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Act 3 · 36 collectibles

Act 3 collectibles

Forest, tunnels and the open Last Foothold, in route order.

Act 3: 36 collectibles

Mostly linear, with one open chapter. Last Foothold (Chapter 3) is the big one: 14 collectibles, 12 Hard Cases and three side missions, two of which only appear later in the chapter.

Also in this act: 38 Hard Cases, 3 side missions, 8 Supply Cache stations, the full Act 3 route. Entries are in route order inside each chapter.

Chapter 1 · Stranded 5 collectibles

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

  • Story item
    When
    On the walk through the woods to Fairlight Outpost, after you come down a rope and reach a fork in the road with a body on the ground.
    Route

    Your objective is to the right. Take a short detour to the left instead.

    Pickup
    On the floor beside a tree, next to the mauled body.

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

  • Document
    When
    Entering Fairlight Outpost: you climb a shipping container to get over the fence.
    Route
    1. After you land on the other side, head right and up toward the top of the area.
    2. Go to the fence gate that is blocked from the other side.
    Pickup
    On the wall beside the blocked gate.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Story item
    When
    Further on, past the stacked red containers, at the large warehouse.
    Route

    Walk past the big warehouse on your left to the Supply Cache outside it.

    Pickup
    On crates to the left of the Supply Cache.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Document
    When
    When you are told to enter the sub-station to restore power.
    Route
    1. Go through the doorway in the fence.
    2. Look to your right at the generators.
    Pickup
    Between two of the generators.

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

  • Story item
    When
    Just before you enter the sub-station.
    Route

    Turn left at the entrance and walk down the side of the building to the back.

    Pickup
    A broken target propped against the fence at the back.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

Chapter 2 · Enemy Lines 6 collectibles

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

  • Story item
    When
    In the tunnels, in a large red-lit room with tall metal poles.
    Route

    Go up the small slope on the right.

    Pickup
    With some supplies on a crate at the top of the slope.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Story item
    When
    In the next wide, better-lit room full of supplies, where Dom remarks on Locust supply lines.
    Route

    Go left and up a slope.

    Pickup
    On crates at the top.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Document
    When
    In the underground subway station, after the train fight.
    Route

    Head to the right of the tracks and the subway car.

    Pickup
    On a set of crates under a Kalona poster.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • Story item
    When
    A short detour after the platform Hard Case (4).
    Route
    1. Walk away from your objective marker down the dark tunnel, following the train tracks.
    2. Head for the red light ahead until you reach a wreckage and dead end.
    Pickup
    On the floor on the left at the wreckage.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • COG Tags
    When
    Back at the crashed subway cars you need to cross.
    Route
    1. Go past where Hard Case 4 was (it is on your right).
    2. Before crossing the train cars, find the doorway with stairs going down on your left.
    3. Go down into the space below.
    Pickup
    On the floor to the right, with a body.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • COG Tags
    When
    In the sewers, at the Supply Cache.
    Route

    Do not leave the sewers without checking beside the Hard Case.

    Pickup
    Immediately to the left of the Hard Case by the Supply Cache.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

Chapter 3 · Last Foothold 14 collectibles

The map is available. Hard Cases and the three secondary objectives are all in this chapter. Rooftop Mayday and Lost in the Park only appear later in the chapter.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    At the start of the chapter, at the surface by a large emergence hole.
    Route

    Face the Kalona Theatre and look to its right.

    Pickup
    On the ground behind a taxi in front of the theatre.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    On the way through the collapsed streets, below the Skytrain.
    Route
    1. Go into the building on your right.
    2. Head to the back room.
    Pickup
    On the floor of the back room (it is on fire).

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

  • Document
    When
    At the abandoned COG checkpoint where you meet Tai. You follow him over a bus.
    Route

    Before you climb over the bus, go to the right side of the checkpoint.

    Pickup
    On a table under a tent.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    On the way to the library, in the Locust fight.
    Route
    1. Go right and climb up the ledges.
    2. At the top, turn back toward the edge; a shipping container is on your right.
    Pickup
    Inside the shipping container.

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

  • Document
    When
    In the library, after the briefing with Captain Grey.
    Route

    From the briefing table go to the right of the area and into the back room.

    Pickup
    On a table with a computer.

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

  • Document
    When
    At Landa Memorial Hospital.
    Route
    1. Go in through the ground-floor entrance and keep right.
    2. Go behind the reception area.
    Pickup
    On a filing cabinet behind the reception desk.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    Still in the hospital, on the second floor.
    Route
    1. From the entrance, go left and up the stairs.
    2. At the top, turn left to the body of a Gear.
    Pickup
    On the floor beside the body, in the admissions and emergency room.

    TechWiser reaches the same room by climbing the ambulance toward the broken hospital sign.

    Also written: COG Tags of Specialist Radchel Carnahan.

