The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Aftershocks Walkthrough and Guide - Part 2 - Rampart

Stuck in The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners: Aftershocks? Wondering where to go next? Maybe you just like to see what is in store for you before you get there, or want to look back and see if you missed anything in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners: Aftershocks.

Don’t worry, I’ve got you covered with this complete walkthrough. These articles will detail how to progress through the main story missions as quickly as possible, with a couple of guiding tips thrown in here and there to make your adventure smoother.

Previously we went to Bywater to retrieve a National Guard Cache. Today we’ll be recovering the second national guard cache, which has been found by the Tower in the abandoned Rampart High School.

This guide assumes that you are starting Aftershocks with the "Aftershocks Quickstart” option in the main menu. If you’re playing Aftershocks after completing the main campaign then some details might be slightly different, but the challenges you face in the missions will be the same.

If you are missing some of the recipes then you can still pick them up while doing the missions in this walkthrough, though they won’t be explicitly pointed out here. For a full list of all recipes in The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, check out our recipe guide article.

Spoilers will be as light as possible, but there will be story spoilers by necessity in this walkthrough. There won’t be any explanation of what is going on in the story beyond what is necessary to make the walkthrough make sense.

The Resting Place

As with any mission in this The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners Aftershocks walkthrough, let’s talk about getting ready for the struggle ahead.

If your radio isn’t tuned to station 47 then tune it. You’ll be able to hear not only a Tower broadcast about the national guard cache at Rampart, but also the random changes to different locations for the day (i.e. caches, patrols, etc).

Keep your radio tuned to channel 47.

Oh, and make sure to check the steps leading into the bus. You’ll find that somebody has left you a note.

Someone left you a note on the steps leading up to the bus. Very ominous.

Anyway, on to preparing for the mission. Just like previously when we went to Bywater, there are a ton of human enemies guarding the Rampart High School and the cache within.

While stealth is an option if you prefer it, this mission can be completed by avoiding human opponents instead of fighting them, it’s better to make sure you’re prepared by bringing some firepower that is effective against armored human soldiers armed with guns.

Bring at least one larger firearm and at least one pistol. A bow can be useful if you want to rely on stealth, but if you bring one it’s wise to bring another large firearm for backup. Using a few of your backpack slots to carry a bandage and a couple of explosives as well won’t hurt.

There will be a ton of loot to be had during this mission, and regardless you should be pretty well off in the resources department already, so don’t worry too much about leaving room for scavenged items. It’s time to have fun with all of the recipes and items you found during the original campaign.

Finally, make sure you’ve got a couple of melee weapons for walkers, and it might be wise to bring some food if you plan to try and get some of the crafting recipes found in Rampart after you complete your main objective of finding the cache.

There are no bells in this mission, so you will have unlimited time to search the area for any recipes you might have missed. The only time constraint is your stamina bar getting smaller due to hunger.

The Rampart National Guard Cache

Once you’re armed to the teeth and ready to go, head over to the boat and leave for Rampart.

Luckily the route to your objective is pretty straightforward. Once you arrive in Rampart take a look at your map

A direct route to the national guard cache. Watch out for the tower patrols on the way.

See the route outlined above? That’s the most direct route to the cache, and sort of your only route. You can also go around the top of the gym, but if you go that way you will definitely run into trouble.

Normally in Rampart there are more ways into and out of the school open to you, but here in Aftershocks they’re mostly blocked off. To get to the cache and the entrance to the east wing of the school beside it, you’ll have to go through the courtyard.

The courtyard is the most dangerous place to be in Rampart right now. It’s full of Tower patrols. After you go through the gate which is right in front of where you will spawn in, you’ll see or hear them.

The Tower soldiers aren’t very observant and can be avoided if you are careful.

There will also be some stationary tower grunts guarding the side entrances to the courtyard, like that on the other side of the basketball court, and the other one from behind the east wing of the school.

I recommend following the path highlighted on the map above and just going straight through the courtyard. There are a few Tower patrols that you can sneak past if necessary, or fight.

