. This gives you a short warning before meeting him to check your weapons and tanks. Do this and then move forwards. There are no more ordinary enemies after this. ------------- 6. Fight Alex. ------------- He is on foot. You are in tanks. What more do you need to know? Well, in case you do. His status is normal so no fancy guns are needed. Use main guns against him. He shoots and it will damage all tanks. His problem is that he is slow compared to Hunter in the Maus and the mechanic in the Merkava. If you have kept your armour tiles defense down, you can get in three or four attacks before he even has time to shoot. With three main guns firing on the Maus, he was toast very fast. ----------------------------------------- 7. Noah: The background story to the game ----------------------------------------- Alex explains the background to the game. Here's a summary of what he says in case you want to be reminded! NOAH was an artifical intelligence program designed to save the earth. Every answer to simulations run on the program cam back with the same answer. The extermination of its creator, man. Humans were the source of all environmental degradation and that only if they were wiped out could the earth be saved. What followed was the "Great Destruction" and most of mankind perished. Those who survived were killed by Noah's creations: the so called monsters. One survivor managed to destroy Noah. Rumour has it that it was a hunter. But even so the monsters continued to function, as Noah had managed to infuse its AI into some of its creations. "To tell you the truth, I am one of those creations." Even though Noah has been destroyed we remain active in order to fulfill its objective: the eradication of mankind.. You think you have stopped this process by defeating me? It's too late. The coutdown has already begun. I am only here to buy a little time...HAHA. ------- 8. Leon ------- Carry on and through to the open area. Turn left through the doors and you will find LEON. Speak to him. He says the missile has already been launched and there is no way to stop it. Options: I won't give up/You're right we're screwed. Select the first and he says he has an idea. Finally you get told: "You are our only hope. Not to put pressure on you but the whole world is counting on you." (HAHA) Enjoy this speech. It is great traditional RPG stuff, and he ends by saying: "The future of the planet itself is in your hands!" and there is a scene of the rocket. Behind Leon is the place where you can save. Do so now! Get in your tanks which are waiting for you at the bottom of the ramp and go through the doors. Check that everything is in order and restore SP and health if you need to. You will be on a lift. Go up. --------------------------- 9. Four Enemies On The Lift...And Then Another One --------------------------- You have to fight 4 unknown machine airborne enemies. They will increase their defense by 500 at a go and ascend. The first time I fought them I am afraid that I just used Alpha's homing missile as well as the others' heavy guns. This felt a bit like cheating, but hey. Why not. Even with my tanks nearly destroyed I managed this battle without too many problems. Or so I thought... With no chance for recovery something else appears. In fact it is ALEX in his true guise. With only one tank left from the previous fight and no protectors, I still managed to win this fight despite losing Alpha early on. So it is not too hard. ------------------------------------- 10. More Details On These Last Fights. A More Realistic Strategy! ------------------------------------- I was at the last stage of this when I finally realised that maybe I had better go back and rest and recuperate before the final stages. I had a dead Tosa, no Revitaliser and everyone had scrap protectors with no spares. Tosa now was not much use as his coat's shininess was at zero. And anyway I had only started using him at the later stages to see if he was any good. I needed the old faithful, Bernie again who was at level 138 and very useful. Also I was relying on Alpha to win for me. So I retrenched, got Bernie back, dumped Alpha, checked all weapons again and modified a bit to increase durability. Stocked up on shells and protectors and the very best ones from the scrap shop in Junkyard that I had been saving; namely the Ultimate Shield; and set off back to the Ziggurat. Don't forget to take plenty of Tile Packs to boost your SP when needed. Another idea is to take four tanks and keep one in reserve in tip top condition for the final fights. If you do leave and return it won't take long to get back to Leon, as all you need to do is keep going straight through the tower and take the lift as before. On the way you pass the body of Alex. Tanks and Equipment ------------------- I used the Maus, Merkava and S Tank. The Maus had an Excalibur, Bloodhound Rail Cannon and Plasma Cannon. (I had disabled the sub guns for the Scarlet fight and didn't bother to enable them again.) The Merkava had an Excalibur, Rail Cannon,and three sub guns, the Laser Cannon, Storm Cannon and 35mm Vulcan. The S Tank had the Excalibur, Crimson ATM, and one main gun, the Rail Cannon, with two sub guns, the 35mm Vulcan and 12.7 Vulcan. The important weapons here are the main and SE guns. Buy some Strato Grenades too. You would be better off with the altitude SE guns if you have assembled them, or the CIWS. Check out the status of the four enemies and you will see that the one that is hidden on the left is normal while the others are airborne. I prefer to take out the centre of the three airborne ones first as it can do the most damage. Then the normal range and left hand one. But making sure that they all have been damaged is helpful in case one decides to go to high altitude and you have to use grenades against it. The centre one attacks with a Beam Sword single attack, and Micro Missile which damages all tanks. It also uses an all tanks Homing Laser attack when at high altitude. The right hand one has Destructive Wave which hits all tanks, and the left hand one will increase their defense by 500 by using Force Field. They can also rise to high altitude. If one does this ignore it and concentrate on attacking the others. If a tank is badly damaged repair using the mechanic. If you end up with only one left and it is at high altitude use the mechanic skill Nose Dive. This may miss. Strato Grenades thrown on foot will work as will Remote Laser and the SE CIWS. Despite the protection your tanks will be in a poor state after the battle with the four machines. If your tanks are getting badly damaged you can use the mechanic to repair them and even if they are outside the tank at the end of the battle they will start the next battle inside the tank again. You keep going up in this left until you press X and then Alex comes in his true form. ALEX AGAIN Once again he is a lot slower than you will be, especially if all your tanks are at 0 SP. Slam him with your main guns and with the speed advantage he won't have much of a chance to attack you before he is dead. His one tank attack Crush Ro where he uses a whip with his right arm can do a lot of damage. His 'get on all fours and shoot flames' will attack all tanks. He does a boost called Charge to increase attack by 200. He also has a Plasma Cannon single attack that does a huge amount of damage (1200 HP +) especially when added to the attack increase. By the way ice based attacks seem to work very well against him. Now just supposing after all this effort you lose this fight. Is everything lost forever? Well actually no, it isn't. Lose to Alex and there is yet another different ending. The details of this are in the ENDINGS section. 10. EXIT ========= Leon is again shown with Mc Kinley and EDDY outside the ZIGGURAT, as the lift comes down with you and your tanks. ALTERNATIVE EVENT ----------------- If you have completed the destruction of enemies required by WILCO, he will rescue you from the ZIGGURAT. If not then you just end up OK anyway. The elevator comes to a halt and Wilco appears saying: "Don't give up yet! I was just passing by, but it seems like you're in trouble! Your dad down there chartered this plane for ya! Now ditch those tanks and grab on! You can come back for them later! Alright!, let's go! I guess I finally got a chance to repay you!" A scene of Eddy, Leon and McKinley outside the Ziggurat and they get on Eddy's tank and leave as the Ziggurat blows up. ================== Found in the Field ================== Eagle Eye --------- Drive southeast from Hells Keep towards the coast. A rock standing near to another with the remains of a pylon in the top right hand corner of the screen. (Marduk often appears in this area) Monkey Eye ---------- On the way to Hell's Keep NE trader camp, where the white sand starts to narrow there is a single stone. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 12.5 END GAME =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= EDDY tells you that you saved everyone and "It sucks that noone knows what you did...but I am proud". You are now back home having a meal with EDDY and the rest of the family. And that is that. Pretty low key ending. Having completed the game and gone through the credits, press the X on the "See you later". ======================= GAME ENDING RECORD MENU ======================= This menu appears whatever ending you get. After the credits a RECORD MENU appears which gives information. Record: battles fought/won, win rate:%, battles fled/lost, "wimp" rate:%, and outlaws defeated. Collection: items/equipment/parts/vehicles/diary entries/drums pushed: numbers given for each total Mini Game:poker/blackjack/slot machine/roulette Number Hunter/ Frog Race: winnings totals Cross Fire: High score. Fastest Time Get to Arthur: mini game got by talking to maid Beldaire mansion Battle: Level/Defeated/Time elapsed for every party member Titles: Number gained by every party member Gifts: Numbers given and to whom Vehicle: Lists all tanks and their current parts and guns Assuming you have the "good" ending. This is what happens next. After seeing the records from the game you are back in your room, WITH which ever dog you had at the end. Rosa is present talking with Eddy about tanks. After she leaves, go outside and you will see a small statue. SAVE and you get a nice gold star against the save. ========= POST GAME ========= You can now continue with the game if you wish. The Ziggurat has regenerated and all other places and monsters are still operational exactly as during the game. Visit Alice One and chat to Leon again, talk with Eddy upstairs in the garage for an extra EVENT. And go to the Mysterious Cave to find the ultimate challenge! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13. MYSTERIOUS CAVE 0119 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.1. Getting There 13.2. Preparation 13.3 Strategy 13.4 Outlaws in Cave 13.5 The 10 Win Pin 13.6 The 20 Win Pin 13.7 The 30 Win Pin 13.8 The 40 Win Pin (or is it?) 13.9 The Final Prize 13.# APPENDIX After the game has officially ended you can now go and defeat every outlaw in the game one after another in the bonus cave. You also get rewarded as in the game with whatever junk each one drops. This means that you can defeat any outlaw that you missed before and you can assemble any tank weapons that you were not able get due to lack of the right parts from the junk appraisal. You also gain experience from these battles. As soon as you leave Junkyard, if you have defeated all the outlaws including Scarlet you get an email from Eddy to congratulate you. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.1 Getting There =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Enemies: Blue Thunder, Tin Tuna, Airwulf, Mutant Blob, Spooky Shrooms(in wood) Drops: Vehicle Junk, Fish Fillet Get your party together again, sort out your tanks, buy extra shells, and go to the Mysterious Cave. The most annoying thing about this is that you have to drive all the way there each time you go. No teleporter. To find it teleport to LORELEI BAY and go south. This cave is situated at the furthest point southwest and then north on the Western continent. HARE HEAD is waiting inside and will tell you that you can try to defeat all outlaw enemies without stopping! After each one you are given the choice to continue. Every battle will yield the same rewards as in the main game so you can collect another supply of junks for assembling even bigger and better weapons. Every time you do battle you get these junks so make sure that your inventory has enough space for all of them. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.2 Preparation =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1. Tank Defense ---------------- You need the very strongest tanks with the best engines, C Units, and defense. This means the Titania (the modded Fairy),and Sigma on all three. Mod the tank chassis and everything you can to increase durability. The tanks I use are the Maus, S Tank and Merkava as they have the best mountings for sub guns and the best on board defense, but you might consider the Wirbelwind for its AA four main gun capacity though I have not tested this. Equip everything that you can to each tank using all the available mountings. This will protect them better as there are more parts that can be damaged and repaired before the main body of the tank is destroyed. With all the extra weight you really need to equip some of the lighter guns to balance this as your tanks need a reasonable amount of SP as well as everything else if they are to last the course to the end. Defense on Board Chassis Dur. (maxed) Maus: 3 Main, 2 Subs, 2 SE +90 450 S Tank: 1 Main, 3 Subs, 2 SE +60 440 Merkava: 1 Main, 3 Subs, 1 SE +90 450 2. Modify Guns to Increase Ammo ------------------------------- Boost the ammo for all your SE guns as they will be the most useful weapons for many outlaws and you don't want to run out of ammunition before you have finished. Also increase the ammo for the main guns. Yes. I know I have always advised not doing so before but this is a special case as you will be fighting 40 battles one after another with no pause to replenish and repair. The main guns max ammo is 36, and the SE 22. You can also increase the maximum number of shells that each tank can carry up to 36. 3. Stock up on Extras --------------------- You also need the full range of Grenades and Shells for special status enemies. That means Hound Bombs(stealth), Strato Grenades(high altitude), Nutcrackers (shelter), Petrol Bombs, RAP, AA, and Piercing Shells. The RAP shells are of particular importance. The Shells can be bought at Fort Gears. Make sure you have plenty of Energy Drinks for healing 1000 HP at a time, and a couple of Minerals and Caffeine Pills to increase attack and turn rate when fighting the tougher enemies. 4. Check Skills ----------------- a) Hunter Remote Laser Ex is always handy as an extra back-up, Bull's Eye to increase attack, and /RUN if you intend to use it especially in the early stages. b) Mechanic Ensure that the mechanic has the repair skill and can resurface an underwater enemy and bring down a high altitude one. That means the skills of Nose Dive, Crash Landing, and Resurface are useful. Lockdown also, and Misha can have Cheer to boost attack. Quick Fix II is a must. c) Soldier Whichever soldier you use ensure that they have the best skills available to them whatever the cost of using that skill might be. For fast wins and her range of powerful skills Alpha might be your preferred soldier. The fact that her level does not increase is hardly an issue by now. Rashid needs the auto defense and attack increase skills of Concentration and Shura. Groundbreaker for underground and Spinning Attack for stealth/shelter. Charlene should have Rapid Fire for stealth and airborne enemies, Sniper for out-of-range and high altitude, and all her auto skills. These are Lock On, Death Shot and Dead Eye. d) Dog Give the dog the regeneration skill to recover HP during battle and the Foxhunt and Tracker skills for stealth and out-of-range enemies. After that it is dependent on which dog you use. Just give them the very best skills that they can use. 5. Check Weapons and Armour --------------------------- The outlaws that you had to fight on foot before will generally be easier to defeat now that you are at higher levels and have tanks. Check your on foot equipment and protectors as you may prefer to fight on foot for a number of battles to save your tanks for the really tough enemies. If you can, give the dog the best Protector from Junkyard and the mechanic and soldier need good protection for using skills and fighting on foot. a) Hunter Hunter can equip the Keen Edge sword or Kunihiro Katana, both with attacks of 330. b) Soldier Rashid's best sword the Deathbringer, will hurt just about every enemy and is especially useful against shelter even though it does not say that it is. If you are using Charlene the Stinger gun is useful as it hits airborne and out-of-range enemies although its attack power is only 150. The assembled Magnum is much more powerful at attack 286. You could also use one of the guns that Dr. Optica can assemble for you. c) Dog The Dog Tazer, although not as powerful as the assembled Bazooka or Ice Cannon is probably the best weapon to equip for the dog as it hits high altitude, stealth and underwater enemies which covers a lot of what you are about to face. 6. Assemble New Tank Weapons ----------------------------- Use all the nice new assembled weapons that you can get after trading in the junks from earlier bouts in the cave to ensure that each tank has the best. a) Main Guns Equip a Ghost main gun for light weight. You could also use the 205mm Crimson. Rail Cannons and Plasma Cannons are powerful but heavy guns. It is a trade off depending on which tank and what other guns you equip. If you can assemble them, the Plasma Cannon has higher attack and higher durability than the Rail Cannon. Check the stats: 165mm Ghost: Main Gun Very lightweight Ammo Attack Dur Weight 20/20 340 110 1.00t 205 Crimson: Main Gun. Very lightweight Ammo Attack Dur Weight 20/20 340 100 1.68t Plasma Cannon: Main gun, uses normal shells Ammo Attack Dur Weight 20/20 1027 140 8.50t Rail Cannon: Main gun, uses normal shells Ammo Attack Dur Weight 20/20 855 130 8.50t b) SE Guns The Crimson ATM SE gun could be used for its power and light weight. However you really need the specialist Excalibur and Tindalos SE guns whatever their weight might be, or even a Bloodhound or for those pesky out of range enemies. c) Sub Guns The very best sub gun is the Crimson Vulcan which must be assembled. Do a few of the easier rounds to get enough junks so that you can make this gun. Make more than one if you can! The Crimson has an attack of 216 and high durability at 130 but its weight is only 0.80t which makes it a better gun to use than the other powerful sub gun the Snake Gun. It has attack of 433 but the weight is 6.80. Both need Ratchet 13 for assembly so you will need to get Ancient Junks from appraisal to make them. These are the comparison stats for these two guns: Crimson V Core Crimson Vulcan sub Gun (all) Ammo Attack Dur Weight 216 130 0.80t Snake Core: Snake Gun: Sub gun (beam/all) Ammo Attack Dur Weight 433 130 6.80t 7. And DON'T FORGET THE DOG! ----------------------------- Boost the dog's coat by feeding it up as much as you like. Gourmet Dog Food can be bought at Morgue Town if you want more. This will help the dog fight more intelligently and you want all the intelligence you can get! Make sure the dog has the best protection as it does not have a tank to defend it and you do not want it to die. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.3 Strategy =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1. Sub Guns are The Key to Success! ------------------------------------ Use the lighter weight sub guns to help keep the SP high as you don't want to have to keep repairing your tanks all the time. Make sure that at least one of the sub guns targets all enemies. By equipping light weight sub guns you can defeat many of the enemies without having to use up your precious main and SE ammo, AND you can afford to equip the heavier SE and main guns without losing too much SP. Use the sub guns for the majority of the earlier enemies and ensure that they are kept in good order by doing a spot check every now and then and getting the mechanic to repair any damage. You can also use the sub guns to finish off an enemy that has already had its HP depleted by main gun attack. You will be pleasantly surprised at how effective the sub guns can be. 2. Save your Ammo ----------------- Don't use your precious ammo for the weaker enemies. Be ready to use sub guns and on foot fighting for as much of the time as makes sense. You are really going to need that ammo for the main and SE guns when you fight the stronger outlaws. 3. Save your Tanks ------------------ Although using sub guns and on foot fighting is the key to success and can help save your tanks from too much needless damage, sometimes it is better to just use a main weapon to defeat an outlaw fast. This is especially true when the enemy can be defeated with one shot but might do some damage in a longer fight. As an example, an enemy like the Disassembler that could hurt your tanks is better fought on foot to avoid this or smashed quickly. Marduk is another example. 4. Make Spot Checks ------------------- Every now and then check out the status of your tanks and weapons. Do this when the enemy is a weak one and then get the mechanic to repair any broken or damaged parts. If you find that your weapon use has been too great then either withdraw and assemble more weapons with the junks and increase the ammo through further modification, OR use on foot fighting and Grenades or Shells to preserve the ammo left. Use these checks to ensure that you have enough space left in your inventory for the additional junks you will be getting. Use the spot checks to ensure that all tank equipment is in order. Make sure that protectors are not broken because if they are your party members may die if outside the protection of their tanks. The only problem with repairing is that the Dog may quickly destroy a weaker enemy before you have time to repair everything fully. 5. And DON'T FORGET THE DOG! ---------------------------- Keep everyone fully healed and DON'T FORGET THE DOG! You may need to have someone heal the dog if its protector gets broken so be sure to keep an eye on it. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.4 OUTLAWS IN MYSTERIOUS CAVE IN ORDER =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Outlaw Comment Level Drops ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Trash Heap 5 Special Junk 2. Bugsy 5 Special Junk 3. Mad Maxwell 1. tank, 2. mad guy 7/8 4. Hammer Hydra (can go underground) 12 Special Junk 5. Dalton Brothers (3) 22/24/26 6. Orochi 20 7. Bomber Prince (may run) 14 8. Col Blueberry 15(4) 9. Tankasaurus 16 Special Junk 10. Ghost Tank (out-of-range) 25(4) 11. Eagle 1 (airborne) 18 Special Junk 12. Sewer Demon 23 Unusual Junk 13. Puppetmaster 60(2) 14. Krak Cannon 63 High End Junk 15. Catsub (dives underwater, may flee) 100 High End Junk 16. Hydro Bug (can fly and dive, may flee) 121 High End Junk 17. Granddaddy Kong 37 18. Tank Eater 54 Unusual Junk 19. Optimus Swine 58 Amazing Junk 20. Red Mobster (goes into shelter) 60 Amazing Junk 21. Father Muscle (poses) 56 22. Disassembler 26 23. Dalton Brothers (out-of-range) 60 24. Mega Mole (out-of-range) 52 Unusual Junk 25. Daidarabotchi 62 26. Man o' War 68 Amazing Junk 27. Shaka Khan 52 Amazing Junk 28. Commi Chameleon (stealth) 120 Amazing Junk 29. Geriatric Duo (stealth) 86(2) 30. Annihilator 40 Ancient Junk 31. B2 Manta Ray (high altitude and out-of-range) 86 High End Junk 32. Imperial Bomber (runs away) 135 High End Junk 33. Marduk (shelter) 145 Ancient Junk 34. Tiamat 160 Unusual Junk 35. Binramen 122 36. Storm Dragon (high altitude/stealth/shelter) 136 Ancient Junk 37. Gassy Long Legs out-of-range) 120 Ancient Junk 38. Johnny 6 120 Ancient Junk 39. Derringer Jack 100 40. Scarlet 165 After 10 battles, if you stop you get a 10 Win Pin, and so on. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.5 The 10 Win Pin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you want to defeat the Bomber Prince keep Hunter out of his tank from the start and with minimal equipment. Just a weapon and the Ultimate Shield. This means that he is able to use the /RUN skill. Start by using sub guns wherever possible to save on ammo. This will work up to the Ghost Tanks who are out of range. However just one blast of the main guns will take out outlaws such as Orochi if you want to use them. The Bomber Prince will flee as usual so to be on the safe side keep Hunter on foot from the start. Or just blast with sub suns and hope to get him. If you get out of your tank the previous round you will be automatically back inside it the next. This is only an issue if you really want to kill him! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.6 The 20 Win Pin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You have to start again from the beginning. Use sub guns where ever possible and save your SE guns for the outlaws that require the special weapons. I used one SE round for Eagle 1 which took him down in one shot. Eagle 1 can also be defeated with sub guns so long as the dog has the Dog Bazooka. For the Puppetmaster just target the puppet for a quick win. Use a Petrol Bomb on the Krak Cannon for a faster win or just use sub guns. The real problems begin with the Catsub as it will go underwater and you will be forced to use the SE guns. However using another Petrol Bomb helps and then you can just defend as it burns, or use the Mechanic to make it resurface. The Hyrobug is annoying because it will switch from underwater to airborne and then just when it is nearly defeated it will run if you haven't used /RUN on it. Sub guns only for Kong. The Tankeater can be defeated fairly quickly with a mix of main and sub guns and hopefully Optimus Swine will be gone before he can run away. Throw a Petrol Bomb at Red Mobster and he will not have time to hide. Use the soldier to attack him on foot and maybe just one main gun shot, the rest use sub guns. Make sure any damage is repaired before you go on to the next round of battles. Do a quick stock take of how much ammo you have left. For example, at this stage this was the state of my guns for each party member. Hunter: Mains: 15,31,31 SE: 11,03 Kiriya: Main: 23 SE: 14 Rashid: Main: 32 SE: 13,12. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.7 The 30 Win Pin =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Again, if you have stopped to get the 20 Win Pin you will have to start again for the beginning. Father Muscle is easy and will go down fast. Use sub guns on him and maybe have someone out of their tanks doing normal weapon damage. Take down the Disassembler fast before he has time to disable your tanks OR fight him on foot! The Dalton Brothers begin out-of-range so use RAP shells and then attack with main and sub guns when they move back into range. If you are getting low on RAP shells just defend until they come into normal range again. You can then use sub guns to defeat them. Mega Mole also starts out-of-range. Again use RAP shells and defend if they are running out. When he moves into range get him with sub and main guns. Carry on using a mix of main and sub guns for the next two. Daidarbotchi can be defeated with sub guns alone and Shaka Khan only needs sub guns. Man o' War needs main guns as he can do more damage. Commi Chameleon is in stealth. Hound Bombs can be used on foot and SE weapons too, then sub guns when he is in normal range. A Petrol Bomb thrown when he is in range will kill him quickly. The Geriatric Duo are also in stealth and will go out of range, but they are easy to defeat with a couple of sub gun blasts and a Hound Bomb or two. The Annihilator can be defeated using sub guns, but a couple of main gun blasts will defeat him very quickly if you have the ammo left. Make sure you have repaired broken parts before the next stage. Check that the person is inside the tank before repairing it. By this time my Maus had no SP left but that has the advantage of making Hunter faster. Gun Check: Hunter: Mains: 10,26,26 SE: 11,03 Kiriya: Main: 23 SE: 14 Rashid: Main: 27 SE: 11,11 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.8 The 40 Win Pin (or is it?) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Back to the beginning again. And now for the real challenge. All outlaws in one go. The Manta Ray can be attacked with SE guns if there is any ammo left and Strato Grenades from on foot, as well as using the mechanic to bring him down to normal level. The problem is that when he is brought down to airborne he will go into out of range status and if you don't defeat him quickly enough he will flee. So use the /RUN skill if you think it might help. Use AA shells when he is airborne to conserve SE weapons. Tough and longest battle yet. The Imperial Bomber will run immediately if you cannot stop him. Make sure you use the disarm skill first if possible as you don't want him to self destruct and damage your tanks. Marduk will go into shelter if you are too slow in defeating him. Use all main guns as he can damage you and you have Tiamat to face next. Make sure your tanks are repaired before the next battle. Tiamat can do you a lot of damage so aim to finish fast. All main guns and maybe soldier on foot if their guns are not doing enough damage. Don't bother to repair the tanks during this fight as you can do this during the next one. However you may want to do some basic repairs if your are getting too badly damaged. If you take too long Tiamat will go out-of-range and run. Binramen is a one hit wonder but don't attack him and use this battle to repair everything! (And hope the dog doesn't kill him too quickly!) Storm Dragon. Start using Strato Grenades, then SE weapons and finally main guns once the mechanic has got him down to normal level. When he goes in shelter continue with SE and shells. I had the soldier on foot again, but this is a dangerous tactic they could take too much damage and die! This in fact is what happened when I tried this one time with the Storm Dragon. So perhaps not a good tactic. Gassy Long Legs will go out-of-range after a short while. You can still use main guns and and sometimes they will hit him. Also RAP shells can hurt him if you have any left. Johnny 6. Use Lockdown and make sure tanks are repaired as much as possible before the end of the fight. Use sub guns to defeat him and a Petrol Grenade or two and on foot fighting. Derringer Jack will appear next and if you have not defeated him before you can now do so. He starts out-of-range. Defend until he returns to the front. Then use sub guns and repair tanks while defeating him as Scarlet is next. She begins out-of-range. Ignore this and attack with main guns. You should have some ammo left if you have been careful. I had 4/5 ammo left for Hunter, 12 for mechanic and 7 for soldier. If a tank is destroyed stay in it and defend. If the main gun ammo runs out use SE guns or RAP shells if there are any left. Scarlet is mush easier to defeat with three tanks and better weapons. By the end I had one broken tank, S Tank, but although the others all had been extensively damaged they were still operational: just! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13.9 The Final Prize =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= You get the Champion's Belt. Description: "You are the champion!" Go and press *Use* and the message is: ***It proves you laid the smackdown!*** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 13. # APPENDIX =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Summary of Hits needed ------------------------- This is a guide based on a number of play-throughs. Of course the dog is a great help too but these stats do not include his hits. All hits are for sub guns only unless I state otherwise. My levels were Hunter 160, Kiriya 156, Rashid 145, Bernie 160, Misha 110, Charlene 133 Alpha 140. I used a number of different combinations of characters. The number of hits varied a bit so this is not definitive in any way, but it gives some idea of the relative difficulty of each outlaw. 1. 1 hit 2. 2 hits 3. 1 hit/ 2 hits now get a chance to defeat mad maxwell 4. 2 hits with sub guns if above ground 5. 2/3 hits 6. 4 hits with sub guns 7. runs 8. 1 hit 9. 4 hits 10. 4 hits, one for each tank using RAP shells, or wait until in range. 1 sub. 11. 1 hit SE 12. 3 hits 13. 3 hits 14. 12 hits 15. Lots. Used main guns until he dived. Then SE then mechanic, then sub to finish him off on the surface. 16. Lots, Both main and SE and mechanic to bring him up and then sub guns to finish. 17. 6 18. 8/9 19. 12 20. Petrol bomb and soldier on foot. 21. 5 22. 6/8 all on foot! 23. RAP shells and then sub. 12 hits 24. RAP, defend then main 6/8 hits 25. 6 26. 12 hits a mix of main and sub guns 27. 5/6 28. 6. Use hound bomb and soldier on foot. 29. 6/8 Use Hound Bombs and soldier on foot. 30. 5/6 Used one Maus Main gun blast to finish him off 31. Countless. SE, sub, Shells, on foot Grenades. 32. ran away 33. 10/12 all main guns 34. 15 Blast with main guns and used soldier on foot 35. 1 hit only 36. Countless. 37. Many, a mix of grenades/sub/main 38. 10/12 Lockdown and sub guns and Petrol Bomb 39: 5/6 40: 10 or so with main and SE Final Team and Tanks -------------------- I was not intending to complete this run through as I needed more Ancient Junks to assemble more Crimson Vulcans so just did it for those, but in fact I managed to defeat 40 outlaws with not all mountings filled. All tank parts had been modded to the max for durability and all the SE and main guns were also at their max for ammo. Charlene Kiriya and Hunter and Dog H: 165 C: 133 K: 156 Dog 165 Coat 215 Equipment --------- Maus: Main: Rail C, 165mmGhost, 205 Crimson SP: 202 Sub: Crimson Vulcan, SE: Excalibur and Tundalos Merkava: Main: Rail Cannon SP 1133 Sub: 12.7mm Vulcan and Storm Cannon SE: Excalibur S Tank: Main: Plasma C SP 1258 Sub: Crimson Vulcan,12.7mm Vulcan SE: Excalibur Hunter gets in 2 attacks before the rest =============================================================================== =============================================================================== H. L I S T S A N D L O T S O F O T H E R S T U F F =============================================================================== =============================================================================== 1. Armour ........................................................... 2. Assembling, Assembly Shops And Other Assembly Locations .......... 3. Bars And What To Do In Them ...................................... 4. Big Medals: The Full List, But Are They Worth It? ................ 5. Endings And How To Get Them (Script Details) ..................... 6. Events Extra (Script Details) .................................... 7. Gifts ............................................................ 8. Items For Sale, Found In The Field, And Maps ..................... 9. Mini-Games Mini-Guide ............................................ 10. Monster List ..................................................... 11. Named Characters: Non-Playable ................................... 12. Outlaws: Alphabetical List ....................................... 13. Painting Tanks (Step-By Step Instructions) ....................... 14. Shops: List And Code + Black Market .............................. 15. Skill Masters And All Skills ..................................... 16. Tank Parts And All Guns (Bought And Found) ....................... 17. Tank Modification ................................................ 18. Transport Pod Locations .......................................... 19. Weapons .......................................................... 20. X? Extra Bits And Pieces + 20 F.A.Q.S .......................... This is a huge section and contains lists of most things that can be found in the game. There are also some sections that include script details, and others include detailed guidance on general things such as assembling and modification and painting. I have even included some historical facts about the dogs and tanks. I love this game. ^_^ =============================================================================== 1. ARMOUR ................................................................ 0120 =============================================================================== 1. Head Armour 2. Torso Armour 3. Arm Armour 4. Foot Armour 5. Dog Armour 6. Protectors 7. Armour Found in the Field Most armour can be worn by any character. There are one or two items that are specific to certain people so I have starred those and given the initial of the character. DOGS have their own unique armour and can equip protectors the same as everyone else. ----------------. HEAD ARMOUR | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- HARD HAT: | A hat made from durable fabric | 2 | JUNKYARD | 50G CAMO CAP: | Camouflage-patterned cap | 5 | NEWFOLK | 80G GOGGLES | A hat-and-goggle combo | 9 | EAST ZERO | 120G TEN GALLON HAT | Men in the West favour these. | 16 | TORIKAMI | 320G BORSALINO HAT | A stylish hat | 13 | BELDAIRE | 200G BOONIE HAT | Hat for tropical warfare | 21 | MORGUE TOWN | 500G SAFETY HELMET | Helmet made of hard plastic | 32 | ALICE ONE | 800G CVC HELMET | Helmet made for tank crew members| 70 | DOWMAN | 2000G FIBREGLASS HELM | Lightweight helmet | 103 | LORELEI BAY | 3300G BUNNY EARS*C | Accessory for head. Hef's fave | 128 | ISLE W | 4150G ALI BABA TURBAN | Turban worn by a legendary thief | 153 | SCAVENGER IS| 5000G KAISER CROWN | Replicated Imperial Bomber's crown 217 | HELL'S KEEP | 8500G ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________|_______ ----------------. TORSO ARMOUR | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- DENIM OVERALLS | Blue denim overalls | 2 | JUNKYARD | 60G FLIGHT JACKET | Jacket worn by bomber pilots | 5 | NEWFOLK | 90G KVY SHIRT | Bulletproof Hawaiian shirt.Aloha!| 9 | EAST ZERO | 140G BDU JACKET | A standard issue combat jacket | 16 | TORIKAMI | 370G DUSTER | Long coat for the style conscious| 3 | BELDAIRE | 230G TRENCHCOAT | A weatherproof coat | 21 | MORGUE TOWN | 590G METALLIC SUIT | A suit made of metal plates | 32 | ALICE ONE | 940G CVC ARMOUR | Body suit for tank crew members | 70 | DOWAN | 2400G ASSAULT GEAR | Armour with movement support | 103 | LORELEI BAY | 3900G ALI BABA VEST | Vest worn by a legendary thief | 153 | SCAVENGER IS| 6000G SUDARION | Mysterious-looking outfit | 217 | HELL'S KEEP | 10000G ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________|_______ ----------------. ARM ARMOUR | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- WORK GLOVES | A pair of cotton gloves | 1 | JUNKYARD | 16G LEATHER GLOVES | Plain leather gloves | 4 | NEWFOLK | 30G BRASS KNUCKLES | Worn over the knuckles | 6 | EAST ZERO | 40G BATTLE KNUCKLES | Very painful-looking brass | 11 | TORKAMI | 110G | knuckles | | | ROCKER GLOVES | Black riveted leather gloves | 8 | BELDAIRE | 70G GAUNTLET | Bulky metal gloves | 14 | MORGUE TOWN | 170G MECHANIC GLOVES | Work gloves for mechanics only | 22 | ALICE ONE | 300G *K/M | | | | CVC GLOVES | Gloves for tank crew members | 69 | DOWAN | 1100G POWER GLOVES | Wearing these makes you feel | 145 | HELL'S KEEP | 3000G | stronger | | | ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________|_______ ----------------. FOOT ARMOUR | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- SANDALS | Better than going barefoot | 1 | JUNKYARD | 30G SNEAKERS | Comfy pair of kicks | 4 | NEWFOLK | 50G WAR-TORN BOOTS | Leather boots | 6 | EAST ZERO | 80G COWBOY BOOTS | These boots were made for walkin'| 11 | TORIKAMI | 210G SAFETY BOOTS | Steel toe boots | 8 | BELDAIRE | 130G BATTLE SPIKES | Metal-spiked cleats | 14 | MORGUE TOWN | 340G GUARDIAN BOOTS | Boots with shin guards attached | 22 | ALICE ONE | 540G CVC BOOTS | Boots for tank crew members | 46 | DOWAN | 1400G THIGH BOOTS | Boots that cover the entire leg | 69 | LORELEI BAY | 2200G ARMY GREAVES | Boots made of strong alloy | 145 | HELL'S KEEP | 5600G ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________|_______ ----------------. DOG ARMOUR | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+-------------+------- DOG ARMOUR LV1 | Protective gear for dogs | 42 | BELDAIRE | 130G DOG ARMOUR LV2 | Protective gear for dogs | 54 | TORIKAMI | 210G DOG ARMOUR LV3 | Protective gear for dogs | 71 | MORGUE TOWN | 340G DOG ARMOUR LV4 | Protective gear for dogs | 108 | ALICE ONE | 540G DOG ARMOUR LV5 | Protective gear for dogs | 155 | FOREVER LAND| free DOG ARMOUR LV6 | Protective gear for dogs | 232 | Giant'sCanyn| find DOG ARMOUR LV7 | Protective gear for dogs | 344 | LORELEI BAY | 2200G DOG ARMOUR LV8 | Protective gear for dogs | 511 | ANTITANK FT | 3500G DOG ARMOUR LV9 | Protective gear for dogs | 723 | HELL'S KEEP | 5600G ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________|_______ ----------------. PROTECTORS | SCP = Scrap ----------------+----------------------------------+-------------------+------- NAME | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | SHOP | COST ----------------+----------------------------------+-------------------+------- STICK-ON-ARMOUR | Reduces any damage by 10 | JUNKYARD | 20G POT LID | Reduces damage sustained by 18 | NEWFOLK | 32G SHOCK ABSORBER | Absorbs explosive damage | EAST ZERO/BELDAIRE| 60G | (999 on bomb, 26 on rest) | | CRIMSON MANZIER | Reduces damage sustained by 42 | TORIKAMI | 140G ICE ARMOUR | Absorbs ice damage | MORGUE TOWN/ | 200G | (999 on cold, 50 on rest) | ALICE ONE | MUFFLE ARMOUR | Absorbs sonic damage | DOWAN | 860G | (999 on sonic, 74 on rest) | | FIRE ARMOUR | Absorbs fire damage. | LORELEI BAY | 540G | No effect when on fire | | | (999 on fire, 90 on rest) | | GROUND ARMOUR | Absorbs electric damage | SCAVENGER ISLE | 2200G | (999 on elec, 98 on rest) | | POLYMER PADS | Reduces damage sustained by 98 | ANTITANK FORT | 2200G MIRROR ARMOUR | Absorbs beam damage | HELL'S KEEP | 3600G | (999 on beam, 106 on rest) | | CERAMIC ARMOUR | Reduces damage by 150 | SCRAP SHOP (Junky)| 20SCP BODY SHIELD | Reduces damage by 200 | " | 30SCP ULTIMATE SHIELD | Reduces damage by 300 | " | 40SCP DOG PROTECTOR | Protector designed for dogs | " | 50SCP | Reduces all damage by 400 | | ________________|__________________________________|___________________|_______ These break after use and can be exchanged as scrap armour with the trader at JUNKYARD. All party members can equip these. They can be bought at shops and from the vending machines that can be found nearly everywhere, in dungeons and garages and towns. The best protectors are from the scrap trader in JUNKYARD. Additional details on Protectors thanks to Paull. --------------------------. ARMOUR FOUND IN THE FIELD | ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+--------------------- ARMOUR | DESCRIPTION OF ARMOUR | DEF | LOCATION ----------------+----------------------------------+-----+--------------------- Leather Jacket | | 7 | Newfolk Bridge Fireproof Coat | | 11 | East Zero (southeast Cat Ears | (For girls) | 14 | Beldaire (southeast) Crimson Shirt | | 19 | Torikami (southeast) Polymer Coat | A coat made of polymer fabric | 27 | Morgue Town (east) Kevy Vest | Reduces damage sustained by fire | 66 | Forever Land Aramid Turban | Tough heat-resistant turban | 58 | Forever Land Saratoga Armour | | | Dowan (farsoutheast) Dog Armour | Level 6 Defense | 232 | Dowan (farsoutheast) Iron Bikini | A must-have for sunbathers. Hot | 217 | Lorelei Bay (boat) Maid's Uniform | A fav of cosplay fans. Naughty! | 247 | Hell's Keep (east) ________________|__________________________________|_____|_____________________ =============================================================================== 2. ASSEMBLING, ASSEMBLY SHOPS AND OTHER ASSEMBLY LOCATIONS ............... 0121 =============================================================================== 1. Garage Assembly Shops 2. Guide to Assembling 3. Custom Weapons Assembly 4. Tank Parts Assembly (Main Guns, Sub Guns, SE Guns) 5. Junks: Types and Yields 6. Monkey Mountain (Maps and Models) 7. Retirement Compound (Figurines) 8. Professor Grey (LOVE Machine) 9. Dr. Optica's Lab (Lenses) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GARAGE ASSEMBLY SHOPS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- East Continent EAST ZERO: weapon assembly BELDAIRE: weapon assembly TORIKAMI : weapon assembly West Continent ALICE ONE: custom tank part DOWAN: custom tank part LORELEI BAY: custom tank part FORT GEARS : custom tank part HELL'S KEEP: custom tank part ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. GUIDE TO ASSEMBLING ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suggested that you keep items to use for assembling, and have given a list of places where assembling takes place, but so far I have not really explained how you do this, or what are the benefits. In fact you can get through the game without assembling anything at all, as weapons can be bought and found. But the very best stuff is only obtained by assembling and besides, making a Tyrannosaurus Rex is always fun. As well as the tank and weapons assembling you can seriously waste your time by tracking down all the items for the other types of assembling in the game, and then attempting to find out what goes with what and where. Apart from the lenses for Dr Optica, of which thank goodness there are only four, it can be tricky to sort out the other assembly components. However most items for the Monkey Mountain and Retirement Compound are found though salvaging and in Orochi's Den. All the other locations and what can be assembled are listed, and although Dr. Optica gets a separate listing in the FAQ, I have repeated that information here for ease of reference. ------------------------------ TANK PARTS AND WEAPONS ASSEMBLY ------------------------------- 1. Assembling is both easy and hard to accomplish . It is hard because once you have collected a lot of items you don't necessarily know which ones can be put together to make what. It is easy because all you need to do is go to an assembly shop, select 4 items and the part or item will be made for you. Then, if the result is a CORE, you go and speak to a nearby trader (in yellow) who will exchange the CORE for a weapon. 2. You can disassemble the item or CORE back into its constituent parts, but if you exchange the CORE for a weapon, that is it and there is no going back. 3. To get some items you must first take JUNKS to the trader at ALICE ONE WEST for appraisal, although the boy at JUNK MOUNTAIN can also appraise some low level junks. These junks may be called such things as: Vehicle Junk, Biotic Junk, Cyber Junk, Machine Junk, Unknown Junk, High End and plain Junk, and are obtained from ordinary monster drops. There are a higher grade of junks that are obtained from OUTLAWS only: such as Special, Unusual, Amazing, High End and Ancient Junks. These are precious! 4. Check the monster lists to see which monster drops what. 5. You will find that the junks yield things such as : Monkey Eye, Cylinder, Snake Eye, Mole Eye, Ratchet 7, Ratchet, 8, Ratchet 9, and various others. There are a number of strong tank parts that require high level Ratchets and these can only be found later in the game when you have defeated the stronger outlaws and received the Ancient Junks. So don't bother trying to get these earlier in the game, since you won't be able to. 6. There are other odd items that are found in dungeons, towns, in the field, and from salvaging the lake, that, when fitted together by the right person, can make things such as the dinosaur, or certain weapons. 7. One thing that took me ages to discover was that many weapons require a simple JUNK as the final item. So always keep a few handy in your storehouse. The most useful assembling though, and the easiest to accomplish because of finding so many junks, is tank parts. 8. When it comes to assembling weapons that are not tank weapons sometimes you first need a "recipe". These can be found in various places in towns and dungeons. They tell you the constituent parts for the weapon if you select the command "USE". They are called MEMOS. for example the Beam Claw Memo, and Toy Sword Memo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. CUSTOM WEAPONS ASSEMBLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name | Components | Att. ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- DRILL CLAW: | Drill Blade, Claw Blade, Drill Sheath, Junk: | 24 (Memo) | (Drill Claw memo in Junkyard: Dr. Solomon's place) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- BOMB CLAW: | Drill Blade, Bomb Pack, Junk, Junk | 32 (Memo) | (Bomb Pack in Bioenergetics Lab) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- BEAM CLAW: | Drill Blade, Beam Pack, Junk, Junk | 172 (Memo) | (Beam Pack from salvage) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- TWIN FANG: | Small Blade, Small Hilt, Small Sheath, Junk | 28 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- STIRM PISTOL: | Stirm Frame, Stirm Barrel, Stirm Slide, Junk | 45 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- G3A3 | Assault Frame, Assault Barrel, Assault Slide, Junk | 10 | (Assault Frame and Slide in Abandoned Ruins, Newfolk, | | Assault Barrel, a Junk exchange in Junk Mountain.) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- INGRAM | Ingram Frame, Ingram Barrel, Ingram Slide, Junk | 10 | (Ingram Frame in Abandoned Ruins, Ingram Barrel and | | Slide in Ruins of a Fort) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- CEMENT GUN: | Cement Frame, Cement Barrel, Cement Slide, Junk | 45 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- USP | USP Frame, USP Barrel, USP Slide, Junk | 28 | (USP items are in Bioenergetics lab) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- MAGNUM | Magnum Frame, Magnum Barrel, Magnum Slide, Junk | 286 | (Parts from salvage) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- FIREBREATHER | Dragon Frame, Dragon Barrel, Dragon Slide, Junk | 59 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- EVIL SWORD | Evil Blade, Sword Hilt, Sword Sheath, Evil Sphere | 59 | CAN BE DISASSEMBLED INTO 4 PARTS to help make other | | weapons | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- TOY SWORD | Evil Blade, Evil Booster, Sword Sheath, Evil Sphere | (Memo) | (Memo found in library, Beldaire Mansion) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- DEFENDING BLADE | Sword Blade, Sword Hilt, Sword Sheath, Junk | 59 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- JAMADHAR | Strange Blade, Strange Hilt, Strange Sheath, Junk | 36 ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- EVIL TOY SWORD | Evil Blade, Evil Booster, Sword Sheath, Evil Sphere | - | (It's begging to be used!) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- DOG BAZOOKA | Dog Barrel, Dog Harness, Dog Connector, Junk | 242 | (Ranged weapon: explosive) | ----------------+--------------------------------------------------------+----- DEATHBRINGER | Evil Toy Sword, Revitaliser, Royal Slippers, | 516 | Father's Shirt. This is Rashid's ULTIMATE WEAPON! | | (Evil sword of the highest quality) | ________________|________________________________________________________|_____ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. TANK PARTS ASSEMBLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Overview of assembling tank parts 2. Main Guns 3. Sub Guns 4. SE Guns ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1. OVERVIEW OF TANK PARTS ASSEMBLY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALERT: ONCE YOU HAVE EXCHANGED A CORE FOR A WEAPON YOU CANNOT DISASSEMBLE IT 1. Although there are a number of these you are unlikely to find enough of the correct assembly bits until the later stages of the game. Just keep collecting junks and having them appraised. 2. Only after getting past Alice One is there any point in trying to assemble tank parts because you can only begin to exchange the necessary junks at Alice One West trader camp, and the first assembly shop for tank parts is in Alice One. 3. I would advise waiting a bit longer until you have got a good stack of necessary items, as it can be frustrating to try and assemble when you are lacking a vital component. 4. By the time you reach Dowan and have a few outlaws and more enemies under your belt you should be able to assemble the Ray Core, the Tindalos Core and the Banger Core. Though maybe not all three at once. In my latest game I had to chose the most useful one out of these to assemble. By the time I had reached Fort Gears and killed at least 20 Outlaws, I was also able to make the Excalibur, and Brionac Cores. 5. Remember you can disassemble a core, but once you exchange it for a weapon that chance is gone for good. 6. The higher level Ratchets that are needed to get the most powerful weapons are only dropped by the strongest outlaws, so, don't bother trying to assemble the better weapons, until late on in the game. You can check for drops in the list of monsters and outlaws. 7. The appraisal is randomised to some extent so you can save first and then check to see if you have got the items you want.and reload if not. Personally I wouldn't bother with that, and I managed to get most of the weapons I wanted. However I did find that getting enough of the Monkey Eye was sometimes a problem as it is used a lot in assembling but does not seem to come up so often in the appraisal. So maybe the idea of saving and re-loading could help. 8. In assembling weapons the Cylinder is the first part for the main gun, the Cannon Guide for the sub gun, and the Plate for the SE gun. The following tables summarise the tank parts assembly, and then give the resulting weapons, their statistics and uses. The FAQ Assembly Combination by Sirenix at GameFAQs lists many of these if you want another source. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.2. M A I N G U N S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------. MAIN GUNS PARTS| ---------------.-----------------.---------------.--------------.-------------- 1st part | 2nd part | 3rd part | 4th part | RESULT! ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- Cylinder | Monkey Eye | Burst Hammer | Ratchet 7 | 180mm Core | | | Ratchet 8 | 190mm Core | | | Ratchet 9 | Triple Core (165 Memo) | | Hammer | Ratchet 10 | 165mm Core | | Condenser | Ratchet 11 | Thunder Core ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- (205mm Memo) | Crimson Trigger | Testosterone | Ratchet 13 ||205mm Cr.Core ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+------------- Plasma Barrel | Plasma Coil | Plasma Conduit| Ratchet 13 | Plasma Core _______________|_________________|_______________|______________|______________ ---------------. MAIN GUNS CORE | ---------------.--------------------------------.---------.------.-----.------- Core Part | Gun | Ammo | Atk | Dur | Wgt ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- 180mm Core | 180mm Burst | 20/20 | 255 | 70 | 6.45t | Fires two-round bursts | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- 190mm Core | 109mm Burst | 20/20 | 340 | 80 | 7.14t | Fires two-round bursts | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Triple Core | Triple Burst | 20/20 | 460 | 90 | 7.82t | Fires three-round bursts | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- 165mm Core | 165mm Ghost | 20/20 | 340 | 110 | 1.00t | Very lightweight | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Thunder Core | Thunder Cannon | 20/20 | 635 | 120 | 7.82t | (Electric) Uses normal shells | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- 205mm Cr.Core | 205 Crimson | 20/20 | 340 | 100 | 1.68t | Very lightweight | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Plasma Coil: | Plasma Cannon | 20/20 | 1027 | 140 | 8.50t | Main gun, uses normal shells | | | | _______________|________________________________|_________|______|_____|_______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.3. S U B G U N S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------. SUB GUNS PARTS | ---------------.-----------------.---------------.--------------.-------------- 1st part | 2nd part | 3rd part | 4th part | RESULT! ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- Cannon Guide | Monkey Eye | Flash Lamp | Ratchet 8 | Ray Core | | | Burst Hammer | Laser Core | | Amp | Ratchet 9 | Horn Core | | | Burst Hammer | Flute Core | Crimson Trigger | Testosterone | Ratchet 13 |Crimson V Core ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- Snake Barrel | Snake Trigger | Snake Icon | Ratchet13 | Snake Core _______________|_________________|_______________|______________|______________ ---------------. SUB GUNS CORES | ---------------.--------------------------------.---------.------.-----.------- Core Part | Gun | Ammo | Atk | Dur | Wgt ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Ray Core | Ray Gun: Sub gun (beam) | oo | 133 | 90 | 4.62t ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Laser Core | Laser Cannon:Sub gun (beam/all)| oo | 60 | 90 | 4.62t ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Horn Core | Hornblaster: Sub gun (sonic) | oo | 175 | 100 | 5.16t ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Flute Core | Flute Cannon: | oo | 88 | 100 | 5.16t | Sub gun (sonic/all) | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Crimson V Core | Crimson Vulcan sub Gun (all) | oo | 216 | 130 | 0.80t ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Snake Core | Snake Gun: Sub gun (beam/all) | oo | 433 | 130 | 6.80t _______________|________________________________|_________|______|_____|_______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.4. S E G U N S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------. SE GUNS PARTS | ---------------.-----------------.---------------.--------------.-------------- 1st part | 2nd part | 3rd part | 4th part | RESULT! ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- Plate | Hawk Eye | Dog Eye | Snake Eye | Tindalos Core | | Eagle Eye | Condenser | Thunderkat Co | | Snake Eye | Crow Eye | Excalibur Co | | Hammer | Ratchet 10 | CIWS Core | Fish Eye | Mole Eye | Hammer | Brionac Core | | Hammer | Ratchet 11 | Excelsior Co | Mole Eye | Hammer | Burst Hammer | Drill Core | | Hammer | Ratchet 7 | Grenade Core | Snake Eye | Crow Eye | Amp | Banger Core | | Hammer | Ratchet 9 | Cyclone Core | Monkey Eye | Spray Nozzle | Ratchet 8 | Crispy Core | | Amp | Ratchet 9 | Soprano Core | | Compressor | Ratchet 12 | Wind Core | Hawkeye | Hammer Burst | Ratchet 10 | RAM Core ---------------+-----------------+---------------+--------------+-------------- Crimson Barrel | Crimson Trigger | Testosterone | Ratchet13 | ATM Core _______________|_________________|_______________|______________|______________ ---------------. SE GUNS CORES | ---------------.--------------------------------.---------.------.-----.------- Core Part | Gun | Ammo | Atk | Dur | Wgt ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Tindalos Core | Tindalos: Fires small warheads | 10/10 | 635 | 120 | 7.82t | Anti-airborne/high altitude | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Thunderkat Core| Thunderkat: SE(all) Electrical | 6/6 | 323 | 120 | 7.82t | discharge. Anti-airborne/high | | | | | altitude | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Excalibur Core | Excalibur: SE. | 10/10 | 635 | 120 | 7.82t | Anti-stealth/airborne/shelter | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- CIWS Core | CIWS: SE. Hits high-altitude | 10/10 | 460 | 110 | 7.14t | enemies | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Brionac Core | Brionac: SE | 10/10 | 635 | 120 | 7.82t | Fires drill missiles. | | | | | Anti-underground/water | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Excelsior Core | Excelsior: SE (all) Sword-like | 6/6 | 323 | 120 | 7.82t | beam that can hit underwater | | | | | enemies | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Drill Core | Drill Gun: Fires drill missiles| 10/10 | 200 | 80 | 5.09t ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Grenade Core | Grenade Thrower: SE. Hits | 10/10 | 200 | 80 | 5.09t | enemies underground | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Banger Core | Headbanger: SE (all) Creates a | 6/6 | 323 | 120 | 7.82t | shockwave. Anti-stealth/shelter| | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Cyclone Core | Cyclone Cannon: SE (all) | 6/6 | 175 | 100 | 6.45t | Hits enemies in stealth | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Crispy Core | Crispy Cannon: SE (all) | 6/6 | 133 | 90 | 5.77t | Shoots heat rays | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Soprano Core | Soprano Cannon: SE (all) | 6/6 | 175 | 100 | 6.45t | Emits sonic waves | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Wind Core | Windbreaker: SE (all). Emits | 6/6 | 433 | 130 | 8.50t | a jet of intensely cold air | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- RAM Core | SE (all). Hits high-altitude | 6/6 | 235 | 110 | 7.14t | enemies | | | | ---------------+--------------------------------+---------+------+-----+------- Crimson Core | Crimson ATM: SE. Looks like an | 4/4 | 1027 | 130 | 2.36t (ATM) | ordinary anti-tank missile pod | | | | _______________|________________________________|_________|______|_____|_______ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. JUNKS: TYPES AND YIELDS (see monster list for exactly who drops what) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you find you are getting overloaded with some of these then just sell off the surplus. Don't sell Monkey Eye as it is often used and harder to find than some of the other more common items. Burst Hammer is also used a lot but is only available from outlaw junks, as are the higher Level Ratchets. The order I have listed them gives some indication of how often the different items came up when appraised, from the most common, to the less. From Monsters: These are plentiful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TYPE YIELD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Junk: Drill Blade, Claw Blade, Drill Sheath, Assault Barrel, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biotic Junk: Fish Eye, Ratchet8, Mole Eye, Crow Eye, Eagle Eye, Snake Eye, Monkey Eye, Hammer, Hawk Eye, Plate, Cylinder, Cannon Guide, Amp, Dog Eye, Compressor, Ratchet 7, Condenser ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vehicle Junk: Snake Eye, Spray Nozzle, Cannon Guide, Dog Eye, Plate, Fish Eye, Hawk Eye, Ratchet9, Crow Eye, Amp, Hammer, Monkey Eye, Cylinder, Ratchet 7, Ratchet 8, Snake Eye, Condenser, Plate, Compressor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cyber Junk: Condenser, Snake Eye, Hammer, Cylinder, Compressor, Amp, Spray Nozzle, Monkey Eye, Ratchet 9, Plate, Flash Lamp, Fish Eye, Mole Eye, Crow Eye, Spray Nozzle, Plate, Ratchet 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Machine Junk: Amp, Condenser, Plate, Ratchet 9, Hammer, Hawk Eye, Cannon Guide, Ratchet 7, Crow Eye, Snake Eye, Eagle Eye, Compressor, Amp, Plate Mole Eye, Cylinder, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unknown Junk: Spray Nozzle, Cylinder, Ratchet 8, Fish Eye, Cannon Guide, Compressor, Eagle Eye, Hammer, Snake Eye, Hawk Eye, Ratchet 7, Dog Eye, Ratchet 9, Plate, Mole Eye. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From Outlaws: These are rare, so saving before appraising is a good idea. You might otherwise end up with lots of Plasma Coils and no Ratchet 13s! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TYPE YIELD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Junk(5) Ratchet 10, Cannon Guide, Ratchet 7, Ratchet 9, Cylinder, Plate, Ratchet 8, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unusual Junk(4) Snake Icon, Plasma Coil, Crimson Trigger, Ratchet 10. Burst Hammer, Snake Trigger, Snake barrel, Plasma Barrel, Testosterone, Plasma Conduit, Crimson Barrel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amazing Junk(5) Plasma Barrel, Testosterone, Ratchet 11, Plasma Coil, Snake Trigger, Plasma Conduit, Snake Icon, Snake Barrel, Burst Hammer, Crimson trigger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- High End Junk(5) Crimson Barrel, Plasma Barrel, Testosterone, Snake Icon, Ratchet 12, Burst Hammer. Snake Barrel, Plasma Conduit, Crimson Trigger, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ancient Junk(5) Ratchet 13, Snake Trigger, Plasma Conduit, Crimson Barrel, Plasma Coil, Snake Barrel, Testosterone. Crimson Trigger, Burst Hammer, Snake Icon ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. MONKEY MOUNTAIN (North of Alice One) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The trader based at the hut at the top of the first track up the mountain, assembles items and maps. To "read" a map, select it in your inventory and then choose the command "Use". ---- MAPS ---- Old Document: Putting the four maps together will lead you to the legendary treasure 1. Torn Map/Piece of a Map/Half of a Map/Map Scrap = Priceless Map ------------------------------------------------------------------ Torn Map: I hid the treasure Piece of a Map: at Junk Mountain Half of a Map: ...The combination is 2... Map Scrap: ...946 Priceless Map: I hid the treasure at Junk Mountain. The combination is 2946 (This is the solution to the Junk Mountain safe code!) 2. Secret Map/Old Map/Pirate Map/ Priceless Map = Legendary Map ---------------------------------------------------------------- Secret Map: Treasure lies nestled in between the tall peaks. Iwasaki Lab: golden statue (to the right of lab) Old Map: Treasure lies to the northwest of the tower veiled by sandstorms. Ziggurat: lump of gold (by big rock) Pirate Map: Treasure lies where the old shelter meets the two ports. between Dowan and Lorelei Bay: found by salvage. Priceless Map: I hid the treasure at Junk Mountain..2946. Legendary Map: The legendary treasure lies where the four treasures meet. Drawing imaginary lines between these four locations it bisects around Isle W. Upstater has correctly identified this as found through salvage to the east of Lorelei Bay in the lake. It is identified as "Treasure" ----- ITEMS ----- Assemble by putting together these parts in this order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One Two Three Four RESULT! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Talon Iguana Tooth Junk Junk Iguanodon Horn Iguana Tooth Junk Junk Freak of Natur Large Jawbone Small Hand Fang Junk Tyrannosaurus Head Backbone Arm Fossil Bouquet Primeval Man Large Fang Jumbo Ear Cyclop's Head Meat Slab Mammoth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (credit to blackpyre and Silva Shado for identifying this last one) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. RETIREMENT COMPOUND (northeast of Lorelei Bay) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the foyer you'll find the Rich Old Man, who will assemble figurines. Items for these are mostly found through salvaging in Dowan's Garage. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One Two Three Four FIGURINE! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cylinder Piece Handle Unknown Item Junk Earthenware Left Hand Right Hand Body Tube Fabric Swatch Clay Icon Arm Segment Shades Frame Jacket Scrap Steel Can Scrap Android Body Part Head Fragment Chest Piece Junk Clay Figure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. LORELEI BAY: PROFESSOR GREY (at higher level of Town) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Grey assembles LOVE machine items, for which you need to find the right parts. Ask her to assemble and you can use the same command to ask her to disassemble the item. Some of the items appear to have no use at all, others can be used on the field and others in battle. They do not disappear after use. If you have found all the Chips you can have three items assembled for use. The trick here is to assemble three useful items using up all the Chips. Useful combinations of three items have been found by blackpyre and Silva Shado. No-one knows what use the mysterious item might have, but it might have some function so it has been included in the list of possible combinations as detailed. (Many thanks again for these) -------------- Chips location -------------- L1 Bioenergetics Lab L2 Bioenergetics Lab L3 Isle West, north of trader camp O1 Bioenergetics Lab O2 Dowan, SE road O3 Dowan, island to the south west V1 Morgue Town, lower floor of sewers V2 Red Mobster's building, south of Forever Land V3 Dowan, south west wood E1 Bioenergetics Lab E2 Forever Land southeast field E3 Muscle Cathedral southern wood ------------------- Useful Combinations ------------------- 1323 Locates an enemy in stealth. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3211 Temporarily raises your chance of first strike. 1321 Draws an out-of-range enemy closer. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3213 Lowers encounter rate temporarily. 1313 Forces an underwater machine enemy to surface. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3221 Fixes chassis on broken vehicle parts. 1223 Battle item. Hits enemies in stealth. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3311 Mysterious item. Pleasantness increased. 1221 Battle item. Hits enemies out-of-range. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3313 A mysterious item. 1213 Battle item. Hits underwater enemies. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3321 A mysterious item. 1211 Battle item. Hits airborne enemies. 2132 Locates nearby enemies. 3323 A mysterious item. 1133 A mysterious item. 2211 Draws the enemy's attention to the user. 3322 A mysterious item. 1133 A mysterious item. 2212 Turns the enemy's attention to the hunter. 3321 A mysterious item. 1133 A mysterious item. 2221 Prevents enemies from fleeing 80% of the time. 3312 A mysterious item. 1133 A mysterious item. 2311 Extinguishes fire. 3222 Detects buried items on the field. 1133 A mysterious item. 2312 Neutralizes acid. 3221 Fixes chassis on broken vehicle parts. 1133 A mysterious item. 2321 Neutralizes poison. 3212 No encounters with low-level foes temporarily. 1231 Battle item. Hits sheltered enemies. 2322 Cures stun. 3113 Increases turn rate during battle. 1133 A mysterious item. 2322 Cures stun. 3211 Temporarily raises your chances of first strike. ASSEMBLY DETAILS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLLLLLL OOOOOOO VVVVVVV EEEEEEE RESULT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L1 Chip O1 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1111 Battle item (explosive) E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1112 Battle item(beam) E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1113 Battle item(sonic) V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1121 Battle item. Sets target on fire E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1122 Battle item(electric) E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1123 Battle item(ice) V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1131 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1132 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1133 A mysterious item ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O2 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1211 Battle item. Hits airborne enemies E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1212 Battle item. Hits underground enemies E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1213 Battle item. Hits underwater enemies V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1221 Battle item. Hits enemies out of range E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1222 Battle item. Hits high altitude enemies E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1223 Battle item. Hits enemies in stealth V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1231 Battle item. Hits sheltered enemies E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1232 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1233 A trumpet-like wind instrument (same as bugle)* ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O3 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1311 Forces an airborne machine enemy to land E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1312 Unearths an underground enemy E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1313 Forces an underwater machine enemy to surface V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1321 Draws an out-of-range enemy closer E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1322 Forces all high altitude machine foes to descend E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1323 Locates an enemy in stealth V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 1331 Exposes a sheltered enemy E2 Chip LOVE Mach 1332 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 1333 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLLLLLL OOOOOOO VVVVVVV EEEEEEE RESULT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L2 Chip O1 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2111 It can't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2112 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2113 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2121 Removes mushrooms E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2122 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2123 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2131 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2132 Locates nearby enemies E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2133 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O2 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2211 Draws the enemy's attention to the user E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2212 Turns the enemy's attention to hunter E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2213 Prevents certain enemies from self- destructing V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2221 Prevents enemies from fleeing 80% of the time E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2222 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2223 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2231 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2232 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2233 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2311 Extinguishes fire E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2312 Neutralizes acid E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2313 Restarts a vehicle from shutdown V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2321 Neutralizes poison E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2322 Cures stun E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2323 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 2331 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 2332 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 2333 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LLLLLLL OOOOOOO VVVVVVV EEEEEEE RESULT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- L3 Chip O1 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3111 Increases Attack during battle E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3112 Increases attack during battle E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3113 Increases turn rate during battle V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3121 Increases turn rate during battle E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3122 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3123 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3131 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3132 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3133 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O2 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3211 Temporarily raises your chances of First Strike E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3212 No encounters with low-level foes temporarily E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3213 Lowers encounter rate temporarily V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3221 Fixes chassis on broken vehicle part E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3222 Detects buried items on the field E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3223 It doesn't seem to do anything at all V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3231 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3232 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3233 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O3 Chip V1 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3311 A mysterious item Pleasantness increased E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3312 A mysterious item - *Manliness increased! E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3313 A mysterious item - *Sweetness increased! V2 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3321 A mysterious item - *Passion increased! E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3322 A mysterious item - *Motivation increased! E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3323 A mysterious item - *Heals you 1 point per use. V3 Chip E1 Chip LOVE Mach 3331 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E2 Chip LOVE Mach 3332 It doesn't seem to do anything at all E3 Chip LOVE Mach 3333 It doesn't seem to do anything at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * All these item descriptions are thanks to Paull ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. DR. OPTICA'S LAB (Located at the northern most point of the lake.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Assembles lenses -------------- LENS LOCATIONS -------------- 1. Talk to Dr Solomon: in Junkyard to get a Camera Lens. 2. Talk to Sebastian in Beldaire Mansion entrance hall to get a Glasses Lens. 3. Buy from Alice One W. trader camp: trader outside right hand tent sells Ruby Lens for 5000g. 4. From Danny at Forever Land. He will be in the garden. You agree to plough the field for planting potatoes. (You don't actually do anything!) He gives you Solar Lens. NOTE: it may be that you have to get the lens from Sebastian last of all, and he may not be in the entrance hall. You can find him in one of the rooms. (Credit to blackpyre and Silva Shado) ------------- LENS ASSEMBLY ------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLAR LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Solar Lens Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Camera Lens Lens Saber 1 Ruby Lens Camera Lens Glasses Lens Lens Saber 2 Glasses Lens Ruby Lens Camera Lens Lens Saber 3 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Ruby Lens Lens Saber 4 Camera Lens Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Lens Saber 5 Camera Lens Glasses Lens Ruby Lens Lens Saber 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lens Saber 1: 242 Melee lens weapon: explosive Rashid Lens Saber 2: 242 Melee lens weapon: stuns bio enemies Rashid Lens Saber 3: 242 Melee lens weapon: beam Rashid Lens Saber 4: 242 Melee lens weapon: sonic Rashid Lens Saber 5: 242 Melee lens weapon: fire Rashid Lens Saber 6: 242 Melee lens weapon: electric Rashid ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RUBY LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ruby Lens Glasses Lens Solar Lens Camera Lens Bazooka Laser 1 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Solar Lens Bazooka Laser 2 Solar Lens Glasses Lens Camera Lens Bazooka Laser 3 Solar Lens Camera Lens Glasses Lens Bazooka Laser 4 Camera Lens Glasses Lens Solar Lens Bazooka Laser 5 Camera Lens Solar Lens Glasses Lens Bazooka Laser 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bazooka Laser 1 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits airborne enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 2 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits underground enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 3 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits underwater enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 4 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits out-of-range enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 5 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits high-altitude enemies Charlene Bazooka Laser 6 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits enemies in stealth Charlene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GLASSES LENS Lens 2 Lens 2 Lens 3 Result! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Glasses Lens Camera Lens Ruby Lens Solar Lens Lens Saber 7 Glasses Lens Camera Lens Solar Lens Ruby Lens Bazooka Saber 7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Title Attack Description Used by ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lens Saber 7 242 Melee lens weapon: ice Rashid Bazooka Laser 7 242 Ranged lens weapon: hits sheltered enemies Charlene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ =============================================================================== 3. BARS AND WHAT TO DO IN THEM .......................................... 0122 =============================================================================== 1. Sell things. Many items that you acquire from monster drops can be sold to the bartender for a better price than at a shop. I don't know why. It just is that way. 2. Illegally download music. Get this from the jukebox and play it back at any time from the satcom. You can also listen to the music by selecting the track from the jukebox. Try it out. 3. Download a videogame. One is called crossfire. Have a go playing it if you like. It costs 100g a go on the machine. You can win cash if you are good at this. I didn't bother with it as there are better ways to get money, but some people are very good at it. Your score will be recorded in the end game stats, and you can win special items from this. 4. Bet. The other down-loadable game is called Frog race. Bet on a frog to win. Or lose. 5. Drinking competition. Accept a challenge to a drinking game. The drinking one is available in some bars and you can select whoever you want to play it. 6. Dance. Another mini-game. There are rewards for this one. The usual matching the button presses. But it is not that easy. Especially if you have been drinking. 7. Stay at the inn. Some bars have inns upstairs. There are usually three room rates and some rooms have treasure in them. One will often have a mosquito, which bites and unless you possess the Fly Spray in your inventory you lose 1 HP. [Big deal!] 8. Buy a drink for yourself. Obviously. Talk to the bartender and you can buy a drink. The names of the drinks are fun, and each one the Hunter drinks will get a different reaction from him. Worth having one of everything, especially as they are cheap. 9. Buy a round. If you are feeling flush you can buy drinks for everyone at the bar. This is expensive and so far I have not found out what effect, if any, this might have. Except that it makes everyone friendly and you end up spending loads of money if you try this at every bar. Which, of course, I have. Easy come, easy go. (I am convinced that this yields another title, but if it does, I haven't any evidence...yet.) 10. Chat/Trigger an EVENT. Talk to the people there. Sometimes you will find useful information about local monsters and the best weapons to use. Sometimes talking to people or entering a bar will trigger an event. =============================================================================== 4. BIG MEDALS: THE FULL LIST BUT ARE THEY WORTH THE EFFORT? ............. 0123 =============================================================================== ALERT: Confirmed glitch, which makes it impossible to get all the 80 Big Medals This is the full story of the BIG MEDALs and the attempts by the Metal Saga message board at GameFAQs to discover the truth. The issue of the 80 BIG MEDALs, which can be found in various places throughout the world of Metal Saga, has vexed just about everyone who has played the game. In fact a member of the message board asked about them in an e-mail written to Atlus. With Dimon101's permission I reprint the BIG MEDAL question and their answer: "The 80 BIG MEDAL quest (if it is 80 medals?). We are all aware that you give these medals to the guy in the Junkyard's warehouse. The only problem is one of the players said there is a possible bug that makes getting all 80 impossible. He stated that, "When you pick up the one in junkyard, the one from Hell's Keep disappears". It would help us all if we could have a complete list of where they are all to see if there is a way to actually get them all, as no one yet has found a way to receive all of them at this time." From Michael Meeker at Atlus.com "We are not aware of any such bug in the game. If it exists, then we deeply regret the inconvenience; however, we were able to find all the Medals in the game without encountering any trouble like that. Unfortunately, there is no list of the Medal locations." So they say it is possible to get them all, but no-one seems to have done so, so I do not know what the reward might be if you do get them all. However this is not the whole story. There appear to be certain conditions for getting some of them, for example, having no money when entering LORELEI BAY for the first time, and removing your weapons and armour before entering the Muscle Cathdral, which are annoying to do or remember and given the lack of an end result it hardly seems worth the extra effort. TemplarKnight recently confirmed the pointlessness of the BIG MEDAL quest on the Metal Saga message boards: " The "medal bug" works both ways. You can either choose to get the one that is in the barrel in Junkyard, or the one inside HK inn (check fire extinguisher). You can't get both, because when you get one of the above, the other one disappears." This confirms that you cannot get all 80 BIG MEDALS, and the only point of giving them to the medal collector in JUNKYARD is to prevent your storage from getting cluttered up with BIG MEDALs. ANSWER to question then is NO. They are not worth the effort. Yet for some stupid reason I cannot stop myself from collecting them...and if you still want to get all I have included the locations in the walkthrough. UPDATE In trying to complete this FAQ I also wrote to Atlus and asked about the reward for the Big Medal quest and Michael Meeker also gave an answer to this. Since it has been the subject of such heated debate I have hidden the answer near the end of the FAQ. Find it if you really want to know! (February 24th 2007) ================================ FULL LIST OF BIG MEDAL LOCATIONS ================================ With grateful thanks to TemplarKnight who did all the work, posted the list on the `Metal Saga message board, and gave me permission to use it here. BIG MEDAL Location Guide. ------------------------- Press Control + F, or Command +F (macs) and write in the code to track down the location of every Big Medal. -------- Junkyard -------- #01 Drum opposite of the hunter's office (*Condition: you haven't taken the medal in Hell's Keep Inn.) #02 The well in front of Dr. Mortem's Lab. #03 The end of the corridor with the junk pile in Dr. Mortem's lab #04 Outside your house on the second floor, search the air conditioning unit. ------- Newfolk ------- #05 The steel pipes in the middle of town. #06 The corner of the fence behind the bar at the top left of town. #07 The plant in the inn's hallway. #08 The trash can in the kitchen in Misha/Kiriya's house. ------------------- Abandoned Buildings ------------------- #09 Building 1, locker outside the 2nd floor elevator. #10 Building 2, take the left door and follow the stairs to floor 2 and 3, then take the other stairs back to floor 1, in the lockers. #11 Building 3, locker outside the 2nd floor elevator. --------- East Zero --------- #12 On the bed of the house to the south of the bar. #13 In the water trough just behind the buildings to the right of the town entrance. ------- Bio Lab ------- #14 2nd floor in a locker in the first room to the right. #15 2nd floor in a locker in the last room to the right. -------- Beldaire -------- #16 The old lady's house, 2nd floor, search the bed. #17 The old lady's house, 2nd floor, search the cabinets. #18 Search the bench in front of the house to the right of the Inn. #19 The right-hand fountain outside Arthur's House. #20 Arthur's House, 1st floor, left wing, first room on the right, search the sink. #21 Arthur's House, 1st floor, left wing, second room on the right, search the china cabinet. #22 Arthur's House, 1st floor, right wing, second room on the left, search the cabinets. #23 Arthur's House, 1st floor, right wing, third room on the left, search the cabinets. #24 Arthur's House, 2nd floor, top hallway, first room from the right, search the books on the desk. ------------------------ Colonel Blueberry's Fort ------------------------ #25 Second floor switch room, search the lockers. #26 Second floor switch room, search the lockers. -------- Torikami -------- #27 The corner of the fence left of the entrance of town. #28 The red box on the left of the inside of the equipment shop. #29 The middle section of the steps to Kaede's house. #30 The broken Lamp on the right, just over the bridge to Kaede's House. #31 The gong in the house to the left of Kaede's house. ----------- Morgue Town ----------- #32 The vending machine outside. #33 2nd floor down, lockers in the 2nd room on the left. #34 3rd floor down, lockers in the 3rd room on the left. --------- Alice One --------- #35 The cactus to the right of the Hunter's Office. #36 The fire extinguisher at the end of the hall in the Inn. --------------------------- Continental Railroad Tunnel --------------------------- #37 Search the backhoe to the right of the tunnel. --------------- Monkey Mountain --------------- #38 Search the fence with towels hanging from it. ------------------------------ Continental Railroad Extension ------------------------------ #39 The locker in the building to the right. #40 Between the piles of dirt to the left. --------- Neverland --------- #41 To the left of the building outside. #42 The desk on the back wall of Robby's shop. #43 The end of the hallway on the first floor. #44 The locker in the first room on the first floor down. #45 The shelves in the food room on the second floor down (sweet potato room). #46 The room with the kid with the hair on the second floor down, search the boxes. #47 The room with the kid with the hair on the second floor down, search the shelves. ----- Dowan ----- #48 Search the shelves in the repair garage. #49 In front of the house farthest to the right from the item shop. #50 On the top right of the big block of metal containers on the way to Shaka Khan. #51 To the left of the door leading down to Shaka Khan's lair. ------------------------- Father Muscle's Cathedral ------------------------- *NOTE: Unequip all of your items before entering the cathedral or else you can't get a medal. #52 Locker on the top wall of the training room. #53 The picture of Father Muscle on the first room to the right on the second floor. #54 In the "executive testing" room, search the first tanning bed. #55 There's a box outside of the tanning room where the medal will be if you unequipped your items (confirmed). ----------- Lorelei Bay ----------- #56 The left wall inside the equipment shop. #57 The trash can outside on the right of the equipment shop. #58 The trash can inside the first house on the top level of town. #59 The sink in the old man's house where you pick the lock. #60 On the back of the lighthouse near Muscle Training #3. ------------------ Dr. Palms Tank Lab ------------------ #61 Dr. Palm's Desk. #62 The nightstand in Dr. Palm's Room. -------------- Scavenger Isle -------------- #63 The lookout tower on the top right of town. #64 The middle barrel in the barrel pushing area. #65 The right shelf behind the armor Tile/ammo refill dude. #66 The 3 metal pipes to the left of the guy fishing. ---------------- Doc Optica's Lab ---------------- #67 The sink by the stairs. #68 The right of the sink. #69 The rack to the right of the paper targets downstairs. --------------- Retirement Home --------------- #70 In the middle room on the right, search the lockers. #71 In a box in the basement (*Condition: You can't have given MC Hamir money yet - confirmed) #72 In a box in the basement (*Condition: You can't have been mugged by the Denture gang yet, OR have had no money on you for them to steal) -------------- Wilco's Garage -------------- #73 The back of the truck outside the garage. #74 Under the sink in Wilco's room. ---------- Fort Gears ---------- #75 The tank on the top right of town. ------------- Antitank Fort ------------- #76 Search the crate in the empty yard in the top middle of town. #77 Search the barrels in the middle of the tent to the lower right of town. ----------- Hell's Keep ----------- #78 Search the trashcan outside the bar. #79 Search the dead end at the top of town. #80 It's in the fire extinguisher in the inn, but only if you haven't taken the medal from the junkyard. =============================================================================== 5. ENDINGS AND HOW TO GET THEM (TAKE YOUR PICK!) ....................... 0124 =============================================================================== There are a number of possible endings to the game. Although I have written about some already in the place accounts, this is a detailed account of all but one. So far as I am aware there are 11 possible endings. 1. Mechanic: 3 2. Marriage: 2 3. Muscle: 2 4. End of the World: 2 5. Save the World: 2 ========================== 1. MECHANIC: THREE ENDINGS ========================== ------- a) NINA ------- The game begins with a woman (your mother) called NINA asking you if you want to become a hunter. When she finishes talking there are two options: "I'm going to become a hunter/I'll be a mechanic." If you choose to be a mechanic.....the game ends! Nina: So? Will you try out something more stable than being a hunter? Hunter: I'm going to become a hunter. OK. I'll be a mechanic. Choose the second option. New screen with Nina and "Hunter" in the garage workshop talking, standing on either side of a tank. Nina: It looks like my little boy is all grown up now. you are my son, after all, so it only makes sense that you'd become the best mechanic around. I've always believed in you. New screen with Eddy and Emily talking at the table upstairs in the garage. Eddy: He's really settled down you know? Emily: You mean "Hunter"? Eddy: Yeah. You'd think he was born to be a mechanic. Emily: To be a --- You know Dad, "Hunter" is working really hard. Eddy: I know...Nina's a good teacher. I'm sure he'll be the best mechanic around. But he's my son too...I always thought he's make a good hunter. Emily: ...... Eddy: What? Emily: Are you actually jealous? Eddy: Huh? Well, how can I say this..? I guess I'm jealous...Maybe a little. When he was a kid, he always ran around saying, "I wanna be a hunter like Daddy when I grow up!"...I guess I just got my hopes up. Emily: ..... Eddy: It's his life, though. He can make his own decisions. Being a hunter is far from easy..As a parent, it is nice not to be worried about him dying...I guess. Black screen: message ---------------------- And so "Hunter" inherited the family business, spending his life as a mechanic. He would never fight a giant flying manta ray...Nor would he find a pet dog with heavy artillery on its back. No. He wouldn't even encounter a cult of body-builders obsessed with ab toning and proper waxing techniques. Truly "Hunter" lived one of the most boring lives ever imagined. Sure, he eventually gets married and has a few kids, who go on to lead equally dull and boring lives. And, of course he dies quietly in bed. But.every man dies---not every man truly awakens an attractive female robotic weapon designed long ago by scientists that time forgot. "Hunter didn't anyway. That's for sure. This is the first of many possible game endings ------------------ b) EMILY: Ending 1 ------------------- At any time, by talking to your sister EMILY, you can also choose to be a mechanic. At any time when you speak to Emily you get 4 options: I'm just taking a break I've quip being a hunter I came to see you Nothing really Select the second. Emily: What!? You'd really give up your dream of being a hunter? Hunter: Ha ha. I'm just kidding Yup. It was just a dream Select the second Emily: If you've made up your mind, then I can't stop you, but... Don't you think you should save before you make any rash decisions? Hunter: Yes. Save early, save often! Saving is for chumps Select the second Emily: I guess you're really serious about this. Welcome home. Black screen: message --------------------- And so...