Reactor 3 In Sublevel
Page Tools.Walkthrough DELTA LABS - LEVEL 1 DELTA ENTRYWAY and DELTA SYSTEMS CONTROL You won't have to worry about enemies for a while in this level. For now, grab the PDA of Robert Price, and the ammo in the room, before stepping through the broken window at the end of the hall and into the DELTA CONTROL CORRIDOR.Follow the corridor to the DELTA SYSTEMS CONTROL room and activate the control panel at the end of the room. You'll need the data linker in order to complete the process, so double back down the hall you came from. The floor panels in the hall will shoot up, letting you crawl underneath and into the DELTA MAIN LOBBY.In here is the elevator that will take you out of the level (once you've got it powered). Take the DELTA LOBBY CORRIDOR (left) to the DELTA 1 ACCESS LOBBY. Inside the lobby you'll find the data linker you need. Take it back to the delta systems control room (crawling under the floor panels) and you'll be told that the reactor is offline.
The new goal is to set the reactor online, and it's now time to start shooting down some enemies.Head back down the hall and you'll see the first enemy. An imp crawls up from under the flooring. Shoot it down, and crawl back under the flooring to reach the delta main lobby. There's an imp and a pinky to deal with in the room now. Kill 'em, and head back down the corridor hall to the left to return to DELTA 1 ACCESS LOBBY.DELTA 1 ACCESS LOBBY, DELTA SERVICE AREAS and DELTA SERVICE WAREHOUSE In the back-left of the room is a commando zombie that charges towards you.
There are two doors in the room: the right doorway leads to some health (and an imp), and the left door leads tot eh DELTA 1 SERVICE HALLWAY, continuing the level.While running down the hall, an imp spawns in front of you before you reach the DELTA 1 SERVICE AREA 1. Open up the next set of doors at watch out for the two zombies on either side of you. Step into the room and move towards the doorway to the left. As you near it, a commando busts in from in front of you, and a pinky comes through the door. Slay the two and step into the next room. From the ceiling, an imp drops down in front of you. You can get access to a health station in the room, though you'll have to go through a zombie first.The room ahead is the DELTA SERVICE WAREHOUSE.
Drop down from the platform you're on and look to the right side of the room for a series of lost souls to fly towards you. As you explore the back of the room (to the left), a revenant spawns. Use the shelving as cover and shoot it down. You can get some extra cells and health from the shelving if you're crafty (you've got to move one of the yellow blocks to jump to the top shelf) before crawling through the red-lit crawl space on the far end of the room.STORAGE ROOM 21-D and DELTA REACTOR SUPPORT As you jump up into the STORAGE ROOM, a cacodemon floats in from the right.
Open up the storage cabinet in the room with access code 298 and then open up the next doorway to spawn an imp your left. After taking out the imp, walk into the DELTA SERVICE TUNNEL 2 and head down the hall. You'll fight a revenant and two cacodemons in the hall as you head down to the far end. Climb up the stairs to the upper platform and grab the health and and cells as an imp and commando zombie spawn. When both are dead, continue to the DELTA REACTOR SUPPORT room.Head down the dark hall and shoot down the imp that comes from the right. To the left is a ladder that'll let you grab some health.after shooting down a zombie.
Crawl back up the ladder and make your way around the corner. Take the lift down and be ready to shoot some stuff—as you reach the bottom level, two imps and a revenant. Clear the area and continue to the REACTOR SUPPORT HALLWAY.DELTA REACTOR ROOM and DELTA REACTOR CONTROL In the hall is some health and a zombie.
Continue through until you exit out to the DELTA REACTOR ROOM, a huge hall inhabited by a number of lost souls. Clear the skies and go down the walkway. Climb the ladder and watch out for the next volley of lost souls that comes flying towards you. Head left down the catwalk to gather some items, and then go down the other path to open up a door to an inner hall.
A revenant will come through the door to greet you before you step into the REACTOR CONTROL HALLWAY.Take the hall down to the DELTA REACTOR CONTROL room. Activate the reactor core to restore power to the elevator—now you've just gotta make your way back to the main lobby. Unforunately, due to the broken lift you'll have to go the long way around.
From the control room, enter the REACTOR SERVICE ACCESS.There's a zombie and a health station in the room. Climb up the ladder at the end and prepare for the imp and zombie up top. Climb up the second ladder and head down the walkway. Two imps spawn, surrounding you, before you can make your way to the next doorway and out to the upper level of the delta reactor room.Just out the door, three cacodemons float towards you from the right.
On the catwalk outside you'll find the PDA of Brian Mora, which ups your security clearance. Watch out for the lost souls, and start your way back to the control room (where you reactivated the power core). You'll have to shoot down two commando zombies along the way before reaching the room, and opening the door to the left with your new security clearance.
Shoot down the imp inside and continue through the hall to the DELTA SERVICE TUNNEL 1.DELTA SERVICE TUNNEL 1 Down the hall and around the corner is a cacodemon. Further down the hall you'll run into two more before reaching the stairs at the end. Go up the stairs and open up the next doorway, but watch out for the commando zombie that rushes in as you do.In the LIFT ACCESS AND STORGE room, call the lift and take it down. Two imps are waiting at the bottom. Clear 'em out and continue to the next area.DELTA AUTHORITY SYSTEMS, JUNCTION and ARCHIVES Upstairs and to the left you'll have to watch out for a commando zombie that comes rushing towards you.
Through the door up top, look for the zombie before getting in the elevator and taking it up to the DELTA AUTHORITY JUNCTION.There's a pinky just left of the top of the elevator. Quickly shoot the beast down and continue exploring the hall.
