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Southern Fusion Torch Defense Tips

  • 1 of 7: This fusion torch's facility building is protected by six heavy turrets that you'll need to destroy before approaching the building.
  • 2 of 7: The turrets are themselves protected by impenetrable metal shields when no targets are close to them.
  • 3 of 7: This keeps you from sniping them at extreme range, so you'll have to drive (or run on foot) up to where they'll sense you and lower their shields before you can fire on them.
  • 4 of 7: The first turret to take out is the one that's all by itself up on a hill a ways south and a bit west of the building. It should be easy to approach and destroy without any of the other turrets seeing you.
  • 5 of 7: From near the base of that turret's hill, turn to face the building. You'll see two more turret casings to the right of the building, two to the left of it (one of which is a ways back and on a hill), and one way to the left of it (next to a short hill).
  • 6 of 7: The most remote of those turrets is the one that's way to the left of the building, so go over there and destroy it next. You should be able to without alerting any other turrets.
  • 7 of 7: The other four turrets all activate and deactivate together no matter how you approach them, so you'll need to make quick hit-and-retreat attacks against one of them until it's destroyed, wait out of range until your shields fully recharge, and then repeat until they're all blown up.