(Hunter) retired from the thrilling world of being a hunter It's said that he led a dull and boring life in relative peace. It wasn't so bad really, once he learned how to tune out the soul-crushing shame and guilt that came about when he gave up on life before it ever really got started. Sucks to be y--, er, him. I guess. -------------------------------------------------------- c) EMILY: Ending 2: post Ziggurat and successful outcome -------------------------------------------------------- After the game has ended and you have a gold star, use this save file to see another mechanic ending. It starts the same as before but continues and finishes differently. As before, speak to Emily. I'm just taking a break I've quip being a hunter I came to see you Nothing really Select the second. Emily: What!? You'd really give up your dream of being a hunter? Hunter: Ha ha. I'm just kidding Yup. It was just a dream Select the second Emily: If you've made up your mind, then I can't stop you, but... Don't you think you should save before you make any rash decisions? Hunter: Yes. Save early, save often! Saving is for chumps Select the second Emily: MOM! Hunter's come back home! New Screen: the family sitting round the dining table Eddy: ...And that's what happened. Things were pretty serious this time. Emily: That's incredible, Dad. Nina: ...I know it's easy to forget when you're running on adrenaline...But, next time at least warn me that you'll be coming home. Eddy: Y-Yeah, sure. Nina: What about you, Hunter? I'm sure you've got some stories to tell. Fill us in on all the things you've seen and done around the world. End credits. Then when you select the "See you again" on screen message: Nina: So, you want to be a hunter? (Not this again...) Black Screen: Message --------------------- Hunter's exploits will continue as long as there's still a world that can support his love of adventure. ======================== 2. MARRIAGE: TWO ENDINGS ======================== -------- a) MISHA -------- You can marry Misha, and give her gifts. If you marry her the game will end. But it is worth while seeing it. When you go to see Misha at any point in the game (in the garage at Newfolk), you get three options; Wanna see the world Let's tie the knot Never Mind Select the second option. If Kiriya is with you there are additional comments Kiriya: What the hell? You never told said anything about this! Misha: ...... Hunter: ...... Misha: ...... Hunter: ...... Misha: Ummm..Alright. Count me in. Kiriya: What!? Misha: Oh. but would you like to save first. just in case? Two options: select the second A prenup--good idea Nah. I'm ready Misha: OK. if that's what you want. Hunter: ...... New scene: with Misha's parents upstairs Misha: ...So that's why we're here Hunter: ...... Nikolai: I see. Basically, it's the "Please let me marry your daughter" scenario. Wow, that brings back memories. I did that too back in the days. (He stands flapping his arms up and down?!) Martha: Oh my. I never knew that. Nikolai: ........Anyhow. I'm OK with it, but it's not what I think that matters. What's really important is that you two truly want to be together. Right dear? Martha: I agree. But, shouldn't we consult Hunter's parents too? Nikolai: Yes..Leave that to me. New Scene: with everyone at Junkyard garage dining table Nikolai: ...So, that's the story. What do you two think? Eddy: Hmm. I have no reason to object. If those two have made up their minds, then it's fine with me. You've already given them your blessing, right? Nikolai: Yes, we have. We're very excited for them. Eddy: Nina, what do you think? Nina: I don't know what to think. It's so sudden. Martha: There's nothing to worry about! Our daughter is a very hard worker! She could be your apprentice! Nina: I'm sure that's true. with you as her father. Nikolai: She's well-trained I guarantee it. Misha and Hunter would make a great team! She can work in the shop while he manages the business. Nina: I'm not worried about that...I just want them to be happy. Nikolai: Well, it's decided then. New Scene: with Dr Mortem, addressing everyone, and Misha in a wedding dress and Hunter in a black suit and red bow tie, and black helmet. Dr. Mortem: Technically, I'm supposed to say something profound here...but I doubt anyone would understand it. So let's just skip ahead... Misha: ....... Hunter: ....... Dr. Mortem: Unless there are any objections...yada,yada,yada. I now pronounce you husband and wife. Heeheeee! Black screen with bells ringing. Screen message reads: ------------------------------------------------------- And so, Hunter and Misha were happily married. Misha became Nina's apprentice, and Hunter took over managing the garage. Their business grew, and they started a franchise known as Spiffy Tube, which boasted a 10-minute ammo change that left the competition in the dust. Spiffy Tube grew rapidly, popping up across the landscape, until it was the subject of a news expose titled "Crooked Arms Dealers" which sent the company into financial ruin. Hunter once again resumed his role as a hunter, this time training a new generation in the subtle art of garbage picking. -------- b) RACHEL --------- You can also marry Rachel. You have to give her a wedding dress and not have Misha in your party when you go to visit her to see the dress. The conditions are quite difficult to meet, but thanks to Ernie, this is exactly how! 1. You must complete Jack's scenario to be given Rachel's pendant. 2. Buy her a wedding dress at the Anti-tank fortress, (you must also first have bought her a closet or chest). 3. Go to her room behind the bar in Junkyard, and enter as many times as needed to get her to wear the dress. This depends on how many other dresses you've given her, and it might take a while! 4. After hearing her comments, go out and reenter as many times as it takes until you get Hunter saying (as he's coming in the door) "Do you have a wedding dress?" 5. She goes into a spiel about how it is odd owning a wedding dress, etc, you must respond with "here's one who will". THE MARRIAGE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9hONzk9O6A&feature=channel_page Black screen with bells tolling Screen message reads: ------------------------------------------------------- And so, Hunter was happily wedded to Rachel forever. Things went well, though it took time for Hunter to adjust. In an ironic twist of events, Rachel spent most of her time at home, while Hunter could usually be found at the bar. =========================== 3. MUSCLE CULT: TWO ENDINGS =========================== ------------ a) JOIN CULT ------------ When you go to MUSCLE CATHEDRAL you can choose to join the cult. If you do that the game will, of course, end. Every time you are asked a question choose the reply saying that you want to join the cult. Eventually you will be in a room having been told to visit Father Muscle in his room upstairs. Exit from the room you are in and you are in a corridor. Go through the large double doors at the end and and up the stairs, to the top and along this corridor, and through the doors at the end. Up more stairs. Straight on and through the doors at the end. This is Father Muscle's room. Agree to take the executive test. There is a scene. Watch this and wait as you are told. The two people emerge completely altered to look just like the rest of the muscle girls and boys. Now it's your turn. Go on in and on to the device. You still have a choice. Say: I don't mind if I do. You get a scene of all 3 of the group posing in very skimpy clothing and the dog just sitting wagging his tail. I had Charlene and Misha and that was fun: Charlene was very buff! The screen message reads: ..From that day forward (HUNTER) lived life as a devoted follower of Gluteus Maximism. Every day he and the party followed a strict ascetic code: "Wake up, eat six pounds of ground hamburger. Do sit-ups. Go to the gym and work upper body. Jog five miles. Do push-ups. Eat a sensible lunch. Flex in the mirror and adjust afternoon jog accordingly. Go back to the gym to work lower body. One hundred squat thrusts. Participate in steak-eating context (dinner). Then continue light exercise until bed. " So it is written so shall it be done. Thanks be to bod. -------------------------- b) LOSE ANY BATTLE TO CULT -------------------------- The same ending will play if you lose any battle against the Gluteus Masimism guys and gals. You will see a picture of Hunter and whoever else he has in the party flexing their pecs in not much clothing, + dog wagging his tail, and the same message as before. ..From that day forward (HUNTER) lived life as a devoted follower of Gluteus Maximism (etc.) So it is written so shall it be done. Thanks be to bod. ==================================================== 4. END OF THE WORLD: EARTH IS DESTROYED: TWO ENDINGS ==================================================== And a third if you refuse to help Leon? --------- a) TIAMAT --------- Use the self deestruction code to blow up everything. The code is 3476, which, when translated into Japanese is a word meaning Sayonara! [Goodbye] (Thanks to Dimon101 for confirming this.) This is a unique ending, which is different from the Ziggurat one. Here it is in full in case you would prefer to read about it rather than actually go to the bother of traipsing through Tiamat to get it. Transport into Tiamat and go through into the room with the two transport pods. Take the one on the left, then out of the next room though the door to the bottom left, and you should be at the lift. Take the lift up to Floor 4. Go straight through here. This is the Tiamat control room. Go forward and a message will come on screen **** Self-destruct sequence initiated. **** Currently standing in Wait Mode. **** Please enter key code to continue with the final phase Enter Key Code? Two options: Guess I'd better/Ha! No way! Select the first option. (Are you feeling depressed right now? Yay. Let's blow up the world!) A new screen comes up for you to enter the password. Enter the numbers: 3476 using the directional buttons. Press Unlock and it says disabled. Exit the screen and a message appears to say: Key Code confirmed. Initiatating the final phase of self-destruct procedure... After a few seconds of red lights and sirens wailing you see the earth and a bright red flash. And that dear friends is how the world ended. There is no message. Just the credits. ----------- b) ZIGGURAT ----------- If you do not manage to defeat the missile in the Ziggurat then the end is not pleasant. " The missile rose high into sky where it exploded with a thunderous roar. Within a week. 90 percent of Earth's human population died. Shortly thereafter, the history of mankind came to an end. Most people simply lost consciousness and never woke again. But for those who were less fortunate, their remaining days were filled with pain and despair. No treatment for the bomb's effects was ever found. In man's absence, the reign of the cockroach began." =============================== 5. SAVE THE WORLD: TWO ENDINGS ============================== If you defeat the missile but then fail to defeat Alex, which is quite possible if you have lost all your tanks or used up all your ammo. (And, if like me, you have forgotten to bring a revitaliser.) --------------------------- a) Inside Dr Mortem's Place --------------------------- Dr. Mortem is seen next saying: By the power invested in him an electric shock. You are brought back to life as usual only this time Eddy and Leon are present! Eddy: ...I can't believe that thing actually brings back the dead. Leon: It's preposterous... Dr. Mortem: Well that's a rude thing to say, sonny! Show some respect! Igor: I glad to dig him out of wreckage and bring him here. Igor happy. Hunter: ..... Eddy: You did well, Hunter. ....Except for the whole dying part. Leon: We confirmed the missile's destruction, but...since Ziggurat started collapsing, we weren't sure what happened. Eddy: Alex came out a little worse for wear, so I sent him a few missiles of my own....Then I backed over him in the tank a few times for good measure. Leon: He's completely ceased functioning. Tthere is no chance of revival. Eddy: So the only thing we had left to worry ourselves sick about was you. ...Until Igor lumbered by, carrying your bodies. Dr. Mortem: Hee hee! You're one of my favorite cadavers! Stop by any time! Eddy: ...Not too soon we hope, right Doctor? Let's go home! Hey leon, need a lift? Leon: No, thank you. I have the transport pod. Eddy: You sure? This is last call. Leon: You two should hurry home. You have a family that's worried about you. Hunter: ....... Eddy: OK, then. Let's go home... New screen. Inside garage. Eddy: Hey, we're home! Emily: It's Dad!..and Hunter too! Welcome home! Nina: This is a nice surprise. It's been a while since you were both home. Eddy: Hmmm...? You're right. I think this is the first time that we've both come home together. Hunter: ..... Eddy: But, who cares! It's time for us to relax... Emily: I agree. You two must be hungry! I'll get started on dinner. Eddy: Mmm...I haven't had a home-cooked meal in what seems like forever! Hunter: ...... Nina: We'll be right upstairs getting things ready. Eddy: Gotcha. (Nina leaves) Eddy: Having a family is the most important thing...don't you think? Hunter: ...... Eddy: But, you saved more people than just us. You saved everyone else, and all their families. All over the world. ...'Course, none of them know about what you did. So that kinda sucks.. Hunter: ..... Eddy: But, I'm proud of you. You should be too. Black screen. Upstairs at dining table Eddy: ...And that's when things got really serious... Emily: That's incredible Dad! Nina: ...I don't care how serious it was, you still should have called. At least let me know when you're planning to come back home, next time. Eddy: Y-Yes, dear. Nina: You shouldn't do all the talking. What about Hunter? Tell us about the things you've seen and the adventures you've had... Hunter: ..... END ================= b) SAVE THE WORLD ================= The actual end. See the section on END GAME (at the end of the main walkthrough) for details and your own game. =============================================================================== 6. EVENTS EXTRA (script details) ........................................ 0125 =============================================================================== 1. Charlene and Forever Land 2. Marrying Rachel 3. Emily's Suitor 4. Dr. Mortem's "Challenge" 5. Jack and Wayne 6. Professor Grey and Hunter's New Arm 7. Professor Grey and Scarlet 8. Rosa and Carl 9. Rosa and Tank and Carl 10. Arthur and Rosa and Marriage 11. Kiriya and Disassembler 12. Nikolai and Growgaine 13. Murasame in the Ziggurat 14. Eddy helps out in the garage 15. Rumoured Events 16. Alpha's Tank Part Unusual events abound and sometimes it is hard to know what triggers a particular one. These are a few that I found mostly in the later stages of the game, that are not directly story related. ------- Rumours ------- Because Metal Saga has no English guide book there is a lot of speculation about the 800 events that the Atlus people say are in the game. Although some of these events may be very minor things, players know that there are many different scenarios, so where possible I have recorded them in full. Some of the events I have described in detail and others I am not sure about. I have heard that they exist but have either not found them or not noticed them. Any further information on these events please let me know. ---------------------------- 1. Charlene and Forever Land ---------------------------- I know this event happens as a number of posters on the GameFAQs message boards have seen it and Atlus has confirmed it. So far as I am aware this is triggered by having Charlene in your party when you first visit Forever Land. You have to keep entering and exiting on foot until Golem comments on Charlene. You also must see the poster for Shahka Khan in Down Hunter's office and after Golem leaves Forever Land defeat Khan with Charlene in your party. For some reason I have not yet been able to trigger this event. ------------------ 2. Marrying Rachel ------------------ Despite the fact that I know this is possible, so far I have not managed to persuade Rachel to marry Hunter. Giving her gifts can be a problem because she is not keen on female competition and so Misha must not be in your party when you go and visit Rachel. Also, when there are challengers waiting in the bar she will not be in her room. You must visit her without Misha. To be on the safe side I also ditched Charlene and Alpha but so far this has failed to persuade her. I have witnessed these conversations in my relentless pursuit of Rachel. If you persist with the gifts and visiting her eventually I got this enigmatic and puzzling conversation, though as yet I do not know how to trigger the marriage. After defeating all outlaws (not sure if this is essential), keep talking to her until she says: Rachel: .... Kiriya: ....??? Rachel: ..... Rashid: ....Hm? Rachel: ....Well that's a little strange too. Hunter: ....? Rachel: It's nothing, never mind Hunter: .... Me: ????? She won't marry you if you do this ----------------------------------- Go and see Rachel with the two girls and keep talking to Rachel until there is a silent exchange then she says: Rachel: Huh...I understand Hunters are really popular with girls, aren't they? Is that why you wanted to be one so badly? Select: Huh?/I'm a true playa' Huh? Rachel: Oh please! I'm really disappointed in you. And you can forget about me, OK? I'm not that type of girl! Just go away--I'm very busy and there's a lot to take care of. I'm a true playa' Rachel: ...... Hunter: ...... Rachel: ...... Hunter: ......? Rachel: ......Oh, that's nice. I'm sure a popular hunter like you could get any girl you wanted! Don't let me waste any more of your time! ...I wouldn't want to keep you from meeting any "fly hunnies". Go and have fun with your floozies, OK? I hope you have a great life and lots of little hunter children... (...With all those bimbos, you could practically father an army. Jerk!) ----------------- 3. Emily's Suitor ----------------- In the latter part of the game having defeated 30 outlaws, spoken to Emily saying I came to see her, (the third option on screen), and after giving Emily a few gifts, this event occurred. (It can occur much earlier in the game so I am not sure what the trigger might be.) On the way out of the garage someone runs up to the tank saying: ????: Excuse me you must be ..Miss Emily's brother, right? W-Well, my name is Stan. Er, that is, there's something I'd like to talk to you about! Hunter: ...... Stan: D-Does miss Emily have um. a specific man in mind...I mean , does she have a boyfriend or you know..like that? Hunter: ...... My sister? I assume so. My sister? Ha! No way. That's none of my business Select the third option: Stan: Wha-huh? It has to b-be one or the other...! Is she dating a guy or isn't she? This is an important turning point in my life! It's my last chance...I have to know the truth! B-But ...if her own brother doesn't know, then she probably doesn't! there could still be hope! Yeeeeeeeeeaaahh-HA! Woo! He runs off. (I don't know if there is a sequel to this) ------------------------- 4. Dr. Mortem's Challenge ------------------------- Towards the end of the game you will see a soldier in the graveyard outside Dr. Mortem's church in Junkyard. Speak to him and he says: "That machine is incredible! It brings back the dead with electric shocks! So doesn't the machine deserve more credit than the doctor?" An Agent in black is suddenly shown at the bottom of the steps saying: "A device that revives the dead...? It must be from before the Great Destruction. " He disappears. Go back inside the church and speak to Dr Mortem. He says "Oh it's you again. Did you bring any fresh corpses?" when suddenly there is a loud crash. Dr M: Wh-What was that!? Igor: Doctor, sounds come from outside. Dr.M: Hurry, Igor! We have to find out what happened. Igor: Yes doctor They leave and you see them outside facing two soldiers. Dr M: Eh? Who're you people? Biff: Aha! You must be Dr. Martin! Dr. M: ...... Igor: ...... Montoya: Watch it, bro. I think we totally spooked these squares! Dr. M: (should I correct him?) ...What do you want? Biff: Heh, we don't want nothin' from you, we just need that machine, there! Dr. M: What!? Biff: You hand it over and we won't do nothing...But, if you don't... ...It's gonna get painful. You follow me? Montoya: Damn we're cool, bro! Hunter and party appear outside the door of the church. Dr M. Oh Hunter! You came at a great time! Biff: Huh...? Y-You hired a hunter? Dammit! How'd you know we were comin'!? Montoya: Let's get 'em! Biff: I really didn't want to hurt you ...But, tht's the only way, now! Dr. M. This is your fight Hunter. If anything happens, I'll fix you right up.. Dr. M and Igor leave and go back inside the church. Biff: Yer not ready for this! Fight! After the fight a black screen shows, and then the Junkyard bar with Connie and Clive sitting at a table. Connie: ...Well, that certainly didn't work. Clive: Were you really expecting that much from them? Connie: Hmph... No. Clive: I'm pretty sure that only the doctor can use the machine, anyway. It wouldn't do us much good... Connie: Boss doesn't seem too interested in this, either. Clive: Saves us time trying again, then! Shall we go back, now? Connie: Yeah, Let's go. Black screen. Outside church with Igor and Dr M again Dr. M: Looks like we're safe now. Good work Hunter! Hunter: ..... Dr. M. Taking my machine wouldn't have done them any good...Only I can use it. At least I have fresh bodies to experiment on now! END UPDATE: destynova1 raised an interesting additional point about this event: what happens if you lose to Biff and Montoya? I do not know. If you do please let me know and I can include the alternative event! ------------------------ 5. Jack and Wayne Events ----------------------- DERRINGER JACK: OUTLAW. INCLUDES ALL THE POSSIBLE EVENTS Go in to Junkyard bar and speak to Jack and he says: Hey kid.. An event scene is about to happen. A hunter rushes in and says: "..Derringer Jack, I presume? We want the reward not your life..so don't resist..and we won't kill ya. ....Probably." Jack plays it cool, but they say they are not stupid. Then the hunter says he sees how it is and how about this? Another man comes in with Rachel held as hostage. She cries Dad. Help! And "Ugh...Let go of me!! Jack Rachel! Hunter.....! The hunter that is after Jack says: You ARE Derringer Jack right? Jack is silent..the hunter threatens him: If you care about your daughter though..come outside and take this like a man. Jack is silent and then leaps over the bar and tells Hunter it is his problem and not to follow him out there. Charlene: We gotta help him! And there is a gun shot and you are outside. Jack has shot the guys. Three bodies lie on the ground. (They are not dead because they continue to talk about how tough Jack is.) He then says he has been a fool to think that a gun was only for self defense, but although he dreamt of a life without blood and guns he could not throw the gun away. That dream is over. he admits that he is a wanted criminal And then he asks: Which side are you on? You're my friend I'm a hunter ..I can't let you go. Now you can choose to fight Jack. If you do you get his bounty BUT the bar is then closed. Rachel is lost to you forever and you cannot fight Scarlet. So say: You're my friend. He is not impressed, but apologises to Rachel and says he'll be back someday. He leaves very fast having told Hunter that Nina will look after Rachel and that Rachel is in his hands now. Even after the bar is closed you can still get in using the lock pick. It is odd finding the whole place deserted. Hm maybe you shouldn't pick the lock. --------- KILL JACK ---------- I decided to see what happens if I take the other option. (This is the advantage of saving every time you enter a town, and of having the capacity to make a number of saves.) I can't let you go: heh..sorry kid. I didn't want it to come to this. But, I am a criminal...I won't go quietly. Rachel: Dada. Hunter! You have to stop! Jack. Sorry. I have to do this, Hunter! Fight begins. He is out of range and fast but: you have all four party members. Once he is defeated you get his gun: Derringer! short barreled pistol with an attack of only 68. With Hunter at level 100 and the girls at 65 or so it was easy though it took a few rounds. (You are on foot) Very sad music..actually this was so sad I cried. He falls to the ground and Rachel stand there with her head bowed. Jack: Ugh...Good job kid! Looks like you have your father's skill. Rachel: Hang in there , Dad! Jack: Rachel..I didn't want to leave you all alone...Forgive your old man... Rachel: Daddy... Jack: Rachel...You can't blame Hunter. This is just how the world works. They're the same rules I used to live by, before you came along... Rachel: Don't die, Daddy...No...Daddy-----------! And that is it. I would not recommend seeing this. It is way too sad. And you will hate yourself for making Rachel so unhappy. The compensation for this is that you get 100,000g reward for killing Jack. You also get a new title : Ruthless Killer. Derringer Jack --------------- 'A gunman who wields a pair of derringers. He's one of the toughest guns in the West and is charged with killing an innocent civilian." The bar is still open but not serving drinks. Go in and the regulars will talk about Jack and what a great guy he was, and one says that he is worried about Rachel. Go in Rachel's room. there is an old picture of her with her parents where everyone is smiling. She is looking at it and says: ....Just leave me alone.. Speak to Nina and she says: Jack..I'm sorry Hunter. I'm not really in a talking mood right now..I think I'll go take a walk or something. She leaves the garage. Emily tells you to go and see Rachel. She's all alone now. Go back and see her and this time she says: "Could you just..leave me alone for now? Please?" --------------- DON'T KILL JACK --------------- Once you leave.Junkyard there will be an email from Eddy: "Jack disappeared!? He might be in Morgue Town. Can you go look for him there?" He can't go himself as he is in the middle of something important. So do as he says. Go into the bar and speak to the trader nearest to the bar. He will tell you that there is a new guy in town. The other trader says there is an outlaw down in the sewers and a valuable item. Go down the corridor and into the last room on the right and speak to the Hunter dressed in green. He says: "That's surprising..Why would Crazy Wayne be here?..What's that? Oh, he went down there." You can save your game at the room next to this if you need to and then go down the ladder. In the next room there is a soldier who will tell you that the new guy went down into the sewer and that he was trying to get away from someone. So Jack is down there and Crazy Wayne is after him. Go down. Go right and down the steps into the water and straight on into the room with the raised platform. Go round and to the left to the next screen and up the steps and back to the right. As you move you suddenly her gunshots. WAYNE AND JACK --------------- You are now in the raised platform room and Wayne has Jack tied up on the end of a rope and us yelling Jaaaaack! I am going to finish you off! Jack: Ugh... Wayne: Normally ah'd hang you..but that's a right honourable death fer an outlaw like you. I reckon I'll gun you down like a dog instead. At this point Rachel appears. Rachel: Dad! Jack :... Rachel!? What're you...doing here? Wayne: You two brats better stay the heck outta mah way! (Hunter is standing with Rachel) Rachel: No! I won't let you do anything to my dad! Jack: Rachel! Don't come over here! Hunter: .....! CHOICE ------ Rescue Jack Stay where you are Select STAY ------------ Rachel runs towards them. Rachel: Please! Leave my dad alone! Wayne: ..Oh, os this your daughter, Jack? Jack: ...! Don't you dare lay a hand on her! Wayne: Hmph. I'm not a monster. I only deal with criminals. Alright , little lady..You can have a moment to say good bye to your father. Rachel walks over to Jack Rachel: Dad...? Jack: Rachel... She gets up and faces Wayne. Wayne: What in tarnation are you doin', little lady? Rachel: ...If you wanna shoot my dad, you'll have to shoot me first! (Standing in front of Jack and holding out her arms) Wayne: What!? Jack: Rachel! what are you doing!? Wayne: Now, now missy.. Let's not do anything ya'd regret later... Rachel: No! I.m not moving! Wayne: Hmph...This is quite the pickle. Hunter: ......! CHOICE ------ Rescue Rachel Watch how this plays out Select WATCH ------------ Wayne: ...... Rachel: ...... Jack: ...... Hunter: ...... Wayne: Damn.... Rachel: ....... Wayne: I can't get civilians involved in all this... Hunter: ....... Wayne: Today's yer lucky day, Jack. You take good care of that daughter of yours. Wayne: You're hunter, right? ..I;m reporting to the Hunter Association that I defeated Jack. Any objections? I'll give you the reward if you keep this quiet. You got my back? Jack: ...We both know you still coulda shot me without harming her, Wayne. What stopped you? Wayne: ...Nah. I've gotten a lot older'n you think. have a good life Jack. we ain't never gonna meet again. Jack: ........ Jack: Rachel...Hunter...Wayne... Rachel: Dad... Jack: Rachel, Hunter. I didn't mean to cause you so much trouble. C'mon, let's get home. Rachel: Of course. Daddy... Rachel: Hey Hunter...Make sure to stop by our place when you're in the area, y'hear? END: collect bounty. Visit Jack again in the bar and he will thank Hunter and you get his Derringer Gun! Visit Rachel in her room and she will give you her Pendant. Select: Rescue Jack/Rachel -------------------------- Wayne: Tarnation! Didn't I tell you city slickers not t'move!? Fight Wayne. Defeat him. Wayne: Ugh...I cornered him and everything..But it wasn't enough. I'm getting too old for this..(he disappears..dead?) Jack: Rachel...Hunter..Wayne... Rachel: Dad... Jack: Rachel, Hunter. I didn't mean to cause you so much trouble. C'mon, let's get home. Rachel: Of course. Daddy... Rachel: Hey Hunter...Make sure to stop by our place when you're in the area, y'hear? END: No bounty. --------------------------------------- 6. Professor Grey And Hunter's New Arm --------------------------------------- After Leon has left town for the Ziggurat (check this is so by speaking to the woman outside his house), go inside and you find a scene of carnage. NOTE: You must have had all the previous events with Scarlet for this event to trigger: In the bar at Junkyard, rescuing you from Mad Max and a follow up in the bar at Newfolk. Rashid: Incredible. By the look of these sword wounds, they probably never knew what hit them. The party automatically runs into the back room to see Scarlet. She swings her sword and Hunter falls to the ground clutching his arm. Scarlet: ...Damn... Rashid: Hunter! Scarlet: (Oh no...What did I do...?!) Scarlet: I, um...I'm sorry...I thought you were one of those black suit guys, so I ... Rashid: ...So, you're the one who's responsible for what happened here. Scarlet: We can discuss that later. Right now we should be figuring out a way to save his arm. Rashid: That may be true, but why should we trust someone like you? ...Are you alright Hunter? Black screen. Hunter lying on floor. Scarlet: ...Well, I treated your wound as best I could. Hunter: ..... Scarlet: You should get to a doctor right away. If you can't find one try Professor Grey in Lorelei Bay. I'm sure she'll be able to help you one way or another. Hunter: .... Scarlet: I'm really sorry about what happened. I hope you recover soon. She leaves and you are in the house. Leave and go and chat to people to get their reactions. For example. Jack: That's one hell of a wound! You shouldn't be just wandering around..If Rachel sees you like that, she's going to die" Nina: What happened to your arm!? It looks terrible.. This isn't a joke, you know! Emily is really funny: What happened to your...*faint* and she does. You can get responses from most of the characters with named pictures. When you have had enough of this, head to Lorelei Bay and visit Professor Grey. She tells Hunter that the arm is inoperable, but she can fit a cybernetic replacement. But it won't look very nice and will look artificial. You then have the choice to do nothing or go for the cybernetic arm. Choose the arm and she operates. Scarlet has paid the bill and you are now free to go. She says you can return for adjustments. Hunter gets a new title, "Cyber Hunter". After she has replaced your arm you can go around again and get more comments. Charlene: So they replaced yer arm? Suits you, Hunter. Arthur says it is better to lose your arm than your life, Rosa: Is your arm alright?...Oh thank goodness. Carl..Where on earth did you find a cybernetic engineer? ----------------------------- 7. Professor Grey and Scarlet ----------------------------- Stop at Prof. Grey's house in Lorelei Bay before fighting Scarlet, and after receiving your cybernetic arm and she is there on the table. Grey says she is undergoing a routine maintenance scan. Try talking to Scarlet and her eyes are closed and she looks pale, and says nothing. Scarlet: ..... Professor Grey: She can't talk right now; she's undergoing a routine maintenance scan. Hunter: ...... Professor Grey: ...Oh, you didn't know? You see, her entire body has been replaced with cybernetic parts..of her own free will of course. Whenever she stops by. I make sure everything is functioning properly. (If this event is in progress you cannot get the LOVE machine assembly.) ---------------- 8. Rosa and Carl ---------------- After giving Rosa quite a few gifts and visiting her in Beldaire she will tell you that Carl is really a girl. Go and see Carl and chose the second option and he will say no, and she will come in the room. It was just a joke. -------------------------------- 9. Rosa, Selling a Tank and Carl -------------------------------- After a lot of conversations about tanks, where you tell her about yours and she tells you about hers, eventually Rosa will ask to buy a tank. Say yes. (I lost the Wirbelwind *sob*) Go to the garage under the mansion and speak to Carl who will tell you that she is treating the tank (you gave her) as her prized possession, and keeping the same name, so she must really like it as she usually names her tanks after songs. ----------------------------- 10. Rosa, Arthur and Marriage ----------------------------- This only happened after the previous events so I think selling her the tank may be the trigger. However I also gave her a wedding dress, though she did not wear it. THE EVENT IN FULL ================= The first thing different this visit was that Sebastian was in the hall. On entering Rosa's room she was in the middle of a conversation with her Father, Arthur. Rosa :Absolutely not. I'm not the least bit interested Arthur:Rosa. Can't you at least meet him before you make up your mind? Rosa: I don't want to meet him. So. There's no point wasting his time. Please tell him that I decline. Arthur: But Rosa, my dear.. Rosa: Father. I have nothing more to say regarding this matter. Now please excuse me. Rosa: I'm sorry (HUNTER) can we talk some other time? She leaves and Arthur says: hmm...Sorry (HUNTER) I really must apologise for her behaviour *sigh* HUNTER: ? Arthur: Well, there is a gentleman who is interested in marrying Rosa. I suggested that she meet him, but...Well, you know. Hmmm...I just can't fathom why she is so against it. Well, that's for another time. I needn't be troubling you over it. (He leaves) Go out and enter another room, then re-enter Rosa's room R: How many times must I tell you Father? The answer is no. A: Very well. If you simply refuse to meet him. I won't insist any further. R: Then, ther's nothing left to talk about. A: Rosa, please don't be so insensitive. At the very least, I think he deserves to know the reason why you won't meet him. R....Can't you just make something up? A: So, am I to understand there is no reason? R.... A.... R. Alright, you win.....there's a reason. A: There is? R: Yes. A: Well then, what is it? R .....There's someone else---someone I hold very dear. Is that a good enough reason for you? A: Oh...I see..Well that's quite a surprise...listen rosa. You.. R: Father. I am not asking for your comments. Is that a good enough reason or not? A: Hmmm. Yes, yes it is, and therefore, I will let him know that you formally decline his offer with no further explanation. R: Thank you Father. EXIT SCENE automatically A: Oh hello (HUNTER). If you come to call on Rosa she's right this way...(he walks away) Rosa appears. R: (HUNTER!) HUNTER: ...... R: I'm sorry..I need to take care of something. Can we talk some other time? (She goes) NOT YET FOUND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT! --------------------------- 11. Kiriya and Disassembler --------------------------- Have Kiriya in your party when you defeat the Disassembler, and there is an additional scene. After he drops down dead, he drops something that looks like a photograph. What do you want to do? Choose: Pick it up. There's a boy standing between a man and a woman. Is this a family photo? Kiriya: Hey, could I see that for a sec? ......Never mind. It's just my imagination. The man in the photo resembled the Disassembler, and the boy looked like Kiriya. Now teleport to Newfolk and go to the garage. Speak to Nikolai. Kiriya: Um, dad.... Nikolai: Yes? What's wrong? Kiriya: ......Oh, never mind. sorry Hunter, but I need a break. Kiriya left the party! (He goes upstairs) Nikolai: ...... Martha: Darling, did something happen to Kiriya? Misha: It looks like something's bothering him... Nikolai: ..I don't like to lie, and I'm not very good at it anyway. So I'll just tell you the truth: Kiriya:isn't our son. Misha: What!? Martha: Darling: don't tell me... Nikolai: Yes. I think he's figured it out. Misha: I had no idea...So, we're not really siblings..? Nikolai: I wanted to tell you... Misha: Don't worry, I understand. Martha: ..... Misha: It doesn't change the fact that he's my brother. If I'm OK with it, then I think he will be too. Nikolai: Do you really think so? I hope you're right. What do you think, dear? Martha: He'll always be my baby... Nikolai: So, nothing's really changed: he's still a part of our family. But we do need to talk to him about it. Hunter, sorry to trouble you, but would you mind bringing him back here? In Kiriya's room. Kiriya: Why!? Why now? Dammit.. Hunter...what's wrong? Hunter: ....... Kiriya: ...Oh right. I'm the one who needed a break. Hunter: ..... Kiriya: ..... Hunter: ..... Kiriya: This is the only place I can call home. It's where my family is, right? Sorry if I caused you any trouble. Let's get going. Kiriya joined your party. END OF EVENT ------------------------- 12. Nikolai and Growgaine ------------------------- Go and visit Nikolai in the garage at Newfolk with all the Growgaine items in your possession. (This did not seem to work with only two or three of them) Growgaine, Growgaine T, A, L, and 3. Five items in total and 5 separate scenes. Scene 1 ------- Nikolai: Hm? Hunter, is that...Growgaine you have there? I don't really need it, but it couldn't hurt to be proactive. I mean, it's not like I'm a chrome dome or anything, ahahahaha...ha. see? This area is still fuzzy... Anyhow, if you don't mind then, um, can I have that? Choice: OK. (baldy)! Nah, you don't need it Select the second option and Nikolai says ..... Nikolai: That's alright...I probably wouldn't have used it anyway. (You can do this and have another go and this time choose the first option.) Select the first option and Nikolai grins. Nikolai: Thanks a million! I'll try it right away! You gave the Growgaine to Nikolai. He leaves and goes upstairs. Follow him and enter his bedroom. Close up shows him looking miserable. Nikolai: ...... Hunter: ...... Nikolai: ...... Hunter: ...... Nikolai: ...Please leave me alone. Hunter: ...... Black screen and you are outside the garage. Scene 2 ------- Go back inside and this time he asks for Growgaine 3 Nikolai: I won't beat around the bush. I NEED that Growgaine 3! Please Hunter. Options: I understand/Sorry no can do. The second gets the response: Please, my man hood is at stake. Oh cruel world. Say I understand and the reply is the same as the first time. Again follow him upstairs. Lots of silence and then he says: ..So, that's what the "3" meant. (3 hairs?) Scene 3 ------- Same as before, go back inside and he identifies Growgaine T. Nikolai: "T" stands for "tropical". So. it's a tropical topical..Heheh. It's made from rare botanical extracts, which means it has to work.! My hair will be as thick as the trees in a tropical rain forest! Hunter, I simply must have it! Options: Settle down! You can have it./No way, cueball. The second gets the response: The sweet scent of tropical paradise...Running my fingers through a thick head of hair...*sigh*. I guess it was all just a dream. Agree and the reply is the same as before and off he goes. Follow him again. Again the silent conversation. Nikolai: Do I smell pineapple...? Hunter: ...... Nikolai: Something's not right... Hunter: ..... Scene 4 ------- As before, speak to him again. Nikolai: You know what, Hunter? The "L" in Growgaine L stand for "Long". Meaning, if I use it, the long curly hair I used to have will come back! So, whaddya say? Can I give it a try? Options: Sure, I'm curious/No. I might need it someday. Select the second and he says: "I used to be cool when I was younger...I had really long hair in those days. It was totally groovy. I thought maybe you'd like to see, Hunter, but I guess not..." Agree and as he goes he suddenly says: Nikolai: Woh...! Wooooooh....!? Follow him again. You will get a shock!!!!! He has hair down to the floor with just his nose and glasses peeking out. Nikolai: ....... Hunter: ....... Nikolai: I never thought I'd say this... Hunter: ....... Nikolai: But, this is too long... Hunter: ....... Scene 5 ------- Go inside and speak to him again. Nikolai: Finally! You've found the legendary Growgaine A! It's rumoured to be the best hair restorative ever created! Options: Would you like to try it?/It might not be safe. Select the second and he says: "Considering the previous results, you're probably right. But, I'll always wonder..." Say: Would you like to try it? He replies, "Of course!" He then leaves but with the same reaction as the last time. Nikolai: Woh...! Wooooooh....!? Follow him again upstairs. Another shock! An Afro. Nikolai: Wow.. Hunter: ..... Nikolai: I don't know what to say..This is more than I hope for. Hunter: ..... Nikolai: Hunter...Thanks a million. Black screen message: A few days later...(Back in Nikolai's room) Nikolai: In the end, my hair returned to normal. There is not much I can do, except wait patiently for it to grow back again. See? There's a little but of leach fuzz coming in...Do you see it? That is it. Just a fun extra scenario and no reward. ---------------------------- 13. Murasame In The Ziggurat ---------------------------- You can only access this event is you have already met and talked to Murasame with Rashid in the party. He's first found in the bar in Alice One. Rashid: Murasame... Murasame: I'm glad to see that you're in good health. Rashid. Rashid: Why are you here, Murasame...? Murasame: Why? This place is as good as any to settle the score between us. Rashid: Have you fallen so low as to conspire with a madman? Murasame: A madman? You mean Alex? he gave me the finest sword in the world. He also informed me that you would come here. I'll return the favor by killing you all. Of course that will also settle matters between the two of us. Rashid: What foolishness...! You do not understand what will become of this world if you interfere! Murasame: ...It makes no difference to me. Since the day you broke my sword, I've been as good as dead. I don't care what happens as long as I get my revenge. Rashid: ......! Murasame: If you're in such a hurray, then draw your sword! We'll settle this once and for all! After his defeat his final words are: Murasame: Ugh.....Ha...Hahahaha! I am satisfied...Finally this matter is laid to rest. -------------------------------- 14. Eddy helps out in the garage (after end of game if you talk to him) -------------------------------- This is an additional comical event after the end of the game. Once you have control over Hunter go downstairs and then back up to find Eddy sitting at the table upstairs in the garage. Speak to him to trigger the event. Eddy: Ugh...Meh...Soooo bored... Hunter: ..... Emily: Hey Dad, if you're so bored why don't you give Mom a hand? Eddy: Not a chance. Hunter: ..... Emily: ..... Eddy: ...What? I'm a terrible mechanic, and I wold only get in her way. Hunter: ..... Emily: ...Maybe she'd appreciate that you tried to spend time with her. Eddy: Hmph. Don't believe me? Fine, just you watch... Black Screen: downstairs in the garage. Nina: This is unexpected. What's wrong? Eddy: ...Anything I can help with? Nina: No. Eddy: OK, then. Black Screen: upstairs at the table again. Eddy: See? Did anybody see that? She won't let anybody else help, no matter how busy it gets. Is it mechanic's pride or what? ...Or is she trying to say I'd only get in her way? Hunter: ..... Emily: ..... END ------------------- 15. RUMOURED EVENTS ------------------- NOTE. A number of these were confirmed as false in personal emails from Atlus. Others have been confirmed as true or false by experience, and not just mine. -------------------- A. Confirmed Rumours -------------------- Meeting Wayne and Olga in Scavenger Isle ---------------------------------------- After all the related events in the Retirement Home and with Jack, (provided you have not intervened and killed Wayne) both Olga and Wayne will be in the bar later in the game. There is no way to get all the 80 medals ---------------------------------------- See the Big Medal section for confirmation of this Rosa visits Hunter's home at the end of the game ------------------------------------------------- She is shown having a detailed conversation with Eddy about the merits of different tanks. Kaede cooks a sweet potato -------------------------- The potato is given to Hunter by Donny in Forever Land. Try giving cooking devices to Kaede? I know this event occurs but I have not seen it for myself. Sometimes Kaede will be found in the garden sweeping up leaves ready for a fire. At other times the fire will be burning but she will not be there. I assume that if you have the sweet potato in your inventory (after getting it from Danny in the store room at Forever Land) she will cook it on the fire of leaves. Rosa visits Junkyard for a date ------------------------------- This was confirmed by Micheal Meeker of Atlus as a random event and destoynova1 gave this description. "If you give enough gifts to Rosa, she will appear in your hometown for a date. You can take her to the bar and into Rachel's room. She and Rachel will have a talk. You get left outside. Depending on how many gifts Rachel has, Rosa will declare them rivals or consider Rachel no threat. The Rosa visit might be dependent on how many tank fights you have done and how many gifts you buy. Perhaps buying at least one each of each 'class' of gift, such as picture,rug, bed, etc. " (Credit to destynova1 for these thoughts on the Rosa visit. ) ------------------ B. False Rumours ------------------ Curry Guru and Curry Recipe ---------------------------- After defeating Shaka Khan you can go back to the hideout and make your way to the canteen again. I did this with the idea of testing out a theory about the curry recipe as suggested by Dimon101. See if you can get a better result. Take some Syrup Cells (Giant Slug/Junk Mountain), Gelatin Cells(Iron Slug/ Bridge to Newfolk hard to kill these as they flee) and make sure you have the curry recipe: seen in the help pages of the satcom. Talk to the Cook with red hair who sobs about Shaka Khan's demise. Go through the double doors into the canteen and speak to the Brigand and Punk who say they want curry and will go and beat up the Curry Guru. They then realise that if they do that, he might stop making curry. However despite having the right ingredients and the recipe nothing more happened. Maybe I needed more ingredients? Talking to the Guru in Dowan with these ingredients got an offer of sea food curry, but that was all. Update. 