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Starting Area

Follow this comprehensive walkthrough for Routine's Chapter 1: Birth. Learn how to print your ID, use the C.A.T. tool, navigate the station, and reach the Mall and MEGAZONE.

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Starting Area

Follow this comprehensive walkthrough for Routine's Chapter 1: Birth. Learn how to print your ID, use the C.A.T. tool, navigate the station, and reach the Mall and MEGAZONE.

Walkthrough
  1. 1
    After the intro cutscene, approach your helmet on the wall and press E/M1.
  2. 2
    Look at the computer screen to the right. Click the FORM tab to complete the movement tutorial.
  3. 3
    Press the PRINT tab and PRINT ID. Grab the ID that prints on the left side of the computer.
  4. 4
    Crouch (CTRL + Space) to find the fallen ID and press E/M1 to grab it.
  5. 5
    Go to the computer beside the door and press OPEN DOOR. Leave your room and walk left towards the panoramic screen.
  6. 6
    Approach the elevator door. To the right of the panoramic screen is Meeting Room A01. Press OPEN DOOR to enter. Enter the second door on your right.
  7. 7
    In the meeting room, go to the second table on the left and collect your C.A.T. tool.
  8. 8
    Go to the right side of the meeting room and use the computer to open another door. Find batteries (blue-colored) inside. One can be found in the recycling center underneath the shelves by crouching.
  9. 9
    With a battery in your tool, go to the projection on the wall in the meeting room. Press R to view your tool, then press the Wireless Access Point button (triangles and lines symbol).
  10. 10
    Connect to the screen on the wall. Go to the DATABASE page and note the keycode for the elevator: 4832. (This code is random for each player).
  11. 11
    Leave the meeting room, go to the elevator door, and enter the code into the KEYPAD. Press OPEN DOOR to enter the elevator. Press GATEWAY on the computer to access the next area.
  12. 12
    Exit the elevator and walk left toward the ASN terminal. Listen to the voice recording and view the screen.
  13. 13
    Go back toward the elevator and look right at the Tram Station. Note the note on the wall to the left of the gate.
  14. 14
    Follow the cables from the gate to the box on the wall above the note. Press M2 to aim your C.A.T. tool and M1 to fire a pulse at it to open the gate.
  15. 15
    Walk through the opened gate to the Tram Station. Approach the Tram and get on. Use the computer screen inside to choose a location: go to the Mall first.
  16. 16
    Arrive at the Mall. Go to the front desk and press the IC assistance button. Follow the droid over the computer. Log in by entering your ID number (found on the front of your suit): 9601. (This ID is unique to each player).
  17. 17
    Select Business or Pleasure as your purpose. An error will pop up.
  18. 18
    Go back to the front desk and press the IC assistance button again. Follow the IC bot to a different entrance into the mall. Climb down the ladder.
  19. 19
    At the bottom of the ladder, walk straight to the Wireless Access Point. Walk to the right of it, and on the far end wall, follow the cables to an electrical box. Aim your C.A.T. tool (M2) and fire (M1) at the terminal to open a hatch. Press CTRL to climb through.
  20. 20
    Inside this room, a gate closes. Crouch and look under the Checkout desk for a red button. Press it. Hide behind the desk as a bot breaks open the gate.
  21. 21
    Once the gate is opened and the bot is out of the way, run left, then make a right toward Galaxy Video.
  22. 22
    Walk down the hall to the right of the Access Point (left side of Galaxy Video) to the security room. Read the note on the door: the meeting was moved to MEGAZONE.
  23. 23
    To reach MEGAZONE, go back to the plant area before the video store, through Union Plaza, past the room where you entered via the hatch, toward the panel of screens. Take a left, go all the way down the hall, then take a right into the area with purple lighting. Go around the center planter and crouch (CTRL) to get under the shutters into MEGAZONE.
Tips
  • Your C.A.T. tool uses batteries, which have three uses per battery. View the current charge by pressing R and looking at the meter to the right of the power button.
  • Hostile bots roam the Mall area and will attack on sight. You cannot fight them, so avoid them by running (SHIFT) or hiding behind obstacles.
  • In MEGAZONE, find a powered-on arcade machine (back row with the Gunshow image) and press E/M1 to interact. Play the game by following the arrow prompts to earn an achievement.
  • Chapter 01 Achievement: Reach Chapter 01

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