Sam, still in the refinery, makes it the communications tower in a bid to rescue the survivor trapped inside, but he realizes he is too late when he is killed by a Draconian Burner. Sam manages to kill the monster and he gets into the tower, where a transmission from Ledov, a well known and respected leader of a group of partisans, is being broadcast. He instructs anyone in the area that if they are to spot a plane with a Triple-A logo on it, they are shoot it down on sight.
Sam contacts Ledov and asks him for directions, since he has no idea where he is. Ledov gladly does so, and informs Sam to make his way to the small village of Kalinovka, where Ledov and his squad will wait for him. Now that Sam knows where he needs to go, he just has to escape from the refinery and find transport for navigating through the Siberian wilderness.
You have reached the mainland and came across the Russian oil refinery. Looks like there is some survivor waiting for your help on the communications tower. Proceed through the area and see if you can find a single living soul out there.
Side objectives[]
"Energize"[]
To the left of the crane operator, the player can find a note that tells them to go the hangar to get some equipment. The entrance to the hangar is powered by a lock which has been shut off. Sam needs to activate the generators to turn on the power and then fight a teleporting Major Bio-mechanoid. After activating the generator, the hangar contains a hidden Khnum. Defeating it will award the player with two Rage Serums.
S.A.M. locations[]
In the side mission area, in an underground bunker behind the power station which unlocks after turning the power back on.
In the building at the end of the cooling unit area, right before dropping down into the basement leading to the mech workshop.
If the Christmas event is active or enabled via New Game+, an additional S.A.M. egg can be randomly given out in the level's Christmas challenge.
Secrets[]
To the right of where you start at, there are some pipes against the wall. Climb on top of the pipes and you'll eventually get to a L.I.F.E. gadget.
After activating the 2nd bridge from moving the containers with the crane operator, instead of crossing the bridge to the main objective, jump down to your left (or right, depending on your location), and go inside the metal container near the wall to find an Extra Large Armor.
After activating the generator and going back to the main path, instead of continuing ahead, turn right and you'll come across a road that leads to two different directions. Go to the one at the right and you'll come across a locked door. Open the door and inside the area contains a S.A.M egg. Beware of three Sirian Werebulls that will spawn after picking up the egg.
Exiting from secret #8, go forward to the pit. There is a small wooden platform down to the left side. Jump on top of the platform and jump down into the teleporter beneath. Inside the teleporter takes you to a place where small Major Bio-mechanoids are dressed up as health pills. Killing them makes them drop lots of pills, more than enough to bring you up to 200 health (or over 100 health if the player was seriously damaged while fighting the Bio-mechanoids).
After the mech sequence, go to the back right corner and there is a metal container marked with two C-4 highlighters. Throw two of them on it and there is a teleporter inside. Entering the portal will take you to a secret "classic" area derived from "Sierra de Chiapas" from Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.
Before entering the door to the next level, to the right of the door, there is a metal container that spells "Top Secret". To the left corner of that container contains a C-4 charge. Picking up the C-4 will spawn three Adult Zubenhakrabian Spiders.
Related achievements[]
The Processing
10
In Mother Russia, you invade the aliens!
The Operator
10
Try a new career.
Oops, I dropped it
10
Rid the monster of its misery
Energize
10
Anything for a reward.
Extremely Uncool
10
Meet the naughty monster.
Look Ma, I'm a Lumberjack!
20
Complete the mech sequence and kill all big enemies without shooting.
Changes in New Game+[]
The Cryomorph Gnaar Pair are now a mandatory boss fight near the end of the mech segment.
Christmas area[]
The Christmas area can be accessed by finding five Christmas decorations in the area of the "Energize" sidequest. When accessed, the player will be in a bar with a prize wheel they can spin, with multiple various outcomes. Various enemies, including Kleer Skeletons, can be seen as background NPCs. The following table lists all possible prize wheel outcomes, with their names being derived from the Content/SeriousSamSM/Scripts/ChristmasArena02.lua file.[1]
Christmas area prizes
Prize
Quote
Effect
Gift
N/A
Spawns a Christmas gift box that must be collected to fulfill the objective.
Bomb
"Only agile ones may continue."
Causes the area to be swarmed with explosive grenades, which can harm the player. The player must move around the room quickly and constantly to avoid taking too much damage.
Refill
"Let your soul and body heal upon this blessing."
Refills the player's health up to 100 and armor up to 50.
Damage
"Endure the strength of an inevitable punch."
Deals some damage to the player. The player can die if their health is below 5.
"Nothing happens. Is it a testament of luck or an absence of one?"
Nothing happens.
Sus
"Mercy for a soul that wishes to be your ally. Can you trust him?"
Spawns a friendly miniature Draconian Burner. He will follow the player around and attack enemies, and will even follow them outside of the Christmas area.
The note left behind by Zhenya describing the mech is a reference to the 2013 science fiction monster film Pacific Rim.
Sam saying "I've got the moves like Jaeger" when he fights in the mech is a play on the song "Moves Like Jagger" by Maroon 5, and Jaeger, a mech from the aforementioned movie.
Shortly before the mech section, the player can stop and eavesdrop on a conversation between three Octanian Gamma Troopers discussing rumors about Sam spread around by an Octanian called Claudobrus. In this conversation, they mention that Sam previously defeated Ugh-Zan VII.
The music that plays during the mech sequence is reused from "The Package"'s fight music track in Serious Sam 4.
In the classic area that appears in this level, the player can enter the secret Mental's room and get an Extra Large Health if they spell out Mental's name correctly using the letters.
The player will also be killed by the spikes on the ceiling above if they spell Mental's name incorrectly a number of times.
The player will additionally be instantly gibbed if they are squished by a crusher block in the classic area. While the crusher blocks inflict the Killer damage type, they are scripted to gib the player's character to simulate players always being gibbable with Crushing damage in both Serious Sam 1 and Serious Sam HD.[2]
The containers in the first area of the level will inflict 1,000,000 Piercing damage to any character that gets crushed by them, including players. Players will always be gibbed if a container gets dropped on them due to the Piercing damage.[3]
At one point in the level, a book called Justin Case: The Fall of Case, written by the author S. Rivers, can be found, which is a reference to Remedy Entertainment's videogame Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne and its writer, Sam Lake. The cover-art for the book also resembles the box-art style of the aforementioned game.
One of the possible roulette slots in the Christmas challenge will play a short music track that references the melody of U.N.オーエンは彼女なのか? (English: U.N. Owen was her?), the extra stage boss theme of the Touhou Project game Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, if the player manages to land on it. This is further referenced by the music filename being 06_Roulette_SammyWasHer.ogg, which also references Serious Sammy.[4]
A second Touhou reference can be found in the tester room, where there is a text on Ryason55's poster that reads "Mystia is lovely", referring to Touhou character Mystia Lorelei.
The Ally roulette slot in the Christmas challenge that spawns the Reptiloids dressed in suits will play a musical cue similar to the main theme of the American science fiction drama television series The X-Files. Appropriately enough, it is named 07_Roulette_CarterFiles.ogg,[5] also in reference to Carter.
The Sus roulette slot and the accompanying miniature Draconian Burner are references to the 2018 online multiplayer social deduction video game Among Us.
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