Sunside (2nd Mission)
The Almighty
Enemies Encountered
- Cabal: Legionaries, Psions, Incendiors
Objectives
- Follow the fuel streams to the Almighty’s weapons systems (continued).
- Destroy the Almighty’s weapon cooling system.
- Escape the Almighty!
New Actions to Learn
- Interceptor Driving: General Maneuvers
Cooling System Takedown
Super: Recommended
Grenades: Recommended
Ride the gravity tube, drop down a massive pipe, and land at an Interceptor depot. When the door opens, shoot the canister to your left so it explodes, killing both Legionaries. If available, use your Super and grenade to clear the depot, as you spend most of the remainder of this mission on an Interceptor. Or, just drop down, climb into the Interceptor, and destroy every Psion and Legionary in the vicinity.
Boost into a curved hall with barriers, explosive canisters, and around a dozen Incendiors and Legionaries. Shoot them using your Interceptor’s solar rockets or blast the canisters for area-of-effect damage, hitting more foes at once (then finishing with the Interceptor’s firepower). Head to and then wait at the green-lit door, which opens and allows access onto the exterior of the weapons systems area.
Once you’re outside, firing at foes becomes a secondary action, compared to locating and destroying a series of cooling fans (waypoints 10, 11, and 12). These appear on your HUD after scanning with Ghost, and they are easy to spot. Clear the immediate area of Cabal infantry, staying mobile so foes don’t concentrate their firepower on you.
Locate the large flat-domed cooling vent, and position your craft by the door gratings. When those open, fire at the interior fan with the Interceptor’s rockets. Don’t let up, and ignore enemy firepower hitting your craft. It takes four or five rocket barrages for the cooling system to explode. Then, boost away to the next location.
The second cooling dome is identically designed, so circle around it until you find the door gratings, dropping Cabal infantry as you wait. With the grating open, fire four rocket barrages, then boost across a bridge, through a doorway, and around to the main cooling system.
This system is set up a little differently. When you’re at the large curved platform with a couple of barricades, clear the area of Psions and other pesky foes. Then, wait for the main cooling vent doors to open in the much larger domed structure. Blast the final fans, then drive your Interceptor to the entrance doors and rake the incoming Legionaries rushing in from the left. Hop out of your vehicle, as the final part of this mission is on foot.
The enemy presence is light, and you have an electron reservoir to cripple. Accomplish this by entering the corridor left of the destroyed cooling system, grabbing a fusion core, and jumping up and through the connecting corridor with an overheating floor. Your armor takes some damage, but this is necessary to reach the circular conduit to the Almighty’s core. Drop the fusion core into this receptacle, and then flee.
The Almighty is disabled. Time to get to the escape dropship in under a minute. As the timer counts down, turn 180 degrees and jump onto the top of the super-structure (above the corridor you just ascended from). Sprint across (and jump over) the rapidly exploding and overheating floor. Bound to the waiting ship (competent Guardians should have around 30 seconds left on the clock), and conclude the mission.