--------------------------------------------------------------------- _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ __ _ _____ _____ | _ \ | ____| / ___/ / ___| | ____| | \ | | |_ _| |___ | | | | | | |__ | |___ | | | |__ | \| | | | _| | | | | | | __| \___ \ | | | __| | |\ | | | |_ | | |_| | | |___ ___| | | |___ | |___ | | \ | | | ___| | |_____/ |_____| /_____/ \_____| |_____| |_| \_| |_| |_____| FAQ/WALKTHROUGH BY Ryan email: ryubond007@hotmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- =========== VERSIONS: =========== V1.0: First release , no updates! =========== CONTENTS: =========== 1)Introduction 2)The Basics: a)Storyline b)Setup & Run c)Creating A Pilot d)Configure e)Training Mission f)GB Bot 3)Walkthrough a)PTMC Data Retention Center b)Novak Corporate Prison c)Piccu Station & SRAD Research d)PTMC Corporate Headquarters e)Red Acropolis Research Station f)Martian Nomad Caverns g)PTMC Research Bunker h)PTMC Dol Ammad Fuel Refinery >>SECRET LEVEL - Orizon Zero i)PTMC Spacecraft Factory j)CED Lunar Command Base k)PTMC Storage Facility l)PTMC Proving Grounds >>SECRET LEVEL - H.V.W.R. m)CED Expediator Dreadnaught n)CED Orbital Network Transmitter o)Dravis' Stronghold 4)Credits & Copyright =============== 1)Introduction: =============== I was playing Descent 3 , long after its release and found that it was'nt such a really bad game.I went to gamefaqs.com to look for some Faqs but could'nt find one.Finally i decided to write one myself & this is the first one i'am writing so lets Go For It!.. ============= 2)The Basics: ============= A) Storyline: From Descent I and II. You are a PTMC mines defenders but an executive of PTMC (S. Dravis) has asked you to destroy them,in a hope to get rid of the virus infected robots in there. With that,you need to rescue the hostages trapped inside. After you were done with your mission & got rid of those mines ...... S. Dravis contacts you and forces you to work more for him as it was there in the Contract. A prototype warp core is installed in your ship and you are sent to destroy more PTMC mines in the deep space ,the last of which was some kind of alien spaceship or an artificial planet. After completing your mission , you are ready to go home but instead the warp core malfunctions , sending you to an unknown location. .. This story now continues in Descent 3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- B) Setup & Run: When you are done with the installation , try running the game. You'll be prompted to check out each section of the Setup i.e. Audio / Video e.t.c. If there are no drivers available for a particular section then press 'Detect Available _____ Drives' in that section to detect those. Configure the rest of the sections and press Ok & then Play to launch the game. Next time when you execute the Game Launcher , directly hit the play key to start the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C) Creating A Pilot: Hit the ADD button in the menu, you'll be prompted to enter a name for pilot , do so and press OK. A list of available controllers will popup, just select the one you are most comfortable with and continue.I always recommend to go with Mouse Controls in such games. You'll be using your keyboard keys too for doing other stuff like accelerating your ship forward and reverse and such stuff , mouse won't be the only thing you'll get so you should go for that. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- D) Configure: Nothing special , if you think you need to mess with yur controls now or later then just the hit the configure button to do so , like you did with any game you previously played. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E) Training Mission: This mission popups after the Intro cutscene and you'll be given complete instructions during the training so you don't need to worry about that. The most important thing of all is the GB Bot , you'll be using it at most of the places for the rest of the game and even during this training mission so identify yourself with the GB Bot workings real good during the mission. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- F) GB Bot: As mentioned above , this is the most exciting of all the stupid stuff you get during the game. Hit the F4 key , this will popup the GB Bot menu. Press Enter to exit GB Bot from your ship ( as the 1st option is already highlighted ). After that you you throw instructions to it to be followed. Like you can ask it to take you to your next objective & other stuff like extingushing fire or finding power ups e.t.c but the most important of all is the path finding thing i.e. taking you to your current objective. Hit the F4 Key again and use your Up/Down arrow keys to highlight different menu options , instead of directly hitting the no. for that option. Make sure that your mouse pointer is always on the menu while doing anything with it because if its not, then nothing will work for you. If you'll loose it while following it , then it'll come back for you and all that.Check out all the GB Bot messages popping up. And theres an option to bring it back to the ship in the menu , so note that too. ============= 3)Walkthrough ============= A) MISSION 1: PTMC Data Retention Center OBJECTIVES: >You need to get details about Dr. Swietzer whereabouts through a computer at the lower level of the facility. As soon as you start shoot up the containers in front of you and sctrech your ship against the floor to open up the secret area , thou finding secret areas are'nt one of your objectives so you can just skip it if you want and get on with your mission. You'll be using your GB Bot right from the start , so hit the F4 key and exit the GB Bot from your ship and then order it to take you to your