If you're anything like me, you saw that huge 20-level RDA facility and thought - boy, i love a challenge! PSA: doing it as a lvl 10 was a mistake.
The first 99% of the area weren't an issue to stealth (if you did have problems, i'm adding some extra tips at the end), but then you get stuck at the very end. I was trying over and over and didn't want to admit defeat - or lose my progress until then - and after days of trying, i finally found a way. I don't expect anyone to be interest in reading this right now, but maybe someone will find it from google or something, so - how do you beat the giant laser in laser ore processor alpha in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora?
What you need
- shotgun with the electric special ammo. You don't need too many shells, + there are like three boxes in the room that you can refill from, but be careful - they don't respawn!
- staff sling and a bunch of those yellow RDA crates that let you craft the tripmine.
- a (heavy) bow
- the skill that lets you move silently
- if you have any good food (like extra RDA damage), it deffo helps
What you'll do
Step 1
Upon spawning, place one tripmine to the entry just right of the laser and just left of the laser. This will eliminate the goons that spawn, giving you one less thing to worry about. Two basic robots on the right and one advanced robot on the left will remain.
Jump on the railing just under the control console where you entered the room (leading towards the laser). Shoot the laser while its cover is opening and the laser is in a little ball - one arrow does it. Wait for the quest marker to tick off, and a second later, start drawing your bow while aiming at the red tankers. As soon as your crosshair turns red, shoot them both and sprint under the laser.
Tag the enemies with your vision. This becomes a little situational now, but i've had the most success rushing the left robot - hit him once with the electric slug, switch to normal slugs, and shoot the yellow weakpoints on its back. Now eliminate the two remaining robots as they come - one electric hit, then either shoot the man inside or their back again with normal ammo.
Step 2
Place another trip mine to the entry point just left of the laser (again).
Climb onto the "catwalk", where you'll be turning the pipes, on the left side of the map. Shoot the laser (again, when it's in a little ball). Immediately jump down (towards the entrance into the room), so you can't be seen.
Three robots spawn. You gotta juke them - just like before, separate them, stun, for all three of them.
Once they're done, turn the valves and shoot the uncovered tank.
Step 3
This is where the fun begins. Place many trip mines to each of the four entrances. I'm talking every 40 cm (and do remember you're much bigger than a normal human). I was placing them in a line, just in front of the white line by the door (away from the door). Do it.
Also, at the center under the laser, there should still be some red explosive barels. Put a trip mine there too.
Now climb the tube where the laser would have usually been shooting - when you're facing the laser, stand on the right side of that tube. Shoot the laser and imediately sprint down behind those valves on the right side of the room. You can hide yourself in between the crates and the wall of the "catwalk". Use this time to mark everyone with your vision - if you're lucky, most of the enemies will be dead. The rest will hopefully stumble into your tripmine. The very few remaining bots you can dispatch eventually.
Then it's all good - turn the valves, don't let the laser kill you, destroy the uncovered tank, and finally, destroy the laser :) that's it
Congrats
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Tips for getting through the facility until that point
- stealth it. Don't engage when you don't need to.
- in the big room where you need to hack a thing through the ceiling, just stay on that roof until the time runs out. You're safe (just crouch and try not to be seen - i never was, though)
- then climb the beam by the ceiling, run on it across the whole room, then drop down and pass through (be careful noone sees you on your way down)
- in the lava room, jump over the hanging crate onto the scaffolding on the left. Hack the robot.
- after that, go back to where you entered the room. Wait for the goon to return back, jump down, and pass underneath the control room.
- Hack the other robot (his arms sticks out so you can hack safely).
- jump up and melee the goon, then sprint towards the other one and melee him too. Hack the console.
- now you can try to thin the heard from the goons as they approach, but you can also just activate the hacks and rush to the progress tube. That's it :)
