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The Foundry is the first level in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and will likely be the first one you ollie into when you boot upTony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3+4. This industrial stage is full of hazards, secrets, and goals for you to complete to unlock even more maps to skate around.
There are a total of ten challenges in The Foundry that range from getting various high scores to performing certain tricks in specific locations. This guide will tell you how to complete each goal in this area so you don’t end up skating in circles.
How To Complete Every Foundry Goal
The Foundry can be an overwhelming area when you first dive into it and is full of working machinery that can get in the way when you’re in the middle of a combo. Below is a table that will help you understand how to complete each goal, and further down will be more specific information about some of the hardest challenges within the level.
How To Complete
High Score - 10,000
When you drop onto the map,acid drop into the half pipein front of you, and start to combo flip and grab tricks tobuild up your special meter. Carefully usespecial tricks to rack up points, and don’t forget torevert when you landto extend your combos.
High Combo - 7,500
Collect S-K-A-T-E
The letters arescattered across the first floorof the Foundry. You need to collect all five letterswithin a two-minute runto complete this goal.
Indy Over the Half Pipe
As soon as you enter the Foundry,hold X/A to charge an ollie. When you hit the ramp ahead of you,hold the grab trick button while holding right on the control stickto perform the right trick over the half pipe.
Soak the Foreman
Knock the foundry’s foreman into a pool bygrinding on a rail with a control panel. Head right after you start the run to see a pool of water and aman with a red tiebeside the panel.
Grind the Molten Bucket
The molten bucket only appears a few times during each run, so this goal will require some patience. When ittips over the pool of lava, get some air andgrind on itto complete this goal.
Un-Jam Five Valves
There are five valveson the walls of the main floorthat you need to fix bygrinding on the rails in front of them. They are easy to spot if you look forpanicked employeesin front of the gears or if you noticesteam coming from them.
Get the Secret Tape
The secret tape in The Foundry is found onone of the beams on the second floor. You can get there by landing on the catwalk above the main floor and following it to a booth that leads to the tape.
The letters for S-K-A-T-E appear around the main floor of The Foundry. If you’re having difficulty finding them, just follow these instructions.
You don’t get extra points for it, but it’s possible to unlock all the letters in S-K-A-T-E within a single combo. Give it a shot for an extra challenge.
Soak The Foreman
When you drop onto the map,go down the main path but take a sharp right before you reach the half pipe. Hug the wall on the right until youride up a ramp. Look across the water to your left, and you’ll see aman with a red tie.Grind on the yellow rail behind himto activate the control panel that makes a hook push the foreman into the pool of water.
Grind The Molten Bucket
The molten bucketonly appears a few times each run,and you’ll need towait for it to tip over before you can grind on it. It’s on theopposite side of where you spawnat the start. Head over and go to the same floor where the lava pool is. You cansee yellow lineson the floor.Use them to line yourself up with the bucket’s handles, gain some momentum, and you should be able to land on it.
Use no comply or boneless when you jump for extra height (tap up on the control stick once or twice before jumping), and verify yourspecial meter is full for extra speed. This is without a doubt the hardest goal in the Foundry, so it might take you a few attempts before you succeed.
There are five broken valves hidden throughout the Foundry when you start skating around it. From where you begin the run, there arethree on the right wall and two on the left wall. If you’re struggling to find them, just follow these instructions to complete this goal.
Completing this goal will permanently unlock the doors to the Generator Core behind the spot where you start each run.
Get The Secret Tape
The secret tape is located onone of the beams on the second floorof the Foundry. When you start the run,ollie off the ramp to your right onto the catwalk. Follow the path until itturns left into a giant booth. There is aglass wall that you need to break throughto get the secret tape.
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