The Crane

The Crane is the second chapter of the third campaign, Dead Air. The Survivors are in the View Harbor Hotel's kitchen. They get back to the rooftops, by passing through the hotel's upper floors, to then reach the crane. In the first Crescendo Event of the Campaign, they must activate the crane, that lowers a container, to get to another rooftop. The survivors are usually given two Gas cans to burn the Infected. Later, the survivors arrive in the upper floors of an office complex. They navigate down through the office, out the main entrance, to finally reach a safe house across the street. One of the cars has an alarm and can attract the horde.

Campaign
You start off in the safe room with four health packs and 1st Tier weapons. Once your all stocked up and ready to go, open the door and begin.

Once outside, you will be in a cargo room. Kill the few zombies that are there and go outside and kill the other out there. After that climb the hill and jump the fence. Make your way up to the fire escape. Be careful because smokers like to stay here and very rarely you will find a tank. Then climb the stairs and go into the hotel.

Once inside the hotel, watch out for special infected and supplies like: pain pills, Pipe bomb, molotovs, and weapons and ammo. Make your way through the hallway, go up the stairs, and jumps out the window to the roof top with the crane.

Once here take out any infected and get ready to battle hordes of zombies. Climb up the ladder, hit the switch, and fight. In the fenced in area there should be some gas tanks, they will come in handy.

After this is done climb the ladder and make your way accross the rooftops killing any infected in sight. Finally you will enter a Law Office. Make your way threw it. Then you will go through another building. You will probably find a health box in here. Next go down the staircase and at the bottom is a large room with many cubicals. You caution here for there is usually a tank or witch along with special infected.

Once through here, go down the staircase to another room with cubicals. Once to the other side go down the flight of stairs and head outside.

Follow the street until you see the "Self-Storage" building, run inside and there will be the saferoom. Be careful for there is car alarm right outside enterence to the building. After that get ready for The Construction Site

Tips

 * NOTE: This is considered an exploit! It is possible to skip the crane crescendo. To do it, you jump onto the vent to the right of the crane, then onto the fence around the crane. You follow it around until you reach the gap facing the next rooftop. You run and jump, and then land on an electrical box, (it should be noted that if you are low on health and your speed is impaired, you cannot make this jump. Trying to do so in this state will kill you) then up on the next roof. From the roof over you can jump into the tree, with a substantial health hit, then make it to the ground. This effectively skips the rest of the map.


 * Smokers are especially troublesome on this level, as they tend to spawn on higher rooftops, and are hard to shoot. The best tactic is to simply keep moving, and punch a survivor as soon as they are ensnared.


 * A horde will typically spawn as you're ascending the fire escape at the beginning of the level. When exiting the safe house close the large metal door directly in front of you. Occasionally, hordes will spawn from inside the room behind it. Taking this small precaution will eliminate the threat. (The Infected can't break down metal doors!)