This one is old business to most of the members here, but if you want a grenade truck, check out the map below: From the northeast bus stop in Bowa-Seko, go a short distance to the west to the weapon shop and wait behind the buildings. Soon a roving patrol that has a grenade-launching assault truck will appear. Fire a shot into the air to get their attention and they'll come to you, but you're safe behind the buildings. Wait for them to get out of their truck and then dispatch them via your favorite method, and voila, you have a grenade truck that you can use to wreak havoc anywhere in the FC2 world!
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There is also at least one other grenade truck. One of the patrols in the southern part of the map has one, I was around the ranger station or post office in a serious fight when the truck rolled in, but somehow they never fired a shot and after the dust settled, I hopped in the truck and was surprised to find that it was grenade equipped. One of these days I'll figure out which one it was.
If I could figure a way to make the map show which patrol routes have which vehicle, I'd do it. Maybe different colors I suppose. Some of them are only a guy in a hatchback, so those aren't as bad as running up against a truck with a 50 cal in it. Another thing to do eventually. I really want to finish the game once though. lol
Is that little hatchback car a Datsun or Nissan? I forget. Or is it even based on a real car?
Man D_B, you need to take some time for yourself and finish the game. I know how much we all appreciate the w@&k you've put in, now take a break and enjoy the end-game.
Of course you should have the opportunity to play the game through - the rest of us have had the pleasure of your hard w@&k for a long time now. Of course, with that said, the user in me is looking forward to more of your great ideas! One of these days, if I can get a decent PC, I'd like to do screen cap of key vantage points so that I can add them as links to the maps. It would be great to click a guard post on the map and have an actual image come up, or perhaps even a small slide show. Having tiny camera icons linked to screen captures on the major location maps might also be helpful. Oh well, one of these days... (I still haven't done much more with the mission descriptions...)
As to the car, I think I recall reading somewhere that it is modeled after an actual vehicle - due to the age, I'd guess that it is a Datsun.
Yes D_B... take your time and finish the game now... You had a lot of w@&k putting the map together, you should enjoy it now.
Funny thing, I just noticed we are playing with distinct approaches. You mapped the whole game to perfection and now are playing it for the first time. I played it avoiding most spoilers as possible and enjoying the feeling of being in a hostile territory, alone, with a beautyfull and unknown landscape ahead of me.
In my first playthrough I remeber thinking "- what will I find if I go this way?" or "-Wow... a desert!!"
Every mission was taking me to a place I've never seen, and therefore, the strategy played a huge role in my experience as I never knew in advance what the area was like, if I could snipe from a distance or had to make my way into a shanty town or the junk yard. To have an alternative loadout in the crates was essential in my first run, otherwise accomplishing a mission would be even harder (which happened a lot, in fact, for a wrong choice of weapons), and a few times I found myself going back to a safe house to swap guns and try again!!
Now I know whats ahead of me so I can choose the best loadout from the beginning.
If you don't have a sniper rifle with you, the method mentioned by pzrzao would do the trick. However, if you have a sniper rifle with you, things would be even easier. You just have to wait behind the car at the bus station and face towards the Weapon Shop. Be patient. Once the Grenade Launcher mounted truck is visible and is near the Weapon Shop, snipe the driver. His partner will take the driving seat and snipe him as well. Now go get the grenade-launching assault truck in style. No need to walk upto it. Just drive the car and dump it when you are near the prized vehicle!
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Here are the other locations I had encountered the grenade launcher mounted assault trucks apart from the one near the Weapon Shop. I've marked the regions with red lines.
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Yep, have them all plotted with nice color-coded lines now, new map is up here http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GACZKOUT
Here's how you steal the grenade launcher mounted truck my way!
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If possible, view it in HD quality in youtube.
Nice job. I love how the gunner just drops into the line of fire in the drivers seat.
Thanks, spaceboy. I too like the way the gunner takes the driving seat after his partner is killed. Easy target. ;)
You see your friend being shot in the face while driving and what is your reaction?
Take his place behind the wheel, of course...
Kind of Artificial Dumbness too...
Cold blood spearhead, you just wait for them to get into line of shot... excellent
wow, that video is amazing, both from the shooting standpoint (great sniping) plus the HD quality. Do you know if YouTube purges the video after a time? I would hate to lose these excellent videos that you and spaceboy are creating.
