Barlowe Square Escape Endings on Hard

[2Channelwonder]

At the bank ending (playing solo), I've searched for other tips, looked at the videos and it's driving me crazy dying at the end of this map every time.

What's not clear with the bank ending is whether the alarm is meant to just keep ringing whichever switch you press when you go downstairs to the desk with the two monitors. Checked the side rooms and no other switch was there to turn it off, so is it the smaller switch at the monitor desk to stop the alarm just to give you time to look around, and the larger one to set off the horde? Or will the alarm just keep going whatever giving you just a couple of mins to barricade or find weapons before you have to fight the horde?


With the subway ending I planted the IED just before the end of the subway barriers but near enough to still try to hit anything in the double doorway, is that the best place to catch that initial wave? I keep trying to do the 8 generators from the first two as you climb down the ladder, the next two in that right hand room with the crawlway tunnel, then to the two side rooms, then back through the centre hallway to the long corridor for the last three, but is that the best order?

[ugumbugum]

For the bank ending, the alarm will keep sounding and zombies keep coming no matter what you do. I found the best strategy was to loot the bank of everything, then leave the death trap of a vault. Head back outside and to the gate where the truck comes. The street is easier to defend because you have wide clear areas of fire and most of the zombies wont even come towards you. The tricky part is remembering how to get to that gate thru all the alleys and possible dead ends.

For the subway, I always start with the generators by the ladder you come in at. Work your way through the hallway and side rooms hitting all the generators there. Once that side is done, the long corridor on the other side of the main room is next and much harder. Zombies have spawned in there and once you fight through them, there will be more coming in from door back into the main room.

There could be better ways, but this one works best for me on Extreme difficulty.

[2Channelwonder]

Originally posted by ugumbugum:

For the bank ending, the alarm will keep sounding and zombies keep coming no matter what you do. I found the best strategy was to loot the bank of everything, then leave the death trap of a vault. Head back outside and to the gate where the truck comes.

Excellent thanks, I found the bank's side entrance escape door but assumed that you would be blocked into that area opposite Auto Detailing where you'd extinguish a fire to go to and from the apartments on the subway ending, until you held out for X minutes. So if all you can do playing solo without cheating is to rush in, get the good stuff and rush out then I'd think about leaving at least two slots empty to pick up whatever was in the bank, as I'm not fast enough to check every weapon locker before a proper horde arrives. Using your strategy, planting the IED at the entrance to clear one exit, seems best.

In general it's taking me 80-90mins to get to the end each time, I try to leave any spare weapons or the boltcutters at Chuck's if I need the inventory room, any other suggestions for cutting that time down?

[ugumbugum]

The vault is the best place to loot, you should have plenty of time. There will be at least 2 ARs and 2 Shotguns with plenty of ammo. Even on extreme they are there. I usually check the area outside the bank, when passing by it on way to theater after leaving gun store, to see what exit and route I need to take after looting the bank and going to escape point. There are 3 possible exits from the bank: Front door, which is hardest to leave from; Side door, which can be challenging depending on amount of zombies; and Tunnel entrance, which is easiest but you might have to deal with a little zombie rain after you open the final door.

[President Trump(Murphy)]

Ugumbugum is exactly right about the bank ending.

If you leave the bank immediately after you sound the alarm and loot the vault, you can make it to the gate where the truck will show up and you'll have a lot of room to move around and put zombies down at a distance.

[2Channelwonder]

Excellent tips, thanks both, stepped down and completed the bank on Normal so now I know that routine and the right order to do the Subway switches, will step back up and try it again.

215hrs later it's good to have completed all of them on Escape, extraction next, plenty to keep playing for until the DLC!

[2Channelwonder]

10 more hours and two deaths at the rising gate later, finally escaped through the Subway on Harder difficulty on the last attempt of the night. :)

Either the gate went up faster or I was having to shoot more Z's and took longer to reach it but feels good to to be able to handle the end swarm without an IED. Next stop, Extraction.

[Tatsur0]

Congrats and goodluck with the solo extreme difficulty achievement that will be coming in the near future haha (not DLC as that would delay release)

[Bill Braski]

Wait wait wait, there's an ORDER to the subway switches? Oh man, now I feel bad, I keep swatting my buddy upside the back of the head for missing some every time and he swears they weren't working. The one time I was forced to do this crap virtually solo I must have gotten stupid lucky with the randomizer.

[Tatsur0]

There isn't an order to them no haha. They are random however so you do have to check all.

[ugumbugum]

There are always 10 to turn on, in any order, but which 10 are random.

[2Channelwonder]

Originally posted by Bill Braski:

Wait wait wait, there's an ORDER to the subway switches? Oh man, now I feel bad, I keep swatting my buddy upside the back of the head for missing some every time and he swears they weren't working. The one time I was forced to do this crap virtually solo I must have gotten stupid lucky with the randomizer.

Don't feel bad :) when I said "order" I was talking about solo play where you don't have teammates in co-op to hit different switches in different rooms at the same time.

If solo then it's all about what you hit after you've done the first two by the ladder and the 2/3 in the side room to long corridor 1, closing the doors behind you to buy time. I went right down staircase 1, back up that staircase straight ahead to the room with flickering lights, then left again across the hallway, to the single gen behind the wall when you open the double doors by the turnstiles**, to the end of long corridor 2 where there's another single gen, then down staircase 2 for the final set.

**Clearing that first single gen in the double corridor is the only one I did differently to Youtube so that you're only running for the gate with nothing else to do after you hit the multiples around staircase 2. In the Hallway there's more general retreat room if solo.


Re your buddy's comment I've also noticed you need to approach the live generator switches at a certain angle or they don't light up to be activated by the Use key and you waste 1-2 seconds waiting for the click. The totally dead ones stay dark red and never go grey with an outline.

[Tatsur0]

Originally posted by ugumbugum:

There are always 10 to turn on, in any order, but which 10 are random.

All

[2Channelwonder]

Originally posted by Tatsur0:

Originally posted by ugumbugum:

There are always 10 to turn on, in any order, but which 10 are random.

All

Exactly, what I said was just the most popular way I saw it from Youtube vids with the one change but if you like tight corridor fights against swarms then you can change it up any way you like for the challenge.

[Tatsur0]

I have an order I prefer that is safer (checking which ones need to be pushed as you can't know which) but I have a feeling that's what was meant heh :)

[CleoPatra ✿]

the subway ending is a lot more easy than the bank so if your trying to get the achievement go for that ending ^-^