Core Sample [VCD 1.13]

Overview

It is time to dive into this map, a true hommage to Half-Life universe, as many references to Half-Life, Half-Life Blue Shift, Half-Life Decay and Half-Life 2 can be found. Have fun smashing these crystals!

Introduction

Ah, this map made my ovaries explode (figure speech, I still have my ovaries). Half-Life everywhere.

Also, I wanna promote this guide made by Jepp about achievements – it helped me a lot!
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This guide can help you too
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HISTORY

• February 2019: Following 1.13, updated tips, map and screen for stacking areas

Any specific achievement?

This map is needed (or can be used because of a specificity) for the following achievements:

• Crystal Clear – Complete Core Sample Level
• First Aid – Restock a total of 50 medkits over your cleaning career by punching out of levels with medkits

The Map

Experimental Power Generation Facility
Large

• WAL = What A Load (Disposal Bins Dispenser)
• Slosh = Slosh-o-Matic (Buckets Dispenser)
• SA = Stacking Area
• LW = Arc/Laser Welder
• PID = USB key to use on the punch
• Punch = Punch the panel if you want to finish a level and see your performance
• Vendor = Device that gives lights, flares, medikits, pizza slicers, cautious signs, seeds, etc.
• Medikit = Emergency medical supplies needed
• DL = Datalog
• BB = Big Banger aka… ZE BESTIE RADIO

First Floor

Second Floor

Third Floor

Crates (x2)

WAL

Slosh

Vendor

Arc/Laser Welders

J-Harm

Brooms

Medikits – to “buy” at the vendor

Lightning scars – with the Laser Welder

Helping items already on the map

• At the WAL

• At the Slosh

• On the 02 mini teleporter

Pieces of Story

Transcripts here
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DATALOGS

PAGES

PIDS

Tips

• To clear blue stains, use your broom. It will transform into a crystal shard.
• Smashing crystals can result in these blue stains or not. It’s quite random.
• To smash crystals, you can use crates, containers or even your mop/broom by right clicking.
• For the reactor room, you throw items from the third floor on the crystals that are high on the wall. Or you can use a huge container on your J-Harm to reach them.
  
• Anyway, the J-Harm can be used for crystals that can be easily reached with it.
• There is a crystal that is hard to smash with anything else than your broom/mop in the reactor room.
  
• Since V1.13, one of the stacking areas is bigger: it should be enough now to contain every crate.
• Since V1.13, crystals can no longer be shattered inside containers like bins, buckets, trunks, etc..
• Mini teleporters can be used to bring quantum bins (sold at the vendor) near the incinerator. It is more helpful in co-op than solo. You can find a mini teleporter with a quantum bin on the left side of the incinerator room.
  
• The HVC Mk9 Lightning Gun must be burned or in your trunk. The sniffer is reacting to it.

Maps [A-H]

Athena’s Wrath
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Caduceus
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Cryogenesis
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Evil Science
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Frostbite
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Gravity Drive
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Hydroponic Hell
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Maps [I-P]

Incubation Emergency
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Overgrowth
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Paintenance Tunnels
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Penumbra
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Pestilent Penitentiary
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Maps [Q-Z]

Revolutionary Robotics
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Rust-Station East
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Section 8
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Splatter Station
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Unearthly Excavation
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Unrefinery
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Uprinsing
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Waste Disposal
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Zero-G Therapy
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Special Maps

The Office
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The House of Horror (Halloween DLC 2015)
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Santa’s Rampage
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Zilla Pagoda (Shadow Warrior)
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The Vulcan Affair (DLC 2018)
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Copyright

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Vinciane Amorini – December 2018
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