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Mechs 'n' Mercs Combat Tips

  • 1 of 11: Take cover next to the big crate and pipe stacks that are past the door and to the left, and wait for a few LOKI mechs to come after you.
  • 2 of 11: Move slowly past your crates and pipes to get more LOKI mechs to appear in the area ahead, plus a few Blue Suns guys.
  • 3 of 11: The LOKI mechs will never stop coming if you just hang back and wait. Finish off the Blue Suns guys as fast as you can, then quickly trash the latest batch of LOKIs and run forward to the point where Harkin tells Garrus that he's never getting in here.
  • 4 of 11: You'll find several large stair-step-like platforms ahead of you and to the right. You can vault onto these platforms in order to "climb" up them.
  • 5 of 11: Start by climbing up the platforms on your right to find a hackable datapad. Go back down to the floor, then start climbing up the other set of platforms.
  • 6 of 11: When you get onto the third one, move around on it until two YMIR mechs get dropped into the area ahead. (Note that you may have to move to the platform's far corner to get that to happen, but be careful not to fall down to a lower platform.)
  • 7 of 11: When the mechs appear, quickly turn around and vault onto the platform behind the one you're on.
  • 8 of 11: Take cover behind a crate on that platform and let the YMIRs have it with your heavy weapon, being careful to stop firing and duck back into cover when they launch rockets at you.
  • 9 of 11: Use Unity if both of your squad members go down before either mech is destroyed. You don't want them concentrating their fire on you.
  • 10 of 11: After they're both destroyed, drop down to their area and go up the huge ramp.
  • 11 of 11: When some structures rise up in front of you, turn around and run back to a nearby crate for cover, then wait for a few last LOKI mechs to appear in the distance.