On the Road to Cauldron Lake (1).

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Last update:01 June 2022

This episode begins with a flashback.

Pick up the sunglasses from the bedside table and take some painkillers in the bathroom.

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Walk out of the bedroom and play the message recorded on the answering machine.

After that, go to the living room and turn on the TV.

Alice will enter the apartment soon.

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Talk to her for a while.

This is where the flashback ends.

Enter the car, get to the asphalt road and turn right.

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Once you reach a little sawmill, stop the car and examine this place.

You’ll find a hunting rifle here and eight bullets to this weapon.

Moreover, you’ll find a path leading to an equipment box.

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Arm yourself properly, get back to your car and keep driving forward.

You’ll reach a blocked tunnel.

Walk through it on foot, among all crashed cars in there.

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Finish them off and move forward.

Enter the car nearby and drive forward.

You’ll come to a place, where the asphalt road is blocked.

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you might omit is by driving through a motel nearby.

Pay exceptional attention to agent Nightingale’s room.

Once you collect everything that may prove useful, get back to the car and hit the road again.

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The ride won’t take long, however - you will reach a blocked bridge.

Get out of the car and walk through the bridge.

Be careful, as there are lots of haunted objects in here.

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Once you defeat the excavator, you’ll reach a light post and a car.

At some point, you will notice another blockade created by the Taken.

Turn right and get on the grass.

Defeat the haunted car driving in there.

Right after that go towards an enlightened garage.

Get in the car located inside the garage.

Get on the asphalt road and keep driving.

Drive through a bridge and stop the car in front of another roadblock.

Get out of the car and go on foot.

Take it all and finish every single enemy in here.

Take everything from the emergency box nearby, get in the car and drive forward.

On the right, you will notice the junkyard entrance.

Search the building located in the junkyard and you’ll obtain some flashbangs, a few batteries, etc.

Moreover, use the switch located on the top floor of the building.

Use the boards to drive through the junkyard.

Reach the light post located in the middle of the yard.

Climb up the ladder located in here.

Turn on the generator and climb down back to the ground.

Go towards the switch shown in a short cut-scene.

Before you’ll be able to use it, a bulldozer will attack you.

If you have a flare gun and some ammunition, shoot one projectile to defeat the machine.

After the fight, use the switch mentioned above.

You’ll reach a light post and a car.

Get in the car and follow the mountain way.

You’ll find an abandoned town.

Access it by walking up the stairs.

Jump down to the lower floor through a hole in the floor.

You’ll find a mine cart.

Push it to get to the next part of the level.

You’ll find a lamp and some stuff that may prove useful in combat situations.

Looks like there’s a hell of a battle right ahead of you.

Go through the town.

If someone attacks you, back up and use the lamp to gain superiority in combat.

Once you reach a spotlight, an enormous group of Taken will come get you.

Use the spotlight and flares to burn them all alive.

Push the cart nearby and search the building you will automatically enter.

to get out of it and continue your journey, you must push another mine cart.

You’ll find a wooden construction.

Collect all the equipment located in here, then walk down to the cart.

Jump into it and release the brake.

Birds will attack you during the ride, but they’re not a serious problem.

When the cart stops, jump out of it immediately and go towards the nearest light source.

so that continue the journey, you must climb up the ladder to get on the wooden construction.

You’ll find another cart to push up there.

Beware of the birds the entire time.

You’ll reach some buildings.

Defeat all the enemies in here.

After the combat, enter the shed.

Pick up everything you find in there and exit the shed through the back door.

Enter the forest nearby.

Kill them all and keep running forward.

You’ll find a generator.

Turn it on to provide yourself a light source.

Something will fall from the sky again, and more enemies will appear in the vicinity.

Finish them off and run towards the Cauldron Lake.

You’ll reach an abandoned rail wagon.

It is quite an interesting place.

Inside, you’ll find some flashbangs.

Once you finish everyone in here, move forward.

You’ll reach a generator.

Turn it on to provide yourself with a light source.

Collect all the equipment lying nearby and take the mountain way.

You’ll reach a crane, and a rail wagon will fall from the sky right next to you.

Ignore it all and continue your journey.

Walk upstairs, but be careful, as there is some black goo in here.

You’ll find another abandoned town.

Walk into a building nearby (there’s a supply box inside) and walk upstairs.

From there, jump to the ground.

Search the area so you can find some useful equipment.

Arm yourself, turn on the generator nearby and prepare to fight a large group of opponents.

After the fight, use the control panel nearby.

The panel is responsible for the elevator.

Use to reach the higher level.

Walk out of the elevator and examine the vicinity.

Your way is blocked with haunted objects, and Taken will appear here very soon.

Kill them all and use your flashlight to reset the path.

Enter the mining tunnel and continue the walk, liquidating every haunted object in your sight.

You’ll reach the tornado.

Jump of the wooden platform on the soil.

Get close to the heart of tornado, using rocks nearby as cover.

You’ll find a box with a flare gun and plenty of ammunition.

After the cut-scene, you will be moved to Alan’s apartment in New York.

Walk out of the bedroom and go to the living room.

Light up the word “Clicker” with your flashlight.

This way, you’ll make this little equipment physically appear.

Go ahead and pick it up.

Now you’ll be moved to a place filled with signs.

Light them all up with your flashlight.

In the end, you’ll make the Bird Leg Cabin appear.

Step inside to get to finally deal with the Dark Presence.

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