The Walking Dead: A New Frontier

The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is Telltale’s third season in their Walking Dead series, while it was brave enough to switch focus to a completely new character and family - Javier Garcia, a former baseball player and gambler. He is forced by the outbreak to take care of his sister-in-law Kate Garcia as well as his niece and nephew, Mariana and Gabe. What starts off as a simple family story, scavenging for supplies to survive the outbreak, turns to a story of decision repercussions taking its toll on multiple characters and an entire civilization….

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All achievements are related to the story so you will not miss any of them.
With that being said, when the dead rise, what choices will you choose to keep yourself alive? Let’s begin.

This walkthrough has been realized by extrapolating parts of some texts written by: zoidberg1339, Itzz Sh0wt1m3, MVPVincent, Malicious Fury

If you want to get fully immersed in the game then you might want to interact with everything you see, the white dots appear on objects or people that can be interacted with. You'll have a choice of button to press depending on what action you want to perform, although many of them only give you one option. In the walkthrough I will just be pointing out the necessary things that need interacting with to move on with the story

Combat is based on using the correct button at the correct time in order to do a certain action or using your analogue sticks to pinpoint attacking certain areas within the time frame. Otherwise you may end up as zombie chow.

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Another thing to note is that characters will remember things you tell them or actions you do. If you aggravate someone with an action or something you say, it may come back to haunt you before the episode is ended or during later episodes, so try to make friends.

If for some reason you make a choice you regret during the storyline, you can repeat and try again to amend a mistake or a choice you took. I would say that playing this title several times is encouraged to see different outcomes.

How to Play The Walking Dead

The controls for this game are pretty simple, but also require good timing. Parts of the game where you will need to utilize time include killing walkers (zombies), avoiding attacks, selecting which character to save, and even conversing with your fellow survivors.

KEYBOARD + MOUSE

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  • W or up arrow key- move forward
  • A or left arrow key- move left
  • S or down arrow key- move back
  • D or right arrow key- move right
  • T -- show selectable
  • E -- shove
  • 1-4 - dialogue
  • Mouse wheel - scroll for dialogue
  • Left click for choices
  • Right click was only used once, to back out of handling an object

Move the cursor

To move the cursor around, you simply use the mouse or right control stick if you use a gamepad: Xbox 360 | Xbox one | PS3 | PS4 | Steam Controller

Using the controls

To move character, use the left control stick or arrow pad.

"A" button is the primary interaction button such as opening doors, attacking, picking things up, etc.

Talk to people

Approach the person, then press the "X" button; this also allows you to know more about their thoughts.

  • "B" button is the secondary interaction button for breaking down doors or windows instead of opening it.
  • "Y" button is to examine an object or person ..

Panic Events

Aside from talking and progressing the story, there are events that take place with other characters or Walkers that require you to take action. You'll be prompted to tap that button! When you need to push or pull something, the button will display with a white circle filling around it as you press the button repeatedly. You will also have to look left and right to find objects to help ward off the Walkers while other times Clementine (or other character) are running and you need to dodge Walkers by pressing the direction indicated on screen.

The story begins with a long cinematic that takes place shortly before the outbreak as two brothers, Javi and David, reunite after Javi's unexplained absence.
After a few dialogue choices ...

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***

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After a couple more dialogue choices, Javi and company are headed down the road in a van.
A long conversation between Javi and David's wife Kate ensues until they reach a salvage yard and the chapter ends.

Javi, Kate and Kate's two stepkids, Gabe and Mariana enter the salvage yard. A walker approaches and Javi puts it down in an easy 3 button not-that-quick time event. You even get a crowbar as an added bonus. Brooding teenager Gabe wanders off into the yard and after a brief conversation, we have control over Javi for the first time.

