MechAssault - Strategy Guide (Page 02)

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Catnap Part 2
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Objectives: -Defend the Icarus

Mechs: Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Mad Cat

Let me just say that from this mission on you will be using the Mad Cat for
every mission except mech specified missions. Briefing boy lends you a hand in
this mission so you shouldn't have a problem. Destroy the tanks with your
Javelin missiles, destroy the helicopters the same way. Destroy the Uziel with
your PPCs and you should win this mission.

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Bright lights, Dark City Part 1
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Objectives: -stop enemy reinforcements
            -open gates to reactor
            -destroy reactor

Mechs: Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Mad Cat

Start this mission off by shooting the tanks with Javelin missiles. Now destroy
the bridges with your PPCs making sure not to be under the bridge when it
collapses. Next, all you have to do is continue killing tanks until they are
all destroyed. Now 2 Pumas will come out of where the stone gate is. Take them
out with your PPCs and javelin missiles. Hopefully if you kill one, the other
will fall with the first Puma's  explosion. Now just follow the yellow arrow on
your radar. If I remember correctly, there is also a new mech, named the
Catapult. This mech is a long range medium mech and pretty easy to take out if
you keep launching PPCs at it. Continue following the yellow arrow and it
should be mission complete.

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Bright lights: Dark City Part 2
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Objectives: -Gain entry to nuclear reactor
            -Destroy the nuclear reactor

Mechs: Mad Cat

Now it's time for part 2. Follow the arrow and you should be attacked by hybrid
power armors. Kill them with your javelin missiles and move on. Keep heading
forward and enter the control center for the nuclear power plant. Once you
enter, look for a tank and helicopter depot. Destroy them so they stop spawning
missile tanks and laser helicopters. Now a Belial should attack you. Watch out
as it has 2X Gauss  rifles and they can tear you apart. Use your Target Jam and
PPCs to take this mech out. After you destroy the Belial, pick up the salvage
it leaves behind. Now follow the yellow arrow again to find the generators
controlling the gates to the power plant. Destroy both of them to open the
gates to the nuclear reactor. Exit the control center and follow the arrow to
the real nuclear power plant. Destroy everything outside the power plant gates,
then enter the power plant. An Uller and another Belial immediately attack you.
Go after the Uller first as it is the weakest. Use your PPCs and dodge its
missiles with your Target Jam. Once the Uller is destroyed, go after the
Belial. You should have powered up PPCs and should take it down fairly quickly.
Pick up your salvage and IMMEDIATELY find the mech depot. It looks like the
tank depots and helicopter depots. If you do not destroy this building, it will
constantly make mechs for you to deal with. After this, find the nuclear power
plant. This shouldn't be too hard because it is the biggest building. Destroy
it and you win the mission.

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Not again!
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Objectives: -Make it back to the Icarus
            -Defend the Icarus

Mechs: Mad Cat

This mission is fairly easy. Just follow the path. Use you machine guns and
missiles to kill the tanks and helicopters. You will eventually come across and
Uller (I think). Take this mech out with you PPCs as it shouldn't pose a big
threat to your mech. Keep walking until you come across a Uziel. Quickly put on
your Target jam as the Uziel has 2X PPCs. If you can quickly kill it with your
own PPCs, you shouldn't have a problem killing it. Keep heading for the Icarus.
Once you get here, tanks and helicopters will attack you. Destroy these and
wait for an Uziel and a Mad Cat to attack you. This can be the easiest fight in
the game. There is health all around you so all you have to is keep launching
PPCs at them. The Uziel will be your first target as it is the weakest. After
you destroy the Uziel, attack the Mad Cat. By now you should know how power a
Mad Cat is, so try not to get too cocky. Once you destroy the Mad Cat, it is
mission complete.

