The Nucleus | The Surge Walkthrough The Surge Guide

Last update: 09 May 2019

This page in our guide to The Surge contains walkthrough for the last location in the game - Nucleus. Here, you can learn what you have to do in order to continue the main storyline and defeat the final boss.

• Second floor of the installation
• First circuit
• Second circuit
• Third circuit
• Fourth circuit
• Boss and end of the game

Second floor of the installation

When you reach The Nucleus, go ahead and use the station on the platform to summon the lift and thus call the Medical Station. Use it, and then go left, avoiding the blocked passage in front of you. In the first room you will be attacked by an enemy who has hidden behind a wooden box. Defeat him, then open the door and defeat all opponents behind them.

On the next floors of the staircase, you'll find many enemies who should be eliminated one by one. Go up to the top and take the Log#5 recording. The doors on the upper floor lead to the second floor of the installation. Before you move there, you should first go down. Doors that you missed at the bottom are not available, but those at the next level of the cage lead to the technical corridor. In it you have to defeat one machine with a container and then go straigth ahead of you. Eventually you will reach the point where you can jump on the roof of the Medical Station (located on the first floor) and take another SNS Disinhibitor implant, which is located there. Then jump from the roof in a safe place and return to the door where you found the recording.

It is worth noting that all secrets, items and hidden elements of the game should be collected as soon as possible, because with the progress in the chapter the opponents in particular parts of the location will become stronger.

On the second floor of the location you will find the situation shown in the picture above. In the further part of the corridor on the right [1] you will be attacked by the same opponent as the one you met in the first location at the very bottom. Your goal is to summon the lift through the panel [2] shown in the picture. Defeat your opponent and bypass the abyss to access the console. Before moving on, it is worth exploring the area at the end of the corridor on the left [3]. There are two enemies equipped with Chrystalis armour. Kill them, then listen to the Log #11 recording and collect the equipment.

Before you start further activities in the location, it is a good idea to collect all useful items first. Starting from the medical station, go in front of you, holding on to the right. On the right you will see a Proteus, which will be turned back to you. You can bypass it without any major consequences, but on the left comes the second Proteus. You have to fight it. Try not to pull the one who doesn't pay attention to your hero and remember that you have to kill them twice. Go down the footbridge in the direction from which the opponent came and pick up the item lying there.

Return to the previous level and head to the door above. These lead you to an isolated part of the installation, where you will find a chest with Nano-cores. Opening it requires at least level 50, which should not be a big challenge at this stage. Before you go there, you should equip yourself with an implant that neutralizes the effects of poisonous fog. Behind the door you will find a staircase that leads down and a transverse corridor at the end. When you go downstairs, the room will start to fill up with gas. On the left lurks a separated, crawling body of the Proteus, and on the right is a Chrystalis. Defeat your opponents, turn right and head towards the exo-lift. This will take you to the installation. Before you reach for components, you will have to get rid of one of the Proteuses. Eventually receive the Nano-cores and return to the Medical Station. It's time to start realizing the main objective of the final location.

First circuit

To remove the lock you saw on the first floor of the installation, you will need to activate four power bypasses. But first you have to get to them.

To do this, leave the Medical Station on the second floor and walk around it on the right. Defeat your opponent in the room on the right and move forward along the visible road. Defeat a few enemies who will rise from the floor as you approach them. At the end of the corridor, open the door and go down the stairs. Defeat your opponent and take the Vanadium E-Cell implant hidden behind the boxes. Then turn right. Run through the corridor, crossing a poisonous fog and kill your opponent in front of you.

Open the door [1] in the picture to unlock the shortcut to the staircase you were already in. From the visible point, jump down on the left [2]. In front of you is another corridor with a few, not too dangerous enemies. First run to the very end of the corridor and use the exo-lift on the left. Defeat your opponent at the top level and take the implant Vitality Injection v5.

Then take advantage of the technical corridor that you see in the room after descending by using the exo-lift. Defeat your opponents and go left. There is another lift waiting for you. It will take you to the place visible in the picture. This is the first of the four circuits you have to overload. There are also two opponents in the room - one sprays poisonous gas and the other ignites it. Kill them and move left from the perspective of the panel by which you overloaded the circuit.

