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*NOTE: This guide was written assuming that you completed this area and are returning to the locations via fast travel points.
Emerson Hotel
Toy: Mancubus
From the fast travel point, head up the stairs past the flaming debris and follow the hallway to the end. When you reach the broken window (leading to the lobby) take a right and keep following the hallway down to the tree at the end. Enter the room to the right of the tree then head behind the column in the center of the room to find the toy.
Prater Suit Point
From the Mancubus toy, exit the room and head straight down the hallway past the tree towards the beginning of the level. When you reach the end of the hallway, jump through the broken window on the right to reach the hotel lobby. Look for the Emerson logo behind the check-in desk. When you find it, head down the hallway to the left of it. This will bring you to an open room with some couches and chairs scattered about and a UAC Spokesperson hologram near the a window. Facing the hologram, head to the left side of the room to find a hole in the floor leading to a lower level. Jump down this hole and the one in the next room to arrive in a hallway. Take the nearby steps down then swing a right to find the point in front of an elevator.
Mario’s Restaurant
Codex: Story of Earth – The Arc – Part II
From the fast travel point, turn around and head right through the kitchen. Pass through the broken wall then look to the right to find the codex behind a desk.
Arc Turret
Sentinel Battery
From the fast travel point, head down the hallway and through the door at the end. Enter the A9 Security room to locate the battery.
Codex: Story of Earth – The Return of Dr. Samuel Hayden – Part I
Exit the A9 Security room and head down the nearby stairs, passing the UAC Spokesperson hologram, into an elevator. Take the elevator down and exit it into a hallway. Follow the hallway, jumping over the hole in the floor. Next take a left through the hole in the wall next to the burning debris to find the codex in the next room behind a generator.
Praetor Suit Point
From the codex above, follow the room left taking a right through a hole in the wall. On the other side of the hole, look to the right to spot the Praetor Suit Point.
Rune
Head down the hallway from the Praetor Suit Point above and drop down the hole at the end to locate the rune.
The Waste Tunnels
Sentinel Battery
From the fast travel point, head down the purple gunk filled tunnel and drop down into the room below. Climb on the the platform a short distance away. Use the gold spin bar and dashes to reach the battery in the corner of the room.
Codex: The Return of Dr. Samuel Hayden – Part II
Jump to the tunnel across from the battery and follow it. Dodge the electric spikes along the way to eventually end up at an elevator. Take it up then exit it to find yourself in another hallway. Follow it right dodging more electric spikes as you go then pass through the door at the end. Once through the doorway, take a left heading through another door. The codex will be straight ahead.
Album: Quake II – Quad Machine
From the codex, drop down the nearby ledge and head to the back of the room to find the album behind a generator.
Vargo Convention Center
Modbot
From the starting point, turn right to find the modbot.
Sentinel Battery / Toy: Cueball
From the above modbot, head towards the brown doors in the direction you just came from and take a left to find some stairs. Climb the stairs, then take a left at the top to come to a broken walkway. Use the climbable wall on the right side of the room to reach the other side of the broken walkway containing the battery and toy.
Cheat Code: IDKFA
From the above collectibles, head back to broken walkway on the other side of the room (near the stairs leading to the Slayer Gate) to locate a broken window. Jump out the window and use the gold spin bar to reach the room on the other side. Jump into the hole in the middle of the room to obtain the cheat code.
Modbot
From the cheat code above, jump out of the hole and head into the hallway. Take a right just before the stairs followed by another right to find the modbot.
Atrium Offices
Codex: Story of Earth – The Arc – Part I
From the fast travel point, jump out the window to the building across the way. Once in the other building, turn left and jump over the fallen debris to find a cracked wall. Melee the wall and head up the stairs to find a codex at the top of the stairs.
Sentinel Crystal
From the codex, head down a flight of stairs and jump through the hole in the wall in the middle of the stairwell. The sentinel crystal will be located to the right of the breakable wall.
Praetor Suit Point
From the crystal, break the boarded wall then head into the room beyond it. Go past the golden plane and head out the broken window to the left of the room, using a series of gold spin bars and climbable walls to reach the top level of the building. Once inside, follow the hallway, taking a left through a broken wall into an elevator shaft. Climb up the elevator, exiting on the right near a UAC Spokesperson hologram. The Praetor Suit Point will be located in this room.
Moring Aeronautics
Codex: Story of Earth – Samuel Hayden / Praetor Suit Point
From the fast travel point, head right into the interior portion of the building to locate a set of stairs. Head up two flights of stairs then take a left. Follow the hallway to the end to find the codex. From the codex, head forward and jump across the way to the other side to find the Praetor Suit Point.
Toy: Whiplash
From the Praetor Suit Point, jump back over to where the codex was across the way then head down the hallway back towards the stairs and take two flights up. At the top of the stairs, take a left through some debris to find the toy.
Rune
From the toy, head back through the debris into a hallway and follow it straight ahead to the end. Jump through the hole in the wall to a building on the other side. Follow the hallway through a flaming doorway. Take a right followed by a left to come to a hole in the floor. Drop down into the hole to find the rune.
Convention Parking
Praetor Suit Point
From the fast travel area, turn around heading into the parking lot. Pass the bus on the right side and enter the room on the right to find the Praetor Suit Point.
Album: Quake III – Intro
From the Praetor Suit Point, head to the ramp in the middle of the garage to reach the second level. At the top of the ramp, swing left and head through the exterior access doorway. Take a right to find the album.