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Thor on the rocks
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Objectives: -Destroy Towers
            -Defeat "Champion"

Mechs: Mad Cat
       Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Timber Wolf

All you have to do is destroy the 5 sensor towers that will pinpoint where the
Icarus has landed. Just follow your arrow to find the towers. When you destroy
the first tower, the Icarus will come under attack by helicopters and tanks.
Once you stop them from attacking the Icarus, move on. Continue destroying
towers until you reach a giant ice bridge. When you are about half way under
it, you will receive a message saying the bridge has been blown up. IMEDIATELY
run backwards so the falling bridge does not destroy you. Continue movie
forward, while destroying towers, until you reach a point where the Word of
Blake commander tells you that he sent his "Champion" to come and fight you.
This is your first boss and is as hard as hell.

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Boss: Champion
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Depending on if you have upgrades or not will determine if this is a hard boss
fight. This boss fight is against a fully upgraded Thor. Launch PPCs and use
your Target Jam. Continue firing PPCs at him until he falls. This guy uses
Purple lasers and other level 3 weapons to destroy you. If you killed a mech
earlier in the level, try to run backwards and pick up its life. Once you
destroy the Thor, it's mission over.


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Wolf in sheep's clothing
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Objective: -Sneak inside a WOB base
           -Get info on the secret weapons cache and Ragnarok

Mechs: Thor

This is easy. Just head forward, not killing a single thing. Once you get past
the 2 Atlases. Look to your right once you enter the base. You can see a
communication tower. Go near it and get the info. Pretty soon 2 Atlases will
chase you and try to destroy you. Do not fight them! Instead, head straight to
the back of the base and turn to your right. You will see a generator. Destroy
it to open the base. Turn around and go out the back exit of the base. Just run
until you reach a bridge and your commander tells you to destroy the bridge so
they cant cross it. Do as she says and it's mission complete. If you need life
along the way, you will see little green trucks. Destroy them for health
pick-ups.

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Under the Guns
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Objectives: Destroy 3 orbital guns in 7:00 minutes

Mechs: Mad Cat
       Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Timber Wolf
       Thor
       Summoner



You will just have to keep following the giant walls until you find an opening
to go through. You will fight many different types of mechs: Mad Cats, Uziels,
Belials, and Ullers. You should be getting used to these by now, so use you
PPCs and javelin missiles to take them out. You can easily destroy all 3
Orbital guns in 5 minutes. Kill all tanks and turrets with you rockets and
machine guns. I will try to have a more in depth walkthrough for this level,
but right now I am making this guide by my memory of the game.

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Size Matters Part 1
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Objectives: -Steal a mech from a word or blake base
            -Destroy the mansion

Mechs: Elemental

This is a lot like the Wolf in sheep's clothing level. All you have to do is
run. When you start out, hop over the lava pools, and head forward. Kill the
Infantry and move forward. Once you get to the end, turn left and hop over the
stone gate. Once you do this, head forward and to the left. If you keep heading
left, you will get a message saying a light mech has spotted you! Keep heading
forward until you get to the very tall gates. Shoot them down and head forward,
turning right once you pass the destroyed gate. Go to the rock doors and they
should slide open for you. Now you have to hop from island to island using jump
jets. Keep running and stop for nothing. Keep following the path until you come
to a cave like structure. Head under the cave and make a U-turn when you come
out. Keep heading forward and you will be notified about a group of tanks. Just
run past the tanks until you reach the mech depot. Go to the stone door and
shoot the watchtower to the right of the stone door. This should open up the
gates and the first part of the mission is complete.

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Size Matters Part 2
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Objectives: -Destroy the mansion

Mechs: Atlas

This mission is really easy. Just head forward and kill any mechs that get in
your way. They are all light to medium mechs, so you shouldn't have a problem.
When you get close to the end, they will start ganging up on you. Use your
pulse lasers and autocannons to take them out easily. Pretty soon an Atlas
comes down to meet you. It has all the same weapons as you, but I you can fire
autocannons and pulse lasers fast. You should get it fairly quickly. Now head
up to the mansion. You will see a new type of mech that looks exactly like the
Atlas. This mech is called the Prometheus and it can tear you to shreds if you
aren't careful. This mech's 2 gauss rifle will severely damage you if you
aren't careful. It rarely uses the war hammer missile, so you should not worry
too much about it. Use your autocannons to try and knock it over. When you do,
pummel it with level 3 pulse lasers and you should do fine. Destroy the mansion
with whatever you have left and it is mission complete.

