Scans have found locations matching the descriptions of Dr. Cayce’s survey sites. Exploring the sites could reveal valuable mission data. Warning: Geth presence detected on planet’s surface. Use extreme caution!
Plot a course to Corang, in Verr, which is part of Hawking Eta. When you reach the planet, start the scanner and launch a probe. Scan the planet’s surface until an anomaly is detected.
Only then can you land on the planet’s surface, which proves to be reasonably hospitable but is teeming with geth forces.
Part 2: Project Firewalker: Search for Survey Sites
[001]
As you begin entering the old settlement in Corang [001] , check your target; a cluster of geth troopers is up ahead.
The general plan of attack is to remove them with missile fire. However, there are some aspects of this, and all other fights, to be aware of:
You can ram into infantry foes and damage them with sheer brute force.
Keep moving, or risk hull damage; you want to vary your speed, direction, and height when attacking.
If you hear your shield alarm go off, maneuver away from the foes until it recharges, or face the destruction of the craft.
In this example, reverse into the lower ground, so the enemies can’t hit you, before boosting forward and finishing them.
Survey Site #1
[002]
[003]
Boost forward over the undulating ground. Use your vertical lift to avoid any sharp or steep obstacles (simply fly over them). The Hammerhead’s computer detects a geth dropship, which deposits a colossus before leaving.
On this occasion, move behind the rim of the metal plateau the first survey site is located on, and then vertically lift the craft, shooting the colossus and two troopers [002] , and then fall back down, out of range of enemy fire, especially the beam weapon.
After the colossus is removed, you can easily fly around the troopers and dispatch them. Then locate the yellow circle target and mine for the first artifact [003] .
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Spoils of War > Artifact > Salvage Recovered > 250 Credits |
Survey Site #2
[004]
Boost off the metal plateau and down the huge thoroughfare of mud until you spot a distant mineral lake [004] .
Remove the two troopers with vertical boosting and shots from extreme range, so you aren’t harmed at all. Move to the edge. Then drop down onto an L-shaped island, the largest in this lake.
A destroyer and colossus can be defeated by remaining at extreme range and bombarding them with missiles [005] .
Be sure you line up the missiles in your target reticle, or they may hit the floor or miss. Any troopers are easily removed. Then acquire the next artifact.
[005]
Before you leave, be sure to check the island on the left side of the lake of acid; there is a mining opportunity to scoop up a sizable amount of platinum—one of four locations during this mission. Don’t forget it!
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Spoils of War > Artifact > Salvage Recovered > 250 Credits |
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Spoils of War > Resources > Refined Platinum > Mine > 1,250 Platinum |
Survey Site #3
[006]
[007]
Boost onto the remains of a ramp and exit the lake area, boosting up and onto a connecting thoroughfare with a half-buried hull at the end [006] .
Or, you can head left, across a series of ramps and a tunnel, appearing to the left of the hull. Instead of boosting over and landing past the hull, slow and use it as a ramp.
Boost and lift the Hammerhead, landing on the sloping metal opposite. Turn and view the third survey site [007] ; blast the colossus, two destroyers, and trooper from this range, and they won’t fight back.
Drop down to defeat any stragglers before claiming the third artifact. Exit via the hull ramp, or by using debris below as a ramp.
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Spoils of War > Artifact > Salvage Recovered > 250 Credits |
Survey Site #4
[008]
[009]
Use a mixture of vertical and horizontal boosting to fly across the gaps in the metallic hulls ahead, pausing to scrape some platinum from a mining spot on the left side of the thoroughfare [008] . Boost across the area of acid.
There are two paths to the colossus, destroyer, and prime guarding the next survey site; scoot left across the acid and around the half-sunken hull to attack at range, or head to the right of the hull for a more fraught and closer combat [009] .
A dropship deposits the colossus ahead of you. If you’re heading right, try using the base of the sunken hull as partial cover.
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Spoils of War > Resources > Refined Platinum > Mine > 1,250 Platinum |
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Spoils of War > Artifact > Salvage Recovered > 250 Credits |
[010]
[011]
The half-sunken hull now acts as a ramp, leading up to a gap onto a high platform. Halfway up, three rocket drones appear.
They can devastate the hull of your craft, so remain on the hull and use vertical boosts to dodge the rockets, while firing back [010] . Encroach more if your rockets aren’t hitting, but always be prepared to retreat.
The reason for destroying the drones becomes apparent when you reach the high platform itself; boost across the gap [011] to where there’s a place to excavate more platinum.
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Spoils of War > Resources > Refined Platinum > Mine > 1,250 Platinum |
Survey Site #5
[012]
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Boost off the high platform [012] and land on the lower metallic section close to the last artifact.
Then leap onto the superstructure with the artifact on it as a dropship sends down a colossus, two primes, and two destroyers [013] . Only the destroyers need to be attacked at closer range.
Strafe on the edge of the structure so you can easily sidle past the beam weapon attacks from the colossus. Flee across to the opposite corner if the shield alarm sounds.
Then approach the final artifact but don’t claim it; check behind the site for a passage on the right, leading to a final platinum deposit. Grab that first, as the mission ends once the fifth artifact is aboard the Hammerhead.
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Spoils of War > Artifact > Salvage Recovered > 250 Credits |
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Spoils of War > Resources > Refined Platinum > Mine > 1,250 Platinum |
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All Artifacts Collected! |
The following additional missions are now available (aside from any already completed), and can be attempted in any order:
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Firewalker > Geth Incursion (The Phoenix Massing) |
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Firewalker > Recover Research Data (Caleston Rift) |