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Subject: A scarab gun question
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I just got the scarab gun using sputnick and a box and I need to know if there's a way to get down. If there is than I need to know how. Can someone help me?

  • 01.23.2008 2:46 PM PDT
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I used a banshee

  • 01.23.2008 9:29 PM PDT
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I used the banshee too. It's a right pain in the arse to get it through that tunnel though.

  • 01.24.2008 2:19 AM PDT
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If you use the box/rocket launcher method there is no way to get down, I know because I tried for about 3 hours to do so!

The banshee method is alot harder, but it does allow you to use the gun later in the level. To be honest, based on how little gameplay there is after getting the gun, its not worth the effort to get it with the banshee.

  • 01.24.2008 8:58 AM PDT
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What about riding the corners of the buildings, would that work womfyts?

  • 01.25.2008 9:22 AM PDT
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What about riding the corners of the buildings, would that work womfyts?



I have never had the patience to try to master that art. I have seen it on the vids that people have posted on youtube, but never gave it more than a few weenie attempts to get it done. I have never bothered superjumping either. I guess I am satisfied with the high octane version of the MC, rather than the superman version. Also, even though there is alot of map to explore, it is just that, walking around NOT KILLING ANYTHING!

Regarding using the corner slides to get down from the Scarab Gun location when not using a banshee, I have wandered all over that part of the map after getting the gun using that method. I was able to get down one level (too the thin layer of walkway between the gun pickup spot and the area that the Scarab parks) before the fall distance became too great for my MC body to handle. I did not have Black Eye active so I did not have the advantage of overshielding. I do not think it would have helped, the distances were just to great. That part of the map does not offer any corner drops to corner ride anyway. It is pretty much all sheer wall drop, or walls that drop and then angle inward. I am pretty sure they did that on purpose so that you had to do the banshee method if you wanted to kill anything with the SG. I think I may have seen one instance where the corner rider was able to sheer wall ride, but only one out of 10 attempts or so. I figured that I can die that often on my own, without going out of my way to find ways to do it! ;p PLus, since there are no sheer walls that drop all the way to the ground without angling inward, it would not matter.

I have seen other Scarab Gun catches, apparently every time the Scarab fires the main gun there is a Plasma Rifle generated in the blast that I have seen someone grab up if they are properly placed. There are videos on YouTube. Here is a link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJC4_VJzkJo

I would recommend looking over the related videos as well, as I think that the one about grabbing the Rifle out of the SG shot is in that list.

I am currently engaged in getting IWHBYD without Envy, god I hate it when this happens! It is a real test of one's skill to get it with Sputnik only. Envy makes it alot easier. I guess I don't hate it, it is just alot more difficult! I end up swearing like a sailor half a day when some darn Elite in the 4th or 5th wave gets me. I guess if I am going to earn the skull, might as well do it like a man!

Later..............

  • 01.25.2008 10:11 AM PDT