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Sunset Overdrive Official Strategy Guide
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Contents

  • Quests
    • Overview
    • ACT 1
      • Breaking Booze
      • Brewery Upgrade
      • Oxford's Lost and Found
      • Help a Hobo
    • ACT 2
      • Big Brother Sam
      • To Build a Better Cat Trap
      • Collect Some Comics
      • Collect More Comics
      • Collect Even More Comics!
      • Fizzie: The Inside Story
      • Garage Chaos
      • To Cure a Case of Scabs
      • Fizzco: The Dirty Secret
      • Hepcat's Upgrade
    • ACT 3
      • The Firework Show
      • The Warlock's Red Gaze
      • Wicked Watchers in the South
      • Crimson Eyes in the North
      • Fizzco: The International Conspiracy
      • Boat Upgrade
    • ACT 4
      • Hardcore!
      • The Most Epic Quest For EXP
      • One Man Is an Island
      • La Venganza
      • It's Personal
      • Re-Quests
      • Fizzco: The Secret Ingredient
      • Theater Upgrade
      • Take Back the Streets: Downtown
      • Take Back the Streets: Old Factory District
      • Take Back the Streets: The Harbor
      • Take Back the Streets: Little Tokyo
  • Chaos Squad
    • About Chaos Squad
    • Missions
    • Score
    • Mission Failure
    • Preparation & Customization
    • Rewards
    • Amps
    • Clothes
    • Weapons & Weapon Boosts
  • Amps
    • Overview
  • Missions
    • ACT 1
      • 1-1: Horror Night
      • 1-2: Awesomepocalypse & One Man's Trash
      • 1-3: Amp It Up
      • 1-4: Amptastic!
      • 1-5: A Way Out
      • 1-6: A New Friend
      • 1-7: Bora Bora Water
      • 1-8: Boo-Boo Roverdrive
      • 1-9: Max's Parents
      • 1-10: Buck National vs. The Apocalypse
      • 1-11: Midnight Brew (Night Defense)
      • 1-12: Up in the Air
    • Introduction
    • ACT 2
      • 2-1: Big Trouble in Little Tokyo
      • 2-2: It's Me! Fizzie!
      • 2-3: Hot Dog!
      • 2-4: Find 4Kim
      • 2-5: Hepcat's Late-Night Special
      • 2-6: Bryllcream
      • 2-7: The Fall of Emperor Norton
    • ACT 3
      • 3-1: To Fargarthia!
      • 3-2: The King's Feast
      • 3-3: Tastes Like Chicken
      • 3-4: Bad Medicine
      • 3-5: Ferry to Nowhere
      • 3-6: The Siege of Wondertown Land
      • 3-7: Floating Garbage
      • 3-8: A Hero's Duty
    • ACT 4
      • 4-1: Las Catrinas
      • 4-2: Awesomesmithing
      • 4-3: Getting the Band Back Together
      • 4-4: Concertpocalypse
      • 4-5: This Ends Here
  • Challenges
    • Overview
    • Bomb Delivery
    • Challenge: Smash Stuff
    • Buck National vs. the Apocalypse
    • Glider Challenge
    • Night Defense
    • Points Challenge
    • Traversal Challenge
    • Weapon Challenge
  • Sunset City Essentials
    • It's All About Style
    • Controls Breakdown
    • Killing Things for Fun and Profit
    • Currencies and Collectibles
  • Overdrives
    • Overview
    • Badges
    • The Use and Abuse of Overdrives
  • Weapons
    • Overview
    • Weapon Susceptibility
    • Leveling
    • Acquisition
    • Ammunition
    • Categories
    • Weapon Breakdowns
    • Weapon Amps
    • Builds
    • Traps
  • Enemies
    • Factions and Enemies
    • The OD
    • Scabs
    • Fizzco
  • Achievements
    • Challenge, Replay, and Chaos Squad Achievements
    • Amps, Traversal, and Combat Achievements
    • Exploration and Discovery Achievements
    • Quest Achievements
    • Mission Achievements

Sunset Overdrive Official Strategy Guide › Quests › ACT 4

Theater Upgrade

DowntownPrerequisites: Complete “Getting the Band Back Together”

This is pretty straightforward. Floyd would like you to scrounge together some spare robot parts so he can upgrade the new theater fort, and you would probably like to destroy some Fizzbot patrols, leveling up weapons and earning lots of Cash and Overcharge in the process.

You can take the patrols on in whatever order you like, this order just conforms to their pattern on the map, since most patrols are found down the same stretch of Downtown drag. The first patrol, the farthest west, initially consists of four Rifle Bots backed by a turret at a checkpoint, but they’ll be joined by two Blade Bots and two Bomb Bots once you attack. These Bots are all fairly close together, so dropping several Hair Spray Bombs for multiple explosions in close quarters can be just as damaging to the assembled Bots as lightning damage.

Head east up the road and you’ll find the next patrol. This one is a fortified overpass, with Fizzco agents both above and below. There’s also usually a fair amount of OD here already engaged with Fizzco forces, so this is an old-fashioned mess.

The next patrol further east is another fortified intersection, with multiple turrets established and several Rifle Bots keeping watch. Open fire on this initial deployment and you’ll get a couple more of each normal Bot types dropping on top of the festivities. Between patrols, you have every opportunity to restock ammo from crates or fallen enemies or even from Two Hat Jack, so go nuts with Taunt Bot, Turret Copter, and Pulse Mine to make these fights more manageable.

The patrol furthest east on this road is the most fortified yet, with three turrets and lots of Bots around it. Apart from that, it’s no different than the others. Smash these robots, grab the guts, and move on.

Like the patrol before it, the northeastern checkpoint already brims with three turrets. And, as usual, when you draw their attention, more Fizzbots will drop in. Here, about three times as many Bots drop in to protect the checkpoint as with the others. The capper, though, is the Fizzco Tank Bot that joins toward the end. In this wide-open environment, you have lots of grind, bounce, and undergrind options while fighting the Tank Bot. Of course, it can also jet around, and may even end up hopping onto some of the lower rooftops. Destroy this final mech, grab the fifth piece of robot parts, and head back to Floyd to complete the Quest.

Rewards

Cash

Overcharge

Items/Unlocks

Rewards

$2500

5000

Vat capacity upgrade

Replay Rewards

$8000

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