objective ( see the GB Bot section above for more reference ). Your GB Bot will take you to a Combustion Chamber door. Hit the grey button on the door , this will open it up. Enter the door and a fire will start up but if you'll go down to a bit then you'll see two buttons with red lights on it. Just shoot at those to make them work. This will turn off the fire and open up the door again. Pick up the thing in the middle of the room ( from where the fire was blowing up ). This item is an afterburner cooler and you'll be needing it later in the mission. Now order your GB Bot to take you to your next objective. When you are near a forcefield then hit the button nearby to deactivate it ( if you already hav'nt done that ). Fly out and use your GB Bot to reach to your next objective. Snatch up the pass key and then again move to your next objective. While doing that if you stuck in a situation that your GB Bot passed through somewhere and you could'nt then notice that 'yellow' thing is an explosive so shoot at it .. that'll blow it up but a fire will start off in your path. Now here you can order your GB Bot to use the fire extinguisher and extinguish the fire or you can try being a hero and cross through it. Thus keep on using your GB Bot to reach your objectives till you got the infomation from the computer about Dr. Swietzer and then use & follow your GB Bot to a steel gate. Blast through it and end the level. Once again , GB Bot won't keep on taking you to your objectives unless you order it to do so. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- B) MISSION 2: Novak Corporate Prison OBJECTIVES: At the end of Mission 1 , you found out that Dr. Swietzer is being held at Novak Corporate Prison. You need to get him out of there , and a shuttle is ready to escort him but you need to destroy the Turrents securing the area to ensure safety of the shuttle. ( Note that theres also another objective of destroying the prison records but that won't be necessary to accomplish this mission. Still you can complete that with your GB Bot ... check the second option of the GB Bot menu for that if you wish to complete it ). Use your GB Bot to locate and destroy all the Turrents. As soon as you are done , forcefields blocking the path to your next objective will get deactivated. Go inside. Now this facility have minimum , medium & maximum security sections and forcefields blocking them. You need to find the corresponding keys and use them to unblock them. Use your GB Bot to get the job done. Make sure you familarize yourself on using your inventory & always use your keys at the right place the right way or you'll be fighting off few of those 'evil robots'. Keep on doing this untill you come to the position where your next objective is the Maintenance Area ( you'll know this while peaking inside the GB Bot menu ). Reach the maintenance area and here you're gonna do something other than finding keys and deactivating forcefields. You'll see that this room contains an impenetrable glass with a vat of some green liquid. What you need to do right now , is to do something because of which the guards take the doc. to the minium security level. So what you'll do is to hit the left lever ( there are two levers in this room with red lights ). A drone will come in , crosses over the vat of green liquid, don't do anything yet till it picks up the spherical item & tends to cross over the liquid again. When its over the liquid with that spherical items just hit the right lever and you're done. The toxic will fill up and the doc. will be taken to the minimum security level. Use your GB Bot again to reach to Dr. Swietzer and hit the button to open up his cell and the transport will grab him away to the end of the mission. Congratulations! You just completed the most irritating mission of the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- C) MISSION 3: Piccu Station & SRAD Research OBJECTIVES: >Dr. Swietzer has agreed to help us and now we need to pick up his research backup data from his Lab and use it as an evidence against S. Dravis. Now as mentioned above , you need to keep on going to your objectives by using your GB Bot extra-ordinary path finding system till you reach an area with lightning towers. You need to blow them up to deactivate the forcefield , blocking your path to your next objective. Theres a main tower , you don't need to mess with it , shoot at the thinnest part of the smaller towers and that'll be enough to blow them up. The forcefield will be deactivated and continue with your objectives. You'll pick up the key , head back to the surface and towards the doc lab. Enter it by breaking up the glasses at the top , i recommend using your secondary weapon to get the job done. Move in the lab and again start following your GB Bot. You'll soon need to get a Data Catridge from a Thief bot ( the green ones ). Use your GB Bot to reach them and keep on destroying them untill you get the data catridge ( the catridge can be in any of the thief robots moving around so use your GB Bot to take you to each of them ). Pick up the catridge and again use your GB Bot to reach to your next objective i.e. somewhere to upload the catridge. When you've done that , you'll be introduced by a Super Thief ( the red robot which will be doing real annoying stuff ). Use your good old GB Bot to reach it and get rid of it. Take the catridge and head towards the surface and out right through the broken glass to end the mission. