London: City Outskirts

A Desperate Gamble

You start this level off inside what appears to be a train station terminal. There are going to be some tough fights before you can get out of here, so be ready for anything! Begin by scouting the rooms near you for health and ammo; when you move through the small tunnel, you’ll be ambushed by rollers, so be ready with your Sapper.

Head through here to find a hidden document in the hotel.

Make your way under the arch and duck into the room nearby for some cover as the Hybrids attack you. There’s Fareye ammo on the bar here, so feel free to use that on the more distant enemies. When they’re cleared out, grab any ammo that they’ve dropped on move on to the stairs on the other side of the area. You have to sweep through all of the rooms here until you reach the windows again, but be ready to run: a large group of Hybrids and Rollers will attempt to attack you then, and if you stand in front of the windows for too long you’ll be cut to pieces. Run across the small walkway there and take refuge in the room near the patio area. You can wait for most of your enemies to come to you if you wait here, then head out to the patio and take the stairs down to move on.

After clearing the helicopter and the enemies around the small bunker nearby, head into the ruined hotel. All of the walls here are fractured and disintegrating, giving your enemies perfect firing lines through them. The Intel: London: Drowned document is in a partially-hidden room here. As you enter the hotel, you hang a left into a room filled with junk. If you look at the junk carefully you should see a small archway in the middle of the trash; the document is on the bed in the room beyond. You’ll likely have a harder time returning fire without hitting the walls, but one way to proceed is to lay down Sapper mines through the gaps as you walk along; the enemies that pop up in front of you will be damaged when they come your way. You’ll need to clear out the grand staircase room, then move up and into the rooms above to move on.

Ice and Iron

Time for a hell of a fight. You’ve got a tank on the way, but you have to take out both a Stalker and a Titan before it can be dropped off!

If you have an adequate supply of LAARK rounds and air-fuel grenades, then these fights should be easy, but you probably won’t have enough LAARK rounds for the Stalker. You can weaken it up with any explosives you have in your inventory, if you like, but otherwise, there is a place you can go to hide and get the Stalker off your tail, allowing you to shoot it in the rear.

Video Walk-through

Taking on a Stalker and a Titan back to back isn't very fair, but if you know where to hide you'll live.
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Unfortunately, it’s difficult to really describe this location, since the entire area is a mess of broken streets. If you watch our video (in the HTML version of this guide), you’ll be able to get a feel for where the location is. Our screenshot might help, as well, if you’re looking at the PDF. Anyway, if you can wait until the Stalker is on the far side of the map, then hide in this little corner, it’ll probably shoot at the wall nearby for a couple of volleys, then stop. When it does, sneak out from behind the wall and look for it; it’ll almost certainly have its back turned to you, allowing you to drop a clip from your M5 into its power core. Repeat the process a couple of times to finish it off. If it manages to track you down, run into the bunker nearby to avoid its fire, but keep in mind that its missiles will hurt you through the roof of the bunker.

After the Stalker has been dispatched, you have a Titan to deal with. As per usual, the easiest way to deal with the beast is to tag it with a couple of air-fuel grenades and watch it pop. Other than that, try to get plenty of headshots, or just tag it with the Bullseye and fire up into the air. If you run around the central bunker here (but not inside it), you should be able to keep the Titan running and prevent it from firing on you. It’s fun!

Tanks for the...Tank

After your tank is dropped off, quickly hop in and get a move on. You’ll face off against a Widowmaker as soon as you do, so hit it with a few tank shells to demolish it. More Stalkers will await you in the streets beyond this area, so proceed slowly but surely through them, firing your cannon at them from as long a distance as possible. They aren’t dangerous from long range, but if you let them get close, they’ll pound you with missiles. When you reach the open square, then, simply pause and wait for them to appear in the distance before shelling them. When they stop coming, a gate will open to your left.

Watch out for soldiers with rocket launchers on the upper platforms here.

Proceed through a couple more Stalkers and Widowmakers, and be sure to take out the enemies in the buildings and walkways above you; you may want to just strafe over them with your machinegun and see when your crosshairs turn red, then follow it up with a shell.

After defeating the Titan, run your tank onto the bridge, and you’ll automatically hop out. Head into the hotel nearby and check around on the first floor; you can find the Intel: London: Goliath document on the first floor behind one of the bars in an otherwise empty room. Fight your way through the Hybrids and Steelheads on the second floor to reach the top of the hotel, where the mission ends.

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