You can ignore the barrels, school bus, soiled mattress and all the other junk and proceed further into the yard and to the left to find two blue cars to siphon gas from. The left one has a walker hiding under it that's dealt with in a single cn_LSd blow. Head past these cars to siphon more gas from a rusty old truck. You have enough gas to leave now if you want Head right past the large tires and green shipping container to find a ladder in the rear of the yard. Looking at it, then interacting with it again will prompt a choice to climb it or not.

If you want to talk with Kate or Mariana and haven't yet, do so now, but otherwise go ahead and climb the ladder, as Gabe comes along with you. Siphon gas from the ambulance, prying off the cap by holding cn_A and then cn_LSd. While the fuel siphons, head to the left to draw out a walker that can be killed with a single button press. The nearby trailer door is locked and can't be pried open, but a peek through the window reveals a floor hatch. Move the wood by the stairs and enter the hole it was covering, then crawl to the hatch and enter the well-stocked trailer.

Poke around a bit until you're faced with a major decision: Side with the kids and stay the night, or side with Kate and get back on the road. I chose to stay the night, which results in a conversation with Kate. While retrieving the gas can...

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***

The chapter ends with Javi being knocked unconscious.

Javi awakes in a truck with his hands tied. After a couple of dialogue choices, it crashes (in true TWD fashion) and Javi escapes with a gun. You're presented with a major decision: whether or not to shoot the driver. I chose to hold my fire, which resulted in his escape...

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***

You're soon presented with another major choice (to give away the van or not) but your answer doesn't seem to matter. Either way, the chapter ends after a few dialogue choices.

Chapter 4 begins with

cooly dispatching a walker as Javi is led down the highway. A conversation ensues as the two of you evade walkers and head towards a walled compound. Dodge a walker with cn_LSl, then aim with cn_RS and take the walkers down with cn_RT once they're in your sights. Once you save someone from being attacked the gate will be open and you'll be able to go enter the compound, named Prescott.

Once inside the tavern, head up to the bar and talk with the people playing cards, one of whom recognizes Javi from his time as a professional baseball player. Offer your advice to the other card player if you like, before Javi returns to

as a disagreement turns heated. Regardless of your choices

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***

and you're faced with the major decision of corroborating the story or not. Either way, this ends the chapter.

Chapter 5 begins with Javi and Clementine in lockup after Eli was shot by Clementine. The closest thing Prescott has to a doctor soon arrives and Javi can either play it cool or turn on the charm ...either way he strikes out. Tripp, the leader of Prescott, shows up and says he'll take Javi and Clem to the junkyard in the morning. Eleanor, the medic, offers to let the two of you out the back gate instead. You're faced with a major choice: leave with Tripp in the morning (Clem's suggestion and what I chose) or leave with Eleanor that night.

At this point, you'll experience a flashback through Clem's eyes that will differ depending on who she ended up with at the end of Season 2. Regardless of your past decisions and the scene you get, the chapter after the flashback concludes.

The final chapter (for me at least) began as Tripp brings Javi and Clementine back to the salvage yard. Pick up the hammer and kill the nearby Walker then look at Mari's tape player. You'll find Mari, then you'll find Kate and Gabe trapped inside a truck, surrounded by walkers. Kill the walkers with LS and the face buttons, then use RT to kill the walker that Tripp is struggling with. Once they're freed the group prepares to leave when...

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***

The final major choice of the Episode is to stay with Clem and fight or flee with Tripp and your family.

You will start this episode with a flashback of Javier talking to Kate while she is washing the dishes. She accidentally destroys David's glass which he got from his captain in the army. You can either choose to let Kate and David fight it out or keep yourself in the background.

Afterwards, you'll be back in the present and you need to treat Kate's wound with the doctor. You'll need to extract the bullet before she can stitch it. Either allow Gabe to stay or send him off. After Kate's operated successfully, head outside the gate to Gabe and have a chat with him.

Either give him Ariana's walkman or keep that to yourself. After a while you'll notice guys attacking you. Run back to Prescott and the achievement should unlock.

