The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 8 - Rampart
Stuck in The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners? 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. Well don’t worry we’ve got you covered with this complete walkthrough. This is the eighth part, where you go to Rampart High School and find out what happened to Casey’s squad.
This article 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. Only those recipes that are convenient to get when doing a task for the first time are included. 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, but there won’t be any explanation of what is going on in the story beyond what is necessary to make the walkthrough make sense.
All Walkthrough Parts:
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 1 - The Graveyard
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 2 - The Shallows
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 3 - Via Corolla
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 7 - Old Town and Another Stash
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 8 - Rampart
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 9 - The Shallows Again
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 10 - Bastion and The Reserve Key
The Walking Dead Saints and Sinners Walkthrough and Guide - Part 11 - The Reserve and the Ending
Rampart
Today you’re going to be going to Rampart High School to find out what happened to Casey’s squadmates. As always it is recommended to bring some sort of firearm as well as enough melee weaponry to get through the walkers you will run into. You’ll only have to worry about walkers in Rampart. You might also want to bring an explosive like a Nail Bomb in order to take a very minor shortcut at the beginning of the level, more on that soon.
Whenever you’re ready, as always, take the boat to Rampart.
You’ll arrive in the upper left corner of the map, right beside that blue building with the Basketball on it. That’s the basketball court, and the huge building colored a light red is the school itself.
The first place you’ll be going is into the Basketball court itself. When you walk to the nearest door on the left side of the building you’ll notice that it’s locked. Now if you brought some explosives you could always destroy the door with those and waltz in, but it will actually be easier to find all of the squadmates by going the non explosives route. That involves taking a left and going around the upper side of the building.
There you’ll notice a red flag flying from a hole in the side of the building, above a dumpster.
Here is where you can actually climb into the Basketball Court building. All of those ledges with white chalk on them are where you can get a handhold and climb up. So first climb on top of the dumpster, then on the roof, and then use the chalky handholds where the bricks are missing to hoist yourself into the building.
You will find yourself in a dark locker room, and at the end there is an open door leading into an office. Go straight into there and find a corpse decked out in military gear with a broken gun and two notes next to it (if you blew your way through one of the doors on the ground level you’ll have to find the stairs that lead upwards and find this guy). Read the notes, and before you turn around and go downstairs make sure to check the other office room next to the one the corpse is in, you’ll find a free two handed nail bat on the ground.
When you’re done in the office go downstairs. When you reach the bottom you’ll see some double doors, and another single door to your right. The door to your right is a supply room, so if you want some loot give it a look. Rampart High School is big, and there will be opportunities to fill your backpack later as well. When you’re ready go through the double doors and find yourself in the Basketball Gym itself.
The gym was clearly meant to house refugees at some point, and is full of cots and privacy dividers. Now it’s also full of zombies, and is very dark. The zombies will even respawn if you end up backtracking through the gym, so unless you want to fight walkers forever it’s best to move quickly.
There’s some loose items to be found on the cots and floor, but for the most part this is not a great area to look for stuff. What you really want to do is find the corpse of a woman hunched against a cot and lit by a lamp beside her. She is in the first section of the Gym full of cots past the double doors you came in from. You can see her in the picture above. She will also have a note, go ahead and read it.
You’ll also see some bloody footprints leading away from her corpse. It can be easy to lose sight of them when fighting through the many walkers in the gym, but you’ll find that they lead to a little square room in the corner of the gym with locked double doors. Just like the last time you dealt with locked doors, the solution is to climb over them.
To the right of the locked door are some bleachers. Walk up them until you get to the top. When you do look at the side of the locked room, and you’ll see some more handholds marked with white chalk.
Climb up them so you’re at the top of the locked room, and then drop down through a hole in the roof. You’ll find yourself up in the ceiling of the room with a walker. Kill it, and if you'd like there’s an Easter Egg note up there in the ceiling with you.
Once you’re done drop through the hole in the ceiling where one of the ceiling tiles is missing. Now that you’re back on the ground floor you’ll see another body in military gear propped up against a bench. Beside it is a crafting recipe for the Noise Maker Bomb and another note.
When you exit the room you’ll find a pair of double doors on the wall on your right, take them outside and get some fresh air. Then turn immediately to your left, you might notice that you are right back where you started your trip to Rampart High School. Soon you’ll find a gate on your left, swing it open and keep going forward.
Past the ambulance in front of you you’ll see a trail of bloody footprints leading away from the Basketball Gym on your left and over towards the school proper on your right, follow them to a set of double doors. This is the entrance to the school cafeteria.
It’s dark inside, but this time there are no walkers (when you come back in the future there will be zombies in here though). You’ll see a lit figure sitting on the ground on the other end of the cafeteria. Go to him. It’s one of Casey’s squadmates. Talk to him.
He’ll have a message for Casey, and a request for you. He will never leave that cafeteria, whether you let him slowly die and turn into a walker, or mercy kill him right there is up to you. There’s no way to save this man. Whatever you do about this dilemma, make sure to loot the cafeteria. There are a few pretty consistent spawns for items like the voodoo doll and PWNBOT.
Once you’re done in the cafeteria you are free to exit the map. You’ve fulfilled Casey’s request, but there is a fantastic weapon recipe you can pick up easily from here. Just go through the double doors next to the man you just talked to, and at the end of the hall take a left. Keep going past the doors and lockers until you get to the double doors at the end of the hallway that are blocked with a desk. Take the door immediately on the right of it.
That’s the nurse’s office. There’s some loot inside, but most importantly if you go to the bathroom in the back the recipe for the 4th and Pain axe is on the bathroom counter next to the sink. If you like the Cleaver then the 4th and Pain is a direct upgrade to it.
Feel free to explore Rampart High School and fill up your bag, if you have time left. There is a key to a hidden room and a safe code to be found in Rampart as well. If you want to know where to find those check out our article with all recipe locations in The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners.
The easiest way to leave Rampart is going to be the way you came in in the top left corner of the map. Many of the doors which will be open if you return to Rampart are either locked or barricaded when you come in for the first time.
Back at the Resting Place
When you make it back make sure to talk to Casey on the radio. He’ll have a lot to say about his squadmates and the Reserve. If you pay close attention you might guess where the Reserve is located.
Once you talk to Casey make sure to recycle all your junk items and get ready for the next day. You might have noticed that the lantern is lit again. That means May has another request for you. For now, go to sleep.
Need a guide on what comes next? Want to find out what May wants now, and how to get it? Then head over to Part 9.
