Quake 4 - the Network Guardian

After a scary intro of the Network Guardian when going through the elevator in, i think, Data Processing Terminal (revisited level), I finally met the monster in the third tower...

Despite the intimidating looks, the Network Guardian (NG) is actually an easy kill once you know some basic tricks against his attacks! He is equipped with a massive blaster and guided rockets and can also try to hover over you and burn you with the fire from his Jet Pack. When you get real close to him, he will also try to stomp you down with his big, smelly feet!! In between, 1 or 2 strogg aircraft might try to drop some bombs on you... Here are some tricks that can make this a piece of cake!

- Strafing left and right is the key! Do you remember what Dori, the absent minded fish sings in Finding Nemo ? "just keep swimming, just keep swimming" :-) that is what seems to help a lot in Quake 4!

What I found to work well is that as soon as you see the NG raise his blaster arm (his right arm) to fire at you, just change the strafing direction immediately - before he starts firing. and you will dodge his bullets :-)

- I tried various gun combinations for killing NG - even shot gun by circling around the NG at close range :-) and I feel that the best choices are the quick firing ones! Machine Gun, Hyper Blaster, Nail Gun (probably the best gun since it has homing capability), Rockets and the Dark Matter Gun (DMG). Since there are refill ammos here for Nail Gun, Rockets and DM cores, I preferred using those...

Since the DMG takes a while (2 or 3 seconds :-)) to recharge, you can consider it using in the beginning when the NG comes first.

hmmm, these are a tip-too-many for this silly NG ;-) Just enjoy the game without thinking too much of strategy and you will be fine :-)

"Use you intuition, Luke!"