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Your first major quest chain inAtomfallrevolves around getting into the Interchange, which is a government facility that’s the center of attention for multiple groups in the area, many of whom were unable to find its entrance before dying. As a result, you can findmultiple leads with the potential to take you to the Interchange, which gives you some level of control regarding how you decide to approach these initial quests.
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Since there’s a lot to explore, you might end up distracted by side tasks and end up in Wyndham Village instead first. However, you can get to the Interchange rather early in the game, but you might need to do some fighting while on your way.
Finding the Entrance to the Interchange
When you leave the initial bunker that you start the game inside, there’s a man named Nat in the ruins of a building. If you speak with him, he’llsend you to Molly, marking her location on your map. Molly then gives you the rumored location of the Interchange’s entrance. While this isn’t the only route, it’s the most convenient, since youcan also pick up a flashlight, metal detector, and key for a shelter from Mollyat the same time.
Otherwise, you can find leads that’ll take you to the Interchange’s entrance at the convoy crash site or inBunker L6. If you don’t feel like picking up a lead, you can just walk to the entrance and find it that way. Once you find the gated door and enter it, you have to head up thestairs to your left to find the controls for the quarantine door, which finally lets you inside the Interchange.
Powering the Interchange
You need a total offour atomic batteries to restore powerto the Central Processor, which means you need to power all four data centers and reconnect them to the Central Processor. Luckily, everything in the Interchange is labeled and there are maps on the walls to help guide you around. Data Centers C and D are the easiest to access, and allow you to access A and B. However, you need to pay a visit to Mother Jago and complete her quest before restoring power to Data Center A, otherwise you’ll die.
You can get an atomic battery from Molly, and she’ll tell you that she sold another one to a vicar in Wyndham Village. Head to the village and go to the cathedral. Talk to the vicar there and tell him you’ll keep quiet about the incident you walked in on if he gives you the battery, which he agrees to. Once you put those batteries in C and D, youget access to Medical and Robotics.
To get the other batteries, you can get them from:
Once you restore power to the Central Processor, you learn about Oberon and what happened, but that also ends your first main quest. From here, you’ll continue following leads until you reach an ending that allows you to leave behind the disaster that ruined lives inside and around the Interchange in Atomfall.
A survival-action game inspired by real-life events, Atomfall is set five years after the Windscale nuclear disaster in Northern England.Explore the fictional quarantine zone, scavenge, craft, barter, fight and talk your way through a British countryside setting filled with bizarre characters, mysticism, cults, and rogue government agencies.From Rebellion, the studio behind Sniper Elite and Zombie Army, Atomfall will challenge you to solve the dark mystery of what really happened.Player Driven Mystery: Unravel a tapestry of interwoven narratives through exploration, conversation, investigation, and combat, where every choice you make has consequences.Explore this Green and Unpleasant Land: The picturesque British countryside, with rolling green hills, lush valleys, and rural villages belie the dangers that await you.Search, Scavage, Survive: You’ll need to scavenge for supplies, craft weapons and items, and fight desperately to make it out alive!Desperate Combat: With weapons and ammunition scarce, each frenetic engagement will see you blend marksmanship with vicious hand-to-hand combat. Manage your heart rate to hold a steady aim and ensure you have the energy you need to reach for your cricket bat and land the killer blow.Green and Unpleasant Land:The picturesque British countryside, with rolling green hills, lush valleys, and rural villages belie the dangers that await you. Navigate cult-controlled ruins, natural caves, nuclear bunkers and more as you explore this dense, foreboding world.Reimagining Windscale:A fictional reimagining of a real-world event, Atomfall draws from science fiction, folk horror, and Cold War influences to create a world that is eerily familiar yet completely alien.
How to Get and Use the Metal Detector in Atomfall
Find caches with the help of the metal detector.
