In NieR: Automata.

"Pascal asked you to collect information pertaining to the old world. Bring back any interesting tidbits that you find."

"The information pertained to nuclear weapons from the Old World. It could be dangerous in the wrong hands, so it might be best to hand it over to the Commander. Make a choice and deliver the intel to either Pascal or the Commander"

"You attempted to deliver the nuclear weapon intel to Pascal, but he refused to accept such dangerous information"

"You delivered the nuclear weapon intel to Commander, who promised to store it in safe location. As token of appreciation, maintenance materials have been placed in 9S" s room."

Data on the Old World Objectives

1. Find Archives about the Old World
2. Deliver the information on the old world to Pascal
3. Decide if you should give Nuclear Fission information to Pascal or the Commander

Data on the Old World Rewards

• 8,000G

Nuclear Fission information given to Pascal:

• 3,000G
• 1,300 EXP

Giving the information to Command:

• 5000g
• Stun+6 chips

Data on the Old World Walkthrough

• This quest is available on your second playthrough, when you are 9S and can access Locked Chests .
• Find all the Archives related to Old World Information. These are locked and hidden inside chests around the world.
• The only old world information you need to find to complete the quest is the Nuclears Arms Manual. The locked chest containing this is located near the City Ruins: Near the Tower access point, inside a nearby destroyed building with large tree roots wrapped around it. After transporting to the access point, head towards the city ruins and the building will be ahead of you. The chest is located within the lowest accessible floor of three floors.
• Once you obtain information on nuclear weapons, a choice is available: give the information to Pascal or to the Commander. Giving it to Pascal has no negative effects, as he refuses the information and rewards you anyway.
• This ends the quest

notes

• Using chapter select if you haven"t turned in Data on the Old World you have to get the book again from the chest even if you already have the archive/item it's associated with (if you load a savefile that had gotten it you can turn it in).
• You can simply locate and turn in the Nuclear Weapons Information without obtaining all Old World information. Pascal will give you G for each piece of information, but only the Nuclear Weapon Manual is necessary to complete the quest.

The Halfwit Inventor is one of the optional side missions you can tackle in NieR: Automata. The mission will only become available once you've cleared the Amusement Park and gain access to Pascal's Village. Upon meeting the scientist machine, he will tell you that he needs some investors to give him money so that he can conduct proper research. To proceed to the next step of the Halfwit Inventor quest, you'll have to give him 80,000 G.

After doing so, he'll make a final request, and you'll have to give him a one-time payment of 100,000 G to proceed in the Halfwit Inventor quest. This will allow him to launch a satellite. However, the scientist machine soon reveals that the project was a failure, and his beacon landed on Mars instead. He can't give you back your money, but he will become a new vendor that you can buy materials from. He sells the Alien Mask, which is an accessory you can equip. He also sells upgrade materials like Meteorite and Meteorite Shards, which you'll need if you want to fully upgrade all of your weapons.

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NieR: Automata is designed in such a way that in one playthrough you will not be able to fully consider the plot of the game and try out all its functions. For example, a quest called "Heritage of the Past" (Heritage of the Past) becomes available only during the second playthrough.

The main objective of the quest is to find 4 different relics in the Desert Zone and return them to an explorer who is trying to find out new information about the distant past of mankind.

Frustrated players often wander throughout the desert in search of these artifacts and find nothing as a result. Few of them know that the relics are located mainly in the middle of the desert. In this guide, we will show you the exact location of these items so that you do not have to wander aimlessly through the desert for several hours.

Where to find four relics in NieR: Automata?

To start the Legacy of the Past quest, travel to the Desert Zone and make your way to the western edge of the map, starting from the location's entry point. There you will find an explorer standing next to the ruins. Talk to him and agree to return the relics that are scattered throughout the desert to him.

For each of the first three relics you return to the explorer, you will receive the following reward:

• 5 thousand G (game currency);
• 100 experience points;
• 1 item (technical manual, amber, torn book).

Go to the 9S skill screen and change it below by equipping the android with a scanner that will let you know if a relic is nearby. The closer you get to the artifact of the old world, the faster the scanner will beep. When you get close to the relic, the scanning device will release a holographic cone and show you the exact location of the detected object.

Leave the explorer and follow the beep of the scanner to the first relic: the Old Wand, which can be found in a small area of ​​stone ruins surrounded by armless scout bots. The ruins are located near the access point to the Desert Center.

To find the next relic, head west from the Desert Center to the Desert Housing area and make sure the scanner is equipped on the androids. Near several large rocks, you will find a Mud Mask lying on the ground.

To find the third artifact, head a little away from the Desert Center - the desired object is located east of the explorer. The protected slab is hidden deep in the sand and there are no special sights or large rock formations near it, so just follow the scanner beep in the area indicated in the screenshot below.

The fourth and final relic - the Statue of the Girl - can be found in the sand near several stone ruins. After finding this artifact, a group of flying and ground robots will appear, which will immediately attack you. When the battle is over, the scanner will explain to you that these bots were based on Western Human Movies.

Having trouble finding the last relic? Make sure you give the previous three artifacts to the researcher. The fact is that the fourth item may not appear on the map while you have previous history objects in your inventory.

Now take the Statue of the Girl to the explorer to complete the quest and receive the final reward:

• Thick dictionary in the amount of 3 pieces.
• 10 thousand g.
• 750 experience points.
• Weapon: Spear of the Usurper.

Congratulations, you have passed another side quest NieR: Automata, in which 2B and 9S managed to learn a lot about ancient human culture.

