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How do I get to the waste center to meet with the rest of the marines?

  • 1 of 14: That's going to be a very long, multi-level journey, so you'd better get started.
  • 2 of 14: Begin by killing off the enemy ambush that awaits you when you first start the level and get a neat new railgun from one of them.
  • 3 of 14: NOTE: This is your first encounter with a Strogg tactical assault team. They consist of more powerful Strogg marines that are equipped much like yourself, with superior armor and weapons (including railguns way too often). When you see one of them, always expect others to be sneaking around or hiding behind cover.
  • 4 of 14: TIP: If you need to get the health kit that's up on a platform you can't quite jump onto from the ground, then jump to it from on top of a nearby crate or overturned barrel.
  • 5 of 14: Move on through a panel-opened door to a large Strogg-inhabited room with a small lift in the back.
  • 6 of 14: When you enter the room past the lift, there'll be a harvester standing nearby ready to shoot at you. And here you are on foot!
  • 7 of 14: You'll find a Strogg health station and some ammo in the room past the harvester walkway, though you'll have to fight a few Strogg for it.
  • 8 of 14: A bit further on, you'll come to the Auxiliary Skywalk Access, where one of the lifts is still working.
  • 9 of 14: Take it down and then move through several Stroggy areas to get to a very tall room with a lot of short staircases leading down to the bottom floor.
  • 10 of 14: Proceed down the stairs cautiously, because there's another Strogg tactical squad at various levels in the room.
  • 11 of 14: At the bottom of all the stairs is a door leading to a health station and a spare railgun on a crate (and some slugs in a corner near some crates).
  • 12 of 14: After getting all that, go through the break in the railing and another door to get to a large gearworks room.
  • 13 of 14: A couple of rooms past that is a truly huge and freaky biomechanical device that kind of looks like a huge heart pumping blood (or whatever slop these guys use).
  • 14 of 14: After you drop down into the chamber under the heart, crouch-walk into the small pipe-like tunnel and fall into the gap in it to move on to the Recomposition Center.