The second unit of the expansion Ground Zero. Stepchild has emerged out of the devastated mines and has found himself within a Strogg military base.
His new objective: disrupt the Strogg ground-to-air communications in order to cripple their air forces. To accomplish this, the marine will have to obtain a data disc and feed corrupted data into the Strogg systems, effectively disabling them.
Stepchild will have to keep his eyes open for a new threat - Strogg turrets are starting to become more common in his area, and some of them are armed with deadly blasters and rockets.
This unit is one of the most intense in the Quake 2 games, with large numbers of enemies, and with three of the levels having to be visited twice. In fact, Waterfront Storage has 147 enemies on Hard mode, the highest in Quake 2.
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