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

  • Name not checked in game COG Tags
    When
    At the Kalona Police Department building, in front of the loading bay where Weak Signal takes place.
    Route
    1. Go down the right side of the building.
    2. Enter the door on the left.
    Pickup
    On the floor just to the right of the entrance, by a body.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    At the bloody fountain behind the Kalona Police Department, where you were ambushed in Act 2.
    Route
    1. Go round the back of the police department.
    2. Jump into the fountain.
    Pickup
    In the fountain.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    After the pharmacy Hard Case (10).
    Route
    1. Jump back out of the pharmacy and look right at the tram car hanging above.
    2. Use the abandoned truck to climb up into it.
    Pickup
    At the back of the tram car, on the right (the Downtown Line train).

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

  • Story item
    When
    At the front of the library and apartment area, toward the river.
    Route

    Walk toward the river.

    Pickup
    On the ground in front of a set of four park benches, by some bodies.

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

  • COG Tags
    When
    On the same main road, on the way to the final objective.
    Route
    1. Go all the way to the end of the road.
    2. Find the closed-off shelter on the right (a blue-fronted building with a COG emblem).
    Pickup
    Beside a dead Gear to the right of the shelter entrance.

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

  • Needs a side objectiveReturn later Story item
    When
    During the Lost in the Park objective, once it is safe.
    Route
    1. Look left from the park and go through the gate in the wall to the road.
    2. Turn right and walk to the large sinkhole.
    Pickup
    Beside a police car and a dead Boomer at the sinkhole.

    Also written: Heavy Locust Helmet.

    Linked side mission: Lost in the Park.

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

  • Needs a side objectiveReturn later Story item
    When
    During the Rooftop Mayday objective, which only appears after you beat the new flying enemy in the main story.
    Route
    1. Cut the gate open to start Rooftop Mayday.
    2. Climb the first set of stairs and double back round on the scaffolding.
    3. Follow the scaffolding to the end.
    Pickup
    At the end of the scaffolding, with some ammo.

    It is a normal pickup at the end of the scaffolding, not an automatic unlock.

    Also written: Blade-Like Projectile.

    Linked side mission: Rooftop Mayday.

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

Chapter 4 · The Convoy 3 collectibles

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  • COG Tags
    When
    Near the start of the chapter, after the first fight.
    Route
    1. Head up the road and hop into the left lane.
    2. Look over the barricade on your left.
    Pickup
    A burnt-out car that is still on fire, with a dead soldier against it.

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

  • Story item
    When
    After you drop to the lower level of the bridge and beat the enemies, as the convoy moves again.
    Route

    Stick to the right side.

    Pickup
    In front of an overturned police car.

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

  • Name not checked in game COG Tags
    When
    In the control room, after you climb a crate and go in through the window.
    Route

    From the Hard Case on the left, look right toward the middle of the room.

    Pickup
    A dead COG soldier by the console you need to use (one guide says on a bed).

    One guide's text misprints the name as another soldier's. The in-game list shows Kevin Garbor as the third tags in this chapter.

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

Chapter 5 · Desperate Times 5 collectibles

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

  • Story item
    When
    At the start, after you beat the Locust on the roof and go inside.
    Route

    In the first apartment, go to the person sitting on a couch.

    Pickup
    On the floor in that room.

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

  • Story item
    When
    In the apartment hallway after you beat the Wretches.
    Route
    1. Crawl through the hole in the wall on the left.
    2. Look to your left right after the chest of drawers.
    Pickup
    On the floor.

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

  • Document
    When
    At the courtyard where you fought the Reaver.
    Route
    1. Return to where you entered the courtyard.
    2. Stay right of the central stone barricade and head forward to the edge.
    Pickup
    On the floor beside a stone planter.

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

  • Name not checked in game Story item
    When
    After the Torque Bow cutscene and the bridge.
    Route

    Cross the bridge and go right of the tree in the middle, toward the balcony.

    Pickup
    On the floor beside a Locust body.

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

  • Story item
    When
    After you clear the clock tower.
    Route

    Do not go down to street level yet. Climb to the top of the tower.

    Pickup
    On the floor at the top, where the Torque Bow Locust stood.

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

Chapter 6 · Desperate Measures 3 collectibles

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

  • Document
    When
    At the fort, after the opening fight.
    Route
    1. Go to the centre of the fort and look back toward the entrance; a statue stands in the middle.
    2. Go down all the steps to the left and into the corner.
    Pickup
    Under a red glow, beside a truck.

    Confidence: high · Sources: Gamer Social Club, TechWiser

  • One-way Story item
    When
    After you go through the main entrance chasing the Brumak and beat the enemies there.
    Route
    1. Look left and back down the path that is now blocked.
    2. Go to the right of it, beside the wall.
    Pickup
    Next to the wall.

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

  • Story item
    When
    During the chase, as you pass through the gift shop.
    Route
    1. Go in and up the stairs.
    2. Look left, past the display on the floor.
    Pickup
    On the counter overlooking the hall.

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