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- D) MISSION 4: PTMC Corporate Headquarters OBJECTIVES: >You need to upload the data catrdige you took in the previous mission to send the data to Suzuki. You start near some railway tracks and your first objective is to reach the train station. You got it! , you gonna use your GB Bot again to go there. But be careful , there are fast moving trains on these tracks which can blow you off. You can make few affords to avoid getting hits by those but that won't be much useful. The best way is to use the intervals you get while flying over the tracks i.e. places where you can put your ship at some rest. Wait for the trains passby, because many times you'll encounter places where another train will appear just 2 seconds after the first one. Just keep on doing that , till you somehow manage to reach the train station. That was the hardest part of the mission , so make sure you make a quick save after you're done with it, if you already were'nt making saves while resting at the intervals. Ok then , the same thing , keep going to your objectives using the GB Bot till you reach the place where you need to upload the data. Bring your ship at the middle of the room and hit your 'Use Inventory' key ( \ by default ) to start the uploading process. A cutscene will show the data upload process ( and you'll be notified by a text too ) and then you'll be introduced two clone ships , claimed to be PTMC Mercendaries ( according to a text during the cutscene and offcourse the Bot menu ) There are three turrents to support them but after some reloads i just directly found a light cover and went for one of them. It got destroyed and the mission ended , don't know what happend to the second one. Anywayz , once you're done with them , that'll end the mission and you'll fly over a metal wall in the cutscene. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- E) MISSION 5: Red Acropolis Research Station OBJECTIVES: >Suzuki received the data and agreed to help us but he was attacked & dead. You are believed to be a terrorist and Red Acropolis Research is attacked. Now you need to save 3 out of 5 reactors for a particular amount of time , till they evacuate red acropolis personnels and then get the hell out of the facility. Nothing to do at all , i just renamed my GB Bot to Runner ( this is where i noticed that we can actually rename it ). Use your GB Bot unit ( whatever its name is ) to defend any reactor loosing its health speedly ( you can check the remaining health of reactors at the left ) for 12 minutes. I was able to defend all 5 of them and then after 12 minutes you'll be asked to get out of the facility. Just instruct your GB Bot to take you to the exit then follow it to the end of the level. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- F) MISSION 6: Martian Nomad Caverns OBJECTIVES: >A CED ship is crashed in this area and we need to grab it to get some resources. Make your way through the narrow canyon till you reach the place where you can see a platform. Hit the two black items holding the platform to bring it down. Use your GB Bot to reach the collector's icon and pick it. Then instruct your GB Bot to take you to the builder's icon and it'll take you to a place with few strange metal thing comming out of ground , and a small path for you to go through them. But only one of them is with a deactivated forcefield. So go through it , and a 60 seconds timer will start , when you'll pass it , then the forcefield will be reactivated and another one will go down. Then you have to pass through that one to deactivate another one. Keep doing this within the time limit of 60 seconds. You'll automatically pick up the builder's icon while passing through the last one. Now head towards the priest's hall(GB). Now if you'll look around , you'll find two places with pink light and an icon sign at their top. Place the two icons in those two cubes ( make sure you enter there enough to place those , and don't forget to hit the use inventory item key ). When you've placed an icon in one of those pink space then make sure that it matches with the one at the top of it. If not then pick it up and enter it in the other one. Once you've kept the right one at the right place , you can't pick it up back. When both of them are at the correct places , try to enter the door and make your way to the priest icon. Now here you will see that the preist icon is soon covered by a forcefield and your GB Bot unit will throw you a hint. All you have to do is to look down , there you can see few blood marks. Just fly over those in a way that you don't go at a place where those blood marks are'nt present and you need to fly over all of them to be considered as the chosen one. Once done, the forcefield will be deactivated and you just pick up the preist icon. Now head towards the preist door using your GB Bot and look back to see another pink cube. Just keep your preist icon in it as you did with the builder's , collector's icon before this and head back towards the door again to open it. Here you need to face with a real big enemy robot i.e. Homunculus. Start shooting as you normally do,make sure you to get all the pick ups available. Keep shooting at it ( use your Naphlam for sure ) , till its down. You will get a message about a transport comming to pick up the downed CED ship but wait.. Homunculus will rise up again and hit it again till the mission ends. