Act 3

1. Stranded

5 collectibles · 3 Hard Cases · no secondary objectives

Through the woods to Fairlight Outpost and its sub-station. Linear, with a Supply Cache by the large warehouse.

• 1

  Woods and outpost

  Work through the woods; after a rope descent the road forks by a mauled body, and the knife is a short way down the left branch while the objective is right. Cut through the locked gate, clear the Locust, then climb the shipping container over the fence into the outpost.

• 2

  Restore the power

  The objective sends you into the sub-station. Search outside it first: the map is between the generators on the right of the fence doorway, the target round the back on the left. The last Hard Case is just inside the door.

In route order

1. Collectible COG Army Knife In the woods, after you come down a rope to a fork with a mauled body: a short detour left, by a tree.
2. Hard Case After cutting through the locked gate with Fairlight Outpost in sight, clear the Locust and keep left: in front of a downed helicopter.
3. Collectible Fairlight Rifle Range Sign Climb the shipping container over the fence into the outpost, then go right and up: on the wall beside the gate that was blocked from the other side.
4. Hard Case From where you dropped into the outpost, go left: in front of two stacked red shipping containers.
5. Collectible Gut-Puncher Grenade Rounds Past the large warehouse on your left, by the supply cache: on the crates to its left.
6. Collectible Prepper's Scavenging Map When the objective sends you to restore power at the sub-station: through the doorway in the fence, between two of the generators on the right.
7. Collectible UIR Soldier Shooting Target Before going into the sub-station, go left along the building to the back: propped against the fence.
8. Hard Case Just inside the sub-station, in the corner on your left.

2. Enemy Lines

6 collectibles · 8 Hard Cases · no secondary objectives

Underground: Locust caves, a ruined subway station, a dark tunnel, a brief climb to the surface by a fallen statue, the sewers, and the Corpser.

• 1

  Caves and the subway station

  Follow the tunnels through a red-lit cave with tall metal poles and a wider cave full of Locust supplies. The subway station has two Hard Cases on its upper floor, one by the Supply Cache.

• 2

  The dark tunnel and the crashed cars

  To go on you climb over crashed subway cars. Before that, follow the tracks the other way, down the dark tunnel toward a red light, for the flashlight; Avila's tags are down a stairway on the left before the cars.

• 3

  Boss: the Corpser

  At the end of the chapter. Its leg slam sends a shockwave that knocks you down; hide behind the pillars. At first your guns do nothing: wait for it to scream, rear back and lunge, and stand behind a pillar so the lunge brings the pillar down on it. Repeat. After enough damage it runs and you follow it to a second arena, where guns hurt it too, but dropping pillars on it is still the main damage. Tickers and Juvies join in; kick Tickers away with B. Beating it unlocks Get Back You Eight-legged Freak.

In route order

1. Collectible Damaged Gnasher Shotgun In the large red-lit cave with tall metal poles: up the small slope on the right, with some supplies.
2. Hard Case Straight on down the main path from the shotgun, slightly right of centre.
3. Collectible Parchment and Powder Pouch In the wider, better-lit cave full of Locust supplies, where Dom remarks on supply lines: left up a slope, on the crates.
4. Collectible Parchment With Indecipherable Writing In the underground subway station, right of the tracks and the subway car: on crates under a Kalona poster.
5. Hard Case On the subway station's upper floor, right side: behind planks by some construction materials.
6. Hard Case Also upstairs, left of the supply cache in the centre.
7. Hard Case Where you climb the crashed subway cars: on the platform to your left, at its top end in the centre, in front of a divider.
8. Collectible Maintenance Worker's Bloodied Flashlight Turn away from the objective and follow the tracks down the dark tunnel toward a red light: at the dead-end wreckage, on the floor to the left.
9. Collectible COG Tags of Private Beth Avila Back toward the crashed cars: before crossing them, a doorway on the left leads down some stairs; the tags are on the floor to the right, by a body.
10. Hard Case Just after crossing the train cars, on the right of the path.
11. Hard Case Where you come up into the open by the fallen golden Gear statue, once the enemies are down: down to your left.
12. Hard Case On toward the objective, before the path turns right: on the left, at the edge of a cliff.
13. Hard Case In the sewers, next to a supply cache.
14. Collectible COG Tags of Private First Class Erick Davis Immediately left of that Hard Case, on a body at the sewer exit.

3. Last Foothold

14 collectibles · 12 Hard Cases · 3 secondary objectives

The open chapter of the act, with a map, in the same part of Kalona as the end of Hold the Line: the Kalona Theatre, a COG checkpoint where you meet Tai, Monroe Library and Captain Grey, Landa Memorial Hospital, the Kalona Police Department and the Kalona Hotel. Items are marked on the map once you are in range.

• 1

  Theatre to library

  Start facing the Kalona Theatre and work through the collapsed streets under the sky train to the checkpoint. Search its tents before you follow Tai over the bus, then go on to the library and Captain Grey's briefing at the tactical map.

