- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I haven't been in here in a while(meaning this could have been posted before), and now that I'm pretty much done with Laser Wars (in the flood), I've gotten to a neat place on the Silent Cartographer.
STEPS TO GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THE MAP ROOM
(Co-op)
1. May as well go unlock the door.
2. Get a warthog inside the door that was initially locked. Back it all the way up on the right side (like the direction you would go to find the elite with his back to you), and around the corner a ways. Then send one person to go get the "Shafted" cutscene, because it comes with a handy little checkpoint. Now have the other person get in the car, and gather speed around the corner, and barrel off the "Shafted" platform. Go to the right, and after several times, you should be able to land on one of the pointy platforms that stick out. The warthog should fall directly down the middle of these platform things. If it falls way to the side, try again.
3. Now that you are on a platform in the shaft, you will have to jump down as far as possible. You can do this by jumping to the part of the platform that is slightly lower and up against the wall. Turn to your right by 50 degrees or so, and walk off onto the platform below. Make sure to do the crouch landing. And be careful about always keeping one player safe.
4. When you've descended to the point where there are no more of those platforms (kind of U shaped I guess), but a big rectangular black thing with a hole in your side of it, walk to the outermost tip of the U platform. Back up as far as you can on it (back to the closest wall) and run forward. If you do it right, you should land on a part of the big black platform that is slightly slanted downward. If you crouch, you should be able to get down without losing hardly any health.
5. Now walk back up to the center hole in the thing you are on. Your hog should be at the bottom of it. By jumping on the warthog, you can get down alive. You may have to flip it in one of your suicidal attempts to make it down, which makes it easier to get down. Point being, use the warthog to get down.
6. Now that you are down in this little inverted plateau with your warthog, you need to drive it out of that hole you are in. If you jump up and look around, there is a platform below that you can jump to and live. Find it- thats where you have to take the warthog. To get the warthog up, back it up (facing the side that that platform is on) and run it at the opposite wall just to the right of the corner. It might take you a while to do this, and once you get the hog up there- be careful.
7. Now run the hog onto that platform. There is a little box room below that, which is the very bottom. You can only get down there with a warthog. Thats why you had to bring it this whole way.
Not saying that final room is super cool- but the fact that you can get to the bottom of the key room and the map room is cool.
I've also gotten two warthogs down to the bottom platform on the key room. Don't know how I could go from there to get to the absolute bottom.
I know this works- if my explanation is convoluted, say so.
Its actually a pretty easy feat.