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How can I survive the run across the street in front of the nexus building?
1 of 8: You need to sprint along the street as fast as you can, dodging suppression gun mega-blasts as you go.
2 of 8: If you see a blast point start forming in front of you, quickly go in reverse to minimize the damage it does you.
3 of 8: From the start of the street, run along on the right side until you come to a large turned-on-its-side trash bin with health kits.
4 of 8: Take cover inside the bin until Barney catches up, then leave the bin and move on.
5 of 8: Go around behind the bin and past the rubble on the right to get back onto the street again. (If you instead keep going down the right side of the street, you'll get caught in a dead end and will have to backtrack.)
6 of 8: At the end of the street, look for a small door to the left that you can open.
7 of 8: You're pretty safe from suppression gun fire once you're at the door (especially since it'll probably be focusing on your lagging followers), so you can stop running for a moment and deal with the soldiers in the room beyond the door.
8 of 8: TIP: There is a reliable way to make it all the way across the street and to the soldier room without taking any suppression gun damage at all.
