Cryo Ward

The **Cryo Ward** is the second section of Chapter 1, taking place right after exiting the City through the large door in the wall.

## Walkthrough

After you meet Hyso, you will be shown that you (and the entire City) are really on-board an enormous alien spaceship. Some Drones appear, and you run and end up in the Cryo Ward.

At first Hyso will tell you your goal is to destroy the Fusion Engines of the ship, however this is more of a long-term goal. The main thing you should find is the Matter Manipulator, which you can find by going directly forward from where you start.

The Matter Manipulator functions in the same way as a crafting table, except all of the recipes and materials in this map are completely custom-made. Drone Parts are dropped by most drones, and can be crafted into Metal, which can then be turned into armor and a Metal Sword. Crafting a Metal Sword then unlocks the recipe for crafting a Laser Blaster and Laser Drill, which require Energy Cells, which are dropped by Ranged and Shield Drones.

You can get a fair amount of the resources you need just by killing the drones in the area. If you don’t get enough, you can farm materials at the drone spawners in the right-hand area of the Cryo Ward. At most drone spawners there is always a button nearby that can be toggled off and on, disabling and enabling spawning of drones as you need them.

Once you have crafted a Metal Sword, Laser Blaster, Laser Drill, and a full suit of armor (chestplate, leggings and pants - a proper helmet will be available later), you then unlock the Electric Hacking Gauntlet, and Electric Drones begin to spawn throughout the Cryo Ward, which drop Electric Cells, one of the materials needed to craft it. The Electric Hacking Gauntlet is needed in order to hack a drone and open the door that Hyso points out to you.

You can do this by right-clicking with the gauntlet while a Worker Drone is nearby. It will then be under your control - it will constantly emit yellow sparks, and will attack any mob that you attack. In order to get it to open the door, you have to hit the two nearby Drone Identification Slots such that your hacked drone walks near it to activate it. Drone Identification Slots are typically located among banks of screens, and resemble a drone’s head on top of a glass cylinder.

Once you open the door, fight your way through the next area, which contains a Heavy Worker Drone and some Phaser Turrets. This Heavy Worker Drone does not function as a boss fight, it is more of a mini-boss, and does not summon Shield Drones like the one in the City. It also has much less health. The area has some staircases that lead up to the second level of the Cryo Ward, however you will come across some cyan glass with white borders, which can only be broken with the Laser Drill.

Continue fighting your way to the other side of the second level, where there is another door locked behind two more Drone Identification Slots. Activate both of these, and you will enter the Master Teleportal.

## Equipment

The following can now be crafted in this area:

 Metal Sword - 6 Attack Damage, 1.6 Attack Speed, 1 Sweeping Damage. Crafted using 2 Metal, 1 Metal Grip.

 Laser Blaster - 9 Ranged Damage. Crafted using 2 Metal, 1 Metal Grip, 1 Laser Barrel, 1 Laser Cell.

 Laser Drill - Right-click while holding to emit a laser that can destroy glass. It also deals 1 damage to mobs in the beam per second. Crafted using 4 Metal, 1 Metal Grip, 1 Laser Barrel, 1 Laser Cell

 Electric Hacking Gauntlet - Allows you to hack drones, and also functions as a slow but strong melee weapon. 11 Attack Damage, 0.8 Attack Speed. Crafted using 4 Electric Cells, 4 Metal.

 Metal Chestplate - 5 Armor. Crafted using 8x Metal.

 Metal Leggings - 3 Armor. Crafted using 7x Metal.

 Metal Boots - 1 Armor. Crafted using 4x Metal.

When wearing all three pieces, you get 4 Absorption health (known in the map as “Shield Health”), which regenerates when you haven’t taken damage for 10 seconds.

The weapons you can obtain as drops are:

 Drone Arm - 5 Attack Damage, No Attack Cooldown. There are two different variants of this that can drop, one orange, one blue, which have different lore. However, they still have the same stats. Has a 1% chance of dropping from Worker Drones.

 Ranged Drone Blaster - 9 Ranged Damage, shots inflict Slowness for 10 seconds. Has a 1% chance of dropping from Ranged Drones.

 Heavy Drone Arm - 8.5 Attack Damage, 1.2 Attack Speed. Has a 10% chance of dropping from a Heavy Worker Drone.

## Recommendations

Most of the weapons that you can craft outclass weapons from the City.

It takes the following amount of resources to craft everything:

- Metal Sword: 16 Drone Parts

- Metal Chestplate: 32 Drone Parts

- Metal Leggings: 28 Drone Parts

- Metal Boots: 16 Drone Parts

- Laser Blaster: 16 Energy Cells, 16 Drone Parts

- Laser Drill: 16 Energy Cells, 24 Drone Parts

Total: 132 Drone Parts (just over 2 stacks), 32 Energy Cells.

The Electric Hacking Gauntlet, unlocked after all of the above, requires an additional 16 Drone Parts and 4 Electric Cells.

It is not recommended that you use the Laser Drill in combat, as its damage output is generally far too low.

The Metal Sword and Electric Hacking Gauntlet will both serve you well until the middle of Chapter 2, along with the Laser Blaster for ranged attacks. The dropped weapons can be good alternatives should you be lucky enough to find them, but are not essential.