The Lost Highway is an optional 6 part EDF Side Mission. It is available immediately after unlocking the side missions from New LA.
Mission Summary[]
You begin at a highway crossing. After a "customs inspection", you get on a bus and go to a motel. Then you leave the motel by truck to the gas station. After finding out where the fuel is coming from, you proceed through a tangle of underground canals all the way to the tunnel. The tunnel is damaged by an earthquake, so the goal is to get out of here through an emergency exit. The exit from the tunnel leads you to a small railway station, unfortunately everything is destroyed by an earthquake, so you have to walk. A river flowing from the dam leads you through an underground cave to the coal mines. Together with the coal you get to the power plant. After inspecting the boiler and the engine room you will be greeted by the boss.
Gameplay[]
Part 1: Highway Problem[]
Go to the toll booth and shoot the switch through the window to open it. Get the blue keycard and use it nearby. Hop onto the conveyor belts leading to the next room. Hit the 02 switch to reveal vertical switches on the wall. This opens the pool of water nearby with the red keycard. Backtrack to the larger room and use it. Go through the vent to get the yellow key. Use it on the door in the big room. Get in the bus to the driver's seat and it will start moving.
Part 2: Stinking Motel[]
When the bus stops, go inside the motel. Head down the corridor and through a bedroom. There's a blue key in the bathroom. Head back and use it in the cafeteria. Shoot the switch to unlock the door nearby. Head into the kitchen and up the deep fryer vent. Go left and find another bedroom. Open the closet to find the red key. Use the red key down the corridor. Head to the office and hit the 2 switches. Go outside and to the green truck down the road. Open it.
Part 3: Toxic Gas[]
Get out and head to the other side of the gas station. Hit the switch on the gas pump (use the PDA to see it). This will cause an explosion and a hole in the ground near the side. Go in the tank to get the blue key. Go around the building to find the blue key access. Hit the switch and go through the main entrance. There's a switch behind the counter on the right. The yellow keycard is in the wall next to the cash register. Use it in the car wash. This will move the car wash machine over so you can access the door on the wall inside. Get the red key upstairs. Use it outside. There's a crack on the wall with a poster. Go down the sewer. In the dark control room do the switch puzzle and hit a switch on the corner. Also push the red arrow. This will unlock in area inside the sewer funnel. Be careful navigating all the moving parts. When you approach 3 tunnels, go through the middle one.
Part 4: Dark Tunnel[]
Go to the mail truck and hit the switch inside. Open the door it illuminates. Head through and open a gate leading to outside again. Swim underwater to a red key in another area. Head back and up the stairs to use the red key. Shoot the switch to open the small room and use the switch. Go outside through the vent and get the blue key in the broken box. Use the blue key back in the hallway. Go up the vent. Head down the stairs and into the water to get the yellow key. Blow up a crack in the wall to get out. Use the yellow key upstairs and then hit the switch. Head back to the water and head left.
Part 5: Bloody Mountains[]
Hop to the left side. Be careful not to fall. Follow the train tracks to a destroyed bathroom and get the Jetpack. Head to the center where there is a crashed and sunken train. Inside there's a yellow key you will need to fly to to get to it. Now go to the dam entrance (there's an Alien Armageddon poster next to it). Use the yellow key. Hit the channel lock switch. Head into the water and into the stopped turbine and follow the tunnel. Blow up the crack in the wall. Be careful the turbine can still kill you when stopped. Backtrack to the control room area but instead break the vents on the outside on and jump in. There's now a hole in the wall. Head upstairs and hit the switch behind the desk. It will quickly open the bookshelf in the corner. Hit the area 51 switch. Follow the water down the stream to the tunnel with "Area 51" on it. Head through and blow up the crack on the wall. Wait inside for an explosion and shoot the switch. Step to the side and shoot the switch on the drill machine again to reveal the blue keycard. Head through the maze on the side and find the blue door. Head through and find a control room for a drill. Hit the switches. When the drill stops, push the switch again to bring it back up. There's a red key in the hole. Head down the bridge and use the red key at the door. Hit switch to open the next door.
Part 6: Devil Visit[]
Go inside and take the elevator. Enter the first office and use the switch on the desk. The 4th will open a door with a red keycard. Go to the control room nearby to use it. Hit the switch combination behind you to open the door. Make your way outside and find a 1 and 2 shutter with sewage below. Go inside. You will get the blue key card. Get back out and use it back inside. There's a Battlebaron waiting for you.
Part 7: Jde O Hovno ("It's About Nothing")[]
Starting off in the room with the secret exit, grab the scuba gear and swim through some gears without getting crushed. After surfacing and entering the server room, head upstairs and blow up the explosives. Head through the hole and deal with some opposition in the cable car waiting room, use the speaker to get a keycard from the teller. Activate the cable car and head to the other side of the mountains. Left side has an amulet on top of a broken bridge, so be careful to not fall off. Right side has a pond and a hidden room behind some cacti, use explosives. Get the red keycard, press the switch inside and swim through the toxic pond while avoiding crushers. Once through, you'll end up in a gear room, where you enter the broken sides of the gears to turn them, starting from the left, then going right, ending up in the middle with an elevator. This will lead you back to the start of the section, so head back into the cable car, get on the other side and head back to the server room, use the keycard on the "Locked" monitor and exit.
