The Broken Path

Get To The Town Of Voi

The bridge is out up ahead, so jump off and drop down to the grass below. After the chapter changes, head up the ladder nearby and through the tunnel to reach the next major battle. Kill the enemies nearby, then take a right and find the ramp leading up to the walkway above the tunnel you just came through. You'll find a sniper rifle up there; use it to finish off any remaining Brutes in the area before heading down towards the buildings that they were firing at.

There are a few more soldiers here, but you're all about to come under a severe amount of attack from the Brutes. There'll be a couple waves of eight Brutes apiece that will arrive via Phantoms, so get ready by reloading your sniper rifle at the back of one of the huts, as well as picking up a fully-loaded battle rifle.

The Brute Fight

Use this machinegun to full effect in this fight.

When the Brutes start coming down, stay in the huts until the Phantoms get away; they'll pelt you with turret fire otherwise. For the first wave, try to hit a few of them with the machinegun turret in one of the huts until your shields drop, then detach the turret and use it to kill the rest of the fools. Keep in mind that some of these Brutes will have fuel rod guns, so you'll want to stay behind cover as best you can, darting out only when a target presents itself. Feel free to drop your machinegun at any time to use your grenades and weapons, and keep in mind that there are a few Trip Mines around. You can jump and throw these into the path of the oncoming Brutes, and you should. If one of them goes off any Brute nearby will be killed quickly.

When both waves are toast, a Wraith will appear. If you can find a Deployable Cover item, then killing it is simple; stay in the pipes until you reach the road, deploy your cover on top of the Wraith, then run up, press RB to jump onto the vehicle, and click LT to pop a grenade into it. With that done, just run away and wait for it to blow up. If you can't find a Deployable Cover, then you'll have to do the same thing, but just with less protection. It should be doable if you stay inside the pipes, though. Keep in mind that if you shoot out the gunner with a battle rifle, you can actually take over the Wraith by grabbing onto it and tapping the B button to kill the driver.

Moving On

Wait for the Warthog to drop from the Pelican, then hop aboard, move it forward a bit, and wait for the other Warthog to come down and fill up. You can move forward on foot to snipe out the turrets and snipers in your path, if you like, or just start steamrolling your opponents by running past them as quickly as you can. Alternately, just use your Warthog to move slooowly up the path as your gunner shoots everything.

The Wraiths

Watch out for the Wraiths after you pass through the tunnel here; there are a couple of them, and they combine devastating artillery attacks with a nasty turret gunning attack if you get too close to them. The artillery can be dodged if you keep moving, however.

This section of the game is very challenging on higher difficulties, so get ready to die a bunch.

This part of the game is pretty difficult, as moving out of this area is dangerous due to cover fire from a couple of turrets, and there's a roadblock if you attempt to blast past everyone which will slow you up enough for the Wraiths to catch up to you, causing you to be caught between the Brutes at the roadblock and the Wraiths themselves. There are also a ton of Brute Choppers that will be patrolling this area, as well as a couple of hardened turrets that watch over the ramp that leads on (it's on the far side of the hill as you come down the smashed bridge).

Your best bet here is to charge up the front side of the hill by getting out of whatever vehicle you're in and jumping up it on foot. There's a single Wraith up here that awaits your attention, so quickly shoot out the gunner with a battle rifle and then hop aboard to kill the driver with the B button before climbing in. If you can get into the Wraith unharmed, take stock of your surroundings; is a turret shooting you? Are more Wraiths climbing the ramp? (You'll have to take out three of them in total.) What you need to do now is start firing away at the opponents down the ramp while strafing along the bridge a bit to get out of range of the turrets. If you can do that, then you can fire away at the Wraiths until both of the remaining two are dead. That will pretty much ensure your safety, since the Choppers don't seem to follow you onto the bridge.

This is all a best-case scenario, of course; you'll die quite a few times here before you manage to break through. If worst comes to worst, try to jack a Chopper and use that to weaken up the turrets before moving up, or try to stay on foot and see if your fortunes improve when you fire on the vehicles from the hills. Still, you won't make it far without dealing with the Wraiths, so try to take them out.

Brute Barricade

If you can nab a Wraith, the Brutes here will quickly perish.

Whether you take over a Wraith or not, you'll have to defeat the Brutes at the nearby barricade before you can move on. If you have a Wraith, this simply entails blasting the roadblock from a distance while the Brutes jump around and shake their fists at you, unable to counterattack. Otherwise, you'll have to proceed the hard way, get close, and take them out one by one. That'll be difficult, as there are quite a few of them, but doable if your checkpoint is close enough to the barricade itself.

When you get past the barricade, approach the tunnel and kill the remaining Brutes, and you'll end the mission.

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