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You'll start this chapter at the gate of Prescott. The same guys who killed Mariana show up and they want revenge for their fallen friends. They have a hostage which they want to trade for you. You get the option to either open fire or decide to come down yourself. In case you stay up, keep shooting the dudes. When you go down, grab the tool to kill some of the guys before running back inside. Tear gas will be thrown inside along with a van with zombies. Head away from the screen, killing zombies on your way, to get to Gabe and Kate. Shoot the guy in the car after dodging him. Then get in the car and head off with Gabe, Kate and the doctor.

This chapter is all conversation, so you could in theory just let it idle. You will first talk in the group about what to do next. Gabe will draw a gun on Conrad, and you will get to talk him out of shooting. The group decides to head for Richmond. You will be talking to Kate in the back of the car for the rest of the chapter. You'll talk about Gabe and about Kate's wounds. When you reach a roadblock, the achievement pops.

Once you get control over Javi, move to the right to a red car and investigate the trunk to acquire some car cables. Then move over to the left and open the garage door. Kill the walker and take his wrench. Then investigate the truck, use the cables on the engine to allow the truck's battery to run again. Then use the wrench on the engine and then use the other cable which allows you to pull one of the cars from the road.

Walkers will run through, kill those to let Eleanor and Kate to drive off. Keep fighting them until you make it to the roof. Then walk forward with your gun ready to look for the guy who was eavesdropping on you. Talk to the guy about Richmond, and eventually choose to either tie him up or to trust him. Then head off to Richmond.

You will start with a flashback where Clementine will run with AJ and hide in a trailer. Block the door and try and stop AJ from crying. After a while, someone else will enter. You will talk to her and after a while she will offer you a place with blankets and food for AJ.

Inside the tunnel in the present, Clementine will tell Javier that she's got something to tell him (she was one of "them", the new frontier). You will have to fight some walkers in the tunnel and run into a train. Block the door to prevent walkers from entering. Conrad will draw a gun on you and take Gabe as hostage. You get the option to either Shoot Conrad or to give up Clementine.

You'll either start this final chapter with Clementine as a friend or with Conrad keeping Clementine as a hostage. You will find Kate in a car. She needs medical care desperately. You will keep walking to Richmond. At the gate you will have a few options depending on whether Clementine and Conrad a with you and in what way. The guys at the gate will call their boss over, which will reveal something unexpected. Their boss is David, your brother and Kate's husband.

You'll begin this episode with a flashback. Kate and yourself are scavenging around when you get attacked by a little walker. It's apparently one of Gabe's friends. When you get back, you will discuss this and staying or leaving home with the family. After a while, you head out.

Back in the present David let's Kate and Gabe in, but you and your friends need to go into quarantine. After some discussion whether it is fair of them to put you in quarantine, you will allowed to enter Richmond with David, though your friends get to stay in quarantine.

David will show you around. You will discuss the past with him and how things are going. You will be visiting Kate in the hospital. When you arrive, David rushes with Gabe to get the doctor. Kate wants to get out of there, she is scared. When the Doc arrives the discussion arises of who to let in. You will follow David to meet the leaders of the New Frontier. After a discussion, you are voted to leave with 2 of your friends. Eleanor, Kate and Gabe are allowed to stay.

The bag contains a map with a place to go. Look at the Objective, and at the settlement with its expansions. Afterwards, look a the star on the left to situate the North. You will need to fight off some walkers and after that you will meet Clementine again.

After leaving the community and reuniting with Clementine, she have a flashback to her days with the New Frontier. During this flashback, Clementine will attempt to save AJ to no avail (whether you choose to use the medicine or not) and be kicked out of the group. After she is escorted away, the flashback will end and the achievement will unlock.

After the group escapes from the horde into the warehouse, David will show up and get inside (whether you let him in or not). When it is revealed that the warehouse is storing stolen goods from other communities, the group concludes that Max and the others were stealing without David’s prior knowledge. Eventually, the thugs will arrive and a confrontation will take place. After choosing whether or not to beat Badger to death, you'll then get a choice on what to do with Max. Once you make that choice, the chapter ends and the achievement unlocks.

