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How can I defeat the harvester I encounter?
1 of 15: Remember the trick to it -- destroy two of its legs by blasting the legs' lowest segment.
2 of 15: But remember that you don't have a powerful cannon now, but instead have a bunch of weaker rockets. It'll take more than two rocket hits to destroy a leg.
3 of 15: Also, remember that your shields are far weaker, so you can't take as many hits. This makes charging the harvester in the walker a bad idea.
4 of 15: Fortunately, it starts out on the other side of some large structures that you can use as cover.
5 of 15: You can move forward and duck out of cover just long enough to hit the harvester in one leg with a quick six rockets, then move back into cover and shoot down any missiles it fires that might hit you.
6 of 15: If the harvester survives long enough to come around to where it can fire freely at you, go down the nearby ramp to the large indented area under the two huge yellow pipes in order to gain some more cover. You can walk back up the ramp you came down or the one on the other side when you need to.
7 of 15: You could keep moving around in that area to gain cover while rocketing the harvester's legs until it falls over, or read on for another strategy that might work better for you.
8 of 15: When the harvester starts to move around the large indented area with the yellow pipes, use the ramps to quickly move across the area and get around behind the harvester, basically skipping past it.
9 of 15: Then go straight over to the building that's ahead and to the right.
10 of 15: You can't go along the building's walkway or enter it until you exit the walker (which the game won't let you do until the harvester is dead), so go down the steep dirt "ramp" and into the large pit below the walkway.
11 of 15: If you go for that pit as fast as you can, even at the expense of not taking time to turn around and shoot down the harvester's missiles, you should make it alive. Wait under cover for your shields to regenerate.
12 of 15: Peek out long enough to fire six rockets at the harvester, then immediately take cover and let your shields regenerate.
13 of 15: Don't be picky about shooting its legs -- take any target you can get (look for the red circle that indicates the rocket launcher is locked onto a certain part of the harvester).
14 of 15: Even if the harvester walks up fairly close to the edge of the pit you're in, you should still be able to find enough cover to hide from its missiles and guns.
15 of 15: It can take awhile, but you can eventually kill the harvester by moving out of cover just long enough to hit it with six rockets, then hiding again.