There are some rockets you can gather, though you'll have to deal with the imp first. There's a locked door in the room that you won't be able to do anything about.
Just continue through the unlocked door and into the DELTA AUTHORITY ARCHIVES.The hall of the archives leads to a room crowded by computer towers. As you step in, a number of zombies crawl out form the darkness around you. Clear 'em out and get ready for a much greater enemy: just a bit further down the hall you'll run into the first commando zombie armed with a chaingun. Open the next doorway and quickly back up, as a second chaingun toting commando rushes in, along with a regular commando.You can rush through the LOBBY and HALLWAY 1 without any concern until you reach the DELTA 1 ACCESS LOBBY.
You're now overlooking an area where you previously were. Shoot down the two cacodemons in the hall and continue back to the broken stairs at the end of the hall, which spit you back out into the lower portion of the access lobby.Get ready for a rough few moments.
Immediately, a revenant comes from down the hall, followed by a commando zombie armed with a chaingun. After clearing the hall, run down the corridor and take out the two chaingun commandos that are waiting in the main lobby. When they're toasted, you can finally take the elevator down to the next level.
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While not the only Descent-style revival of recent times, the six-axis floaty base exploration genre is still woefully underfed. arrives to help with that, taking a more rogue-lite, randomised approach to the notion. Am I spinning with glee, or nose-diving with disappointment? Here’s wot I think:As a pitch, Sublevel Zero is an instant winner: A procedurally generated Descent-alike, with perma-death. In practice, it certainly delivers that, but in its realisation it ends up feeling a little wanting. Fun, mind – I’m enjoying the process of seeing how much farther I can get in a subsequent attempt, pleased that I’m able to permanently unlock different ship types through successes, and absolutely delighted by the smoothness of movement.
But there are issues.The first is structural. The vague story is that your ship and an ancient facility have been dragged through a rip in space, and the only hope of return is gathering the parts of a special flux drive that are now trapped in the interior mazes of the facility. Each time you start the potential six sub-levels, a randomised 3D interior is created, filled with enemy types, and with a reactor to destroy on each sub-level. Destroy that, get the flux drive chunk, and for some reason a portal then appears which takes you to the next sub-level. Except the way the levels are put together is very odd, and often a chore.Built from chunks of corridor and room that interconnect on all six sides, the random construction always, always leads to long, elaborate dead-ends. The map fills in as you progress, so it’s only on finally reaching a last door with a big X across it that you realise you’d been wasting your time. Were there some sort of narrative/aesthetic rationale to it, it would make a lot more sense – rooms at the end of such detours that, say, contain a bonus pick-up, or at the very least, are designed to look like terminal rooms.
As it is, they’re just one of the regular jigsaw pieces with the doors blocked off. Very naff.However, to add more to proceedings, there are lots of pick-ups along the way. Your ship contains a limited number of inventory slots, four different spaces for arming weapons, and a slot for your engine and hull.
As you flit about, blown up enemies and sparkling chests contain more ammo (for the few different types), health, nanites (a sort of currency for upgrading), and new weapons, hulls and engines. Each is rated on a variety of scales (say, Rate, Damage and Accuracy for weapons) and you can switch them in and out to replace what you currently have, if better. This is good. Stamp of approval.
Then things get weird when it comes to crafting. You can use the same bits and bobs to craft bespoke new bits and bobs, so long as you also have enough nanites for the process. Except, on almost all occasions I’ve experienced, the resulting crafted item would have poorer ratings than the two items being used to craft it. I’ve yet to craft anything significantly useful at all, and mostly not bothered as bizarrely the whole thing seems to be primarily used to downgrade what you’ve already got.I love that crafting is in there, but I dearly wish it were far more meaningful.
I also rather desperately wish that the crafting screen would indicate which of the components you’re about to use are currently equipped, so I can stop accidentally pulverising a great weapon because I thought it would be interesting to try a flamethrower for a bit.Movement is, as I mentioned, wonderful. You glide so fluidly, zipping around the 3D passages, ceiling being floor being wall. There’s a small issue with the ship too easily rolling 90 degrees when you sweep around to look to your left or right, but Q and E rotate you back, and it otherwise has a good instinct for levelling you as you want to be. Enemies are also splendid, simply colour-coded so you can quickly learn their distinctive behaviour patterns, and fight them accordingly.
And for once, enemy drops disappearing makes sense here, as it often presents you with the dilemma of whether you should let the nanites and potential health blink out of existence, or rush into a chamber to gather them before you’ve cleared all the enemies, and risk big damage.Damage is crucial here, with your life being so impermanent. You can collect repair kits, which will gradually add 25 points of health back on, but they also take up valuable inventory space. And 25 out of 100+ is not a significant improvement. The best moments I’ve had with Sublevel have come when down to 3 or 4 points of life, struggling to keep going long enough to find something. It becomes frantic, careful, sensible play is abandoned when one stray blast or bullet will polish you off. It really does offer good times.Oh, and I haven’t said, it looks gorgeous. Enormous high-res pixels end up looking anything but retro, the colour palette thematic to the sublevel, and the weapon-fire a wonderful mix of lighting effects and super-simple geometric shapes.
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They’ve absolutely nailed the pretties.So there Sublevel Zero lies, this peculiar mix of instantly entertaining and disappointingly hollow. Tidying up the crafting, and making it meaningful, would add a lot.
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And gosh, it desperately needs a rethink about those unexplained, unpredictable dead-ends. But heck, I want to keep on playing anyway.
I feel like so much more could be added to it, and I rather hope to see that happen. As it is, I’m suspicious it won’t hold people’s attention long enough for the £11 entry fee.Sublevel Zero is out on the 8th October.