Brute Force Bonus multi-player characters: Confed Marine: Mission 1 or Mission 6 Feral Colonist: Mission 2 Feral Outcast: Mission 3 Feral Shaman: Mission 9 Fire Hound: Mission 13 Gunthar Ghent: Mission 10 Hunter Lord: Mission 18 McTavish: Mission 14 Militia: Mission 5 or Mission 11 Outcast Shaman: Mission 7 Seer Follower: Mission 4 Seer Priest: Mission 8 Shadoon: Mission 12 Shrike Heavy: Mission 16 Shrike Hound: Mission 17 Shrike Soldier: Mission 15 Hint: Keep items: If you lose your life in single player mode, join the game using controllers two, three, and four to get them back. Hint: Maximum MK ASLT ammunition: When you find a duplicate MK ASLT, keep picking it up. It will raise your maximum ammunition to 600. Hint: Regain special faster: When your special gets low or runs out, find a place to hide then click the Left Analog-stick to duck or squat. Your special will increase three times faster when compared to if you were standing. Hint: Defeating the final Boss: Use Hawk to go to the farthest yellow map marker and take everything out (enemies, turrets, and force field). Activate the console. After the door opens go to the room with the turret and destroy it. Activate the console then go out and through the door that opened. This will lead you to the second yellow dot, but stay out of the Boss' line of sight. Take Brutus up to where the farthest yellow dot is located. Use Vengar or you will probably get killed. Use Tex as desired, as he is not essential for this battle. Finally, use Flint to snipe the Boss, who should be distracted by Brutus who just ran to the opposite end of the map. Shoot him in the back until he warps to the place where he powers up (where the Blue Power Orb was located before it was destroyed). Take Hawk to the command console and activate it (the closer yellow map dot). Hint: Kill Shadoon: Defeating Shadoon: Before doing this, do not take out the Wall Of Souls in the last chapter in the mission. Leave this up so that Shadoon can not go after you. After deafeating Shadoon in the temple room, have everyone set to cover the character that you are controlling. Warp out to the main cavern. As soon as you are warped out, run to the tunnel to the right (that lets you get past the Wall Of Souls that is still up). Once in the tunnel, quickly tell all your squad member to run to the tunnel using the Move To feature. Keep running until you are at the top of the tunnel. Then, once again tell all your squad to move to the top of the tunnel. Place Tex and Brutus on each side of the tunnel entrance, just slightly into the tunnel. Put Hawk and Flint at the entrance of the tunnel. Have Flint out enough to where she can see the hut near where the squad warped out. Shadoon and the Fire Hounds will come up the tunnel. This will make it very easy to ambush them. Shadoon does not warp away as quickly when grenades are thrown at him. Hint: Hostile Reception: Explore asteroid: When leaving the last tunnel and returning to the outside, notice the turret located on the tunnel you just exited. Face the tunnel and walk to the right side of it. Follow the rocks to where the rock wall meets up with the tunnel's outer surface. You will fall through a small gap in the asteroid. It may appear you are stuck; just "wiggle" slightly. From here, you can walk around the asteroid and revisit some tunnels. Hint: Brutus: Use Brutus' specialty to find snipers before they find you. Just flick it on and off. Hint: Flint: If one of your characters dies, notice that they have red blood surrounding them. However, whenever Flint dies, there will not be any blood, only a black spot from the gun debris and ash. She will not have any blood because she is a robot or a sentry, as she mentioned earlier in the game. A good way to see this is to go directly to squad fight. Do a Brute Force against another Brute Force team. Have one of the team's Flint sniper all of its teammate's characters except for one. To save time, aim for the head. Then, have the other character who you left standing shoot Flint and kill her. If you keep shooting her body while its on the ground, it will not bleed. Hint: Flint: Quick spotting: When you enter a large area, flick the special on and off to quickly see if there are any moving targets. If there are moving targets, zoom in and kill them. Hint: Hawk: While playing as Hawk, select your PowerBlade "PwrBld" in your inventory. Use her specialty (cloaking) and stab as many enemies as you can. One stab in an enemy kills them, and since Hawk runs very fast, you can take out many enemies without taking any damage. Hint: Tex: When you select a character, notice that some of them have larger health and special meters. When you select a difficult level, unless you charge up Hawk's stealth meter, you should choose Tex. He has the largest health/special meters. Hint: General tips: When in combat, tell your teammates to fire at will, move around a lot, and throw grenades when there are a lot of aliens grouped together. Always pair one guy with one girl when playing regularly. To clear out a lot of enemies, have Tex and Brutus go in and do as much damage as possible. Then, retreat back to Flint and Hawk. Also have Flint give you sniper support and have Hawk cover Flint. It also helps to send Hawk in invisible to scout and kill as much as possible. When going into any hallway or cave, keep Flint back, but able to snipe clearly into the hall or cave. Put Brutus on one side and Tex on the other outside of the hallway. Have Hawk explore, and if needed lead the enemies out. They will be blown away from front, left, and right and from Hawk. Glitch: Dead character's speak: On some missions, dead members will talk. For example, on Chapter 2 of The Anvil, Tex talks about the dead man on the spike. However, if Tex is dead, you will still hear his voice.