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midori888
06-24-2008, 04:46 PM
Basically the gist of the mission is you have to steal a voice recorder from a vault. Before you can open the vault, you need to open this grate to the right of it; by opening this grate this causes the vault to open. I cannot for the life of me, figure out how to open the infernal grate. I have tried everything I can think of to open it, and have had no success in doing so.

What I've tried in attempts to open the grate (next to the vault):

gone to the door to the left of the vault (it's in the same room) and tried pushing the switch both up and down to see if that would do anything; nothing.

There's a corridor that has two doors. To the right or left (not sure which) in the same room that has the corridor, there is a set of stairs which you can both ascend and descend. There's also a window in this room. I descended the stairs in this room, shot a rope arrow on the tiled ceiling in this room and climbed the rope to get into the room. Explored it, thinking I'd find a switch or something, and no such luck.

Went downstairs to the basement. You keep going and eventually you'll find two rooms; one to the right and one to the left. The one to the right will have this furnace type mechanism and six different buttons (3 on the right, and 3 on the left). I've tried pushing them in as many combinations as I can think so the red will turn to green (there is a colored light when you open the box to it) and no matter what combination I try with pressing the buttons, light won't change color.

I've tried walkthroughs to see if they'll go into detail as to how you open the grate, because opening the grate in turn opens the vault. All it says is to "open the vault" and directs you how to get to the room where the vault is.
It doesn't describe HOW you open the grate which is what you have to open to open the vault.

Can somebody please help me on this. No directions please, this will just confuse me and I'll have no clue where to go. You're welcome to describe directions, but please be simple and concise with them.

jtr7
06-24-2008, 07:27 PM
Who told you that grate had anything to do with it? They are incorrect. That grate is not made to be opened, it only shows you what the lockbar is connected to, really.

Go back into the basement.
Mash the buttons, and keep mashing them until they are ALL pushed in.
That will lower the lockbar.
Go back up and enter the vault.

Ignore the grate. No wonder you're frustrated. I'm really curious about that walkthrough.

Alternatively: You could wait until eight hours of game-time have past.