Geothermal Valley Secret Area Help.

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I could use a little help with a secret area being blocked by a metal barrier in the beginning of this level. Underneath this particular window is a straight drop which makes this particular platforming puzzle a little tricky.

Here is the specific window:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698936653

The map coordinates:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=698936948

What is tripping me out is I can't get the barrier destroyed before I get to that post and once you're there it's hard to get back to any other area without dying since it's right above a cliffside.

From my vantage point the grenade launcher seems to bounce the rounds behind the barrier without destroying it regardless of where I am.

What I really need is the location of a gas can - which won't bounce as much - that I can toss in the window and shoot with an arrow. I've looked, but haven't found one yet.

[Jac]

My memorys a little fuzzy but IIRC there are a few ways into that tower. There is a woodern guard tower to the north. If you climb that you can fire a rope arrow at the tower and get to it from there. You can also come at if from the west by jumping onto the roofs of the house nearby. I think that once you are on top of the tower you can drop down to the mid level and shoot the barrier from there.

[Sam]

Ok, you must have the explosive arrows to get past this barrier. The barrier doesn't prevent you from going up to the 2nd floor of the tower. You need the grapple axe to reach the ladder that is located on the first level.
To reach the 3rd level, you can use the house to the right of the tower. Climb to the roof of the house, run toward the chimney, jump off the roof to the tree branch, swing to the tower ahead (there's a strip of wood to catch onto). Lean up & left, jump to the beam extended from the building, jump up to the "white" rock, move to the left, scrable up...bingo, you're on the roof of the tower.

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Thanks for the responses and the help.

I had already been to the roof via the adjacent building, but getting to the second floor was the tricky part.

However, Jac was correct. If the direction away from the water is north then on the east side of the building is a guard tower in which I can shoot a rope arrow and grapple over.

Once there I just blew up the barrier with a grenade. The barrier seemed to be just another exit to give access back up to the roof.

All that work for a little bit of salvage, but I just wanted to make sure an archivist map wasn't up there.

[Sam]

Originally posted by digitalartist2010:

Thanks for the responses and the help.

I had already been to the roof via the adjacent building, but getting to the second floor was the tricky part.

However, Jac was correct. If the direction away from the water is north then on the east side of the building is a guard tower in which I can shoot a rope arrow and grapple over.

Once there I just blew up the barrier with a grenade. The barrier seemed to be just another exit to give access back up to the roof.

All that work for a little bit of salvage, but I just wanted to make sure an archivist map wasn't up there.

Yep, all that work for so little loot...I hate that