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- G) MISSION 7: PTMC Research Bunker OBJECTIVES: >Obstain virus sample so that the friendly guys can adjust the anti- virus accordingly. Ok now , use your GB Bot unit till it takes you to a place where you can see four switches ( red lights one ). You , as usual need to hit those till a blue generator is revealed. Keep firing at the generator till it gets destroyed. The undestrucable turrents which were blocking your way are destroyed,so is the field. Continue and enter. Again use your GB Bot to reach your objectives. When you reach at the door near and try to enter it , you'll see that your ship is covered by fumes right away. So, what i simply did was instead of trying to extinguish the fire. I went right away to the generator ( we can't just fire and destroy it , like we did before ) and smashed my ship against it. That'll do,now go running out of the door and keep going to your next objectives till you reach a place where you see two buttons. Shoot them and keep going on with your objectives till you instruct your GB Bot to take you to the virus samples. It'll take you to a place with two fire jets. You'll see a virus sample in front of each jet. You need to go in the fire to pick it up because we're not going to try to extinguish it. Now if you'll look opposite to the two jets , you'll see one of those red lights button. Shoot it , and then look at the ceiling for a door towards the ascending lift, that door is probarly at the center so just go through it and to the ascending life to end this mission. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- H) MISSION 8: PTMC Dol Ammad Fuel Refinery OBJECTIVES: >While the scientists are examining the virus you are sent to destroy this facility Take out your GB Bot till it takes you to a complex with three stacks. Now choose one of them and keep trying with your afterburner till you reach far enough where you can see a small room to rest your ship and afterburner till you are ready to go through the next door ( with in the stack ) and then to the main complex inside. Now keep moving to your objectives untill you see a huge rotating objects with red lights moving with it. You'll see that the object is blowing up some fire so you can't enter through the opening. So all you need to do is to shoot the red switches moving around with it. This will turn off the fire and you can now enter through the opening. Keep moving around to your objectives which will include the same i.e. shooting at all those buttons. When your GB Bot finally takes you out of the complex and towards some small structures then all you have to do here is press the switch at the middle of the structures. This will deactivate the forcefield stopping you from blowing up the thing at the bottom. Then instruct your GB Bot to take you to the next structure till you get at the place where the door is closed. Do the same here i.e. destroy the thing at the bottom then look around and you will find a door. Enter it and then continue with your next objective. While the whole complex is melting down you'll come across a place where you'll see a small forcefield and a door at its 180 degrees turn. Enter that door, look back then up and you'll find yourself a switch to deactivate the forcefield. Enter the forcefield till you reach a huge room thanks to a broken pipe. Look around the right side and you'll find a data catridge. Pick it up and you'll get a transmission about a secret complex which you need to explore after you're done with the mission. Now instruct your GB Bot to take you to your next objective till you reach at the place where a fan is pulling objects towards it. Remember that your GB Bot will pass through it , but you don't have to do that. All you have to do is to fire some of your secondary weapon. The fan will also pull them towards it and that will reverse its direction and now you can use this fan to fly up at the top ( your ship really did'nt need it thou ). Now don't try to fly down because you won't be able to do that. Just fire at the thinnest place of the object you see at the top. Keep trying till it blow up , with the object the fan will blow up too and now you can pass through it. Nothing hard after that , simply follow your GB Bot to the end of the level. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >SECRET LEVEL: Orizon Zero: If you picked up the data catridge during mission 8 then now you can explore this secret level. Keep moving to new areas using your GB Bot till you reach a strange green object. Just move close enough to the object to end the level. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I)MISSION 9: PTMC Spacecraft Factory OBJECTIVES: >You need to deliver some proves to CED but for that you need a new ship so you gonna steal it. A cargo ship is there to get all the job done. All you need to do is to assist it. >You can destroy all the stabilizers, but thats not necessary to complete the mission. Just try and find some shades while following your friendly cargo ship inside the factory because the heat from the mercury sun is just enough to put your ship on fire. Keep following the cargo ship till its stopped because of a forcefield with a room behind it. Fly up and search for a small opening to that room. Enter through that and deactivate the forcefield by shooting at the switches at the two sides of the forcefield to deactivate it. Your ship will start moving but soon will be stopped by another forcefield. Do the same to deactivate that. Remember that you need to destroy all the enemy robots to avoid the cargo ship from stopping to repair itself. While doing that , when you'll encounter a walker ( the huge stationary robot ) just get behind it and attack till its down to its knees. Just keep following the cargo ship to the end of the level. And i don't recommend using your GB Bot here , because this will mix up your actual objectives and the optional ones. Besides you have another thing to follow here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- J)MISSION 10: CED Lunar Command Base OBJECTIVES: >Upload the data to the mainframe. This is one of the huge levels of the game so get ready for some long lasting action. Launch your GB Bot and go to the Data Security key. It will take you to a tower through a lower