Act 1

**Act 1** is the first act of *The Entropy Centre*.

## Summary

Aria finds herself in the Entropy Centre mysteriously alone and begins searching for anyone else. She finds the centre damaged, finds the handheld entropy device, and is guided by ASTRA as she makes her way through the Centre and the first puzzle area.

## Walkthrough

### Starting out

First cube and pressure plateComputer with intel in the testing labPedastal to activate the entropy testEntropy test in progressHandheld entropy deviceRewind the debris outside the testing labRewind the broken staircaseRewind the debris that falls
* Check the computer on the table for two emails providing intel.
* Use the open door option at the bottom left of the screen.
* Leave the room and proceed right, following the corridor until reaching a lift.
* Step onto the lift, which will then descend.
* Head forward through the center of the room to a row of six desks, three on each side.
* Check the computer on the desk immediately to the left for an email providing intel.
* Continue ahead into reception and take the right.
* Proceed forward until a robot bursts out of the wall.
* The robot will unlock the door ahead before running off.
* Go through the door and up the stairs to the right.
* Go through the door ahead and take the corridor to the left.
* The bridge will break.
* Bring the cube from the right over to the pressure plate.
* Go through the door that opens into the next room.
* Open the door ahead and continue through.
* Continue down the hallway and take a left at the end.
* The door to the left will automatically open when approached.
* Enter the room and go to the computer on the desk to the left for an email providing intel.
* Go right to the pedestal with the yellow padlock icon.
* Interact with the pedestal and watch the test.
* Go into the room where the test happened and press the button pick up the gun-like item.
* Use the entropy device on the fragments of the pillar to rewind it back to an intact state.
* Go back into the hallway and rewind the debris to the left.
* Continue ahead under the repaired scaffolding.
* Turn right and go to the door.
* Open it and go through.
* Rewind the broken stairs to the right.
* Climb up the stairs and go through the automatic door.
* Go left down the hallway and through the automatic door at the end.
* Rewind the broken bridge ahead and proceed forward.
* Take the corridor to the left and go down the stairs to the right.
* Continue forward until finding an open door labeled WC.
* Go into the bathroom and through the broken walls to the left to the other bathroom.
* Go left and exit the bathroom to find the Staff Break Area.
* Go through the break area and take the door in the orange section of wall to the right.
* Proceed through the short corridor into a large room.
* Go forward and onto the lift, which will automatically ascend.
* Continue forward and down the stairs. Debris will fall at the bottom of the stairs across the way.
* Rewind the debris and go up the stairs.
* Go through the automatic door and through the hallway to Puzzle 0101.

### Puzzle 0101

* Go down the stairs to the bottom.
* Pick up the cube and place it on the left pressure plate for a moment.
* Pick up the cube and place it on the right pressure plate.
* Go up the stairs and rewind the cube so it's back on the left plate.
* Go through the now open door.
* Take the door ahead to the right.

### Puzzle 0102

* Go through the hallway to the next puzzle room.
* Put the cube on the closest plate for a moment.
* Put the cube on the farther plate for a moment.
* Put the cube on the closer plate again.
* Go through the left door across from the plates.
* Rewind the cube back to the farther plate.
* Go through the now open door.
* Rewind the cube back to the other plate.
* Go through the door.
* Go through the hallway and through the next door.
* Continue ahead through the doors to puzzle 0103.

### Puzzle 0103

* Move the cube to the plate for a moment.
* Move the cube back where it was.
* Walk onto the lift.
* Rewind the cube back to the plate.
* When the lift is at the top, turn around and go through the hallway and turn left for puzzle 0104.

### Puzzle 0104

* Place the cube on the plate connected to the door.
* Place the cube on the plate closest to the stairs.
* Leave it there long enough for the platform to fully move to the other side.
* Place the cube next to the plate so that the platform returns.
* Go up the stairs and onto the platform.
* Rewind the cube back to the plate closest to the stairs.
* When the platform reaches the other side, step off onto the upper level.
* Rewind the cube back to the plate connected to the door.
* Go through the doors ahead and follow the corridor right.

### Entropy Transport Shuttle

* Turn left and proceed ahead onto the entropy transport shuttle.
* Rewind structures when they start falling toward the shuttle.
* When dropped onto the catwalk, it becomes necessary to act fast, as rising water will kill Aria and the game will revert to a checkpoint where she first fell onto the catwalk.
* When moving ahead, a pillar will fall from the right. Try to rewind it before it hits the catwalk.
* Further ahead, one will fall from the left. Once again, try to rewind it before it hits the catwalk to save time.
* Go up the stairs to the right. Be careful before turning left, because the catwalk there is elecrtified.
* Rewind the power device across the electrified catwalk, and proceed ahead and left up the stairs once it's safe.
* Be ready for a collapsing pillar from the left. Again, try to catch and rewind it early to save time.
* Continue ahead to the white wall.
* Stand on the debris here before rewinding it, so it lifts Aria up as it is rewound.
* Proceed up the stairs.
* Go through the door and proceed left.
* Follow the corridor into an area with several elevators.
* Go into the open elevator on the right.