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Disable AA Guns

  • 1 of 15: Search the entire balcony area to find two lootable containers, then decide which door you want to use to enter the facility.
  • 2 of 15: The main door is at the north end of the balcony.
  • 3 of 15: Go through the main balcony door and along the walkway to reach three locked doors.
  • 4 of 15: Open one of the doors and enter the warehouse cautiously, ready to shoot down the enemies inside.
  • 5 of 15: Move SW to the maintenance area, where you'll find an aid station and a massive geth juggernaut to kill.
  • 6 of 15: Use the door in the maintenance area to reach a walkway that leads to the security office, where you'll have a couple of wimpy salarians to shoot down.
  • 7 of 15: There's nothing else you have to do here, and you can just take the big elevator that leads to the labs area.
  • 8 of 15: Get your weapon out and proceed forward slowly after exiting the elevator -- there are several hostiles ahead, including a powerful krogan and some geth husks.
  • 9 of 15: Loot the two containers on the table next to the elevator plus the medical station at the other end of the area, then go through the door that leads to an outdoor walkway.
  • 10 of 15: Kill the geth at the other end of the walkway, then figure out how to lower the nearby raised bridge segments.
  • 11 of 15: Move across the bridge cautiously, since there are three krogans waiting for you ahead.
  • 12 of 15: Proceed onward until you enter the "Base Main Level" area.
  • 13 of 15: Check the lower side floor for several containers to loot, then move along the walkway until you start encountering hostiles.
  • 14 of 15: After the rocket drones are all destroyed, go up the stairs they were guarding and look around to find two lootable containers and some turret controls. (There are two more lootable containers back in the lower-floor area the krogan was in.)
  • 15 of 15: Using the turret controls will move you on to the "Destroy Final AA Gun" objective.