Frostbite Scenario
This scenario is a DLC that can be purchased. It includes an investigative storyline with spoken voice-overs (in English) by fellow community members.
Content
In this challenging scenario, you are a member of a salvage crew which has been tasked by a mysterious client to acquire four extremely valuable data containers on the snowy planet Triton.
Play solo or with up to four players in online mode! Explore this moon's frigid landscape and remarkable architecture, fight off drones, and overcome numerous engineering challenges as you uncover this world's secrets.
Should I play it?
There is no handholding for beginners, but the mission steps and objective locations are clearly marked. This scenario expects players to be able to repair and improve grids, grind or drill through obstacles, quickly defend themselves with rifles and turrets, and drive rovers under difficult conditions. It is recommended for groups of intermediate or advanced players, since it will be quite hard to complete solo.
Task summary
You are tasked by your client to retrieve four data containers from the Results Oriented Sciences (R.O.S.) base on Triton, the content of which exceeds your pay-grade. Contact has been lost with the facilities and it is your task to investigate and retrieve the containers. You are also tasked with retrieving seven ID cards of (presumably dead) employees and learn their fates.
Read all Data Pads and make sure to save all GPS markers that you discover in them. Loot the lockers and large and small containers all around the map for spare parts and info. It is useful to grind down every container after you loot it in order to know which one you have already looted.
Unlike in the Lost Colony Scenario, the inventory of the dead engineers can be accessed and additional data pads and tools can be found there as well. You will loose track of places really fast, so mark you way in order to know where you've been already, for example, leave every door open after you search a room.
Gather all ammo, and hack and repair turrets and missile turrets at each site on your way (and even build your own), and find ways to call in helpful drones, as frequent drone strikes will soon pose a constant threat to you and the buildings around you. Your ammunition is limited, and rifles are your only way of disabling turrets and interior turrets guarding certain areas.
There are steep hills and valleys on Triton, but jetpacks are disabled. The weather on Triton consists of frequent storms, severely reducing view distance. Do not leave your vehicle out of view, as you will easily lose sense of direction and location of it.
Walkthrough (Spoilers)
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You arrive on the surface of Triton, where you find buildings abandoned and all personnel dead. You find a voice message mentioning frequent drone attacks and that the tunnel leading to the underground research facility has collapsed, trapping everyone inside.
After retrieving supplies from the nearby storages, you come to a fork in the road where you can choose to go down to the Old Mining base or up to the Weather Station.
Weather Station
Go up to explore the Weather Station ontop Mount Frostbite. Be prepared to deal with drones and the thin atmosphere. Beyond the brittle bridge, note the module that looks like a large merge block with a timer block.
The Old Mining Base
Back down at the fork, investigate further and head towards the old mining base, past a vehicle garage with a caved-in tunnel in the back. Survive a variety of drone attacks and severe weather conditions on the way.
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| There is a disabled drone on the way to the Old Mining Base which you can repair and it dives at an antenna base nearby which disables one set of spawning drones. At the Old Mining Base, there are also helpful drones that you can keep repaired to assist you. |
A friendly Mule drone at the Mining Base can be sent to ferry players quickly between the Landing Site and the Old Mining Base, which is helpful if a player has to respawn at the Landing Site.
Repair the mining rover and drive it to the abandoned mine entrance where you grind down the entrance barricade.
Blocked Tunnel
Use the miner to dig your way through from the Blocked Tunnel marker to the Research Facility. Watch out for interior turrets, defense drones, and gas leaks while you approach the Triton Research Facility Gate.
Triton Research Facility
Search the Triton Research Facility for clues (several voice messages and displays) regarding the whereabouts of the missing containers. Inside the Facility, gather medical components and parts to repair the medical room as safe respawn point. As usual, watch out for interior defenses.
You find the research facility under lockdown, with one data container in the Manufacturing Line and three moved to the Research Archives. There is a sneaky staircase behind the control station overlooking the manufacturing line on the top floor to access it and open the door. The containers look like large Timer blocks with a Battery. Use a crane that can be steered from Manufacturing Line Controls panel. After retrieving the container from the manufacturing line, you use another button panel to lift the cargo bay lockdown and open the gate, where you can use a forklift to transport the first data container to the elevator.
Cavern
Take the elevator deeper into the caverns past a reactor. You find the cavern entrance under lockdown, and you can either lift the lockdown by initiating a reactor meltdown, or by retrieving and attaching the lockdown module (found at the Weather Station on Mount Frostbite) to the proper merge block.
