Nightwalker on 17/5/2007 at 00:04

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The Hand is not an objective so it's not necessary to find it. Check on Fire Level 2, I think it is. The one where there's a Builder's Scripture sitting on a pedestal. Right behind it is banner. Frob it.

lemniscate on 17/5/2007 at 01:18

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What!? You can write on Maps?!! Just when you think you know every trick in this game someone chimes in with something new. Amazing... and I'm still hitting myself for not discovering the lean forward/blackjack trick on my own!

elkston on 17/5/2007 at 11:13

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I love the main title theme and how it evokes the sounds of lumbering machinery. I even hum it when I'm not playing the mission.

prjames on 17/5/2007 at 16:58

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Having just completed this really awesome mission (the musical interludes and huge areas - as well as the industrial feel were reminiscient for me of Half-Life) with 6 of 7 secrets, I'll pass 'em along (in the order you'll likely encounter them in the mission):

#1 - In the elevator shaft 8009, drop down at the bottom, and take the ladder up on the west side of the elevator shaft. Go in the crawlway at the top, take a right, take rights into crawlways at the next two rooms, go to the end of the crawlway, and find a chest in the next room.

#2 - In the water area (thru door 5599 and down), once down the ladder into the water area catwalks, go down one level via the east or west stairways, go to the enclosed area on the north side (same place you climbed down earlier, one level below), and enter an opening at the north end of the enclosure. Take two ladders down and go through a door at the bottom to a chest.

#3 - At elevator 5008, take the ramp, not the elevator, and look for an exit on the southeast side of the elevator/ramp to door 2288; go through that door; go to south side of the main room; frob the Hammer banner you find there. (This is the Hand of St. Fera area.)

#4 - As you're entering area 7 (administration), there's a pretty staircase at the middle as you enter. Go UNDER the staircase (straight back from the scriptures talking about "Build and Destroy") then go left and look at the back of the left staircase. There's a small safe for you to open that contains a slow-fall potion, among other things.

#5 - In Alan's Office (thru door 0077), face the desk from the back, and on the right side of the desk, look for a button. (There's a button on the left side of the desk that opens/closes door 0077.) This moves a pedestal behind you and to your left, revealing a secret area.

#6 - In the secret area revealed by #5, go to the center "altar"/pedestal where there's a hammer. Move the hammer. Go behind the pedestal and look for a button on the back side of the pedestal. Pressing this moves the plaque on the pedestal, revealing a hammer that you can take as loot.

Anyone find secret #7?

Also, it claims 9 hidden objectives when you finish the mission - I only found 6, which are:

Defuse seven bombs
Read eight scriptures
Write a message to Lord Alan after you succeed
2500 loot
2 secrets
No kills

Anyone find the other three?

Also, out of curiousity, although you don't need it to finish the mission or access the earth area, where is the key to elevator 0009?

- prjames

prjames on 17/5/2007 at 20:46

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Yes, I did - it didn't trigger anything new when that checked off and that goal is not itself a "hidden" goal.

- prjames