MAP07: Castle (Strife)

MAP07: Castle is the Order's headquarters in Strife. It uses the music track "Strike".

Overview
When the player has accomplished Macil's first few missions (freed the prisoners, destroyed the power crystal and opened the castle gate in the sewers), he participates in the assault to the castle along with many Front's rebel troops. The castle is defended by stalkers, sentinels, acolytes and crusaders. There are some ceiling turrets on the three highest skill levels as well.

You are sent in to find and kill the Programmer, who controls the of the acolytes. The Programmer is located in the keep at the back of the castle. The audience chamber and the training facility are two other accessible levels. After you kill the Programmer, the castle begins to serve as the new Front base.

Walkthrough

 * Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector numbers in boldface are secrets.

Other points of interest
Once you get the silver key in the audience chamber, you can access the northwestern room of the hospital. The place contains two med patches, four medical kits and a surgery kit.

Secrets
There are no official secrets on this level.

Bugs
The following multiplayer Things have no flags set for any of the three difficulty classes, so they do not actually appear in the level: The teleport map spots 1 through 4 (Things 13 through 16) have no skill flags set either, but because of special handling in the engine, they function normally in the level.
 * a targeter (Thing 464),
 * three bullet clips (480, 481 and 482),
 * four energy packs (493, 494, 497 and 498),
 * a box of bullets (503),
 * a pack of HE grenades (507),
 * a pack of phosphorous grenades (535),
 * a pack of poison bolts (537),
 * a mini-missile launcher (544),
 * a medical kit (557).

Map data
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 2539.

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level: