RESURGENCE: Bio-Research Mission Walkthrough - ICARUS

In the RESURGENCE mission, you’ll be helping the Sinotai faction collect valuable bio-samples. This guide will first list the relevant details of the mission, and then provide a step-by-step walkthrough.

Prospect Details

Approximate time to complete: 1 hour
Difficulty: Normal
Recommended Level: 10
Location(s): Forest Biome, Arctic Biome
Objectives:
- Locate Bio-sample 1
- Locate Bio-sample 2
- Locate Bio-sample 3
- Return Samples to Orbit

Rewards

Variants Modifiers

Creature melee damage: -50%
Creature health: -50%
Creature movement speed: -10%
Bear spawn rate: -50%
Lion spawn rate: -10%
Polar bear spawn rate: -50%
Wolf spawn rate: -10%
Aggressive creatures perception: -50%
Neutral creatures perception: -50%
Passive creatures perception: -50%
Experience gain: -25%

Creature melee damage: +20%
Creature health: +30%
Creature movement speed: +10%
Aggressive creatures perception: +30%
Neutral creatures perception: +30%
Passive creatures perception: +30%
Scorpion spawn rate: +30%
Lion spawn rate: +30%
Wolf spawn rate: +30%
Experience gain: +25%
Player respawn count: 3

Prospect Notes

To complete the objectives, you’ll need to locate each Bio-sample within the search zone, and then press [F] to interact with it. The first two are easy to reach, but the final Bio-sample in the Arctic can be a bit tricky to get to without becoming Polar Bear food.

*Red circles indicate objective locations — note that these must be done in order*

Preparing for RESURGENCE

While it’s definitely possible to complete this prospect with little to no equipment, you will probably run into wolves while searching for the first few samples, and you’ll need to eat eventually. At a minimum, bring the following:

Wood Bow or better
Stone Arrows or better
Stone Knife or better
Cloth Armor or better

If you’re very risk-averse, you can also create a portable shelter to help you fight predators.

The following talents will make the hard part of the mission (sneaking past Polar Bears) much easier.

Fleet Footed [Solo – Solo]: 2 points

+10/15% to movement speed

Very, Very Quiet [Solo – Solo]: 1 point

-15% perceived threat while in stealth

Without a Sound [Survival – Hunting]: 1 point-5/10/15% perceived threat while stealthed

Mission Walkthrough

Step 1: Bio-Samples 1 & 2

Once you land, open your map and find the yellow circle in the northeast that indicates the first search zone. Double-click the middle of the line where L11 and M11 touch to set a waypoint, since that’s where the first objective is. Start running northeast, and gather sticks and rocks to craft your knife and bow while doing so. Sometimes it can be worth creating a stone pickaxe to collect stone faster for arrows, but your knife and a half-dozen arrows should be plenty.

Once you’ve collected a few different types of food and have slain at least an animal or two, craft a Campfire and cook your food — the bonus stamina and health makes the rest of the mission faster and safer. Chop down nearby trees while you wait; you’ll need the wood later to create a small shelter. Once you get close to your waypoint, look for a large rock just north of the lake you passed. On the southeastern side of the rock is your first objective: get close enough to interact with it (press [F]) to collect your first sample.

resurgence obj 1 location icarus walkthrough — Map Location for Bio-Sample 1

ivy for resurgence mission walkthrough 1 — Map Location for Bio-Sample 1

Your next search area is even further to the northeast through the mountain pass at N-9, so mark the middle of N-10 with a waypoint and start heading that way. Once you reach your waypoint, set a new one in the bottom of O-8 (use the map at the start of this guide if you want a reference) and keep on truckin’. It’s only low-level wolves around here, so feel free to move quickly. Make sure you’re picking up Berries, and eating one every so often to prevent them from spoiling.

This next bio-sample is a little harder to find, since it’s pretty flat. To reach it, go to where the lake in O-8 becomes a river, and follow the western bank of the river north. You’ll go around a moderately sized boulder, and then you’ll see weird tendrils going into the river. Behind the rock is a deer corpse that you can interact with to collect your second Bio-Sample.

resurgence obj 2 location icarus walkthrough — Map Location for Bio-Sample 2

second bio sample resurgence mission walkthrough icarus — Map Location for Bio-Sample 2

Step 2: Bio-Sample 3

Now you’ve got quite the hike ahead of you. Set a new waypoint on your map, this one for the middle-left side of O-12. Predators will be scarce until you enter the pass at the bottom of O-11, at which point you’ll need to keep an eye out for a bear that patrols this section. Once you get close to the transition to the Arctic, it’s a good idea to set up a camp. Build a shelter, place a Bedroll in it, and get at least 10 Cooked Meat. If you haven’t crafted a full set of Cloth Armor, do so while you’re waiting for your meat to cook.

It’s also a good time to top off your Oxygen, and get a few extra Oxite in your inventory. You shouldn’t need any water container, since by now you should have a full stack of Berries — but if you do lack Berries, make sure you replenish your water at the stream north of your base before you depart.

If you’re close to leveling up, do so before you enter the Arctic. This is the part of the mission where you’re most likely to die, and the death penalty’s XP debt is a bummer.

It will be close to dark at this point, so sleep through the night. In the morning, set a waypoint for the bottom-right corner of N-14 and head into the Arctic. Be careful and patient as you move around blind corners or ridges — there are a number of polar bears that spawn in O-12/O-13. Always stealth (crouch) if you don’t have full visibility. Once you’ve gotten a decent way in, there should be no more predators, and you’ll be able to move more quickly.

You’ll find the final sample in the bottom right corner of N-14, in a pit in the snow. Be careful, as you can easily fall and hurt yourself badly if you don’t approach this area carefully. There are a number of holes here; the one you want is the wider one behind the more circular one.

resurgence obj 3 location icarus walkthrough — Map Location of Bio-Sample 3

not this pit but the next one icarus walkthrough resurgence 1 — Map Location of Bio-Sample 3

Despite what the mission objectives say, you don’t actually have to get anything back to the dropship, because you don’t actually have anything in your inventory. If you’ve got no XP in your bar, and no Workshop items to save, you can kill yourself by jumping into the pit a few times. Otherwise, you’ll want to head out of the Arctic heading west — set a waypoint in the middle of L-14 to guide you and start heading that way. (Don’t worry about resetting the waypoint once you pass it, just keep moving west through the pass).

There’s a polar bear that spawns right near the border of M-14 and L-14. He can sometimes be hiding on the other side of the cliff that’s right where the area narrows, so be careful at this point. There can be more than one predator in this area, so be very cautious all the way back to the Forest.