23/2/2007. There is no curry quest. Confirmed by Atlus! Rosa and her suitor ------------------- A Dowan event? There is no further Rosa event apart from Rosa's visit to the garage at Junkyard. Confirmed by Atlus. Scarlet can be a playable character ----------------------------------- Definitely not. Total rubbish. ------------------------------ 16. THE ALPHA TANK PART RUMOUR ------------------------------ For a long time I had believed that this was just a rumour, and false. Upstater had tested it, and I had too, but it seems that we didn't know the full story behind the rumour and thus failed to discover the real truth! BUT........................................................................... Alphas CAN be turned into a tank part, and here's how! All credit to Ernie who sent me the footage of these events, and Mr Lee who first told me the full story of how you obtain this item. You can see the whole thing on youtube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCZHxULL2nE 1. If you want to get this sequence in the game, you must kill off Alpha 11 times (in total) and then visit a town. That takes you to a scene of her demise. 2. Go to Doctor Mortem and have him attempt to revive her. That fails, and so take her to see Professor Grey in Lorelei Bay. 3. Grey will explain that nothing can be done, and that she could extract her memory core. Agree to this and leave town. 4. Re-enter Lorelei and there is a scene with some Agents. Head back to the Professor's house, enter and you will have to fight 4 Agents (on foot). (If you lose then they take Alpha away.) 5. Beat the Agents (they are all level 154 and strong against sonic), and Grey will give you the item: Memory Unit. 6. Speak to Alpha again (the body is still lying on the table) and Hunter will then be seen back inside Tiamat and returning her body to the pod where you first found her. After a short scene, you can leave Professor Grey's house. 7. Go to Dr. Palm's Tank Lab and he will immediately comment on the Memory Unit, and offers to build a C Unit with it. Agree, wait, and he'll have it ready for you fast! You obtain the ALPHA C UNIT and can equip it to any tank. This is the best C Unit in the game. =============================================================================== 7. GIFTS ................................................................. 0126 =============================================================================== ALERT: you can only give clothing to a person if you have already given them a type of storage cabinet! 1. Gifts and Rewards a) How to get people on your gift list b) How to give gifts c) Limits d) Reactions e) Conditions for Reactions f) Rewards and Financial Benefits g) Gift List People 2. Gifts by Type: Shops and Costs 3. Examples of Gift Responses 4. Dresses Responses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Gifts and Rewards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- a) How to get people on your gift list -------------------------------------- See the list for who you can give gifts to. To trigger this you must talk to them or add them to your party. There will then be a message on screen to tell you that you can give them gifts. To give gifts to Charlene you must buy the empty house in Alice One from Banjo who is upstairs next door, (costs 3000g), with Charlene in your party. Then go inside the house and give it to her. For Kaede you must have completed the Ghost Tank quest, and for Professor Grey you must talk to her about cybernetics. -------------------- b) How to give gifts -------------------- The gift shops sell various items that you can buy and give to the people on your gift list. To do this you visit a shop, chose a gift, and indicate from a new screen who you want to give it to. The shop then sends it to the person. This is the only way to give gifts. --------- c) Limits --------- There is a limit to the gifts that can be received and if you have already given a similar item, the gift shop will ask you if you want to change it to a new one. The money spent on the first gift is lost and so is the gift. For example, if you buy the jukebox and give it to Emily, you can change it to aquarium, (another box type furniture) but the jukebox will disappear from her room, though she will then react to the new item. ------------ d) Reactions ------------ Most, but not all gifts will get a reaction from the recipient, so after giving something go and visit the recipient to see an EVENT. Some are sweet, if they are pleased, others amusing, if they are not. --------------------------- e) Conditions for Reactions --------------------------- The recipient must be "at home" for you to get a reaction. Charlene can be in your party and so long as you go upstairs in her house she will then react to a gift. Misha will often be downstairs in the garage if she is not in the party and you will need to go out and in until she is not there. Then she will be in her room upstairs. Kaede is sometimes not in her room and again going in and out is required to get her to be "at home". Nina will react in the garage but must be in her room for dress reactions. Emily can be dusting or knitting, or asleep. Keep chatting and changing rooms for her to be where you want her. Professor Grey may be busy with Alpha or in her main room. Again exiting and entering will get her to move rooms if you want a dress reaction. ----------------------------------- f) Rewards and Financial Benefits ---------------------------------- After giving a number of gifts you can receive a reward. Also you get to see the females in various types of clothing. And you can eventually get to marry Rachel. Rosa will visit you in Junkyard if she gets enough gifts. One additional feature is that if you buy a cheap gift for Nina that she likes, you get a discount on repairs. So doing this just before or even after a major battle when your tanks have received a lot of damage will save you money. A cheap trick but useful if you remember. (And so long as she is not in her room trying on a new dress, when you get back all battered and bruised.) ------------------- g) Gift List People ------------------- Self Misha Rachel Kaede Emily Charlene Rosa Professor Grey Nina Alpha Forever Land Carl! NOTE: I had been told that you can give gifts to Carl if you beat the Disassembler with Misha in the party, and then trigger a scene with Carl (thanks to Valeisai), but it seems that this is not a trigger for this event, and it just requires chatting to Carl. Here's the lowdown: "All you really have to do is get the option to give Rosa gifts. In Rosa's tank garage, Carl will ask if you want to find out about Rosa's tanks. As with Rosa, just say yes (you only have to do it once). The other part is tricky because Carl doesn't always appear in the second slot on the left of the garage where those mechanics are. Just keep entering and exiting their garage and he'll appear eventually. When he does, like Rosa and Authur, he'll ask you about your tank. Just tell him about it and you should get the screen where you can give him home furnishings. but you can give Carl a swimsuit, which is the only clothing you can give him (When you speak to him in his room, he'll be in a blue boy's swimming trunks and shirt.)" (Thanks to Mr Lee for these details and much more!) However I have not witnessed this event and cannot confirm all the details yet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Gifts by Type: listed in satcom under INFO/GIFT (Shops and Costs) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gift Shops Abbreviations TORIKAMI = TK BELDAIRE = BD ALICE ONE W = AOW DOWAN = DN LAKE BRIDGE E = LBE LORELEI BAY = LB FORT GEARS = FG ANTITANK FORT = ATF STORAGE: If you want to give clothes to someone you MUST give them storage! -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- STORAGE-TYPE FUR | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Wardrobe: | Perfect for clothing | BD | 820 Closet: | Perfect for clothing | DW | 7000 Asian Wardrobe: | Perfect for clothing | AOW | 3300 Chest: | Perfect for clothing | LBE | 14000 Locker: | Perfect for clothing | LBE | 14000 -----------------+------------------------------------------------------------- WALL DECORATION | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Spirit Frame: | Powerful brushwork | FG | 22000 Picasso: | From the Rose period | BD | 820 Salvador Dali: | Surrealistic painting | BD | 820 Scenic Painting: | A serene picture | TK | 1000 Ukiyoe Print: | Bold and exciting | TK | 1000 Fukube: | It grows on you | ATF | 56000 Wall Clock: | Silent type | DW | 7000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- FLOOR COVERING | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Persian Rug: | High-quality carpet | DW | 7000 Tatami Mat: | Japanese style mat | TK | 1000 Wood Flooring: | It's waxed and slippery | BD | 820 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- DECORATIVE FURNG | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Bear Carving: | Wooden figure of a bear | FG | 22000 Lucky Cat: | Said to bring good luck | ATF | 22000 Music Box: | Plays lovely music | BD | 820 Divine Statue: | It makes you feel happy | TK | 1000 Goldfish Bowl: | Remember to feed it! | LB | 14000 Cactus: | Doesn't need much care | DW | 14000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- ANTIQUE FURNISHG | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Porcelain Jar: | An elegant work of art | TK | 1000 Jingdez Dish: | Beautifully designed | DW | 7000 Flower Vase: | A gorgeous vase | BD | 820 Model Tank: | 1/32 scale model | LB | 14000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- FLOWERS | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Rose bouquet: | These flowers would look nice in a vase | BD | 820 Sunflowers: | These flowers would look nice in a vase | TK | 1000 Gerbera bouquet: | These flowers would look nice in a vase | DW | 7000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- TABLE-TYPE FURNG | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Dinner Table: | Sturdy and ornate | FG | 22000 Kotatsu: | Warm and cosy | LB | 14000 Fancy Table: | Very fashionable | BD | 820 Fireplace: | Traditional Japanese | TK | 1000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- UNIQUE - NO IDEA WHAT CATEGORY THIS IS -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Moocher Cage: | Cage to keep a Moocher. | ATF | 22000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- (MISC) FURNISHING| DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Ceramic Raccoon: | A clay raccoon | FG | 22000 Plant: | Very healthy | AOW | 3300 Brazier: | Keeps the room warm | AOW | 3300 Electric Fan: | Keeps the room cool | DW | 7000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- BOX-TYPE FURNISHG| DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- Jukebox: | Plays music | BD | 820 Deluxe Jukebox: | Plays music | LB | 14000 Aquarium: | Home to many fish | BD | 820 Aqua-terrarium: | Miniature ecosystem | DW | 7000 Weather Box: | Thermometer included | AOW | 3300 Vending Machine: | Very convenient | FG | 22000 -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- APPLIANCE | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- One-Door Fridge: | Space-saving refrigerator | BD | 820 Two-Door Fridge: | A popular brand-name refrigerator | AOW | 3300 Deluxe Fridge: | Loaded with features! | LBE | 14000 Washer: | Gets muddy clothes clean | LBE | 14000 Dryer: | Makes clothes warm and fluffy | ATF | 22000 _________________|__________________________________________|_______|__________ CLOTHING IS NOT LISTED ON THE SATCOM: this might be because when you give clothing the recipient is sometimes shown wearing it and there will be an EVENT so you can see their outfit and get their reaction to it. -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- CLOTHING | DESCRIPTION | SHOP | COST:G -----------------+------------------------------------------+-------+---------- KIMONO: | Classic Japanese formal wear | TK | 200000 MAIDEN WEAR: | All accessories included! | TK | 7800 BUNNY COSTUME: | Complete with bunny ears and tail! | BD | 14000 MAID UNIFORM: | Designed for comfort and functionality | BD | 18000 CHINESE DRESS: | Accentuates your natural curves | DN | 28000 SWIMSUIT: | Custom designed women's bathing suit | DN | 4800 WAITRESS DRESS: | Uniform from a famous restaurant | LB | 8800 DRESS: | Will make you look like a true lady | ATF | 80000 WEDDING DRESS: | For her most joyous occasion. | ATK | 180000 _________________|__________________________________________|_______|__________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. Examples of Gift Responses ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Usually the recipients just comment when you visit. Sometimes they are pleased, sometimes, not so much. The best responses are for the clothes. You can give more than one kind of clothes to each person, and so they can appear dressed in different things on different visits. I don't know all the possible gift responses, but this is a selection. MISHA. Give her a gift and she will be in her room when you visit. If she likes something she says: "This is really nice. I'll take good care of it." RACHEL seems unsure about everything: she says: "I received sunflowers/koetsu/ etc ..is it really for me? ...Well then thank you, I guess, it's really nice." And looks confused. However she really likes the waitress dress: "So these are the clothes people wear at other bars? ..I do kind of like them." KAEDE said she was cold and after giving her a brazier and various other gifts she gave the Hunter a reward of a lucky charm. She says she is honoured to receive such a gift. EMILY looks sweet in the kimono and says it makes her feel like a totally different person when she is wearing it. The wedding dress she says "I tried wearing those clothes you sent me: but..oh..Does it look good on me? What do you think?" She loves the roses:"I always wanted something like that for my room." (Get Sister's Apron from the dressing table) CHARLENE, for example thinks the bear carving and fridge are "dandy", but hated the wedding dress: "What were you thinking? Jeez, I know I look a fool" She appears wearing it when you visit. Another reaction might be: "It ain't half bad. Thanks." This was said when arriving back at her house with her in the party to find a gift waiting. The bunny girl outfit she thinks is "not really my style" and she is blushing. ROSA loves the model tank and says: "Will there be more where this came from? *wink*." PROFESSOR GREY: loves the roses. "You seem to know what I like Hunter" Give her a Kimono and she is pleased. NINA loves the two door fridge and offers a discount on repairs. She loved the plant too: more discounts. She loves the roses and compliments you on your good taste. FOREVER LAND: they appreciate everything. Jared:" Everyone was so stoked!" After giving the jukebox. ALPHA will say: "There are some new objects in the room. Do these items help humans feel affluent?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. DRESSES RESPONSES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a summary of some of the responses you can get when giving a particular dress to every female. You must have first given them a wardrobe or something similar before being able to give dresses. Once you have given a dress, if you try to select the same one again, you get a message to tell you that you have already sent it. You can give the females as many dresses as you like, and can afford. However you cannot take back a dress once you have given it. One female friend could, in theory, have a full wardrobe of 9 dresses. If they are not wearing the dress when you visit just go out and re-enter. You may have to do this more than once. If you give a girl more than one dress you need to go in and out a few times to see the different dresses and their reactions. Sometimes they will not wear a "dress" and will never do so. Although the basic style of dress is the same for each female there are differences in the colours and details. For example, the Dress on Rosa is pink, on Alpha it is lilac but on Nina it is blue. To get a close up of the dress move the right stick up and then speak to the person. Also the younger girls will show a different style for some dresses. Some reactions are easier to get than others. Charlene, Emily and Alpha are the easiest to get reactions from. Rosa is annoying because you have to get to her room and all she wants to talk about are tanks. Rachel is never at home (in her room) and often serving drinks and busy when she could be thanking you for the gifts and wearing the clothes. Kaede may be polite and sweet but you have to trek all the way up to her house on foot every time you want to see her. And Professor Grey can too busy smoking and mending Scarlet to bother getting changed. Nina and Misha have other things to do so you do not necessarily want them to be preening in their rooms. (Some responses not yet recorded) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DRESS TYPE APPEARANCE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KIMONO: Kimono that is full length with waist sash and long sleeves. The girls wear an orange skirt and white top? MAIDEN WEAR: The same as the alternative kimono wear for girls: long orange skirt and white long sleeved top. BUNNY COSTUME: Skimpy tight black costume with ears and a tail MAID UNIFORM: A grey uniform with an apron and cap. CHINESE DRESS: Short dress with mandarin collar, short sleeves, and side splits. Various colours. SWIMSUIT: Actually a bikini for some and a swimsuit for others WAITRESS DRESS: Pale orange pinafore dress with apron and white top DRESS: An old fashioned Victorian type long dress and hat. Various colours. WEDDING DRESS: A white wedding dress ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MISHA REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono Thanks for the new outfit, Hunter. It's been a while since I've worn something besides my overalls. (smiling) Maiden Wear Bunny Costume Hunter, do you like clothes like these? Um, I'm a little embarrassed to wear this. Maid Uniform Thanks for the new outfit, Hunter. It's been a while since I've worn something besides my overalls. (smiling) Chinese Dress Thanks for the new outfit Hunter. It's been a while since I've worn something besides my overalls. (smiling) (Rich pink patterned short dress and pink shoes) Swimsuit Um, I'm a little embarrassed to wear this. Hunter, do you like clothes like these? Waitress Dress Thanks for the new outfit, Hunter. It's been a while since I've worn something besides my overalls. (smiling) Dress Wedding Dress ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RACHEL REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono Maiden Wear Bunny Costume ...Uh, whoa...I'm not so sure about this one. Our bar isn't like those other places! You should know that already!...Where in the world did you expect me to wear something like this!? (Keep talking to her get all these reactions) Maid Uniform Chinese Dress Hee hee...It might be fun to work n these clothes some time. So these are the clothes people wear at other bars? ..I do kind of like them. (Very pale blue short dress) Swimsuit Waitress Dress So these are the clothes people wear at other bars? ..I do kind of like them. Dress Wedding Dress ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KAEDE REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono I absolutely love it! I'll wear it all the time! *giggle* (long orange skirt and white long sleeved top) Hunter thank you so much. I'll think of you whenever I wear it. (Does a twirl) A white kimono with flowers and a dust pink sash. Maiden Wear The Maiden wear you sent just arrived, Hunter I've already put it in my room. (Doesn't wear it). Bunny Costume Um...It's thoughtful of you . but my father will kill me if I wear it.(Her face is pink) Maid Uniform Hunter, thank you so much. I'll think of you whenever I wear it. (Does a twirl) Chinese Dress Hunter, thank you so much. I'll think of you whenever I wear it. (Does a twirl) Swimsuit Um...It's thoughtful of you . but my father will kill me if I wear it. (a white bikini) Her face is pink. Waitress Dress Hunter, thank you so much. I'll think of you whenever I wear it. (Does a twirl) Dress This is so different than the clothes people wear here in Torikami. (Pale blue long dress with hat and blue ribbons.) Wedding Dress - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EMILY REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono This is an oriental dress right?...is this how you wear it? I feel like a totally different person when I'm wearing this. (Orange long skirt and white top same as normally worn by Kaede.) Maiden Wear This is an oriental dress right?...is this how you wear it? I feel like a totally different person when I'm wearing this. (Orange long skirt and white top same as normally worn by Kaede.) Bunny Costume This is kinda...um...It's a little too "unique" for me, I think. (blushing and a tear of embarrassment) Maid Uniform "I tried wearing those clothes you sent me: but..uh..Does it look good on me? What do you think?" Chinese Dress This is an oriental dress right?...is this how you wear it? I feel like a totally different person when I'm wearing this. (A deep pink dress and pink shoes) Swimsuit "I tried wearing those clothes you sent me: but..oh..Does it look good on me? What do you think?" (swimsuit) Waitress Dress - Dress I tried wearing those clothes you sent me: but..oh..Does it look good on me? What do you think? (Pink long sleeved dress over dark knee length trousers) Wedding Dress I tried wearing those clothes you sent me: but..oh..Does it look good on me? What do you think? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CHARLENE REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono I dunno... This ain't really my style. Whaddya think? (flushed face) Pink pink with grey leaves. Beautiful! Maiden Wear No laughin', ya hear? I know I look like a fool! (redfaced and a tear drop) What were you thinking? Geez. Bunny Costume Not really my style Maid Uniform No laughin', ya hear? I know I look like a fool! (redfaced and a tear drop) Chinese Dress This suits me well don'tcha think? *wink* (A red short dress stunning with her yellow hair) Swimsuit This suits me well don'tcha think? *wink* A two piece with a red halter neck top and pale blue bottoms. Waitress Dress No laughin', ya hear? I know I look like a fool! (redfaced and a tear drop) What were you thinking? Geez. (Orange skirt and apron and white blouse) Dress What were you thinking? Geez. No laughin', ya hear? I know I look like a fool! (red faced and a tear drop) How's a girl s'posed ta get around in this thing? No laughin', ya hear? I know I look like a fool! (redfaced and a tear drop) Wedding Dress What were you thinking? Geez, I know I look a fool. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ROSA REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono This is nice I actually like it (a pink kimono) Maiden Wear Bunny Costume Well... it's not terrible. Maid Uniform Are you crazy? This is not my style at all. (Does a twirl) Chinese Dress Well, how does it look? Not bad, right? This is nice. I actually like it. (Short red dress with side slits) Swimsuit Well, how does it look? Not bad, right? This is nice I actually like it. (Simply stunning: rich red bikini) Waitress Dress Are you crazy? This is not my style at all. (Does a twirl) Dress Well... it's not terrible. (Long dress, deep pink with pale yellow ribbons, and hat) Wedding Dress This is nice I actually like it ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROFESSOR GREY REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono Hm...Not bad. Thanks, Hunter. (dark grey kimono) Maiden Wear ..What IS this? Bunny Costume ..What IS this? Maid Uniform ..What IS this? Chinese Dress Hm...Not bad. Thanks, Hunter. (black dress) Swimsuit Hm...Not bad. Thanks, Hunter. (a bikini) Waitress Dress ..What IS this? Dress - Wedding Dress - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NINA REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono This is very nice. Thank you Hunter. (a blue full length kimono with decorative pink flowers) Maiden Wear For me really? Bunny Costume Where'd you learn something like this, Hunter? Oh! Well, this one is...Um, it's...(red and tear of embarrassment) Maid Uniform Where'd you learn something like this, Hunter? Oh! Well, this one is...Um, it's...(red and tear) Chinese Dress For me really? Swimsuit This is very nice. Thank you, Hunter. (Pale blue swimsuit) Waitress Dress ... For me really? (Pale orange pinafore and white blouse) Dress ...For me? Really? (A long dress in pale blue with a hat and deeper blue ribbons.) Wedding Dress ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALPHA REACTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kimono Sir, this apparel will negatively affect movement and battle ability. I would advise that you change it. (orange skirt and white top) Maiden Wear - Bunny Costume ...Does this apparel alter my appearance? Maid Uniform ...This apparel is not very practical for working use. Chinese Dress ...Does this apparel alter my appearance? (purple short dress with side slits) Swimsuit ...Does this apparel alter my appearance? (swimsuit) Waitress Dress ...This apparel is not very practical for working use. Dress Sir, this apparel will negatively affect movement and battle ability. I would advise that you change it. (A long lilac dress with long sleeves and a high neck, a mauve hat and pink ribbons) Wedding Dress Sir, this apparel will negatively affect movement and battle ability. I would advise that you change it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== 8. ITEMS: FOR SALE, FOUND IN THE FIELD, AND MAPS ......................... 0127 =============================================================================== 1. Shop bought items. 2. Map items. 3. Dowan Salvage items 4. Items found in the field (including weapons and tank parts) This game is awash with items of all sorts. Just when you think you have found the oddest thing yet, there will be something else even odder that you never expected! Items can be found in towns in dungeons and in the field in pre- determined locations. Some of the town and dungeon ones are in observable places, such as boxes or fridges, or lockers, but others are not so obvious. Without the excellent FAQ at GameFAQs by holypriest I would have had a tough time finding some of the items. Thank you holypriest! And a special thank you to blackpyre and Silva Shado for taking the time to email me with details of many extra items, their locations and statistics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. SHOP BOUGHT ITEMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most useful of these are the Grenades which can be a helpful back-up in some on-foot dungeons. Also the items you can buy at MORGUE TOWN are less common finds. KEY ITEM: Buy the METAL DETECTOR at ALICE ONE which allows a wider search of the field for buried items. (This item can be found in Dowan garage for free!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM FUNCTION SHOP PRICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Capsule Restores 50HP JUNKYARD 10G Tile Pack S Adds 40SP to a vehicle " 50G Repair Kit Used to fix a chassis or " 200G vehicle part ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Capsule Restores 50HP NEWFOLK 10G Tile Pack M Adds 80SP to a vehicle " 100G Mine Detector Used to detect buried " 160G items on the field ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP NEWFOLK W 50G Thunder Grenade Handy in battle " 16G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP EAST ZERO 50G Grenade Handy in battle(explosive) " 30G Tile Pack M Adds 80SP to a vehicle " 100G Alkaline Wax Stops acid damage to a vehicle " 50G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP TORIKAMI 50G AA Grenade Handy in battle. Hits " 70G airborne enemies Tile Pack L Adds 200SP to a vehicle " 200G Mine Detector Used to detect buried " 160G items on the field ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP BELDAIRE 50G Tile Pack L Adds 200SP to a vehicle " 200G Grenade Handy in battle(explosive) " 30G Remote Grenade Handy in battle. Hits enemies " 40G out of range ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Capsule Restores 50HP BELDAIRE W. 10G Miracle Key Restarts a vehicle from " 100G shutdown Antidote Neutralizes poison " 100G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP MORGUE TOWN 50G Petrol Bomb Battle item. Sets target " 100G on fire Tile Pack M Adds 80SP to a vehicle " 100G Unparalyzer Cures stun " 100G Vitamin Increase attack during battle " 98G Sugar Pill Increase turn rate during battle " 98G Gourmet Dogfood Makes a dog's coat shiny " 300G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP ALICE ONE 150G Tile Pack L Adds 200SP to a vehicle " 200G METAL DETECTOR USED TO DETECT BURIED ITEMS " 980G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy drink Restores 1000HP ALICE ONE W 600G Mole Grenade Handy in battle. Hits under- " 170G ground enemies Mechanic Kit Used to completely fix a chassis " 500G or vehicle part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP DOWAN 150G Noise Grenade Handy in battle (sonic) " 430G Nutcracker Hits you where it hurts " 430G (sheltered or not) Tile Pack L Adds 200SP to a vehicle " 200G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP LAKE BRIDGE EAST 150G Strato Grenade Handy in battle. Hits high " 700G -altitude enemies Hound Bomb Battle item. Hits enemies in " 700G stealth ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP LORELEI BAY 150G Tile Pack XL Adds 500SP to a vehicle " 500G Mechanic Kit Used to completely fix a chassis " 500G or vehicle part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP ISLE W 50G Tile Pack XL Adds 500SP to a vehicle " 500G Torpedo Grenade Handy in battle. Hits underwater " 1100G enemies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Healing Drink Restores 100HP SCAVENGER ISLE 50G Tile Pack XL Adds 500SP to a vehicle " 500G Torpedo Grenade Handy in battle. Hits underwater " 1100G enemies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP ANTITANK FORT 150G Minerals Increases attack during battle " 198G Caffeine Pill Increases turn rate during battle " 198G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Capsule Restores 300HP HELL'S KEEP 150G Tile Pack XXL Adds 1000SP to a vehicle " 1000G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Energy Drink Restores 1000HP HELL'S KEEP NE 600G Ice Grenade Handy in battle (ice) " 1600G Tile Pack XXL Adds 1000SP to a vehicle " 1000G ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. MAPS. THEIR LOCATIONS AND MESSAGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NAME LOCATION MESSAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Map Scrap: Retirement Compound ..946 upstairs room Piece of a Map: Torikami, in ...at Junk Mountain Gorou's house Fancy Map: Ruins of a Fort Treasure awaits where you least expect it In Col Blueberry's store room Half of a Map: Beldaire: Rosa's ...The combination is 2... room by bed Old Document: Retirement Compound Putting the four maps together will lead upstairs room you to the legendary treasure. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legendary Memo:Forever Land 1.Secret Map 2.Old Map 3.Pirate Map 4 ? room basement (4 is Priceless Map which has to be assembled) Secret Map: Beldaire; sold Treasure lies nestled in between the tall by Sodam Insein peaks. Old Map: Torikami, in Treasure lies to the Northwest of the tower Gorou's house veiled by sandstorms. (Ziggurat: lump of gold by big rock) Pirate Map: Beldaire; sold Treasure lies where the old shelter meets the by Sodam Insein two ports. (between Dowan and Lorelei Bay: found by salvage.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cache Map: Beldaire:Arthur's Note to self: Pocket money hidden behind a bed painting in the back - Arthur Treasure Map: Beldaire: sold Treasure lies behind the structure housing a by Sodam Insein mysterious device. (Iwasaki Lab: Golden Statue) Dubious Map: Beldaire; sold Map that indicates where a treasure is hidden by Sodam Insein ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Maps after assembly ------------------- Priceless Map: asssembled at I hid the treasure at Junk Mountain. The Monkey Mountain combination is 2946 Legendary Map " The legendary treasure lies where the four treasures meet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. DOWAN SALVAGE ITEMS LIST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM USE Arm ...............One of four parts of the Primeval Man Arm Segment .......One of four parts of the Android Backbone ..........One of four parts of the Primeval Man Beam Pack .........One of four parts of the Beam Claw weapon Bronze Bar ........Sell Chest Piece .......One of four parts of the Clay Figure Cyclops Head ......One of four parts of the Mammoth Dog Barrel ........One of four parts of the Dog Bazooka weapon Evil Booster ......One of four parts of the Toy Sword Fabric Swatch .....One of four parts of the Clay Icon Fossil Bouquet ....One of four parts of the Primeval Man Gold bar ..........Sell Golden Axe ........Sell Head ..............One of four parts of the Primeval Man Head fragment .....One of four parts of the Clay Figure Holey Boot ........Sell Jumbo Ear .........One of four parts of the Mammoth Large Fang ........One of four parts of the Mammoth Lump of gold ......Sell Magnum Barrel .....One of four parts of the Magnum weapon Magnum Frame .....One of four parts of the Magnum weapon Magnum Slide .....One of four parts of the Magnum weapon Meat Slab .........One of four parts of the Mammoth Shell .............Sell Silver Axe ........Sell Silver Bar ........Sell Steel Can Strap ...One of four parts of the Android Torn Map ..........One of the four map pieces for the Old Document Treasure*** .......The "legendary treasure" located by the legendary map. Unknown Item ......? Sell? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. ITEMS FOUND IN THE FIELD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. There are many of these and they are all found using the Metal or Mine Detector, or the Dog skill of Hyper Sniffer. The LOVE Machine assembled item LOVE Mach 3222 also detects buried items on the field. 2. You can only use the detector item or skill when stationary. It is a good idea to use the shortcut option and configure a button from the satcom menu so you can just press one button to search. The warning signal will sound even if the item is not visible so you can check around the area until you see the flashing red light that shows the exact location. You must be exactly on top of it to pick it up. 3. The more common items such as the Hammer, Mole Eye etc that are used in tank part assembling are found in specific locations but which one you get is random. The rocks are also random, and sometimes appear outside the towns and dungeons. 4. The details of their locations are also included as a separate section at the end of each town chapter. 5. The following advice on finding items successfully is taken from the email I received from blackpyre and Silva Shado. I was able to find some extra items thanks to their information. "We found a lot of items near mountain ranges. If they weren't parts of tanks, they were things to make parts of tanks. Like plates, hawk eyes, monkey eyes, etc. Most of what was found out in the desert was weapons or parts for weapons. Very rarely were there items for people, with a few exceptions." 6. This confirms that there is indeed some logic to the placement of hidden items. They have also found ALL the parts for the assembled weapons although I have not so far managed to do this. But now I know that they are out there somewhere in the desert just waiting to be detected. Happy Hunting! ------------ 01. JUNKYARD ------------ UZI Description: A submachine gun attack 4 (all). Location : South of Junkyard trader camp just to the west of the bottom of the green area. LEATHER JACKET Description: Defense 7. Location : On the first bridge you cross on the way to Newfolk. SHARP ROCK/SMOOTH ROCK Description: A rock that can be thrown at enemies. Location : Outside Junkyard. Random find. ----------- 02. NEWFOLK ----------- STORM CANNON Description: Sub gun. Attack 20. Location : Northwest of Newfolk in the white sand there is a pile of three stones. This Tank weapon which hits all enemies and is electric can be found here. On the satcom large map the location is at the point of an imaginary upside down V between Newfolk and Newfolk West. It is also direct south on the line from Beldaire. This is a very useful sub gun. TAP DANCER Description: SE (all) discharges blasts of energy. Attack 40. Location : Found to the northeast of Newfolk in the sandy part of the desert. To the upper left corner of the screen where it is found, is a triangular shaped bit of scrap pointing northwest and three small stones below it. On the small map it is when Newfolk is visible to the right of the southwest corner and the tank is roughly in the centre of that screen. You have gone too far north if the northern pink dot is visible. Look at the satcom map location for Junkyard E shop and it is on the blue line up from here. ------------- 03. EAST ZERO ------------- FIREPROOF COAT Description: Defence 11. Location : Where the roads to the southeast of East Zero form a T junction, search in the south east corner where the roads meet. Opposite is a pylon to the north east. PPSH 41 Description: A low attack (all) submachine gun. Attack 6. Location : Due South of Beldaire on the satcom, and at the furthest north west corner of desert to the East of East Zero. Go up into the green area and to the furthest point to the East. Next to the river. ------------ 04. BELDAIRE ------------ AK 47 Description: A rifle: attack 8 (all) Location : On the northern edge of the bridge leading from East Zero to Beldaire. CAT EARS Description: Hat. Defense 14. For girls only. Location : Found in woods to the southeast of Beldaire. In the centre of the wood to the north of the one that has a round pond in the middle of it. Can only be accessed on foot. 25mm AA Cannon Description: Main gun for anti-aircraft tanks. Attack 45. Location : On the way north from Beldaire to the Ruins of Fort, just to the south of the fort is a pile of large stones. Root around to find the gun. ------------ 05. TORIKAMI ------------ OLD COIN Description: Location : Random find outside trader camp. Press X. CRIMSON SHIRT Description: Defense 19. Red shirt with a stylish pattern. Location : In the narrow green area between the woods to the east of the village. As you approach from the east it is the first patch of wood you come to. In the Desert to the North of Torikami: the Tank Graveyard area. POPCORN CANNON Description: SE (all) A ball of light divides and strikes all targets. Attack 83. Location : This is found in a pile of broken parts just a few feet from the furthest west and northern corner of the desert right at the edge of the mountains. FIRE DRAGON Description: Location : This is in the middle of the lower part of the desert. The location is just to the west of a line up from Beldaire West and due east as the crow flies from Hell's Fort, (if you have found this place yet). There are a couple of tank bits just to the north of the stones which are located to the west of the top of the road which goes up to the desert from the T junction to the east of the Beldaire W. trader camp. --------------- 06. MORGUE TOWN --------------- The desert that stretches all the way west from Morgue Town is many items have been found by blackpyre and Silva Shado. Many thanks for all the extra information. Credit also to Elenia who gave me the precise location of the 20mm Vulcan. MOLE EYE Description: Location : At a round block at furthest southwest of western area. POLYMER COAT Description: Torso armour: defense 27. Location : Just to the right of the eastern corner of the town in a couple of bits of debris. 20MM VULCAN Description: Attack 41, (all). Location : Continue due east from the eastern corner of Morgue Town, and it is just before you reach the mountains. GRENADE GUN Description: Attack 13 (all) Location : Due south of Morgue Town near the edge of the map is a collection of bits on ground. DRAGON FRAME Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather. Location : At the southern edge of the mountain in the desert just below Morgue Town. NAPALM CANNON Description: SE Gun. Attack 155. Location : Continue to the southwest going down the edge of the map to find an SE weapon in a pile of bits. Location is to the east of a line up from Junkyard E. and to the west of Morgue Town. 160MM SPARK Description: Main Gun. Attack 155. Location : Directly north of Morgue Town and where the sand goes northeast to a point there is this main gun. FLAMETHROWER Description: Sub Gun. Attack 41. Location : Go due west from here to the next sand bulge on the satcom map and just in front of it northwest of Morgue Town is a sub gun (fire). DRAGON BARREL Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather Location : Also to the northwest of Morgue Town and slightly to the south west of the previous location there is a collection of three small bits of debris in the sand, one of which is a broken chassis. Here is an assembly part for Firebreather. 120MM SBG Description: Main gun. Attack 178 Location : A useful main gun for the early part of the game. Continue hugging the far northern mountains and travelling west of Morgue Town and the previous location to find yet another tank weapon. This is located in a bulge to the north of the mountains where there is a collection of debris. A dark triangular shape is the location and there is a broken chassis with a long pipe pointing at it from the southwest. Check the location on the satcom by following the line up from Junkyard to the top of the map. It is to the right of this. DRAGON SLIDE Description: Weapon assembly part for Firebreather Location : Continue on, still hugging the northern mountains. At the point where the satcom line from Junkyard touches the northern mountains you will find this assembly item. It is just a few steps inside the desert where the mountains show a part that juts out into the desert. (It is also northeast from the monument) SWORD HILT Description: Weapon assembly part Location : A small black rectangular bit due south from the northern edge of the desert where it bulges south. ------------- 07. ALICE ONE ------------- HAMMER Description: Tank gun assembly part Location : Go to the east of Alice One down the rail road tracks and then search in the first indent in the north mountain. ---------------- 08. FOREVER LAND ---------------- 30MM VULCAN Description: Sub gun. Attack 66 (all). Location : South of the Bus Stop in the sand. Just slightly to the west of a line due south from the bus stop pink dot and in the white sand. (In desert to the northwest of Alice One) V2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go north up the beach, and it is in the Building the Red Mobster was in. You have to have defeated him first before you can get this item. (North side of building) CRISPY CANNON SE Description: SE Gun. Attack 133. Location : Shoots heat rays (all). In the beach area near lake half way between the Red Mobster Building and Forever Land. KEVY VEST Description: Body Armour. Defense 66. Location : Between the brown and green areas, next to lake, to the southeast of Forever Land. OLD COIN Description: Coin Location : Next to the lake a short way in from the brown desert in the northern most part of the white sand below Forever Land. May be random. Same location as Crispy Cannon. CRISPY CANNON Description: SE (all). Attack 133. Location : Next to the lake a short way in from the brown desert in the northern most part of the white sand below Forever Land. E2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Directly to the southeast of Forever Land in the pale brown area half way between the green area and the white sand. AXEL NOMAN C UNIT Description: C Unit Location : At the left edge, two thirds up to the north of the mountain just to the northwest of F L. AMP Description: Location : At the Forever Land side of the mountain on the east side of the railway tracks. Due northeast from the blue dot. ARAMID TURBAN Description: Hat. Defense 58. Location : On the far side of the mountain on the east side of the railway track. Halfway between the blue dot of Forever Land and the pink dot of the bus stop. Next to the edge of the mountain where the desert is brown. CRIMSON KNIFE Description: Knife. Attack 107. Location : The mountain to the north of Forever land across the railway tracks. Just to the left of the centre northeastern point, on the desert side. MOLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : To the north of the point of the mountain. THUNDERPUNCHER Description: Weapon. Attack 90. Location : Due east of the location of the second tunnel which is situated at the end of the railway track. Just south of where the terrain becomes darker brown is a large structure sticking up from the desert with a metal plate next to it. CANNON GUIDE Description: Assembly part. Location : Northeast of the Tunnel on the edge of dark and light brown area. --------- 09. DOWAN --------- 03 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Island to the southwest of Dowan, in the top of the wooded area. By boat. V3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Inside the wood southwest from Dowan. Go down to the first small patch of wood and search. FLUTE CANNON Description: Sub Gun that targets all enemies (sonic). Attack 88. Location : A useful sub gun is found at the lake side of the same small wood. STINGER Description: Gun (Charlene only). Targets airborne and out-of-range enemies. Attack 150. Location : East of Dowan just before taking the road south between the two mountains, at the edge of the western mountain point. O2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : East of Dowan, head south down the road, and this is at the narrowest place between the two mountains. HAMMER/CYLINDER Description: Assembly part Location : Continue down the road into the white sandy desert to the southeast. There is a single stone southeast of a bunch of cacti. Muscle Cathedral ---------------- CROW EYE Description: Assembly item Location : On the edge of the wood directly west of the pink dot. E3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go to the southern area of woods to the south of MC. If you are in the centre of the screen at the correct location them you cannot see the mountains. Giant's Canyon -------------- PLATE/MONKEY EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Continuing south from the previous location and then going up the narrow canyon to the northeast, about half way up, you'll find this itme in the centre of the dark brown area before reaching the first green patch. SARATOGA ARMOUR Description: Armour Location : In the same area to the southeast of Dowan where the land is dark brown and jagged, it's found at the top of the first canyon. DOG AMP Description: Dog weapon. Attack 124. Location : Same area at the top of the most easterly canyon that is green at the end. DOG ARMOUR LEVEL 6 Description: Dog armour. Defense 232 Location : At the very end of the smallest southwestern facing canyon that is all brown on the map. O2 CHIP Description: Chip Location : From Dowan head east along the toad and then south down the road where the canyon is very narrow. You'll find this item on the road at its narrowest place between the two mountains. Lake Bridge ----------- SNAKE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Furthest west below the Lake Bridge trader camp in a pile of stones. PLATE Description: Assembly part Location : In the desert to the southeast of the trader acmp at Lake Bridge in two stones. --------------- 10. LORELEI BAY --------------- FLASH LAMP Description: Assembly part Location : Going due south from LB a short distance I picked up Flash Lamp at the corner where the lake comes in at a curve. This is a random find. AMP Description: Assembly part Location : At a piece of brown debris at bottom of track leading south from near Lorelei Bay. SPRAY NOZZLE Description: Assembly part Location : In debris due west of west side of Lake Bridge, close to the western edge of the white sand Sunken Ruins ------------ SHARP ROCK Description: Location : Outside Sunken Ruins. Random item. By Boat ------- L3 CHIP Description: Chip Location : Go north up the coast to Isle W. trader camp. The chip is found by the north rocks here using the metal detector. 