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Survivor mission (Kelsey – Ingleton): Investigate the rooftops
Reward: 25,000 PP + Follower (Kelsey)
Objective: Talk to Kelsey
Before embarking on the story missions you may want to deal with the first lot (yes I said first lot, there are three sets in this chapter) of side missions. Kelsey will be stranded alone on a rooftop with an ocean of zombies between her and the rest of her family. Nick's job is to remedy this situation.
Objective: Take Kelsey to her family
Kelsey's family is in one of the nicer houses in Sunset Hills (going for the Beverly Hillbilly's lifestyle are we?). Scoot over there in a vehicle and walk her to the door.
Objective: Talk to Kelsey
Talk to Kelsey at the front door and she will open it up for you.
Objective: Follow Kelsey
Kelsey will walk inside and then turn to a doorway next to the entrance. When she opens it, there will not be the happy family reunion she expected.
Objective: End the family's suffering
Take out the six or so undead inside and the mission will be complete. Kelsey will join you as well for an added bonus.
Survivor mission (Kyla – Central City): Investigate the Security Room
Reward: 25,000 PP
Objective: Talk to Kyla
Kyla is a conspiracy theorist that believes the government is hiding the real cause of the outbreak. She had to run to safety before finding the crucial evidence proving this. So Nick now has to scramble through garbage bags looking for the documents.
Objective: Collect suspicious documents (3)
Around the area are multiple locations filled with garbage bags, as you approach the area they are in will be show up on the map and they will gain health bars making them easier to spot. Head to each place and smash up the bags to find the evidence you need.
Objective: Bring evidence to Kyla
Once you have all three, you can bring them back to Kyla. Looking at the documents she instantly forms a new theory. Luckily Nick doesn't have to play any part in this one as he exits stage left with his mission reward.
Psychopath (Jherii – Sunset Hills): Investigate the Yoga Studio
Reward: 30,000 PP + Weapon (Barbell)
Attacks:
* First phase *
Big swing – Jherii will swing the barbell in a 360 motion. This can deal a fair chunk of damage if it connects. Stay back or dodge away if you see the animation starting.
Kick – Jherii will simply kick Nick away from her if he gets too close. Avoid getting right next to her unless she is flinching from your attacks.
Dumbbell toss – Jherii will run to one of the dumbbell racks in the corners of the room and peg a dumbbell at Nick. The throw is quite fast and if you are close to her, nearly unavoidable. Dodge roll when she reaches the rack or sprint if you are far enough away to avoid it.
* Second phase *
Whirling weight – Jherii will spin the barbell around her a few times and end by smashing it down on Nick if he is unfortunate enough to be in the way. Stack back when she starts swinging or this one could hurt.
Barbell grapple – Jherii will lunge forward, pushing the barbell to the ground. If she catches Nick in this movement he will enter a stick waggling QTE. If he fails Jherii will dish out the pain before posing in triumph. Keep moving to avoid the grapple and then attack while she is still getting up.
General Strategy – Jherii is a little bit ticked off with Nick over the repeated usage of the word "sir" when addressing her. Like any level headed human being would do, she hefts a barbell over her shoulder and proceeds to try and turn him into a bloody pulp. Jherii doesn't have a large variety of attacks. This makes her pattern easy to learn. If you keep moving, it is very hard for her to hit you, even with thrown dumbbells. She does have a large amount of health (as you would expect) so this may be a long if protracted fight.
Use a powerful wide arc melee weapon to keep her flinching or some powerful ranged weaponry (not the explosive kind as they bounce off). Just after reaching her second bar of health she will gain a couple of new attacks which do more damage and can get Nick killed if he isn't ready to avoid them. Keeping your distance unless you are actively attacking is vital to staying healthy. After enough hits from your weapons she will eventually end it all.
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Objective: Find Diego at the Museum
Head for the museum in Central City via vehicle if you can and stock up on good ranged weaponry (non explosive, I used the upgraded version of the crossbow to make things easier) and some healing items before you enter. Without these this fight can be a real pain.
Objective: Search for Diego
Inside the museum you will have to wander through the zombie swarm to the South East corner to find a speaker panel with a knife embedded in it.
Objective: Defeat Diego
Diego (in all his deranged glory) will be in full space gear with a jet-pack. This fight can be annoying due to being attacked by the undead as you try to fight Diego and vice-versa. Diego has several annoying moves but can be stunned long enough to deal some nice damage to him.
Attacks:
Flame charge – Diego will hover and then burn over (in a line) your location. This can be easily be avoided by running out of the path.
Launch – Diego will jump back into the air, dealing damage to Nick if he is nearby. Avoid getting too close unless you are actively attacking.
Planetary alignment – Diego will pull the planet displays off their chains and proceed to throw them at you. Moving constantly is the best way to avoid this attack.
Mobile mayhem – Diego will lower the massive overhead mobile to the floor and then spin it rapidly. This covers a large area and is hard to avoid if you are not on the edges of the room. Advice: get to the edge of the room.
