Getting closer to the end I think, making good progress.
Last off, I had discovered a burnt out building after putting out a very large forest fire. It was near the beginning town so after a quick resupply I made my way in. As usual, I found myself getting attacked like every 10 seconds once inside, and to make it worse, it was all low-level enemies. I hate when I feel I have to constantly stop in RPGs to do the equivalent of swatting at gnats. It just takes you out of it.
The building wasn't very big, did have some cool tank weapons to sell off, and and I was also able to find another lens, this time a "camera lens". This makes 2 that I have, and I'm still hoping that I did not miss another, I'm pretty curious what the scientist guy north of Canabelle will make with them. There was also another "boss guy", who looked a lot like one of the Banana Splits..
His name was "Salmonella HQ", not leader or anything like that, but this guy was the actual headquarters itself, or so he claimed. He was pretty easy, as I'm finding almost anything is when dealing with them from inside the tanks. This makes only 2 main bosses left.
I left and went back to town. I had discovered that the cave that used to hold the Salmonella Gang was now transformed into a trader camp, and was able to get all my tanks the best engine, allowing the max armor for each. That helped a lot. I got my shit together and made my way to Hell's Gate.
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| Hell's Gate |
I sort of expected things to get crazy difficult once I passed through the fence, but it just didn't really happen. The main resistance was in opening the gate, and being attacked by robot police. Even they weren't that tough. Once through, it was mostly desert, with a building in the middle, and a cave to the northwest. I figured I'd deal with the cave first, assuming the middle building would basically be the end game.
It turns out that the cave actually was not as insignificant as I thought. I wasn't being attacked by random enemies any more, it was all dogs with rocket launchers that were static NPCs. They were all triggered. Deeper into the cave I had to set out on foot, and that's where I found the "main" bad guy, "Bad Valdez", surrounded by wolves, and on a throne. He was assuming that I was the Red Wolf guy who was the previous owner of the red tank that I now had. I insisted that I wasn't him, but he just wasn't having it, and then uh, you know, he sent one of his butler wolves to bring some lady out?
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| Here she is, sir! |
She came out and laughed at the guy and then I had to fight him. I figured I'd be facing a quick death here. My guys were sort of injured, and I just wasn't expecting to find this guy. I was starting to think that this was the end of the game, or at least the "final boss".
In any case, the fight went on for a bit, and he did not do nearly as much damage as I thought he'd do. In fact, the guitar guy Rodriguez was way more powerful. I was able to beat him after awhile with no casualties on my side at all, and I was pretty surprised. Afterwards I got to see a short scripted sequence that I won't go into here for spoilers sake, and ended up back outside.
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| See that flying boxing glove? That's my soldiers attack.. |
I went back to a town and resupplied, etc. At this point the only "bounty boss" I have left to fight is Rodriguez, the guitar guy. I also have to see what the deal is with the building north of Hell's Gate, but I have to figure that I'm pretty close to wrapping this up...
HuckleCat
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