Hold the Line

Before the point of no return

Secondary objectives

1. A side objective pops up when you get close to it, and each one pays out in mods. Five of the seven are in the first half of the district, so they close with it at the point of no return; the other two only exist after it.

Sweep the first half by area

1. The district is big, so it helps to clear it one block at a time. Everything below is in the checklists above; this just groups it by where you’ll be standing.
2. Area by area:
   1. Oria Stadium and Octus Way: the camp’s supply cache; the Vanguard (car dealership east of the stadium); Octus Way station’s cache and the one by the truck to the south; the Foreman’s Datapad in the construction site south of the station.
   2. West of Octus Way: the Trapped Family building (Last Dollar store) with A Letter Home inside, and Hard Case 1 by the wrecked car to its south-west. The Cinema Filmatica Magazine is in the car showroom.
   3. Bank of Tyrus — north and west: Kalona Postcard, Liz Waxman’s tags on the balcony, Hard Cases 2 and 3; to the north-west the Salvaging Poster and Hard Case 5 (construction site); to the west Hard Cases 8 and 11.
   4. Bank of Tyrus — inside and south: the Birthday Card, then (during the Fabbri objective) the vault’s War Savings Bond and Hard Case 18; to the south Mark Avamor’s tags, Hard Cases 12, 13 and 15 and the cache by the Grind coffee shop; to the south-west the Metro Fare Notice.
   5. Warehouse District and the road to the bank: Re: Vibration Complaints on a door at the entrance, Hard Cases 6 and 7, the cache in the police station, Arnold Imhatip’s tags under the road, the Caricature of Colonel Elias, the Timgad Refinery Recruitment Poster and the Lost in Translation diner.
   6. Financial District: the Major Burger Box and Brendan O’Connell’s tags, both to its north.
   7. Allfathers Plaza: Hard Case 4 in the north-east car park and Hard Case 16 at the roadside to the east.
   8. Victory Plaza: Hard Case 14 at the east entrance, the cache in the diner, and Family Reunion at Shelter 13.
   9. Around the Octus Tribunal: Hard Cases 9 and 10 to the north, the Tyran Night Story Book on the fourth floor to the north-east, and Apartment SOS to the east.
   10. Anywhere else on your route: the Thrashies Cereal Box (petrol station south-east of the residential blocks), the Emgazi Blitz Display Case (third-floor flat) and Jada Clemmons’s tags north of Carter’s Place.

After the point of no return

Walkthrough: the first half

1. Get your orders. Speak with Captain Grey and pick up the map — it’s the district map shown above, and it fills in as you discover things. The camp’s supply cache is part of the tutorial.
2. Secure Octus Way Station. Clear the Locust outside the station, then the ones inside, and use the cache in the station to equip Tactical Gear. The sub-objective Link up with Charlie Squad follows.
3. Investigate the muster point (north-east of Allfathers Plaza). Looking at the body there wakes a Bile Frog: a Heavy Boomshot round into its open mouth pops it instantly; otherwise keep shooting into the mouth. Then secure the plaza.
4. Secure the Imulsion stockpile. Clear the area, then investigate the distribution warehouse — Dr. Fabbri isn’t among the dead. Next you’re told to find the reinforced container: it’s the green one with a keypad, straight ahead as you leave the warehouse. Destroy the Imulsion stockpile with the self-destruct code, take Hard Case 17 by the stairs and get clear.
5. Get Mags’ meds. Mags has a lung condition and the medicine is at home. You pass the Lost in Translation diner on the way, and finishing this objective hands you the Photograph and Harmonica collectible.

6. Find Dr. Dalia Fabbri. At the Bank of Tyrus, follow the bank employee to the manager’s office and investigate it, then defend the bank from the wave that follows. Check the vault with the button on the control desk: the doctor inside is someone else, but the vault holds the War Savings Bond and Hard Case 18.
7. Secure the construction site. Clear the lower floors, reach the upper floors and clear those too — a helicopter drops extra Locust near the top, so don’t relax after the last one on the stairs.

Walkthrough: the second half

1. Defend the courthouse. Several waves come from different streets (the game gives you a moment to prepare for the next wave in between). Keep them away from the doors.
2. Dr. Fabbri turns up at the courthouse; escort the doctor to the chopper.
3. Find Whiskey Squad, south-west of Monroe Library. Through the gates, the squad lies dead around a blood-stained fountain. Investigate the bodies and you’ll have to survive the ambush — Hard Case 24 is part of this scene. The Black Raven Down side objective (defend the diner with Sgt. Barnes) is nearby.
4. Support Cpl. Harris at the hotel. Collect Hard Case 26 outside Kalona Hotel before going in. Inside you must kill all the hostiles and repel the attackers; the Lone Wolf side objective (a sniper in trouble upstairs in a nearby building) appears around now. The hotel’s supply cache is by the reception desk.
5. Patch onto the field relay, then help the squad in trouble at the mausoleum: eliminate all the enemies. Hard Case 27 is picked up during that fight, and clearing it ends the chapter.