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Quake 4 Hints

How do I find the elevator to take me deeper?

  • 1 of 6: Move on from Droppy Dog's room to get to a large circular room where lots of Strogg marines teleport in on the center platform.
  • 2 of 6: TIP: Stand somewhere so that you have a clear line-of-sight to the teleporter and keep blasting them with the railgun as they appear.
  • 3 of 6: Then find a small lift and take it up to get to a curvy walkway with a few enemy marines (but thankfully no teleporter).
  • 4 of 6: TIP: Run for the lift in the big circular room and take it up without killing any more Strogg than you have to.
  • 5 of 6: In the room past that, go down to the lower floor and enter the large elevator car that's waiting there.
  • 6 of 6: That's the elevator you've been looking for, and it'll take you down to an area with ol' Macaroni Makron on a computer screen. (You remember him -- the big goon that captured you and sent you to be Strogg-ified.)