Atomic Heart: How to Power Up the Elevator
The alternative timeline of Atomic Heart of Soviet Union is a fascinating and original background, but the game’s role-playing and first-person shooter elements are rather standard fare. For instance, there are several environmental challenges for players to complete. For the first significant one, you have to turn on the elevator’s power switch. In Atomic Heart, if you’ve made it to this page, you’re probably trying to figure out how to activate the elevator. Read this for all details. Now, let’s get moving!
Atomic Heart: How to Power Up the Elevator
After beating the VOV-A6/CH LAB TECH robot monster with laser eyes and discovering Nora, your first upgrading machine, you will come upon an elevator that has to be charged up before you can use it. In brief, you must locate the Circuit Breaker and turn it on before continuing.
Thankfully, you can use your Scanner to determine the orientation of the power wires by double-tapping the R1/RB button. The Scanner will reveal the circuit breaker to be a group of six huge round objects connected by cables that lead downwards.
A key-locked Supply Room may be reached by going downstairs and following the cables to the Circuit Breaker. Thankfully, CHAR-les, the AI aboard, will direct you to a waypoint on the ship to collect it.
Be aware that a Dandelion CCTV camera is between you and the key; these may be a major headache because they alert even more aggressive robots to your presence.
Disabling them with Shok (by pressing Triangle/Y), smashing them with your melee weapon very rapidly, or firing against the camera to destroy it from a safe distance are the best ways to deal with the CCTV cameras. You may use your Scanner to pinpoint the precise location of the camera if you’re having trouble finding it.
Return to the Circuit Breaker once you’ve retrieved the key from the Administration’s service room. Now, there’s a quick problem involving the Power Activation Relay that has to be solved. Luckily, it’s not too complicated, though these puzzles do become more difficult later on.
All you need to do is make sure the power (the blue light ray) connects up to the right color on the relay on the far left. The circular circuits may be rotated by 180 degrees to get this effect.
The left-hand relay consists of three inconspicuous dots. Two of them are red, and one is blue. Thus, you need to turn the circular circuits such that the blue light beam is directed downward, striking the lowest blue dot on the relay on the left. After this, the elevator’s power will be restored and the riddle will be completed, allowing you to take the elevator to the upper floors.