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	Message: : : Last time on Tour of Duty, we had to ride an elevator to the top of a tower : just to teleport out of here after stopping the explosion, because : apparently neither Mithrandir or the Yg'Noml AI could do that without us : getting up to the interspace transporter. But there's no time to rest yet, : because we've just been called to help a crashed ship of humans fend off : an attacking pirate ship. Will there be booty aboard their ship to : plunder? Golden shield (er, life?) canisters and chests of ammo arr what : we really need. : Welcome to Retribution: the final chapter. : : See that lightning? That's the surging power of a Mjollnir! If only it was : the same universe and that made sense. : The pirates on this chapter image look very pfhor-like. You might say : "well, duh," but the M1 version of this scenario had different : chapter images, some of which had pirates that look... similar, but much : more insectoid. As in very angular with very defined, brittle joints, as : opposed to thier curvy and slim looks here. : We’re back on a human ship, and we start out in a room that looks like a : bridge, and there’s a juggernaut floating outside! There’s a pattern : buffer here, a terminal, a yellow recharger, and some buttons, but : nothing’s working. So where do we go? We can’t just sit in this chair all : day. : There are two doors: one on the left, and one on the right. Left is not : right, as it leads to certain doom with a cyborg. The door on the right : looks like a captain’s cabin of sorts, with a desk and everything, and a : button that turns on the power! Just watch out for that cyborg that comes : in to pay a visit! We can go outside to save and recharge, but there’s a : terminal in here. Cyborgs tend to like tracking us in here, so be wary : reading it: : : : : : And the other one in the bridge is now on: : : : : : : : : : So, we’re on a planet. Interesting. So that’s why it’s bright and non-spacey : outside. This is a divergence from the M1 scenario, that didn’t have any : planetside skywalls, so it was just a static dogfight in space. M2 has a : lack of outer space skywalls, the closest being the landscape of the : Lh’owon moon, so they adapted this map by changing the space pit of death : to a river of lava and changing the terminals a bit. : If we go back to the captain’s quarters, we can find a button under the desk. : Classic hiding spot. It lowers the seat of the chair in the bridge down to : a forked hall with a button in the middle. There’s a lot of these forked : paths in this map. The button raises the chair for us to go back. On the : left is a room that looks like a daunting theatre for enemies to warp in, : but a bunch of ammo and a SPNKR warps in instead! That’s a good place to : choose for your first path. : On the right side is a lift that takes us up to… the ring-shaped main hall of : the map, I guess. Let’s see what this place looks like: : Now that’s one deceptively-sized map that’s actually not as big or complex as : it looks when playing. It’s actually quite short and simple, but all the : enemies are what make this map tough and long to complete. We are on the : lower-end of this map, underneath the Santa-fe bridge (we went down “turbo : lift”). Can you see the two overlapped rings and all the little paths they : branch off to? No? Well, it’s there. : Going to the right will take us under the bridge and right outside to the : river of lava and the juggernaut! Okay, that’s the WRONG way! The left : takes us to a room on the map marked “transporter corridor.” It’s unusual : to name a room a “corridor,” at least as an official title. Plus, it’s a : big, round, open area. That’s not what I think when I think of corridors. : The second definition on wiktionary calls it “A restricted tract of land : that allows passage between two places.” Hmm, okay, I’ll accept that. So : where’s place #2 this transporter is supposed to take us to? Let’s read : the terminal, after dispatching a few easy pirates. : : Hmm… if we look up here, we can see a button. Shooting it does… not anything : immediately apparent. I was expecting it to lower the platform, but it : must do something else. It seems there’s nothing more to do here, so we go : back to the bridge and the one path we haven’t gone yet is the one where : cyborgs flooded out to kill us, and it’s kind of hard to describe. It’s a : multi-level lift of sorts, and if you make it onto the middle floor and : touch the floorlight, it will shut off that annoying alarm. That’s all : that’s on this floor. On the bottom, you’ll end up in a narrow, curving : path with lots of openings on both sides. Now that’s a corridor. : The first path on the left will drop you down to another corridor with… : enforcers, I guess. They don’t have an official name in this scenario : (seven-eyed pirates?). On the left is a button that does… idunno yet, and : the right has a teleport back to the bridge. Exploring the rest pf the : uppper corridor doesn’t reveal much. There’s a large room with two ammo : clips, another dropoff on the other end that I won’t explore just yet, and : some gates keeping us out of the transporter corridor. And… the middle : lift of the transporter room rose up for some reason, and came back down. : We’ll have to figure out how that works. : If we drop back down the lower corridor and keep going ahead, we run into : another terminal: : : : : : This is the transport corridor, not that other room that has that map : label? : Some altered placement of that terminal would have made it easier for us to : see it before teleporting us back to the chair, and it’s weird to see M2 : textures on the bridge’s buttons on that terminal when I’m playing this in : Infinity. The end of this corridor is just a dead-end where we would drop : off from the other end above. So how do we lower the plank to board the : other ship and/or get that ammo stash on top of that big transport lift? : Going back to the big lift, the platform is perpetually rising up and down : now, so we don’t have to worry about figuring out what activated it. : There’s a bit of ammo at the top (Fusion batteries, magnum clips, and AR : rounds I’m too full on already) and… that’s it I guess. Maybe there was : some delay to shooting that button up here? It doesn’t light up again when : I try to press it, so that must have been it. Sorry if pantsing this : writeup is giving it a disjointed feel. : So I guess the only place left to go is outside with the juggernaut, and the : bridge (the plank across the moat, not the cockpit) has apparently risen : at some point! We run across it, and the other ship is full of pirates, so : we gotta make a mad dash and blow ‘em up faster than the juggernaut can : blow us up. : I unfortunately died, so I go back and… the bridge is gone? Huh? Oh, okay, : one of the buttons up in the cockpit bridge raises the plank bridge, which : we can see out the window when we do so. It’s a repeatable button, and : pressing it again just lowers it back down, so I must have pushed it a : second time by accident at some point. : If we beat back the pirates and get in their ship, we’ll be met with, yes, : even MORE forked paths. This time there’s three of them! The one on the : right takes us to some AR ammo, and pirates like teleporting into each : room so much I don’t even wanna bother mentioning every time I punch some : more out. There’s a tease of a room with a TOZT and a bunch of napalm : canisters for it. : : : A button does… something. It sounds like a lift keeps going up and down. We : find it in the main corridor, and it takes us up top The Diablo : overlooking the fire river. Yep, that’s what this ship is called and… Hey! : Devil in a Blue Dress! DiaBD! =0 : So, where is that blue dress? : There’s a 2x canister up here, a PB (Guess those alien pirates have the exact : same technology we do… and no, I’m pretty sure the M1 pfhor texture set : isn’t used here in the original. And, oh yeah, these are the S’pht pattern : buffers. I think it’s about time we noticed how out of place it is to see : an X-Ray of a galaxan’s exosuit on every one of these!), and a terminal. : : : : : : : Okay, not much there, ‘cuz we don’t have the pirates’ password. There are two : buttons here, neither of which I could figure out what they trigger. An : invincibility powerup is clearly visible atop a cliff out the window, and : it looks like it can only be reached by a rocket-hop. Is it worth it to : make the rest of the map easy for a few seconds? : Well, actually, its true purpose is for reaching a secret in the lava. : Grabbing it is hard, because you have to make a full health rocket hop : before attracting the juggernaut’s attention, and the platform is placed : in such a way that you can easily fly past the thing. You can’t quite land : on the platform without falling off, so you just have to be lucky enough : to hit the invincibility as you fly. : There are two paths under the lava: one just takes you to a room with some : bobs and leads to the upper cliffs, which you’ll probably explore first : after the rocket hop, so it’s a waste of an area, ‘cuz there’s nothing up : here besides the invincibility you can’t reach and would be too damaged : after swimming to make a rocket jump. : : Notably, that room has a window into another room with a button that’s just : barely visible, but we can’t get a good angle on it to shoot it. : The other path in the lava is long enough to warrant that invincibility; it’s : just too long to survive without it. This area has a lot of lava f’lictas : and a bunch of shotgun shells when you surface, and a way back to the : ships after the invincibility wears off. I’ve checked in with : Perseus/Martin/The guide on this area, and we’re at a consensus that : that’s all that’s here. Shotgun shells are good, but