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How To Find The Code And Key To Rescue Dr. Connors In Spider-Man 2
Finding the Key and Code to rescue Dr. Connors in Spider-Man 2 is a large part of the 'Good Men' main story quest, which finds you sneaking around an abandoned zoo. You need to be very quiet and careful here, or you'll be in serious danger.
As you swing through the story in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, you can switch between playing as Peter Parker and Miles Morales. Two Spider-Men equals twice the crime-fighting fun, but a sinister plot is soon unveiled. As the crime fighting duo, it's up to you to save some unexpected victims of this plot.
Without further ado, we're here to show you how to find the Code and Key to rescue Dr. Connors in Spider-Man 2.
Spoiler Warning: This guide contains story and gameplay spoilers!
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To find the Code to free Dr. Conners in Spider-Man 2 you need to be stealthy and find a way to get past the Hunters without being seen.
From the beginning area, just after this section of the mission begins, look to your right. You should briefly see an objective marker here.
Slowly start to make your way down the stairs here. When you reach the bottom of the stairs you should see a gap in the gate opposite you.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games Use the left directional toggle and R2 to sprint forward through this gap. The Hunters shouldn't spot you this way.
When you're through the opening, head up the large stepped green area in front of you and when you reach the top you should find another opening in a gate on your left.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games Go through the opening here and stick to cover, there are several Hunters prowling around. Now, carefully, throw a rock to distract the Hunters then move forward and look to your right.
You should see an opening here leading into a cave enclosure, head through here and then keep going deeper into the cave.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games Eventually, you'll reach a large room and you need to go to the computer terminal at the back of this area.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games Interact with the computer with Triangle and then deal with Vika. Once you've done this, you need to convince 'Mongoose' that you're Vika...
Convince Mongoose that you're VikaTo convince Mongoose that you're Vika in Spider-Man 2, there are several pieces of information you need to find and investigate around the cave enclosure you're currently in.
Here are the locations for all of the pieces you need to investigate:
Once you've done all of this, go back to the radio by Vika and interact with it again.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games After this interaction plays out, go to the board half covered in a camo net and interact with it to find out that the cage code is 0451.
Now that you've got the code it's time to sneak around the rest of the zoo to find the keys for Dr. Conner's handcuffs.
From where you found the code, head out the same way you entered the cave but leave via the opening to your right. Be careful here and stick to cover, there are more Hunters lurking around.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games When you're behind cover here, look left and use a rock to distract the Hunters again. Then, while they're distracted, head down the large stairs on your right and through the opening in the gate here.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. You'll now be in a large grassy area. Again, be cautious here as there are a lot of Hunters prowling around on the other side of walkway on your left. Now, keep going forwards until you come to another set of large steps that lead up to a glass building - don't go up the steps though!
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Instead, stop at the base of the stairs and look across the path here towards the next grassy area where the Hunters are gathered. You should also notice some generators here.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Without alerting the Hunters, make your way to the generator that is closest to the stairs (it should also be marked for you) and interact with it with Triangle. As soon as you've done this, head back the way you came and stay hidden behind the stairs - most of the Hunters will now be distracted by the generator malfunction.
Walk back on yourself towards the gate you came through earlier, but look to your right and you should see an arch that leads through to the grassy area where the distracted Hunters are.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Make your way through here and move between the covers to get to the other side of the area.
Once you're at the other side of this area, look to your left and you should see a stack of crates that act like steps which lead you up to the central stone path again.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Climb up these steps and then seek cover behind the barrel in front of you. While hidden, look to your right and you should see a large Hunter helicopter surrounded by a couple of Hunters.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Again, throw some rocks to distract the Hunters and divert their attention away from you. While they're busy, make your way down the stairs towards the helicopter and then duck into the shelter on your left.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games Then make sure the Hunters are still distracted and then head to your left, moving past the fountain in the courtyard and up the stairs with lamps at the top of it on the opposite side of this section.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. When you're at the top of the stairs you are very close to finding the keys, so stick with us as you're almost there!
Follow the path to the right here towards the Reptile House and stick to cover while doing so. You will come to an area with a bonfire in it.
Throw a rock here to distract the Hunters and then sneak past the fire to the next set of steps that lead into the next area.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Now, you should be in an area that's got a drone in the middle of it and a trio of Hunters around it.
Sneak into the shelter on the left side of this area and look for the computer terminal throwing rocks to distract the Hunters if you need to. When you find the computer, interact with it to activate the drone. This will go haywire and the Hunters will be distracted for a short period of time.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games While they're busy with the drone, make your way up the next set of steps to your left and you'll now be outside the Reptile House. There is a Hunter near the entrance of the house but they do walk around, so we managed to sneak in behind them.
How to get the KeysOnce you're inside the Reptile House you need to get to cover as soon as you can, there are several armed Hunters in here and the one in the image below has the keys:
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. They stand out from the other Hunters due to the markings on their face and their general appearance. You need to take them out without the other Hunters noticing and, fortunately, someone has rigged up camouflage walls around this small area.
