Complete walkthrough for the 'Escape' mission in Quake IV. Learn how to navigate the Putrification Center, destroy the Stroyent Processing Creature, and find all the loot.
You might think this will be some kind of overly complicated puzzle, but nope. Approach the console, and first click the lower-right button. Click the up arrow, then click the upper-right button to load barrels on the platform. Finally, click the down arrow. You now need to jump on top of the computer console, then on top of the green barrels, and finally on top on the upper ledge (on your left).
Walkthrough
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Follow this ledge around and through a red door.
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Enter the dark room beyond and you'll see a hole on the right side. Approach it and a Grunt will jump out, which you can quickly kill with the Shotgun. Jump down the hole to complete this level.
Objective: Use Barrel Controls
You start out the level on a conveyor belt, which will drop you onto another one. Follow it into another room, and you'll drop down again. Be careful not to be knocked off the conveyor belt by one of the containers moving across the room. It's really easier than it sounds. Instead of leaving this room through the door ahead, jump off the right side on the floor below. You should find a SMALL ARMOR VEST here. Now turn around and cross over to the left side of this platform. Go through the door here, and up the stairs to find a LARGE HEALTH PACK and SLUGS.
Jump back on the conveyor belt and follow it into the next room. This time barrels are moving across the room at a much quicker pace, but if you time your movement properly you'll have no problem making it through.Go through the next room and into a larger one in which containers get transfered from one side to the other. Quickly run across as soon as the containers have passed to the other side.Ride the conveyor belt through two more rooms until you drop down one level. Follow this new belt into the next room, taking care to avoid the needles and bloody saws.Exit the conveyor belt on the left side between the two saws to find a couple dead marines and some loot. Loot includes: SMALL HEALTH PACK, SHOTGUN, NAILS, SLUGS and two ARMOR SHARDS.Head back on the conveyor belt which leads you out of this room. Jump down on the belt you'll see on the right, and then on your left.Enter the next room, which contains two flamethrowers along the conveyor belt for no apparent reason. Before running through those, you might notice a ladder leading down to the ledges below. Down there, you'll find two CLIPS, SHELLS and a LARGE HEALTH PACK in a crate, as well as a MACHINEGUN, a CLIP and a SMALL ARMOR VEST near a dead marine.Go back on the conveyor belt and carefully walk through the flamethrowers.Watch out for the two needles as you enter the next room, and follow the belts through another door. In this room, you'll want to jump on the platform on the right (as opposed to falling to your doom), then jump on the upper conveyor belt.Simply follow the conveyor belts through a couple more room, until you finally reach solid ground and two Strogg Marines. Look on the left side of this room to find a semi-hidden crate containing two SMALL HEALTH PACKS, BATTERIES and GRENADES.In the next room, you'll encounter two more Strogg Marines, but also find two LARGE HEALTH PACKS, a HEALTH STATION and a SMALL ARMOR VEST behind it.Face a Tactical Transfer and a Gunner by going down the steps, both of which happen to be allergic to bullets, plasma, nails, explosives and lightning. You can find a SMALL HEALTH PACK on a crate up above, and then run up some stairs until you come up to where the Gunner and Transfer first appeared.Don't stare at them too much, because just ahead you'll be attacked by three Tactical Transfers. And if you're not careful, you may just end up very hurt. I suggest using the Rocket Launcher to eliminate them quickly, though if you wanna go with more conventional weapons, be sure to use the nearby crates as cover.Run to the end of the hallway to discover a crate containing two LARGE HEALTH PACKS, SLUGS, SHELLS and one ARMOR SHARD.Turn around and go through the left door to enter another hallway, in which a Grunt will assault you. It looks like you're heading towards the source of these squishy pipes, or intestines, or whatever. Shoot at them if you don't believe me!Enter the next hallway, home to a single Gunner. The Hyperblaster is perfect here.Go through the next door to meet... the biggest and fattest Strogg you have ever seen! Whoa. Fortunately, it can't move nor hit you from behind this glass. So this thing is the Stroyent Processing Creature, aka "Fatty". Those are Fatty's guts you've seen running through the whole facility. Kind of impressive, when you think about it. I think Fatty's job is to process the Stroyent that goes through him and extract some beneficial enzymes out of it. Stroyent is apparently some goo made mostly of um, processed humans and probably other disgusting stuff. You could say Stroyent is the Strogg equivalent of wieners. Anyway, you need to get rid of Fatty.Objective: Destroy the Stroyent Processing Creature
