If you’re coming early from Vicente’s mission in New Atlantis, you’ll need to do a few Grav jumps from system to system until you get to Porrima, the system where you can find the Porrima III planet. Stock up on medical items and ammo with your best weapons, as you’ll certainly need those.
Once you arrive in Porrima III, land at the Red Mile bar and meet Mei, the bar’s owner and creator of the Red Mile Run. She’ll inform you on the Red Mile, and you just cannot let this unique chance pass. The Red Mile Run is a track where you need to reach and touch the beacon in the outer snowy plains and return to the bar alive. Sounds easy enough until you add the Red Mile Maulers into the occasion.
After agreeing to participate, go through the doors and the various signs of “last chance to not throw your life away” and get ready. Set the mission as your objective to know where you’re headed if it wasn’t automatically set. After setting foot, you may immediately see some of the dreadful Red Mile Maulers.
After agreeing to participate, go through the doors and the various signs of “last chance to not throw your life away” and get ready. Set the mission as your objective to know where you’re headed if it wasn’t automatically set. After setting foot, you may immediately see some of the dreadful Red Mile Maulers.
These enemies are tough and can hit you with explosive projectiles from a certain distance, and the road is packed to the brim with them. Fortunately, your companion is also following you here, and they’ll prove as loyal as they can be in this challenge.
The trick is to avoid direct conflict with the Maulers as much as possible, as they’re extremely hard to bring down and can easily chomp you down to pieces. Sneak your way through the sides and slowly walk towards the beacon. Use the Scan mode to spot them more easily. If you have the Stealth skill, you can use the Stealth bar to see if you’re actually well hidden from them or not.
Fighting a few of them along the way is pretty much inevitable. In my experience, Laser weapons were more effective than pistols or rifles, so use one if you have it. Having a few points in the Lasers Skill helps a lot here.
Keep hiding as much as possible. I found the left side path safer while running it, as it also had a few mountains from which I could use my booster pack to close bigger distances in a single jump. Just be careful with your CO2 gauge here, as it can fill quite fast if you don’t pay attention when running from Maulers.