Help Please

[StealthyDead]

I am at the point where I need to get past the sentry guns/get to the control room to deactivate them. I have been running around for hours and cannot figure it. I looked up things on google that said to build a 3 bridges across the gap to holmholtz area, but the bridges will not place on that spot, as if patched out. It felt super obtuse and cheesy to think they wanted you to build those bridges anyways. So what's the next ACTUAL step you're supposed to take? I have the level 3 hacker. I know I need ichor to activate a portal at the top of the containment block. I have been over every inch of that containment block and have no idea what I'm missing

[chromer]

Originally posted by StealthyDead:

Originally posted by chromer:

The Laser Labs sector is another way to get there. I don't why they put there a web, because you get all the stuff to get rid of it only after sentry guns sector

I'd really like to do it without cheesing if at all possible. Are you saying that the game is hard locked now because you need fungal burn ability to get past the turrets, but don't get the ability to burn the fungus until after the turrets?

Hmm, there is another way, but it is the hardest way. You can brute force it and just after arriving on tram go straight forward through turrets (where locked security office and metal detectors are), but you will need a lot of barricades and run like hell to the other end of the sector. After that just move on until you find the thing, that drops all you need to open portal to Anteverse 2 and get the stuff to get rid of the web

[Flak Monkey]

If you can just take the tram from Pen area to Contanment block you can just go to the Tarasque right away, kill it, get the ichor and unlock the portal.

[StealthyDead]

Idk how to even unlock the tram. I followed the signs to the station when I first got into the labs, I made the tram key, I unlocked the station, and it says that it is locked at another station....

[Flak Monkey]

Yeah, that's how it was for me during my playthrough. I thought maybe they changed it after blocking the laser room. Then I honestly don't know. Maybe you have to burn the growth by redirecting a laser beam at it with laser refractor in the corridor? Is it the same type of growth as on the vaccum chamber?

[StealthyDead]

Yeah it's the same growth as the vacuum chamber. Idk that I even have a laser refractor unlocked. I have been all over the place in there and have gotten all the little resources that are in those cases. The crystal, the eyeball, the refined carbon or whatever. I've unlocked all the blueprints my guy thought of. I have FORGE armor and a tech sceptre to attack with. Got the antique shotgun and the gravity cube. I mean, I feel like I've done all the things I should have done. I guess I'm just done with it. I've put more effort into looking up things for this game than I have any game in a long, long time. And there's little to no info online due to the newness of the game and niche nature of it. Not like it has millions of players or anything.

So I'm sad to say I'm just gonna uninstall it and maybe try again when it hits 1.0 in like 3-4 years like most EA titles. What a shame. I was really enjoying it before restoring the electron pumps in Maintenance West and now this debacle.

[chromer]

Okay, seems like the tram is really locked and you need to get through turrets first to activate it. And seems like I made the cheesiest way to get the tram by building long bridge to it left side of Curie C. Block entrance because I didn't see the button that opens Inner Wing in C. Block Dirac and I thought it was a softlock. I just pressed it 15 minutes ago and opened Inner Wing door after completing all the quests XD

[chromer]

If you have the bouncy cube, you can just jump on top of arch with stop signs and get to the other side

[StealthyDead]

Originally posted by chromer:

Okay, seems like the tram is really locked and you need to get through turrets first to activate it. And seems like I made the cheesiest way to get the tram by building long bridge to it left side of Curie C. Block, because I didn't see the button that opens Inner Wing in C. Block Dirac and I thought it was a softlock. I just pressed it 15 minutes ago and opened Inner Wing door after completing all the quests XD

Yeah I went into the inner wing, and then to the right. Talked to the guy in his own little pod. He's like "go to the control center and shut down the turrets." But yeah like HOW. The turrets block control center. Can't open the portal in containment block without ichor. Can't access tram without going through turrets. Can't get into the laser room. Can't do anything except either cheese a bridge or cheese a jump to get past an area that you're not supposed to get past.

[chromer]

Originally posted by StealthyDead:

Originally posted by chromer:

Okay, seems like the tram is really locked and you need to get through turrets first to activate it. And seems like I made the cheesiest way to get the tram by building long bridge to it left side of Curie C. Block, because I didn't see the button that opens Inner Wing in C. Block Dirac and I thought it was a softlock. I just pressed it 15 minutes ago and opened Inner Wing door after completing all the quests XD

Yeah I went into the inner wing, and then to the right. Talked to the guy in his own little pod. He's like "go to the control center and shut down the turrets." But yeah like HOW. The turrets block control center. Can't open the portal in containment block without ichor. Can't access tram without going through turrets. Can't get into the laser room. Can't do anything except either cheese a bridge or cheese a jump to get past an area that you're not supposed to get past.

Why do you think this is a cheese? The game gives you the opportunity to solve the problem yourself in many ways and not just following some quest lines. Why do you think you need the bridges? Why do you need the bounce cube trinket?

[Flak Monkey]

Yes, this seems very confusing. I asked developers about this in the patchnotes comments. Hopefully they will answer. Cause this just doesn't seem right.

[StealthyDead]

Originally posted by chromer:

Originally posted by StealthyDead:

Yeah I went into the inner wing, and then to the right. Talked to the guy in his own little pod. He's like "go to the control center and shut down the turrets." But yeah like HOW. The turrets block control center. Can't open the portal in containment block without ichor. Can't access tram without going through turrets. Can't get into the laser room. Can't do anything except either cheese a bridge or cheese a jump to get past an area that you're not supposed to get past.

Why do you think this is a cheese? The game gives you the opportunity to solve the problem yourself in many ways and not just following some quest lines

Because it's clearly not the intended progression that the developers intended. It's clipping and utilizing build mechanics to skip an area that is literally walled off by auto turrets which have pushback to even stop you from using a shield to get through that spot. I tried. So it's not an intended progression to do that in that spot. It's just a thing the players came up with because things were confusing. I'm trying to do it how intended, but it seems the developers themselves locked progression.

[StealthyDead]

Originally posted by Flak Monkey:

Yes, this seems very confusing. I asked developers about this in the patchnotes comments. Hopefully they will answer. Cause this just doesn't seem right.

Thanks for the info! Yeah, I am completely at a loss of how to progress as intended. It sure seems like they locked progression themselves at this point

[Flak Monkey]

Originally posted by Zag:

Originally posted by Flak Monkey:

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Ask the fellas in Helmholtz, we hear they know a thing or two.

Well this is very cryptic and I don't know if it will help you to figure this out, I quess you have to talk to someone

[TmartinG]

what's helmholtz wtf i'm literaly stuck on the same point with stealthy

[Nyamses]

I'm also stuck. I don't have a Laser Refractor recipe, can't find the Tarrasque and have no idea how to get through the 2 turrets on the top floor of the Containment elevator area, unless they want me to somehow tank the shots until I can hack the door near the dead scientists.

EDIT: Tried hacking the door, managed to, but it says it's opened somewhere else, then died. What a pile of doo-doo.

EDIT2: Ok, managed to YOLO through the turrets by driving the golf cart through the area and eventually got to the control center to take control of the turrets. Not sure if that's the intended route, but suppose you could also slowly build full-height barricades to hide behind as you progress towards the turrets.