Aspirin on 16/6/2007 at 11:55

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[SPOILER]In middle of long lift tube there is a short passage with secret wall-door at the end.[/SPOILER] Where can I enter this door from the other side ???

Martek on 6/7/2007 at 20:09

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Interesting mission. Nice outdoors climbing around at the start. Must have put some work into that mine tunnel - I can't recall offhand another mission with one so long as this ones.

I was stymied at first looking for a key or keys to some chests near the start; but eventually gave up and of course the answer came later (along with a certain door). ;)

For whatever reason, I could not find all the spice. Found myself wondering after a while just how many I did have. If there is a way to check progress along the way I have missed it.

Anyways, I did have to come looking for spoilers to determine which and how many I had missed; and it turned out I missed just one: Near the start, at the little water pool and spout - I missed the little valvewheel. That one I missed was also odd to me because once I went back for it and turned the wheel my objectives automatically updated - as if it "fell" into my inventory. I didn't actually "take" it. :confused:



Same here! I missed this as well. Anyone know???

Martek

The inscrutable po on 21/11/2007 at 19:24

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Me too.

Site 6 [SPOILER]Secret door exit on mid level [/SPOILER]- How do you get into the area behind this obvious fake wall?

for searchers - site6 midlevel middle level secret

Also, in the area with the apes there is a huge vertical rock tube with some beams going across it at the top. I used a vine arrow to descend and fell off at the bottom because it's so deep. I am now trapped in this tube. Is there a way out? Does it serve some purpose. There is a small window I can look out of.

Nightwalker on 18/12/2007 at 17:16

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The gear key unlocks a door in Site 2 which leads you to the vault. It sounds like you might have found a bug and gotten in with another key of some sort.
To find the Hand and the Skull, you need to enter Site 7. You probably already have the key to it as I believe they are all mostly found in the same place, except for the Site 4 key. There's a key in a locker there that unlocks 2 chests in the mine barracks and that's where the Hand and the Skull are stashed.

baeuchlein on 4/3/2009 at 16:31

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When I completed the mission, the gate right before the mine shaft entrance (the wooden gate which sounds metallic if you hit it with the Blackjack) was closed, and I found no way of opening it. The only way out I found was the underwater passage. Unless there is some way around this gate (or a means to open it), the passage is the only exit in this situation.



If anyone is still looking for that door... it is located near the statue which is surrounded by buttons. One of them lowers the statue and allows access to one of the spice bags. At least one other button raises the statue again. A third one opens this secret door, located to the left of the statue.





There is a bug associated with the spice bag near the little pond AKA water pool. To fulfil this part of the spice objective, you do not have to take the bag of spice, but rather turn the wheel to open the hatch behind which the spice bag is located. Taking the spice bag still raises the loot amout found, but it does not count concerning the spice bags objective. Furthermore, you must leave the hatch open, because if you close it again, the spice bag objecive won't tick off. The opened hatch is what matters here, not the spice bag itself. This may be responsible for people being unable to fulfil this objective.

Other spice bag locations are not necessarily affected by the same bug. I checked that with the spice bag behind the painting; in this case, taking the spice bag counts, not whether one leaves the painting open or closes it again. I did not check the other spice locations, though.



The objective "Return to the little lake" indeed means that you should return to your starting point. Actually, you have to cross the lake by walking on the wooden plank, enter the cave behind the plank and walk towards the end of the cave until the last objective checks off. So, the objective text is a little bit misleading but should point you into the right direction.



The gear key did not vanish from my inventory after using it. Perhaps that's what happened there as well.

Overall, I found it to be a nice mission, but a bit more testing would have been better.:)