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Once Ratchet has traded 9 moonstones with the mystic, the access elevator to the mining complex opens. Take the elevator down to the mine shaft area. Through the door, is a balcony ledge inside an ice cavern complex. Down below is a bottomless pit. Up ahead is a momentum glider pad. Whack all the nearby crates first then activate the Momentum Glider. Fly through the mouth and rib bones of the remains of a Leviathan that obviously got trapped in the ice caverns.
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The object of this glider course is to follow the pipeline on the ground and to avoid the ice columns that come crashing down. The course is quite long and has many curves and tunnels. Should you happen to hit one of the ice columns or brush one of the walls, you'll have to start over again. At the end of the ice tunnel section, Ratchet has to fly up, then dive down through a series of openings to a lava river below. Not an easy maneuver. Follow the river to the left and land by the mining complex entrance.
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On the mining complex platform there's a MegaCorp kiosk to the right. Load up on all your ammo and shields. Walk up the steps to the entrance which is locked by a cage door. Use the Infiltrator and decipher the ball puzzle. This will open the doors to the mining complex. Whack all the nearby crates and Nanotech health cube, then carfeully walk through the doorway into the first room. Don't go too far into the room just yet. Look for the bots working near the mine carts.
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Load the Shield Charger + Killinoids + Megarocket Cannon. As Ratchet walks down the steps, a group of bots will start to fire on Ratchet. Using the auto-target-ring, fire 1 missle at each bot as it comes into range. As each bot goes down, more bots materialize from the 2 teleport tubes along the far wall, near the exit. This fight continues for a while. If you can, hide behind one of the crates in the middle of the floor area. Let your Killinoids, do some of the dirty work for you.
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WEAPON STRATGEY: The HK22 Seeker Gun also works very well in this kind of combat situation. The seeker drones will fly over the crates or mine carts and dive down on the bots hiding behind them. Ammo use is about the same.
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Once the bots are all taken care of, walk out the room to the next hallway. To the left is a dead-end with a stack of crates. Whack all the crates, load up, then look down the hallway. Load the Megarocket Cannon. Down at the end of the hall is another small chamber and 2 bot teleport pads. The auto-aim target ring of the cannon, will pick up the signal of bots running around, every once in awhile. From the hallway entrance, fire 1 rocket every time you can get a lock.
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Slowly, walk down the hall, firing on the bots as you go. Eventually the teleport pads will go silent. Inside the small chamber, there's a caged door on the right. Inside that room behind the cage door, is a bot standing by. He doesn't fire and doesn't move. He needs the Hypnomatic, to be activated remotely. We'll be back for him. To the left, is a flashing floor sensor. This will unlock the cage door to the next room. That room is humming with bots. Your Killinoids start to fire on the bots, through the cage, even before the floor sensor is touched.
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From the entrance, load the HK22 Seeker Gun and fire 4-5 sets of drones into the room. They'll find the bots nearby. Run into the room and fire more drones as more bots materialize from the teleport pads. Try to hide behind one of the mine carts. This will give you cover as the Killinoids continue to fire on the bots. Recharge your Killinoids if you have to. Watch out for bots that try to ambush you. Once the dust has settled, clean-up the bolts and walk over the floor sensor.
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The exit door now opens. Inside is an elevator, going back up to ground level. Up top is a small room with the MegaCorp Armor Vendor kiosk. We don't have enough bolts to buy the Carbonox Armor (1,000,000 bolts), even though it would be nice to have trying to fight all the YETI out in the ice fields. Go to the far wall. Use the Infiltrator and decipher the invinco-lock on the door. Once the door opens, we find ourselves back outside on the steel cargo deck up by the star explorer.
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A cutaway scene shows that a new set of bridges has deployed out in the ice fields. Ratchet can now go out to the remote regions and collect more moonstones. We need 16 to exchange with the mystic, for the hypnomatic part, before we leave Grelbin. Refer to walkthrough page Search For Moonstones and continue the mission.
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After assembling the Hypnomatic on Damosel, return to Grelbin. Walk back through the mineshaft exit and take the elevator back down to the mining complex. Load the Shield Charger + Killinoids + HK22 Seeker Gun before going down. As the elevator stops, a group of bots will open fire from the room. Run for cover behind one of the mining carts. Fire sets of drones at the bots that are running around. Eventually the room will go quiet. Slowly walk out towards the next room.
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Fire 2-3 sets of drones through the doorway. The drones will find and dive down on the bots hiding on the left in the next room. Once the coast is clear, go into the small room and approach the cage door. Load the Hypnomatic. Activate the robot on the other side of the cage door. Using the robot by remote control, go into the small cave on the left. Shoot any of the YETI inside the cave. Find the flashing floor sensor in the snow, and walk over it. This will release the cage door.
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Gameplay now returns to Ratchet. Walk inside the opened room and climb the wall ladder dead ahead. Up top, around the other side of the upper catwalk, is the glow of a platinum bolt. Grab the bolt, whack the nearby crates. Jump down to the floor. Go back through the rooms and back up the elevator to ground level. All missions complete.
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