57MM AA CANNON Description: AA Cannon. Attack 161. Location : Go south from Lorelei Bay under the bridge and land on the patch of brown surrounded by green. It is in the brown area. IRON BIKINI Description: Defense 217. Only for girls. Location : Go right from the previous location and land on the patch of brown that is south of the desert. MYSTERIOUS ROCK Description: Location : At the entrance to Fort Gears. Press X. Random item. -------------- 11. FORT GEARS -------------- PLATE Description: Assembly part Location : Go to the northeast up the edge of the mountains to find it. MOLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : South of Wilco's Garage and at the top of the white sand is a collection of three bits of debris that lie just inside the white sandy area FISH EYE Description: Assembly part Location : At the southern most point of the road to the right of Wilco's garage are two bits of debris. (To the southwest of the Retirement Compound) --------------- 12. HELL'S KEEP --------------- MAID'S UNIFORM Description: Torso Armour for girls. Defense 247 Location : Drive due east from the end of the road just in front of Hell's Keep. There is a single rock before you reach the lake. Defense 247. (I had a lot of trouble picking this up in my tank and on foot. I could not get close enough to the rock. Eventually I picked up Old Coin here! Not what I wanted at all. Here's the way to do it: even though the Detector shows it on the southwest side, pick it up from the north side. It's still awkard to do and best to attempt it on foot, and you might have to try a few times.) EAGLE EYE Description: Assembly part Location : Drive southeast from Hells Keep towards the coast. A rock standing near to another with the remains of a pylon in the top right hand corner of the screen. (Marduk often appears in this area) MONKEY EYE Description: Assembly part Location : On the way to Hell's Keep NE trader camp, where the white sand starts to narrow there is a single stone. =============================================================================== 9. MINI GAME MINI GUIDE ................................................. 0128 =============================================================================== A. Where to find them B. How to play them C. What are the Rewards ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. WHERE TO FIND THE GAMES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GAMBLING GAMES ----------------- video poker (blue slot machine) blackjack (bottom table) roulette (top table) slots All the gambling games are in the casino on the train 2. NUMBER HUNTER ----------------- like mastermind, guess the hidden numbers before turns run out Also in the casino on the train, to the right of the slot machines. 3. FROG RACE ------------ bet on the frog to win Frog Race can be downloaded to your satcom and is available in most bars. 4. CROSSFIRE ------------ shoot-em-up firing at tanks, and missing ambulances and people Cross Fire can be downloaded to your satcom and is available in most bars. 5. ARTHUR'S GAME ---------------- like red light green light, or granny's footsteps Arthur's game is accessed from talking to a maid in the mansion at Beldaire. Go through the door to the right and then up through the opening. She is in the first door on the right. 6. BARREL ROLLING ----------------- um, you roll barrels as far as possible. Barrel Rolling is in the open area at SCAVENGER ISLE. 7. DOG FIGHT ------------ dog pit fights for money Dog Fight is in the building to the right of the station in Alice One. 8. DRINKING GAME ----------------- drink milk/soda/vinegar faster than your opponenet Drinking Game is in these bars: Newfolk, Dowan, Loerlei Bay, Fort Gears. 9. DANCING ----------- memorise dance moves correctly Dancing is found by talking to the dancers on the stage in these bars: East Zero, Alice One, Scavenger Isle, Hell's Keep. 10.MUSCLE TRAINING ------------------ flex those pecs with the best, a memory move game. Muscle Training is found by talking to the muscle guys wandering the streets in in Alice One (level 1), Dowan (level 2), Lorelei Bay (level 3), and in the entrance to Muscle Cathedral (level 4) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. HOW TO PLAY AND WIN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. GAMBLING GAMES ------------------ These games only appear on the train in the casino. They all have detailed in game instructions. However I will give my own brief guide as to how to play these. But first a warning. You could spend days playing these games. They are seriously fun and addictive. So if you are wary of gambling be careful! Video Poker ----------- The video poker machine is on the right next to the slot machine. It is the blue coloured machine in the centre. Press X to find it. Although it is fun to play the maximum bet allowed is only 100g so the chances of big wins are limited. This looks more complicated than it is, if like me, you have never played poker before. But now is your chance to learn. (And thanks to Saikyo Mog for teaching me how to play poker!) Controls --------- First use the up directional button to place your bet. Then press X and the game will begin. You will see five cards in a row. If two or more are flashing with a blue light this means that you have something good. Unlike ordinary poker there are Jokers which count as high cards. Once you have decided which cards to keep and which to discard use the left stick or directional buttons to place the cursor over the cards you want and press X. A HOLD sign will appear above the cards. Then press square to discard the remaining cards. You then get dealt more cards. Now you have the original ones you held on to plus the new ones. At this stage you then decide whether to collect your winnings if you have a good hand, or you can double up. Circle is for collect and that game ends. Double up is X. Press this and you have a chance to double your win. Another row of cards appears with the left card face up and all the others face down. You select one and hope that it is higher than the one shown. Winning Hands ------------- OK. Those are the basics of the controls but the real point of the game is what counts as a winning hand. There is a summary of these at the top of the screen and the amount you can win for each. Poker can be won based on a number of factors. 5 of a kind, 4 of a kind or three of a kind is when you have cards of the same number. A Joker is needed for the 5 of a kind. A high pair is two cards of the same number but only if they are Jacks or higher. Two Pair is two pairs of any number. A full house is when you have a pair and 3 cards that are the same number. A straight is when you have consecutive numbers: e.g. 3,4,5,6,7 or 9,10,J.Q,K. A flush is when you have all cards of the same suit. The numbers don't matter. A straight flush is numbers in a row and all from the same suit A Royal Flush is the same as a straight flush but the cards are the 10,Jack, Queen, King and Ace. High Wins --------- The harder it is to get a certain hand the bigger the win if you do. So in Metal Saga poker the best hand is the 5 of a kind. Blackjack --------- This is the Metal Saga equivalent of twenty-one, or vingt-et-un. It is a great game to play once you grasp the essentials but not a big winner if all you want is cash. Again there is an in game tutorial if you prefer. Maximum bet allowed is 1000g. First place your bet by using the up directional button. Press X to confirm. Then the game begins. The aim is to get the best total score which is 21. If you get more than this you are bust and lose and the dealer wins. You have to guess what the dealer's hand might be as a guide to your decisions. An Ace is counted as 11, and Jacks, Queens and Kings are all 10. So the best possible hand is an Ace and a 10. You are dealt two cards and the dealer has two cards one of which you can see. Your cards are visible to you and then you have to decide what to do. The choices are seen at the top right of the screen. If you select HIT, you get another card. STAND means you stick with what you have got. DOUBLE means that you double your bet. The trick to this is weighing up the odds. If your hand adds up to 13/14/15/16, then the chances of getting another card which will send you over the limit of 21 are much higher than if your hand adds up to 9/10/11/12. You can take a chance or stick and hope that the dealer goes bust instead or gets a lower score. If the dealer gets a hand that shows an Ace you can get insurance on your hand by giving an extra half of your original bet so that you will break even if the dealer gets "Blackjack" which is very possible if he starts out with an Ace. There is another option. If your initial hand shows two cards of the same number, you have the option to split them into two separate hands. Then you will be dealt cards to both hands and can win on both at once! The nice thing about the Metal Saga version is that the bet does not have to be entered again. It will remain the same as long as you keep playing. Oh and the other nice thing is that it is not real money. Roulette -------- If you can win at this it gives the best chance as the maximum bet is 9900g. However the chances of winning are less good. You see a board with three rows of 12 numbers coloured in black and red. If you move the cursor over the numbers it shows different numbers indicating the amount you would win if your number was the winning one. The range is from x2, to x36. At the front of the screen are other options such as even, red, or selecting the overall numbers of the first, second, or third row of twelve. you could place a bet on any or even all of the options shown. To place a bet place the cursor (using the left stick) over the number you want and then press X and the number at the left will start to increase. Press square to decrease the amount. Select a range of numbers if you like and when you are ready press the yellow OK button at the bottom right of the screen. Then watch the roulette wheel roll. After a few goes you could check the "Past Rolls" screen with the R1 button to see the history of what numbers came up. Quite honestly I would not bother with this game as everything is totally random and there is no skill involved at all. You might get lucky, or you might not. Slots..10g and 100g ------------------- There are two slot machines. The 10g ones are in the centre area to the right, and the 100g one is to the left of the man at the left hand end of the row of slot machines. Dull but the usual thing if you like slot machines. 2. NUMBER HUNTER ---------------- Like the mastermind board game. Guess the hidden numbers before you run out of goes. The best game for winning large sums and for a serious mental challenge. My personal favourite. Start by holding the up directional button until you hit the maximum bet allowed of 999g. Press X and move the directional button to select the level. Go for level three as it gives you the best winnings. Press X again. The next screen shows the game with the winnings possible on the right and the chart for you to guess the hidden three digit number at the top of the screen. You can have 5 guesses and if you have failed to get the right answer by the end, you lose your stake. On level 3 there are 9 possible number options. Level 1 has 7 and level 2 has 8, making them easier. Be systematic and start with the three numbers shown: 0,1,2. as your first guess. Press X and then the next line will appear for your second answer. The first line will show the result. 1 BLOW = 1 right but in the wrong place 2 BLOWS = 2 right but in the wrong place 1 HIT = 1 right and in the right place 2 HITS = 2 right and in the right place 1 BLOW 1 HIT = 2 right and 1 in the right place 3 BLOWS = all right but all in the wrong place 2 BLOWS 1 HIT = all right but 2 in the wrong place FALSE = none right TRUE = all right and you win. Then it is a matter of logic. And a little luck. Don't worry about a few losses and keep going. When you get a big win go and save before continuing. There is a different version of a walkthrough for this in the section for the train under the heading EAST ZERO. 3. FROG RACE ------------- You can place a bet on one frog out of a selection of five named frogs. X raises the bet, Square is to lower the bet, and O is Exit. In game Help is Triangle. Use the directional buttons or left stick to move the cursor over the selected frog. Move it to the top line and press X to raise the bet, which starts at nothing. Keep the X pressed to quickly raise the bet. The limit is 9990g. Place the cursor on the START sign and X starts the race. The odds will show as a range from 2x up to 9x. You have no influence over the race, so it is purely a matter of luck. At the end the whole thing re-sets and you have to place the bet again. 4. CROSSFIRE ------------- Shoot-em-up firing at tanks. It costs 100g to play this. If you last the full 60 seconds you may get a reward. A score of 51000 got me the grand prize of 100g. The game is simple as all you do is fire at tanks crossing the screen. Your tank can move from side to side using the directional buttons or left stick and fires with X. You begin with three lives. You must miss the ambulances and people. If you hit them you get a penalty of having to sit still for a couple of moments. The tanks are firing shells at you so too many hits and you lose quickly. There are upgrades that can hit you instead. They are: Green: temporary invincibility Red: temporary rapid fire Blue: temporary speed of movement Start by pressing START, Exit with O and in game Help is Triangle. The game is exactly the same if played from the satcom. 5. ARTHUR'S GAME --------------- Just like red light green light, or granny's footsteps.. Ask the maid in the right hand room at Beldaire mansion for the rules and she says it involves a tank but she doesn't know the details. Agree to have a go. You are taken to the game immediately. There are a number of people lined up at the front and the aim is to creep up on the tank that is firing at you all. You have to avoid the tank's attacks AND be the first to reach it. Move forward when the tank's barrel is not pointing at you. If you are lying down you won't be targeted but can still be hit. Cats cross the screen as you move forward and if you run into one it will trip you up. Keep pressing X to move forward quickly and square to lie down and avoid being targeted. If you are hit while upright you get sent back to the start line. This is not so hard as everyone else is more reckless. Once you reach the line you get the option to continue and go for a 300g reward or stop and get 100g. Once finished you will be back in the room and can choose to have another go. 6. BARREL ROLLING ------------------ Um, you roll barrels as far as possible. 7. DOG FIGHT ------------- Dog pit fights for money in Alice One. You pay 1500g to enter the dog in a series of battles. Of course as usual you have no control at all over what the dog does so it is a risk. With the dog at a high enough level and with good armour and weapons you could win a some easy money. The fights just continue one at a time and each time you are asked if you want to carry on. The rewards get better as you continue. If an enemy decides to flee from the battle you still win. Five battles nets you 5000g. This can be another easy way of getting money as you really don't have to do much besides agree to carry on to the next fight. 8. DRINKING GAME ---------------- Drink milk/soda/vinegar faster than your opponent. Just for fun. You can select any member of your party for this challenge, except the dog. The game is the same whoever does it. As with the other games it starts immediately you agree. Press the triangle button to see the help page. You have to chug three different kinds of drinks. These have different effects so you have to be alert. You have to try and avoid over filling the gauge at the bottom of the screen or you will choke. Finish all the drinks before the time runs out. It is simply a matter of pressing X as fast as you can. Vinegar..the most easy to choke on Milk.....go as fast as you can Soda.....be careful not to choke There is no reward. 9. DANCING ----------- This is harder than it looks. You have to remember the sequence of moves and copy them accurately. The moves are based on the directional buttons. If the moves are shown in blue then it means that they have repeated the same sequence as the previous time. If they are shown in red it means they have changed the move. There is a time bar and you must complete the correct sequence before the time runs out. The first round begins one move and another is added each time up to a sequence of ten. The number of moves are indicated by stars shown on the right of the screen. There is no room for error. There are four separate Dance Levels in four different bars, and you get a different reward for each one that is successfully completed. Level 1 Reward: Dance Earring (10 steps) Level 2 Reward: Dance Necklace (12 steps) Level 3 Reward: Dance Shoes (12 steps) Level 4 Reward: Dance Gloves (14 steps) HINT. The only way I was able to guarantee getting these rewards was to write down the sequence. I waited until I had around 5 memorised and then went to the help section which pauses the sequence and jotted them down. There is enough time on each go to add the next direction to the list. If you wanted to be really organsised you could write down a list of 1-10/14 and then fill in each move as you go. Just watch out for any changes. This works for both the dance game and the muscle game. 10.MUSCLE TRAINING ------------------ Flex those pecs with the best! Another memory move game. This works in exactly the same way as the dance game except that it is slightly more disturbing. It will begin as soon as you agree to Pump it up! Press triangle to stop the action and see the help page on the game. You must copy the Muscle Man's poses using the directional buttons. If a move is different from the previous round it is shown in red. There is a time bar and you must complete the sequence accurately and within the time allowed. You can make the moves as fast as you like. They will only alter a move once in a round at the most. Jot down the sequence to help get it all right. At the end they do the whole sequence together. There are 4 Levels and rewards for this game. Level 1 Reward: Weight Set (10 moves) Level 2 Reward: Protein Shake (10 moves) Level 3 Reward: Petroleum Jelly (12 moves) Level 4 Reward: Mr Stud Medal (12 moves) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C. WHAT ARE THE REWARDS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Besides winning money there are other rewards for playing the mini-games. (Many thanks to Michael Meeker at Atlus who provided this information) 1. The prizes for the dance and muscle men games are just for fun and have no purpose beyond giving you the satisfaction of getting them. 2. Earn 1000000G and have it in your possession and you get a new title: Millionaire 3. Win a lot at gambling in the casino and you get another new title: Gambler =============================================================================== 10. M O N S T E R L I S T .............................................. 0129 =============================================================================== The Monster Data is divided into 6 sections. There are a total of 232 monsters. 1. Bio 2. Cyber 3. Machine 4. Vehicle 5. Unknown 6. Outlaw The lists are given on the satcom, under the heading HUNT. Here you can check the week's target monster, which will net you extra rewards from the HUNTER OFFICE. You can also check how many types you have killed and their information. The enemies are listed in the order in which you find them in the game, so the stronger ones are last on the list. Some of the toughest enemies are in fact the humans who are not counted as OUTLAWS and do not yield any loot or gold. The number encountered from each section is shown on your satcom, and of course if you visit DR.SOLOMON in JUNKYARD you get a percentage tally and rewards. I have not succeeded in finding all monsters so this list is not definitive. Monsters added to the bottom of the lists are all thanks to Paull who tracked them down from a Japanese MS site: Metal Maniacs. Sell the item = You can can sell the item it drops at a bar. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. BIO ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *Giant Slug: | 25g | Syrup Cells | 100% | You can sell the item *Power Flower | 35g | | - | Acts quickly *Iron Slug | 35g | Gelatin cells | 100% | You can sell the item *Pogo Cadet | 61g | Junk | 50% | Acts quickly *Punk | 80g | | - | Surprisingly tough. *Bazooka Pooch | 70g | Dog Tail | 100% | You can sell the item *Canine Cannon | 90g | Gourmet dogfood | 30% | Drops A+ dog chew *Killer Blob | 80g | Sticky Cells | 100% | You can sell the item *BB Trooper | 100g | | - | Weaker than your average | | | - | hunter *BB Paratrooper | 110g | | - | Weak vs AA attacks *BB Commando | 120g | Luxury item | 100% | Issues commands *BB-in-a-Can | 100g | | - | High endurance *BB-in-a-Barrel | 100g | | - | High endurance; acts | | | - | quickly *BB-in-the-Box | 100g | Luxury Item | 100% | You can sell the item *Snake Charmer | 150g | | - | Wakes snakes *Ant Commander | 150g | | - | Calls for backup *Acid Ant | 170g | | - | Has acidic bite *F-16 Falcon | 130g | | - | Weak vs AA attack *Thunderbird | 130g | | - | Weak vs AA attack *Balloon Sniper | 140g | | - | Weak vs AA attack *Balloon Gunner | 140g | | - | Weak vs AA attack *Mad Quacker | 130g | Free-range fowl | 100% | You can sell the item *Black Quacker | 160g | Free-range fowl | 100% | You can sell the item *Samurant | 180g | | - | Acts quickly *Metalmite | 160g | Ant Guts | 100% | You can sell the item *M61 Mutt | 140g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Worth little experience *Golden Ant | 130g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Worth little experience *Golden Colony | 140g | Gold Dust | 100% | Worth little experience *Pogo Fett | 160g | | - | High endurance *Foreman | 155g | Unknown Ore | 30% | Blocko boss *Postal Primate | 205g | | - | High endurance *Chimpyro | 215g | Biotic Junk | 30% | High endurance *Chopper Chimp | 225g | Biotic Junk | 305 | Weak vs AA attack *Kamakaze Mole | 225g | | - | Digs underground *Rocket Mole | 235g | | - | Hides in its hole *Mole Master | 245g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Digs underground *Lost Mole | 255g | Bronze Bar | 100% | You can sell the item *Sonic Sunflower | 375g | | - | Worth good EXP *Marauder | 31g | | - | Good for practice *Brigand | 140g | | - | No weakness *Gangsta' Bunny | 355g | Biotic Junk | 30% | No weakness *Muscle Jr. | 325g | | - | Hardly dangerous *Masked Muscle | 375g | | - | No weakness *Muscle Guard | 340g | | - | Acts slowly *Muscle Duo | 390g | | - | No weakness *Muscle Wheel | 405g | | - | Acts slowly *Muscle Chic | 355g | | - | Weak vs sonic *Muscle Man | 325g | Sacred Protein | 100% | You can sell the item *Bunny Gunner | 355g | Medium Ore | 30% | Low endurance *Tin Tuna | 530g | Fish Fillet | 100% | You can sell the item *Herringburg | 575g | Rare fish | 100% | You can sell the item *Mutant Blob | 715g | Gourmet dogfood | 30% | Moves in stealth *Toxic Blob | 815g | Gourmet dogfood | 30% | Moves in stealth *Acid Slug | 790g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Spews acid *Toad Man | 850g | | - | Tough on the lake *Frog Man | 885g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Hides underwater *Harboon | 920g | | - | High endurance *Surfer Bunny | 950g | Biotic Junk | 30% | She's hot! *Sunny D'Light | 1420g | | - | Weak vs ice *Killer Tomato | 1375g | | - | Weak vs ice *Savage Applecoat | 1400g | Biotic Junk | 30% | Weak vs ice *Creeper | 1355g | Magic Bean | 100% | You can sell the item *Agent | 1525g | | - | Strong vs sonic *Agent X | 1484g | | - | Strong vs sonic *Shishkadog | 1505g | | - | Strong vs sonic *BB Elite | 0g | | _ | No information *Dr Zeus | 0g | | _ | No information *Crazy Wayne | 0g | | _ | No information *Sebastian | 0g | | _ | No information *Connie | 0g | | _ | No information *Clive | 0g | | _ | No information *Murasame | 0g | | _ | No information *Lloyd | 0g | | _ | No information *Duke | 0g | | _ | No information *Gurermo | 0g | | _ | No information *Biff | 0g | | _ | No information *Montoya | 0g | | _ | No information *Agent | 0g | | _ | Strong vs sonic *Marauder | 340g | | _ | Good for practice *Brigand | 355g | | _ | No weakness ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- Sneak Thief Butcher| 1465G | Bio Junk | 30% | Strong vs sonic | | | | (Hell's Keep area) __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. CYBER ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *Spider Tank | 35g | | _ | Wanders about *Killer Bee | 61g | | _ | Weak versus electric *Gatling Bee | 61g | | _ | Weak versus electric *Dragon Chopper | 81g | Eyeball | 100% | You can sell the item *Black Hawk Fly | 40g | Eyeball | 100% | Acts slowly *AT Dragonfly | 100g | | _ | High endurance *Public Enema #1 | 145g | Cyber Junk | 30% | Worth little EXP *AT Hornet | 170g | Cyber Junk | 30% | Destroys vehicle parts *Gamma Wasp | 156g | Honey | 100% | You can sell the item *Escargunner | 340g | Cyber Junk | 30% | Acts slowly *Gastropyro | 356g | Cyber Junk | - | Attacks with fire *Rocket Snail | 325g | Shell | 100% | You can sell the item *Granny X | 465g | | | No weakness *Old Man Wing | 490g | | - | No weakness *Missile Fish | 1020g | Cyber Junk | 30% | Self-destructs *Octogun | 850g | Tentacle | 100% | You can sell the item *Squid Pro Blow | 850g | Tentacle | 100% | You can sell the item *Nitro Spider | 0g | | _ | Attack it normally *Squid Pro Blow | 0g | | _ | You can sell the item ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- Old Veteren Soldier| 515G | Cyber Junk | 30% | Attacks from afar. | | | | (Lorelei Bay) Torpedo Fish | 1020G | Cyber Junk | 30% | Self-destructs (Not the same as Missile Fish) | | (Scavenger Isle) __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. MACHINE ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *Psycho Cycler | 15g | | _ | Weakest enemy *Magnum Cycle | 45g | | _ | Tough initially *Pocket Rocket | 51g | | _ | Weak vs electric *Security Cam | 61g | | _ | Likes to hide *Gun Turret | 71g | | _ | Likes to hide *Rice Crooker | 81g | | _ | Acts slowly *Grain Gunner | 61g | Rice | 100% | You can sell the item *Grenade Turret | 80g | | _ | Likes to hide *Groin Gun | 80g | Junk | 50% | Drops Junk *Laser Cam | 120g | | _ | Acts quickly *Sonic Turret | 120g | | _ | Acts quickly *Green Snake | 160g | | _ | Easily provoked *Red Snake | 170g | Snake Tail | 30$ | High endurance *Blue Snake | 170g | Snake tail | 30$ | High endurance *Yellow Snake | 170g | Snake tail | 30$ | High endurance *Purple Snake | 170g | Snake tail | 30$ | High endurance *Blocko Mechanic | 130g | Medium Ore | 30% | Ignore Foreman *Crotch Cannon | 375g | Large Ore | 30% | No weakness *UFO | 530g | Machine Junk | 30% | High altitude *Flying Saucer | 645g | Machine Junk | 30% | High altitude *Jiminy Rocket | 885g | Machine Junk | 30% | No weakness *AT Bug | 920g | Machine Junk | 30% | No weakness *Space Invader | 1355g | Machine Junk | 30% | High altitude *Power Suit | 1465g | | _ | Strong vs ice *Alex | 0g | | _ | No information *Dummy Turret | 0g | | _ | Likes to hide *Battle Ball | 0g | | _ | No information *Rocket | 0g | | _ | No information ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- Aqua Walker | 985G | Machine Junk | 30% | High Endurance | | | | (Scavenger Isle) __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. VEHICLE ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *BB Assault Jeep | 80g | Gourmet Dogfood | 40% | Acts slowly *Misery Maker | 90g | | _ | Hard to hit when out of | | | | range *Trader Hunter | 100g | | - | Acts slowly *Scorpion | 80g | Luxury Item | 100% | You can sell the item it *Hellatank | 150g | | - | Weak vs AA attacks *Hellatank EX | 160g | | - | Weak vs AA attacks *Manhunter | 180g | | - | Acts slowly *Deathbringer | 180g | | - | Acts slowly *Wild Bus | 0g | Vehicle Junk | 30% | High endurance *Airwulf | 555g | Vehicle Junk | 30% | High altitude *Blue Thunder | 575g | Vehicle Junk | 30% | High altitude *Hekatonkheires | 1440g | Vehicle Junk | 30% | Acts slowly *T1 Gorilla | 1550g | | - | Acts slowly *Whammer | 1570g | | - | Acts slowly *Tank killer | 1570g | | - | Acts slowly *Crater Maker | 0g | | - | No weakness *Crimson Grizzly | 0g | | - | No weakness *Firegunner | 0g | | - | No weakness *Konigstiger | 0g | | - | No information *Panther G | 0g | | - | No information *Main Cannon | 0g | | - | No information *Primary Cannon | 0g | | - | No information *Secondary Cannon | 0g | | - | No information *Gunn Turret | 0g | | - | No information *M61 Vulcan | 0g | | - | No information __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. UNKNOWN ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *Scrap Zombie | 25G | | - | Acts strangely *Junk Zombie | 35g | Junk | 50% | Drops Junk *Dud S | 35g | | - | Self-destructs *Mr TNT | 80g | | - | Acts quickly *Suicide Bomber | 100g | | - | Acts quickly and self- | | | - | destructs *Ghost Tiles S | 80g | | - | Heal its allies *Ghost Tiles M | 100g | | - | Heal its allies *Ghost Cadet | 160g | | - | Weak vs Fire *Balloon Zombie | 170g | | - | Floats in the air *Dead Guy | 180g | | - | Weak vs fire *Ghost Tank | 200g | | - | Attacks from afar *Dud M | 180g | | - | Self-destructs *Hilt'n Head | 155g | Unknown Junk | 30% | Attacks entire party | | | | with a knife *Dud XL | 340g | Unknown Junk | 30% | Self-destructs *Spooky Shrooms | 815g | Mushroom | 20% | Drops a pricey item *Ghost Tiles L | 1465g | | - | Heals its allies *Ghost Tiles XL | 1465g | | - | Heals its allies *Frigiderilick | 0g | | - | Weak vs fire *G.E. Simmons | 0g | | - | Weak vs fire *Mimic | 0g | | - | Weak vs fire *Polyhedron | 0g | | - | No information *Hate Ball | 0g | | - | No information *Octahedron | 0g | | - | No information *Monument | 0g | | - | No information ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- Dud L | 210G | | - | Self-destructs | | | | (Morgue Town) __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. OUTLAW ------------------.--------.-----------------.-------.------------------------- NAME | REWARD | LOOT | DROP% | INFO ------------------+--------+-----------------+-------+------------------------- *Trash Heap | 0g | Special Junk | 100% | No information *Derringer Jack | 0g | Derringer | 100% | No information *Scarlet | 0g | PZB 39 EX | 100% | No information *Bugsy | 0g | Special Junk | 100% | No information *Manhunter | 0g | | - | No information *Mad Maxwell | 0g | | - | No information *Hammer Hydra | 0g | Special Junk | 100% | No information *Dissassembler | Og | | - | No information *Bomber Prince | 0g | | - | No information *Col Blueberry | 0g | | - | No information *Tankasaurus | 0g | Special Junk | 100% | No information *Eagle 1 | 0g | Special Junk | 100% | No information *Orochi | 0g | | - | No information *Sewer Demon | 0g | Unusual Junk | 100% | No information *Puppetmaster | 0g | | - | No information *Frederick | 0g | | - | No information *Roberto | 0g | | - | No information *Shasta | 0g | | - | No information *Tiamat | 0g | Unusual Junk | 100% | No information *Granddaddy Kong | 0g | | - | No information *Dalton Brothers | 0g | | - | No information *Mega Mole | 0g | Unusual Junk | 100% | No information *Tank Eater | 0g | Unusual Junk | 100% | No information *Shaka Khan | 0g | Amazing Junk | 100% | No information *Father Muscle | 0g | | - | No information *Optimus Swine | 0g | Amazing Junk | 100% | No information *Red Mobster | 0g | Amazing Junk | 100% | No information *Daidarabotchi | 0g | | - | No information *Commi Chameleon | 0g | Amazing Junk | 100% | No information *Man o' War | 0g | Amazing Junk | 100% | No information *Willy | 0g | | - | No information *Helga | 0g | | - | No information *B2 Manta Ray | 0g | High End Junk | 100% | No information *Krak Cannon | 0g | High End Junk | 100% | No information *Catsub | 0g | High End Junk | 100% | No information *Hydrobug | 0g | High End Junk | 100% | No information *Imperial Bomber | 0g | High End Junk | 100% | No information *Marduk | 0g | Ancient Junk | 100% | No information *Binramen | 0g | | - | No information *Storm Dragon | 0g | Ancient Junk | 100% | No information *Annihilator | 0g | Ancient Junk | 100% | No information *Gassy Long Legs | 0g | Ancient Junk | 100% | No information *Johnny 6 | 0g | Ancient Junk | 100% | No information *Marceau | 0g | | - | No information *Marceau | 0g | | - | No information __________________|________|_________________|_______|_________________________ Comments -------- *Derringer Jack does not appear on the satcom list if you did not kill him. He will appear if you defeat him in the Cave. *Manhunter will only be there if you did not get Scarlet's help to defeat Mad Max, OR once you defeat him in the Cave *Marceau appears twice, once for the train defeat and again at the Cave? =============================================================================== 11. NON PLAYABLE NAMED CHARACTERS ....................................... 0130 =============================================================================== You meet quite a number of people travelling around the Metal Saga world, and you can interact. i.e. have conversations with many of these, although a few are limited to EVENT scenes, eg. CONNIE and CLIVE. MCKINLEY appears at every teleport location except FOREVER LAND to introduce you to the place. HARE HEAD appears at nearly every place to tell you a little more about the background story of the setting of the game. The CURRY GURU appears at most towns after EAST ZERO and will sell healing food. Whilst some of these people have specific roles to play many of them will react to changes especially when you get your new "arm". Visiting with a different dog or party can give different conversations. I have not yet seen them all. The best way is to experiment and revisit. JUNKYARD: ========= NINA (mother) EMILY (sister) JACK (barman, father of RACHEL) RACHEL (daughter of JACK) DR. SOLOMON ( rewards for enemies fought) DR.MORTEM ( revives if dead) IGOR (DR. MORTEM'S assistant) MCKINLEY (father's friend: gives information on every town) HAREHEAD (mysterious figure) MEDAL COLLECTOR (give your BIG MEDALs to him) SCARLET THE RED FOX (in bar) NEWFOLK: ======== NIKOLAI (father of KIRIYA and MISHA , does paint jobs for tanks) MARTHA (mother of K and M, wife of NIKOLAI ) CONNIE CLIVE ALEX (well dressed man) EAST ZERO ========= MC HAMIR offers to find a tank CURRY GURU sells healing food SKILL MASTER sells skills MURASAME enemy of RASHID BELDAIRE: ========= ARTHUR: head of BELDAIRE and father to ROSA and CARL CARL: mechanic for ROSA ROSA : mad about tanks. SEBASTIAN: butler SODAM INSEIN: sells maps SKILL MASTER MORGUE TOWN =========== KLEPTO COBAIN (in bar) TORIKAMI ======== GOROU:(village elder) SUZU: (his wife) KAEDE:(daughter of elder) ALICE ONE ========= LEON: (scientist) MURASAME SKILL MASTER FOREVER LAND ============ JARED: (leader) JULIE ROBBY SYD GASPAR REMI PATRICIA PATRICK DANNY GOLEM DOWAN ===== LORELEI BAY ============ OLGA: old lady (also found in bar at DOWAN) PROFESSOR GREY : makes LOVE machine DR. OPTICA'S LAB ================ (due west from Hell's Keep and at the farthest point north of the sea.) DR. OPTICA: makes lenses SATURDAY DR PALM'S LABORATORY ==================== DR. PALM: makes tanks THURSDAY WILCO'S GARAGE ============== WILCO TRANSPORT POD ============= SKILLS GRAND MASTER =============================================================================== 12. OUTLAWS: ALPHABETICAL ORDER ......................................... 0131 =============================================================================== The quotation is the in game description. See the place locations for more details about these battles. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OUTLAW REWARD ENCOUNTERED COMMENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annihilator: 20000g Random Use /RUN "A monster that is loaded with missiles. Often seen in the Sea of Sands (located northwest of Alice One)" This is a big bus like tank. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Binramen: 450g Anti-Tank Fort Complex events "A con artist who poses as a tank dealer. he vanishes without a trace after receiving payment from his unsuspecting clients." Finally track him down in Anti Tank Fort. Get the Maus tank as a reward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bomber Prince: 9900g Random Use /RUN on foot "A monster thought to be related to the Suicide Bomber. It's been spotted infrequently in the desert to the east of Torikami." Hard to find, need to search north of trader camp near river and where road forms a T junction, Be prepared with a high speed stat so keep Hunter out of tank and with no equipment or he will run away before you have a chance to use RUN skill to prevent this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bugsy: 15000g Random Easy to find "A dangerous vehicle with a mind of its own. It roams the desert near the Abandoned Buildings." And near Newfolk (this one is coloured bright yellow) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Catsub: 60000g Random Use /RUN "A catfish monster that lives in the lake, " May need to use /RUN to stop it fleeing if you take too long over defeating it. It will dive under water, and so be prepared for this. It's found near the LAKE BRIDGE, can only be found once you have a boat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Col. Blueberry: 10000g Ruins of a Fort "Commander of the Blueberry Army. He's protected at all times by bodyguards. The ruins north of Beldaire serve as his base of operations." There are three henchmen, and the Colonel himself, but he won't do much at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commi Chameleon: 40000g Waiting for you Stealth type "A large chameleon that appears on the western coast of the lake. Reported to devour humans. Changes colours to blend in with its surroundings." Inside the Sunken Building near to Lorelei Bay. Need the Fire Truck to get in. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daidarabotchi: 50000g Visible so attack Use /RUN in case "A colossal humanoid monster that has been sighted in the Giant's Valley (southeast of Dowan) Only attacks when provoked." Southeast of Dowan: that is, way over to the southeast where the map is coloured brown and appears jagged. Might run away if you take too long. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dalton Brothers: 12000g Event: rob train 3 of them "A trio of bandits (Fredrick/Roberto/Shasta) sighted a number of times on the Continental Railroad and in East Zero." You see an event in East Zero of them planning to rob the train. Go on the train and into the Casino and they will be there. (Fight on train: literally!) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dalton Brothers: 18000g Event:must kill 3 2 of them "Zed and Francine Dalton have hijacked an armoured escort train and taken over the First Continental Railroad Tunnel." After killing the first 3 brothers they will challenge you via and e-mail. Find them in the train tunnel. (Hate that damn tunnel) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Derringer Jack 100000g Event 'A gunman who wields a pair of derringers. He's one of the toughest guns in the West and is charged with killing an innocent civilian." You can choose to kill Jack in Junkyard or Morgue Town. (And weep.) If you don't kill him during the main game, you can still kill him inside the Mysterious Cave and get him on your list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disassembler: 80000g Event Damages tanks "A saboteur once respected as a master mechanic. He now devotes his time to disassembling hunters' and traders' vehicles." Met in Beldaire after he destroys Rosa's tanks: the event trigger. Have Kiriya in the team for an additional event. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eagle 1: 12000g Random Use AA weapons "An aerial monster that resembles both a bald eagle and a bomber plane. Be prepared to use anti-aircraft weapons against it." Flying around the eastern side. You see its shadow. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Father Muscle: 30000g Event No tanks "The founder of Gluteus Maximism--a religious cult based in Dowan. Rumours of missing Maximists and visitors to the cathedral abound." In Muscle Cathedral almost due east from Dowan, and get out of tanks to reach it next to a small lake. Don't join the cult! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gassy Long Legs 25000g Random No Tanks "Believed to be an overgrown Arachnomad. Its details and whereabout are unknown" Found in the same location as the Grand Skill Master, when the transport pod malfunctions. Uses fire attacks and stomping. Easy if high enough level with decent equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Geriatric Duo: 50000g Event No tanks "An elderly couple that leads a band of criminals known as the Denture Squad. Not to be taken lightly: their combat skills are exceptional." Helga and Willy are in the basement of the Retirement Home north of Lorelei Bay. You fight them on foot. He is in a wheelchair. You want to kill a granny and an old guy in a wheelchair!? Trigger: Olga (in Dowan) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghost Tank: 20000g Event "It's been sighted in a northern desert called the tank graveyard." Northeast of TORIKAMI. It will attack from afar. Must find monument and fight a few ghost tanks first. Then speak to Kaede in TORIKAMI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Granddaddy Kong: 20000g Event "A mutant baboon who's the head of the infamous Chimpone Family." Top of Monkey Mountain due north of Alice One. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hammer Hydra: 2500g Random Underground "A sandshark that inhabits the desert east of East Zero. Its large dorsal fin can easily be seen above the sand when it is on the move." It can dive underground so defend when it does this or wait for it to come back to the surface. Use weaponry that can attack enemies underground if you can. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hydrobug: 80000g Random "A giant water beetle. Often seen flying above the lake." Northeast part of lake. Need boat. Can fly and dive. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Imperial Bomber: 99000g Random "A monster thought to be related to the Suicide Bomber. Its details and whereabouts are unknown." South of Fort Gears. Use /RUN.or it might escape. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnny 6+ 30,000g Randowm No tanks/RUN "A bipedal armoured robot that is rumoured to have been created before the Great Destruction. Its details and whereabouts are unknown." Johnny is a random encounter in the area surrounding the Iwasaki Lab which can only be reached by the Transport Pod malfunction. There are three parts to him. And you are on foot, so need the best protectors and highest level party. Use /RUN to be on the safe side. Lockdown can work too against the extra parts. Otherwise straightforward! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Krak Cannon 40000g Event "A gigantic octopus that inhabits the lake. Thought to be the boss of the Octoguns and Squid Pro Blows." Appears in Dowan after you take the ferry to go to Lorelei Bay. Kill all the others first. Then he will appear. Get boat as reward. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mad Maxwell: 30000g Event 2 battles "A captain for the League of Uncivilized Barbarians. He drives an armoured car and causes mayhem wherever he goes." At trader camp NE of Newfolk and north of trader camp near bridge on way from Junkyard to Newfolk. There are two battles here, one after the other. Scarlet will rescue you halfway through the second: IF you've spoken to her first. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man o' War: 38000g Waiting for you Need strength "A six-armed cyborg currently occupying Lake Bridge. Wields a myriad of weapons obtained from defeated foes." You must defeat him to get access to the Rodina tank. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B2 Manta Ray: 50000g Extremely random Need AA /NoseDive "A gigantic manta ray that flies over the West. Also known as the Sky Demon. Run from its shadow it you do not have anti-air weaponry." Found near Dr. Optica's laboratory, also seen near Dowan, and East Zero, and Beldaire. Can be anywhere! Hard to find when you want to fight it. Seems to turn up when you don't. In fact he goes everywhere and is almost impossible to find when you want to fight him. He will probably turn up when you are at a low level or badly damaged. Very annoying. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marduk: 100000g Random Need strength "An automated tank last seen in the desert region near Hell's Keep" Appears often, so easy to find. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marceau 0G Event The puppet controller of Puppetmaster. Found on the train in casino ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mega Mole: 20000g Waiting(crashes in) "A huge drilling machine reported missing from the Second Continental Railroad Tunnel construction site." Northwest of Forever Land along the railway tracks inside the tunnel. Equip Drill gum. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Optimus Swine: 14000g Random "A large mechanical boar. Last sighted in the desert region southwest of Dowan" South from Dowan and search along the edge of the cliff going southwest. Can be elusive and hard to pin down. Will flee if not prevented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Orochi: 10000g Event/Waiting "An enormous many-headed snake said to live in a cave north of Torikami. The locals refer to this cave as the Snake's Den." You can fight him in tanks if you get the stone blown up by bomb guy in cave. "I found it easier to beat him without my tanks when I had Ice Armor equipped" (Thanks to high priest dre.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puppetmaster: 18000g Event "A ventriloquist who performs with an assault puppet. He's seen in many different locations under various guises." Found in casino on train after defeating the Dalton Brothers. The puppet is the real enemy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Red Mobster: 240000g Waiting "A huge hermit crab-like monster that lives along the eastern shore of the lake. Said to carry a towering edifice on its back." It's the building between Alice W and Forever Land on the shore of the lake. You're going to need anti-shelter weapons. (Thanks again to high priest dre) or use flame based attacks, such as Petrol Bombs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scarlet: Event The toughest outlaw in the game. Very hard to defeat even using a tank. Only Hunter can be used to fight her, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sewer Demon: 10000g Random "A monster said to inhabit the sewers of Morgue Town. It should be noted that the town itself is only rumoured to exist." Another random appearance, and you will get him eventually. The town is in the northeastern corner of the desert due north on the satcom from Beldaire. Most likely to appear in the lower water area of the sewers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaka Khan: 24000g Waiting "The leader of the League of Uncivilised Barbarians. Single-handedly eliminated the Rouge Rogues. Current whereabouts unknown." Hidden in warehouse buildings in Dowan. Protect with Muffle Armour. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Storm Dragon: 150000g Random "A mechanical dragon that is believed to live inside the storm curtain (the perpetual sandstorm located northwest of Hell's Keep)." Easy to find but tough to defeat. Strategy: Anti-Air is obvious, but Anti-High Altitude and a very high level also are to your benefit. (Thanks to high priest dre) Or use mechanic skills to get him down to earth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tank Eater: 30000g Event "A giant antlion that lives in the desert southwest of Dowan. Known to attack tanks that get caught in its nest." Southeast across desert from Lake Bridge/trader camp, you will get a message asking for help first. Can hide in the sand. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tankasaurus: 15000g Waiting "Gigantic creature that looks like a cross between a dinosaur and a tank. Rumoured to be an experimental weapon from before the Great Destruction." At the bottom level of the Ruins of a Fort NE of Beldaire. You have to poke him to fight him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiamat: 200000g Random/Often appears "A land battleship that cruises the Sea of Sands northwest of Alice One. It possesses overwhelming firepower and has jet fighters at its disposal." Only try this when your levels are high and you have the best tanks and weaponry. Otherwise run away. Once Tiamat is defeated and you go inside there is another battle, so it is best to retreat and save and heal before entering. Use LOCKDOWN for the second battle. Inside you will find ALPHA who will join your party if you wish. Her level of 140 does not increase, although she is very strong and can use some useful skills. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trash Heap: 1000g Waiting "Monster that lives at Junk Mountain. It's unclear whether it's a machine or made of scrap or a living being covered with junk." Must fight using tank: first outlaw in the game ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== 13. PAINTING TANKS: step by step instructions! ........................... 0132 =============================================================================== NIKOLAI, the father of KIRIYA AND MISHA will offer to paint your tanks in the NEWFOLK garage. Painting is free. There are two ways of doing this. The easy or the hard way. Speak to NIKOLAI and select the second option: "How about a paint job?" A new screen will show all your currently driven tanks, (maximum of three), and at the top left of the screen select the "Paint" option. The next screen will show a list of six options CUSTOM On the right of the screen will be the SET PATTERN three tanks and one will be selected RETURN TO DEFAULT showing its name and that it is not NAME PAINT JOB painted. See below. SAVE PAINT JOB MAUS LOAD PAINT JOB < Not painted> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE HARD WAY ((the best way) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select CUSTOM, and you get a new screen where you can customise the tank. I found this very complicated to work out, and was too busy doing other things in the game to bother with it much at first. However I made a start on trying to use this feature with encouragement from ILikeHistory fron the Metal Saga message board who gave me help on this, (for which grateful thanks), and managed to paint a tank puce pink. This is the advice that helped me so it might encourage you too to try out this feature. "In each tab you select either color or tool, then switch to the window that is the vehicle, and move the cursor to where you want. then hold the button, and drag. Anything you do can be redone, so fool around a while. Eventually you will be good at it, and making new decals and everything." With this encouragement I carried on trying and in the end discovered the joys of custom paint! The game manual gives detailed instructions on how to use this feature. To exit the paint screen press start, and choose Exit Paint. And don't forget to save the paint job. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Walkthrough for Painting Tanks =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Painting Tanks -------------- This is as sophisticated a painting program as you could want in a tank game. You can do anything you like with the painting and some people have been known to custom paint their tanks to match specific countries' colours and flags. I use it to paint all my tanks in different shades and styles of pink. It has taken me a while to grasp how to use it, but if you ignore this option you are ignoring the chance to have hours of paint filled fun, and to see the results is well worth the bit of extra effort to understand how it works. Select CUSTOM, and you get a new screen where you can customise the tank. When you start the first thing is to get used to the controls. R2 changes the function at the top right of the screen. The options are Edit, Palette, Tools and Vehicle. EDIT ---- Once in edit use the L1 button to magnify the screen and the R1 to go back. There are four possible stages of this magnification. PALETTE ------- This brings up the palette where you can choose the colours you want to use. The right stick moves the whole palette screen around. The left stick moves the white cursor over the palette window. The square button allows you to select a colour and change it. You can also move the whole window using the left stick and square together at the top or side when you see the white cross. Place the cursor on one of the long lines of colour at the bottom of the window and if you put it on the vertical line you can move the line to left or right thus changing the colour that is displayed in the left hand box. Use all three basic colours of red, blue and green to make any shade of any colour that you want. If you select a blank small square this will then fill with the selected colour. You can watch it change as you move the cursor over the long lines below. Now do another one using a different shade or colour. If you select the small square on the left side of the area the colour will be pale and the lines on the chart will set to the right. If you select from the right hand side the colour will be darker and the lines will start at the left of the chart. This way you can select a range of different blocks of colour to use for painting your tanks. TOOLS ----- With this function on the screen move the cursor to the column of white marks on the left hand side of the screen. These are hard to see clearly but each one has a different effect and function in painting. To try it out, select the top left one by pressing square. It turns yellow. Now switch to the edit screen again. EDIT ---- This will show the body of the tank laid out flat. Using the tool, draw a few lines or squares. These will show in the colour you selected. Not very interesting as this tool only draws like a pen. Try another. the fourth one down on the right is a white circle. Select with the cursor. Move the cursor over the tank body and it will draw a line. Pull the line down, and you see a cross in the centre of the rectangle or square. Release the cursor by pressing square again and a circle or oval of colour will magically appear. The left hand white square from the tools works in the same way only it makes squares and rectangles of colour. Now suppose you want to use a different colour. Go back to the palette, and select the other small square of colour. The big coloured square will change to show this new shade. Return to the tools function and carry on making blocks of a different colour! If you go over a previous coloured area the new colour will show. VEHICLE ------- This option lets you get an overview of the whole vehicle to see what it looks like before exiting paint edit. Select the chassis, sub and SE options to colour these separately in a way that changes the whole appearance of the tank colour, deepening or lightening it. This way you can paint every single little bit of your equipped tank. As a quick way to paint the whole tank with one colour select the chassis option and then go to the palette and adjust the colour on the main paint screen. This will colour the whole tank body. Then you can add any extra bits and pieces of other colours and shapes and stamps. EXIT ---- When you have finished press START and select exit paint edit. Then select yes, to exit. SAVE ---- Now you will see your painted tank in all its glory and you can name and save the paint job. LOADING ------- If the paint job refuses to load for whatever reason: and it did this twice in my game, you can go back to Nikolai who will load it for you. How this is possible I have no idea, but it works! I now think I know why it might not load: because of using an older save that was made before doing the painting. Even if this happens, the saved paint job is still on record, therefore you can still load it from talking to Nikolai. After making around 20 paint saves and 50 ordinary saves my new memory card finally was filled up. So that gives you some idea of the memory space needed for a game which includes painting. You can also load a paint job from one memory card to another. Select an unpainted tank and then the load paint job command, and you can get the save from your other memory card painted onto the tank and then save it to the new card. The Tools Controls ------------------ This is based on the information in the game manual: Left Column ------------ Pen: for freehand drawing Line: draw straight lines Rectangle: draw rectangles Filled Rectangle: create filled rectangles Dropper: copy a colour to the palette using this cursor Stamp: paste a specific pattern (which can be separately edited) Undo: cancel the last action Right Column ------------ Copy/paste tool: select an area to copy and paste(create a square and move it) Fill: fill in the selected area with colour(can change the whole) Circle: draw circles and oval shapes Filled circle: create filled circles and ovals Spray: spray paint a pattern (makes small dots) Magnifying glass: zooms in for more detail Redo: redo an action that was cancelled with undo Bottom block: line thickness: to the right are marks to increase and decrease line thickness. Stamp Edit ---------- Select this and go to the separate stamp edit screen. You can load a number of different samples of stamp edits or create your own. You use exactly the same tools as before and with a smaller palette. When you have finished editing your stamp, return to the main paint edit screen and press square again on the stamp. Now your stamp will appear on the stamp edit small screen. Simply move the cursor from the left to the tank and place your stamp. You do this by pressing X when the stamp is above the part of the tank you want to get the stamp effect. When you have done enough exit and name and save as usual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE EASY WAY (boring ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Select SET PATTERN and you get a selection of automatic paint jobs. Choose one and you can give it any name you like. You can save the paint on to a separate save file. This is really for the custom paint job as it could take you hours to design one, but you can do it for any paint job. PREFORMED PAINT JOBS ==================== Baby Blue Pale Pink Swirl Cold Steel Wood grain Cheetah Snow cat Forest Desert Jungle Twilight Marsh Choose one and you are asked if you want to load the selected sample paint. Say yes, and the tank will instantly change its appearance! When you are done and go to leave the paint screen a threatening warning screen will show to tell you that you must save the data if you want the paint data to be loaded . You can proceed without saving but if you want to save select No. After painting go back to the Paint Shop screen and select "Save Paint Job". You can also give the paint job pattern a name of your choice. When you are ready save the paint job. This requires at least 177KB of free space on the same memory card as the game. Each tank has a separate save file. =============================================================================== 14. SHOPS, VENDING MACHINES AND BLACK MARKET ............................ 0133 =============================================================================== 1. Introduction 2. Abbreviations 3. Junkyard 4. Junkyard East 5. Newfolk 6. Newfolk West 7. East Zero 8. Torikami 9. Beldaire 10. Beldaire West 11. Morgue Town 12. Alice One 13. Alice One West 14. Dowan 15. Lake Bridge East 16. Lorelei Bay 17. Isle West 18. Scavenger Isle 19. Fort Gears 20. Antitank Fort 21. Hell's Keep 22. Hell's Keep NE 23. Vending Machines 24. One - Off Items 25. Scrap Trader 26. Black Market ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Although shop lists can be found in the Satcom, you will only be able to see them after you have visited the place where the shop is located. Vending Machines do not appear in the Satcom, and some of them are located in dungeons as well as in towns. I have listed the additional ones in a separate section. Weapons are classified as either swords or guns and each one has the appropriate icon in the game menu. Bats, claws and knives all count as swords. o Charlene (Soldier) does not equip swords. o Rashid (Soldier) does not equip guns. o Dogs do not equip human weapons or armour. o Everyone (including all dogs) can equip protectors. o Some weapons can only be equipped by one person. Tank weapons can be Main Guns, Sub (Auto) Guns or SE Guns. Those guns which are identified as AA can ONLY be used with AA tanks, and these are the Gepard and Wirbelwind. o Main guns have 20/20 ammo except for the AA guns. o AA Main guns only carry 10/10 ammo. o Autoguns all have infinite ammo. o SE guns have either 6/6 or 10/10 ammo. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Abbreviations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- o H = Hunter o M = Misha o K = Kiriya o R = Rashid o C = Charlene o ATT = Attack o DEF = Defence o DUR = Durability o WGT = Weight in tons o HP = Health Points o SP = Shield Points ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. J U N K Y A R D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.--------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+--------------------------------------| | Healing Capsule | ITEM | 10G | Restores 50HP | | Tile Pack S | TANK TOOL | 50G | Adds 40SP to a vehicle | | Repair Kit | TANK TOOL | 200G | Used to fix a chassis or vehicle part| |__________________|___________|______|______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+------+----------------------| | Slingshot | GUN | 8 | - | | 80G | Ranged weapon | | Butterfly Knife | SWORD | 12 | - | .| 116G | Melee weapon | | Hard Hat | HEAD | - | 2 | All | 50G | | | Denim Overalls | BODY | - | 2 | All | 60G | | | Work Gloves | HANDS | - | 1 | All | 16G | | | Sandals | FEET | - | 1 | All | 30G | | | Stick-on Armour | PROT | - | - | All | 20G | Reduces damage by 10 | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|______|______________________| There are two vending machines both selling the same things. One is in the garage and the other to the left of the bar building. .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Pot Lid | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule .10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack S 50G | | Tile Pack S 50G | | Tile Pack S x 3 150G | | Stick on Armour 20G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | JUNKYARD BAR | |---------------------------| | Monkey Swirl 4G | | Afterburner 6G | | Electric Tea 10G | | Iced Syrup 5G | | Cold Gelatine 5G | | Buy a round 570G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. J U N K Y A R D E A S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .-----------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+------+-----------------------| | 50mm Cannon | MAIN | 25 | 60 | 1.34 | 210G | | | 7.62mm Gatling | SUB | 20 | 30 | 0.80 | 120G | | | Pitching Bomb | SE | 20 | 30 | 1.00 | 176G | Targets all | | Donkey | ENGINE | 20 | - | 0.20 | 160G | Load: 8.00 tons | | Spasibo II | C UNIT | 20 | - | 0.95 | 120G | Defence +19 to driver | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______|_______________________| .-----------. | PART SHOP | .-----------------.-------.-----.------.-------.--------.---------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+--------+---------------------| | 57mm AA Cannon | MAIN | 115 | 161 | 3.91 | 17500G | For AA tanks only | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|________|_____________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. N E W F O L K ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.--------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+--------------------------------------| | Healing Capsule | ITEM | 10G | Restores 50HP | | Tile Pack M | TANK TOOL | 100G | Adds 80SP to a vehicle | | Mine Detector | ITEM | 160G | Used to detect buried items | |__________________|___________|______|______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+------+-----------------------| | Revolver | GUN | 16 | - | | 130G | Ranged weapon | | Metal Bat | SWORD | 20 | - | | 182G | Melee weapon | | Lightning Rod | SWORD | 16 | - | Misha | 156G | Melee weapon: stuns | | Zapper | GUN | 16 | - | | 169G | Ranged (electric) | | Camo Cap | HEAD | - | 5 | All | 80G | | | Flight Jacket | BODY | - | 5 | All | 90G | Worn by bomber pilots | | Leather Gloves | HANDS | - | 4 | All | 30G | Plain leather gloves | | Sneakers | FEET | - | 4 | All | 50G | Comfy pair of kicks | | Pot Lid | PROT | - | | All | 32G | Reduces damage by 18 | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|______|_______________________| .-----------. | PART SHOP | .-----------------.-------.-----.------.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+------+-----------------------| | S 75mm Cannon | MAIN | 30 | 70 | 1.68 | 260G | | | 9mm Vulcan | SUB | 30 | 20 | 1.35 | 190G | Targets all | | Electrifier | SE | 30 | 40 | 1.68 | 286G | Targets all | | Tianov | ENGINE | 30 | - | 0.39 | 260G | Load: 13.40 tons | | Teleporter | ACCESS | - | - | 0.00 | 160G | Travel instantly | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______________________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Thunder Shell | 16G | Auxiliary Shell (electric) | | Spare Shell | 5G | Auxiliary Shell (regular shell) | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack M | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack M 100G | | Tile Pack M x3 300G | | Pot Lid 32G | | Pot Lid x4 128G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | NEWFOLK BAR | |---------------------------| | Brain Buster 5G | | Rocket Pinga 5G | | Dooamine Soda 10G | | Sea Cucumber 7G | | Sticky Pickle 7G | | Buy a round 1080G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. N E W F O L K W E S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Thunder Grenade | ITEM | 16G | Handy in battle (electric) | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+------+-----------------------| | Thunder Blaster| SUB | 30 | 40 | 1.35 | 190G | Electric weapon | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______|_______________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. E A S T Z E R O A N D T H E T R A I N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Grenade | ITEM | 30G | Handy in battle (explosive) | | Tile Pack M | TANK TOOL | 100G | Adds 80SP to a vehicle | | Alkaline Wax | TANK TOOL | 50G | Stops acid damage to a vehicle | |__________________|___________|______|__________________________________|____| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+------+-----------------------| | PPK | GUN | 24 | - | | 200G | Ranged pistol | | Jambiya | SWORD | 28 | - | | 292G | Melee sword | | Slugger | SWORD | 24 | - | | 240G | Melee | | Pandemonium | GUN | 8 | - | Charl | 676G | Targets all | | Goggles | HEAD | - | 9 | | 120G | Hat-and-goggle combo | | Kevy Shirt | BODY | - | 9 | | 140G | Hawaiian shirt | | Brass Knuckles | HANDS | - | 6 | | 40G | Worn over knuckles | | War-torn Boots | FEET | - | 6 | | 80G | Leather boots | | Shock Absorber | PROT | - | - | All | 60G | Absorbs explosive | | Dog Cannon | DOG | 24 | - | Dog | 130G | (explosive) | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|______|_______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+------+-----------------------| | 88m Cannon | MAIN | 40 | 90 | 2.36 | 410G | | | 9mm Gatling | SUB | 40 | 50 | 1.89 | 310G | | | AT Launcher | SE | 40 | 90 | 2.36 | 451G | | | Wozniak | C UNIT | 40 | - | 2.24 | 310G | Defence +30 to driver | | Bull | ENGINE | 50 | - | 0.58 | 410G | Load: 18.80 tons | | Teleporter | ACCESS | - | - | 0.00 | 160G | Travel instantly | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______|_______________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Bombshell | 30G | Auxiliary Shell (explosive) | | Spare Shell | 5G | Auxiliary Shell (regular) | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack M | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack M 100G | | Tile Pack M x3 300G | | Shock Absorber 60G | | Shock Absorber x3 180G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | EAST ZERO BAR | |---------------------------| | Jacques Daniels 3G | | Power Bomb 7G | | Crankshaft 13G | | Grilled Amoeba 5G | | Sunflower Seeds 7G | | Buy a round 5104G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | THE TRAIN BAR | |---------------------------| | Steam Engine 8G | | Crankshaft 10G | | Iron Rail 15G | | Smoked Chicken 8G | | Fried Halibut 8G | | Buy a round 9090G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. T O R I K A M I ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | AA Grenade | ITEM | 70G | Hits airborne enemies | | Tile Pack L | TANK TOOL | 200G | Adds 200SP to a vehicle | | Mine Detector | ITEM | 160G | Used to detect buried items | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-------------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+------+-----------------------| | Peacemaker | GUN | 40 | - | | 520G | Ranged revolver | | Tiger Claw | SWORD | 45 | - | | 748G | Melee glove with claw | | Ten Gallon Hat | HEAD | - | 16 | | 320G | | | BDU Jacket | BODY | - | 16 | | 370G | Combat jacket | | Battle Knuckles | HANDS | - | 11 | | 110G | Brass knuckles | | Cowboy Boots | FEET | - | 11 | | 210G | Made for walkin' | | Crimson Manzier | PROT | - | - | All | 140G | Reduces damage by 42 | | Dog Mortar | DOG | 40 | - | Dog | 520G | Hits airborne enemies | | Dog Armor LV2 | DOG | - | 54 | Dog | 210G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|______|_______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+-------+----------------------| | 120mm Rifle | MAIN | 60 | 130 | 3.73 | 1000G | | | 30mm AA Cannon | MAIN | 60 | 35 | 1.86 | 1000G | For AA tanks only | | 12.7mm Gatling | SUB | 60 | 70 | 2.98 | 790G | | | Swatter | SE | 60 | 130 | 3.05 | 1100G | Anti-aircraft gun | | Emmy | C UNIT | 60 | - | 3.54 | 790G | Defence +44 to driver| | Kuhli | ENGINE | 60 | - | 0.96 | 1050G | Load: 29.60 tons | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.---------.-------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+---------------------------------- | | Scenic Painting | Wall Decoration | 1000G | A serene picture | | Ukiyoe Print | Wall Decoration | 1000G | Bold and exciting | | Tatami Mat | Floor Covering | 1000G | Japanese style mat | | Divine Statue | Decorative Furnishing | 1000G | It makes you feel happy | | Porcelain Jar | Antique Furnishing | 1000G | An elegant work of art | | Sunflowers | Flowers | 1000G | Nice in a vase | | Fireplace | Table-Type Furnishing | 1000G | Traditional Japanese | | Kimono | Clothing | 200000G | Japanese formal wear | | Maiden Wear | Clothing | 7800G | All accessories included| |_________________|_______________________|_________|_________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: AA Grenade | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Healing Drink x3 150G | | AA Grenade 70G | | AA Grenade x3 210G | | Tile Pack L 200G | | Crimson Manzier 140G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | TORIKAMI BAR | |---------------------------| | Nickelob 5G | | Cherry Blossom 9G | | Rice Wine 13G | | Pickled Veggies 5G | | Sashimi 5G | | Buy a round 6060G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. B E L D A I R E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.--------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+--------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Tile Pack L | TANK TOOL | 200G | Adds 200SP to a vehicle | | Grenade | ITEM | 30G | Handy in battle (explosive) | | Remote Grenade | ITEM | 40G | Hits enemies out of range | |__________________|___________|______|______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+------+-----------------------| | Bow Gun | GUN | 32 | - | | 330G | Ranged crossbow | | Machete | SWORD | 36 | - | | 468G | Melee large knife | | Borsalino Hat | HEAD | - | 13 | | 200G | A stylish hat | | Duster | BODY | - | 13 | | 230G | A long coat | | Rocker Gloves | HANDS | - | 8 | | 70G | Black riveted gloves | | Safety Boots | FEET | - | 8 | | 130G | Steel toe boots | | Shock Absorber | PROT | - | - | All | 60G | Absorbs explosive | | Dog Gun | DOG | 32 | - | Dog | 330G | Hits out of range | | Dog Armor LV1 | DOG | - | 42 | Dog | 130G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|______|_______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+------+-----------------------| | 90mm Long T | MAIN | 50 | 110 | 3.05 | 660G | | | 12.7mm Vulcan | SUB | 50 | 30 | 2.44 | 490G | Targets all enemies | | Bloodhound | SE | 50 | 110 | 3.05 | 726G | Use for out of range | | Legendary 99 | C UNIT | 50 | - | 2.90 | 490G | Defence +37 to driver | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______|_______________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | AA Arrow | 70G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits airborne enemies | | Napalm Shell | 100G | Auxiliary Shell. (Fire) | | RAP Shell | 40G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits out of range enemies. | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .------------------.----------------------.--------.--------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------| | Picasso | Wall Decoration | 820G | From the Rose period | | Salvador Dali | Wall Decoration | 820G | Surrealistic painting | | Wood Flooring | Floor Covering | 820G | It's waxed and slippery | | Music Box | Decorative Furnishing | 820G | Plays lovely music | | Flower Vase | Antique Furnishing | 820G | A gorgeous vase | | Rose Bouquet | Flowers | 820G | Nice in a vase | | Fancy Table | Table-Type Furnishing | 820G | Very fashionable | | Aquarium | Box-Type Furnishing | 820G | Home to many fish | | Jukebox | Box-Type Furnishing | 820G | Plays music | | Wardrobe | Storage-Type Furn. | 820G | Perfect for clothing | | One-Door Fridge | Appliance | 820G | Space-saving fridge | | Bunny Costume | Clothing | 14000G | With bunny ears and tail | | Maid Uniform | Clothing | 18000G | Designed for comfort | |_________________|_______________________|________|__________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack L | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack L 200G | | Tile Pack L x3 600G | | Shock Absorber 60G | | Shock Absorber x4 240G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | BELDAIRE BAR | |---------------------------| | Chocolate Cow 5G | | Crackle Poo 8G | | Endorphin Fizz 15G | | Skewered Meat 5G | | Skewered Steak 10G | | Buy a round 100075G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. B E L D A I R E W E S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.-------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+-------------------------------------| | Healing Capsule | ITEM | 10G | Restores 50HP | | Miracle Key | TANK TOOL | 100G | Restarts a vehicle from shutdown | | Antidote | ITEM | 100G | Neutralises poison | |__________________|___________|______|_____________________________________| .-----------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.-----.-------.------.----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+-----+-------+------+----------------------| | 20mm AA Cannon | MAIN | 50 | 55 | 1.52 | 660G | Equip to AA tanks | | Tail Chain | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | | Spiked Fender | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 800G | Vehicle accessory | | Decal | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 80G | Vehicle accessory | | Red Flag | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | | Blue Flag | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | |________________|________|_____|_____|_______|______|______________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11. M O R G U E T O W N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Petrol Bomb | ITEM | 100G | Battle item. Sets target on fire | | Tile Pack M | TANK TOOL | 100G | Adds 80SP to a vehicle | | Unparalyzer | ITEM | 100G | Cures stun | | Vitamin | ITEM | 98G | Increase attack during battle | | Sugar Pill | ITEM | 98G | Increase turn rate during battle | | Gourmet Dogfood | ITEM | 300G | Makes a dog's coat shiny | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Chinese Sword | SWORD | 59 | - | H/R/K | 1177G | Melee weapon | | Beretta | GUN | 50 | - | | 840G | Automatic pistol | | Flame Gun | GUN | 50 | - | | 1092G | Ranged weapon (fire) | | Fire Blaster | GUN | 13 | - | | 1092G | Targets all/stealth | | Nitrolizer | GUN | 50 | - | Charl | 1092G | Targets all/stealth | | Dog Torch | DOG | 50 | - | Dog | 840G | Ranged weapon: fire | | Boonie Hat | HEAD | - | 21 | | 500G | For tropical warfare | | Trenchcoat | BODY | - | 21 | | 590G | A weatherproof coat | | Gauntlet | HANDS | - | 14 | | 170G | Bulky metal gloves | | Battle Spikes | FEET | - | 14 | | 340G | Metal-spiked cleats | | Ice Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 200G | Absorbs ice damage | | Dog Armor LV3 | DOG | - | 71 | Dog | 340G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Petrol Bomb | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Petrol Bomb 100G | | Petrol Bomb x3 300G | | Tile Pack L x3 600G | | Ice Armour 200G | | Ice Armour x4 800G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | MORGUE TOWN BAR | |---------------------------| | Methyl Tonic 3G | | Salty Ethyl 5G | | Morguarita 7G | | Salted meat 3G | | Grilled Cactus 10G | | Buy a round 7080G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12. A L I C E O N E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Tile Pack L | TANK TOOL | 200G | Adds 200SP to a vehicle | | Metal Detector | ITEM | 980G | Used to detect buried items | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | UDAR | GUN | 68 | - | Charl | 1300G | Powerful revolver | | Samshir | SWORD | 79 | - | R/K/H | 1925G | Thick-bladed sword | | Dog Bayonet | DOG | 68 | - | Dog | 1300G | Melee weapon for dog | | Safety Helmet | HEAD | - | 32 | | 800G | Made of hard plastic | | Mechanic Gloves | HAND | - | 22 | K/M | 300G | For mechanics only | | Metallic Suit | BODY | - | 32 | | 940G | Made of metal plates | | Guardian Boots | FEET | - | 22 | | 540G | With shin guards | | Ice Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 200G | Absorbs ice damage | | Dog Armor LV4 | DOG | - | 106 | Dog | 540G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.-------.---------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+-------+----------------------| | 140mm SBG | MAIN | 80 | 200 | 5.09 | 2700G | | | 20mm Gatling | SUB | 80 | 105 | 4.07 | 2000G | | | Drill Gun | SE | 80 | 200 | 5.09 | 2970G | Fires drill missiles | | Racter | C UNIT | 80 | - | 4.84 | 2000G | Defence +44 to driver| | V24 Hulk | ENGINE | 80 | - | 1.35 | 2684G | Load: 40.00 tons | | Teleporter | ACCESS | - | - | 0.00 | 160G | Travel instantly | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|_______|______________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Photon Shell | 270G | Auxiliary Shell (beam) | | RAP Shell | 40G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits out of range enemies. | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack L | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Healing Drink x3 150G | | Tile Pack L 200G | | Tile Pack L x3 600G | | Ice Armour 200G | | Ice Armour x4 800G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | ALICE ONE BAR | |---------------------------| | Mastegate 8G | | Frontier 10G | | Crankshaft 13G | | Jellyfish Stick 5G | | Sticky Pickle 7G | | Buy a round 8065G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13. A L I C E O N E W E S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Drink | ITEM | 600G | Restores 1000HP | | Mole Grenade | ITEM | 170G | Hits underground enemies | | Mechanic Kit | TANK TOOL | 500G | Use to completely fix a chassis/part | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.---------------------.-------.-----------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+---------------------+-------+-----------------------------| | Weather Box | Box-Type Furnishing | 3300G | Thermometer included | | Asian Wardrobe | Storage-Type Furn. | 3300G | Perfect for clothing | | Two-Door Fridge | Appliance | 3300G | A popular brand name fridge | | Brazier | Miscellaneous Furn. | 3300G | Keeps the room warm | | Plant | Miscellaneous Furn. | 3300G | Very healthy | |_________________|_____________________|_______|_____________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 14. D O W A N ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Noise Grenade | ITEM | 430G | Handy in battle (sonic) | | Nutcracker ITEM | 430G | Hits where it hurts sheltered or not | | Tile Pack L | TANK TOOL | 200G | Adds 200SP to a vehicle | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Desert Eagle | GUN | 124 | - | Charl | 3500G | Automatic pistol | | Damascus Sword | SWORD | 124 | - | | 3850G | Melee weapon | | Intruder | GUN | 124 | - | | 4550G | Hits foes in shelter | | Sonic Blaster | GUN | 124 | - | | 4550G | Hits foes in stealth | | CVC Helmet | HEAD | - | 70 | | 2000G | For tank crew | | CVC Armor | BODY | - | 70 | | 2400G | For tank crew | | CVC Gloves | HANDS | - | 69 | | 1100G | For tank crew | | CVC Boots | FEET | - | 46 | | 1400G | For tank crew | | Muffle Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 860G | Absorbs sonic damage | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.-----.-------.-------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+-----+-------+-------+-----------------------| | 205mm Cannon | MAIN | 90 | 255 | 5.77 | 4300G | | | 30mm Gatling | SUB | 100 | 175 | 5.16 | 5000G | | | Hornblaster | SUB | 100 | 175 | 5.16 | 5000G | (sonic) | | Soprano Cannon | SE | 100 | 175 | 6.45 | 7700G | Targets all (sonic) | | Daroth | C UNIT | 100 | - | 6.13 | 5000G | Defence +182 to driver| | Rudolf | ENGINE | 90 | - | 1.54 | 4300G | Load: 45.80 tons | | Teleporter | ACCESS | - | - | 0.00 | 160G | Travel instantly | |________________|________|_____|_____|_______|_______|_______________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Sonic Shell | 430G | Auxiliary Shell (sonic:creates sound) | | Piercing Shell | 430G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits enemies in shelter. | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.--------.--------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------| | Wall Clock | Wall Decoration | 7000G | Silent type | | Persian Rug | Floor Covering | 7000G | High-quality carpet | | Cactus | Decorative Furnishing | 14000G | Doesn't need much care | | Jingdez Dish | Antique Furnishing | 7000G | Beautifully designed | | Gerbera Bouquet | Flowers | 7000G | Look nice in a vase | | Electric Fan | Miscellaneous Furn. | 7000G | Keeps the room cool | | Aqua-Terrarium | Box-Type Furnishing | 7000G | Miniature ecosystem | | Closet | Storage-Type Furn. | 7000G | Perfect for clothing | | Chinese Dress | Clothing | 28000G | Accentuates your curves | | Swimsuit | Clothing | 4800G | Women's bathing suit | |_________________|_______________________|________|__________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Muffle Armour | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Noise Grenade 430G | | Noise Grenade x3 1280G | | Nutcracker x3 1280G | | Tile Pack L 200G | | Muffle Armour 860G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | DOWAN BAR | |---------------------------| | Buff Beer 5G | | Romero Special 10G | | Reservoir Fog 15G | | Jellyfish Stick 5G | | Smoked Octopus 8G | | Buy a round 10045G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 15. L A K E B R I D G E E A S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Strato Grenade | ITEM | 700G | Hits high--altitude enemies | | Hound Bomb | ITEM | 700G | Hits enemies in stealth | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.-----.-------.--------.----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+----------------------| | 220mm Gaea | MAIN | 110 | 460 | 7.14 | 10000G | | |________________|________|_____|_____|_______|________|______________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.--------.--------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------| | Chest | Storage-Type Furn. | 14000G | Perfect for clothing | | Deluxe Fridge | Appliance | 14000G | Loaded with features! | | Locker | Storage-Type Furn. | 14000G | Perfect for clothing | | Washer | Appliance | 14000G | Gets muddy clothes clean | |_________________|_______________________|________|__________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 16. L O R E L E I B A Y ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Tile Pack XL | TANK TOOL | 500G | Adds 500SP to a vehicle | | Mechanic Kit | TANK TOOL | 500G | Use to completely fix a chassis/part | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Kastane | SWORD | 172 | - | | 6050G | Sword with ornament | | Gibson | GUN | 172 | - | H/K/C | 5500G | Sawn off shotgun | | Fiberglass Helm | HEAD | - | 103 | | 3300G | Lightweight helmet | | Assault Gear | BODY | - | 103 | | 3900G | With movement support| | Thigh Boots | FEET | - | 69 | | 2200G | Cover the entire leg | | Fire Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 540G | Absorbs fire damage | | Dog Tazer | DOG | 172 | - | Dog | 5500G | Electric. hits high | | | | | | | |alt/stealth/underwater| | Dog Armor LV7 | DOG | - | 344 | Dog | 2200G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.-----.-------.--------.----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+----------------------| | 35mm AA Cannon | MAIN | 110 | 230 | 3.57 | 10000G | Used by AA tanks | | 35mm Vulcan | SUB | 110 | 118 | 5.71 | 8200G | Targets all | | CIWS | SE | 110 | 460 | 7.14 | 11000G | Hits high-altitude | | Solomon 2 | C UNIT | 110 | - | 6.78 | 8200G | Def. +284 to driver | | OHC Carmen | ENGINE | 110 | - | 1.92 | 10000G | Load: 56.60 tons | |________________|________|_____|_____|_______|_______________________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Spare Shell | 5G | Auxiliary Shell (regular) | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.--------.--------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------| | Goldfish Bowl | Decorative Furnishing | 14000G | Remember to feed it! | | Model Tank | Antique Furnishing | 14000G | 1/32 scale model | | Kotatsu | Table-Type Furnishing | 14000G | Warm and cosy | | Deluxe Jukebox | Box-Type Furnishing | 14000G | Plays music | | Waitress Dress | Clothing | 8800G | Uniform from a restaurant| |_________________|_______________________|________|__________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack XL | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Healing Drink x3 150G | | Tile Pack XL 500G | | Tile Pack XL x3 1500G | | Fire Armour 540G | | Fire Armour x4 2160G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | LORELEI BAY BAR | |---------------------------| | Jacques Daniels 3G | | Body Slam 5G | | Dooamine Soda 13G | | Grilled Amoeba 5G | | Raw Amoeba 8G | | Buy a round 15050G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 17. I S L E W E S T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Tile Pack XL | TANK TOOL | 500G | Adds 500SP to a vehicle | | Torpedo Grenade | ITEM |1100G | Hits underwater enemies | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-------------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Nameless Blade | SWORD | 286 | - | H/K/R | 8800G | Japanese sword | | Remote Wrench | SWORD | 207 | - | Kiriya| 7150G | Hits high altitude | | Bunny Ears | HEAD | - | 128 | Charl | 4150G | "Hef's fav." | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 18. S C A V E N G E R I S L E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Healing Drink | ITEM | 50G | Restores 100HP | | Tile Pack XL | TANK TOOL | 500G | Adds 500SP to a vehicle | | Torpedo Grenade | ITEM |1100G | Hits underwater enemies | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Dragunova Rifle | GUN | 242 | - | Charl | 8800G | A sniper rifle | | Ali Baba Turban | HEAD | - | 153 | | 5000G | Worn by | | Ali Baba Vest | BODY | - | 153 | | 6000G | legendary thief | | Ground Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 2200G | Absorbs elect. damage| |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.-----.-------.--------.----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+-----+-------+--------+----------------------| | 225mm Hydra | MAIN | 120 | 635 | 7.82 | 17500G | | | 35mm Gatling | SUB | 120 | 323 | 6.25 | 13000G | | | Excelsior | SE | 120 | 323 | 7.82 | 19250G | All. Hits underwater | | Metatron | C UNIT | 120 | - | 7.43 | 13000G | Def. +442 to driver | | V48 Cong | ENGINE | 120 | - | 2.11 | 17500G | Load: 62.00 tons | |________________|________|_____|_____|_______|_______________________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Spare Shell | 5G | Auxiliary Shell (regular) | | AA Arrow | 70G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits airborne enemies | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack XL | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Healing Drink x3 150G | | Tile Pack XL 500G | | Tile Pack XL x3 1500G | | Ground Armour 2200G | | Ground Armour x4 8800G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Torpedo Grenade | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Torpedo Grenade 1100G | | Torpedo Grenade x3 3300G | | Tile Pack XL 500G | | Tile Pack XL x3 1500G | | Ground Armour 2200G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | SCAVENGER ISLE BAR | |---------------------------| | Scavenger Wild 5G | | DDT 10G | | Brute Punch 15G | | Smoked Fish 3G | | Fried Fish 8G | | Buy a round 20105G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 19. F O R T G E A R S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.--------.---------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+--------+---------------------| | Windbreaker | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 30800G | Vehicle accessory | | Green Flag | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | | Yellow Flag | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | | Black Flag | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 400G | Vehicle accessory | | Passing Decal | ACC | - | - | 0.00 | 80G | Vehicle accessory | | Teleporter | ACCESS | - | - | 0.00 | 160G | Travel instantly | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|________|_____________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Spare Shell | 5G | Auxiliary Shell (regular) | | Bombshell | 30G | Auxiliary Shell (explosive) | | Sonic Shell | 430G | Auxiliary Shell (sonic) | | Napalm Shell | 100G | Auxiliary Shell (fire) | | Thunder Shell | 16G | Auxiliary Shell (electric) | | AA Arrow | 70G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits airborne enemies | | RAP Shell | 40G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits out of range enemies | | Piercing Shell | 430G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits enemies in shelter | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.--------.--------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+--------+--------------------------| | Spirit Frame | Wall Decoration | 22000G | Powerful brushwork | | Bear Carving | Decorative Furnishing | 22000G | Wooden figure of a bear | | Dinner Table | Table-Type Furnishing | 22000G | Sturdy and ornate | | Ceramic Raccoon | Miscellaneous Furn. | 22000G | A clay raccoon | | Vending Machine | Box-Type Furnishing | 22000G | Very convenient | |_________________|_______________________|________|__________________________| .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack XXL | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Healing Drink x3 150G | | Tile Pack XXL 1000G | | Tile Pack XXL x3 3000G | | Mirror Armour 3600G | | Mirror Armour x2 7200G | |___________________________| .---------------------------. | FORT GEARS BAR | |---------------------------| | Claymore 5G | | Gin and Turret 8G | | Schurzen 13G | | Monster Nuggets 5G | | Roast Pig 9G | | Buy a round 33013G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 20. A N T I T A N K F O R T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.------.---------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+------+---------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Minerals | ITEM | 198G | Increases attack during battle | | Caffeine Pill | ITEM | 198G | Increases turn rate during battle | |__________________|___________|______|_______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-----.-------.-------.----------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+-------+----------------------| | Dog Vulcan | DOG | 61 | - | Dog | 8800G | Targets all | | Dog Armour Lv8 | DOG | - | 511 | Dog | 3500G | | | Polymer Pads | PROT | - | - | All | 2200G | Reduces damage by 98 | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|_______|______________________| .-----------------. | GIFT SHOP | .-----------------.-----------------------.---------.-------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |-----------------+-----------------------+---------+-------------------------| | Fukube | Wall Decoration | 56000G | It grows on you | | Lucky Cat | Decorative Furnishing | 22000G | Said to bring good luck | | Moocher Cage | Pet Cage | 22000G | Cage to keep a Moocher | | Dryer | Appliance | 22000G | Makes clothes fluffy | | Dress | Clothing | 80000G | Look like a true lady | | Wedding Dress | Clothing | 180000G | For her most joyous day | |_________________|_______________________|_________|_________________________| .---------------------------. | ANTITANK FORT BAR | |---------------------------| | Flaming Joe 6G | | Bazooka Schmoe 9G | | Piledriver 15G | | Chicken Wings 7G | | Chicken Breast 9G | | Buy a round 30030G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 21. H E L L' S K E E P ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.-------.--------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+-------+--------------------------------------| | Energy Capsule | ITEM | 150G | Restores 300HP | | Tile Pack XXL | TANK TOOL | 1000G | Adds 1000SP to a vehicle | |__________________|___________|_______|______________________________________| .------------------. | EQUIPMENT SHOP | .------------------.-------.-----.-------------.--------.---------------------. | NAME | TYPE | ATT | DEF | EQUIP | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-------+-----+-----+-------+--------+---------------------| | Kunihiro Katana | SWORD | 330 | - | | 16800G | Japanese sword. Ice | | Keen Edge | SWORD | 330 | - | | 15400G | Black single-edged | | P90 | GUN | 83 | - | Charl | 14000G | Submachine gun. All | | Freeze Gun | GUN | 330 | - | | 18200G | Ranged weapon. Ice | | Ice Blaster | GUN | 83 | - | | 18200G | Ranged. Ice. All. | | Dog Ice Cannon | DOG | 330 | - | Dog | 14000G | Ranged. Ice | | Kaiser Crown | HEAD | - | 217 | | 8500G | | | Sudarion | BODY | - | 217 | | 10000G | Mysterious outfit | | Power Gloves | HANDS | - | 145 | | 3000G |Makes you feel strong| | Army Greaves | FEET | - | 145 | | 5600G |Made of strong alloy | | Mirror Armor | PROT | - | - | All | 3600G | Absorbs beam damage | | Dog Armor LV9 | DOG | - | - | Dog | 5600G | | |__________________|_______|_____|_____|_______|________|_____________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.-------.--------.---------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+-------+--------+---------------------| | Rail Cannon | MAIN | 130 | 855 | 8.50 | 28000G | | | Fairy | ENGINE | 130 | - | 2.30 | 28000G | Load: 67.40 tons | | Sigma 80 | C UNIT | 130 | - | 8.08 | 20000G | Def. +644 to driver | |________________|________|_____|______|_______|______________________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | Ice Shell | 1800G | Auxiliary Shell (ice) | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| .---------------------------. | HELL'S KEEP BAR | |---------------------------| | Molotov 5G | | Hellchaser 8G | | Fire and Ice 8G | | Mixed Platter 10G | | Pickled Cactus 15G | | Buy a round 50120G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 22. H E L L' S K E E P N E ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .------------------. | ITEM SHOP | .------------------.-----------.-------.--------------------------------------. | NAME | TYPE | COST | NOTES | |------------------+-----------+-------+--------------------------------------| | Energy Drink | ITEM | 600G | Restores 1000HP | | Ice Grenade | ITEM | 1800G | Handy in battle (ice) | | Tile Pack XXL | TANK TOOL | 1000G | Adds 1000SP to a vehicle | |__________________|___________|_______|______________________________________| .----------------. | PART SHOP | .----------------.--------.-----.------.------.-------.-----------------------. | NAME | PART | DUR | ATT | WGT | COST | NOTES | |----------------+--------+-----+------+------+-------+-----------------------| | Laser Cannon | SUB | 90 | 66 | 4.62 | 3200G | Targets all. (beam) | |________________|________|_____|______|______|_______|_______________________| .----------------. | SHELL SHOP | .----------------.-------.