it doesn’t seem like : much of a return on the investment to make it here. : It’s hard to write this up because there’s 3 other paths we can go at this : point. There’s a central triangle in the DiaBlo as you can see on the map, : and unexplored doors at the top left and right corners. I’ll instead : choose to explore an elevator that’s at the bottom left of the entrance. : At the bottom is a very cool lava window, a button to the right that : raises the lift back up, and some ominous bones. I don’t think we’ll find : any German ammo stashed under these skulls. Note to Lion O Cyborg: finish : PiD. : : : And at the very top of another lift is some wires to punch. Thankfully, no : annoying alarms blare off. There’s a lava path below that looks… curious. : : Sinking under it yields… absolutely nothing. It just kills us. I guess either : the skulls are just there to look cool or the pirates boiled to death. : At the top of the DiaBlo’s triangle neither of those doors open at all, and : instead the wall opens and a couple of troopers pop out to surprise us. : There’s a small staircase here with some Enforcers that need shotguns to : the face, behind a floating tick that divebombs us. Hunters also teleport : in to keep us on our toes. A trooper around the corner is silently : guarding three TOZT canisters. : : But when we go for them, it’s booby trapped! The wall drops down and a whole : swarm of cyborgs come barreling in! The way we came in closes off, too, : and if we run out the only exit, that wall closes behind us, locking the : remaining TOZT ammo in with the cyborgs. And if we stand here and work on : the writeup too long, some A-Bobs will creep down to slaughter us with an : explodey jump-scare (also, that door will crush you if you’re too slow). : We’re now in one of the teaser rooms, and there’s just a button and a big : door here. Pushing it does exactly what you’d expect and opens the door, : and on the bottom there’s a window open for the cyborgs to lob grenades in : at us, but not big enough for us to fit! The map has a label for their : area: Masher. A button on a wall here lowers the ceiling on them, : killing them, and after they’re dead it will continue grinding up and : down, but it’s one of those re-tabbable buttons so we can stop it whenever : we want. I sorely doubt we’ll ever be able to get back in there to pick up : the remaining TOZT-7 ammo, if we even use up the ammo we have to be : capable of grabbing them. : Now we’re in the other teaser room with the TOZT on the ledge, with a : teleporter and a path where the TOZT is that we can’t reach without : rockets/grenades. The teleporter takes us back up to the Diablo bridge. If : we go back down to where the masher is, it’s still blocked off with no way : to get in, but a new path has opened with a new button and teleporter. The : teleporter takes us back inside the TOZT room, and the button evidently : made a rising platform for us to reach the TOZT and the path behind it. : The path takes us back outside where the Juggernaut is, having opened a : secret door on the side of the Diablo. : Out there we’ll see that the old bridge has lowered and a new one has risen : up. Something we did here made the old bridge fall; some investigation : leads me to conclude that smashing the wires in the lava room with the : skulls is what rose this new one. A new area appeared over at the Santa Fe : side and a bunch of troopers storm out of the place. Lobbing a rocket : should keep us momentarily safe as we make a mad rush for the 2x charger : at the top of the Santa Fe… except a long line of troopers are right down : the elevator we need to go to to get to the teleport back up! The pirates : are invading! I think this is a nice way of showing, through map design, : that more pirates got into the human ship while you were blowing stuff up : in their Diablo. It’s just not nice for the player that wants to heal. : But, if we go to the new area that opened up, we’ll find a bunch of shotgun : shells and some BoBs that teleport in, and a new path into the transport : corridor area. Down in the lower corridor, a wall opened up to reveal a : big, empty room with nothing in it but a terminal. : : : : Well, that’s the exit, but what of those troopers clogging the other route to : the bridge? Well, we can teleport back up to the bridge, heal up, and drop : down the chair to TOZT those suckas, and use whatever other weapons we : need when reloading is too slow. Turns out they were just guarding the : ammo room full of rockets and AR clips; there’s nothing new, but it’s good : to stock up before we leave. : And that's it for me! It's VBB's last walkthrough of the scenario. We're in : the homestretch with only two maps left. Join Perseus Spartacus next time : to be frustrated and confused in the engineering deck of enemy ship, : otherwise known as Bats in the Belfry!
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