Fizzie: The Inside Story

Follow our guide to complete the Fizzie: The Inside Story side-quest in Sunset Overdrive. Learn how to defend Fizzco machines and abort self-destruct sequences.

This side-quest can be initiated by interacting with the piece of wreckage indicated by the mission marker in the Little Tokyo District close to where we fought the Fizzie boss in the campaign.

One the mission begins we’ll be carrying this object around. For the first section of this side-mission we need to take the object and place it into a series of Fizzco machines that the game tells us to. Doing so will activate a hack timer and we will need to defend it against enemy attacks for a short period of time to complete the task. Note that we do not need to kill the enemies in the area, so once the timer has done its thing, you can quickly run in, nab the core and head off for the next location if you wish to do so.

The first machine is on the street by the mission start area (left). The second is on a nearby rooftop (right).

The machine locations and enemy encounters are slightly different at each of the three zones and this is what you can expect:

• Down at street level by the starting location. Placing this into the machine will see you overrun by a large number of regular OD. Fight them off until the timer winds down from 30 seconds.
• The second machine is on a nearby rooftop. This time around, you’ll have to hold out for 50 seconds. The defence will require that you fight off a wave of Fizzco Blade and Rifle Bots in addition to a steady stream of regular OD.
• The third machine is in the courtyard with the pagoda. Again you’ll have to defend the machine for 50 seconds. This is a bit trickier as you’ll have a pair of Spawners, a horde of regular OD, plenty of Poppers and a Blower or several to contend with.

After the first three defence sequences, you’ll place Fizzie’s core into a fourth machine. This will initiate a self-destruct sequence. To abort this we need to grab the core and take it over and insert it into the final machine at the parking garag