• 2

  Hospital, police department and river

  The hospital, the police department with its blood fountain and the riverside in front of the library each hold several items. Weak Signal is in a loading bay across from the police department.

• 3

  The convoy, the park and the rooftops

  After you help load the convoy and fight Spore Matrons for the first time, Lost in the Park opens beside the Kalona Hotel. Rooftop Mayday only opens once you have beaten the new flying enemy in the main objective; its collectible cannot be had any other way.

In route order

1. Hard Case From the start, facing the Kalona Theatre, turn round and go left down the side of the subway entrance: in front of the pool hall.
2. Collectible COG Tags of Sergeant First Class Robin Hamill In front of the Kalona Theatre, to its right: on the ground behind a taxi.
3. Collectible COG Tags of Corporal Tracy Moore Through the collapsed streets under the sky train, a building on your right: on the floor of a burning back room.
4. Hard Case Out of that building and onward: on the left, at the edge of the road.
5. Collectible Colonel Trench's VIP List At the abandoned COG checkpoint where you meet Tai, before following him over the bus: right, to the tents; on a table.
6. Hard Case Over the bus, right up the street: against a wall on the left.
7. Collectible COG Tags of Private Luis Garcia On the way to the library, after a fight with Locust: climb the ledges on the right and turn back toward the edge; inside a shipping container.
8. Hard Case In the library with Captain Grey: back left of the tactical map table.
9. Collectible Captain Grey's Field Journal In the back right room of the library, on a table with a computer.
10. Hard Case At Landa Memorial Hospital, once the Locust there are dead: on the roof over the entrance.
11. Collectible Landa Memorial Hospital Evacuation Order On the hospital ground floor: keep right; on a filing cabinet behind reception.
12. Collectible COG Tags of Specialist Rachel Carnahan Upstairs in the hospital, in the admissions and emergency area: by a dead Gear.
13. Hard Case Down the road right of the hospital: in front of the supply cache, on the right where a road turns left.
14. Hard Case Heading back to the library, take the underpass on the right; the underground car park Marcus comments on is on the left. Against its back left wall; expect an ambush.
15. Hard Case At the crossroads toward the Kalona Police Department, stairs on the right lead up to a skytrain platform: on the platform.
16. Collectible COG Tags of Private Terrance Sander At the Kalona Police Department: down the right side and in through the door on the left; on the floor by a body just inside.
17. Secondary objective Weak Signal Across the road from the police department, at the back right of a loading bay. Kill the Locust that keep coming.
18. Hard Case In the grocery store with the yellow sign at the top of the library steps, in the back room, guarded by a Ticker.
19. Collectible COG Tags of Private Oded Bay In the blood fountain behind the Kalona Police Department, where Whiskey Squad was found in Act 2: jump in.
20. Hard Case In the corner pharmacy near the front of the Kalona Hotel; shoot the windows to get in.
21. Collectible COG Tags of Specialist Bernard Havelock Toward the river in front of the library, a Downtown Line train hangs down onto a van: climb the van into the train and look right.
22. Collectible Locust Pistol Ammunition Same spot: in front of the four park benches by the river.
23. Hard Case Right of there, Gears are fighting Locust at a roadblock: take the stairs on their left down to the underpass; under the roadblock.
24. Collectible COG Tags of Private First Class John Carnahan Along that main road to the far end: a closed shelter with a COG emblem on the right; by the dead Gear right of its entrance.
25. Hard Case Not placed: the guides that list this chapter case by case count twelve, but one repeats the eleventh one's directions for this one and another only says to sweep the hotel and hospital side before leaving. The roadblock and shelter end of the main road is where it stops.
26. Secondary objective Lost in the Park After you help the Gears load the convoy and first fight the Spore Matrons: from the Kalona Hotel go right; it starts in the corner on your left. Through the doors on the right into the park, kill the Locust and find the missing civilian under the steps where you enter.
27. Collectible Damaged Heavy Locust Helmet During Lost in the Park: through the gate in the park wall on the left, then right along the road; by a police car and a dead Boomer at a large sinkhole.
28. Secondary objective Rooftop Mayday Opens only after you defeat the new flying enemy in the main objective; it is the last secondary objective of the chapter.
29. Collectible Blade-Like Projectiles Only obtainable during Rooftop Mayday.

4. The Convoy

3 collectibles · 5 Hard Cases · no secondary objectives

Escorting the convoy across a bridge, up and down its levels, to a control room where you lower the barrier.

• 1

  Up the bridge

  Climb the road from the start, clear the courtyard on the left, and go up a level to the control room. Leaving it, you fight on the bridge and drop through a hole to the lower level.

• 2

  Lower the Barrier

  Below, the convoy moves again; keep right for the Locust Crest. Climb the rope, then a crate and a window back into the control room, and use the console to lower the barrier.