That's pretty much what I do to, only not usually so graceful, sometimes takes me a couple shots. But, after hopping in a car to drive over there, I usually run over the bodies just to be sure.....
Thanks, guys. :)
PZ, I have an account in youtube, so I upload the videos from inside my account. The files are safe till I delete them myself. I keep the originals in my hard drive as well...just in case someone asks for them.
hello,
if you are new to Bowa-Seko, you'll eventually hit the capital, Mosate Selao (I call it Port Selao) - from there leave by the east exit, cross the bridge, turn right (careful, Guard Post) and instead of following the road to Marina, turn left to the Airfield. fight your way to the very end of the strip. There is a sniper tower, below it a mounted grenade launcher, and in front of it... there waits an unmanned brand new Assault Truck with a grenade launcher equipped :)
Perhaps some merc will try to use it himself once you approach... But I don't remember that they'd used it to shoot a me. The last time, however, when I noticed there was a mounted grenade launcher next to the sniper tower, the truck was gone... I only just returned to check out, the truck is back again.
Good one Art...
I went to the southern airstrip yesterday to save Hakim and checked the GL there. I saw that truck too. But, inspired by you, I returned to my hood-less gren truck parked by the track to the east and returned to the Marina...
Thats a good tip in fact.. ;)
cheers :)
Quote from: JRD on April 26, 2009, 05:50:38 AM
I returned to my hood-less gren truck
That's exactly how I like 'em: stripped to the bones... easy to identify your own truck among all those other vehicles in case they bunch up ;D
On a side note, today I had to abandon my beloved old truck. I did that Nitrous Oxide mission that forced me to drive a lorry all across Bowa... and that made me lose my gren truck :(
I went to the post office, finished the mercs there and did a quicksave (PC). Then I awaited the patrolling gren truck... over and over again I shot him, checked the colour of the truck (blue... eek) until like 3 or 4 reloads later a white gren truck presented itself... deal :-X
Mine happens to be white...
Got it on a "sale"... think It's been stolen from some German merc... who knows? ::)
your car dealer might have been the one who "found" my old car... ;D ;D ;D I hope you finished him off good :-X
Talk about coincidence - I found that GL truck at the airfield for the first time this morning, and I was all excited to report to you guys and wouldn't you know it - you'd already found it! :)
sorry to have beaten you to it :) nevertheless, apparently we all have fun looking for that stuff :-X
It's all part of the fun! :)
I've been practicing Art's technique of keeping the same vehicle. Lately, that has been the Jeep Wrangler - performs well off road - hood-less of course, and has survived many encounters with angry mercs... one time it even survived an RPG attack. Then, it got caught up in a fire and blew up... sad day in Bowa-Seko... :-\
Can't you get an upgrade to the A/T to grenade by completing enough missions?
Yes, if you do the missions to increase your reputation, you'll get safe house upgrades, which eventually leads to the GL upgrade on your safe house vehicles. The unfortunate part (at least for me) was that I have never received the GL upgrade until almost the end of the game, somewhere around 88% or so if I recall correctly.
I grabbed this truck today (top post) thanks to this guide! I used it to wipe out the crash site guys so I could get the guards off my aft to explore for diamonds...
Glad that you found the technique useful - I almost never go to northeast Bowa without grabbing this truck, especially if I need to go past the Outpost.
I almost always use the stationary (local) GL AT from the airfield in east Bowa. Just walk in, kill the mercs, scope the area, and grab the GL AT that sits next to the sniper tower :)
Interesting session this morning. Was at 69% and heading into the railroad bridge mission with Frank as my buddy. I'd done all of the weapons dealer missions, and some of the buddy quests (the ones issued at Mike's). I'd done all of the buddy side missions (the ones issued after you receive the orders for a main mission).
So Frank and I blow the bridge, and I run toward the GP toward the west and stand behind the sand bags waiting for the mercs I know will arrive from the west. In they run and a few grenades later the mission was accomplished. As I was preparing to get into the waiting Unimog, up comes the message that my safe houses were upgraded with mounted weapons - cool, I thought - let's see what we find there. Immediately following I received the message that I'm at reputation level 4.
