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This planet is very cold and hostile. Rachet will shiver if you leave him standing for any length of time. The snow is never very deep but there are mutant enemies lurking under the snow, so be careful whenever you venture into a new area.
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Our first mission is to get thru the security defenses and find Edwina's RoboShack.. Not an easy task, and the defenses are getting tougher and come more by surprize ambush. Go to the Gadgetron kiosk. Buy the Drone Device for 7,500 bolts. This is an excellent hovering defense system that will help protect Rachet in tight quarters should he be attacked. The 10 circling drone spheres are designed to deflect any incoming weapon fire or hostile mutant attacks.
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Load the pyrocitor and walk down the stone path. Several mutant snow rats jump up from under the snow. Flame them from close range. They will attack from all sides so make sure to sweep your flame from left to right. The lamp poles have bolts, so flame them as well to break the light bulbs. Down the path on the right are several crates to break. Around the corner is the first ambush from several robot soldiers with deadly pulse weapons. They're waiting behind the trees.
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Before going too far down the path, go back to the Gadgetron kiosk and load up with ammo. Turn to the lake past the shuttle pad. Load the disruptor. Aim towards the sky and try to target a fast-moving helicopter. Zoom-in with the target ring and scan for a lock-on. The second you can lock-on to a helicopter, fire a missle. The heat seeker will chase and blow-up the helicopter. Get 5 choppers and earn a skill point.
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Load the glove of doom and throw 2 canisters down the path as you see the robot soldiers approach. Retreat back up the path and duck for cover behind a tree or a building to avoid enemy fire. Watch the nano-robots take care of the soldiers then return to the trees and collect the bolts. Off to the left, the path continues to an open area. We are going to the right, behind the trees, first. As you climb the hill, there is an open area. As you walk forward, watch for the heavy ambush of mutant snow rats.
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These mutants are fast and they are hungry. Load the pyrocitor and flame away from left to right. If the fighting gets too intense, run back down the hill. The snow rats won't follow. Take a rest and go back again. There are at least 20-30 of these snow rats. When the dust clears, Rachet will earn a skill point and a pile of bolts. Off to the right is a weird elevator. Bounce from the cliff wall to the moving elevator panel and back to the cliff wall. Work your way to the very top ledge.
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Bouncing from the cliff to the moving elevator pad is not that easy. This will probably take several tries to time the jumps while the pad is moving up. On the top ledge, grab the secret gold bolt and break the nearby crates. The view from up here is amazing. Jet-glide back down to the ground area and walk back to the stone path and to the right past the cliff face.
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Do not venture any closer. Load the disruptor and fire 2-3 missles at the wall of crates. As they explode, 3 robot soldiers will emerge from under cover and will start attacking. Dodge the pulse bullets. Fire 3 more missles using the regular auto-aim target ring, one at each soldier. Once the area is clear, clean up all the bolts. Load the metal detector and dig up all the hidden bolts. To the right, is a moving elevator hover pad that will take you to an upper cave entrance.
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Inside the cave entrance are more robot soldiers waiting to ambush. Once they appear, hide behind the archway by the entrance.. Load the glove of doom. Make sure you avoid their pulse gun-fire. Toss 2 canisters, then carefully walk and look inside the cave as the nano-robots run ahead and detonate the soldiers. Walk down through the cave tunnel to another large circular chamber. Jet-glide down to the bottom of the chamber. The floor is a shallow pool of water.
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Walk through the doorway into a large cavern. There are a handful of crates and loose bolts to collect but no sign of any mutant enemies to fight off. As Rachet explores the cave, it looks like there is no easy exit out of here. There are no wall ladders to climb, no ledges or stairs. The only way out, is on a high ledge platform in the far wall at the top of the cave. The small raft in the shallow pool of water is a clue. We have to fill the cave with water to get access to that high platform.
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In the floor, off to the right, there is a closed water drain valve. Because the drain is closed, there must be a source of water nearby to fill the hydrodisplacer. Nearby is a smaller cave entrance. Load the hyrdodisplacer. Plug into the drain valve and fill up with water. The nearby pipe in the back of the small cave will empty. Return to the big cave and plug the hydrodisplacer into the closed drain valve. The floor of the large cave will start to fill with water, but only part way.
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Swim over to the other side of the cave and climb out onto the raft. From there, jump to the ledge. On the ledge is another closed drain valve. Find the open drain valve in the cave behind the ledge and fill the hydropdisplacer. Now plug into the valve on the ledge and fill the cave some more. Swim over to the far side of the cave again and repeat the whole process. Find the open drain valve, fill the hyrdodisplacer again, then plug into the drain valve on the ledge.
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QUICK DIVERSION: Before you swim across to the cave exit, after the water level is at the top, swim down through one of the tunnels where you sucked up water from a standpipe. Swim past the hydrodisplacer drain tap and look up. Surface and grab the gold bolt on a ledge. Swim back up and jump out onto the platform in the middle.
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The cave is almost full of water at this point. More important, the water level is high enough to swim to the far platform with the doorway, to exit the cave. Swim across and jump out on the platform. Load the pyrocitor as a precaution. I'm not sure whether there were mutant snow rats or not. Once the tunnel is clear, make sure you load the metal detector and suck up all the hidden bolts. Go out the other end of the tunnel. We are high on a cliff over-looking a group of buildings.
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Walk down the narrow path to the main level. Load the pyrocitor. Detonate all the red crates nearby. Watch out for an ambush of snow rats. Take them down with a good flame from the pyrocitor. Walk across the first conveyor belt to the far building and clean-out the crates. Walk out the other end of the storage room across another conveyor belt, back over to the original path. Be careful for another ambush of snow rats as you walk forward. To the left is a doorway leading into a large building. Look inside first!
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As Rachet looks inside the building from the doorway, 2 robots soldiers run to the entrance and start firing pulse bullets. Run back from the entrance, out of sight from the soldiers, and load the glove of doom or the disruptor. Approach the doorway again and toss 1 canister into the entrance. Listen for the explosions as your nano-robots eagerly run inside and take care of things. Once the coast is clear, go in the building, whack the crates and clean-out the bolts.
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Load the pyrocitor again and clean-out the snow rats all the way to the end of the path. Go down the last 2 conveyor belts and detonate all crates and grab all the bolts. Once the area is clear, load the metal detector and sweep through the whole area to pick-up any hidden bolts. Now walk to the end of the path and go inside the robo-shack. Time to meet Edwina [action sequence begins]. Pay the 2,000 bolts for the hydro-pack upgrade. In the corner of the robo-shack, you'll see a teleport pad.
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Our first mission is now complete. Use the teleport pad to go back to the first tunnel entrance. We are now high above the ground near the hover pad elevator.
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