level door and up to get the key. Once you have the key come out of the tower and strike your ship against the huge complex door in front of you , it'll open it up. Enter it and instruct your GB Bot to take you to your next objective. Remember that when you'll instruct your GB Bot to take you you to a data uploading interface then it'll take you to a ruined ship and near it will be a pilot log. Read it and you'll know that you need to use your stealth techniques. Shoot the wreckage of the ship and you'll find yourself a data uploading interface , objective complete. Use your GB Bot to go to the Data Uplink room and read all the data uploading instructions while doing that ( you'll identify the buttons somehow i guess ). Break the glasses and enter. Inside the room fire at everything which can work and then come out and bring your ship in the middle of the two blue nodes thou you'll get an error. Now you need to shut down the Nano Defense System. Just instruct you GB Bot to take you to the switch. Make sure you don't hit any other switches because there are few others in the same room as the Nano Defense switches. As soon as you enter the room turn left and behind the column is the required switch. Head back to the room with broken glasses and out between the nodes again. But you'll get another error this time that your ship have insufficient memory plasma. Instruct your GB Bot to take you to the memory plasma generator and activate the switch there. Once you've done that , instruct your GB Bot to take you to a memory plasma , keep your eye open to identify a memory plasma i.e. a hi-tech spherical object ( with the others here ). You only have 40 seconds before its totally wasted so head back between the nodes within the time limit and that'll end the mission. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- K)MISSION 11: PTMC Storage Facility OBJECTIVES: >One of our pilots have been captured. You need to fly to titan and locate & rescue him. Follow the GB Bot through tunnels and stuff till you get near a cart. Look below the cart and you'll see a switch , hit it to make the cart work and make the blocked entrance gets unblocked. Continue following and you'll come across another one. Repeat! . Follow your GB Bot to the secondary forcefield switch , hit it and destroy the secondary forcefields backup generators to turn off the secondary forcefield. Now do the same for the primary one , destroy the generators and you are done. Now you need to get the HUB key , do that , reach the prison and take the prisoner out. Soon you'll know it was all , just a trap. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- L)MISSION 12: PTMC Proving Grounds OBJECTIVES: >Escape You begin in a torture chamber , whenever a lock opens and fire starts comming out .. shoot it and it'll get destroyed till you have destroyed all of them including the big one at the middle. Now fire at the force fields so that your lasers or anything else hit them and then the generators which are'nt visible directly. When you are done with both of them just use your GB Bot to keep going to to your objectives. when you get to Level 4 of the map, you will fight a frag rocket boss instead of proceeding downwards to fight the Spider Bot, turn around and go back out to the area you came in from. then fight the second frag boss. this time you will see a forcefield drop on the wall and not the floor. go through to reveal a hidden room with a data cartridge. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >SECRET LEVEL: High Velocity Weapons Research: Find color keys to open corresponding doors. Hopefully your GB Bot will take you through correct pathways and if it dose'nt then you are on your own to complete your objectives. For a hint , just don't use the green elavators , they're kinda useless , most of the times atleast. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- M)MISSION 13: CED Expediator Dreadnaught OBJECTIVES: >The troopers have taken over and you need to destroy them Not much to do here. Just a search & destroy kind of mission .. Activate your GB Bot and find the recon interface which tells you how many troopers are remaining on the level. Find Af Machen and switch it off. Your GB Bot cannot find the troopers so you need to do that yourself. Nothing much to do here. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- N)MISSION 14: CED Orbital Network Transmitter OBJECTIVES: >Broadcasting the anti-virus program Keep moving to your objectives using your GB Bot untill you reach the Data upload room. Use your GB Bot to reach the engineering where you can setup the defense network output. Go back to the room after setting the clock to zero. Activate the switch in this order top-left, bottom- right, bottom-left, top-right. Now you need to align the beam nodes and when done just turn on the power and defend till the process is complete to end the level. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- P)MISSION 15: Dravis' Stronghold OBJECTIVES: >Get rid of Hellion , the robot Find the lava by exploring all the caves. Find the pass key and then three locked doors. Find dials which can be activated , inside the room. When you get a message , fly through the opening created by the lava and out the other side . Open the door by the switch above the entrance. Grab the key and back to the control room coz the lava is rising again. Find a forcefield and fly down , that'll deactivate it. You'll be introduced with your final boss. Destroy it to end the game. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ====================== 4)Credits & Copyright: ====================== This thing is mine & mine only. It can't be reproduced in any way , unless you have my permission. Thanks for using!