In 2010, no one could have imagined that a certain Nier from Square Enix, a game that was developed for mere pennies and for a small audience, would receive a full-fledged sequel, but with a much larger budget, under the leadership of Platinum Games and focused on the mass audience.

And he couldn’t because the original Nier was distinguished by terrible gameplay and mediocre graphics. If the same was true of the story, then the game would never get a second chance.

But as you can see, the story and setting of the project ended up on the opposite shore, which was brought to life solely thanks to the insane scriptwriter and designer Yoko Taro.

Well, now Nier: Automata has appeared on store shelves - a direct continuation of an unconventional game with poor gameplay. The developers realized their mistakes and skillfully took advantage of an additional attempt - the sequel embodies the excellent work on the bugs and skillfully deals with the problems of its predecessor.

With lava to mankind

Nier Automata takes place several tens of thousands of years after completion original story. And that one, if you didn’t know, ended in a war lost by mankind, because of which people had to leave the Earth and move to the moon.

Nevertheless, the former earthlings refused to put up with their situation so easily. Combat androids were created, who were assigned a very clear task - to destroy enemy robots and return the planet to the human race.

But you have to play Nier Automata as these doll-like androids, where the first is a female robot named 2B, and the second is her partner with an incredibly optimistic attitude named 9S.

Such a team is entrusted with a task of the greatest importance, on the success or failure of which the fate of a person depends.

From the beginning of the passage, you will receive inspiring audio programs in which people will explain to you the importance of the task and generally repeat that without you they will not succeed.

True, it looks a little strange that these mythical creators, capable of designing perfect mechanisms, endowed robots with mortal flesh and the ability to feel. Not very suitable ingredients for the battle with the world's evil, right?

As a pair of androids, you have to die very, very often. However, this is the main mechanic of the game, since after each death, the robots will be transferred to a new body. AT this case, given the roguelike system and atmosphere , the decision on the death of heroes no longer looks so strange.

And graceful movements

Roguelike elements are not the only feature of Nier Automata that ties it to other popular games in the genre. Platinum Games would have made a big mistake if they had not used their own developments from other projects.

The dynamics of battles, for example, migrated straight from metal gear Rising: Revengeance. True, the developers decided to move away from the combo system, since in Nier the strikes differ from the weapon sets themselves.

Platinum did not turn to the deeply developed gameplay of Dark Souls either, limiting itself to a simple battle system consisting of two aspects - damage dealt and quick dodges.

Therefore, in battles with bosses, you will not need much tension, changing weapons and reading tactics. There is not even a proper leveling of the character as such - everything goes through without difficulty anyway.

To defeat the enemy, you just have to get used to the controls, understand how dexterous the hero can be, and learn the key features in the habits of AI.

Some bosses are much more difficult than others, and only they will force you to actively use android skills. In the rest - a solid bias towards the grind with endless and easy cutting out of all living things within a radius of a kilometer.

Mechanical Society Automata

But Nier Automata is not made by gameplay alone. As we mentioned at the beginning of the article, first of all, this project hooked the players with the setting and plot. So, the second part boasts no less developed environment.

Yoko Taro managed to present the story no worse than the masters from From Software - like in the DS series, Nier Automata tells the story non-verbally, in the form of context and through the world around. And the latter, in turn, stands out with authentic post-apocalyptic scenery, in the middle of which alien robots live. Those have long gone crazy and formed a kind of cult of "aircraft worshipers".

Taking advantage of human benefits, machines began to imitate humanity and created their own society. Moreover, robots have learned to feel (or at least believed they were capable of empathy).

Add to the drama that has unfolded the gloomy scenery of the destroyed cities, the solid ruins of concrete and metal, as the war that once played out becomes tangible - you begin to believe this both repulsive and fascinating story.

The final, by the way, has several endings, which will require certain actions to achieve. Naturally, no one will lead you by the hand and tell you how to achieve this or that scene. The same goes for the final chords themselves, each of which gives more questions than answers.

Continuing to develop the theme of the setting, one cannot fail to mention how the developers used it in design decisions. Periodically Nier: Automata will change the perspective, alternating the standard three-dimensional view with a 2D camera exactly from platformers.

Now you are fighting opponents with a 3rd person camera, as is customary in a classic slasher, and a few minutes later, when you find yourself on a structure that resembles roller coaster, the camera turns to the side and invites you to run and jump.

With good luck

After weighing all the pros and cons, we can say without a doubt that Nier Automata is a flawed game that has enough flaws. Apart from the boring gameplay, there are other unnerving things in Nier.

Firstly, the developers were smart with the levels of difficulty, between which there is an imbalance. The easy level, for example, will allow you to complete the game the first time and with virtually no deaths, while the average difficulty imposes completely different requirements.

There is a sharp jump, and the enemies that you killed at the usual level with the first blow, begin to crack down on you in two or three pokes.

However, as with most other games, increasing the difficulty in Nier does not affect the behavior of the AI. He just gets stronger, his stats go up.

Secondly, Nier Automata has minor errors and bugs here and there that can be forgiven for an indie-level game, but not for Platinum Games.

It happens that the quest pointer simply does not turn on on the next task, also there are no less frequent falls into textures and other errors, for example, of a design nature, due to which players suffer.

Autosave features were not even added to the game, and progress is recorded exclusively through special terminals. Died before the next terminal? Get ready to be resurrected at the very beginning of the map. In general, Nier: Automata has a lot of bugs.