Area 42

Mission: Whatever Happened to Crypto-136?

Goals

• Recover Furon Technology
• Rescue Crypto-136

Well, it appears that Crypto 136's ship went down in the desert around Area 42, and it's up to you to track him down. To begin with, head towards the dot on your map; you'll find the first of five pieces of Crypto's ship. After you grab the first one, you'll be targeted towards the next four. Each of these are going to be guarded by Majestic, so you won't be able to disguise yourself, and even if you could, you'd have to drop your holobob to pick up the pieces. Unfortunately, the last two pieces are inside an army base, which will be difficult to infiltrate without a disguise. You're best off keeping a holobob up while you run around in the base, then, and only decloak to pick up the pieces when you spot them. This will also keep you protected from the automatic turrets that are set up around the perimeter of the base.

You'll need to hypnotize one of these scientists to reach your fallen comrade.

After you have all five pieces of the ship, you'll be tasked with entering a Majestic base nearby and rescuing 136, who's apparently being held captive. There are too many agents around for you to keep up a holobob, so don't worry about it overmuch. Just find the central building in the base and look around for scientists with a pair of pink markers over their head; hypnotizing one of them will force them to run around and unblock the force fields locking you off from entering the building. When that's done, head inside, being careful not to get banged up too much. You can easily die here from the Majestic agent's fire.

After you penetrate the lab, destroy all of the Furon remains with your Ion or Disintegrator weapons, then grab the data tape and make a dash back to your saucer to end the mission. You'll probably have to kill off a few troops when you reach the ship, so save some Ion ammo until you reach it. You'll have the option of purchasing a new Psychokinesis upgrade when you return to the ship.

Mission: The Mutant Menace

Goals

• Infiltrate the Majestic Lab
• Destroy the Mutants
• Destroy the Majestic Base

At the outset of this mission, you'll be much closer to the Majestic base than you were in the previous mission. Head inside and return to the lab where they were dissecting 136 - the doors should still be open. A scientist inside can be brainwashed into opening the upstairs forcefield, which will let you pass through the walkway into the other lab nearby, where Majestic is working on its mutant forces. Destroy everything in the lab, then head back outside, where your goal will be to destroy the four tesla coils within the walls of the base.

It's easier to destroy these coils if you stay outside the walls of the base.

This is where things are going to get very rough, as there'll be hordes of Majestic agents, as well as tanks, that will be gunning for you and attemping to take you out. It can take as few as two hits to be killed in here, and the tanks are quite adept at leading you. Although there are radioactive cows that can apparently be used to destroy the coils, we found it much safer to just jump over the walls, use PK to fling around the robots on perimeter defense, and attack the coils from outside the walls by lobbing Ion Grenades over the wall. Disintegrator ammo works on the coils as well; they'll just take longer to blow up. If you need to restock you can head over the wall to find ammo pickups or head up to the military base to do the same.

When the tesla coils have been destroyed, you'll have to head back to your saucer and use it to destroy a few more of the Majestic buildings. There won't be any air defenses in the base after your destruction of the coils, but there will be tanks and some ballooned mines, so watch out. After destroying the base, feel free to return to the mothership to move on.