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As Ratchet and Clank touch-down on Planet Batalia, they are confronted by a commando. He yells and screams at
them about helping defend the planet. To make matters worse, the weather is gloomy on this planet. It's raining all the time.
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Walk down the the steps to the elevated street area. As you advance, a group of tripod drone robots drop from the sky and attack Rachet. Load the blaster, auto-aim and fire away on each drone as they drop down. The drone robots aren't that fast, but don't let them get too close. They fire a nasty electrical zap if they are allowed any time to hover around Rachet. Continue down the street. On the left, is a storage building with an invinco-lock. Go to the right building first.
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Walk around the back to an open garden area. 2 Blarg grenade soldiers pop-up from the ground. These enemies are very sneaky. They appear for only a few seconds, throw a grenade right at you, then disappear. Rachet's best chance to blast them is to auto-aim and fire, the second they appear. Point the blaster in the direction where you think they're going to pop-up. In the corner, there's a homing beacon. Load the summoner helmet from your [Gadgets Menu] and activate the hovering drone mouse.
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The hovering drone mouse will make life alot easier. Walk back to the street. Watch out for the 2 Blarg commandos. They're carrying long-range rapid-fire machine guns that are deadly. Once the commandos see you, they will fire right away. Run and hide behind any wall or jump over the bullet trails. Let your drone mouse take care of them. It will automatically fire on the commandos once it's in range. Once the coast is clear, whack all the crates and climb the wall ladder on the building.
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Once you reach the first roof of the building, you'll hear the drone mouse firing away. There are several hover robots up top on the next roof area. Heli-jump to the upper roof, load the blaster and take-out the robot hive generator . This will stop more drone robots from popping out. Clean-up the area and look over to the far building. You'll see a secret gold bolt on the roof. We can't heli-glide over to the building roof from here. Jump back down to the street.
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Walk over to the storage building. Before tackling the invinco-lock, bounce-jump off the walls at the entrance. Bounce up to the roof of the building and grab the gold bolt up top. Heli-glide back down to the street and load the trespasser. Plug into the wall socket and align the lasers to unlock the door. This may take some time. Inside the building, there's a ton of crates and goodies and 2 Nanotech health spheres. Clean-out the room and return to the street.
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Chances are, Rachet's drone mouse has now disappeared. Go back to the homing beacon and re-activate the hovering drone mouse. Walk down the street, over the bombed-out bridge and then over the twisted sewer pipe to the grassy area. The hover mouse will take care of all the nearby drone robots. Off to the right, there are crates blocking a cave entrance. Whack at all the crates and clean-out the inside of the cave. The nearby bridge needs to be assembled.
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GAMING STRATEGY: I chose to use the hovering mouse for multi-robot battles. BUT, you don't have to! Rachet could do quite well with just the blaster or pyrocitor on his own. This is a preference not a necessity. I just like to conserve ammo.
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Walk down the ramp by the cliff, to the valley area below the bridge. Load the blaster. Take-out all the hovering drone robots and the 3 grenade soldiers. If you have the hover mouse with you, it will go a little faster. Whack all the vent pipes along the cliffs. Extra bolts! Under the bridge, there's a floor plate screw. Activate the wrench and turn the screw to pull and lock the bridge section over to the other side. Clean-out the nearby crates and walk back up the ramp.
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Before you approach the bridge, load the disruptor. Using the zoom auto-aim feature [L1], point the lock-in target at the armored tank coming across the bridge. Fire at least 3-4 missles! This tank will not explode right away. Avoid his cannon fire as best you can, but make sure you keep firing. Once he's gone, cross the bridge to the far ledge. Fire one missle into the room by the cliff or load the blaster and fire into the room. Hopefully, you destroyed the robot hive generator as it tried to fly out of the room.
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You'll probably need the Nanotech health sphere in the room. Before swimming down the stream on the left, go
to the right. Climb and jump all the steps along the cliff. Around the back of the cliff, is a remote ledge with the second gold bolt. Grab it and clean-out all the crates, jump back along the ledges and steps to the bridge area. Jump in the stream and take the current all the way down to the next grassy area. Climb out of the water and load the blaster right away.
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2 commandos at very close range are waiting for you. Fire blind at them. Sweep the gun from left to right and pray that you get them. If Rachet runs out of health and dies here, you'll start way back by the shuttle pad. If you do start over, load the summoner helmet and get the hover mouse. You can breeze through the open areas, and have the hover mouse assist you down below the stream. Load the disruptor and take care of the tank. Hop down to the valley.
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4 grenade soldiers pop-out of the ground. Try to focus on one soldier at a time. Avoid the exploding grenades, load the blaster and hunt them down as they appear. Once the coast is clear, go around and grab all the bolts. There are 2 floor plate screws. One for each half-section of the bridge. Turn both floor screws and lock the 2 sections of the bridge together. Walk up the steps by the cliff and cross over the bridge. Our first mission is now complete.
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