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Act 2 · 38 collectibles

Act 2 collectibles

From the bridge to the open district of Hold the Line, in route order.

Act 2: 38 collectibles

The map opens up. Chapter 2, Hold the Line, is a big semi-open slice of Kalona in three parts, with 27 of the act's 38 collectibles, 27 of its 36 Hard Cases and all seven of its side missions.

Also in this act: 36 Hard Cases, 7 side missions, 11 Supply Cache stations, the full Act 2 route. Entries are in route order inside each chapter.

Chapter 1 · Bravo Squad 5 collectibles

Video route: OhNoNotAddy (YouTube) ↗

  • Story item
    When
    Early in the chapter, once you are out on the street.
    Route
    1. Head forward until a vehicle opens a passage on your right.
    2. Look left, behind the burning bus.
    Pickup
    On the ground beside a soldier's remains propped against rubble.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    On the bridge: after you clear the enemies on the way to Charlie Squad and your objective becomes entering the control room.
    Route
    1. Inside the (west) control room, ignore the bridge controls in the middle.
    2. Look left and walk to the far end of the short corridor.
    Pickup
    On a dead Locust at the end of the corridor.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    After the bridge: you split from Charlie Squad, support them from above, fight through the next group and drop a ladder.
    Route
    1. Climb down the ladder.
    2. Take the gantry on your left and go left again to a dead end.
    Pickup
    On the floor in a corner next to police barriers.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Document
    When
    Shortly after the lunch kit, down some steps into the (east) control room.
    Route

    Go forward and down the short path in front of you.

    Pickup
    At the far end, on a small metal cabinet or cart.

    Also written: Trashball Rush Magazine; Thrashball RUSH Magazine.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    After the fight with the Heavy Boomers on the bridge, as you head down the stairs to the lower deck.
    Route

    At the bottom of the stairs, turn right and go forward.

    Pickup
    On the ground to your left, in front of a burning COG truck.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

Chapter 2 · Hold the Line 27 collectibles

Part 1 opens after you use the supply crate and get your orders. The map is available from here on.

Video route: OhNoNotAddy (YouTube) ↗ · Maka91Productions (YouTube) ↗

Part 1 3

  • Document
    When
    After the supply crate and your orders, as you head into the semi-open area toward Secure Octus Way Station.
    Route
    1. Enter the main area; a car dealership is on your left.
    2. Go inside, through the showroom into the garage at the back.
    Pickup
    On a desk or counter beside a radio.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Needs a side objective Document
    When
    During the Trapped Family secondary objective, once the shutter is up.
    Route
    1. Raise the shutter on the right of the Last Dollar store.
    2. Head forward into the back room.
    Pickup
    Hanging on the wall on the right of the back room.

    Linked side mission: Trapped Family.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    At the fuel station, southeast of the residential area; one guide places it after you help another COG squad.
    Route

    Find the fuel station and go into its store.

    Pickup
    On the cashier's counter.

    Also written: Trashies Cereal Box.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

Part 2 18

  • Name not checked in game Document
    When
    At the start of Part 2, as you come out of the station.
    Route
    1. Turn right out of the station and go down the small set of steps (past the pawnbroker).
    2. Follow the alley into the plaza and walk to the stone bench.
    Pickup
    On the ground at the far side of a stone bench, in front of a cafe and bakery.

    Older notes put it 'right of the exit' or 'behind a stone bench'. These are the same spot.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Document
    When
    Straight ahead of the Part 2 entrance.
    Route
    1. Go into the Major Burger restaurant in front of you.
    2. Head to the back (the restroom area).
    Pickup
    On the back wall.

    One guide puts it in a building with a missing wall near the bank. The two first-hand guides and PatchCrazy agree on the Major Burger.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Guides differ Story item
    When
    At the construction site south of the station.
    Route

    Stay on the ground floor and go to the back.

    Pickup
    At the foreman's body in a back corner of the ground floor.

    GUIDE CONFLICT: one guide says the back right, another the back left. Follow the collectible chime.

    Confidence: low · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash, GamersBeacon

  • COG Tags
    When
    In the apartment block on the far left of the Part 2 start.
    Route
    1. Go up to the floor with a breakable window that opens onto scaffolding.
    2. Shoot the window out and jump through onto the scaffolding.
    Pickup
    On the floor to the left on the scaffolding.

