Part 2: Vault Symbols, ECHOs, and Other Collectibles Location Guide
Research & Development: Vault Symbols
Research & Development: Slam Pads
***NOTE*** The fourth pad cannot be accessed until you have opened an area during the side mission "Lab 19".
Hitting all four of these in one run will open the cage for Benjamin Blue, the skag sleeping near the entrance. Pet him a few times to get him to barf up new toys.
Research & Development: Security Cameras 1-15
***NOTE*** There may be as many as 36 cameras on this level. I ran through this level at least a dozen times and had documented 31 distinct cameras when I got the challenge to complete. Any missing are purely my human error and wanton use of grenades when bored. Please feel free to let me know about any I have missed.
You must destroy all of the cameras on the level in one go. The camera that dropped the challenge complete message was one I had destroyed earlier in making this guide, but that I had re-spawned by restarting the level to test this.
If I'd realized it was going to be this much work for 5 challenge points, I might not have bothered to make a guide for them.
When you get close to a camera, you will hear a faint whir of servo motors followed by a quiet beeping. The camera will start to track you and the LED on the front will change from green to red. This makes them a little easier to find.
Research & Development: Security Cameras 16-32
Apparently there's a character limit for subsections and the camera guide hit that. Here's part 2, starting with the Aquarium:
16. Next up is as you enter the Aquarium area and get attacked by Torks. It's up to the left of the windows you can see Dr. Torres through.Research & Development: Data Consoles
Collecting all five of these consoles unlocks the challenge "Data Recovery". They may be available when you first get to the area, but might also require progressing the story. More on that when I can test it.
1. The first of these consoles is in the skag-tube area at the start, on the north side of the room looking back towards Propulsion Testing.Veins of Helios: Vault Symbols
Veins of Helios: Lazlo ECHOs
***NOTE*** These are not available until you have started the side mission "Trouble with Space Hurps", which is available after the story mission "Eye to Eye" and side missions "Quarantine: Back on Schedule" and "In Perfect Hibernation". They must be picked up during the mission. They look like standard ECHO recorders, but will have a green interactable hue rather than a white item spike.
I believe it doesn't matter what order you grab these in and the sequence of messages will be the same.
Veins of Helios: Worker Bots
***NOTE*** These are not available until you have finished the story mission "Eye to Eye" and side mission "Quarantine: Back on Schedule".
1. At the initial airlock, take a right and head north. It will be right in front of you.Veins of Helios: Jump-Pads
Green 1. This is just after the airlock; it is the pad you can use to bounce back up to it after dropping off the pipe.
Blue 1 & 2. Head to the west end of the area without dropping off the building. The first pad will bounce you out to a remote platform. The second is right next to where you land on the platform and will bring you back.
Blue 3. Carefully drop off the roof northeast of Blue 2, aiming to land on the platform being moved about by the worker bot. When the platform is at the north position, the jump-pad is just north of you. Alternatively you can try to boost here from Green 5, but I find that tends to be just as tricky as catching the platform.
Green 2. At the very bottom of the area, this jump-pad will take you up to Green 3.
Green 3&4. This sequence of pads will boost you up to the central platform.
Green 5. On the north side of the central platform, this will boost you back near Green 1.
Blue 4. Located at the south end of the central platform, this will shoot you straight up to access the platform above.
Green 6. Look down from the central platform and you will see Green 6 in front of Central Maintenance. It sends you back to the central platform.
Blue 6-9. Jump west from the central platform and land on top of the western building. Ignore the southern jump (Blue 9) for now and take the northern (Blue 6) instead. This will boost you to the Supply Platform. Find 7 there to send you to the Remote Access Platform. Use 8 there to get back to the central platform. Now head back and take the southern Blue 6 jump. This will take you back to the Remote Access Platform. Use Blue 8 to return to the central platform.
Green 7. Head back over to the western building, but this time do a slow long jump off the north side. This will take you to the access for the Quarantine Zone. Green 7 returns you to the building west of Central Maintenance.
Blue 10-12. From the central platform, get on top of the building west of Central Maintenance. Head across the rooftops to the building east of Central Maintenance. Blue 10 is on the west end. It will take you to Blue 11. Head a bit west from where Blue 11 drops you to the Communication Array. Blue 12 takes you back to the eastern building.
Green 8. This pad is on the north side of Central Maintenance and will boost you across to the western plasma core.
Green 9. After taking Green 8, drop off the side to the lowest level. This pad will take you back up to Green 8.
Green 10. From Green 8, head east a bit. This pad will take you over to the eastern plasma core.
Lunar Launching Station: Vault Symbols
Vorago Solitude: Zarpedon ECHOs
All of the ECHOs are found in the vertical middle of the map.
1. The first ECHO is simple. Just look left of the Nurse Nina vendor at the entrance to see it sitting on a crate.Vorago Solitude: Telescopes
Vorago Solitude: Vault Symbols
Vorago Solitude: Eridian Artifacts
All of the Eridian Artifacts are found on the west side of the map.
1. The first is found just after crossing the western bridge. Look to your southwest and you'll see two guys standing outside a tent building. These are the NPCs Sterwin and the Master Poacher; the artifact is on a crate next to Sterwin.Tycho's Ribs: Vault Symbols
2. Ride the third rising platform, down by the southwest spur. It is identifiable by not having an orange forcefield at the top, for one. It will transport you to a new area worth seeing all for itself. The symbol is in the center room, at the top of the area, on a north facing wall.
Tycho's Ribs & Elseer: Corporal Best ECHOs
Though the challenge says these are in Tycho's Ribs and Elseer, only one is in Tycho's Ribs.
Tycho's Ribs:
Elseer:
For what it is worth, the order I found these as I played was 2,3,1,5,4, 6. This was mainly due to some areas being dead ends. However, after you progress through the level enough to raise the ramps to the inner ring upper level, you have easy access to them all. 1. South end, inner ring interior.
Tycho's Ribs: Crystal Skulls
There are 10 Crystal Skulls scattered around the level. Just shoot them to get the point towards the challenge.
1. From the entryway, look at the back right (southwest) corner of the vending machine room. There's a silver glowy thing that kinda looks like a head crab. That's your first Crystal Skull.4.In the north-eastern spur of the area, this skull can be found in the second alcove on the right, on the upper floor.
Elseer: Vault Symbol
Holodome: Vault Symbols
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