In route order

1. Collectible COG Tags of Private Rudy Bartholomew Near the start, up the road: over the barricade on the left, by a burning car with a dead soldier against it.
2. Hard Case At the top of the road, the small courtyard on the left: down the steps to the far right corner.
3. Hard Case Up a level on the bridge, near the control room: cross from the left side to the right; under a military truck.
4. Hard Case Leaving the control room, before you drop through the hole to the lower level: at the end of the bridge on the left, in front of a barricade.
5. Collectible Locust Crest After you drop down and clear the enemies, as the convoy moves again keep right: in front of an upturned police car.
6. Hard Case Before you climb the rope, go right of it behind the vehicles: on crates on the left side of the road.
7. Hard Case Back up top, climb a crate and go through a window into the control room (Lower the Barrier): on the left in the main space.
8. Collectible COG Tags of Corporal Kevin Garbor In the control room, right of that Hard Case: on a dead COG soldier near the console you use.

5. Desperate Times

5 collectibles · 5 Hard Cases · no secondary objectives

Rooftops, apartments and a courtyard on the way toward Fort Vigil, ending at a clock tower held by Locust with Torque Bows.

• 1

  Rooftop and apartments

  Fight on the roof, go inside, then out again and back in; Wretches wait in the apartment hall, and the portrait is through the hole in its wall.

• 2

  The Reaver courtyard

  A courtyard fight with a Reaver and many Locust. Clear it before you search; the program is at the far edge, right of the central barricade.

• 3

  The clock tower

  A cutscene shows a Locust with a Torque Bow. Get past the Tickers and the ledge, cross the bridge and clear the clock tower. Before you go down to the street, climb to the top for the Explosive Bolt.

In route order

1. Collectible A Bottle of Iron Coast Beer After the rooftop fight at the start, inside: the room where Marcus tries to talk to a man on the couch; the bottle is by him.
2. Hard Case Right after the beer, to the right.
3. Hard Case Back outside after the next fight, instead of going back in: left and up a small ledge; against a chain-link fence on the left.
4. Hard Case Back inside, after the Wretches: crawl through the hole in the wall on the left; on a chest of drawers in front of you.
5. Collectible Portrait of Chairman Jacob Monroe Immediately left of that Hard Case, on the ground.
6. Hard Case In the courtyard where you kill a Reaver and many Locust: round the left side, by a stone fence.
7. Collectible Sanctum of the Fallen Memorial Ceremony Program From where you entered the courtyard, stay right of the central stone barricade to the far edge: by a stone planter.
8. Hard Case After the cutscene with the Torque Bow Locust, the Tickers and the ledge: before crossing the bridge on the left, look right.
9. Collectible Locust Spiked Shoulder Pad Across the bridge, right of the tree toward the balcony: on a dead Boomer.
10. Collectible Explosive Bolt After clearing the clock tower, go up instead of down: at the top, where the Torque Bows were.

6. Desperate Measures

3 collectibles · 5 Hard Cases · no secondary objectives

A fort with a statue at its centre, then a chase through the streets and a gift shop after a Brumak. Objectives include Heading back to meet the Quartermaster and Kill the Brumak.

• 1

  The fort

  After the opening fight, sweep the fort before you leave by the main entrance: three Hard Cases and a collectible are around its steps, walkways and corners.

• 2

  The Brumak chase

  Through the main entrance you chase the Brumak, past the blocked path and up through a gift shop, before you are told to kill it. Grab the snow globe in the shop and the last Hard Case from the balcony behind you on the way.

In route order

1. Hard Case After the opening fight, down the left side of the fort: up a few steps on the left.
2. Collectible Commander's Letter Home From the centre of the fort, look back at the entrance and the statue; go down all the steps on the left into the corner: beside a truck, under a red glow. Game8, TechWiser and Gamer Social Club put it here in Act 3, Chapter 6 (Game8 during Heading back to meet the Quartermaster); The Nerd Stash and Gamers Beacon say you pick it up at the start of Act 4, left of a truck, and Gamers Beacon adds that it still counts toward Act 3.
3. Hard Case From the centre, at the top of the steps on the left: at the end of a long walkway.
4. Hard Case Facing the main entrance with your back to the statue: behind a barrier on the left.
5. Collectible Torn Flag of Tyrus Through the main entrance chasing the Brumak, after a few enemies: look left back down the now-blocked path; by the wall on the right.
6. Hard Case From the flag, turn round and hug the left wall up the ledge: on your left.
7. Collectible Morith Harbor Snow Globe In the gift shop you pass through in the chase: up the stairs, left of the floor display; on the counter overlooking the hall.
8. Hard Case From the snow globe, turn to face the stairs and go left onto the balcony, to the far end. No "Hard Case nearby" alert shows and it does not glow.

7. Act 3 Completion