Elevator question

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

So if the map has 3 elevators and you go up with one of them and the other are on the bottom floor you cant take the others to go down?
In other words, you can't call elevators to your floor? Am i missing something because this cost me about 20 minutes of my time to simple extract from the 2nd floor

[DropShot]

What map? Some are locked until you complete a task

[wei270]

on the sec map where there are 2 elevator that you can use, you can call the elevator down when it is on top, but it does take like 10 sec of you standing outside. so if it is not mission locked. yes you can just use any elevator.

the store elevator in the first map is not a real elevator you can't use that one no matter waht so on the first map there is only 1 elevator.

[[OTS]EchoZenLogos]

Typically the elevators are locked quite often. You should be able to take the elevators up and down, but on some of the maps some of the elevators simply aren't enabled until certain conditions are met. Plus not every elevator goes to every floor on a more than 2 story map, which further can confuse things, or an elevator might only go one-way in practice because it might only unlock for you to leave or enter (then you have to go another way).

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Originally posted by DropShot:

What map? Some are locked until you complete a task

First map but i want to know for the future maps as well, some mechanics are poorly implemented

[DropShot]

The first map is the most artificially restrictive, mostly because it's still teaching you stuff. The first elevator breaks, The southern elevator can go down once, but not up again. The center elevator will be the one that is unlocked all the time. I am 90% sure you have to find the two survivors before any of them unlock, though. The survivor behind the welded door can glitch and not let you cut it open, just reload a save if that happens.

later maps typically unlock as you need them. Some will be locked as they are used for future missions, and some others can be locked for an event, like a fight (but those typically warn you before you do them). Then there will be one map that will have them unlocked by keycards, but that essentially falls under task locked. There are a few that just aren't used at all though.