Abiotic Factor - Things I Wish I Knew Before Playing

Playing for 8 hours now and wanted to just share a few things I found that have helped me out, a sort of list of things I wish I knew.

Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Game

You can scoot around in an Office Chair, so if you deploy one at your crafting station and sit, you can scoot to all sorts of different containers and back to table as you work.

Using the RMB with the Hammer, you can dismantle all sorts of random furniture for quick pieces of scrap loot (Better to try to dismantle and fail, yielding more scrap pieces. Some things like office desks only hammer can deal with (Non Smashable).

Water is everywhere in water coolers scattered around. Use up the sinks first and start remembering where they are located and take some sips now and then. I plan on bringing 1 or 2 empty ones back home to fill up from water collected in the wild for storage.

Anvil Tip! There’s a fan you can find in the initial vent section, when you’re asked to save a coworker. When the power goes out, it stops spinning, and gives you access to a small set of rooms with an anvil inside.

How to destroy the security bots? Grab tall lamp, make into spear, poke from distance. Or make crossbow, make 25ish darts, aim for the glowy eye.

How to get on the third floor though? Head to the flooded office on the second floor, hop across and into the ceiling, take the vent above to the locked stairwell. Unlock the door there and place a piece of furniture to reach the third floor. From there talk to the scientist for the hacking device schematic and leave via the elevator to access it on the second level going forward. Destroy three security bots, build the components, construct the hacking device, enter silo 3.

You could do hotbar swapping in Abiotic Factor to shoot faster!

Do stuff like computer and table respawn?

If you leave a sector for a significant amount of time, you should hear an intercom saying there is a facility reset. This should respawn most, if not all, materials in the area. Portal worlds also refresh daily, and there is a text cue in the bottom right.

Portal Worlds can and will respawn things and reset everything. Not sure if they reset every day, but they will reset after a couple days or so. You will (hopefully) hear an announcement on the intercoms notifying you of this.

Otherwise, unless the game’s sandbox settings are set that way, large things like computers and furniture will not respawn.

How to recharge items, that uses energy (like spears, vacoom and etc.)?

There are recharge stations scattered around the facility. In the office sector (the area everyone starts in) there’s a recharge station right beside the security guard at the middle of the lobby. Equip the item you wish to recharge and interact with the charging station. It doesn’t take long to recharge them either so no need to worry about having those items out of commission for long times.

Neat Building Tip: You can use the platform cart as supports for the bridge and it will still be supported even after its removed, so if you put the platform cart on a coffee table you can make the supports float high enough to use as a doorway without needing to crouch, and its even stable enough to place things on.

Dont try it with the forklift!

Tips for fighting robots solo! The perk that adds +3 dmg to weapons works on broken weapons, so you can climb on top of their charging stations and just whack em, otherwise lure them into that particularly wet electricity hazard. You can also kick open doors on them for high damage.

Wild Tip! There’s an infinite source of fresh water in Flathill. Bring as many water dispensers as you can and fill them all up and bring them back.

Quick Tip! You can equip the hacker into an equipment slot, which you should do so you have one more hot-bar slot you can use to keep stuff after you die.

Building Tip: You can technically make a base ANYWHERE via daisy chaining electronics. Just use plugstrips, or more preferable batteries, to make a line of power to your desired build spot.