Best Minion Ever Pt1 - Ammo Dump Vending Machine

[battlezoby]

When playing "Best Minion Ever", Part 1 (before you rescue claptrap and get near Flint) there is an ammo vending machine on the map, which was driving me nuts because it doesn't seem to be there.

Appearently, it's directly overhead on a bridge on shelf... which is why it seem to be invisible.

Question is: Is there a way to get to that vending machine?
Or is it the same one that's right before the Flint fight after you hoist up Claptrap is it?
I even noticed a semi-secret arrow on the broken iron-arch almost below it pointing it,
implying theres a (secret) way up there?

It's at the end of a long bridge to nowhere (except to the machine) at the top of a
big ice Glacier which I can't seem to climb.

So you can get to that machinre or not? (Especially before rescuing Claptrap?

Thanx!

[z00t]

Not sure which one you mean. There are several vending machines in the Southern Shelf map.
In Liar's Berg there are three machines, Ammo, health and guns.
If you do the Shielded Favours mission you can get to the health one at the top of the elevator.
On the way to Flynt's ship in the middle of the bandit camp there is a health vending machine, and a final ammo machine at the top of the ramp before claptrap opens the gate and you confront Flynt.
That is it. There are no other vending machines in that map.

[BadConker]

The vending machine you see on map is the very one that is on the top before flynt. I got confused the first time as well.

[jagijagiolaf <3~]

yeah the map can sometimes be confusing but yup thats the one outside of flynt lol

[MassConnect]

There is no way to reach that machine early. You would have to ascend the normal path.

[JerkyFriedBeef]

Well its have to be a way if its real

[trukr]

There IS, just before you go in to fight Flynt, you pass it. But there is no other way to get to it.

[battlezoby]

Thanks for all your replies.

It makes perfect sense, except that there's a really misleading unlit Up-Arrow-sign on
the iron arch just at little ways after you pass under it.

Guess the dev's put the arrow there just to mess with us and make us think that there
might be a secret way up.

There is certainly a lot of iron arches, water pipes, ice shelves and other stuff
that let you climb up a bit, maybe they wanted you to try to get to it and fail.

They also stuck in the does-nothing "Leave Guns Here" by the elevator/shield quest,
which supports the theory they put in stuff you see early in the game to hint that some
things are more useful than they really are, just to mess with "noob' first time players.