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Preparing for the Final Confrontation
Rotwood

Preparing for the Final Confrontation

Prepare for the ultimate showdown in Rotwood! This guide details strategies, item locations, and essential steps to overcome the final challenges and emerge victorious.

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Preparing for the Final Confrontation

Prepare for the ultimate showdown in Rotwood! This guide details strategies, item locations, and essential steps to overcome the final challenges and emerge victorious.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    Enter the sewers from Rotwood Outskirts. Save your game and access storage.
  2. 2
    If playing as Jack, go up to access the Radio Station. If playing as Natalie, go up to access Barlow's Meat Shop.
  3. 3
    Radio Station: Solve the wave-matching puzzle to unlock a gate and fight a unique boss. Obtain the Radio Station key.
  4. 4
    Meat Shop: Find a tape with a locker code. Solve the animal skull puzzle (Cow, Deer, Pig, Goat) to open the main door. Fight a unique boss to get the Meat Shop Key.
  5. 5
    Use the obtained keys to unlock the gates and access Rotwood Downtown.
  6. 6
    In Rotwood Downtown, locate three altars near a locked door leading to the Rotwood Cemetery. You need to find three unique canes to unlock it.
  7. 7
    Bethany's Curse and Crafts: Find the first moth part. Go downstairs, solve the riddle on the wall, and rotate the triangle to match portraits (Lovers-Stars, Devil-Sun, Death-Moon) to get the second moth part. Combine parts and place them on the monument to get the first cane.
  8. 8
    Gunderson's General Store: Find a journal tape and the gun room key. Obtain the grenade launcher and bullet crafting resources. Meet Bill and Zach, receive a Ritual Medallion, and save your game. Use the sewer opening tool to proceed.
  9. 9
    Vincent Rypard's House: Defeat bloated zombies. Inside, optionally solve a puzzle by pressing buttons on portraits (Life, Pain, Death) to open a secret pathway to an underground laboratory. Use the control panel to manually activate the sewer lift, saving your partner.
  10. 10
    Exit the house, find a Ripper's Tape, and use the sewer to return to downtown.
  11. 11
    Use the Ritual Medallion to unlock the gate to The Crimson Reel area. Fight zombies.
  12. 12
    The Crimson Reel: Go to Video Outlaw. Use a hammer to break planks behind the counter, access the basement, and find the Crimson Reel's key on a corpse.
  13. 13
    Enter The Crimson Reel, defeat flying zombies, and retrieve the Serpent Cane from the movie room.
  14. 14
    Return to downtown and head to The Rotwood School.
  15. 15
    The Rotwood School: Rush past small zombies outside. Enter the safe room. Use your shotgun to defeat zombies. In the deepest room, kill the witch-like zombie and pick up the Skull Cane.
  16. 16
    Return to downtown with all three canes and place them on the altars to unlock the gate to the Rotwood Cemetery.
Tips
  • In Rotwood Downtown, it's often best to run past roaming enemies rather than engaging them to conserve ammunition for bosses.
  • The green zombies in the sewers require exactly two knife attacks to kill.
  • Save your shotgun for the Rotwood School, as the zombies there can be lined up for efficient kills.
  • The puzzle in Vincent Rypard's house is optional but necessary to save your partner.

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