Chapter 8: The Matriarch

Follow the NPC (non-player character — anyone the game controls, not you) until a distraction is needed. Select the Distraction option to hack a drone; otherwise, you'll have to "wing it".

Enter a vision of Peter's past. Jump through the window and defeat the alien invaders.

After the vision shifts, follow Nikki.

Inspect the cake in Nikki's room.

Find the gift in Nikki's room and place it on the kitchen table with other gifts.

Interact with the Projector on the table opposite the cake, pushing the analog sticks forward and hitting the button prompt to fix it.

Open the large blue door for a scene, then prepare for a boss fight.

BOSS FIGHT: Grand Unifier Raker - Use regular shots sparingly. Freeze Raker and use team attacks. Build his stagger and deal damage until he ends the fight.

Defeat Raker's remaining goons, prioritizing the flying, mage-type enemies that buff others. Use the Electric Element against them.

Use team attacks and call to action prompts to defeat enemies. If the team is encased in crystal, hold Triangle near them to free them.

Climb the floating platforms to reach the top.

Use Rocket's Cluster Flark Bomb on enemies on the platform.

Run forward until you drop down.

Find a crack in the wall on the left side of the hallway and have Drax smash it open.

Jump into the fluid and crawl through the small space.

Have Drax pick up a pillar and place it in front of the crawl space to reach another level.

Find the pink crate containing the Costume: Bad Lord for Star Lord.

Follow the linear path. Use Rocket to drop a mine on cult members worshipping below.

Run past the cult members to the door on the back wall on the right.

Have Drax knock down a pillar to proceed.

Follow the path; Gamora will automatically clear a path.

Speak to Rocket at the window if desired.

Squeeze through an opening.

Defeat waves of enemies, prioritizing snipers on the upper level, then stronger enemies with the Lightning Element.

Have Rocket hack a terminal to open a door.

After Rocket hacks another terminal and opens a door, turn around and head left of the hologram to find an Archive entry: RE: She Has Come!

Use the Workbench if desired.

Take a few steps back from the workbench and look right. Climb large metallic cylinders to reach a ledge containing a Collectible: Deep Mine Device.

Follow the team away from the Workbench to a door needing a battery.

Find a dead Inquisitor robot and grab the battery to its right.

Insert the battery into the slot to the left of the door.

Step back out to get Drax, then re-enter the elevator and ride up.

At the top, get on a skiff and use Rocket's Cluster Flark Bomb or Peter's Eye of the Hurricane to knock enemies off.

Repeat on the other skiff or defeat enemies, then have Rocket hack the remaining skiff to fly to the next area.

Defeat cultist thugs, prioritizing flyers with the Lightning Element.

Move leftward and drop down.

Follow the team and drop down again to reach the second skiff.

Shoot passing skiffs to cause them to explode.