Hard as Nails

Hard as Nails
Details
Bonus Scene:	1
Hunters:	Hoods
Location:	Carcer Mark, Carcer City Library
Time Goal:	Unlimited
Bonus Chronology
Next Scene:	Brawl Game

"Kill as many hunters as you can for a top score!"

— Scene description

Hard as Nails is one of the four bonus scenes in Manhunt, unlocked by achieving a least 3 stars in Born Again, Doorway into Hell, Road to Ruin, White Trash and Fuelled by Hate. It is based on the Road to Ruin level.

Mission

Cash starts in the celler of the Carcer City Library, from Road to Ruin, with a Metal Baseball Bat and a Nailgun without ammunition. However, many Brauns Nails boxes spawn and respawn in the area for Cash to collect.

Several Hoods will also endlessly spawn and respawn for Cash to kill, as the player's objective is to murder as many Hunters as he possibly can before getting killed himself. There are two Hoods to start with. When the enemies are dead, three will respawn, then four, and so on up to twelve, gradually increasing the challenge for the player to remain alive and maintaining the Nailgun's ammo. When 12 spawning Hunters is reached and Cash kills them all, another 12 will respawn.

There is a "Death Counter" which increases with every Hood member Cash has killed. Many Carcer Gas Canisters can be seen around the area as well as Gasoline Cans, which can be blown up by shooting them with the Nailgun, instantly killing or injuring any nearby Hunters.

The scene will only end once Cash's health reaches zero and the bodycount will be added up for score, and will be counted as completed regardless of the player's points.

Characters

• James Earl Cash
• Hoods
• Piggsy (corpse)

Weapons and Items

Blue Class

• Nail Gun (1x)

Red Class

• Metal Bat (1x)
• Wooden Bat (unused)

Carryables

• Jerry Can (6x)

Pickups

• Nail Gun ammo (respawnable every time the player kills all the Hoods)

Video Walkthrough

Manhunt - Bonus Scene 1 - Hard As Nails (HD)

Gallery

Trivia

• There are no Painkillers in this level, making it the only scene to do so.
• Sometimes, a glitch can occur where Hunters and/or pick-ups will stop spawning, freezing the mission and rendering it unplayable until the player resets the level.

  

  Piggsy's hidden true corpse

• The five hanging bodybags from Road to Ruin are each replaced with beheaded corpses of Piggsy in this mission. Ironically, his actual corpse is hidden in one of the abandoned buildings next to the library, but a trainer is required to get there, as it is unreachable under normal circumstances. It too is beheaded and lacks limbs. A head of a man is also seen beside the body. It is unknown if it belongs to Piggsy or another person.
• At the alley behind the library, there is a broken shadow. Entering it does not make Cash become hidden against Hunters. The same glitch also appears in Road to Ruin.
• This is the only bonus scene that does not feature a Can, not even via trainers, and one of the two levels in the game that does not feature it whatsoever - the other is Deliverance. Hard as Nails is also the only scene that does not feature any Yellow Class weapons.
• Cash dying in this level does not count as "Scene Failed" (Game Over), but rather finishing the mission. This also applies to Brawl Game, another bonus scene.
• By modifying “LEVELS” (PS2) or “levels” (PC) and replacing this scene with any story scene (1-20), the player will able to activate cheats in it. Unlike other bonus scenes, when activating the Fully Equipped cheat, the player won’t receive any weapons other than the provided for the scene, also the player won’t get any ammo for the Nailgun. If Cash dies, the mission will fail. If replaced with scene 1-13, Starkweather can be heard commenting when the player is about to execute a Hunter, executes a Hunter, kills a Hunter, spotted, and sometimes when the scene starts.