Nottingham: Chimera Tunnel Nexus

Into The Fire

There’ll be a hell of a fight as you start this mission off. The Hybrids have completely covered the hill in front of you with sentry guns and trenches, so you’ll need to persuade them to evacuate the area. Your Rossmore can be very convincing.

The three sentry guns will be the first obstacle in your way, and they can be tough to take down. If you have enough rounds for your Auger, you can definitely just dash out from behind cover and paste them with that; their faceshields won’t protect them. If not, you’ll have to dash across the street, taking cover from the gun’s fire, until you can flank them on their left side.

Don’t forget that you can blast the explosive barrels to make them...well, explode.

The fighting in the trenches here is going to be rough, as plenty of Hybrids will be pressing you and attempting to push you back. Trenches are made for the Rossmore, but only if you’re bold enough to rush your foes. Otherwise you may find it best to just deplete your grenade ammo to deal with these groups.

At the end of the trench, you’ll come up and find yourself pinned down by another sentry gun. You can flank it by heading to your right, digging into the trench there, and jumping up the boxes at the far end. When you’ve cleared the sentry gun, head down into another ditch and take out the gun positioned there. Check the rooms here to find the Intel: Nottingham: Harbinger document, on one of the tables near all the health and ammo.

When you reach the house atop the hill, throw grenades through the door to hopefully ignite the explosive barrels within and clear out some of the Hybrids. Regardless, you need to kill them off. The Intel: Nottingham: Tunnels documents are on the table at the base of the stairs. The upper floor of the house is where the mortars are; kill everyone there to move on.

Conduits

Your first big fight here will be against a Titan, the massive engines of the Chimeran war machine. These 20-foot-tall beasts are essentially uber-Hybrids; they have the same basic body shape, but possess skin that’s much more resistant to attack, along with a homing rocket launcher that will knock off three full bars of health on the Medium difficulty. Yep - they’re tough.

Video Walk-through

This Titan can be brought low by any weapon, even the Bullseye - it'll just take a while.
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They don’t have any particular weak spots, although attacking their head is apparently the best way to go, according to the game’s intel file on the beasts. You can stagger a Titan by dropping a grenade at its feet; this is often a good way to prevent it from firing on you with its launcher, if you see it start to prime it with fire. If you suspect that the launcher’s about to go off, strafe and jump away simultaneously; you should be able to dodge the fire. The Titan will also smack you with his weapon if it gets close to you, so continuously backpedal away from it!

There’s no magic secret here; you just have to deal a lot of damage to the Titan before it goes down for the count. Double-firing your Rossmore is one way to quickly dish it out; the animal will be close enough for all the rounds to hit it most of the time.

The Tunnels

Move on from the Titan fight to find an L23 Fareye sniper rifle. This bad boy has an intriguing alt-fire mode that slows down time and zooms your vision, allowing you to easily pop off headshots at the incoming Hybrids. Feel free to get used to it all you like; you’ll find more ammo for it shortly.

When you’re ready to move on, drop down to the floor below and start taking out the Hybrids in the trench nearby. There’s plenty of ammo scattered around for your M5A4, so scope in with that, or the L23, and pop some heads. When you reach the ramp leading up to the main battlefield, though, you’ll find that the zone is completely overrun by Hybrids. All you can really do here is duck down the ramp and attempt to grenade the hell out of these guys; sticking your head up will result in its swift and complete annihilation. There are so many enemies here that you may be tempted to find some way around them, but there ain’t! You just have to pile on them, reaping five or six kills with each grenade toss, until their numbers lax a bit. When you hear one of the Brits yelling at you that you have to cross the bridge, try to thin the ranks of the Hybrids a bit and get across. The soldiers will quickly follow you, so duck behind some cover and wait for them before poking around a bit.

After fighting your way down the street and into the building here, check around on the large shelf inside to find the Intel: Nottingham: Regarding Cloven file, then head up the ramp to move on.

Viper’s Nest

One big-ass fight will start this level, as a Titan is slaughtering a group of soldiers at the bottom of the ramp here. Don’t bother getting up close and personal; just stay on the ramp, use the cover afforded you, and slam the Titan with Bullseye shots to the dome, tagging him as you see fit. He should stay focused on the soldiers, for the most part, allowing you to deal plenty of damage while easily avoiding any stray launcher shots that come your way. When the flood of Hybrids come out of the elevator, you’ll know the Titan is about to blow; just get behind cover and let nature take its course at that point.

At the very least, these Titans blow up real nice.

Head up the elevator and grab the ammo up top, which includes some Fareye rounds. Use those on the sentry gunners on the second pylon, then move across and finish off the defenders; they’ll come around the corner on you, so be ready for them! Finish them off, then move around to where the Steelhead comes at you. Kill him, cross the walkway, then flip the switch behind all the menials. That will rotate one of the nearby walkways and let you move on to the third pylon.

When you reach the elevator leading down, you’ll have to take on a Titan by yourself. The best approach here is to just rotate around the elevator shaft and keep it between you and the Titan; doing so will let you duck out as often as you like to fire on him, but will let you easily get behind cover when it fires its rocket. Unload on him with all the ammo you have, and he’ll go down eventually, ending the mission.

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