Second circuit

Walk through the corridor to the very end and you'll be in the CREO protection zone. At this stage you can decide which end you want to see after defeating the main boss. When you pass through the door, one Chrystalis will attack you right away. Defeat him, walk through the door and turn right. You will see a load of Utopia in front of you.

First pick up the Package Delivery recording and then decide whether you want to destroy Utopia protocols or rather keep them. If you don't interact with the panel [1] marked in the picture, when you finish the game, your account will be credited with the achievement of a New, better world. Interaction gives a chance to unlock the trophy For the good of mankind.

It is also worth going straight into the corridor [2] guarded by a creature created by Utopia. Remember that opponents of this type will kill you with even one blow regardless of the number of health points. Run next to it and turn left. This way you will find yourself above the boss battle arena. You can't go down there, but you'll also find a Log #23 recording and a Codename: Goetterdaemmerung weapon.

Take the items and return to the bottom. Now you are interested in the stairs that you have seen in front of the security entrance. Before you walk through them it's worth taking the Ironmaus comic book from the cabinet next to them. Also use the communication station to listen to Failsafe Protocol 14.32.57. Go upstairs, defeat three security guards and then enter the only technical corridor nearby. Follow it to the very end and you'll stand in front of the next circuit that you can overload.

Third circuit

To get to the third circuit, you need to return to the corridor with stains of the poisonous substance into which you jumped through a hole in the vicinity of the staircase. Instead of going to the end of the corridor, turn right at the first opportunity, defeat your opponent and take an exo-lift to the top. Listen to the Log #8 recording. Walk ahead through the corridor and you will be attacked by several crawling Proteusses.

Kill them or avoid them and use the exo-lift that will take you to the top. Exit the technical corridor and immediately turn left up the stairs. Break the grille into the technical corridor and enter it. Defeat the opponent and open the shortcut to the technical corridor with the first circuit. Return to the corridor and head directly towards the Utopia creature. You must open the security door, which it watches over. Next to them you will find MG Centurion weapon.

Behind the door you will find a communication station with Stay Tuned recording, and to the right - a shortcut to one of the rooms on the other level of the installation, in the vicinity of the Medical Station. Finally, enter the elevator at the end of the corridor.

Kill enemies in front of you and follow the only road available. On your way you will meet other security staff, and right next to them - a train, which you can take to return to Production Headquarters B, if you want.

Go to the end of the corridor. You will see a gap in front of you, but before you jump into it, you should enter the technical tunnel and take a Plasmic Regenerator v5 implant. Then jump into the hole, defeat Chrystalis and the accompanying drone, and then turn left in the technical corridor. There will be another gap in front of you, into which you have to jump in order to continue this level.

You will fall to the platform over one of the rooms. There are two Utopian creatures in it and a circuit that you have to overload. Run up to it as quickly as possible and interact with it. During it you should be inviolable. When you unlock the circuit, you have to fight or escape. Turn away from the overload panel behind you and run. Avoid the door in front of you and turn right. There you will find an exo-lift that will take you to the panel that calls Medical Station on the third floor. Do it, thus moving on to the next stage of the task.

Fourth circuit

From the Medical Station on the third floor run in front of you and open the door that you missed earlier. Enter the area and turn left. There is a Utopia creature in the next room. Defeat it or avoid it, because certainly one of the creatures that stood near the Medical Station follows you and in a moment you will be surrounded.

At the top you will find the last of the required circuits. Run it and enter the technical corridor. Go down and then straight ahead. At the bottom you will find the Log #6 recording, as well as the door. These lead to the corridor where you were walking to pick up the Nano-cores. Behind the door kill the crawling Proteus, turn right and get to the first level of the installation as soon as possible. There, summon the lift, replenish your strength and prepare to fight the final boss.

Boss and end of the game

After defeating the boss, the game will be finished. After that, you will not be able to return to the standard gameplay, and instead the so-called NG+ will start. Carry out all the activities and collect everything you care about or need for one of the achievements or trophies. Finally, go to a zone that was previously blocked. Move ahead and you'll get to the boss battle arena.