Secrets[]
Part 1: Highway Problem[]
- Jump into the pool of toxic water and go under. There's a shaft leading to a room with a slot 4 weapon.
- In the room with the two water tanks you can open the panel above tank two.
- Behind the red door you can open the wall behind the second locker from the right for a secret room containing some slot 2 and 4 ammo. There is also a portable medkit behind a gate that can be blown up.
- Inside Secret 3, there is a poster of a dog if you shoot it in just the right spot you'll hear a dog whimper and a secret wall will open behind you with a slot 5 weapon.
- Inside the main warehouse next to the security monitor by the red door is a wall you can open up for a slot 6 explosive.
- Just outside the blue door you can open the pipe for some armor.
Uncounted Secrets[]
- After exiting the yellow door and heading towards the bus, there is a weak spot on the right wall that contains an H-item
Part 2: Stinking Motel[]
- After opening up the tiny kitchen and climbing into the vent, look up. There will be two breakable vents, break only one and climb up, you can shoot/kick the wall to reveal a ledge you can jump to for a slot 5 weapon.
- After dropping into the room with the red keycard you can open the dresser in the room and see a cracked wall inside, blowing it up reveals another cracked wall and a single slot 6 weapon. Blowing up the second wall reveals a box of slot 6 weapons.
- After opening the red door there is a stack of boxes on the right if you push the rightmost of the two box high stack the one of the left of it will lower revealing a slot 4 weapon.
- After opening the red door there is a shower room, use the handle in the left stall to open a panel behind the sink containing slot 2 ammo.
- After opening the red door in the security office use the computer (not the monitor) to open a panel behind you containing some ammo.
Uncounted Secrets[]
- In the lobby of the motel you can open the the very right of the wall behind the desk for some armor.
- After opening the red door there is a scale on your left, using it opens an panel above you containing a slot 3 weapon.
Part 3: Toxic Gas[]
- Behind the main counter (left upon entering store) use the shelves immediately to the left of the vending machine to reveal an amulet and a slot 5 weapon.
- Behind the food counter (across from the tables) use the rightmost refrigerator door for some ammo.
- Push the computer desktop when upstairs to reveal a little room behind the locker.
Uncounted Secrets
- Inside the gas station store you can use the cash register to open the pay phone outside for an H-item
Part 4: Dark Tunnel[]
- Inside the area accessed by the red key, in the bathroom turn the knob in the shower stall to lower a locker behind you for some ammo.
- Inside the yellow keycard room, between the security monitor and the flood controls is a wall you can open for a slot 4 weapon.
- Right at the end of the level, there is a hidden crack on the left wall of the hallway. Blow it up, and follow the tunnel to find the secret exit. Watch out for the Pig Cop, and the Octabrain inside, guarding the exit.
- In the original release from 1999, past the exit lies a portion of "Bloody Mountains," which includes an empty version of that map's jetpack secret. Due to the level ending before you can reach it, this secret is unreachable without cheats. This was fixed for the modified version used in AMC.
Part 5: Bloody Mountains[]
- At the very beginning before you drop off the collapsing cliffs, there's a crack hidden in the heavily-shadowed archway. Blow it up for a medkit and a Slot 5 weapon.
- In the room by the destroyed bathroom containing the jetpack is a crate full of booze, Drink/destroy them so you can fall down the crate containing another jetpack and a wall marked PUSH.
- In Secret 2 push the wall and jump back out the crate, a wall will open with a portable medkit and some ammo.
- Inside the power station after you enter the 2nd room before the control room if you look at the left wall you can open it up and unlock a door that leads you back out to the dam.
- Above the front of the train before the destroyed bathroom is a broken piece of the cliff containing another jetpack.
Part 6: Devil Visit[]
- On the outside there's a hole in the vent leading to an Amulet.
- Also outside there s a false panel you can open for some slot 9 weapons.
Part 7: Jde O Hovno ("It's About Nothing")[]
- After passing the crushers and surfacing you can open up one of the servers for some ammo.
- The other server is a switch that opens a panel in the room where you came out the water containing a slot 3 weapon.
- Outside near the gondola lift if you carefully make your way across the cliffs to the right there is a hole in the cliff containing some health and ammo.
Collectibles[]
- Cyber Pig-Cop Figure (located in Secret 3 of Highway Problem, can also be found in Daikarin)
- Claire Figure (located in Secret 5 of Stinking Motel, can also be found in Daikarin)
- Xarkos Figure (located in Secret 1 of Toxic Gas, can also be found in Daikarin)
- Darth Toxicus Figure (located in the secret exit of Dark Tunnel, can also be found in Daikarin)
- Princess Deanova Figure (located in Secret 2 of Bloody Mountains, can also be found in Daikarin)
Other Items of interest[]
- This mini-episode also contains a secret 7th map which can be found at the end of the 4th map, Dark Tunnels.