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F.E.A.R. Hints
Locate Harlan Wade
1 of 20: As soon as you step off the lift, the first of two nearby ceiling turrets will descend on the other side of the room and start firing.
2 of 20: TIP: After finishing off the second turret, either jump up onto the large pipe at the other end of its room or go back to where the first turret was and shoot the padlock off a door. Either route gets you to a crawlway with two remote bombs at its other end.
3 of 20: Find the ladder in the second turret's room that leads down to a crawlway, then climb up the ladder at its other end.
4 of 20: Proceed down the curving hallway slowly while looking up at the upper walkway, since several ATC guards will attack you from up there. Run back and drop down the hole the ladder's in if you need to retreat before finishing them all off.
5 of 20: A short way past that is the room where you can see Norton Mapes through a large unbreakable window.
6 of 20: After passing the screen where Harlan Wade appears and calls Mapes a lapdog, head up the stairs and turn right to find another ATC squad, starting with a lookout man crouching behind a barrel.
7 of 20: Finish him and the other two off, then look around for supplies before heading off down the hall that leads to the next room with a ceiling turret in it.
8 of 20: NOTE: You could skip the ceiling turret's room by jumping into the pipe crawlway next to the room's door and making your way to its end, but you'd be skipping the chance to get a reflex booster, a repeating cannon, and some body armor from the room. You may want to take out the turret by shooting through the doorway so you can get those goods.
9 of 20: Once you get past that turret room one way or another, your progress along one hallway will be blocked by an explosive gas leak.
10 of 20: A bit further along is a room where some ATC guards are hanging about, both on the floor and on an upper walkway.
11 of 20: After finishing them off and seeing Mapes on the other side of an unbreakable window, head up the stairs and start shooting down ATC guards again.
12 of 20: After clearing out a large room full of them and finding all the supplies, take the stairs in the back to get down to another ATC fight.
13 of 20: Fight your way along until you get to where an ATC guy closes a grate-like security door ahead of you. (TIP: If you're fast on the SlowMo key, you can kill the guy before he runs away.)
14 of 20: Near the security door, find the small space next to two large vertical pipes with light behind them.
15 of 20: You can just barely squeeze through there.
16 of 20: Past that, crouch down and follow the crawlway along until you get to the point where you can drop down to one vent shaft, then another, and then to the floor below.
17 of 20: Enter another shaft and drop down, then bash the grate at the end to emerge in a room with a very interesting view.
18 of 20: You'll see Harlan Wade shoot that annoying Norton Mapes jerk with a pistol. Good one, Wade!
19 of 20: To get down there, find the automatic door on the lower floor of the room you're in, then keep going until you get to another door.
20 of 20: Past it, turn right and go over to Mapes to find that he isn't quite dead yet.