----------------------------------------------. | NAME | COST | NOTES | |----------------+-------+----------------------------------------------| | AA Arrow | 70G | Auxiliary Shell. Hits airborne enemies. | |________________|_______|______________________________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 23. V E N D I N G M A C H I N E S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list includes all the additional vending machines that can be found in dungeons or bought. ABANDONED RUINS (At the far end of the road) .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Pot Lid | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Thunder Grenade 16G | | Thunder Grenade x3 48G | | Pot Lid 32G | | Pot Lid 32 x4 128G | |___________________________| BIO ENERGETICS LAB (Bottom floor hallway) .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack M | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack M 100G | | Tile Pack M x3 300G | | Shock Absorber 60G | | Shock Absorber x3 180G | |___________________________| FOREVER LAND (In the left room going from the entrance) .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Photon Grenade | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Photon Grenade 270G | | Photon Grenade x3 810G | | Tile Pack L 700G | | Kevy Vest 540G | | Kevy Vest x4 2160G | |___________________________| SUNKEN RUINS (Near Lorelei Bay: Outside the ruins to the right. .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Strato Grenade | |---------------------------| | Healing Drink 50G | | Strato Grenade 700G | | Strato Grenade x3 2100G | | Tile Pack XL 500G | | Mechanis Kit 500G | | Fire Armour 540G | |___________________________| GIFT SHOP VENDING MACHINE Vending Machine bought at Fort Gears Gift Shop. If you buy this for Hunter you will find it in Hunter's bedroom at the garage in Junkyard. All purchased machines sell the same items whoever is given one. .---------------------------. | VENDING MACHINE | | Prize: Tile Pack S | |---------------------------| | Healing Capsule 10G | | Healing Capsule x3 30G | | Tile Pack S 50G | | Tile Pack S 50G | | Tile Pack S x 3 150G | | Stick on Armour 20G | |___________________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24. O N E - O F F I T E M S ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. SODAM INSEIN Found in the first tent in Beldaire Treasure Map: 500G Secret Map: 5000G Pirate Map: 8000G Dubious Map: 1000G (not listed until you buy the other maps.) 2. CURRY GURU Found in Alice One, Dowan, and Hell's Keep. Curry Guru's take-out lunch set: 150G. (Curry Lunch recovers 1000HP) You can buy more than one of these, but only one at a time. 3. BUS STOP SIGN Alice One West Trader Camp (right hand tent) Buy the Bus Stop Sign for 3000G. 4. FIRE TRUCK Isle West Trader Camp Buy the Fire Truck Tank for 50,001G 5. HOUSE FOR CHARLENE Alice One: the first house to the right from the entrance. Buy this house for Charlene from Banjo (who is upstairs in the house next door) for 3000G. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 25. SCRAP SHOP: JUNKYARD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is where you can bring all scrap armour to trade, and in return you will get stronger armour when you have redeemed enough stamps. There are four items listed and the number of pieces of scrap required for each piece. This is the only place where you can redeem the scrap. .------------------.--------------.-------------------. | Armour | Cost in Scrap | Damage Reduction | |------------------+---------------+------------------| | Ceramic Armour | 20 | 150 | | Body Shield | 30 | 200 | | Ultimate Shield | 40 | 300 | | Dog Protector | 50 | For Dogs | |__________________|_______________|__________________| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 26. BLACK MARKET: JUNKYARD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a few examples of items that can be sold and bought back again. I think the amount you can sell items for might depend on your wealth. But I really don't know for certain. The main use for this shop is if you run out of space for storage. At least, that's the only purpose I've found. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ITEM DESCRIPTION SELLING PRICE BUYING PRICE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 03 Chip LOVE Machine component 5g 10g V3 Chip " " " E1 Chip " " " V1 Chip " " " E3 Chip " " " L1 Chip L2 Chip O1 Chip L3 Chip Lock Pick Can be used to open various locks 2500g(500g) 5000g Growgaine A hair growth stimulant 5g (1g) 10g Growgaine 1 A hair growth stimulant 5g (1g) 10g Growgaine 3 A hair growth stimulant 5g 10g Growgaine A A hair growth stimulant 5g 10g Growgaine L A hair growth stimulant 5g 10g Growgaine T A hair growth stimulant 5g 10g Sweet potato Delicious when baked 5g 10g Lucky Charm A small red cloth bag(from Kaede) 5g 10g Pendant A gift from Rachel 10g 105g Solar Lens 500g 5000g Ruby Lens 500g 5000g Camera Lens 500g 5000g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== 15. SKILL MASTERS AND SKILLS ........................................... 0134 =============================================================================== ------------ Introduction ------------ 1.I have given a star rating to show the most useful skills in my opinion. 2. Remember all cost money when used, and if they are auto skills every time you fight, you run the risk of losing money. 3. The most useful ones which can be selected for use when required are the seek and animal instinct combination which can help to find elusive outlaws, without having to fight lots of random battles. 4. /RUN is essential for some outlaws. So is NOSEDIVE and CRASH LANDING. 5. LOCKDOWN and other shutdown skills which shuts down all machines are useful 6. QUICK FIX/REPAIR is essential 7. Dog skills are a bit hit and miss since if they are auto they cost money, and if they are not, the dog may use them too often or not enough. 8. As you gain access to better and more powerful skills it is a good idea to upgrade them. 9. IMPORTANT: THE RECYCLE SKILL IS ESSENTIAL TO HELP GET YOU TWO TANKS 10. Misha and Kiriya have roughly similar skills, except that she has the useful early skills of Guardian Angel? which allows healing, and Cheer which boosts attack. H= HUNTER(main character) K= Kiriya M= Misha R= Rashid C= Charlene B= Bernie S= Shiba T= Terry To=Tosa ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A. EAST ZERO: In bottom right hand corner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average cost of skill to buy and on use is 40G CRASH LANDING (K/M)Brings down airborne enemy ***** UNEARTH (DOG) Digs up underground enemy *** SEEK (H) Locates nearly enemies ***** HYPER SNIFFER(DOG) Locates items in the immediate area **** ANIMAL INSTINCT (DOG) No encounters with low-level foes temporarily. ***** SHORT CIRCUIT(K/M)Inflicts electrical damage on machine enemies MOONSHINE BOMB(K/M)Throws a makeshift bomb at the enemy IMMOBOLIZE(K/M)Forces shutdown on a machine/vehicle enemy *** REGENERATION(DOG) Slowly recovers HP during battle (auto) DECOY(All)Draws the enemy's attention to the user SCREEN(All)Turn's the enemy's attention to the hunter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- B. BELDAIRE: In top right hand corner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average cost of skill to buy and on use is 40G SCRAPE(K/M) removes mushrooms FOXHUNT(DOG) Draws an out-of-range enemy closer DISARM(H, K and M) Prevents certain enemies from self-destructing*** /RUN (H) Prevents enemies from fleeing 80% of the time ***** SHOOTING STAR (S)A devastating jump attack HEADBUTT(TOSA) Charges into the enemy CRACK SHOT (H) Hit Rate is increased against airborne (auto)*** BULLDOZE(H) Charges into enemy (when Spiked Fender equipped) QUICK FIX 1(K/M) Fixes chassis or vehicle part in battle ***** (500g) LOCKDOWN(K/M) Forces shutdown on ALL machine/vehicle enemies ***** BARRIER(B) Increases defense *** FIRE BREATH(T) Inflicts fire damage ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALICE ONE: In bottom right corner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average cost of skill to buy and on use is 170G IMPORTANT: THE RECYCLE SKILL IS ESSENTIAL TO GET YOU TWO TANKS The DOG/Bernie healing skills would be nice but it has never happened! REPAIR II(K/M) Completely fixes chassis or broken vehicle part***** (500G) RECYCLE (K/M) Converts unused vehicle parts into scrap metal***** (5000G) MEDICINE KEG 2(B) Restores 500HP GUARDIAN ANGEL(B/M) Restores 100HP to each party member in battle. BULL'S EYE(H) Attack is increased during battle (auto) *** useful but costs SABOTAGE(K) Low chance of shutdown on machine/enemy/outlaw RAPID FIRE(C) Hits airborne/stealth (dual-wield) SHADOW SHOT(C)Stuns bio enemy SUMO STOMP (To)Stuns an enemy EPIDERMYTHRIL(B) Defense is increased during battle(auto)***** CAN OPENER(K/M) Pulls a small enemy out of shelter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- C. LORELEI BAY: In top left corner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Average cost of skill is 700g LOCK ON(C) Hit rate is increased against normal (auto) DEATH SHOT(C) Attack is increased during battle (auto) CONCENTRATION(R) Defense is increased during battle (auto) SHURA (R) Attack is increased during battle (auto) RESURFACE (K/M) Surfaces machine based enemy from underwater***** NOSE DIVE (K/M) Forces all high altitude machine foes to descend ***** TRACKER (DOG) Locates an enemy in stealth MEDICINE KEG 3(B) Restores 250HP in battle *** (if the dog ever used it) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- D. GRAND MASTER'S TENT. (Go to the pink spot to the south) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SECRET LOCATION: accessed by teleporter malfunction. To get this to happen use it a lot, in the latter stages of the game. Some people suggest that it is more likely to malfunction when trying to go to Forever Land, and that has been my experience, but no-one really knows if this is true. Some of these cost nothing, others are expensive. Some are repeats and others are new. The list is at it appears in the game. Organised in part by character. By this time in the game you probably have money to burn, so worrying about skill cost is not a problem. For the final stages in the Ziggurat you need all you can get. A = Alpha (her skills are all with no cost) REMOTE LASER(H) fires a laser from a satellite REMOTE LASER EX(H) fires a huge laser (costs 1800g) ***** BULL'S EYE(H) attack increased in battle (auto) ***** CRACK SHOT(H) hit rate increased vs airborne (auto) BULLDOZE(H) charges into enemy: need to equip Spiked Fender QUICK FIX I(R/M) fixes tank in battle (500g) QUICK FIX II(R/M) complete fix to part or chassis in battle (costs 2500g)***** SHORT CIRCUIT(R/M) electric damage on machine enemies MOONSHINE BOMB(R/M) throws a bomb at enemy SABOTAGE(R) low chance of shutdown on machine enemy/outlaw *** IMMOBOLIZE(R/M) forces shutdown on a machine/vehicle enemy LOCKDOWN (R/M) forces shutdown on all machine/vehicle enemies ***** GUARDIAN ANGEL(M) restores 100HP to everyone in battle ***** CHEER(M) boosts attack ***** RAPID FIRE(C) hits airborne/stealth **** INTERCEPT(C) chance of nullifying ranged attack costs 2500g (auto) SNIPER(C) hits out of range and high altitude enemies: 2500g) ***** LOCK ON(C) hit rate increased vs normal (auto) DEATH SHOT(C) attack increased during battle (auto) 700g **** DEAD EYE(C) hit rate increased vs airborne (auto) *** SHADOW SHOT(C) stuns bio enemy GROUNDBREAKER(R) hits underground and underwater enemies ***** DEFLECT(R) chance of nullifying ranged attack (auto) (costs 2500g) SPINNING ATTACK(R) hits stealth/shelter (dual-wield) (costs 2500g) CONCENTRATION(R) defense is increased during battle (auto) ***** SHURA(R) attack is increased during battle (auto) **** AEGIS SYSTEM(A-FREE) turns enemy's attention to party leader LASER RIFLE(A) inflicts beam damage IRON CLAW(A) attacks with an iron claw PILEBUNKER(A) attacks with a pilebunker HOMING MISSILE(A) inflicts explosive damage on all enemies ***** FLAME SPRAYER(A) inflicts fire damage on all enemies ***** REGENERATION(DOG) slowly recovers HP during battle (auto) ***** SHOOTING STAR(S) a devastating jump attack HEADBUTT charges into enemy HEADBUTT EX charges into all enemies (costs 2500g) ***** SUMO STOMP(TOSA) stuns an enemy EPIDERMYTHRIL(B) defense is increased during battle (auto) ***** BARRIER(B) increases defense FIRE BREATH(T) inflicts fire damage EYE BEAM(T) inflicts beam damage TRANSPARENCY(T) goes into stealth (costs 2500g) DECOY(ALL)draws enemy's attention to user SCREEN(ALL)turns enemy's attention to the hunter CRASH LANDING(K/M) brings down airborne machine enemy UNEARTH(DOG) digs up underground enemy RESURFACE(K/M)surfaces machine enemy from underwater (costs 700g) *** FOXHUNT(DOG)draws out-of-range enemy closer NOSE DIVE(K/M)forces all high altitude machine foes to descend (700g) ***** TRACKER(DOG) locates enemy in stealth CAN OPENER(K/M)pulls a small enemy out of shelter DISARM(H AND K/M)prevents certain enemies from self-destructing /RUN(H)prevents enemies from fleeing 80% of the time ***** =============================================================================== 16. TANK PARTS AND ALL GUNS (BOUGHT OR FOUND) ...........................0135 =============================================================================== 1. Main Guns 2. Sub Guns 3. SE Guns 4. C Units 5. Engines 6. Shells 7. Accessories 8. Found in the Field This is a list of all tank parts which can be bought at garage shops, and trader camps. You get access to better equipment the further West you travel. The satcom tells you exactly which shop stocks what. This is a list of everything for ease of reference. Remember that these parts can be modified to increase durability and attack. This in turn will increase weight. They can also be modified to increase the amount of ammo. The list refers to the default settings before any modification. Added to this are the tank parts that can be found in the field. The details of their precise locations are listed in the places section and in a separate list of all field items. ----------------------------- SHOPS LIST AND CODE: REMINDER ----------------------------- All this is in the satcom information, but to help find Tank Parts and Weapons more easily I have listed all shops, and given a code/abbreviation for each one. JUNKYARD = J (items, equipment) JUNKYARD E = JE (parts) NEWFOLK = NF (item, equipment, part, shell) NEWFOLK W = NFW (item, part) EAST ZERO = EZ (item,equipment,part,shell) TORIKAMI = TK (item,equipment,part,gift) BELDAIRE = BD (item,equipment,part,shell,gift) BELDAIRE W = BDW (item,part) MORGUE TOWN = MT (item, equipment) ALICE ONE = AO (item,equipment,part,shell) ALICE ONE W = AOW (item,gift) DOWAN = DN (item,equipment,part,shell,gift) LAKE BRIDGE E = LBE (item,part,gift) LORELEI BAY = LB (item,equipment,part,shell,gift) ISLE W = IW (item,equipment) SCAVENGER ISLE = SI (item,equipment,part,shell) FORT GEARS = FG (part,shell,gift) ANTITANK FORT = ATF (item,equipment, gift) HELL'S KEEP = HK (item,equipment part,shell) HELL'S KEEP NE = HKNE (item,part,shell) DUR = DURABILITY. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. MAIN GUNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP GUNS COST DUR ATK WEIGHT AMMO DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JE 50mm Cannon 210g 25 60 1.34t 20/20 Expends shells when fired JE 57mm AA Cannon 17500g 115 161 3.91t 10/10 ALL:equipable on anti- aircraft tanks NFS 75mm Cannon 260g 30 70 1.68t 20/20 Expends shells when fired EZ 88mm Cannon 410g 40 90 2.36t 20/20 " TK 120mm Rifle 1000g 60 130 3.73t 20/20 " TK 30mm AA Cannon 1000g 60 35 1.86t 10/10 ALL: equipable on anti- aircraft tanks BD 90mm Long T 660g 50 110 3.05t 20/20 Expends shells when fired BDW 20mm AA Cannon 660g 50 55 1.52t 20/20 Equipable on anti- aircraft tanks AO 140mm SBG 2700g 80 200 5.09t 20/20 Expends shells when fired DN 205mm Cannon 4300g 90 255 5.77t 20/20 Expends shells when fired LBE 220mm Gaea 10000g 110 460 7.14t 20/20 Expends shells when fired LB 35mm AA Cannon 10000g 110 230 3.57t 20/20 Equipable on anti- aircraft tanks SI 225mm HYDRA 17500G 120 635 7.82t 20/20 Expends shells when fired HK RAIL CANNON 28000g 130 855 8.50t 20/20 Expends shells when fired ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. SUB GUNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP GUNS COST DUR ATK WEIGHT AMMO DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JE 7.62mm Gatling 120g 20 30 0.80t Sub gun NF 9mm Vulcan 190G 30 20 1.35t Sub gun (all) NFW Thunder Blaster 190g 30 40 1.35t Sub gun (electric) EZ 9mm Gatling 310g 40 50 1.89t Sub Gun TK 12.7mm Gatling 790g 60 70 2.98t Sub Gun BD 12.7mm Vulcan 490g 50 30 2.44t Sub Gun (all) AO 20mm Gatling 2000g 80 105 4.07t Sub Gun DN 30mm Gatling 5000g 100 175 5.16t Sub Gun DN Hornblaster 5000g 100 175 5.16t Sub Gun (sonic) LB 35mm Vulcan 8200g 110 118 5.71t Sub Gun (all) SI 35mm Gatling 13000g 120 323 6.25t Sub Gun HKNE Laser Cannon 3200g 90 66 4.62t Sub Gun (beam/all) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. SE GUNS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP GUNS COST DUR ATK WEIGHT AMMO DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NF Electrifier 286g 30 40 1.68t 6/6 (All) Discharges high- voltage electricity JE Pitching Bomb 176g 20 30 1.00t 6/6 (All) Warhead which divides into small bombs EZ AT Launcher 451g 40 90 2.36t 6/6 Typical anti-tank missile pod TK Swatter 1100g 60 130 3.05t 10/10 Anti-aircraft gun BD Bloodhound 726g 50 110 3.05t 10/10 Designed for out-of- range targets AO Drill Gun 2970g 80 200 5.09t 10/10 Fires drill missiles DN Soprano Cannon 7700g 100 175 6.45t 6/6 (All) Emits sonic waves LB CIWS 11000g 110 460 7.14t 10/10 Hits high-altitude enemies SI Excelsior 19250g 120 323 7.82t 6/6 (All) Sword-like beam that can hit underwater targets FG Windbreaker 30800g 130 433 8.50t 6/6 (All) Emits a jet of intensely cold air ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. C UNITS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP C UNIT COST DUR WEIGHT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JE Spasibo II 120g 20 0.95t Defense +19 when onboard the vehicle EZ Mozniak 310g 40 2.24t Defense +30 TK Emmy 790g 60 3.54t Defense +44 BD Legendary 99 490g 50 2.90t Defense +37 AO Racter 2000g 80 4.84t Defense +78 Axel Noman 20,000g 90 5.48t Defense +116 (Forever Land) DN Daroth 5000g 100 6.13t Defense +182 LB Solomon 2 8200g 110 6.78t Defense +284 SI Metatron 13000g 120 7.43t Defense +442 HK Sigma 80 20000g 130 8.08t Defense +644 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. ENGINES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP ENGINE COST DUR WEIGHT MOD DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JE Donkey 160g 20 8.00t 0.20t Engine: determines the vehicle's Max Load NF Tiamov 260g 30 13.40t 0.39t " EZ Bull 410g 50 18.80t 0.58t " TK Kuhli 1050g 60 29.60t 0.96t " AO V24 Hulk 2684g 80 40.00t 1.35t " DN Rudolf 4300g 90 45.80t 1.54t " LB OHC Carmen 10000g 110 56.60t 1.92t " SI V48 Cong 17500g 120 62.00t 2.11t " HK Fairy 28000g 130 67.40t 2.30t " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. SHELLS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SHOP SHELLS COST DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NF Thunder Shell 16g Auxiliary Shell (electric) NF Spare Shell 5g " (Same as regular shell) EZ Bombshell 30g " (explosive) EZ Spare Shell 5g " (Same as regular shell) BD AA Arrow 70g " Hits airborne enemies BD Napalm Shell 100g " (fire) BD RAP Shell 40g " Hits out-of-range enemies AO Photon Shell 270g " (beam) AO RAP Shell 40g " Hits out-of-range enemies DN Sonic Shell 430g " (sonic) DN Piercing Shell 430g " Hits enemies in shelter LB Spare Shell 5g " Same as regular shell SI Spare Shell 5g " " SI AA Arrow 70g " Hits airborne enemies HK Ice Shell 1800g " (Ice) HKNE AA Arrow 70g " Hits airborne enemies FORT GEARS: CAN BUY ALL SHELLS EXCEPT PHOTON AND ICE SHELLS Spare Shell Bombshell Sonic Shell Napalm Shell Thunder Shell AA Arrow RAP Shell Piercing Shell ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. ACCESSORIES ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCESSORY COST WEIGHT DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Teleporter 160g 0.00t Travel instantly to town or out of dungeon. Can be bought in most shops. First found in NEWFOLK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BELDAIRE WEST Tail Chain 400g O.00t Cool vehicle accessory Spiked Fender 800g 0.00t " Decal 80g 0.00t " Red Flag 400g 0.00t " Blue Flag 400g 0.00t " ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FORT GEARS Green Flag 400g O.00t Cool vehicle accessory Yellow Flag 400g O.00t Cool vehicle accessory Black Flag 400g O.00t Cool vehicle accessory Passing Decal 80g O.00t Cool vehicle accessory Teleporter 160g 0.00t Travel instantly to town or out of dungeon. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. TANK PARTS FOUND IN THE FIELD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credit for a lot of this information goes to blackpyre and Silva Shado. Credit to Upstater for the stats on the 20mm Vulcan subgun. The guns are listed in the order of the location where you find them. As usual all errors and omissions are my responsibility. JM = Junk Mountain MM = Monkey Mountain ROF = Ruins of a Fort ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LOCATION TANK PART DUR ATK WEIGHT AMMO DESCRIPTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JM 37mm Cannon 20 50 1.00t 20/20 Main Gun NF Storm Cannon 30 20 1.35t Sub Gun(electric/all) NF Tap Dancer 30 40 1.68t 6/6 SE(all)discharges blasts of energy BD 25mm AA Cannon 50 45 1.69t 20/20 Main Gun ROF 105mm Rifle 55 120 3.39t 20/20 Main Gun TK Popcorn Cannon 70 83 4.41t 6/6 SE(all) A ball of light divides and strikes all targets TK Fire Dragon 70 83 3.53t Sub Gun(fire/all) MT 20mm Vulcan 70 41 3.53t Sub gun (all) MT Napalm Cannon 70 155 4.41t 6/6 SE: Unleashes a rain of fire on the target MT 160mm Spark 70 155 4.41t 20/20 Main Gun MT Flamethrower 70 41 3.53t Sub Gun (fire) MT 120mm SBG 75 176 4.74t 20/20 Main Gun AO 30mm Vulcan 90 66 4.62t Sub Gun AO/FL Crispy Cannon 90 133 5.77t 6/6 SE(all): Shoots heat rays FL Axel Noman C Unit 90 5.48t Defense +116 when onboard the vehicle MM 92mm Spark 65 143 4.07t 20/20 Main Gun MM 177mm Amorph 85 228 5.43t 20/20 Main Gun DN Flute Cannon 100 88 5.16t Sub Gun(sonic/all) LB 57mm AA Cannon 115 161 3.91t 10/10 Main Gun(all) Equippable on anti- aircraft tanks =============================================================================== 17. TANK MODIFICATION (some things to consider) ......................... 0136 =============================================================================== 1. Mod Shops 2. What to Mod 3. Best Equipment for Tanks a) Engines b) C Units 4. Most Powerful Guns ============ 1. MOD SHOPS: symbol is two cogs ============ These are found at JUNKYARD, (down ramp), BELDAIRE, (down ramp), LOERLEI BAY, and HELL'S KEEP. ALERT: ALL MODIFICATIONS COST MONEY AND, IF AN INCREASE, ADD TO THE WEIGHT. ===== I said this was the fun part and it is, but it can seriously take up your time. The problem I have with modification is the fact that generally the mod shop is at a different place from the tank parts shop, so you buy new parts and they can overload the tank. Then you have to fiddle around with armour tiles and transferring parts from one tank to another in order to move to the mod shop. So my idea is to have a spare tank ready for towing and stack that up with everything new you might want, go to the mod shop and start modding. ============== 2. WHAT TO MOD? ============== 1. Don't forget that you can increase the durability and maximum ammo of your chassis, that is your actual named tank. And you can change the mountings too, to some extent, depending on the number and kind available. 2. The best things to spend money on are of course the engines. Keep them at a high durability and load. This means that you can equip heavier and more weapons and if you like drop off armour tiles to boost speed, while still having added protection. 3. The C Unit gives the fighter protection through the defense it offers, so it needs to be kept in good order. If it fails you are much more vulnerable in your tank. Durability then is the key. 4. The next thing to spend money on is the sub gun. The reason for this should be obvious. The sub gun is the cheapest gun to use because it does not use up ammo. Most normal battles can be won with good sub guns especially if they target all enemies. Even if they are not specialist guns for flying or underground enemies they still might do some damage. So keeping high durability and attack on sub guns is good sense. 5. The SE guns are often forgotten. This is because they are expensive to use partly because they come with low ammo: often only 6/6. Increasing this is therefore a good idea, especially if you are going after an OUTLAW that needs specialist attention such as an underwater or high altitude one. You don't want to run out of ammo before you have finished him off. 6. The main gun. I generally do not bother with the increase in ammo as the main guns have 20/20, which is usually enough. However attack and durability are important. Despite the advice of one of the hunters about the importance of durability since if your gun is smashed it is not much use, you can always repair the gun with either mechanic during battle. Of course this does mean that they are more vulnerable to attack outside of their tank and they cannot fight while repairing. 7. What about the mountings? As you acquire better tanks so the availability of mountings increases, and the decisions that you can take about these. It is worth noting that changing the mountings costs money, both to able and disable, so think about what you might want before you spend cash unnecessarily. If you disable some mountings that can reduce the load on the tank though not by much, and so give you better speed. If you enable them all and boost the durability of the parts you equip this can offer better protection in hard battles, as there are more bits that can take damage before you do! Depending on what guns are available and which part of the game you are at, you might consider changing a main gun for an SE on a tank like the Buggy so you can hit high altitude enemies using the Bloodhound for example. 8. Once you get further in the game and start to assemble tank parts you can get some seriously heavy attacking guns and have the Maus, for example, doing three hits on the main guns alone with damage that reaches around 3000HP a go. At this stage by equipping SE guns with different capabilities you can be sure that at least one of them will connect whatever the type of enemy. However this is not a subtle way to fight, and is expensive. (Though by the latter stages you should have plenty of cash, so that is not so much of an issue.) =========================== 3. BEST EQUIPMENT FOR TANKS =========================== This is an attempt to summarise the best tank equipment, and to show how modding can vastly improve performance. ---------- a) ENGINES ---------- ALERT: Any engine can be equipped to any tank. When modding an engine you can go for improving durability and load, and these can have different effects in the name change. From what I have seen the name change comes when you increase the load, and the + when you increase the durability. So if you for example, increase the load first and then the durability although eventually you will end up with the same name to the engine the name change path will be slightly different. For example if you mod the engine Fairy to increase durability it will show as Fairy+, even if you do this twice. Increase the load and the name changes to Sprite+, increase the load again and the name changes to Pixie+, then Sylph+, then Siren+, and finally Titiania+. You have increased the engine's capability 7 times in all! Try it the other way round and the first change will be to the names first and then the + is added when you increase the durability. The name change only applies to the engines. ----------------------------- ENGINES AVAILABLE AND UPGRADES: in order of weakest to strongest ----------------------------- Donkey/Super Donkey/Hyper Donkey+ Tianov/Tiamov Turbo/Tianov TT/Tianov TT+ Bull/Giga Bull/Omega Bull/Omega Bull+ Kuhli/Strong Kuhli /Supreme Kuhli+ V24 Hulk/V32 Hulk/V48 Hulk/V48 Hulk+ Rudolf/Rudolf+/Rudolf Turbo/Rudof TT+ OHC Carmen/Rocket Carmen/Rocket Carmen+ Friend/Good Friend/Giga Friend/Strong friend/ Gold Friend/Omega Friend+ ** V48 Cong/V48 Cong+/V100 Cong/V100 Cong + Fairy/Sprite/Pixie/Sylph/Siren/Titania/Titania+ (MAXED OUT= Load of 72tonns) ** This is the engine for Type 90, a Dr. Palm Tank. It cannot be purchased. ---------- b) C UNITS ---------- No significant name changes with these. Spasibo II/Spasobo II+ Wozniak/Wozniak+ Emmy/Emmy+ Legendary 99/Legendary 99+ Racter/Racter+ Axel Noman+ (the C Unit for the Wirbelwind. It cannot be purchased ) Daroth/Daroth + Solomon 2/Solomon 2+ Metatron/Metatron+ Sigma 80/Sigma 80+ ===================== 4. MOST POWERFUL GUNS........ + = modded ===================== Sometimes the increased attack is not worth it on the guns, but increasing durability is always a good idea. The cost, for example, of increasing the attack of the Plasma Cannon to get an extra 50 points is an astronomical 27,000G, and every increase adds to the weight, whether it is ammo, durability, or attack, each extra increase adds 0.20t. SUB GUN: 35mmGatling 323 (bought) Snake Gun 433 (assembled, beam, all) MAIN GUN: Plasma Cannon 1027 (assembled) Plasma Cannon+ 1077 Rail Cannon 855 (bought) Rail Cannon+ 905 225mmHydra 635 (bought) Ghost + 350 (assembled, good because of weight, only 1.40t) 205 Crimson 340 (assembled, also a lightweight gun, only 1.68t) SE GUN Excalibur + 735 (assembled) Brionac + 735 (assembled) Tindalos 635 (assembled) Tindalos+ 735 CIWS + 560 (bought) Crimson ATM 1027 (assembled) very light weight SE gun =============================================================================== 18. TRANSPORT POD LOCATIONS .............................................. 0137 =============================================================================== This list comprises all the transport pod locations in the game. These are reached through the green transport pod stations in each town. Enter the building, and walk forwards. Then press X at the small machine and you are given a list of locations. Choose one, and that will automatically begin the process. You cannot transport to places that you have not yet visited. The last three on the list need special conditions to be met: 15 and 16 require a transport malfunction to find (just keep transporting), and the final one needs you to defeat the outlaw Tiamat. The BIO ENERGETICS LAB where the dogs are kept does NOT have a functioning transporter. You have to walk in there every time you want to change a dog. 1. Junkyard 2. Newfolk 3. East Zero 4. Torikami 5. Beldaire 6. Morgue Town 7. Forever Land 8. Dowan 9. Lorelei Bay 11. Scavenger Isle 12. Fort Gears 13. Antitank Fort 14. Hell's Keep 15. Medical Lab 16. Transporter Pod 17. Tiamat The locations 15 and 16 can only be accessed by the malfunction. Keep using the transport pod and eventually you will see a ? and end up in a different location. These two places are visible on the map and appear as pink dots that you cannot reach. Don't worry about this as you will get there eventually. The Tiamat location is only accessed after defeating the Outlaw, TIAMAT. =============================================================================== 19. WEAPONS ............................................................. 0138 =============================================================================== 1. Hunter 2. Misha/Mechanic 3. Kiriya/Mechanic 4. Rashid/Soldier 5. Charlene/Soldier 6. Dogs 7. Weapons Found in the Field Although many of the weapons are interchangeable between the characters, each one also has specific weapons that only they can equip. I have listed all weapons for each character. A * against a weapon name means that it is specific to that character alone. A ** means it is specific to the character type (mechanic/soldier). The main differences are between the two soldiers: RASHID equips swords, and CHARLENE guns. These lists include weapons that can be purchased and those that can be found in the field. There are others that can only be found in towns or dungeons or made. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. HUNTER ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLINGSHOT ranged: shoots small metal balls 8 JUNKYARD 80g BUTTERFLY KNIFE melee: a folding knife 12 " 116g REVOLVER ranged: a cheap revolver pistol 16 NEWFOLK 130g METAL BAT melee: light yet durable 20 " 182g ZAPPER ranged (electric) 16 " 169g PPK ranged:a small automatic pistol 24 EAST ZERO 200G JAMBIYA melee: a curved short sword 28 " 292g SLUGGER melee:(explosive) a dangerous bat 24 " 240g PEACEMAKER ranged:an old revolver pistol 40 TORIKAMI 570g TIGER CLAW melee: glove with an iron claw 45 " 748g BOW GUN ranged: pistol-type crossbow 32 BELDAIRE 330g MACHETE melee large knife for outdoor use 36 " 468g CHINESE SWORD melee:sword with curved blade 59 MORGUE TOWN 1177g BERETTA ranged: common automatic pistol 50 " 840g FLAME GUN ranged:(fire) 50 " 1092g FIRE BLASTER ranged:(fire/all) hits enemies in 13 " 1092g stealth SAMSHIR melee: curved thick-bladed sword 79 BELDAIRE 1925g DAMASCUS SWORD melee: its blade is beautiful and 124 DOWAN 3850g sturdy INTRUDER ranged: hits enemies in shelter 124 " 4550g SONIC BLASTER ranged: (sonic) hits enemies in 124 " 4550g stealth KASTANE melee: sword with monster-like 172 LORELEI BAY 6050g ornament GIBSON ranged:sawed-off double-barreled 172 " 5500g shotgun NAMELESS BLADE melee: an unnamed Japanese sword 286 ISLE W 8800g KUNIHIRO KATANA melee:(ice) A renowned Japanese 330 HELL'S KEEP 16800g sword KEEN EDGE melee: a black single-edged sword 330 " 15400g FREEZE GUN ranged: (ice) 330 " 18200g ICE BLASTER ranged (ice/all) 83 " 18200g DERRINGER ranged Jack's Pistol 68 Gift from Jack N/A OMEGA BLASTER ranged (beam) hits out of range 90 Find Forever Ld N/A CRIMSON KNIFE melee: Its blade and hilt are red 107 Find Forever Ld N/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. MISHA/MECHANIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLINGSHOT ranged: shoots small metal balls 8 JUNKYARD 80g BUTTERFLY KNIFE melee: a folding knife 12 " 116g REVOLVER ranged: a cheap revolver pistol 16 NEWFOLK 130g METAL BAT melee: light yet durable 20 " 182g LIGHTNING ROD* melee: stuns bio enemies 16 " 156g ZAPPER ranged (electric) 16 " 169g PPK ranged:a small automatic pistol 24 EAST ZERO 200G JAMBIYA melee: a curved short sword 28 " 292g SLUGGER melee:(explosive) a dangerous bat 24 " 240g PEACEMAKER ranged:an old revolver pistol 40 TORIKAMI 570g TIGER CLAW melee: glove with an iron claw 45 " 748g BOW GUN ranged: pistol-type crossbow 32 BELDAIRE 330g MACHETE melee large knife for outdoor use 36 " 468g BERETTA ranged: common automatic pistol 50 " 840g FLAME GUN ranged:(fire) 50 " 1092g FIRE BLASTER ranged:(fire/all) hits enemies in 13 " 1092g stealth DAMASCUS SWORD melee: its blade is beautiful and 124 DOWAN 3850g sturdy INTRUDER ranged: hits enemies in shelter 124 " 4550g SONIC BLASTER ranged: (sonic) hits enemies in 124 " 4550g stealth KASTANE melee: sword with monster-like 172 LORELEI BAY 6050g ornament REMOTE WRENCH** ranged: mechanic-only. 207 ISLE W 7150g High altitude OK KUNIHIRO KATANA melee:(ice) A renowned Japanese 330 HELL'S KEEP 16800g sword KEEN EDGE melee: a black single-edged sword 330 " 15400g FREEZE GUN ranged: (ice) 330 " 18200g ICE BLASTER ranged (ice/all) 83 " 18200g DERRINGER ranged Jack's Pistol 68 Gift from Jack N/A OMEGA BLASTER ranged (beam) hits out of range 90 Find Forever Ld N/A CRIMSON KNIFE melee: Its blade and hilt are red 107 Find Forever Ld N/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. KIRIYA/MECHANIC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLINGSHOT ranged: shoots small metal balls 8 JUNKYARD 80g BUTTERFLY KNIFE melee: a folding knife 12 " 116g REVOLVER ranged: a cheap revolver pistol 16 NEWFOLK 130g METAL BAT melee: light yet durable 20 " 182g ZAPPER ranged (electric) 16 " 169g PPK ranged:a small automatic pistol 24 EAST ZERO 200G JAMBIYA melee: a curved short sword 28 " 292g SLUGGER melee:(explosive) a dangerous bat 24 " 240g PEACEMAKER ranged:an old revolver pistol 40 TORIKAMI 570g TIGER CLAW melee: glove with an iron claw 45 " 748g BOW GUN ranged: pistol-type crossbow 32 BELDAIRE 330g MACHETE melee large knife for outdoor use 36 " 468g CHINESE SWORD melee:sword with curved blade 59 MORGUE TOWN 1177g BERETTA ranged: common automatic pistol 50 " 840g FLAME GUN ranged:(fire) 50 " 1092g FIRE BLASTER ranged:(fire/all) hits enemies in 13 " 1092g stealth SAMSHIR melee: curved thick-bladed sword 79 BELDAIRE 1925g DAMASCUS SWORD melee: its blade is beautiful and 124 DOWAN 3850g sturdy INTRUDER ranged: hits enemies in shelter 124 " 4550g SONIC BLASTER ranged: (sonic) hits enemies in 124 " 4550g stealth KASTANE melee: sword with monster-like 172 LORELEI BAY 6050g ornament GIBSON ranged:sawed-off double-barreled 172 " 5500g shotgun NAMELESS BLADE melee: an unnamed Japanese sword 286 ISLE W 8800g REMOTE WRENCH** ranged: mechanic-only. 207 ISLE W 7150g High altitude OK KUNIHIRO KATANA melee:(ice) A renowned Japanese 330 HELL'S KEEP 16800g sword KEEN EDGE melee: a black single-edged sword 330 " 15400g FREEZE GUN ranged: (ice) 330 " 18200g ICE BLASTER ranged (ice/all) 83 " 18200g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. RASHID/SOLDIER(DOES NOT EQUIP GUNS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BUTTERFLY KNIFE melee: a folding knife 12 JUNKYARD 116g METAL BAT melee: light yet durable 20 NEWFOLK 182g JAMBIYA melee: a curved short sword 28 EAST ZERO 292g SLUGGER melee:(explosive) a dangerous bat 24 " 240g TIGER CLAW melee: glove with an iron claw 45 TORIKAMI 748g MACHETE melee large knife for outdoor use 36 BELDAIRE 468g CHINESE SWORD melee:sword with curved blade 59 MORGUE TOWN 1177g SAMSHIR melee: curved thick-bladed sword 79 BELDAIRE 1925g DAMASCUS SWORD melee: its blade is beautiful and 124 DOWAN 3850g sturdy KASTANE melee: sword with monster-like 172 LORELEI BAY 6050g ornament NAMELESS BLADE melee: an unnamed Japanese sword 286 ISLE W 8800g KUNIHIRO KATANA melee:(ice) A renowned Japanese 330 HELL'S KEEP 16800g sword KEEN EDGE melee: a black single-edged sword 330 " 15400g ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. CHARLENE/SOLDIER (DOES NOT EQUIP SWORDS) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLINGSHOT ranged: shoots small metal balls 8 JUNKYARD 80g REVOLVER ranged: a cheap revolver pistol 16 NEWFOLK 130g ZAPPER ranged (electric) 16 " 169g PPK ranged:a small automatic pistol 24 EAST ZERO 200G PANDEMONIUM* ranged: (explosive/all) 8 " 676g PEACEMAKER ranged:an old revolver pistol 40 TORIKAMI 570g BOW GUN ranged: pistol-type crossbow 32 BELDAIRE 330g BERETTA ranged: common automatic pistol 50 MORGUE TOWN 840g FLAME GUN ranged:(fire) 50 " 1092g FIRE BLASTER ranged:(fire/all) hits enemies in 13 " 1092g stealth NITROLIZER* ranged:(fire/all): hits enemies 50 " 1092g in stealth UDAR* ranged: a large and powerful 68 ALICE ONE 1300g revolver DESERT EAGLE* ranged: a large automatic pistol 124 DOWAN 3500g INTRUDER ranged: hits enemies in shelter 124 " 4550g SONIC BLASTER ranged: (sonic) hits enemies in 124 " 4550g stealth GIBSON ranged:sawed-off double-barreled 172 LORELEI BAY 5500g shotgun DRAGUNOVA RIFLE* ranged: a sniper rifle 242 SCAVENGER ISLE 8800g P90* ranged: (all) uniquely-shaped 83 HELL'S KEEP 16800g submachine gun FREEZE GUN ranged: (ice) 330 " 18200g ICE BLASTER ranged (ice/all) 83 " 18200g USP ranged (dual-wield pistols) 28 Assembled N/A DERRINGER ranged Jack's Pistol 68 Gift from Jack N/A OMEGA BLASTER ranged (beam) hits out of range 90 Find Forever Ld N/A INGRAM ranged rapid-fire machine gun 10 Assembled N/A G3A3 ranged (all) assault rifle 10 Assembled N/A ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. DOGS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK SHOP COST ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOG CANNON ranged: (explosive) 24 EAST ZERO 130g DOG MORTAR ranged: (hits airborne enemies) 40 TORKAMI 520g DOG GUN ranged: (hits out-of-range foes 32 BELDAIRE 330g DOG TORCH ranged: (fire) 50 MORGUE TOWN 840g DOG TAZER ranged: (electric) hits high 172 LORELEI BAY 5500g alt/stealth/underwater) DOG VULCAN ranged: (all) 61 ANTITANK FORT 8800g DOG ICE CANNON ranged: (ice) 330 HELL'S KEEP 14000g DOG AMP ranged (sonic,anti-stealth) 124 found in the field DOG BAZOOKA ranged (explosive) 242 assembled DOG WINGS ranged (explosive) 50 found in the field ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. WEAPONS FOUND IN THE FIELD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WEAPON DESCRIPTION OF WEAPON ATTACK LOCATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Uzi A submachine gun (all) 4 JUNKYARD PPSH 41 A submachine gun (all) 6 EAST ZERO AK 47 A rifle (all) 8 EAST ZERO Grenade Gun Ranged: (all)Revolver-type launcher 13 MORGUE TOWN Thunderpuncher Ranged: Shoots out a boxing glove 90 ALICE ONE Crimson Knife Melee: Its blade and hilt are red 107 FOREVER LAND Stinger (airborne and out-of-range) 150 DOWAN Dog Amp Ranged: (sonic,anti-stealth) 124 DOWAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =============================================================================== 20. X? EXTRA BITS AND PIECES + 20 F.A.Q.s ............................... 0139 =============================================================================== 1. 20 F.A.Q.s 2. 10 Things that can easily be missed 3. Dogs Extra 4. The Right Stick 5. The Safe 6. Stairs 7. Sad Facts 8. Tanks Extra 9. The Big Medal Answer =============================================================================== 1. 20 Frequently Asked Questions =============================================================================== These are based on various questions asked on various Metal Saga message boards, with answers based on my own experience and sometimes from what other people have said. They do not include outlaw information. Q 1. What should I do if the Buggy gets wrecked before I have another tank? You can make a run for Newfolk where you can rent a tank. Then you can use this tank to rescue your Buggy. You can also get an ally, and that will give you two tanks and two people to use. OR start again from an earlier save. Q 2. Where can I get the very best tank parts? The best stuff is bought in Hell's Keep, and you can get there early on in the game once you have travelled to Alice One. Go to Dowan and get the boat to Lorelei Bay. Then drive to the far north of the continent and you can buy the best engine and main gun in the garage there. You can always run away from any battle if the enemies are too strong. Q 3. Can I marry Kaede or Rosa? No. You can only marry Misha or Rachel Q 4. How do I give gifts? You first have to trigger the person to give gifts to. This just means keep talking to them or fulfilling a quest (e.g. Kaede) until you get the message that says "You can now give gifts to ....." They are all female apart from the Forever Land group. Then go to a gift shop and buy a gift. You are shown a screen with the people listed. Select one and the gift shop sends the gift. Q 5. How do I give clothes? You can only give clothes IF you can give the person gifts and IF you have already given the person a wardrobe or something else to put the clothes in. Q 6. Should I kill Wayne or Jack? No. Don't kill either of them. That way you get the bounty for Jack. Wayne is NOT an outlaw and you get nothing for killing him. If you fight Jack you can't fight Scarlet and you can't fight Wayne. If you fight Wayne you don't get the bounty but you do get him on your list of enemies though NOT on the list of outlaws. Q 7. What do I do if someone dies? Take them to see Dr. Mortem at the church in Junkyard and he will bring them back to life. Q 8. What happens if everyone dies? Igor will come and rescue you all and take you back to Dr. Mortem for resusitation. There is no game over and you do not lose any items or experience. There is no penalty for death BUT the dog will lose its shiny coat. Q 9. What is the reward for the Big Medal quest? No-one knows since there is a bug that prevents you getting all 80 medals. Update (23/2/2007) Having asked Atlus directly about this I received a reply to this question. If you want to know the answer it is at the end of the FAQ at the bottom of the updates section. Q 10. What event can I get with the Lady in the dining car on the train? None. Nothing at all. She seems as if she is signficant but she is not. Q 11. Can I re-name my tanks and people? Yes. You can do both. There is a re-name shop in Beldaire at the western entrance. Q 12. Why won't my tank weapons fire? There could be a number of reasons for this. a) You went to do some modding and the weapons were unequipped. Check that you have them equipped. b) You have run out of ammunition. This can happen quickly with the SE guns that only have 6 shells. It will never happen for the sub guns. c) Your guns have been damaged. Check their status on the tank status screen. If they are coloured red that means they are broken and must be repaired. Q 13. Why can't I equip ordinary weapons on the Gepard and Wirlbewind? These two tanks are specialist anti aircraft tanks and can only be equipped with specialist AA main guns. The AA guns cannot be equipped on the other tanks. Q 14. Why can't I equip an SE gun on the Buggy? (Or any other variation of this question) Because you haven't enabled the SE mounting. Each tank has a limit to its gun mountings. The best have a lot, the smaller tanks have only two mountings. The Buggy comes with a sub gun and main gun default mounting. You can change this to enable the SE mounting in the mod shop. Q 15. How do I reach the two areas that have pink dots but no access? These are reached ONLY on foot and ONLY when the transport pod malfunctions. Keep using it to travel from place to place and it will happen eventually. Q 16. What else can I do after the end of the game? You can go to the Mysterious Cave and try to defeat all the outlaws for prizes. And you can just carry on with the game. Everything is up and running exactly as it was before except that the outlaws can only now be found in the Cave. Q 17. How do I get inside the Ziggurat? You must have visited Leon's house in Alice One first for a scene, and then you get an email from Eddy. After that go to the Ziggurat for another scene and then, press the white button at the left of the door to go up in the lift. NOTE: Additional information if anyone is having trouble with this. To get the email from Eddy you must have visited Leon in Alice One, and also you must have had the scenes with Alex. If you haven't had the final one, he is found in the bar in Alice One, so go there and chat to him. (The other one was in Newfolk early on in the game, and there are the small scenes with Connie and Clive...one you could miss is in the Tunnel past Forever Land. I am not 100% sure you have to have all scenes, but you definitely MUST have the one with Alex in Alice One. Q 18 Does having the cybernetic arm change anything? Yes and No. Apart from all the chatting you can do about it, it does not give any extra benefits, weapons or stat increases. However you DO get a new title. Q 19. Why can't I equip weapons on Alpha? She cannot equip weapons or armour and she cannot increase her levels. She is perfect as she is. She can use a tank. Q 20. How do I open the looked doors at the Iwasaki Medical Lab? You can't. `Ever. It was just a joke by the developers. =============================================================================== 2. Ten Things can can easily be missed =============================================================================== I am including this section thanks to a suggestion by Aadrauni Maru on the GameFAQs Metal Saga message board. In a way it might seem redundant because just about everything could be missed if you chose, for example, to not find the tanks and just use the rentals, and not get your party members and fight alone. But then that wouldn't be much fun and the game would probably be over sooner or at least more often than you would want. Not ever over of course, since there is no death, but a lot of revivification required. However that being said there ARE things can that easily be missed as I know too well. So here is yet another list which might help you not to miss the "things that can be missed" in Metal Saga. This does NOT include the items and such that can be found in the field or dredged in Orochi's cave and the lake, and of course all the events that I have not missed or don't yet know. My Top Ten Missable Things -------------------------- 1. The B2 Manta Ray: if you can't find it 2. Fighting Scarlet: if you happen to kill Jack 3. Marrying Rachel: if you fail to give her a wedding dress 4. The Arm event: if you go to the Ziggurat before revisiting Leon's house. NOTE: You must have had events with Scarlet to trigger this event. 