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Not on my watch
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Objectives: -Free civilian prisoners

Mechs: Mad Cat
       Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Timber Wolf
       Thor
       Summoner
       Atlas
       Prometheus

Ok, first start this level off by moving forward. As soon as you move forward,
4 autocannon tanks and an Uziel will attack you. Charge up your PPCs (if you
have them) and use your Target Jam. Take this mech out and move forward. Once
you destroy this mech, keep heading up the winding path until you come across 2
autocannon turrets. Dispose of these and another Uziel will hop over the hill.
Dispose of this one with your missiles and laser weapons. Also do not forget to
use target jam as it can stop PPCs from hitting you. Continue forward into the
WOB base. Inside here is around 8-9 autocannon tanks and around 2 autocannon
turrets. Kill them all and move forward, destroying the buildings as you move
through the base. Keep heading forward until you come into a fork in the road.
Take either path you want as they both lead the same way. Once you get inside
the next base, 2-3 Uziels and 2 Mad Cats will ambush you. No needs to worry,
however, because they don't all attack you at once. Take care of the first
group and move on to the second group. This is easier than it sounds because by
now you should have fully charged PPCs and javelin missiles. Once you are done,
head forward and secure any salvage you find. Keep heading forward, killing
everything you find until you reach the POW camp. Head down the right path an
pick off any Red laser/Mortar turrets you see down the path. Once you go
inside, you will find out that this has been an Ambush and you are forced to
fight an Atlas. No problem at all, right? Just fire your PPCs and javelin
missiles until it dies. Now another drop ship comes in and drops 2 more Atlas
on top of you! This is a bit tougher, but not by much. Focus all your PPC power
on one Atlas. Once you destroy it, go and pick up its salvage. Now head in and
attack the second Atlas the same way. If you won this battle, you win the
mission once again.

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Payback
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Objectives: -Destroy the WOB 2nd Lieutenant

Mechs: Mad Cat
       Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Timber Wolf
       Thor
       Summoner
       Atlas
       Prometheus

This mission can be very easy. I suggest picking a Thor or a Summoner. Once the
mission begins, quickly head forward and look to your left. You will see a red
laser turret and a giant helicopter. Destroy them both with missiles and wait.
Once you see the beginning of a line of Catapults walking your way, start
firing. Whatever you do, don't fall down off the ridge. If you do happen to
fall, you will die. There are 7-8 Catapults down there and they can eat you for
lunch. Instead, snipe them from above. A Puma light mech will come up to where
you are. Take him out easily and wait. Once you see the end of the parade of
Catapults, jump down off the ridge. You can now attack them from behind. If you
hit them from behind, only one Catapult mech will chase after you instead of
the whole fleet. Keep working your way to the front of the line destroying
Catapults, and when the last Catapult is dead, you've won the mission.

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Worst day since...
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Objectives: -Kill Strader

Mechs: Mad Cat
       Cougar
       Puma
       Uziel
       Belial
       Timber Wolf
       Thor
       Summoner
       Atlas
       Prometheus

All you have to do in this mission is run and kill anything in your path. Keep
walking along the path and kill things for a few minutes. Once you get past the
part with 2 blake light mechs, make a shark U-turn until you a huge wall
surrounding the blake base. Keep following the wall all the way to its front
where a helicopter depot awaits you. Destroy the depot and continue to the
front gates. Destroy the watchtower by the gates to open the doors and walk in.
Once inside, head right and destroy the 2 generators that control the doors
leading to Strader. Now you should head all the way to the left of the
generators. Once you get to the other side of the base, 2 Hack Man mechs will
ambush you. Take them out, then take out the Mech depot to stop it from
producing Owens mechs. When you are done, head through the gate on your right.
In here you will see another mech depot, and a giant space shuttle. Destroy the
mech depot first, then the shuttle. You will now be attacked by a Thor mech.
Dispose of it and walk to another generator. Destroy this one and it will lead
you to Strader's ship. Shoot the ship for a while and Strader will tell you
that you now face "Ragnarok"

