Operation C Area 3

## Overview

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## How To

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Go right. Shoot two trolls in front of you.

Like in Stage 1, two snipers are on top of structures, shooting at you. If you keep moving, their bullets won’t touch you. Shoot two trolls in front of you, and shoot the snipers as you wish. We usually shoot them to avoid lag.

The next part is tricky. There will be trolls spawning from the back and turrets popping from the ground and shooting at you. I call this the sandwich. It happens also in Heartbreak Alley in Contra 1.

If you shoot at the floor while running, the fireballs will explode and create enough fireballs to protect you from trolls coming from the back. I was calling this technique « the brooming », and Dan calls it « the blooming », because you are creating a flower of fireballs. This strat can help but will surely create a lot of lag. Also, it’s not 100% consistent because sometimes trolls will still kill you from the back (mostly near the end of scrolls).

There will be 3 turrets spawning from the ground (so 3 sandwiches). The first one is shortly after the structure snipers, the 2 other ones are in a pair a bit later.

Full bloom strat : Keep shooting at the floor while running. Turrets make a « bzt » sound when they spawn from the ground. Jump when you hear the sound and keep shooting down diagonally. This will kill the troll from the back and the turret.

### Boulders

There will be boulders coming down on you, you need to destroy the first two. But trolls are coming and there is a stationary sniper on a platform right after; and then another turret.

A good way to destroy the boulders is to keep shooting straight as you’re walking, and once the first boulder has been damaged by the first two fireballs, aim up and keep running. This will destroy the next boulder, and you can walk underneath the next ones.

As you walk to the boulders, the troll pattern coming from the back will be RNG. Ideally, you don’t want any troll to spawn as you’re trying to shoot the two first boulders and walk under the third one. The troll will run into you and kill you.

If you got a troll in the back, you can still deal with him without stopping. Right after passing the boulders, jump and shoot one fireball straight to kill the coming sniper, and one fireball down to take care of the troll. With this pattern, though, you will absolutely get two more trolls coming from the front, and you will need to deal with the next turret without jumping into it (the hitbox is dangerous).

Of course, watch out for lag.

The next section coming up is the climb.

### The Climb

You want to shoot the sniper waiting for you on the platform, it makes more room and he can create lag during the climb. Basically, for this section, you want to jump on the first platform as soon as possible, and then jump straight 6 times (7 jumps total). All these jumps are « ledge skips ». You can ignore all the enemies.

On the 8th jump, you will need to land on a platform on the right, and try to land on the edge. If you are too close to the center, you will die on the next jump, touching the turret.

Jump left on the sniper platform. Land on the edge as well and avoid the bullets. Jump right on the next platform.

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