AG Center problem with plants

[EldritchBattery]

Hey guys, 2 of my Rangers have been infected with the spores and I'm running out of time to save them and the wheelchair guy. I have found the downstairs and have done the west corridor (where the morgue is) and have cleared the mushroom cave except for the "weapons ineffective" plants. Those very plants are blocking where I think the actual fungicide stuff is supposed to be in the mushroom caves and I don't know how to proceed. I've used a pipe bomb - nothing. Normal weapons - nothing. Haven't used my RPG I picked up but I think it does comparable damage as the pipe bomb so I don't hold out much hope.

What is the secret to getting past these blasted plants? I've found another place, also blocked by those plants, upstairs in the gardens and there is some type of fertilizer gizmo there but, again, I cannot reach it because of the blocking plants.

Any help here?

[Overdose]

You can't destroy those plants until you shut down the valves that nourish the plants on this area with the mutagen. The fungicide thing you need isn't in there at all. You should find it in the cave where you found skinner (guy who killed his wife and son)

[DirtyBlue929]

Also, word of advice on avoiding the Pods in the first place - you can left click over them to shoot them from a distance, eliminating the threat (you can even damage enemies this way).

[EldritchBattery]

@DirtyBlue929: Yeah, I know how to avoid them like that. My 2 guys got infected because, after the main fight in the mushroom caves, I was using a guy with a pistol to clear the way of the Pods and apparently misjudged the distance the pod fragments could travel. I'm very conservative about that distance now lol.

@Overdose: I haven't found Skinner I don't think. Maybe he's in the East corridor downstairs? I haven't been down that way yet. I've done the morgue corridor and the mushroom caves. Actually maybe I have found him and don't know it because I don't talk with people that are imprisoned by vines because it might kill them. I just use my Doc to surgery them out hopefully.

Anyways, I'll try to go down that other corridor because I think its the only place I haven't been in the whole place (except for past these blocking plants).

[Overdose]

Maybe i was wrong with the name Skinner. He's in the mushroom caves in a locked room waiting for help. You should find the fungicide in this room on the ground somewhere, as i remember...

[EldritchBattery]

Ok, I did find Skinner in the mushroom cave (not sure how I missed that entirely to begin with) but I saved him, got the fungicide and took it back to Kathy. She said I have to finish turning off the irrigation system and then add the cure or whatever to the fertilizer machine. Well, as far as I can tell, the irrigation system is off. I killed the traitor doctor and turned the valve and I can chop my way through the blocking vines on *that* level but none of the blocking vines on the main AG center level seemed to get the message. They are all still green and "weapon ineffective". In fact, even the blocking vines in that first room after you climb down from the East fields (where the traitor doctor was) are still green and invulnerable. Going to the main level they are the same and I still cannot reach the fertilizer machine to input the cure.

I'm pretty much stuck. I can't find any freakin information on this and its frustrating me badly.

Can anyone tell me how to kill the blocking vines on the basement level and the main AG center level? I'm beginning to think its a bug.

[EldritchBattery]

Bump for great justice! But seriously, can someone tell me if I should file a bug report or I'm just missing something?

[Blessed Heretic]

You'll be auto cured if you successfully finish Ag Center. It's not that serious of a thing.

[EldritchBattery]

@Blessed Heretic: How might I successfully finish Ag Center if the blocking vines in the basement and main level will not wither so I can chop them away from the fertilizer gizmo I have to put the cure in? The blocking vines on the level where I killed the traitor doctor and turned the valve died but for no other level.

[Blessed Heretic]

Originally posted by EldritchBattery:

@Blessed Heretic: How might I successfully finish Ag Center if the blocking vines in the basement and main level will not wither so I can chop them away from the fertilizer gizmo I have to put the cure in? The blocking vines on the level where I killed the traitor doctor and turned the valve died but for no other level.

There is a second valve. On the western side.

[BloodShotN8]

pretty tricky this one.. i can't find where the valves are..

[Bobby]

look at the map here[www.google.co.uk]

Number 5 -top right is the valve you need to put the fungicide in. Chop away a couple of vines at the door and there is a safe inside also

[Downspin]

There is also a dead guy with post-it notes that has a code to shut the pump down, or alternatively, you can get Rose and use computer science skill to shut it down. (don't have to find the valves)

[Dorok]

Originally posted by Downspin:

There is also a dead guy with post-it notes that has a code to shut the pump down, or alternatively, you can get Rose and use computer science skill to shut it down. (don't have to find the valves)

You can also find a right item in the area to repair it, or use the repair skill to repair it.