During the infiltration of Richmond, Javi will be confronted by some of the New Frontier thugs on the streets. Kate escapes, but the thugs corner Javi and knock him out. After this scene, the achievement will unlock.

What happens here is dependent on whether you spared Max or not earlier. Following his capture, Javi is taken to the council where David is pleading his case. If Max is alive, he will back up David's accusation against Joan, who will persuade everyone else to take her side. If Max is dead, Lonnie will back up David's accusation, but say it was on David's orders.

Either scenario will unlock the achievement after the scene ends.

You will start in a flashback at the batting cages. You can decide to crush the baseball or swing and miss to make David not feel so bad. When David talks about joining the military, you will decide to either take the responsibility of taking care of Kate and the kids or declining and telling David its his job. You will then be back in the quarantine room where you need to escape. You will eventually guided out and the achievement will unlock.

You will be talking with Tripp about his relationship problems which will lead to this achievement unlocking.

You begin the chapter sneaking around with Ava and Gabe. Ava will distract the guard while you and Gabe enter the armory. Press cn_X, cn_X, cn_B to break open the door. Ava will startle you and then you'll have to move right to avoid a guard. Move right again to attack him, then mash cn_A. You'll get stabbed in the fight. The chapter ends after a shot of the dagger in the blood.

You will have to decide to take the painkillers for yourself or to put them back for someone else who needs them more. There will be a variety of different possibilities next depending on Season 2 choices. The flashback will end and Clementine will be with you and the doctor. Lingard (doctor) will ask you to kill him. You can oblige and kill him or refuse to kill him. Either choice will unlock the achievement.

You need to hotwire the truck to advance.

  • Press cn_A on the ignition wire and cn_LSd to cut it.
  • Do the same with the battery wire.
  • Press cn_A on the power ignition.
  • Press cn_A on the start wire and cn_LSd to cut it.
  • Press cn_A on the power truck and cn_Y 3 times to start the truck.

The truck will begin working and the achievement will unlock.

Three choices have to be made:

  • Start a romantic relationship with Kate or tell her you don't feel that way.
  • Spare Ava's life or spare Tripp's life. (NOTE: Joan will choose the opposite of what you do)
  • Take Clint's deal or shoot Joan.

Kate will come rumbling in the truck and crash setting a big fire off. The episode ends with Javier screaming her name.

After a recap of the last chapter, you'll have a flashback to playing dominoes. You'll lose with whichever domino you select. You'll discover that your father has cancer. You'll have to decide whether to tell him to fight or to make his own decision.

Then you'll go back to the present. Press Y to shoot a zombie, then move left to dodge a bullet. Press cn_A three times to dismember a zombie approaching the van. Then cn_B three times to blind fire at Joan's gunmen. When a zombie jumps you, mash cn_A then hit cn_Y to shoot its brains out. Then press cn_A to attack the zombie with the dismembered leg. Mash X to save David, then someone will surprise you. Move left to smash a zombie with your bat.

The achievement unlocks after your group gets inside a building.

David walks out after he feels like everyone is against him. Kate will tell you that she has seen that look in him before and that you need to go after him. The achievement unlocks as you leave.

You will have to make a major decision to stay with Kate or follow David & Gabe who leave in the truck. The achievement will unlock after deciding.

You will stumble across David who is dead in the car, and Gabe is just a few feet away as you find out he was bitten. You have to make the hard decision to shoot him or let him shoot himself to unlock this achievement.

Jesus suggests to you that you should be the new leader in Richmond. Clementine will join you to talk. If Dr. Lingard is still alive, he will reveal where AJ is to Clementine, which will unlock the achievement.

Clementine will ask you how she should handle the AJ situation and you can tell her to bring him back to Richmond or just let him be. This choice will influence the final cutscene and afterwards it is revealed that there will be a Season 4 on this video game as the achievement unlocks.

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