Quest Guide: A Dead End

Objective list

• Find MANTIKOR's underground facilities
• Find a way into the locked room in the Security Wing
• Search the locked room for any records on Project Heartwood
• Find the Dusty Film Reel
• Deliver the Dusty Film Reel to Shani

What to bring

• A reliable mid-range primary and a sidearm or close-range backup; most quest deaths happen while rotating, not while looting.
• Stamina-friendly utility like smoke or a distraction item, because recon steps usually force you into exposed rooftops, offices, or dead-end rooms.
• Enough meds and shields to survive two rotations; multi-location quests punish players who arrive at the final step with no resources left.

How to run it

Plan the raid around the first named objective and your nearest safe extract, not around the fattest loot route. If the quest item drops into your inventory, the raid is now an escort mission and everything else is optional.

1. Step 1: Find MANTIKOR's underground facilities

   Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

2. Step 2: Find a way into the locked room in the Security Wing

   Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

3. Step 3: Search the locked room for any records on Project Heartwood

   Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

4. Step 4: Find the Dusty Film Reel

   Once you are at the point of interest, clear the nearest angle first, then interact. Most misses on this step happen because players sprint past the actual prompt or loot through the room too early.

5. Step 5: Deliver the Dusty Film Reel to Shani

   Do not queue extra looting on the way back. Once the item is in your bag, your next win condition is simply getting out alive.

Where players usually throw this quest

• Finishing the item step and then greed-looting instead of extracting while the objective is still fresh and uncontested.
• Running past the actual interaction prompt. Slow down for five seconds, clear the room, and let the tracker update before leaving.
• Taking a fight on the way out just because you hear it. Quest raids are won by discipline, not by K/D.

Miswired note

Use the named area as your anchor, then plan your extract before you touch the objective. That matters more than another backpack worth of salvage on Buried City.