The City

**The City** is the first section of Chapter 1. It takes place in a large, but strangely barren, human city.

## Walkthrough

The map begins with a cutscene that lasts for a few minutes, including the opening credits.

Once it is over, you will find yourself inside of a cryo pod, which you are ejected out of. After getting up, a voice begins speaking to you inside your head. After some dialogue you will get out of the room and enter the City, and get put into adventure mode.

It is recommended that you explore as many of the buildings as you can, as many have containers with food inside. The shop named Chips and Fish has a freezer blocked by iron doors that can be opened by standing on one of the seats and jumping to press a button on top of some white concrete next to end rods.

Near the ice-cream shop is a barrier made out of cyan stained glass panes. Upon going near it the camera will point to it and some dialogue will point this out, the last line telling you to find a way around it. To do so, enter the bowling alley next to the fence (the large building made out of grey and blue concrete), and go up the stairs to the right to the second level, which is a small dance floor. At the other end of the room one of the windows is open, and you can jump out from there to reach the road on the other side of the barrier. Landing on the hay bales below will greatly reduce fall damage, though missing them won’t kill you.

You can then enter the mall. Again, continue checking each shop for more food. Once you get deep enough into the mall (past the bookshop and the pink shop named “Fakeup”, some drones will appear and two barriers will close up in front and behind you. The voice in your head will say you can try entering one of the shops to your left or right, and you have to choose which one to dash into. The sporting goods shop is the one on the left and the costume shop is the one on the right. This decision affects which starting weapons you get, however each weapon in one shop has a matching partner in the other shop with the same stats. In other words, it doesn’t hugely matter which shop you choose, but it does demonstrate that choices can affect what happens in the map.

In the sporting goods shop, you will be chased by some Worker Drones and cornered near some racks of Baseball Bats. When the cutscene ends, you can pick up a Baseball Bat from the wall by right-clicking on one. Upon doing this the drones will become active and can start attacking you, but you can also start attacking them. There are other weapons you can pick up in the shop, however most are not that strong, and will quickly get replaced later on.

Once you defeat the initial wave of five Worker Drones, two Ranged Drones spawn at the shop’s entrance. These drones are invulnerable to all damage but also don’t move, only serving as a deterrent. The voice in your head will tell you to go up the stairs, where a wall is broken open and a drone steps through, only to get crushed by some weights that fall off a shelf. You can go through into the other shop, which is a Minecraft merchandise-themed shop, and fight your way through and eventually get back into the mall.

If you choose the costume shop, you similarly get cornered by Worker Drones, except this time you have to pick up some Toy Swords from some knight costumes. Once you defeat the five drones that spawn in the shop, again some Ranged Drones will appear at the entrance and you have to go upstairs. There is already a hole in the wall that leads into the neighbouring shop - a computer shop. The computer shop can be somewhat dangerous because you have to fall from the walkway to the ground floor amidst another group of Worker Drones, however there are less drones than there are in the Minecraft shop.

Once entering the mall again from the Minecraft or computer shop, the voice in your head will tell you to enter the cinema. There are some other shops you can access here, however they don’t have any food (with the exception of the bakery). Inside the cinema there are more Worker Drones. You have to go to the right where the movie posters are and up into the hallway. At the far end of the hallway you can enter one of the theatres to the left.

### **Boss Fight - Heavy Worker Drone**

Once inside the theatre you will be put in a cutscene and be faced with a Heavy Worker Drone - a stronger variant of the Worker Drones you have been fighting.

The Heavy Worker Drone has a lot of health and some knockback resistance, but nothing else in the way of attacks.

When you get its health down to 75%, 50% and 25%, some Shield Drones will spawn that beam a shield onto the Heavy Worker Drone, making it invincible. The bossbar will become notched to represent its current invulnerability. The only way to take down the shield is to destroy all the Shield Drones, which will allow you to keep damaging the Heavy Worker Drone.

Upon defeating the Heavy Worker Drone you can leave the cinema through one of the exit doors at the bottom near the screen. Once outside you will see there is a big white wall at the end of the road with a circular door embedded inside. Approach the door to enter another cutscene, where you will leave the City and meet the voice in your head - Hyso.

## Equipment

### Sporting Goods Shop:

Baseball Bat - 4 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 6.4 DPS

Tennis Racket - 3 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, Knockback I, 4.8 DPS

Golf Club - 3 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 4.8 DPS, Gain 3 seconds of Speed I upon hitting an enemy

Croquet Mallet - 7 Attack Damage, 0.8 Attack Speed, 5.6 DPS

Fencing Sword - 3.5 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 1 Sweeping Damage, 5.6 DPS

### Costume Shop:

Toy Sword - 4 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 6.4 DPS

Toy Scythe - 3 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, Knockback I, 4.8 DPS

Toy Endsaber - 3 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 4.8 DPS, Gain 3 seconds of Speed I upon hitting an enemy

Toy Hammer - 7 Attack Damage, 0.8 Attack Speed, 5.6 DPS

Toy Cutlass - 3.5 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 1 Sweeping Damage, 5.6 DPS

The Heavy Chair can be found in a secret location. 20 Attack Damage, 0.25 Attack Speed, 5 DPS

## Recommendations

* Pick up as much food as you can find in the City, otherwise you will need to craft your own that much sooner later on, which can be expensive at the beginning.

* The Baseball Bat/Toy Sword has the best DPS out of all the weapons, though the Croquet Mallet/Toy Hammer has the highest base damage, which can be useful for dealing large initial strikes. Most of the other weapons in the stores are not that useful.