Where to get the Combatant

[Nasca de bacana]

I think they changed the cutscene at the slag heap in patch 1.3, it no longer gives me the option to get the combatant. Did they move the weapon somewhere else?

[Nite69]

who did you side with on the zalyssa mission? he won't give that as a reward if you sided with Zotov, you have to give the ward sensors to richter, and then show the unusuall pda to the col to get that

[Nasca de bacana]

I sided with Richter, but the game is giving me a completely different cutscene that I had never seem before. Maybe your reputation with the ward affects the outcome? I didn't kill many soldiers at the factory, sneaked around and dodged most of them.

[sgt_magor]

same problem, the Col is not offering the Combatant past 3 games i played. gave richter sensors, show the Col Monolith pda

[FirebonE_88]

Originally posted by Nasca de bacana:

I sided with Richter, but the game is giving me a completely different cutscene that I had never seem before. Maybe your reputation with the ward affects the outcome? I didn't kill many soldiers at the factory, sneaked around and dodged most of them.

Did the guard behind the door, where Korshunov and Dalin are, punch you in the stomach or not? If you ghost the Laboratory sections, where you look for information about Nestor, the cutscene from Back to Slag Heap will be different. The Korshunov's guard behind the door won't punch you in the stomach and Korshunov won't reward you with the Combatant even if you side with him. You can kill Ward soldiers silently in the Laboratory, but they can't be alarmed by your presence.

[KuRtt]

To get Combatant you need to give quest item to Richter instead of Zotov in the Lesser Zone and then show the Ward PDA you found in the Garbage after cutscene you have to pick it up from the desk i did it in 1.3 just to try it out.

[HiggsLP]

1st time I got the ak on my 3rd run and I didnt even sided with ward besides giving the PDA...

Anyways Id suggest u to find Spitfire, imo its better than upgraded Fora...

[Nasca de bacana]

Originally posted by FirebonE_88:

Did the guard behind the door, where Korshunov and Dalin are, punch you in the stomach or not? If you ghost the Laboratory sections, where you look for information about Nestor, the cutscene from Back to Slag Heap will be different. The Korshunov's guard behind the door won't punch you in the stomach and Korshunov won't reward you with the Combatant even if you side with him. You can kill Ward soldiers silently in the Laboratory, but they can't be alarmed by your presence.

That must be it, I only killed the two guards in the dark area in front of the door to x18. In the Slag Heap, the guard did not punch me. Skif punched him in the balls and knocked him down with a punch to the face, and then Korshunov pointed his gun at him. I will go back to and earlier save, before giving the PDA to Varan, and try killing some ward soldiers to see if it changes anything.

[KuRtt]

No way this is real i only killed three guys two in the dark and one guarding spark prisoner might have alterted them at the end and got combatant did you help Scar with turning that thing on?

[Nasca de bacana]

Originally posted by KuRtt:

No way this is real i only killed three guys two in the dark and one guarding spark prisoner might have alterted them at the end and got combatant did you help Scar with turning that thing on?

I don't remember if I helped scar. I killed the guy by the door with the prisoner and the two in the dark. I alerted the ward soldiers, and one of them even entered x18 looking for me.

[KuRtt]

I have completly insane idea that might work and save you alot of time walk into slag heap cutscene with some low physical resistance armor on.

[Nasca de bacana]

Originally posted by KuRtt:

I have completly insane idea that might work and save you alot of time walk into slag heap cutscene with some low physical resistance armor on.

Didn't work, where did you get that idea?

[KuRtt]

I remember there was old topic about not being punched by the guard it was mentioned there.

[Nasca de bacana]

I just thought of something, maybe what's affecting this cutscene is the interaction with Zotov? In my previous playthrough, where I did get the Combatant, I remember I went straight to Richter and didn't even talk with Zotov, but in this one I talked to him after climbing down the tower.

[KuRtt]

In the Lesser Zone? i talked to him too i even tried talking to him after giving Richter the sensors it might be reputation related as you said if you are on bad terms you get punched and they try to bribe you with gun to show them PDA. The only reason i sided with Richter in this playthrou was to get this gun :P

EDIT the only things i can think of are not helping you know who kill wardens at Factory Lab and doing side quests for Ward like the ones in Chemical Plant not even sure if they are avaible if you didnt side with ward in lesser zone or maybe healing them when downed if its really reputation based.

[Nasca de bacana]

I just made an experiment. I loaded an earlier save, before giving the PDA to Varan, went to the chemical plant and killed a few ward soldiers. Killed the ones that guard the bridge to the lesser zone, too. This didn't change anything, same cutscene. Nothing seems to work, I'm giving up.