    Guides call that window the first or the second floor, depending on how they count.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Story item
    When
    In the same apartment block, after the Waxman tags.
    Route

    Go up to the top floor (the third) and clear the Locust sniper in there.

    Pickup
    In the bedroom, on the desk beside a computer.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Document
    When
    After you cross to the other side of the river by the east bridge.
    Route
    1. Find the building with the large hotel sign and go in.
    2. Head to the back right corner.
    Pickup
    On the right wall near the elevator and a lamp.

    One guide puts it west of the Warehouse District instead. Two guides agree on the hotel-sign building by the east bridge.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Document
    When
    With the large Amberstone Storage facility on your left, near the Imulsion Stockpile objective.
    Route

    Look to the apartment building on your right (the one with a 'live music' sign); a Locust soldier comes out.

    Pickup
    On a door inside the building.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • COG Tags
    When
    On the main road between the Warehouse District and the Bank of Tyrus.
    Route

    Drop underground below the road to a dead end under a bridge.

    Pickup
    Among crashed cars at the dead end.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Document
    When
    On the street above the Imhatip tags, at the COG road block.
    Route

    Go up to street level and walk to the COG road block.

    Pickup
    A poster on a lamp post, not far from the fuel pumps.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • COG Tags
    When
    Straight after the Caricature, just south of the Bank of Tyrus.
    Route

    Turn around and go forward into the wrecked loading bay on the right.

    Pickup
    Beside a dismembered body in the loading bay.

    One guide spells it Avalon. The in-game War Journal reads Avamor.

    Also written: COG Tags of Master Sergeant Mark Avalon.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Document
    When
    Outside the Bank of Tyrus, at the metro station entrance just south of Grind Coffee.
    Route

    Go down into the metro station entrance.

    Pickup
    On the wall across from the turnstiles.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Guides differ Story item
    When
    Below the bridge by the Bank of Tyrus.
    Route
    1. Drop to the walkway in front of the bank and go into the underground car park (the parking tunnel).
    2. Turn right onto the path that overlooks the river.
    Pickup
    On the ground near a bench, beside a body that faces the river.

    GUIDE CONFLICT: guides disagree on whether the car park is east or west of the bank. All agree on the riverside path, the bench and the body.

    Confidence: medium · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash, PatchCrazy

  • COG Tags
    When
    In the Grind Coffee shop, across from the Bank of Tyrus.
    Route

    Go into the coffee shop and walk behind the counter.

    Pickup
    Behind the counter, beside a fallen Gear.

    Confidence: medium · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • Document
    When
    In the apartment where the Apartment SOS secondary objective starts, just south of Grind Coffee.
    Route
    1. Climb the scaffolding and go in through the window (the fourth floor).
    2. Look to the left as you enter the main room.
    Pickup
    On a table beneath a lamp.

    Beating Apartment SOS is not required to pick it up.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    At the Major Burger near the 'Investigate the muster point' objective. A different Major Burger from the one at the Part 2 start.
    Route

    Go into the restaurant and through to the back room or kitchen.

    Pickup
    On the sink in the kitchen.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, PatchCrazy

  • COG Tags
    When
    At the muster point objective.
    Route

    Facing the muster point, head left and up an alley until you reach a squad of dead soldiers and a Vulcan cannon.

    Pickup
    Among the bodies.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Unlocks by itselfReturn later Story item

    Do not search for this. It is awarded automatically. During the 'Find Mags' Meds' objective, after the cutscene inside Mags' apartment.

    Also written: Photograph and Harmonica from Mag's Apartment.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Return laterGuides differ Document
    When
    At the Bank of Tyrus vault, once the bank becomes part of your main objective. The map may show it earlier but you cannot get in until then.
    Route
    1. Clear the enemies in the bank and open the vault.
    2. Walk in and look to the left.
    Pickup
    On the left side just inside the vault. The Hard Case is on the right.

    GUIDE CONFLICT: two guides say it unlocks by itself when the vault opens. Three say you pick it up on the left inside the vault. Look left before you leave the vault.

