This mission leans heavily into psychological horror elements. You'll need to solve light puzzles, navigate shifting environments, and deal with enemies that test your perception of reality.
General Tips & Tricks
Trust nothing you see and keep your wits about you in this mind-bending sequence.
- Conserve Ammo: Ammo is extremely scarce in the first half of this mission. Make every shot count, and use melee attacks on isolated targets. Do not waste bullets shooting at the hallucinatory figures that vanish when you aim at them.
- Follow the Clues: When the environment shifts and corridors loop, look for subtle environmental cues. A flickering red light, a trail of blood, or a displaced object usually indicates the correct path forward.
- Stay Mobile: Some 'enemies' encountered in the deeper hallucination states cannot be defeated conventionally. If your bullets seem to do nothing, your only option is to run and evade until the sequence ends.
Coin Location
There is one hidden coin in this mission that will grant you extra currency for your Safe House upgrades.
- Coin: In the first hallucination sequence, right after you pass through the door that melts away. Instead of walking forward toward the ringing phone, turn around immediately. The coin is resting on a medical tray that has inexplicably appeared behind you.
Detailed Walkthrough: Phase 1 - The Labyrinth
Navigate the initial maze-like corridors. Don't trust your mini-map here, as it will scramble.
- Follow the Clues: Follow the sound of the ticking clock to find the hidden access shaft leading to the lower levels.
- Mission Progress Prerequisite: You must interact with the ringing phone three times across the shifting loops to open the real door to the basement.
Detailed Walkthrough: Phase 2 - Restoring Power
You'll enter a flooded basement. Solve the power puzzle to proceed.
- Breaker Switches: Find the three breaker switches scattered around the dark, flooded rooms. Beware of the fast-moving 'shadow' enemies while searching.
- Rare Drop: One of the physical enemies near the main generator drops a High-Capacity Shotgun Magazine.
- Hidden Safe (MISSABLE): In the flooded basement, check the dry maintenance catwalk above the second breaker switch. A hidden safe here holds $1,000 cash. Do not restart the main generator before looting it, as the water will electrify!
- Main Generator: Once all three breakers are flipped, restart the main generator to restore power to the elevator.
Detailed Walkthrough: Phase 3 - The Elevator Holdout & Escape
With the power back, head to the main lobby and survive the assault.
- Lobby Defense: You must survive a massive assault of both real and hallucinatory enemies while waiting for the elevator. Use the lobby pillars for cover and deploy any mines you found.
- Unlockable: Surviving the holdout using only melee and equipment unlocks the "Mind over Matter" Calling Card.
- The Escape: Step into the elevator once it opens. Escape the facility and rendezvous with your team outside before the building locks down.