Complete Painkiller Part 36 walkthrough: Learn strategies to defeat the boss Alastor across four levels and navigate the challenging City on Water level with secret areas.
Walkthrough
- 1Part 36 - Valley: Drop to the checkpoint. When approaching the quad damage, you'll be trapped with two bones and witches. After defeating them, proceed to the next clearing where you'll face more bones and big vamps amidst trees. Grab the quad damage and eliminate the bones, then the vamps, and finally the witches. Two minibosses, Heavy Commandos, will emerge from collapsing scaffolds. Treat them like the Giant Templars from two levels ago. Move into the valley they came from while firing rockets to avoid witch fire.
- 2Secret 2: Knock down remaining witches. Find a holy item in a secret area cave to the left of the quad damage pickup (behind a bush, next to freezer ammo). Head over the central hill to the exit.
- 3Part 36 - Tower (Level 4/5): This is the final level on Trauma difficulty. You must defeat Alastor four times, once per level, with a different approach each time.
- 4Alastor Stats: Armour: 3, Ammo: 37, Objects: 8
- 5Tarot Card Condition: Kill Alastor in less than 5:00.
- 6Recommended Cards: Silver: Forgiveness / Vitality; Gold: Dexterity / Double Time Bonus / Rage.
- 7Level 1: Grab ammo and armour. Chaingun Alastor as soon as you see him. Stick to the outer wall as he moves to the center and smashes the floor.
- 8Level 2: You might lose health when you fall. Grab super-health and armour. Use the chaingun again and avoid rubble.
- 9Level 3: Alastor has smashed the floor again. Trigger your cards (recommended configuration for best effect). Use the shotgun to batter him quickly, using cards and collecting more ammo. Stick to the outer ring when he breaks the floor to avoid a fatal drop.
- 10Level 4: If you were on the outer wall when the floor broke, jump off the blue ledge onto a broken pillar, then to the floor. Collect health and heavy armour. Attack Alastor with the shotgun or chaingun. When his health is low, he'll move to the center and regain health from surrounding statues. Destroy these statues (chaingun is good, Rage card helps). The more statues you destroy, the less health Alastor will have when he returns. Finish him off.
- 11Part 36 - City on Water (Level 5/1): This level is described as hell combined with Venice, with difficult secret areas.
- 12Monsters: Hell Angel, Hell Biker, Skull (249 total)
- 13Gold: 772
- 14Armour: 5
- 15Holy Items: 4
- 16Ammo: 135
- 17Objects: 145
- 18Secret Areas: 6
- 19Tarot Card Condition: Find every secret area.
- 20Recommended Cards: Silver: Soul Catcher / Vitality; Gold: Dexterity / Double Time Bonus / Iron Will.
- 21Destroy smaller boxes for gold and ammo, then proceed to the main outdoor area.
- 22Snipe with the stakegun, moving from the right area to the dock on the left, where more boxes and hell bikers are located. Kill all hell bikers to open the next checkpoint.
- 23Watch out for roof snipers and avoid shooting the white barrel in the middle of the main bridge.
- 24Secret 1: After clearing monsters, stand in the square area 'north' of the dock, facing the pillared building. Run and jump around its left corner, past the water, to find chaingun ammo.
- 25Secret 2: Jump around again and head over the small bridge in the middle. A hole in the side of the single building here contains more ammo and another secret area.
- 26Secret 3: Roll the white barrel back to the beginning. Use it to blow up the big box, which will spin into the water. Face the tall building and quick-jump onto the bouncy square to reach the very top.
Tips
- For the Heavy Commandos, try to move into the valley they emerged from while firing rockets to avoid incoming fire from witches.
- When fighting Alastor on Level 4, use the Rage card with the chaingun to destroy the health-regenerating statues more effectively.
- In the City on Water level, be mindful of snipers on roofs and the white barrel on the bridge.
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