5. Rashid's Ultimate weapon: if you sell Father's Shirt 6. Charlene and Forever Land Golem event: if you miss the trigger with Golem. 7. Rosa and the visit to Junkyard: if you miss a random event 8. The Maus tank: if you don't track down MC Hamir (Binramen) 9. Sodam Insein in the sewers: if you don't buy all the maps 10.Being rescued from the Ziggurat:if you don't talk to Wilco's after his quest =============================================================================== 3. DOGS EXTRA =============================================================================== If a dog dies and you are inside a building he will be shown lying on top of one tank and his coffin on another. If you tow a tank, or a party member dies, the dog will ride on top of the spare tank. Sweet. ======================================= A Short History of the Dogs in the Game ======================================= There are four dogs that you can choose from in the game and, like the tanks, they are all actual dog breeds with their own characteristics and temperaments. The particular skills that each dog has also relates to the breed. ----------- St Bernard (Bernie: Rescue Dog) ---------- This is a very well known and much loved dog. They are of course renowned as rescue dogs, and for their gentle and friendly natures. They also are the heaviest and largest dog breed in the world. They eat a tremendous amount, are very good with children and other dogs, and have a reputation as gentle giants. They are often shown in photographs carrying a barrel of brandy around their necks which is supposedly to be used by any poor soul they find lost in the ice and snow of the alps of Switzerland. There was a painting of a dog with brandy barrel and the image stuck in public imagination. In fact the brandy is a myth though not the resucuing. The dog's history is unusual. Bernard was a monk in the 11th century who set up a rescue place in the mountains of a pass in Switzerland. It was a hospice for travellers, and eventually the whole pass was named after the monk. The local dogs also took on the same name, and records of their use by the monks of the hospice go back to the 17th century. They were adept at finding people lost in the snow, and were used as rescue dogs, but unfortunately many of the dogs were killed in a major avalanche and those that remained were cross bred with other dogs and this altered their appearance and skills. However even today these huge and gentle dogs are popular, and they have retained a certain mystique as saintly and loyal companions. Game Skills: Guardian Angel, Barrier, Medicine Keg 1/2, Epidermythril, Revival Keg http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/saintbernard.htm ---------- The Shiba (Shiba: Loyal Friend) --------- The Shiba is an unusual dog for a number of reasons. It one of the oldest dog breeds in the world as has been confirmed by DNA testing. The dog is from Japan and its correct name is the Shiba Inu. It has some very particular characteristics. Firstly it likes to keep clean, something more often associated with cats than dogs, and as such it is easy to house train. Secondly it is very independent and intelligent, and fast. And strangest of all, according to Wikipedia: " A distinguishing characteristic of the breed is the so-called "shiba scream". When sufficiently provoked or unhappy, the dog will produce a loud, high pitched scream often likened to "a tortured woman or child"." The history of the Shiba is also unusual. In the 7th century AD, the Yamato Court established a dogkeeper's office so that Japanese dogs were recognised as such. Despite some later crossbreeding with European and Chinese dogs the breed stayed true to its nature. However during the second world war many dogs died from the destruction of war and from the dog disease, distemper. But obviously the breed was stronger than even illness or war and today there are more Shibas in Japan than any other breed. In keeping with its premier status as the oldest recorded dog in the world the Shiba has a place that is second to none in the history of video games. Apart from featuring as one of the four dogs in Metal Saga it has appeared other games too. In fact in Japan it had a game all of its own in "Nintendogs - Shiba & Friends" for the DS. Most unusually though the Shiba played a starring role in the horror classic Silent Hill 2. It features in one of the endings to the game and is revealed to have been the mastermind behind the whole thing and gloriously barks along with the music and credits. Game Skills: Foxhunt, Shooting Star http://www.k9web.com/dog-faqs/breeds/shibas.html --------- The Tosa (Tosa: Yokozuna) -------- Another Japanese dog that is not very well known in the West partly because it is prohibited, is the Tosa. In the UK, Norway, Denmark and Australia and New Zealand it is listed as a dangerous dog. It is very large and was bred during the last part of the nineteenth century to be a fighting dog. It was crossed with dogs such as the Bulldog, the Great Dane and St Bernard, and used specifically for a doggy form of Sumo wrestling. The rules for this meant that no biting or growling was allowed and dogs had to push the opposing dog to the ground and knock it off its feet. At the end of a successful fight the winning dog is dressed in very splendid regalia and there are some nice pictures of these. The Western idea of a fighting dog that bites and attacks viciously is not the same at all. In fact the skills the dog needs for Sumo include patience and courage and strength. Of course this difference has meant that the dog is wrongly held in suspicion by many people outside of Japan. The dog in the game has the skill of Sumo Stomp which is entirely consistent with its history. Game Skills: Headbutt, Sumo Stomp, Headbutt EX http://www.tosa-inu.com/www/Links%20Japan%20Tosa/articles_from_japan.htm ------------------ The Boston Terrier (Terry: Mystery Mutt) ------------------ Yet another fighting dog which was originally a cross breed between an English Bulldog and an English White Terrier and bred for pit fighting. However it was cross bred with smaller dogs in Boston during the last part of the nineteenth century and slowly became popular. In fact it was the very first non sporting all American bred dog to be registered as a breed in 1893. The breed became the most popular one in America for a number of years in the 1920s and remained popular until the 1960s. It is a small dog that still has a feisty spirit and can be fearless in attacking larger dogs. However today they are really kept as pets and since they are intelligent and quick they are relatively easy to train. They have a slightly turned up nose and can suffer from the sniffles. In 1979, the Boston Terrier was given the honour of becoming the official state dog of Massachusetts. Game Skills: Eyebeam, Fire Breath, Transparency(goes into stealth) =============================================================================== 4. THE RIGHT STICK =============================================================================== There a few extra things you can do. (Thanks to silva shado for reminding me about these) a) You can rotate the turrets on the tanks with the right stick. (Press left and right). You can then move forward while the turret is still facing backwards. b) You can extend and retract the ladder on the Firetruck using the right stick as a button. c) You can use the right stick to zoom in and out on your tanks. Move it up and down. =============================================================================== 5. THE SAFE =============================================================================== There is a safe in JUNK MOUNTAIN which is hard to find. People have posted the combination to open this safe, but I have not worked out how this was discovered, so until I do, I shall not be able to tell you. (It relates to the odd maps that can be found or bought.) I have relented on this. The combination is 2946 (source: Jati No Rei), as recorded in the sticky FAQ on the Metal Saga message board at GameFAQs. Update. The details of how to find this number are now in the section on assembling maps. =============================================================================== 6. STAIRS AND DOORS IN DUNGEONS =============================================================================== Stairs and doors directions. When you go up or down stairs you end up facing in the opposite direction from where you thought you would be: at least that is how I found it. For example, you go up stairs to the right expecting to be facing right at the top, but you will find that you are facing left. I found this very confusing at first. But this is just one of those game things. So don't let it bother you, because it happens a lot. =============================================================================== 7. SAD FACTS: ABOUT THIS GAME =============================================================================== Firstly. It has only been released in America, and not in PAL territory. Secondly. Not many people play this game which is a shame because when they do most of them seem to enjoy it. In fact many of us REALLY enjoy it! Thirdly. They chose the wrong cover for the American release. I only became aware of this when it was pointed out that the Japanese game has a great cover with a picture of a tank against a twilight orange sky with the game characters etched beside it. The NTSC version has the standard box art of characters against a white background that is indistinguishable from many other American released Japanese games. Elenia's experience was that despite being a fan of the previous Metal Max games this nearly was passed by without notice. The picture for the Japanese game can be seen on the third page of the manual. =============================================================================== 8. TANKS EXTRA =============================================================================== 1. TANK DESCRIPTIONS BY THE BELDAIRE FAMILY Rosa's Tanks Your Tanks All the work on this was completed by hoohahboy, who gave me permission to include it all in this FAQ. Many thanks! 2. THE REAL TANKS - some research! =========================================== 1. TANK DESCRIPTIONS BY THE BELDAIRE FAMILY =========================================== ---------------------------- Descriptions of Rosa's tanks ---------------------------- Rosa: "L'Ame des Poetes," a Crusader. It's a fast cruiser tank with an impressive design. Rosa: "Chante le Vent," a Wirbelwind. In case you didn't know, its model name means "whirlwind". This tank is a must-have against airborne enemies. Rosa: I have a Firefly which I named "Le Temps des Cerises." It's a modified Sherman medium tank with ample firepower. I didn't like it at first, but it's grown on me. Rosa: I named my Buggy "Alleluia". It's a Fast Attack Vehicle, or FAV for short. FAV's are used for quick strikes and reconnaissance missions. Rosa: My "O Toi la Vie," an IS-3 model. The sharp lines of its body are striking next to the rounded turret, don't you think? Rosa: My beloved "Seul Sur Son Etoile," a Tiger. There are so many things I could say about it. Yes, it truly is my favorite model. Rosa: "La Vie en Rose," a Koenigstiger. It's my tank of choice. It embodies both beauty and strength, as if it was made for me. Rosa: "La Fete des Fleurs," a Panther. Carl operates this one. It's not quite as good as my "La Vie en Rose," but it is an elegant and reliable vehicle. Rosa: "Mourir d'Aimer." It's a KV-2... Some people say it's ugly, but I disagree. Its unique appearance gives it character, don't you agree? Rosa: My adorable little "Tournesol," an M24 Chaffee. It's a light tank used mainly for reconnaissance. Carl: She named my Panther "La Fete des Fleurs." I really like it because it's so well-balanced. A lot of changes have been made to the tank since its debut. Mine is a Type G, the last of the series. Carl: She calls her Buggy "Alleluia." A vehicle like that is fun to modify, but it making it combat-worthy is a different story. Carl: My sister's favorite tank is a Koenigstiger she named "La Vie en Rose." Supposedly, there's a similar tank with a different turret design, but I've yet to see it. Carl: She has a Wirbelwind she named "Chante le Vent." Originally, Wirbelwinds were open on top, but then some mechanic came up with the idea for a roof. It sounds obvious to me, but apparently no one else thought of it. Carl: She named her Crusader "L'Ame des Poetes." It's not that reliable, but I grew to like it, since I spent so much time unraveling its secrets. Carl: My sister's very first tank was a Tiger; our father gave it to her. She named it "Seul Sur Son Etoile." Now, it's so precious to her that she doesn't use it anymore. Carl: She has a KV-2 she named "Mourir d'Aimer". It's kind of weird-shaped but you get used to it. Carl: She has an IS-3 which she named "O Toi la Vie". I read that its front end resembles a fish called a "pike." I wonder what that fish looked like... Carl: We call our Firefly ""Le Temps des Cerises". It's based off of the Sherman tank. There are other variations too. Maybe one day I can get my hands on one. Carl: We call our M24 Chaffee "Tournesol". It's a light tank used for scouting. Here's an interesting fact: the gun it originally had was from a bomber plane. ----------------------- Your Tanks Descriptions ----------------------- ROSA Rosa: Buggy, huh? The Buggy has a light chassis, so if you give it a powerful engine, you should be able to load it up with armor tiles. Rosa: Demag, huh? The Demag resembles a truck and is used primarily for reconnaissance. Its novel design is more intriguing than its performance. Rosa: Mosquito, huh? The Mosquito is small enough that it can be transported by air. It's more of an armored vehicle than a tank, really. I heard it was designed by a famous auto maker before the Great Destruction. Rosa: Panzer, huh? The Panzer is a turretless tank, also known as an "assault gun." Its ruggedness is like that of an untamed beast. Rosa: Wild Bus, huh? Hm, a wild bus. It was designed for public transportation, but the though of making it combat-worthy gets me excited! Rosa: Maus, huh? The infamous Maus. It's never been tested in battle. I heard there were concerns about its performance... But, that makes me want to try it out all the more! I'm sure you understand. Rosa: Merkava, huh? Although the Merkava was built to survive the toughest battles, its exterior design is what gets all the attention. Rosa: Wirbelwind, huh? In case you didn't know, Wirbelwind means "whirlwind". This tank is a must-have against airborne enemies. Rosa: Type 90, huh? The Type 90 is a highly sophisticated model that was in service until the Great Destruction. There were several revisions made during its development, but its outward appearance remained virtually unchanged. I'm so glad the kept it that way! Rosa: Abrams, huh? The Abrams tank was still in service up until the Great Destruction. It's a great model... But, it doesn't really have any defining features. Rosa: Rommel, huh? The Rommel can be described as a tank killer. It's one hell of a vehicle, and rare too. Rosa: Leopard, huh? The Leopard is best known for its wedge-shaped turret armor. Smart design and high performance... This is a remarkable model. Rosa: Lulubelle, huh? How would I describe the Lulubelle? A baby turtle on its mother's back? It definitely has the potential to deal massive amounts of damage. Rosa: Fire Truck, huh? Do you wanna be a fireman when you grow up? The truck model you own was designed with tall buildings in mind. Rosa: S Tank, huh? The S Tank is a thing of beauty. Based on an innovative, turretless design, this tank is an exceptional defensive unit because of its low profile and hydropneumatic suspension. Rosa: Gepard, huh? The Gepard is an anti-aircraft tank that boasts powerful automatic guns with an advanced firing control system. Now that you own one, I bet you couldn't live without it! Rosa: Tiger, huh? Ah, the Tiger... There are so many things I could say about it. Yes, it's the tank I love the most. Rosa: Barbarossa, huh? Ahh... The Barbarosa. It deserves to be called a tank! During a war before the Great Destruction, it was given the nickname "Warhorse" for its reliability. Rosa: Rodina, huh? The Rodina, or "Homeland," is a well-made model. Its many variations make it a no-brainer for any tank collector. CARL Carl: So, you named it Buggy, huh? A Buggy's frame is made from a lightweight alloy, so if you switch to a higher-output engine, you'll be able to add more armor tiles than you could with other vehicles. Carl: So, you named it Demag, huh? The Demag is a scout car that's more agile than other armored vehicles. It'll require some maintenance, especially the steering system, but overall I think it's a good investment. Carl: So, you named it Mosquito, huh? The Mosquito is not really a tank, but more of an anti-infantry vehicle. It's amazing how much they packed into that tiny body. Carl: So, you named it Panzer, huh? I heard the Panzer series had many different types. Supposedly, it wasn't just their appearances that were different. Carl: So, you named it Wild Bus, huh? Wild busses used to be commercial vehicles, so they're easy to work on. Carl: So, you named it Maus, huh? The Maus is simply incredible! I'd love to take a look at it... I heard it's full of weird components and unusual features. Carl: So, you named it Merkava, huh? The Merkava's engine is in the front; the crew sits behind it. So in effect, the engine acts as an additional shield when necessary. Carl: So, you named it Wirbelwind, huh? The Wirbelwind's chassis is the same as the Barbarossa's, so if you know one, it's relatively easy to fix the other. Carl: So, you named it Type 90, huh? From what I've heard, the Type 90 had several prototypes. I wish I could check them all out, to see what changes were made. Carl: So, you named it Abrams, huh? Did you know the Abrams tank was still in use until the Great Destruction? It's a solid performer, but some say its design is too complex. Carl: So, you named it Rommel, huh? The Rommel is well made, but tuning it is tricky. It's a lot of work on my end. I enjoy doing it, though. Carl: So, you named it Leopard, huh? The Leopard is a marvelous tank. It's amazing that such technology was once commonplace. Carl: So, you named it Lulubelle, huh? You know with the Lulubelle, it's tough to configure the C Unit, which is used to control the turret. I can't imagine how difficult it must have been to operate a tank back when it required more than one person. Carl: So, you named it Fire Truck, huh? You can't really do much about a fire truck's lack of armor, other than adding armor tiles to the vehicle. You might also want to install a more powerful engine. Carl: So, you named it S Tank, huh? Did you know that the old S Tanks used to have 2 engines in them? Pretty amazing, huh? I don't know if it's possible, but if I had the chance to rebuild one like that, I'd love to try. Carl: So, you named it Gepard, huh? Repairing the Gepard's firing control system is extremely difficult. Anti-aircraft tanks are rare, so I have to be very careful... Carl: So, you named it Tiger, huh? The Tiger's complexity and the fact that it's my sister's favorite tank create a lot of pressure for me whenever I work on one. Carl: So, you named it Barbarossa, huh? Within its series, the Barbarossa was one of the later models. It underwent numerous improvements during its long period of service. Carl: So, you named it Rodina, huh? The Rodina was designed to be very reliable, and it shows by how little maintenance it requires. Don't you think it's interesting how unique every vehicle is? ARTHUR Arthur: Buggy, hm? Well, the Buggy is a Fast Attack Vehicle, so it is lightly armored. To offset this deficiency, I highly recommend customizing it. Arthur: Demag, hm? Lightly armored vehicles like the Demag are quite versatile. I don't think you can ever own enough of them. Arthur: Mosquito, hm? Now that brings back memories... My first vehicle was a Mosquito. Ah... I had such a grand time customizing it... Arthur: The Panzer was originally designed to be an infantry support vehicle, but it has proven to be highly effective against tanks, as well. Arthur: Wild Bus, hm? I say, that is quite an interesting choice. A wild bus has very distinctive characteristics. It may take some time to get used to, but you'll surely come to love it. Arthur: Maus, hm? Absolutely brilliant! I heard rumors that the elder in Fort Gears was in possession of a Maus, as well. Arthur: Merkava, hm? The Merkava has a myriad of variations. Personally, I'm not fond of the older, bulkier models. Arthur: Wirbelwind, hm? That's fantastic! Every hunter should own at least one anti-aircraft vehicle. The Wirbelwind may be an older model, but it is extremely reliable. Arthur: Type 90, hm? Very nice... The Type 90 features a rugged design, accentuated by sharp, straight edges. You will never regret owning one. Arthur: Abrams, hm? While the Abrams is well made and highly reliable, it's not very distinct. Arthur: Rommel, hm? Created specifically for anti-tank warfare, the Rommel was considered the number one tank destroyer made during the war that preceded the Great Destruction. Arthur: Leopard, hm? The Leopard is a tank you can be proud of; it's truly one of a kind. Arthur: Lulubelle, hm? ...Now, that's what I call a rarity! My eyes have never seen a Lulubelle. How did you come across it? Arthur: Fire Truck, hm? A fire truck is a unique choice for a vehicle. I am very intrigued... Would you mind taking me for a ride in it sometime? Arthur: S Tank, hm? Known for its uniqueness in design and performance, the S Tank is an exceptional collector's item. Arthur: Gepard, hm? An excellent choice, indeed. When it comes to ground-to-air combat, nothing surpasses the Gepard. Arthur: Tiger, hm? Now, that is truly a gentleman's tank. The Tiger has both style and power. It was always my vehicle of choice. After giving mine to my daughter, I couldn't help but to get another! Arthur: Barbarossa, hm? Well, the Barbarossa is a stylish, high-performance vehicle. Ownership of one truly distinguishes the accomplished hunter. Arthur: Rodina, hm? There are so many variations of the Rodina; it must be a vehicle collector's nightmare. ================================== 2. THE REAL TANKS - some research! ================================== I remember a fascinating discussion about this on the GameFAQs Metal Saga message board where two posters were debating the historical accuracies of the tanks used in the game. Unfortunately all record of that discussion has long since disappeared but as I was interested in this topic, maybe other people might be too. What follows are a few facts about the tanks. If you are looking for technical specifications such as firepower, number of crew, what guns they use, their maximum range or number of shells, the weight and engine and so on, well I am sorry but I am not going to give you that kind of information. That is partly because it really doesn't interest me that much, and partly because if you are that keen on tanks you probably already know much more about them than I could learn in a few days researching. I have summarised what I think are one or two interesting things about a few tanks. Obviously this has no bearing as such on playing the game, although it does draw attention to the relative merits of some of the tanks, such as the Wirbelwind, Tiger and Maus, and to the range of tanks featured. The majority of the tanks are German in origin and manufacture. I have added a few sites for further reference should anyone want to pursue tank related facts further. Most of the tanks are referenced in Wikipedia as well. I am not responsible for the content on any of these sites and have no interest in them whatsoever except that they have information about, and pictures of: TANKS. (UPDATE: Please note that I wrote and researched this section quite a long time ago, before there was much information around on the game or on some of the tanks. There is now more, and even a Wikipedia page listing more details of the tanks in Metal Saga.) --------- The Maus: the best tank in the game, and the strangest history. -------- The Maus is a German super heavy tank. The heaviest tank ever, or at least during World War Two. This is the one that only two were built I think: as prototypes. There is a story to it in that they built a wooden mock up in 1943 and Hitler complained because the gun they had looked like a toy in comparison to the massive tank, so they had to change it. Eventually a tank was built but production never got going and the V1 (I assume version 1) one was captured by the Soviets, though it had been electronically disabled by its crew. There was another one, the V2, made with a turret, and this one was blown up by its crew in the later stages of the war defending Berlin. Oh and it could cross rivers that were very deep but that meant the crews would not be able to breathe underwater, so the idea was to have a second Maus to power up the one that was crossing the river. The crew would breathe through a snorkel that had to be at least 45 feet long because that was how deep the tank could go. Anyway there is one left now as the Soviets rescued the turret from the burnt out one, and stuck them together..though I think it was slightly more complicated than that: and now the Maus complete with turret is on display at the Kubinka tank museum outside Moscow in Russia. http://www.achtungpanzer.com/pz7.htm ------ Tiger: a widely used and scary tank: in WWII ----- Another heavy tank developed by the Germans. 1,355 were made in total. It was designed to have good firepower and armour even though this reduced mobility. This meant that it could effectively damage its enemies from a distance while their guns could not reach it. The only way the other side could attack the Tiger was to try and outflank it, and get it from behind where its engine had less protection. It weighed twice as much as the Panzer, and in fact was often too heavy to cross bridges. Like the Maus, it had the capability to ford rivers that were up to 4 metres deep, and had to have the same kind of arrangement as the Maus using a snorkel. It was so heavy that it often had problems with its suspension and it was very expensive to produce. In fact although it outclassed the allies' tanks in North Africa, many of the tanks were out of action at any one time because of mechanical failure, and this unreliability and tendency to breakdown was a big disadvantage. Also they used enormous amounts of fuel and sometimes were abandoned by their crews only because they had run out of fuel! However on the plus side the Tiger had a devastating emotional impact on the opposition. The allies would try to avoid a Tiger if possible, and take evasive action even if another tank just looked a bit like a Tiger. They were the most awesome of the German tanks in the true meaning of that word. Even the training manual for the Tiger's crew was admired, and it became a valued souvenir item after the end of the Second World War. Later the Tiger II was made and the Tiger I then became known as the Tiger. It was in use from 1942 until the end of the Second World War. The design was also the basis for the King Tiger tank, and it got its nickname "Tiger" from one of the leaders of the tank's development, Ferdinand Porsche. A Tiger tank 131, is being fully restored at the Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset, in the UK if you want to see one of these monsters for real. And the tank museum has a lot more to say about the Tiger, as well as other tanks. In fact they have a DVD about saving the Tiger Tank. Their tank was captured in Tunisia. http://www.worldwar2aces.com/ http://www.tiger-tank.com/ http://www.tankmuseum.org/home.html --------------- The Wirbelwind: the best AA tank in the game --------------- This tank was developed in 1944 using the basic Panzer tank and mounting 4 20mm Flak 38 L/112.5 guns. As indeed in the game you can mount 4 main guns on this tank! No-one is certain exactly how many were made but the estimate is either 87 or 105 as the records for the production numbers and the Wehrmacht service records differ. It is of course an anti aircraft tank and was developed when the allies began to challenge the Luftwaffe's dominance in the air. These mobile AA tanks were used to help protect vehicle convoys against air attacks. They were considered to be very effective against low flying aircraft but not used a lot as there were not enough of them to equip front line troops. http://www.achtungpanzer.com/limit.htm ------- Panzer ------- Another German tank first produced in the 1930s and used in WWII. It was a light weight tank with a two man crew and most effective against infantry targets. In fact the word Panzer is an abbreviation for the WWII German word for a tank: Panserkampfwagon, meaning armoured combat vehicle. The German noun, "panzer" simply means armour. The word has since come to be used more generally for any armoured fighting vehicle. To make things more confusing, particular Panzer tanks were given version numbers using letters and numbers and there were so many variations that is is hard to pin down exactly what is meant by "Panzer tank". So that will have to do. There is a great picture of one of these tanks standing in front of Buckingham Palace in London, England, and being issued with a parking ticket by a policeman. It was part of a living Museum constructed in London to mark 60 years after the end of the war. http://www.tankmuseum.co.uk/news/pr_panzer_buckinghampalace_230605.htm http://www.military.cz/panzer/index_en.htm (a list of Panzers) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_I (the early years of the Panzer tank) ----- Demag ----- I am not sure if there ever was an actual Demag tank as it appears to be the name of a German manufacturer of heavy equipment, specialising in cranes and excavators. Its cranes were used to assist in the building of the Titanic! They built armoured fighting vehicles during the Second World War. They appear to have been involved in building the Panther tank which was used by the Panzer tank battalions. (Strangely the company is now American owned.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergepanther ------ Rommel (actual name: Jagdpanzer) ------ This tank was fist produced in 1944 in response to the demands of a German colonel who wanted a light tank destroyer. Its full name is the Jagdpanzer 38 Hetzer. It is the tank that the game calls the Rommel(after a German general), and is one of Dr. Palm's tanks. http://www.achtungpanzer.com/hetzer.htm http://www.wwiivehicles.com/germany/tank-hunters/jagdpanzer-iv.asp --------- Lulubelle (actual name: Roulbel) --------- This was a double barreled German tank that only reached the prototype phase. Also a Dr. Palm tank in the game. ------- Leopard ------- The Leopard seems to be a popular tank as it is or has been used by the forces of many countries. It is Canada's only tank. (Even though it is too heavy to be transported by Canadian Forces aircraft!) It was first made in Germany in 1963 and many NATO countries use it. It can fire on the move and is a reliable and popular tank still in use today. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/leopard1.htm http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/cdnmilitary/equipment.html ------- Rodina: Soviet tank ------ This is obviously a Russian tank since Rodina means "motherland" in Russian. There is a Rodina statue in Volgograd (Stalingrad) to commemorate victory against the Germans, and the incredible resistance that the Russian people mounted, as they defended their city and nation. Stalingrad, as it was then known, was the focus of the German assault against the Russians during WWII, in 1942. The Russians lost from 1-2 million people (estimates vary enormously) in their defense of the city but their heroic defeat of the Germans turned the tide of the war. The Rodina statue is of a woman wielding a sword that is 95 feet in length. Yes that long: because she herself is 257 feet high. Awesome. It seems that the Russian tanks used at the time were the T-34, and there is a nice picture of one with the word "Rodina" painted on it in the archive of the US Army Ordnance Museum. http://www.peachmountain.com/5star/US_Army_Ordnance_Museum_T34_tank.aspx -------- Merkeva: Israeli tank -------- This is an Israeli tank and the name in Hebrew means Chariot. It has been the main tank of the Israeli army since the 1982 and has four versions. The key feature of all the Merkevas is the protection of the crew and ammunition. To this end it has the engine and transmission placed at the front of the tank, and there being nothing flammable inside the crew compartments. http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/vehicles/tanks/merkava/Merkava.html ------- Abrams: American tank ------ First deployed in the 1980s this American tank was widely used in the 1990s. During the 1990 Gulf conflict these tanks were used but because they are so large and heavy they could only be shipped one at a time by air, so most of them went overseas by cargo ship. However they were used successfully partly because they were reliable, and could use special night sight to target even in thick smoke. They provided such good protection for their crews that not a single Abrams crewman was lost in the Gulf war. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m1.htm -------- Type 90: Japanese tank ------- This is a Japanese tank. Most of the Japanese tanks have the name Type..and then a number. This one was brought into service in 1990, so it is a very modern tank compared to many of the others featured in the game. It is noteworthy for having only a three man crew compared to the more common 5 or 6. It is similar to the Leopard tank with a low height and lower weight and is very manoeuvrable. http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/row/type-90.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_90 ------- S Tank: Swedish tank ------ This is a Swedish tank. It lacked a turret, so to aim the main gun the whole vehicle had to move. It was designed in this way both to be light in weight and to avoid getting hit by being as low as possible: it was harder for enemy forces to see. The gun was fixed to the hull, and the tank had a special suspension system which allowed it to be turned by the gunner. But the problem of aiming meant that if the tank moved, it was difficult to aim and fire at the same time. It was operational during the 1970s and 80s until being replaced in the 1990s with the Leopard tank. Excellent and short overview of the beginnings of tanks. http://www.firstworldwar.com/weaponry/tanks.htm A detailed bibliography of WWII vehicles including tanks of all nations http://www.wwiivehicles.com/bibliography/default.asp ---------------- More Tank Games? ---------------- There is a game for the PlayStation called "Panzer Front", which is a blend of action and strategy with authentic tanks sent on missions in Europe and Russia, and it features 38 tanks based on those from WWII and up to the modern day. But this is a war type simulation game, not an RPG! I recently discovered an adventure tank game for the PlayStation called Tiny Tank. This is a comical and colourful platform type game featuring one cute yellow tank. There are many other tank games none of which I have played. However I doubt if any of them could be as much fun as Metal Saga! ================== MY FAVOURITE TANK? ================== I like my tanks pink! References for Pink Tanks -------------------------- http://www.flashdesign.dk/marianne/?lang=eng (knitting and a pink tank) http://tinselman.typepad.com/tinselman/2006/04/war_pink_peace.html =============================================================================== 9. THE BIG MEDAL ANSWER: MAJOR SPOILER =============================================================================== + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Micheal Meeker, Asst. Editor/QA Lead, Atlus,USA wrote: "Given the amount of emails we're received on the subject, there must be SOMEthing screwy with the Big Medals. Rest assured, the only prize you get for completing the Big Medal quest is the satisfaction of a job well done." + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + THE BIG MEDAL ANSWER:END OF MAJOR SPOILER =============================================================================== A C K N O W L E D G E M E N T S A N D T H A N K S ...........0140 =============================================================================== To ROSS AND CAGAMES in Glasgow, Scotland, import games specialists. Without them I would have no American PS2, no knowledge of METAL SAGA, and no way of buying it or playing it. Now, alas, no longer trading. To Atlus for yet again proving what an excellent publisher they are, by bringing this great game to North American PS2s. To Atlus again and especially to Rob Stone and Michael Meeker who kindly responded to my requests for extra information and answered many questions in great detail. Thank you so much for all your help. To Crea-Tech for making the game. To GameFAQS for the FAQS, message boards, and help provided, and of course, for hosting this FAQ! To the Metal Saga message board for helping me through the game for the first time. To Ramis_78 for information on many things including purpose of impound lot, the rewards for minigames and details on tanks. To Ultimate Calibre for information on how to trigger the Arthur game and more details on tanks and their historical accuracy. To Eleinia for clarifying the history of the Metal Max games, for the comments about the cover art and the precise location of the 20mm sub gun and USP Slide. To Dimon101 for writing to Atlus and permission to print out the Atlus letter. To Doomerang for writing and compiling the board sticky FAQ. To high priest dre for additional information on the outlaws. To ILikeHistory for encouragement and advice about trying out the painting. To LegoTechnic for solving the riddle of how to give gifts to Rachel. To Neutral-bob for finding another title. To Upstater for the stats on the 20mm Vulcan subgun and the info on the legendary treasure location. Also for the details on testing the Alpha tank part rumour. To destynova1 for asking and answering lots of questions about the game. For the added information about Rosa's visit to Junkyard and especially for the challenge about the Alpha rumoured event. To Valeisla fpr information about the possibility of Carl gift giving, the linit for Dog Food and another title. To Lia Tria for telling me about another title. To DragonUser84 for alerting me to the existence of the RAM SE weapon. To joesilver72 for some additional item locations: the Drill Claw Memo and more To Gato Curioso for telling me how to pick up the Maid's Uniform To st4rmunky for the sweet potato title. To TemplarKnight for detailed clarification on the BIG MEDAL big question and for generous permission to add the full BIG MEDAL list to the FAQ. To holypriest for the great FAQ on items and monsters. Without this FAQ I would have struggled to complete the dungeon and town items locations as often I went through a dungeon or town thinking I had found everything, only to check this FAQ and find that there was always at least ONE item I had missed. To gaijinplusi for the very helpful Tank FAQ hosted on GameFAQs To blackpyre and Silva Shado for their incredibly useful and informative emails on items, assembled weapons stats, finding the B2 Manta Ray, their analysis of the logic behind finding items in the field and details of the three item combinations for the LOVE machine and many many other things. To Paull for posting additional information about missing monsters and titles, translated from the Japanese Metal Maniacs site. Credit also to that site for the wealth of information on all Metal max games: if you can read Japanese. To Mr Lee for very detailed emails about how to give gifts to Carl, kindly and patiently confirming that Alpha can be turned into a tank part (despite my scepticism!), and lots of other things. To Ernie who provided me with the final proof of Alpha's tank part, and Rachel's wedding! Both videos can be seen on my youtube channel (threethymes) To hoohahboy for all the detailed description of Rosa's and Hunter's tanks. To enomosiki for the Dowan Salvage map and for sending me pictures of all items locations, and many other details: not all included as yet. Sorry. To Shadow for information about another title and various other details, and especially for his work on the MS comics. (See GameFAQs MS board archives!) To Sashanan for all the technical advice, and for encouraging me to continue with this FAQ. And for getting me started on the whole FAQ writing thing. Many many thanks to all the people at the METAL SAGA board who have helped me with questions and ideas even when you didn't know it. If anyone thinks I have unfairly represented their views or contributions please let me know. MOST especially I want to thank Saikyo Mog who told me to do everything... And so I did. AND he made sure I did it. In fact, I have to admit that this FAQ would not exist without him. So all credit to him for that. So thank you again Saikyo. I know that I would never have got this far without your help, excellent advice and reassurance. Oh, and the inspiration to make all my tanks pink. Indeed... PINK TANKS RULE!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx3WREImYXM =============================================================================== UPDATE DETAILS =============================================================================== First Draft: January 8th 2007. Most lists done, and towns/dungeons about 1/4 done, some others in brief. The final battles and end game are complete. The only section that has had no attention yet is the detailed part on tank modification. Towns completed up to ALICE ONE, though question mark on TORIKAMI items. Tank modifications section. Submitted. Update: January 17th 2007. More details on endings, modification, tank stats, stats and best tank parts, and weapon assembly. Improved outlaw data. Completed detailed walkthrough for: Abandoned Ruins and Ruins of a Fort, medical lab, transport pod, Alice One W., Torikami and Orochi. Morgue Town sewer, and Sewer Demon. Charlene's house in Alice One, Disassembler, Dalton Bros, Ghost tank. Forever Land. Dowan, Shaka Khan. Gifts: info on shop location and costs. Received and included complete list of BIG MEDALS from TemplarKnight. Search Code added. Update: January 24th. Added section on tanks in X?extra, assembling tank parts, completed w/t for various outlaws and tanks in mid section. Mega Mole, Monkey Mountain, Muscle Cathedral, Dr Palm, Wild Bus, getting to Lorelei Bay, Retirement Compound, 20+ outlaws defeated and described in detail, Various other minor additions and improvements. Update: January 31st. Added section on titles in character section, endings scripts for more endings, info on salvage items locations in Dowan, details on what items junks get when appraised, (assembling section), more on tank parts assembling, boat. All tanks including Maus: and Dr. Palm's tanks. W/t:all dungeons and towns completed. Revised Search Code, Update: February 6th. Added section on custom painting. Eddy ending. Kiriya and Disassembler events. All Jack and Wayne events. Leon and Ziggurat trigger events. Emily's suitor and Dr. Mortem events. Sodam Insein event. Treasure Map items and locations. Assembling: maps, items and figurines. Dr Optica's Lenses: locations and assembling.. Outlaws: Marduk, Storm Dragon, Imperial Bomber. Update: February 13th. Leon and arm event. Battle with Tiamat and getting Alpha. Full details on how to play and win the mini games. Corrections to search code and various other minor details. Added more events. B2 Manta Ray. Wilco rescue. Scarlet defeat. Additional tank parts assembling. Added search code for Big Medals and outlaws. Update: February 20th. Added new section on the items found in the field in ITEMS section. 20 F.A.Q.s section added to the EXTRAS. Added complete LOVE Machine assembling, and completed tank parts assembling. Added extra details to weapon assembling. Completed all Salvage finds. Events with Nikolai and Growgaine, and Eddy in helping out in the garage added to EVENTS section. Mysterious Cave details and strategy 3/4 completed. Update: February 27th 2007. Mysterious Cave walkthrough complete. Items found in the field, locations and monsters added to each place section. Tank parts and weapons found in the field added. The Big Medal Big Answer. Update: March 30th 2007. Included brief history of all the dogs. Redrafted Gifts section and added details of responses to gifts of clothing. Added more details to tank section on controls: equipping and fighting. Added section contents lists for B.Characters, C. Tanks, H.7 Gifts. Added the combinations for LOVE machine 3 items courtesy of blackpyre and Silva Shado. Added sections and instructions on finding each town. Additional various corrections including the final word on the Alpha rumour. (See Events section) No more on that, thank you! Version 1.1 Retrospective ------------- OR: Why you should never write a FAQ/walkthrough for an RPG that has no published guide in English especially when you don't know the first thing about how to use a computer and the only encouragement you get for your efforts is "Bwahahaaha!!" or "Muhahaha!!" from an American who is always right about everything, especially when it comes to matters of punctuation. March 2007 Draft updates Summary First Draft: started 28th December 2006. Submitted 1/10/2007 Second Draft: submitted 1/17/2007: major update and included search code Third Draft: submitted 1/24/2007: major update. Fourth Draft: submitted 1/31/2007: major update Fifth Draft: submitted 2/6/2007: major update Sixth Draft: completed main walkthrough. 2/13/2007 Seventh Draft: submitted 2/20/2007 Eighth Draft: submitted 2/27/2007 Version 1.0 Ninth Draft: submitted 3/30/2007 Version 1.1 Tenth Draft: submitted May 14th 2007 Completely revised table of contents. A thorough proofread and some minor changes and additions, for example section 5.4, and Morgue Town has been expanded. 12.3 is new. A new title is found! Made the Mysterious Cave a separately coded section. Version 1.2 REQUEST: I would appreciate any comments on this new contents list: is it better like this, is it too long, do you use the search code for the outlaws, should there be more options to search with an extended search code? Anything else that could be added or altered to improve the FAQ? 2009 UPDATE! YES folks! I finally got around to adding all the new information gratefully received from many sources. Once again many thanks to everyone who has contributed to this FAQ, which has become a huge joint effort to find out as much as poaaible about this awesome game. Update: December 2009. Some reformatting of the lists and lots of extra details added, (as well as erroneous speculation removed!) including some major corrections concerning Alpha and Carl. 2010 UPDATE! Added quite a bit of additional stuff, including details of a new SE gun and some other missing items. And replaced some stuff I'd left out of a previous update, which, fortunately no-one seemed to to notice... oops. Tidied up various sections of the walkthrough and added better shops' information. =============================================================================== LEGAL NOTICE =============================================================================== This guide may be not be reproduced under any circumstances except for personal, private use. It may not be placed on any web site other than those listed, or otherwise distributed publicly. Use of this guide on any other web site or as a part of any public display is strictly prohibited, and a violation of copyright. The latest version will always appear on GameFAQs.com Other Allowed Websites: * Cheats de.com * Gamershell.com * supercheats.com * cheathappens.com This FAQ is copyrighted by threetimes January, and now March 30th 2007. Again 10th Auguest 2008. 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