🌴Dead island 2: Call the Cavalry①

8 min readJun 8, 2024

In the story quest “Call the Cavalry”, you’ll learn how to upgrade your weapons, access Storage Locker, and earn rewards for Eddie’s Toolbox and Coach’s Car Trunk.

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🆘Call the Cavalry①
🧠Pick Sam’s brain | ⚒️Learn from the master
🛒Help yourself to nearby parts … | 🗜️Workbench
💵What’s Carlos (Trader) got for you? | 🥩“meat bait” from Carlos
💰Storage Locker

🙎‍♀️Let Emma know … | 🃏Survivor Skill Card “Invigorating”
🚧Michael can let you back door | 🏃Tell the authorities you’re immune①

🔒Eddie’s Toolbox + Green Thumb Eddie | ❓Green Thumb
⚔️How to defeat “Green Thumb Eddie” | 🔓Eddie’s Toolbox
🔒Coach’s Car Trunk + Coach Ace | ❓Deadly Zombies
📌What you need to prepare | ⚔️How to defeat “Coach Ace”
🔓Coach’s Car Trunk
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Dead island 2 “Call Cavalry ①” walkthrough

🆘Call the Cavalry①

🧠Pick Sam’s brain

Talk to Sam

⚒️Learn from the master

Grab the machete from the workbench

🛒Help yourself to nearby parts you can use or repurpose at the workbench

Follow Sam’s instructions and gather materials to upgrade your weapons

Machete and Materials to upgrade weapons

🗜️Get to know your new best friend: a workbench

When Sam tells you to use the workbench, the “Uncommon Melee Electrocutor Mod blueprint” will be added, and you can do as he is told.

Also, when your Slayer levels up, you’ll need to “Match Level” your weapon to be useful.

💵What’s Carlos (Trader) got for you?

Talk to Carlos

🥩Get some “meat bait” from Carlos

You can buy “meat bait” from Carlos and sell or buy weapons above common level.

You need to click on “VISIT PROS” in the main menu, open the site and request a membership and reward, so that you can see that Carlos sells “Trickster’s Smile” for $0.

Even if “Visit pros” looks greyed out, as if it doesn’t work, clicking on it will connect.

Kai, the trader on Venice's beach, and Dougie, the trader on Ocean Avenue, will also be selling the Deluxe or Gold Edition rewards for $0 only once.

😱 The Dead Island 2 Gold Edition on Epic and Steam is the same price, but the “Memories of Banoi Pack” included in the Gold Edition on Epic but it’s not on Steam. 🤬

“Memories of Banoi Pack”, which is included in the Gold Edition on Epic, is not on Steam.

💰Storage Locker

In the “Weapons” tab, Storage Locker, you can pick up weapons from other Slayers, and you can find unpicked weapons in the “Unclaimed Property” tab, as well as things that other Slayers haven’t picked up. You can also use this trait to leave up to 16 of the Disaster Relief Crates and Weapons that have been dropped from the other 30 level Slayer and sell them to the vendor after you get them from the locker with the Slayer you’re playing now.

😑Let Emma know you’re heading out to find the authorities

Talk to Emma and go on the road, but after the conversation, you don’t have the key to Emma’s house, you can’t go out, so you need to talk to Michael.

🃏Survivor Skill Card “Invigorating”

In Emma’s room, near the bed, there is a Survivor Skill Card “Invigorating”.

🚧The house is locked up tights, but Michael can let you back door

Talk to Michael at the back door and you’ll get the key to Emma’s house and be able to leave.

🏃Tell the authorities you’re immune ①

When you step out the back door of Emma’s mansion, you’ll be able to co-op play. But I only play single-player, so I won’t explain this part.

🔒Eddie’s Toolbox + Green Thumb Eddie

From the beginning of the story quest “The search for truth”, when you come to the pool behind Swanson’s mansion in Bel-Air, you’ll find “Green Thumb Eddie” (Butcher).

**“Green Thumb Eddie”** near the pool at Swanson Manor

The location information related to this quest is as follows.

