'Bye-Bye, Dark Aether' Main Quest
Stats (Solo): Difficulty - 2/10, Est. Completion Time - 30 to 45 Mins
Building the L.T.G.
- Interact with this machine in the Church (called the SDG). All Zombies will die and an in-game story cutscene will start. You don't have to stay in the Church for the cutscene.
- Obtain the Jet Gun.
- There are three L.T.G. parts around the map that you must suck up with the Jet Gun's primary fire. Part locations:
- Once you have all three parts, the L.T.G. can be crafted at the workbench on "The Alamo" (the roof of the Bank).
Canister #1
- Interact with the machine in the Church to pick up an Aether Canister.
- Go to 'Hill Street' and drop the canister on one of the Dark Aether Field Generator nodes.
- Go to the 'Cemetery' and place the L.T.G. on the metal under the Aether cloud storm. This will start a timed event where you must defend the L.T.G. from Zombies.
- If you fail to defend the L.T.G., you will have to wait until the next round to retry.
- Once you've defended the L.T.G., it will turn red and spawn an HVT. Shoot the HVT until it glows purple (happens at about 10% health remaining).
- Once the HVT is glowing purple, lure it into the same trap node where you dropped the canister. Activate the trap while the HVT is standing inside it, and then kill the HVT (with anything) within the trap. If done correctly, the canister will absorb the HVT's "essence."
- If you kill the HVT early, end the round and interact with the L.T.G. to respawn the HVT.
- Pick up the canister and bring it back to the SDG before the countdown expires.
- If you don't bring it back in time, wait one round then interact with the L.T.G. to spawn another HVT.
Aether Projectors
- Pick up a Strauss Counter from the SDG. The drawer with the Strauss Counter may take a couple of seconds to open due to a conversation.
- There are three Aether Projectors around the map that need to be set to the correct colour using the Strauss Counter (see below). When near a projector, pull out the counter and look at the colour it is displaying. Based on this colour, you will need to set the projector to a different colour by interacting with it to change the light on the top. Projector locations:
Strauss Counter Colour Projector Colour Red Green Green Red Yellow Yellow - Once all three projectors are set correctly, they'll turn to face spawn and shoot a beam of energy. After a few seconds, a canister will come out of the top of the device near the Gas Station on 'East Main Street'. Interact with it to pick up the canister.
Canister #2
- Drop the canister on one of the Dark Aether Field Generator nodes around the Gas Station.
- Place the L.T.G. under the Aether Storm in the 'Riverside' area. Defend the L.T.G., spawn and kill the HVT, and deliver the Canister to the SDG again (steps 7-10).
- If you can't place the L.T.G., go back to the Cemetery and pick it up first.
Warning: Point of No Return. Once you interact with the SDG after delivering the canister, you will be put into the Boss Fight.
- Once the canister is brought back to the SDG, interact with it to start the boss fight.
Boss Fight
- All players are teleported to the 'Dark Aether' (Church). The Boss Fight is three rounds. Kill all enemies or kill the boss enemy to end each wave.
- On round 1, kill all the Zombies until they stop spawning, and a Full Armour power-up spawns.
- For rounds 2 and 3, an HVT spawns (one per wave on Solo, more on Co-op). Zombies spawn infinitely until you kill the HVT(s). After wave 2, a Max Ammo spawns.
- Once the final wave is done, all players go down and the ending cutscene plays. After it ends, you can keep playing. If you do, you'll get all perks and a bunch of loot including level 3 PAP crystals and Orange Aether Tools.
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