    Confidence: medium · Sources: Gamer Social Club, PatchCrazy, e-day.wiki, TechWiser, NerdStash

Part 3 6

  • Story item
    When
    At the muster point, from the Monroe Library steps.
    Route
    1. From the library's side park, go back and up the library steps.
    2. At the top, turn right to the dead end.
    Pickup
    On a newsstand in the corner. Other guides add 'in front of a crashed ambulance'.

    Confidence: medium · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Document
    When
    At the top of the library steps, near the flag.
    Route
    1. Go left into the supermarket with the yellow and green sign.
    2. Head into the back room.
    Pickup
    On the floor of the back room.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash, PatchCrazy

  • Document
    When
    After the Black Raven Down objective (or just before it).
    Route
    1. From the Major Burger where Black Raven Down starts, go left.
    2. A newsstand is on your right beside Shelter 09; go down the side of it.
    Pickup
    On the floor in front of a bench, under it.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Guides differ Document
    When
    After the muster point courtyard fight.
    Route
    1. Stand at the back of the courtyard, opposite the Supply Cache, and face the fountain.
    2. Turn right.
    Pickup
    Pinned to the wall on the far side of the fountain courtyard.

    Other guides say 'beside a phone booth'. Both describe a wall in or beside the courtyard on the way to the hotel.

    Confidence: medium · Sources: Gamer Social Club, PatchCrazy, TechWiser, NerdStash

  • Needs a side objectiveReturn later COG Tags
    When
    During the Lone Wolf objective in the library-side apartments, which you can only start after the courtyard main objective.
    Route
    1. Take the elevator in the apartments left of the library steps.
    2. At the top, turn around from the broken wall.
    Pickup
    On the floor in front of a dead Gear.

    Linked side mission: Lone Wolf.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, GamersBeacon

  • Story item
    When
    Inside the Kalona Hotel, during the main objective.
    Route

    From the main entrance, head right and up the stairs to the second-floor hallway.

    Pickup
    Leaning against a wall, between the elevators.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser, NerdStash, GamersBeacon

Chapter 3 · No Gear Left Behind 5 collectibles

Video route: OhNoNotAddy (YouTube) ↗ · Maka91Productions (YouTube) ↗

  • COG Tags
    When
    After the cutscene with the Impaler.
    Route

    Walk into the tunnel where the Impaler was.

    Pickup
    On the floor in the middle, beside a body with a melted face.

    Earlier notes were unsure whether this unlocks after the cutscene or is in the statue area. It is in the tunnel.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

  • COG Tags
    When
    In the same tunnel, straight after Harkniss.
    Route

    Look at the Gear impaled against the side of a van.

    Pickup
    On the floor beneath the impaled Gear.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    As you leave the tunnel, just before the arch to the golden statue plaza.
    Route

    Stay on the right side of the road as you reach the arch (below the Skytrain tracks).

    Pickup
    In a corner, sticking out of a dead soldier.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

  • Story item
    When
    In the golden statue plaza, after the fight.
    Route

    Return to the centre of the plaza and go left.

    Pickup
    On the floor in the middle of the left area, near a bench.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

  • COG Tags
    When
    After your talk with Captain Gray in the corridor, once you come back outside.
    Route
    1. Go down the steps.
    2. Before you leave through the gate, look to your right.
    Pickup
    On the floor beside a pile of covered bodies.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

Chapter 4 · Flyboys 0 collectibles

The helicopter chapter. No collectibles, Hard Cases or objectives are reported here.

No collectibles are reported in this chapter.

Chapter 5 · Overrun 1 collectible

Video route: OhNoNotAddy (YouTube) ↗ · Maka91Productions (YouTube) ↗

  • Document
    When
    After you go back inside the hangar, before the next phase of the mission.
    Route
    1. Walk forward for a few seconds.
    2. Look left, between some trucks.
    Pickup
    On some boxes between the trucks.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, NerdStash

How this act was checked

Item names were read off the in-game War Journal in a first-hand playthrough, and each location was compared across guides. Directions are written in our own words and have not been re-tested by us in the game. Where guides disagree the entry says so. Last checked October 7, 2026.