To activate the camo walls, look to your left. You should see yet another computer terminal here. Interact with it to put the walls up (don't worry, the Hunters don't seem to notice them going up).
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Distract the guards with a rock and wait for the one holding the keys to come behind the camo wall. Make sure you're out of sight of the other Hunters, then get behind them without them seeing you and use Square to take them out.
Image credit: Eurogamer/Insomniac Games. Once you do this, you'll automatically grab the keys.
Now that you've got the keys and the code, you need to go and rescue Dr. Conners!
Good luck, and we hope you enjoy the rest of Spider-Man 2!
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Suddenly, Franks realized she had another meeting to get to, and here she was in a room full of free-ranging rats. She couldn't just open the door and leave—rats would surely escape. But catching each rat and putting it back into the hutch would take forever.
"I think, you know, we should probably get them back in the cage," Franks said.
"Oh, okay," said the researcher.
She opened the cage door. The rats streamed back up the table legs and into confinement, where they continued to romp and play. Franks made it to her meeting.
It was an example of how building relationships and channels of communication with rats might allow us to come to understandings with them. "Rats can be quite responsive to human interests that potentially are not even in alignment with what the rats want," said Franks. (It turns out that this has been shown in laboratory experiments as well, where rats have been trained to participate in procedures they cannot possibly enjoy, such as tube-feeding.)
I admit, and so does Franks, that we are entering unexplored territory here. What does it look like to form social relationships with wild rats? Do we hire rat-catchers who tickle rather than kill? Draw hard territorial lines where they're most important—in homes, offices, restaurants—while accepting rats on a downtown street or in a park in the same way that we do a pigeon or any other commensal animal?
An idea that seems absurd is sometimes a truth that we haven't yet accepted. Years after de Chasseneuz represented rats in the court of Autun, one of the strangest animal prosecutions on record gave hints of how the famous lawyer might have fully defended the rats had their trial proceeded.
The case in question was launched against beetles of the species Rhynchites auratus—handsome golden-green weevils—in Saint-Julien, France, in 1587. As with the rats of Autun, the accused were charged with ravaging crops, this time the local vineyards. Again, counsel was appointed to defend the verminous pests.
The prosecution relied on Biblical passages that give humankind dominion over "every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth": Since weevils surely creepeth, we were free to decide their fates. The defense, meanwhile, made the case that weevils were a part of divine creation, and God had made the earth fruitful "not solely for the sustenance of rational human beings."
The trial lasted more than eight months, and at one point the restless citizens of Saint-Julien offered to mark out an insect reserve where the weevils could feed without harming the vineyards. The weevils' advocates were not placated. They declared the land inadequate, turned down the offer and, as lawyers will, sought dismissal of the case cum expensis—that is, with the accusers paying the weevils' legal costs. No one today knows how the matter was finally decided, because the last page of the court record is damaged. It appears to have been nibbled by rats or some kind of beetle.
Preposterous? Absolutely. Yet by putting weevils on trial, both defense and prosecution came to agree on one point that eludes us today: Creatures have a right to exist in accordance with their nature, even if it is their nature to make trouble for humankind.
South Africa's Oldest Wildlife Sanctuary CROW Struggling To Survive – Clint Halkett-Siddall
CROW is South Africa's oldest wildlife rehabilitation centre. For the past 43 years, the centre has been rehabilitating and releasing wild animals and birds. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which suspended their international volunteer programme for two years, combined with the devastating floods Kwazulu-Natal in 2022 and the current cost of living crisis, the centre is now in danger of closing down. In an interview with BizNews, Clint Halkett-Siddall, the Director of CROW, shed light on the centre's current plight. What was once a sanctuary rescuing 3,000 to 4,000 injured, orphaned and displaced animals and birds annually is now facing a grim reality: a mere 10 months of operational costs stand between them and closure. Halkett-Siddall said CROW has, in a bid to keep their doors open, initiated a BackaBuddy campaign, reaching out for support. He emphasised the critical role played by CROW in educating future generations. CROW's education program has already reached 160,000 pupils. Urbanisation, he said, is exacting a significant toll on South Africa's wildlife. – Linda van Tilburg
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Rescuing between 3,000 and 4,000 a year from 1977Crow is dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing all wildlife within KwaZulu Natal. We rescue between 3,000 and 4,000 animals every year and have between 300 and 400 animals on our property at any given time. As we head into our busy baby season, we currently have 355 animals on our property, but that number is sure to increase over the coming months.
We have permits for every species of wildlife in Kwazulu-Natal, including lizards, reptiles, antelope, game species, birds of prey, garden variety birds, and even small shrews. Additionally, we have permits for threatened and protected species both in the marine and terrestrial environments.
