Snowbreak: Containment Zone – Paradoxical Labyrinth Glossary

Guide to Paradoxical Labyrinth Glossary

The new roguelike is fun, though there is a lot of content that isn’t fully explained. This is not a tips guide, and is only meant to cover topics and terminology that are not immediately obvious.

Supplies

• Commander Card – Reroll buffs in Armament Exchange.
• EMP Generator – Reduce Threat Index by 10, minimum of current threshold.
• Portable Jammer – Remove existing Tactical Interference.
• Recon Receiver – Cancel out incoming Tactical Interference.
• Rebuild Chip – Revive an Operative.
• First Aid Kit – Restores squad HP (30%).

Stages

• Combat Encounter – Defeat enemies for a buff, with a low chance of a boss stage.
• Battle Supply – Obtain random rare buff, supplies, or labyrinth keys.
• Armament Exchange – Purchase buffs using Labyrinth Keys.
• Safe House – Purchase heals, revives, and remove Tactical Interference using Labyrinth Keys.

There is a small chance for an Armament Exchange to appear in a Safe House.

• Extreme Crisis – Boss stage (gives rare buff if not final boss).
• Random Event – Any stage.

Currency

• Labyrinth Key – Temporary, earned by defeating enemies and from Battle Supply.
• Intuition Point – Permanent, earned by completing runs (or resetting).
• Deduction EXP – Permanent, earned by completing runs (or resetting), and missions.

Buffs

• Logic Research – Permanent buffs obtained with Intuition Points.
• Incentive – Starter buff, obtaining additional buffs with same Buff Type increases effect.
• Buff Type – Six types in total, represented by the icon above the buff name.
• Pursue Buff – Obtained like a normal buff, can inflict a Damage-Over-Time Effect.
• Damage-over-Time (DoT) Effect – Targets receive extra damage and effects:
  • Electrified – Electrical DoT, targets give +1 S-Energy and U-Energy per shot.
  • Frostbite – Frost DoT, targets move 20% slower.
  • Smolder – Thermal DoT, targets take 20% more Ballistic DMG.
  • Pierced – Chaos DoT, targets take 20% more Skill DMG.
  • Windcut – Kinetic DoT, defeated targets gives shield equal to 25% of ATK.
• Tactical Interference – Operative debuff, rarely appears on Combat Encounter stages (with increased chances at higher difficulties).
• Strategic Disruption – Synonymous with Tactical Interference.
• Threat Index – Increases the enemy strength (additional enemy buffs, HP, ATK and DEF), thresholds are 0/20/40/70/100.

Threat Index increases less when completing Combat Encounter stages.

Deduction

• Deduction Level – Increases with Deduction EXP and rewards progression mats and rolls, located in Evaluation Rewards.

Initially 1000 EXP per level, maximum increases by 100 EXP every ten levels.

• Deduction – Run attempt, all 99 attempts reset daily.
• Deduction Difficulty – Four difficulties with increasing number of rewards.
  • Easy: 71 Deduction EXP, 16 Intuition Points, 6 floors, one Extreme Crisis, no Tactical Interference.
  • Normal: 156 Deduction EXP, 37 Intuition Points, 12 floors, one Extreme Crisis, non-existent Tactical Interference.
  • Hard: 350 Deduction EXP, 84 Intuition Points, 17 floors, multiple Extreme Crisis, rare Tactical Interference.
  • Danger: 500 Deduction EXP, 120 Intuition Points, 22 floors, multiple Extreme Crisis, uncommon Tactical Interference.

Miscellaneous

• Rebuild Assist – Revive an Operative.