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The RDA is known for their unethical mining and extraction processes that pollute the land inAvatar: Frontiers Of Pandora. As one of the Na’vi, it’s your responsibility to protect your home planet and eliminate the human forces that seek to destroy it. This include sabotaging different mining and drilling operations throughout the planet to prevent damage and pollution from spreading.
One of those RDA outposts is Hydro-Oil Extractor Alpha, which is slightly different from the others you’ll come across. It’s tough, and you’ll find yourself getting turned around as you try to help the Na’vi protect their home and stop the RDA’s ruthless negligence.
How To Destroy The RDA Air Balloons
Afterbonding with your ikran and finding Etuwaon Storyteller’s Stone in Those Who Guide Us, you’ll need tolocate the RDA devicesin the sky that are disrupting the kinglor from feeding. You can find themsoutheast of the Silk Woods, above Spool Island.
Mount your ikranand head off,keeping an eye out for RDA scorpionsthat could fire at you. You’ll find a cluster of balloons giving on the signal that closes the kinglor flowers.
Land on the platform and use SID to hackinto the balloons. This willexpose a vulnerability, which you can then fire at. Make sure you’re on your ikran and a good distance away so that you’renot caught in the blast.
After the first balloon explodes,more RDA will show upto check on the situation.
Fly low to avoid detectionand reach the other balloons that aren’t being monitored.
You’ll have totake out three balloonstotal before moving on to your next objective.Using your Na’vi senses, you cansee all of the balloonsin the cluster and which ones are surrounded by RDA scorpions.
How To Sabotage Hydro-Oil Extractor Alpha
When the balloons are down, you’ll meet Etuwa by the RDA facility. She will distract the RDA scorpions overhead so you can infiltrate the facility and bring it down from the inside. There arefour controls you’ll need to interact with, and they can be a bit difficult to reach.
Make sure to handle things quietly, and there are numerous AMP suits prowling about. Getting caught will be problematic to say the least.
You canuse the cables that connect the towers to cross overheadand stay out of sight.Use SID as needed to hack controls and AMP suitsto stay undetected. There are plenty ofplaces to use for cover, so stay hidden and unravel the RDA from the inside.
If you get stuck, ourbest tips for sabotaging RDA facilitiescan help.
How To Solve The Hydro-Oil Extractor Alpha Puzzle
After you’ve successfully taken out the towers and the pipelines, you’ll need tomake your way to the top of the extractorto disrupt the frequency andfully shut down the plant.
Take your ikranand try to take out the RDA scorpion quickly.Aim for the weak points in the rotary bladesto bring it down.
Once at the top, there aretwo control panels that must be activatedto hack the main tower. You’ll want to interact with the panel on the left and the right to make sure theyoverload the antenna.
Where To Find Etuwa
After taking down the facility, Etuwa goes down with her ikran. Call for your own ikran and use your Na’vi senses to track Etuwa and Talu through the jungle. You’ll find her a short ways off, unresponsive.
There is an RDA cluster of soldiers while tracking. You can go around them or cut through them.
Without much choice,head back to Hometreeto convince the Aranahe clan to help fight the RDA. The kinglor are able to feed again, and that seems to be enough to convince the clan to join the Resistance.