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| Note: Once you infiltrate the drone production facility, you can disable and re-enable the reactor cooling, this way all drones programming will be overwritten. If you do so, the final wave of drones that attack once all four containers have been delivered to the landing zone will be smaller. |
On the way to the Archives, there are tunnels to explore.
The Archives
After reaching the Archives, you locate the containers in the secure storage and disable the safe zone to retrieve them. You use a forklift to stack them on a semi-trailer and proceed to the surface access lift, eventually leaving through the other entrance to the caverns. You can drive the first data container here as well. Activate another Survival Kit at the exit.
Tying Up Loose Ends
Note: Drones will constantly harass you while bringing the containers back to the Landing Site, so if you want to explore the remaining facilities (for example, you can also explore an Observatory, a tower, and another station on a hill), it is recommended to leave the truck with the containers protected in the caverns until the very end.
Finale
After exploring all facilities, you learn that the ROS intended to weaponize the drones that the employees developed, which caused a riot and the lockdown among the employees, who decided to hide the data containers and to trap themselves underground. At the drone production facility, the chief engineer decided to program every drone to attack all lifeforms, in hope of ending the survivors suffering and making sure no one will ever retrieve the dangerous data containers.
In the end, R.O.S. attack vessels attack the landing site to prevent you from leaving with this knowledge. Shoot them down to win the scenario. Wait a bit until it registers and you receive the Steam Achievement.
ID Card Locations (Spoilers)
Note: all ID cards are in locations that require either a ladder or building stairs to access.
- ID card 1 (-1294.47:21333.4:-31781.3) - Requires a grinder and stairs or ladder.
- ID card 2 (-3305.16:20187.47:-30726.8) - Requires ladder
- ID card 3 (-3336.77:20111.6:-30756.09) - There are some yellow rails placed sideways near the crane to parkour.
- ID card 4 (-3471.73:19644.73:-30711.65) - Does not require stairs or ladder
- ID card 5 (-2946.09:18624.29:-31694.51) - Requires a grinder and stairs or ladder.
- ID card 6 (-2611.91:17360.89:-32305.53) - Does not require stairs or ladder
- ID card 7 (-3180.67:20362.71:-30694.57) - Does not require stairs or ladder, but drill will make life easier.
Easter Egg (Spoiler)
In the research archives, you can find a small conference room where the LED panels show references to the three in-game scenarios that are connected to the Results Oriented Sciences (R.O.S.):
- R.O.S. Division appears in the The First Jump Scenario
- R.O.S. Sunset Valley Task Force alludes to the Lost Colony Scenario
- R.O.S. Triton Task Force refers to the setting of the Frostbite Scenario
[ Archaeological Research Project ] [ R.O.S. Division 4 ] R.O.S. Division 4 scientists managed to locate one of the [ Data Retracted ] on a moon orbiting [ Data Retracted ]. Status: Contact to Division 4 HQ has been lost following a worker rebellion. |
[ Biological Research Project ] [ R.O.S. Sunset Valley Task Force ] During archaeological excavations, R.O.S. scientists discovered [ Data Retracted ] from an underground cave system, which is completely isolated from the outside ecosystem. Status: Contact to Sunset Valley Task-Force has been lost after forces presumed to be part of the worker rebellion assaulted the facilities. |
[ Drone R&D Project ] [ R.O.S. Triton Task Force ] After acquiring the facilities and rights to local mining operations from the Triton Mining Consortium, R.O.S. engineers have been retrofitting the the mining tunnels and existing ground structures to serve as research facilities, which are intended for research and development of state-of-the-art autonomous combat drones. Status: Due to the widespread and escalating situation, all level 4 personnel are ordered to evacuate immediately to [ Data retracted ] and await further orders. |
Tips and recommendations (Spoilers)
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The planet Triton has low levels of oxygen, so pay attention to where you are able to breathe, and open and close your helmet accordingly to save suit oxygen. In certain areas of the map, buildings are located above the breathable atmosphere level, so an oxygen bottle will be needed to investigate said areas.
Always have a survival kit and a gatling turret on the vehicle you are using, and optimally a backup survival kit or medical room somewhere protected at major locations.
Since jetpacks are disabled, use drones to ferry your team members around. Repair the provided drones and rovers (or build your own) and expand their cargo, transport, and defense capabilities in your favour.
