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Maybe I'm just a stupid veteran newbie, but I have a major problem in the Downtown side-quest "Traffik".

I'm sorry if this has been posted before, I've tried the Search, but haven't found anything. If it has, please post the URL.

I'd really like to do this thing stealthily, so I went into the door at the beggining, crawled through the vent, etc etc. When I reached the end of the vent and found myself on the other side of the first floor of the garage, there are lots of ladders all around the walls leading to more vents...

Problem is, when I climb up the ladder and open the hatch, I can't get in! I don't think it's a bug or anything like that, I just don't know how to jump in. I've tried several different hatches countless times, and it's always the same thing. There's the ladder, and the hatch opens up on the ceiling right next to it.

How the hell do I climb/jump/crawl in??

Help please

Oh. yeah, this gave me fits too. It's actually very simple. At the top of the ladder crouch, turn and face the open grate, then just press and hold "w" to "move" forward. You'll automatically climb the grate and get inside.

tip

I have had probs with the gratings too. climb the ladder, open the grating then go onto the hanging flap and crouch climb.

my tip is the enemies can't shoot into the gratings, so if you find one that you can easily get into quickly, you can keep raiding into the garage, kill a few guards, run back to the grating and hide in it to recover. even if they see you go into it, they can't follow. if you fancy it, you can always go out the other end and round the back of them, although they seem to have patrol orders and resume patrolling.

the garage can be quite a slaughterfest - it is a good place to hone strategies against a manageable number of moderately-difficult enemies.

it is especially good for practising your disciplines and combinations - if you have thaum, boiling a few and making a mess is fun. getting key guards to suicide is interesting and for really sneaky types, it is good practice for stealth-kills. how using an axe can count as 'stealth' is a mystery to me, but whilst the katana is the perfect stealth weapon, the axe is very dramatic.

blood salvo/blood strikes work well too - use them along with ranged weapons and take out the braddock users first or you'll suffer the consequences.

Just a quick note: normally I approach the garage as a kill house, however most recently I went for stealth. If you use the grates, crawl spaces, and have a high level of stealth you can make it to the briefcase you are looking for undetected. You actually get an experience point bonus for doing so.

The problem is that you cannot use the same route out, and without obfusticate it is nearly impossible to ghost your way out.