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HW2:Manifestation

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Manifestation
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Game:

Halo Wars 2

Player:

Voridus

Date:

June 4, 2559[1][2][3][4]

Location:

High Charity crash site, Installation 00

Objective(s):

  • Discover the source of the increased Flood threat
  • Setup a Mega Turret at the minibase location
  • Destroy the Proto-Gravemind
  • Secure Mega Turret sites (3)
  • Cleanse the lock to call in reinforcements
  • Use the Retriever to attack the Proto-Gravemind
Bonus
  • Kill Flood units with Lich Vanguard (30)
  • Do not lose any Mega Turrets during the mission

Par Time:

30:00

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“ Voridus and Pavium must assist the Ark's defenses in a final push to contain the Flood threat. ”

Manifestation is the nineteenth and final campaign level in Halo Wars 2, and the fifth and final mission of the Awakening the Nightmare expansion.

Transcript[edit]

HIGH CHARITY CRASH SITE

MANIFESTATION

Mission Briefing

  • Atriox: "Voridus, Pavium! Do you know what your action have cost me? I have spent months fortifying positions to continue the fight against the humans. Now I have to abandon them because of you!"
  • Pavium: "We will fix this, Atriox. We only thought it wise to inform you of the threat."
  • Atriox: "You "thought it wise"? The Flood is the very thing this installation was created to destroy! You have no idea what you've unleashed! If we don't send every soldier we have right now to stop its spread, everything we've worked for will be consumed."
  • Voridus: "We've already reactivated the Sentinels, we will help them fix this! You have our word!"
  • Atriox: "I want actions, not words. I'm on my way."

Mission Summary

Repel the final Flood threat before it's too late.

Scouting Report

Pavium's Mega Turrets are critical to defeating this menace.

Cutscene

  • Atriox: "What is the situation?"

A squad of Grunts and two Choppers are fending off a Flood assault.

  • Pavium: "I've lost over forty percent of our troops, Atriox. The Flood has spread quickly in the area near High Charity."

The Choppers and Grunts are defeated, and an Abomination arrives.

  • Voridus: "Do not fear, Atriox. With the Sentinel defenses up and running, we will crush the Flood threat!"

Screen changes a base the Banished are defending from the Flood.

  • Atriox: "It was that very arrogance that causes this mess, Voridus! I'm on my way now. You will have this fixed by the time I arrive!"

Two Spirit dropships arrive, dropping off Pavium and Voridus to reinforce the defenses.

  • Pavium: "Fight back! Do not let them destroy our base!"
  • Voridus: "Their numbers are infinite!"

Gameplay

  • Pavium: "Come, brother, we must find the source of this new Flood outbreak!"
  • Voridus: "This could be our greatest battle, Pavium. We will be legends!"
  • Pavium: "Legends!? If we fail, there will be nobody left to recount our folly! Do not underestimate the graveness of this situation, Voridus."

The Banished start to strengthen the base's defenses as the Flood launch a new assault wave.

  • Voridus: "The Flood is trying to destroy our base! Stop them!"
  • Voridus: "Keep the Flood from our base, or we'll have no way to defend ourselves!"

After repelling the assault, the Banished regroup and start assembling a strike force.

When scouting ahead

  • Pavium: "The Flood have infected Wraiths! They'll destroy our infantry!"

Punching through, their progress is soon blocked by a massive tentacle that appears to the left.

  • Voridus: "Argh! How are we going o find the source of this outbreak thing with all these tentacles in our way?"
  • Pavium: "Have faith, brother. My siege turret will carve this thing up. There's a point nearby that will provide the necessary firing position."
  • Voridus: "Once we destroy it we can join the Sentinels in pushing the rest of the Flood back!"

When the Banished try to advance through a slope, another massive tentacle is found blocking their way, forcing them to take an alternative path.

The Flood and Sentinels are found fighting against each other.

  • Pavium: "Voridus, the Sentinel defenses you activated are here! They're attacking the Flood!"
  • Voridus: "We can't let them have all the fun! Let's get to work!"

The Banished fight their way to the first location that was marked by Pavium, only to discover it is occupied by Flood biomass.

  • Pavium: "That monstrosity is sitting right where I need to build the turret!"
  • Voridus: "Then what are we waiting for? Attack!"

After a fight, the Flood is destroyed and a two-slot minibase becomes available.

  • Pavium: "Prepare the turret, we'll soon rid ourselves of those tentacles!"

When the Flood attacks the minibase that will be used as Mega Turret emplacement.

  • Voridus: "The Flood is attacking the turret!'
  • Pavium: "Their intelligence is growing! Something must be guiding them!"

When the Mega Turret is complete

  • Brute: "Pavium, the turret is ready to fire."
  • Pavium: "Fire at will, commander."

If player has yet to spot the target.

  • Brute: "Pavium, what are my firing coordinates? We need eyes on the tentacle."

or

  • Brute: "Ready to fire, Pavium. Just give me eyes on my target."

The Banished spot the target for the Mega Turret.

  • Brute: "Lock on target. Firing!"

The Mega Turret fires and the Tentacle withdraws, opening the way for the Banished.

  • Brute: "Target hit!"
  • Pavium: "It's retreating!"
  • Voridus: "But to where? We didn't destroy it, so it must be connected to something!"
The Proto-Gravemind on the level Manifestation.
A massive Proto-Gravemind reveals itself.

Reaching the center, the Banished see the size of the Proto-Gravemind.

  • Voridus: "That tentacle was just an extension of this...thing. If the stories are true...it would be unstoppable."
  • Pavium: "We must focus all our effors on it."

The Flood tentacles extend to block the way.

  • Pavium: "We must test its defenses to find a way to destroy it! Attack!"