1️⃣Green Thumb Eddie
2️⃣Eddie’s Toolbox
3️⃣Coach Ace
4️⃣Coach’s Car Trunk

❓Green Thumb

⚔️How to defeat “Green Thumb Eddie”

Circling around the pool, guiding Eddie through the pool. You’ll also need to electrocute Eddie to kill him, but due to a recent game update, Apex zombies will need to be electro-attacked.

Apex Zombies don’t get knocked out by kicking. So, once the zombie is out of shock, you’ll have to either run away or stay in the water and electrocute him with a weapon with a “Static Charge perk” or attack him with a weapon in fire mode.

“Static Charge perk” can be obtained by completing the Static Charge challenge. This is done by inflicting the electrified status effect on zombies 50 times.

You can attack with “Molotov cocktails” and “Electric bombs”.

“Molotov cocktails” can be obtained during the story quest “The Heart of Darkness”, while “Electric Bombs” are unlocked by clearing the Lost & Found quest “Jo’s Rainy Day Stash” in Venice Beach.

Attacks using “Molotov cocktails” and “Electric bombs”

If you run around the pool and repeat the above attacks, you’ll be able to defeat Eddie. At the beginning of the game release, defeating Eddie would drop a shotgun, but not nowadays.

🔓Eddie’s Toolbox

You can get “Vampire Machine Pistol” by opening “Eddie’s Toolbox” in the pickup truck at the back door of Emma’s mansion.

Eddie’s Toolbox and Vampiric Machine Pistol

🔒Coach’s Car Trunk + Coach Ace

If you go to the tennis court at the back of Swanson Manor, you’ll find a runner named “Coach Ace” in the right corner who is eating.

**“Coach Ace”** in the Tennis Court, back of Swanson Manor

I haven’t checked it, so I don’t know, but I’m guessing “Coach Ace” is about level 7~8.

3️⃣Coach Ace
4️⃣Coach’s Car Trunk

❓Deadly Zombies

“Deadly Zombies” is a zombie that is at least 2 levels higher than you, and you will usually die immediately after being hit by a zombie that is 4 levels higher than you.

📌What you need to prepare

Due to a recent game update, the extent to which the pool is electrically connected and the sparks affect the zombies differently than when the spark is visible and not.

Now we don’t have ranged weapons, and luckily in an electrified pool, shamblers, walkers, and runners are electrocuted. Therefore, you need to connect the battery to the generator connected to the pool.

If you’ve already plugged in the battery in the story quest “Desperately Seeking Emma”, you don’t need to prepare anything, but there’s a problem.

This is a problem that occurs on both Epic and Steam accounts… As shown in the screenshot below, there is no battery, but electricity is plugged in.

As you progress through the story quests, it will change so that you can pull the battery out.

A generator that works like it has a battery when it doesn’t have

When you pick up the key at the end, you have to go into the pool to pick it up quickly, get outside, and if you get electrocuted, treat it quickly with the Med kits. Due to a recent update, the shock is likely to continue until you die.

⚔️How to defeat “Coach Ace”

Throw the battery at the “Coach Ace” or slap him and run away to the pool quickly!

Circling around the pool and stopping at the fountain to see where the coach is, and attack or kick the coach when he tries to walk through the pool and into the fountain.

Kick the coach as he climbs up towards the fountain to knock him off

The coach who defeated it, he looked horrible and filtered the image.

Recently, unlike at the beginning of the game’s release, zombies tend to avoid places where there is electricity. With each update, the difficulty increases a little bit, and it feels like the AI is being trained.

“Coach Ace” who doesn’t chase right away like he used to, but dodges to the side

🔓Coach’s Car Trunk

After defeating the Coach, remove the battery from the generator and use the Coach’s key to open the trunk of the black car parked near the side door of Emma’s mansion to get a “Rare Agile golf club”.

Coach’s Car Trunk and Rare Agile Golf Club

Until April 2024, on Epic accounts, this trunk could be obtained by doing new quests or reopening the Disaster Relief Crates when it was reset. You can only get it once on your Steam account.

When playing with an Epic account, the lockboxes that can be obtained over and over again in Bel-Air are the “Cable Van Trunk”, which can be obtained from the story quest “The Chosen One”.

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