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	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: With a little help
	Posted By: Steve Levinson	Date: 6/11/05 4:15 p.m.
	In Response To: DiaBD Volunteers: With a little help (MartiNZ) : I finished this one last night and was quite inspired to do a write-up of it, : so here goes: for a start the help refers to the rather unique use of Bobs : in the level. I'm not entirely sure but I assume if you let them all die : you are stuck from pretty early on. Unfortunately I'm also still playing : with no terminal pictures ... not too sure why but I believe this made it : much harder to work out where to go in the later stage of the level, and : even led me to inadvertently discover a rather convoluted secret.... I was just re-playing this level myself and was about to start on my own post when I saw yours. I'm glad you posted, because I have a couple of abstracts to finish that are due Monday and I really should get back to working on them ;^) In any case, the terminal picts provide a hint of the elevator maze you need to navigate, but aren't that much help after all. Don't worry about killing off the bobs, though - the are regenerating, so there will always be someone to help you out. : From the terminal in the first room it sounds as if this is going to be a : pretty short trip - just get to the transporter up a lift not too far : away. Unfortunately it doesn't quite turn out that way. Down the first : lift we encounter some pirates and a locked door, and then a nasty ambush : in a 2x recharger room the other way - best to pop back out and take them : from the corridor; fun with shotguns. Even more fighters pop in from a : corridor heading out far up above when we get right up to the charger. I : tried grenading myself up there a few times later on but couldn't quite : swing it - anything useful there? Yes, a couple pairs of rockets, so it's worth wasting one to get up there. It is possible to grenade launch yourself up there - put your back to the wall and aim a grenade plus a stream of bullets at your feet, but I find with this scneario that there is an abundance of rockets, but not of AR ammo, so it's probably better to waste a SPNKR. : heading around the circular ledge we enter a corridor and find: a pattern : buffer; another 2x recharger; and a few terminals with some random stories : about: a money-making scheme using BBSes (a nice look at the past with the : dates 1989-90), with names linked to the "USEC Marathon" ... : somehow that's not quite right; a green-card lottery to be shut down in : light of a bill in the Earth government; and a new computer virus - a : panicky piece of text not unlike what we've seen in the past. Other than : the mention of the Marathon in this otherwise unrelated scenario, I didn't : get much out of it all. Anyway, there's a switch here as well. These were all prevalent Internet scams at the time DiaBD came out. Ah yes, how fondly I remember all the panicky e-mails from friends warning me about the Good Times virus. : And as the only way to go is back, we soon find out what the switch did. : Getting back down on the platform over the lava calls for a grenade or : two, as just pressing the switch doesn't give you quite enough time. After : clearing the pirates we go down the lift and find some troopers and : hunters around square columns, which eventually lead us to a locked door : from near the beginning of the level ... and at least the way I did it, : not much else of note. Walking up to the door opens it but nothing seems : different on the other side ... hmmm. You don't need to use a grenade to bet back down there - just leave the walkway up and jump off of it into an open window (duh). Getting that first platform in the elevator maze to lower itself is still something I haven't quite figured out. It's not tied to the secret switches you're about to mention. Somehow in going through the level a few times, it always lowers eventually. : Anyway, being curious, I went back and found a door on one side of the second : square column - which leads to a switch and two breakable circuit boards. : The result of dealing with these is the draining of the lava from the : pools and the opening of a door in one of them. I didn't notice that last : bit for a couple of sweeps, as I was really trying to find something that : could help me with the mission. But then it turned into quite a secret - a : MOAH guarding a lift up to an area looking something like 'House of Pain' : and containing a couple of SPNKRs! And then further on, a lift to a secret : terminal, situated at the top of the first lava pool - I had wondered what : was there. That switch and breakable circuits lower the lava, open the door to the secret area and open the door to the House of Pain area. I actually found the secret terminal first by grenade blasting myself up to the top of the lava falls. I was following my old addage of exploring everywhere that looked reachable. I also noticed a drone up there and got curious. When I was up there reading the terminal, I noticed significant activity in my motion sensor, so I knew there had to be something more to the level. That curiosity led me to spend a couple of hours searching. for a clue. Finally I snuck a peak in Forge and found the hallow column you described - funny, I tried tabbing all those columns before, but I just must not have been square on when tabbing on that one. It takes a lot of ammo to get through this secret - ammo you may not want to spend just to get a rocket launcher, particularly when there's another secret one on the next level. But we'll get to that soon.

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	DiaBD Volunteers: With a little help	MartiNZ	6/11/05 2:26 p.m.
	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: With a little help	Steve Levinson	6/11/05 4:15 p.m.
	Re: DiaBD Volunteers: With a little help	MartiNZ	6/12/05 1:43 p.m.

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