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  Boss: Ragnarok
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This guy can be pretty tough. It has shields which can block all damage done to
it. The Ragnarok uses its shields every 5-6 seconds. If you can remember the
Ragnarok's shield pattern, you can get a PPC shot every time the shields go
down. Stay far away, however, because if you get too close it will use the
"Lava Cannon" which sends 3 fireballs hurling at you. Hopefully you got the
power ups from the giant space shuttle earlier. This mech is slow, so you
should do really well against it. Once you destroy this mech, you have won the
mission.

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Ready to Rok! Part 1
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Now I wont go into too much detail in this mission as it is mainly a mission to
have fun in. Just keep going forward, slaughtering mechs with your new toy. You
will eventually come across 2 mech depots. Destroy both of them and kill all
mechs in the area. Keep heading forward and it's mission complete.

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Ready to Rok! Part 2
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Objectives: -Destroy Dooms day device

Mechs: ?

From the start of this, head forward. Across the lava pools are laser/missile
helicopters, so shoot them out. Head forward until you come across more
enemies. Kill the tanks and grab the salvage. Head forward until you reach the
dooms day device. Surrounding it are 2 Thors and 2 Atlases. Take out one of the
Thors first. Then kill the second Thor. Keep killing mechs until you have a
clear path to the drill. Press the A button to stop the drill and watch the
almost spectacular ending.


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11.) Enemies List
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      This is a list of all the non-mech enemies in the game. I will be
updating this list often as there are many different enemies in the game. I
will also briefly describe them. At the end of some enemies "weapons" category
you might see something like "2X" or "3X". This means how many bullets are
fired with each round.

Ex.   Name-----Armor Type-----Weapon

   Laser Infantry-----Very Light-----Lv 1 Pulse laser



Name = Name of enemy

Armor Type = Strength of armor (Very light, Light, Medium, Heavy)

Weapon = Type of weapon(s) enemy has


Laser Infantry-----Very Light-----Lv 1 Pulse Laser
-Step on them to kill them.
-Barely harms you, even in groups.



Missile Infantry-----Very Light-----Lv 1 Crossbow M.
-Step on them to kill them
-Missiles hurt more than lasers, but nothing to worry about



Missile Tank-----Light-----Lv 1 Crossbow M X2
-Like missile infantry but tougher armor
-Weakness: Machine Guns


Laser Helicopter-----Light-----Lv 1 Pulse Laser
-Weakness: Pulse Laser, Machine Guns, Missiles


Missile/Laser Helicopter-----Medium-----Lv 1 Pulse Laser/Crossbow M. X4
-Weakness: Missiles
-Slow, but can hurt in groups

Red laser turret-----Medium-----Lv 2 Lasers
-Weakness: Lasers/Gauss Rifle
-Strong lasers can hurt light mechs


Autocannon tank-----Light-----Lv3 Autocannons X3
-Weakness: Machine guns
-Autocannons can seriously hurt when group with other tanks


Autocannon turret-----Medium-----Lv1 Autocannon
-Weakness: Missiles
-Nothing much to worry about, just snipe them with missiles

Mortar turret-----Heavy-----Lv3 ????????
-Weakness: Javelin missiles
-This turret's weapon can hurt seriously; destroy it before it destroys you


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12.) Multiplayer
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Local Xbox:
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Local Xbox is like 2 player split screen. You and your friend sitting next to
you can play against each other or can play the game type called "Grinder"
which allows you to play against the computer to see how many mechs you can
kill without dying. Only local Xbox can play grinder.

Game types:

        Destruction- Every man for himself. The player with the most kills
wins. Try to stay out of huge crowds of mechs. Stay back and snipe weak mechs
with your Gauss Rifle.