A lot of people do know about us. It is quite scary though being going for 43 years and there are also a lot of people that don't know about us. It's all about awareness. But I think as soon as anybody puts it on a chat group, somebody will know about us on WhatsApp or the internet. They can Google us. We do show up top of the Google list when wildlife rehabilitation is put in. So people find us in many different ways.
We also welcome people to drop off animals if they are not a dangerous species, for example, a baby bird or something, just to help us with fuel costs, things like that because it is quite an intensive and expensive operation to run.
The impact of COVID, KZN floods, cost of livingEverything's gone up obviously with the inflation, currently with fuel, food prices for our feed for our animals, amongst other things. But the International Volunteer Program which generates about 50% of our overheads basically went from 80% bookings down to 0% overnight, and that lasted for about two years. So for two years, we were losing out on about R150,000, 180,000 worth of income each month.
since COVID regulations were phased out. We did start getting a lot of international volunteers coming through in the post-COVID tourism boom, I think, with tourism. I think it really was locked inside for so long and they wanted to get out. So this last June, July, and August being the European and American holidays, we were actually fully booked, which was fantastic. And it is slowing down a little bit now going out of the holiday season. But fully booked, which was fantastic. And it is slowing down a little bit now going out of the holiday season. But we have got bookings, one or two people up to three people all the way through to June next year. So things are definitely looking up on our volunteer program side.
Due to inflation, the cost of fuel, food prices for our feed for our animals, and other expenses have increased. Additionally, the International Volunteer Program generates about 50% of our overheads, went from 80% bookings down to 0% overnight and lasted for about two years. So, for two years, we were losing out on about R150,000 to R180,000 worth of income each month.
However, since COVID regulations have phased out, we have started receiving a lot of international volunteers coming through in the post-COVID tourism boom. This last June, July, and August being the European and American holidays, we were fully booked, which was fantastic. Although it is slowing down a little bit now going out of the holiday season, we have got bookings from one or two people up to three people all the way through to June next year. So, things are definitely looking up on our volunteer program side.
Struggling to keep their doors openCROW has been struggling to keep their doors open due to a loss of income over the past few years. With people's pockets being tighter nowadays, our supporters don't have as much spare change to donate towards us as they had in the past. We were facing a situation where we were down to about 10 months' worth of operational costs left to be able to keep our doors open.
We launched a BackaBuddy campaign that's doing quite well. You can go on there to support us as well as our website. We have been extremely blessed since our appeal went out and we received a lot of support from members of the public, whether it be that they are starting their fundraising campaigns for us, same as corporations. We have had some charities and some trusts reach out to us, but the support has been overwhelming. We're not out of the water yet, but we still have quite a way to go. If anybody is in a position that they can support, it would be highly appreciated. You can go onto our website, which is www.Crokzn.Co.Za. You can give us a call. Our details are on there as well if you'd prefer to get our banking details. Otherwise, we do have the BackaBuddy crowdfunding campaign and then we also have a PayPal account that deposits can be made into for donations
Education programmes to change attitudes towards wildlife preservation are in South AfricaEducation is the key to conservation, and PROS are very active in education. In the past 14 years since we revamped our wildlife education program termed Wildlife Warriors, we've reached over 160,000 learners. And strangely enough, last year for the first time in the past 10 years, the number of admissions dropped to just below 3,000 animals that came through our doors. So there could be other factors involved there, but I'd love to say that it's down to education and the perception change in our country.
The best cage is an empty cageReptiles are my favourite animal, so I always bring a reptile into the conversation. And we did have a crocodile released last year, a 1.2-meter crocodile in Tongaat that was on a farm and was going to be destroyed. But we went out, rescued it, and it was released in Tula Tula. We currently also have a baby crocodile that hatched out as an egg that was confiscated from a member of the public who illegally harvested it. So, we're raising the croc at the moment. We've got a beautiful baby Blesbok that just came in. Poachers going to use it for the muti trade and he's doing extremely well. Then we've also got some genets that are about to be released. We've got a group of dassies that are about to be released. Our vervet monkeys will be going out to Pongola next month once the good rains have come, and we're releasing them on a 40,000-hectare reserve that's a five-year rehabilitation program with the vervet monkeys. So there's plenty going on and many success stories. I think every time an animal is released back into the wild, it just brings up emotions and it's just such a good feeling.
I believe it's important, especially in areas where urbanisation is taking such a large toll on our wildlife and we're losing our habitat for these animals, and there is more human and animal conflict. It's crucial that we rescue these species, rehabilitate them, and return them to wildlife areas where they belong. This way, they will have a secure future and be able to keep the species going for not just us but also our future generations. Education is also extremely important to ensure that the next generation is more conservation-conscious.
We are not a sanctuary at all. So any animals that can't be released, especially if they're threatened or protected species, we send those to specialised breeding programs for threatened and protected species. However, our philosophy is that the best cage is an empty cage. So if an animal is going to spend the rest of its life in a cage, then usually the decision will be made that it will be more humane to euthanize that animal.
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