Resolve Biolabs & Greenhouse Facility shortcuts???

[Siralextraffo]

I don't know if I'm missing something huge here, but I'm dying a lot in the Greenhouse facility, mainly because it's damn far from the medbay and the only shortcut I found so far is the one close to the hole in the ground in the open area at the start.

Is it possible that you are supposed to do all the way to the Greenhouse and beyond from the hole in the ground without a proper way to come back to medbay?? Is there only one shortcut in the whole level?

Oddly enough, it's the only area I can't find any guide online, all the others have videos with shortcuts, tips and such...

[Mr_Meanie]

Did you already help the doctor in the hole? Shortcut is near the lab office she is in.

[Baron01]

The shortcut is an elevator in open area with Chavez behind locked doors. There are no further shortcuts but there is a healing injectable station near the elevator that get you out of initial sewers that you arrived at. Further shortcuts will be opened when you progress further in the game and return back to this area.

This area is effectively 2 closed loops--first you enter near medbay, progress through sewers to elevator to get to surface, clear open area to open shortcut to medbay, drop down a hole to next underground section, clear through to lift lockdown, which get you back to open areas with shortcut, continue through previously locked doors to get to Chavez and finally open doors to areanear the start with medbay around a corner.

If you are dying due to lack of healing consumables you might want to change your implant setup. I clear levels with just 1x Virtal Injections (3 uses), 1x Med-Voltaic Injection (no point having more, no effect) and 2x Aggression Amplifiers implants. Aggression Amplifier implants are great way to sustain yourself while clearing levels because each execution will give you % of your health back. This was less useful in first playthrough but it is great in further runs. Your main source of sustaining should be Med-voltaic Injections, which provide decent healing in NG. Get some Voltaic Dynamos to generat more energy with your attacks to ensure you always can heal. Either spend all your energy after combat on healing or charging your drone or get implants that slow energy decay or those Capacitors that allow you to keep % of your total energy as a minimum.

[gary.hop]

There are actually two extra shortcuts though of little use as they're one way. The first is a jump over a hand rail where you can find the magnet drone core and drops you around the Med Bay door, it's just after the drop down the hole in the ground. The second is In the same area and leads to the pyramid you can't reach before the lift to the surface.

Both are jumps onto girders below the walkways and are fatal if not performed correctly.