       Team Destruction- Like destruction except with teams.

       Last man standing- You only have one life. Once you die, you are out of
the game. Try to stay back from every body and snipe people.

     Team last man standing- Last man standing except with teams. Gang up on
people to kill them faster.

           Grinder- You against a limitless supply of computer bot mechs. See
how many kills you can get before dying



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System Link:
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System link is the closest thing you can get to Xbox live without actually
having xbox live. This is multiplayer without the headset and with a bit of
lag. There are 2 known ways to play system link. They are gamespy arcade and
xbox connect. Download these at www.gamespy.com and www.xbconnect.com.

Game types:

    Destruction- Every man for himself. The player with the most kills wins.
Try to stay out of huge crowds of mechs. Stay back and snipe weak mechs with
your Gauss Rifle.

       Team Destruction- Like destruction except with teams.

       Last man standing- you only have one life. Once you die, you are out of
the game. Try to stay back from every body and snipe people.

     Team last man standing- Last man standing except with teams. Gang up on
people to kill them faster.

       Not it! - This is a weird game type. One person is "it". All the rest of
the people have to kill the person who is "it". If the person who is "it" kills
somebody, then that person gets a point. If someone who is not "it" kills the
person who is "it", that person becomes the new "it".


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Xbox Live:
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Xbox live is multiplayer where you can actually talk to the person you are
playing with. It has virtually no lag and is a lot of fun to play. There is
also downloadable content. When you buy xbox live, you can download new mechs,
maps, game types, and weapons!

 Game types:

  Destruction- Every man for himself. The player with the most kills wins. Try
to stay out of huge crowds of mechs. Stay back and snipe weak mechs with your
Gauss Rifle.

       Team Destruction- Like destruction except with teams.

       Last man standing- you only have one life. Once you die, you are out of
the game. Try to stay back from every body and snipe people.

     Team last man standing- Last man standing except with teams. Gang up on
people to kill them faster.

       Not it! - This is a weird game type. One person is "it". All the rest of
the people have to kill the person who is "it". If the person who is "it" kills
somebody, then that person gets a point. If someone who is not "it" kills the
person who is "it", that person becomes the new "it".

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13.) FAQ
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Sorry for the lack of questions, but I will be adding more when I update my
guide.

Q. What is the difference between green, normal, veteran, and elite
difficulties?
A. The only difference I know of is how easy it is for you to die.

Q. When is the downloadable content coming out?
A. Sometime in February, 2003.

Q. Is there a fee for downloading anything on XBL?
A. Not that I know of. You paid for xbox live so I highly doubt they would make
you pay for the downloadables.

Q. How do I beat ?
A. 1.) Read my guide
   2.) If this doesn't work, try another guide
   3.) If after you read all the guides, ask for help on the message board
   4.) If all else fails, email me at marcush312@hotmail.com

Q. What is the best mech?
A. Different people have different tastes. I personally like the Mad Dog,
Hackman, and Thor.


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14. Tips
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-Always use you special weapons. Right when they recharge, use them.

-Whenever you kill a mech, always rush for its salvage.

-Try to lure 2 mechs together so that when you kill one mech, the other will go
down in the first mech's explosion.

-When you are overheated, find some water. Water helps to cool you down.

-Stay away from lava. It can hurt you and make you overheat.

-Stay away from falling buildings, bridges, and rocks. These can kill you in
seconds

-Go after the smaller enemies first. If you kill the smaller enemies first, it
will be easier to kill the bigger mech in which they are supporting.

-Keep moving. If you stop, there is a good chance that you will be hit by enemy
fire.

-Save your ammunition. When you upgrade your weapons, save them for enemy
mechs.

-Destroy tank, helicopter, and mech depots first. These create an endless
amount of enemies for you to deal with.

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15.) Credits
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-I would like to give thanks to Microsoft for supplying me with info on the
Corvus/Raven mechs.

-I would like to thank the people on the message boards for the FAQ page.

-I would like to thank the game manual for info on some of the mech's weapons.