General strategy – If you hit Diego in the air a few times (and you should be able too if you brought powerful ranged weapons) then he will drop to the ground stunned. Hitting him in the air also interrupts his attacks (such as planetary alignment and flame charge). Run over and initiate the QTE (Y + B) to deal a heavy bit of damage to his health bar.
Once he is down to ten blocks of health or less Diego will fly up to the center of the room. This is to perform a cheap attack with the massive mobile. Get to the edge of the room while he is still preparing to avoid this massive AoE attack. After this he will drop down and resume his normal attack patterns. Keep chipping away at his health until he eventually runs out of gas.
Objective: Find the gang members
After Diego regains his senses he will tell you the plane key is gone. Looks like Nick is going to have to track it down. The gang members are on the south side of Sunset Hills and are relatively weak and easy to handle.
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Survivor mission (Phil – Sunset Hills): Investigate the house
Reward: 25,000 PP + Follower (Warren)
Objective: Talk to Phil
Outside a house in Sunset Hills is the very fishy looking Phil. He will inform you that he is after a will hidden inside the house and unfortunately due to the undead cannot retrieve it. Leave it to Nick the zombie exterminator.
Objective: Find the will
Hang a right as soon as you enter the house and work your way through to a closet at the back. Inside is Warren the real inheritor of the house.
Objective: Talk to Warren
Warren will fill you in on the real story and wants you to help him confront Phil.
Objective: Reunite Warren and Phil
Head back out the front to reunite the two best friends (not).
Objective: Defend yourself
Phil will be unhappy about this turn of events and will decide to kill all the witnesses instead. He has little health so most weapons should go through him like a hot knife through butter. Collect your follower and mission reward.
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Objective: Defeat the gang members
Decent weaponry (ranged – like the boom cannon or melee) will get you through this easily.
Objective: Get the plane key
One of the gang members will drop the key when he dies.
Objective: Bring Diego to the plane
Hop in a vehicle and burn rubber back to the hangar.
Objective: Explore while Rhonda researches
Another "explore" section. Use the time for side mission, collectible or just sit in the hangar until time runs out.
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Survivor mission (Lena – Central City): Investigate the Boutique
Reward: 40,000 PP + Follower (Lena)
Objective: Talk to Lena
Lena (the ex-model) will be sporting a meat ensemble with matching t-bone accessories. No I'm not kidding. She wants you to find her a new selection of clothes and so you will have to run around the district with her in tow to spruce up her wardrobe.
Objective: Visit clothing stores (3)
The stores will all be clearly marked and aren't too far away from Nick's starting location so just drag Lena through the multitudes of zombies until she's had her shopping fix.
Objective: Find Lena new shoes
But wait! She still needs shoes. Head to the final store (muttering under your breath) and let her open it for you. The other doors here connect to a tunnel that can be useful to open. Once she is finally done you will gain her as a follower and obtain your mission reward.
Survivor mission (Marcus – Ingleton): Investigate the Highway
Reward: 20,000 PP + Follower (Marcus)
Objective: Talk to Marcus
Marcus is a bikie who has run afoul of his old gang. He wants some good old fashioned payback by destroying their vans filled with contraband. Grab a vehicle and go explode some vans.
Objective: Destroy vans (5)
The boom cannon and other explosive weaponry work well for this task as the vans are all stationary but normally surrounded by the living dead. Shooting them from a distance can make life a lot easier for Nick. The vans are scattered all around so trying to get them all in one big circle is the quickest approach. Once the final van disintegrates get back to your wheels and seek out Marcus.
Objective: Talk to Marcus
Marcus will be happy to join you when Nick returns and your mission reward will be obtained.
Survivor mission (Jose – Central City): Investigate the Clothing Store
Reward: 20,000 PP + Follower (Jose)
Objective: Talk to Jose
Jose will be next to a safehouse and may seem a little bit weird. This may be because he is a cannibal. But don't worry, he only eats undead flesh. Mostly.
Objective: Give hunks of meat to Jose (5)
This can be a really easy task if you have picked up zombie meat before as you can just jump in the safehouse and pull five pieces out of the locker. If not you have to go zombie slaying until one of them drops a piece and then return to the safehouse and clone it. Once all five are in Jose's hands he will join you and you will get your mission reward.
Psychopath (Teddy – Sunset Hills): Investigate the Villa
Reward: 40,000 PP + Item (Armoury Key)
Objective: Find Teddy's location
This psychopath is a little bit different from the usual ones. He isn't bloodthirsty, just incredibly lazy. So much so that even talking to Nick is a strain. First thing to do is track down where Teddy is hiding. There is a door on the lower level with the marker on it, so probably there. The helicopters generally don't do much damage but you may want to destroy them as you pass to prevent them chipping away at your health.
Objective: Disable the security panels
Four security panels will be scattered throughout the villa. Run up to them and smash them up to disable the lock on Teddy's hideout.
Objective: Talk to Teddy
Head through the now open door to confront Teddy. Afterwards Nick will get his mission reward.
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Objective: Check in with Rhonda
After time has elapsed, return to Rhonda and she'll let you know what the plane needs. Ending the chapter as well.
Chapter reward: Attribute points + Schematic (Blambow)