The Banished attack, but the Proto-Gravemind calls hordes of Flood to protect itself.

  • Pavium: "It's trying to protect itself! Carve through those wretched creatures!"

More Floods come to defend the Proto-Gravemind from the Banished.

  • Pavium: "How can it produce an endless number of those vile things?"
  • Voridus: "Desperation, brother! It is finally beginning to know fear!"
  • Pavium: "I don't believe that thing can feel fear, but perhaps it can feel pain!"

The Proto-Gravemind finally surfaces.

  • Voridus: "Pavium! There seems to be some kind of armor shielding the thing's hide!"
  • Pavium: "Then it must be protecting something vital! Target the carapace!"

Breaking through its carapace, four tentacles emerge and some Sentinels arrive to assist Banished.

  • Pavium: "We have broken through part of its armor!"
  • Voridus: "Then why does it not fall?"
  • Pavium: "The armor must have been protecting those strange sacs! Our work is not over yet, brother!"
  • Voridus: "Get rid of those distracting tentacles! They're protecting the beast!"

The Banished continue to attack the sacs while fending off the tentacles and Flood.

  • Voridus: "We must be doing something right for it to fight with such ferocity!"
  • Voridus: "Destroy those sacs! We will see this thing fall today or we'll die trying!"

After fending off the tentacles, the Banished focus fire on the sacs.

  • Pavium: "Focus all firepower on those sacs, make it pay for our losses!"

The Proto-Gravemind starts to shake after the sacs are destroyed

  • Voridus: "Ha, I think it's flinching!"
  • Pavium: "Be on guard! We must be prepared for anything!"

The Proto-Gravemind retreats from the surface, but its core is exposed. More Sentinels arrive to assist the Banished.

  • Voridus: "Aim that thing in the center! It must fall!
  • Pavium: "Voridus! The Sentinels you released earlier! They're joining in the attack! We were right! They must sense where that thing can be hurt!"

After dropping to 75% of its health, it resurfaces and closes its core.

  • Voridus: "It is working! We're killing it!"
  • Pavium: "At last! I began to fear it was unstoppable!"

It retracts its tentacles as it retreats from surface again.

  • Voridus: "It has retreated!"
  • Pavium: "But it's not finished yet. Look, it's releasing more Flood!"

Proto-Gravemind critical mass is shown on the HUD.

  • Pavium: "Fall back! We must not waste troops battling those Flood forms. I've marked new potential locations for an extra turret. Get one constructed now!"

The Banished retreats for a while to avoid further losses.

  • Voridus: "We can't reach that thing while it's in that hole, Pavium!"
  • Pavium: "Then we must encourage it back out again! I've found several locations where we can build a turret to force it out!"
  • Voridus: "At least with its tentacles retracted we can move about more freely!"
  • Pavium: "Which gives us more sites on which to build a turret! Quickly, troops!"

The Banished move west, but the tentacles are blocking their way, forcing them to find another place to set up a Mega Turret.

Finding another Flood-infested area, the Banished clear it and Pavium calls in another turret drop. The Flood assault the location.

  • Pavium: "That thing suspects what we're doing! It's trying to destroy the turret! Protect it!"

The Flood start to attack the Banished that are protecting the Mega Turret.

  • Pavium: "Flood incoming! Protect our turrets, we must not lose them!"

When the Mega Turret is completed

  • Brute: "Turret ready. I need eyes on the target."

The Banished spot the Proto-Gravemind.

  • Brute: "Targeting Proto-Gravemind."
  • Voridus: "Fire! Drive it out!"

Mega turret fires on the Gravemind, hitting it.

  • Brute: "Confirmed hit!"

It surfaces again, and its tentacles block their paths.

  • Pavium: "It's working! It rises!"
  • Voridus: "What does it take to kill this thing?"

The Banished start to attack the Proto-Gravemind carapace.

  • Pavium: "Stay strong, brother. We know how to wound it now, we must keep going."
  • Voridus: "Time to show the mettle of the Banished, troops! Put that monstrosity down!"

The Proto-Gravemind releases more Flood forms to stop the Banished.

  • Pavium: "It's trying to stop us with more of it's vile offspring!"
  • Pavium: "Send in our heavy unit to break its shell! It must fall!"
  • Voridus: "Hit the armored carapace! Crack it wide open!"

The second carapace is destroyed, exposing its sacs. Multiple tentacles emerges to stop the Banished.

  • Pavium: "The carapace is destroyed! Now's our chance!"

The Banished focus their attacks on sacs while fending off Flood forms.

  • Pavium: "Target those sacs!"
  • Voridus: "We've broken through its armor! Shoot the sacs and make it bleed!"

The Banished destroy the sacs and expose the core.

When its health reaches 50%, the Proto-Gravemind shields the core again and retreats. The tentacles retreats once again opening the path for the Banished to advance.

  • Voridus: "It cowers in the hole! Prepare another turret to force it back out!"

The Banished start to retreat and search for another Mega Turret site, while the critical mass on the HUD starts to increase again.

  • Voridus: "It retreats! Take the time to heal wounds and build another turret! We will need all the firepower we can get!"

Approaching the third site, the Banished prepare for another engagement.

  • Pavium: "We're nearing a turret site! Get one constructed, quickly!"

Once the Flood base is wiped out, Pavium calls in a minibase drop and the Flood launch an attack to stop it.

  • Pavium: "Don't let the Flood destroy a single turret, we need every one of them to hurt that thing!"
  • Voridus: "Protect our turrets, fools! If we lose them we'll never force that thing out!"

When the third Mega Turret is ready to fire.

  • Brute: "Turret ready, where is my target?"

The Banished spot the target for Mega Tu