Homecoming

**Homecoming** is the fifth main mission in *Giants Uprising*.

## Description

Kielbasa: "You know, Rogbar, the homecoming wasn't as I had expected it to be. Forcing our way through the pillaged Lower Settlement, fights with giant hunters, massacred bodies of Caer Hearn defenders - and of course, the meetings with Drest and Meabh - those encounters keep haunting me on bad nights. But sometimes, in spite of myself, I think: 'fuck it'. Even if we couldn't stop the massacre at Caer Hearn, I wish I could go back there again. Just so I could kill those fuckers once more."

## Challenges

Challenges are only available when replaying the mission after completing all main missions. Challenges for this mission include:

* Speedrun: Beat the level in under 9:00 minutes
* Thrifty: Use no more than three barrels

## Walkthrough

* Get moving!: Reach the marked area
	+ Go to the waypoint ahead.
	+ Find a weapon and yeet it at the rope to lower the drawbridge.
	+ Continue to the next waypoint, watching out for the two cannon towers along the way.
* Giant-proof gate: Find a way to open the gate
	+ Get to the back of the fort while managing to stay alive and destroy the wooden structure holding up the boulder.
	+ Find the alchemical explosive barrels off to the right side when going away from the boulder.
	+ Destroy the gates blocking the boulder to let it roll through and destroy the gate closer to the entrance.
* Another gate: Another boulder?
	+ It may be best to hang back outside of the gate and allow the soldiers to charge out.
	+ The boomerang type weapons are great for rapidly thinning out charging hordes before they're close enough to attack.
	+ It'll be necessary to go through the gate to get to the archers below.
	+ Same as before, the boulder is in the back, with one gate in the way that needs to be opened by yeeting an explosive battel into it.
	+ Destroy the gate and free the boulder to clear the way to the next area.
	+ Continue onward.
* Kill that fucker: Get to Drest and win the fight
	+ This is a difficult area. It's necessary to circle the entire area in a counterclockwise direction in order to reach the upper part in the middle.
	+ All the way along, the ballista in the middle will be shooting in bursts of three. Because a hit staggers Rogbar for a moment, it's difficult to avoid following shots.
	+ Try to stay in cover when reasonable, but due to pressure from soldiers and archers, it'll likely be necessary to move around and smash stuff to help keep health up. When staying in cover isn't reasonable, try to move sideways with respect to the ballista.
	+ In the narrow part behind the center, there will be a chance to pick up a couple cows. Further on, near the closed gate, there will be a chance to get a few more.
	+ Once in the center, there will a boss fight against the giant from the arena fight earlier. It's not much different than before, except for the tight quarters and spiked posts along the perimeter. Be particularly careful of the posts when swinging around, as it's easy to drift into them and take heavy damage.
	+ Defeat the giant to win the battle here.
* Get moving!: Reach the marked area
	+ Rogbar is now drugged, leading to visual distortion on the screen.
	+ Head to the waypoint, opening the gate along the way.
	+ Reaching the waypoint will trigger another. It may be better to charge through to the next gate here rather than fight.
	+ Go through the next gate ahead. There will be a large idol ahead. Go left and then left ahead at the fork and go through the gate here. It may lead back to the idol, requiring this to be repeated a few times until a dialogue is triggered telling Rogbar to turn around, after which the gate to both lefts should lead to a different area. The other gates just endlessly lead back to the idol.
* Meabh's Rear Guard: Smash your way through
	+ Defeat 300 enemies.
* Get moving!: Reach the marked area
	+ Reach the next waypoint for the objective to change. It may be best to just charge through, as there is no food in this area.
* More of Meabh's troops: You know what to do
	+ Be careful rounding the bend and going up the hill, as two boulders will be rolled down.
	+ Up the hill, kill 250 troops to satisfy the objective.
* Get moving!: Reach the marked area
	+ Move to the new waypoint carefully due to all the traps along the way.
	+ Keep going to the next waypoint until the objective changes. There will be meat to pick up.
* Complete the familicide: Kill Meabh and Boghrar
	+ Go inside the wall ahead to fight Boghrar.
	+ His axe is relatively slow. It's almost, but not quite possible to use punches to keep interrupting it, but he'll periodically managed to slip attacks in.
	+ Be careful of his 4-hit combos.
	+ In the middle of the fight, he will throw down a flashbomb and fill the area with smoke. During this time, he will try to launch a surprise attack from an unexpected direction.
	+ Later in the fight, he'll begin using a long spinning attack. Hitting him should interrupt it, or it can simply be avoided by dodging back.
	+ Defeat him to trigger a cutscene and end the mission.