Made my way to the GP west of the railroad bridge and cleared house - there was a brand new GL AT waiting for me. I cannot remember receiving a GL AT that early as a safe house upgrade in prior plays through. Interestingly, after clearing out the 3 mercs at the safe house, my percentage completed jumped to 73%.
As an aside because this particular safe house can be difficult to unlock at times, I notice that two mercs hang around the building and the third is off to the west a bit. He typically comes in guns ablaze, but he sometimes runs off into the woods and hides, preventing you from unlocking the safe house.
So here I am, reputation level 4 with a GL at all my Bowa safe houses feeling like I'm on cloud nine. The next mission will be to meet with Mbantuwe who has a briefcase full of diamonds I'm supposed to deliver to Major Tambossa, but I think that I'll play around in the FC2 world with my new toy for a while. First step was to go to Mosate Selao to antagonize the town mercs - was able to enter the restricted area to the north of the APR headquarters without much of a challenge from the mercs guarding the place. Afterward, I returned to Leboa to do a predecessor mission at PetroSahel with the GL AT. One note - even though you have the GL ATs in Bowa, you still have what you left Leboa with at the safe houses.
Yeah, i stole a GLAT in the south for my foray back North... I obviously left its area when I went inside a safehouse and saved... when I came out later it was gone.
Havent figured out the reputation progress just yet either. Seems I ground out all the buddies I could to finally get back to rep 3.
Strange that you should lose your GL AT unless you hopped into another vehicle - typically vehicles stay where you leave them until they feel that you've deserted them. ;D
There is a point late in the game where you actually reach reputation level 5.
Quote from: PZ on October 10, 2009, 09:30:52 AM
up comes the message that my safe houses were upgraded with mounted weapons - cool, I thought - let's see what we find there. Immediately following I received the message that I'm at reputation level 4.
Made my way to the GP west of the railroad bridge and cleared house - there was a brand new GL AT waiting for me.
At least for me the strangest glitch in the game happens at this precise point you are describing PZ. When the mission you had just completed is the last of all the faction missions and the GL AT upgrade occurs.
Sometimes this happens:
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Something strange here.
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Two ammo boxes and two barrels?
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Yes definitely 2 ammo boxes!
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Map shot for location with AT behind.
This is actually screen shots of two ATs superimposed over the top of each other. A .50 cal and a GL hence the two barrels and ammo boxes.
Be aware that if you walk up and touch these if you ever find them like this to jump back away as quickly as possible as they will start twisting and jumping around and fling themselves away from each other and can kill you if you happen to get caught under one of them as it comes down.
wowzers... I've seen two guns (flare and pistol) merged -- you see that quite often on mercs -- but that double AT is crazy :) Nice find there, mandru :-X
on a sidenote, I see you managed to get the image filesize down to around 150kb, well done ;D :-X
Thanks Art, now if I can get the color to shut off on the link to post in the gallery description I'll riding high - lol
By the way I was copying and pasting your code from your minitutorial so I've no clue what went wrong there in the gallery :P
Quote from: mandru on October 14, 2009, 03:38:42 PMI've no clue what went wrong
Fixed the tutorial, replied there too. Check the last pic of yours in the gallery, I edited the description and it works now :) You can check it for reference or the tutorial in the taking screenshots topic. Cheers mate :-X
I 've been having so much fun trying to get a good series of screen shots for the two superimposed ATs when they are touched and fling themselves away from one another that it occurred to me if I loaded a copy of my save game looking at this situation anyone who wanted could get a better first hand than any number of screen shots could deliver. I personally like boarding them and finding myself spinning wildly at the level of the tree tops looking down at the tree tops, sky and ground flashing past.
I've uploaded but realized as I launched it off that I don't have winzip or rar for compression and the file was something like 5.5. Mb so it may be rejected by the system.
we have a link for recommended software here (http://openworldgames.org/owg/forums/index.php?topic=878.msg11317#msg11317) at OWG, there you'll find 7-zip which knows a lot of compression formats :)
Thanks Art I have the compression program now.
Sorry about the file size on that game save. I am trying to get ahead of the curve where I figure things out before I trip embarrassingly over them.
chillax mate :) Just upload the compressed savegame again, we'll replace the big with the small ;)
Glad if we could help you and thanks for telling us (only if we know about problems we can provide help)
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Done and done!
Thanks Art