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After passing through the Feltzin System and breaking-up the Thug party, Ratchet receives the co-ordinates and lands on Notak. This is a night-time planet.
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The scenery is quite stunning, BUT the one thing to watch for, is shadows. There are places, where enemies may hide in the shadows. and Ratchet won't even be aware of them until he's ambushed. Best defence is to treat every dark spot with suspicion. First mission is to explore the promenade. We'll cross the bridge later.
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Load the tesla claw or rely on your trusty wrench and take down all the chicken-bots that roam the street. Whack all the crates at the very end by the building, and enter the archway leading to the promenade. Walk down the tunnel about half-way. A Thug security guard comes running out and starts to fire blue plasma ball bullets. Very dangerous and long-range. Run back to the entrance and load the seeker gun. Hopefully you bought the ultra weapon upgrade, lock-on mod, from Slim on Planet Endako? It'll make life easier.
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If not, you'll have to fire from closer range. Fire one seeker missle down the tunnel. It will find the Thug and take him out. Load the heavy lancer or tesla claw and go inside the circular display room. Sweep-up all the chicken-bots and whack all the display windows. Not only do you get to break the glass (which is fun), but you get lots of bolts for bustin' up the figurines inside. Clean-out the room and walk down the next wide tunnel towards the courtyard. 5 Thug security guards come running out to block your way into the courtyard.
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Yikes! They all start firing plasma bullets and they're fast. Retreat to the display room, hide behind a wall, and load the seeker gun. Hopefully they're now out of range for plasma fire. Run out to the tunnel entrance and launch 5 seeker missles, one at a time, and wipe-out the security. They won't have much time to react or to return fire. Life is good! Walk out into the courtyard and take care of any pesky chicken-bots roaming around. Hmmm... a rotating planet sculpture.
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Special projects require special weapons! Load the blitz gun. Walk to the edge of the canal and use the zoom auto-aim target ring [L1]. Point the target up into the sculpture on the rotating rings. Blast away! The rings will splinter away after each blast. Blast the 3 rotating planets as well. Once done, zoom-in on the big planet and fire one shot. The planet sphere will start to light-up, crack, and in a matter of seconds, explodes into a million pieces. An unexpected skill point. Cool!
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Around the outside wall of the courtyard, are several statues holding planets. Load the heavy lancer or stay with the blitz gun, and fire a few shots at each one. They eventually fall over, making a hollow metallic sound. Lots of bolts! On the other side of the canal, there's an open grassy garden area with a rocket fountain pool. Nearby is a robot hive that keeps shooting out new bots. Destroy the hive. 3 more Thug security guards come running out of a nearby store and confront Ratchet from the sidewalk area.
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Duck behind one of the rocket fountains. Load the seeker gun or mini-nuke. Take care of the Thugs. Once the enemies are gone, load the heavy lancer and zap the rockets. Be carfeul to be some distance away from them. They do explode like a mini-grenade. Whack all the crates along the back and take-out the MegaCorp neon sign on the top of the wall. I used the thermanator to freeze up the pool into a skating rink. You never know about skill points? Best to try anything.
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Back out on the sidewalk, approach the first store on the left. Whack the glass display window and figurines. Out front, the store signs are all breakable frosted glass. Whack the small circular ones with your wrench. Load the blitz gun and zoom auto-aim up to the frosted glass sections above the store. Blast away. It rains bolts! In the corner is a Nanotech health sphere. The casing is shaped a little different and has beveled corners. This one gives you 4 health boosts.
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Take the hover pad elevator up to the next sidewalk. Stay on the hover pad. Load the mini-nuke. Up ahead on the left, there's 3 Thug security guards posing as figurines inside the store window. Toss a grenade in front of the store. Hopefully, you can take out all 3 in one blast. If not, toss another grenade. Walk down the sidewalk to the store. Up ahead, a small attack helicopter rises up from the canal. If you walk too far down the sidewalk, the chopper will start to open fire and it's got nasty missles that hurt.
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Retreat back to the hover pad. This enemy needs a long range weapon. Load the pulse rifle. Zoom auto-aim the target ring [L1], then zoom-in [R1] on the chopper, until the ring flashes red. Fire 2 shots. The pulse rifle is so powerful, it will take down the chopper in 2 shots! That would normally take about 50 heavy lancer bullets? Now that the coast is clear, load the blitz gun and break-up all the glass above the stores and clean-up the bolts. Don't forget to blast the MegaCorp neon sign.
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Cross over the canal bridge to another moving sculpture and store front. Inside the display window, you can see 3 more Thug security guards waiting. As you walk up to the store, the windows shatter and the guards come running out. They take position and start firing plasma bullets, right away. No time to react with the mini-nuke. Retreat back to the bridge and load the seeker gun. Heli-jump to avoid their fire as best you can, and fire 3 seeker drones. They fall like flies.
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Once everything's quiet, load the blitz gun. Blast away. Destroy the rings on the moving sculpture, the MegaCorp neon sign (there are valuable ammo crates back there), all the planet statues along the canal, and all the glass above and beside the store. The sculpture support pole will not fall? I tried every different weapon, even mini-nuke and pulse rifle. Here is the photo after everything has been sucked dry of bolts!
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Walk across the next canal bridge and load the mini-nuke. DON'T GET TOO CLOSE! As soon as the target ring for the mini-nuke is right at the window, toss one grenade. All the security guards will vaporize, along with some of the store front glass. To the right are a group of chicken-bots and a robot hive generator. Toss a grenade or 2 into the middle of the horde and everything gets toasted. Load the blitz gun and blast all the glass up top, and crates. This is a ton of bolts!
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Around the right side of the store where the robot hive was, there's a MegaCorp neon sign down an alleyway. Load the heavy lancer and take-out the sign. Up on a ledge behind the sign, there's the glow of a platinum bolt. Heli-jump to the platform and grab the bolt. Back-track across the canal bridge, go left and up the hover pad elevator in the wall. Up top, there are several Thug security guards in the bushes dead ahead. Load the seeker gun from the elevator.
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Fire 2 seekers at the bushes. The drones will locate and dive on the guards, before they fire. If they do happen to fire, jump on the elevator and ride it down and then back up again. To the left, is an attack chopper at very close range and several more Thug security guards already in position. Run from the elevator pad to the right. The chopper will start firing. If you move far enough away, the chopper will stop. His mistake! Load the pulse rifle, zoom-in and fire 2 shots to take him down.
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WEAPON STRATEGY: You can keep the pulse rifle loaded after destroying the attack chopper, and just move the zoomed-in target ring to the left, and peg the Thug security guards, one by one. Lock-in the red ring and fire one shot each.
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Load the seeker gun and fire a few drones across the canal bridge at the security guards. Be warned that the drones may home-in on the chicken-bots first, rather than your intended targets. Keep on pluggin away til the guards are gone. Take down the rest of the chicken-bots with your wrench. Blast all the glass and clean-up the bolts. Take the hover pad elevator to the open courtyard. Up ahead is a glowing cylinder. This is a Nanotech boost station. It will increase Ratchet's health by one full square (4 points).
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Behind the boost station, there's a teleport pad. Mission is now complete. Activate the pad and teleport back to the Star Explorer launch pad.
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