Fighting them isn’t tough because you can easily get the jump on them, or use explosives like nail bombs or sticky bombs to perform an effective ambush. With all of the tools at your disposal they should be no problem.

Whether you sneak through or fight your way through you’ll find the national guard cache near the open entrance to the east wing, on the bottom right of the courtyard on your map. It’s under an awning and next to a big yellow schoolbus.

The cache is on that table next to the school bus, already opened.

Unfortunately the cache is mostly empty, but there is a note inside, a bandage, and most importantly a strange key. Make sure to take the key.

The note will give you some story and tell you to go to the library. Conveniently there is an entrance to the school that is very near the library and right next to the cache. If you’re facing the empty cache box, just turn around.

The entrance to the school next to the cache.

Head inside and get your melee weapons ready for some walkers.

There aren’t any human enemies inside of Rampart, they’re confined to the courtyard, but inside there will be plenty of walkers and plenty of wire traps.

Luckily these traps aren’t the explosive sort we saw last time, they’ll only hurt you a little if you touch them. It’s easy to disarm them by just touching them with an object, like your flashlight or a melee weapon. So they’re mostly harmless.

These wire traps are easy to disarm by touching them with an object.

Anyway, once you’re inside, immediately take a right and go down the hallway that ends in the door blocked by that computer cart, like you can see in the screenshot above.

Once you reach the end of the hallway turn left and go up the big staircase. Once you are at the top of the stairs go down the hallway leading out of the stairwell until you see some double doors on your left next to a blockage in the hallway where the roof caved in.

Those double doors lead into the library, and once you enter the library keep to the left and you’ll find the contents of the national guard cache just behind the big desk there.

That’s a lot of loot!

There you are, the contents of the national guard cache. Fill your backpack up to your heart’s content. You’ll never want for medicine or bandages again with this haul.

I do recommend you prioritize the “box of loot” items though, since you’ll probably not be able to take everything.

Leaving Rampart

Oh, and on the desk next to the cache is a note with some more story, and the news that the Reclaimed will be there soon. Specifically, it says that they’ll be attacking the courtyard with all of the Tower soldiers inside of it.

This isn’t great news for you, since you’ll be leaving through the courtyard. The exits other than the way you came in are all blocked.

Head back out of the high school the way you came. Head back out through the library’s double doors and take a right. After heading down the stairs just keep going straight down the hallway until you see the exit on your left.

Exiting back to the courtyard, be ready.

Get ready, because there is going to be some fighting out in the courtyard. As soon as you exit the school a couple of large squads of Reclaimed troops will spawn in and sweep the courtyard for enemies, which includes you.

Unless you managed to make it through stealthily and without destroying a single Tower soldier out there. I’m unsure if this is a bug, but I found that if I didn’t get rid of any of the Tower soldiers patrolling then the Reclaimed will just not spawn in.

Though the moment you do shoot a Tower soldier they will spawn in regardless. This seems odd, so I can’t be sure if the same will happen for you, but if you prefer the stealthy approach then you might have an easier time leaving Rampart if you stick to being sneaky.

In the likely event that the Reclaimed do show up they will quickly overwhelm the Tower guards that remain, though the more Tower soldiers you left behind the more there will be to resist the Reclaimed.

The Reclaimed patrols are very tough.

The Reclaimed will be harder to take on than the Tower were though, their groups are bigger and more heavily armed. You’ll have a tougher time blasting your way through.

That being said, once the Tower soldiers are gone the Reclaimed will patrol the courtyard, giving you opportunities to slip around them by stealth or ambush them. You can head back to the boat you came in on via the main gate, or head there by taking the path leading around the Gym, which will be free of human enemies once you make it out of the courtyard.

Regardless, you are strong, and there will certainly be tougher battles ahead. So don’t worry, you’ve got this whether you need to blast or sneak your way out. Head back to the boat that you arrived on, in the top left corner of the map.

Once you’re back at the boat you came in on travel back to The Resting Place, organize your loot, and go to sleep.

Going back to sleep in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Aftershocks DLC.

Need a guide on what comes next? Well next time you’ll be heading to The Ward to get another national guard cache. To find out how check out part 3 of this The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Aftershocks walkthrough.