Returnal

Returnal

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Hardened Shell

Hardened Shell

Achieve 200% Max Integrity

17.7%

How to unlock the Hardened Shell achievement in Returnal - Definitive Guide

This can be a bit of a tough one, and relies as much on luck as it does skill. The main thing here is to avoid being hit at all costs - if you’re at maximum health, then any health items you find will be Resin, which boosts your max health, rather than Siphilum, which heals you. You have to collect three Resin to boost your max integrity by a small amount, so you’ll likely need to find other routes to reach 200%. One consumable item, the Key Liquifier, converts keys into max health, but finding it is down to luck. If you are lucky enough to find it, try to collect 3-5 keys before using it, and you’ll find that you’re nearly there already.

You’ll also want to save all your currency for the machines which boost your max integrity by 25%, and avoid critical malfunctions at all cost, as these can quickly drop your max health right down. This is perhaps easiest to do once you’ve completed Act 2, as you can start in the Overgrown Ruins again, where it’s fairly easy to avoid getting hit, and there’s a lot of Resin to pick up if you explore every area. Either that, or you might just find the trophy pops when you’re on a particularly good run.
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Can be completed after receiving an artifact that gives protection for each parasite on you.
Every time you start trading Ether at the stele, until the artifact drops, then simply raise each parasite (without sacrificing passage and protection) and try to buy only the defense boost from replicators.
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03 May 2021 02:25

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There is a similar artifact that does not require anything in return, it gives a significant increase in strength (about 50-60%), keep in mind that green heals with full armor will improve its strength, which will allow you to quickly increase the strength of your armor, so just try not to take damage in battle
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By UndyingHardcore on 04 May 2021 20:15
The easiest way, the Tower of Sisyphus from the add-on. Without any problems, there are constructors with +25% strength that do not require obolite, already on the second level of the tower after the boss you will have a trophy.
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By TAzzz on 05 Oct 2022 15:07
If you pick up 3 resins, you get a small health boost. If you pick up silphium with FULL health, you get 1 resin. Therefore, the more often you collect them with full health, the faster you level up your health itself.

The following are very helpful in obtaining this achievement:

1) An artifact that gives a “Resin Shield”.
2) An artifact that simplifies pumping up health with resin (you will need not 3 resins, but two). It is rare and usually costs 500 oboliths. It makes sense to take it in biome 1 or 4.
3) A machine gun with leeches or an artifact that gives vampirism equal to 2% of the damage dealt to the enemy for each adrenaline level. The artifact heals very strongly even at level 1 adrenaline, because... every shot counts. But on bosses, a machine gun with leeches is much more useful. Since the artifact becomes useless if there is no one to boost the adrenaline.

The first allows you to survive 1 hit without losing health and adrenaline, the second greatly speeds up the leveling of health in general. Well, the third point will allow you to replenish your health right in battle without spending a bottle.
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By TSwan on 10 Jan 2022 11:54
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I picked up an artifact that melts keys and increases strength. It melts all the keys that you have in your inventory. The most important thing is that the level of health is complete. It seemed to me that with one key it replenishes 15% of the strength.
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02 Aug 2021 00:02