Having taken a long journey from the abandoned refinery and through the cold and harsh Siberian countryside, Sam finally meets up with Ledov and his squad of partisans. Ledov, his friends, and Sam now have to battle their way through Mental's Horde and Octanian troops and make their way to the train station and depart to Ustinov, a town located not far from the enemy portal in Tunguska.
Side objectives[]
"Alpha and Omega"[]
After the tank segment, Sam will come across a Propaganda Drone broadcasting a message about a planned demolition on a "non-human structure" inside a bunker. The player needs to explore a bunker and kill all the enemies inside, then take the elevator down to a portal, where the player will be forced to fight the Cryomorph Gnaar Pair. Defeating the Gnaar Pair and completing the side objective will award the player with two Black Hole gadgets. This is the only level in the game where the player can obtain this gadget.
S.A.M. locations[]
Right after exiting the village and going through a hole in the red wall.
Continue the path to the main objective until you come across some trees. Proceed to the rock formation until you come across a wooden hut. Upon approaching the hut, it will transform into a "hut on chicken legs" (Major Bio-mechanoid) and attack you. It has much more health than a Major Bio-mechanoid, but it does have weak spots; fire at the hut's door and windows to deal more damage to it. Killing it will have some ammo spawn along the path.
When you get to the shack with the M1A1 Abrams inside, before you get in the tank, jump onto the roof of the shack to get a T.A.C.T. gadget.
After the tank segment, make your way through the Octanian gate and go around the first shack; behind the house is a wood covered hole in the ground. Destroy the wood planks to reveal some cannonballs.
After entering the bunker, go into the room where the male Gnaars spawn from. Destroy the wooden crates in there to reveal a secret ladder down into a basement containing a locker. There are eight levers that need to switched on in order to unlock a locker. Looking at the levers, the correct order going from left to right, top to bottom is 7-5-6-2. Unlocking the locker will award you with a secret Autoshotgun and some ammo for it, as well as the achievement/trophy "All Ingenious is Hard" if it hasn't been unlocked already.
Still in the bunker, make your way towards where the Draconian Burner shows up. Keep going until you reach an elevator. Push the button and wait for the elevator to arrive to trigger a secret "beheaded party" with some Beheaded Rocketeers.
After the big fight that takes place on the moving platform, make your down the hallway until you come across a flood light. Jump on top of the flood light and over the metal fence to find some cannonballs.
After the cutscene where Sam meets up with Ledov, his guitar can be seen sitting next to a chair just by the barricade. You can play the guitar by pressing the Use key. Play it numerous times until and it will eventually start playing by itself and begin floating up in the air and start blasting out some music. The message "secret guitar of God found!" will appear and a H.E.A.R.T. gadget will appear on one of the chairs where the guitar was.
In the village where you acquire the XPMR "Burner" Raygun, there is a big wooden house. Go around the back of the house to find a secret Large Armor.
As soon as you enter the trainyard through the broken section of wall, there are several green train cars on the right. Turn right by the wall and continue alongside the right side of the cars until you come across a metal gate. Turn around to find a secret ammo depot containing some Thermal Energy.
Opposite the train tracks, there are stairs. Climb up the top of the stairs, then sprint-jump across to the rooftop of the small building next to it. On top of the building is a hoverboard.
Continue towards the objective marker. Before you go past the buildings, turn around. There is an abandoned truck and trailer behind you. Go past the truck to find some wooden crates. Hidden among the crates is a Hacked Drone.
Keep going until you see a blue locomotive with yellow stripes on it. Go behind it and you will see a wall marked with a red C-4 icon. Place a C-4 charge there to blow it up. Enter the building and you will come across a portal. Enter the portal to be taken to a "classic area" that features the room where you get the Double Barrel Coach Gun from the Serious Sam: The Second Encounter level "Ziggurat". After picking up the coach gun, get ready to fight some Kleers and note the Serious Damage pickup spawning later on (grabbing it will award a Rage Serum here instead). Clear out the room to be taken back to the main level.
Around the same building as secret #13, go towards the barricades. There is a hacked drone hidden there.
In the final part of the trainyard, where the player needs to protect the locomotive, look for another green train car. Go along it to the left and around the building. There is a ammo depot there containing autoshotgun shells.
An Octanian Sentry Tower is placed in the last train yard at the end of the level, which must be destroyed before beginning the final onslaught.
Trivia[]
The title of this level is a reference to a 1972 Russian science fiction novel of the same name, notable among other things for inspiring the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. video game series.
The "hut on chicken legs" secret is a reference to Baba Yaga, a character from Slavic folklore.
The Aludran Microhopper boss fight in the "Alpha and Omega" side objective is a reference to the Marsh Hopper boss fight in the level "Oasis", complete with the use of the latter's music track "Fight 05 (Marshfreakinhoppers)".
The music that plays during the "guitar of God" secret is a remix of "Hero", the credits theme of Serious Sam 3: BFE, by Damjan Mravunac, Croteam's long-time composer.
The achievement "Iron Kaput" is a reference to a series of sketches of the same name from a 1990s Ukrainian comedy show Calambur. The sketches were centered around a Nazi wunderwaffe tank lost in the desert and the bumbling crew piloting it.
At one point in the level, a book called Cocked & Locked: A Nuked Story of that Blondie Guy can be found on the ground, which is a reference to Duke Nukem. This is yet another addition to the line of references to the Duke Nukem franchise. The book's authors, M. Giantrano and F. Kabino, are references to Gianni Matragrano, a popular boomer-shooter YouTuber & Igor Ledov's voice-actor, and Kino Fabino, another well-known content creator and Matragrano's collaborator.
Incident at the Arena·Senator Cicero's Villa·The Senator's Vineyards·Praetorian Camp (lost level) ·Via Aurelia·Opening the Aurelian Gates·The Forum Romanum (lost level) ·Temple of Neptune·The Forum of Trajan (lost level) ·Through the Servian Gates·Temple of Mars·Addressing the Senate (lost level) ·Emperor's Gardens·Caesar's Sanctum (lost level) ·Caesar's Palace·Touts at the Colosseum·Under the Colosseum·Showdown at the Arena·Splashdown in Xifengkou·The Monkeys of Juyongguan·Jiayuguan Fortress·The Silk Road (lost level) ·Dunhuang Oasis·Magao Caves·Cave of the Wickermen·The Gate of Supreme Harmony (lost level) ·The Three Halls of Harmony·Yuhuayuan - Imperial Garden·The Beast Beneath the Palace·A Chilly Reception·The Steam Tower (lost level) ·Temple of Steam·The Deep City·The Geothermal Tunnels (lost level) ·The Guardian Gates·Hall of Translation·The Tower of Confusion·Hall of Transposition·The Corridors of Power (lost level) ·Ascending the Throne·Sirian Mothership·Engine Core Critical·Gallery (lost level)
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