Spruce Lake Ambush Camp

Spruce Lake Ambush Camp sits on a NERO checkpoint at the mouth of a barricaded tunnel in Crater Lake. A small Horde inside the tunnel wakes at any noise, but it also makes this a good place to farm ears.

Type: Camp
Region: Crater Lake

Part of

Ambush Camp HunterAmbush Camp Hunter is the open-world storyline for clearing the Marauder ambush camps set up along Oregon's main roads. The camps supply the snipers, tripwires and clothesline traps that hit you on the ride, so each one you burn out makes that route safer.

Found in

Crater LakeCrater Lake is the far southern region built around the real lake and Wizard Island, the Militia's headquarters. It opens in the second half of the story and has the most encampment jobs and NERO research sites in the game.

Good to know

Clearing it gives 4,000 XP.
It earns 1,100 Trust and 2,650 credits at Wizard Island.
It shares its site with the Spruce Lake NERO Checkpoint.
A small Horde lives inside the tunnel and wakes up if there's noise in camp.
That Horde respawns over time and doesn't count toward Horde Killer.
Explosives, a barricade the Horde must climb and nearby safe spots make it a good Swarmer-ear farm.

How to approach it

Stay quiet. A loud fight here pulls the tunnel Horde out on top of the camp's defenders. Use the crossbow and stealth kills, or pull back if the Horde stirs.

Using the Horde

Once the camp is clear, the tunnel Horde becomes a practice range. Wake it, let it climb the barricade and set off the explosives around the camp. It respawns later, so you can repeat it.

What's there

Killing everyone isn't enough: find the bunker hatch and read the map inside to clear the camp. The bunker then works as a fast travel point and a bed to sleep in. The checkpoint on the same site is a separate job worth doing on the same trip.

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