When exploring the open world of Atomic Heart, players will come across several testing sites strewn around Facility 3826. These optional testing grounds are mini-dungeons full of challenges and useful blueprints. As players proceed through the different test rooms, they can find the unique blueprints in bronze, silver, and gold loot robots.
Players may use blueprints to improve weapons in specified ways at vending machines. Several weapons and abilities in Atomic Heart cannot be utilized without these blueprints. Testing Ground 1, located northeast of the railway station, is one of the initial testing grounds that players can access. Use this guide to enter and finish the challenges in Testing Ground 1.
Activate Testing Ground 1
As players get at the entryway, they will discover that the front door is locked.
A spiral staircase may be seen just west of the entryway. Ascend the stairwell and turn on the terminal. This enables gamers to hack the area’s cameras. Locate the relevant camera and press RB/R1 to open the door. Gamers may now access Testing Ground 1 and utilize the elevator to descend. Gamers will enter a magnet puzzle chamber, which appears in various testing fields and laboratories throughout the main tale.
1 Puzzle Room
This space is easy to traverse. Cross the red row of magnets to get to the middle of the room. Use the Shok glove ability on the magnets above by looking up through the shattered ceiling. This will lower the front wall and reveal the escape door. Another wall will gradually obstruct the escape. Step forward and gaze up to notice a fresh collection of magnets on the ceiling. To open the exit, use Shok on them.
2 Puzzle Room
At first sight, this magnet chamber appears intimidating. Avoid the big magnet columns and go to the blue raised magnet strip just beneath the entryway. Go along it until you reach the non-magnetic platform. The overhang may be seen to the right. Descend to the ground’s blue magnetic strip. While standing on the ceiling magnets, use Shok to lift the blue strip. Take the overhang to the exit steps after exiting the strip. To increase jump range, double-tap the B/Circle button when leaping.
Bronze Chest
Continue through the tunnels until you reach a vent.
Navigate the vents to a hallway with three entrances. The door on the left leads to a secure room. The Bronze Chest is kept behind the farthest door along the hall.
Take it to get the Fox-Handle Blueprint.
Thermal Room
Save and go through the final door to reach the thermal chamber. A few basic white jumpsuit guards and little robot foes are present. Smash them and go to the end of the chamber, where you will discover a passageway blocked off by a vehicle. Enter the adjacent corridor to discover a hole in the wall.
The door to the left leads to another save room, and the workplace is full with lootable desks.
Silver Chest
Save your work and proceed to the magnetic doorway. To open it, use the glove and follow the tinkling piano music down the corridor to the next chest.
Take the MP Expansive Converter Blueprint from the Silver Chest.
Return to the magnet door and replace it from the opposite side. This will lead to the discovery of a new path.
3 Puzzle Room
This is Testing Ground 1’s most difficult room.
To the right of the entryway, jump to the red magnetic platform.
Go to the red magnetic strip that divides the room. The exit door is locked, and utilizing the scanner will reveal the wire that leads down to the red platform near the ground.
Climb up the bottom red platform from the floor. Turn on the laser puzzle on the wall and solve it.
- Slide the laser from the left-bottom section to the center row.
- Drag the junction piece away from the center row and downward so the laser can reach the end.
Step away from the platform and onto the blue magnet platform on the opposite side of the laser wall. To lift the platform and jump to the escape, use Shok on the ceiling magnets.
Gold Chest
Go through the remaining corridors until the finish of Testing Ground 1. On the right is a save room, while on the left is the Gold Chest.
Take the KS-23 Extended Magazine Blueprint and the Zvezdochka Reverse Shot Blueprint from the chest. After finishing Testing Ground 1, take the elevator back to the surface.
Atomic Heart is out now for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
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