Research Facility

Coretech Research Facility
Dungeon information
Music	Lab Results
Located in	Core City
Areas	Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 3 exit
Connections	Drop Zone Core City Sewers
NPCs	Scientist (Coretech Research Facility), Tchortist Missionary
Technical Map file(s) cc_rf1 cc_rf2 cc_rf3

Research Facility is a dungeon in Core City.

Description

A secret Coretech research facility under Core City, accessible from lower level Drop Zone during the final mission of any of the three oligarch's questlines. Also accessible from Core City Sewers afterwards.

Its first level contains some mutagen experiment victims and a couple of crawlers in the open corridors. Second level guarded by Coretech plasma sentries, and secret research is being performed on the third level by Coretech scientists.

Level 1

• The entrance is in the SE corner and leads to Drop Zone, area Lower Drop Zone, Hub
• The main corridor (east and north) has 2 hidden Crawlers and 2 hidden Death Stalkers
• The NW stairs, leading to area Level 2 is surrounded by toxic clouds
• The SW stairs also lead to area Level 2. No clouds, but you'll have to fight through the mutants and dogs
• The door immediately in front of the entrance requires 90 Lockpicking
• The southwest area has 5 Mutated Dogs and a Hunchback Mutant
• The windows room room:
  • The west door requires 60 Lockpicking
  • The south door requires 100 Lockpicking
  • The north door requires 100 Lockpicking
  • The lower box near the door has a Biocorp Technology Catalog Fragment oddity, 1 XP
  • The top box has a Cybernetic Module oddity, 3 XP
  • The different desks and boxes have several crafting components

Level 2

• The entrances from Level 1 are in the SW and NW corners. Only the SW one is safe though, as the NW one will

lead to to a gas cloud

• The southeast corner has stairs leading down to Level 3
• The central part is guarded/patrolled by 4 Plasma Sentries
• The computer in the central room:
  • Some random numbers can be entered, but without effect
• The northeast room:
  • The Power Box can be used to shut down the computer in the central room
  • The east box requires 60 Hacking
• The west room with a computer desk:
  • There's an Acid Blob Trap Mk II before the door leading to the room. It can be recovered with 91 Traps (possibly less)
  • It can be accessed from the nearby ventilation shaft to avoid the trap
  • The desk contains a Coretech Research Facility Key

Level 3

• The entrance from Level 2 is in the southeast corner
• The lab room:
  • The desks have several level ~100 electronic crafting components
  • The south desk also contains a Lab Rat oddity, 3 XP
  • The computer console provides some lore about the strange artefact you're looking for
• The exit from the lab room leads to area Level 3 exit

Level 3 exit

• This exit is first entered from the lab room in area Level 3
• It is trapped with an EMP Mine and an Acid Blob Trap Mk II, which can be recovered with 91 Traps skill (possibly less)
• 3 Tchortist missionaries are waiting here to fight you
• The west exit leads to Core City Sewers, area Sewers entrance (the door is locked from the other side until come out from the research facilty for the first time)

Enemies

• Crawlers
• Mutated Dogs
• Mutants
• Plasma Sentries (friendly during Coretech questline)
• Tchortist Missionaries

Quests

All three of Core City's major factions end up having business here after learning about the strange object Cornell had.

• Research facility (Coretech)
• Research facility (JKK)
• Research facility (Praetorian Security)

Map Gallery

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  Level 1

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  Level 2

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  Level 2 ventilation shafts

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  Level 3

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  Level 3 exit