The Beach is an optional EDF Side Mission. It is unlocked after completing Episode 2.
Mission Summary[]
Cycloids have taken over this area and set up some kind of device at the dam. Fight your way through and destroy it. A squad of EDF soldiers managed to set up explosives but were killed before using them.
Gameplay[]
You start at a small beach with a hotel behind you, but don't enter the hotel just yet. There is some Slot 6 ammo on top of the slope with the water coming out. Now, enter the hotel and fight through to the top bedroom, then jump down into the garage looking area and blow up a wall in the elevator door. Take the elevator up and shoot a switch behind the bars to disable a force field, enter inside and flip the level inside to open the garage door. Deal with some Protector Drones, then go through the newly made hole. Go down the stairs into a cargo area and flip the switch to open the door on top of the slope from earlier. Backtrack and go through the door and head to the beach. Go to the other side of the beach and go up the stairs. Go across the footbridge and shoot the big switch in the building across, then swim inside the building (there's a down arrow on a wall pointing to the entrance). There is a shrinker in the meeting room required for progression. Go to the parking lot of Duke Burger and shoot the window of the firetruck while on top of a refridgerator and go through the small hole in the wall. Grab the blue keycard and go to the vehicle attraction next to the club and take the ride. At the end, go through the hole on your right and fight through the cave system. When you reach the citadel looking structure, swim inside it via the flashing vent. Once inside, swim up, take the elevator and press the switch to open a way inside the base, watch out for crushers. When you swim up, take the elevator, go up and flip the switch to reveal a blue keycard. Use it on a force field nearby, but get ready to fight a Swinelord and Cyberaliens. Take the elevator up to a hotel area, take the rightmost door to the backyard. Go left, enter the hotel from the back and press the two switches behind the counter. Go inside the storage area next to the door you've enter and take a path through the vents into a cavern. Blow it up and grab the yellow keycard from the building you're on and use it at the door with the posters. Take an elevator up and go into the office and press the switch to open up a door to the dam. Fight your way through a lot of enemies and at the top of the dam, blow up the Cycloid structure and get ready to fight a Battlebaron.
Secrets[]
- In the hotel lobby near the start, shoot a switch hidden behind the metal drawers. This will lower a soda machine, revealing a vent that leads to a Slot 0 weapon.
- Proceed through the fenced-in area, you will see the secret through the fence and locked door (it contains an armour vest and a Barrett) and open the gate with the switch. Return to the starting area and go through the now-opened gate, but hug the ledge on the left. Walk around this ledge to the secret.
- In the room with the blue key switch, shoot the fire extinguisher, then go through the hole, kill an Octabrain, and grab the Slot 8 weapon.
- To the right of Duke Burger, jump over the payphones onto the roof. Activate the wooden crate with the armor vest on top, and then go through the now-unobstructed duct into the store, containing an amulet, Zilla missile launcher and other useful items.
- To the left of the surfboard store, there is a narrow ledge under the black windows, follow the ledge around the corner, and jump onto the roof and past the ducts to a health amulet. This is the last secret before using the blue keycard to exit the beach area on the train, the remaining secrets are located after the caves. You cannot backtrack after riding the train.
- In the second beach area, go through the door under yellow and white checkerboard patterns, and go through the picture of a pinball machine next to babe posters for a nuke and an H-item.
- Go around the buildings near the start of the second beach area, and look for a black window with blood dripping from its frame. Jump onto the flaming barrel and then onto the gate, then go through the window to see babes in the shower.
- In the office with the switch that unlocks the elevator to the dam, interact with the USA map for the final secret.
Collectibles[]
- Fish Tank Oil Lamp - located in secret 2
- Flower Garland - located in secret 7
Trivia[]
- The garage hallway lights going out is most likely a reference to the first Skaarj encounter from Unreal (1998).