The Surge

The Surge

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1000 XP

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Ghost in the Machine

Ghost in the Machine

Accompanied a father and his little daughter on their way through the facility

10 XP

2.0%

How to unlock the Ghost in the Machine achievement in The Surge - Definitive Guide

This achievement is unlocked by completing 3 quests for the NPC Alec Norris.

Part 1) Alec can be found in the R&D ops station. He will ask you to find his daughter. Tell him that you will look for her. She is in a hidden area off of the main path. After traversing through R&D you will find yourself in a locked room with a Proteus bot. The only way out will be through the broken window. Proceed out the window, but don't go up the lift on the left. Instead follow the path around to another broken window you can jump into. There will be a shield bot and a flamethrower enemy here. Once you take them out continue through the area until you find a welder bot that is red/pink. Talk to the bot to progress the quest. After exhausting the bot's dialog return to Alex.

Part 2) Talk to Alec again in the R&D ops station. He will mention that Maddy's leg is broken. Tell him you will help him find a replacement. After you can leave R&D again go back to Central Production B, and find a welder bot. Beat it by targeting the back leg and grab the leg item it drops. Return this to Alec in R&D.

Part 3) Alec will now be in the ops station in the Nucleus. He will mention that he lost Maddy. Tell him you will look for her. Progress through the level until you have the elevator on level 3. Now you can find Maddy. Jump off the right side of the ops elevator onto a nearby red and grey structure. From here drop back under the ops elevator where a bunch of large crates sit. If you go near the crates you may hear Maddy laugh. She is behind them. Go up the stairs in the back and through the hall, a Crystalis bot will be waiting for you. Drop down the broken floor. At the bottom there will be a tunnel another Crystalis and a self destruct bot will be waiting for you there. Take the lift in that room up. Maddy will be out on the platform to your left. Take the necklace from her. Return to Alec, and give him the necklace. Inform him of Maddy's fate to complete the quest and get the achievement.
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25 Dec 2017 02:55

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Thanks AnthroMetal! I hadn't tried not telling him.
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By Rubedo Hawk on 07 Mar 2018 01:05
I had to quit to the main menu and reload my save to get Maddy to appear in the ops station after finding and talking to her for the first time.
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By Mr SpinelesS on 10 Sep 2020 07:08
Just to add to the solution, if you tell Alec, "I don't know" about what happened to Maddy after finding the pendant, he'll leave the medbay and you will find him dead later on with an audio log. The achievement should pop once you pick it up.
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By AnthroMetal on 01 Mar 2018 05:38
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This achievement requires you to complete 3 quests that need to be done in order. This achievement is MISSABLE due to a conversation choice you MUST make
at the end of the last quest. As well, if you go to far into the story without activating the quest, you will miss it.

This is a clear (although not very loud) video of the steps you must take. Not mine, please thumbs up the creator on youtube!

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12 Aug 2019 17:40

Missable
Location:
1st: Research and Development
2nd: Nucleus

This trophy starts when you get to the Med Bay of Research and Development. In the Med Bay you will meet a person named Alec. Interact with him and follow the prompts relating to his daughter. After you have exhausted those prompts he will give you a card key to access his office. You will find his office in the area after you’ve first encountered the robot-humanoid enemy that you have to take down twice. Head out the window and instead of going up the lift keep circling around the beams until you find another broken window. Enter the window and defeat the enemies that are in there, then proceed down the hallway. At the end of the hall there will be a door on the left that you will need to interact with. Open the door and you will see Maddie the machine lying on the ground. Interact with Maddie and exhaust her prompts, then return back to the Med Bay.

When you return back to the Med Bay, talk to Alec and go through his dialogue. He will tell you that Maddie is hurt and needs you to get him a spare leg from a similar robot in order to fix her. You will need to click the dialogue that says “I’ll get you one” in order to properly accept the task and go back to Central Production B. There are a decent few of these robots everywhere. It may take a few but just keep killing them until you earn the leg. After you’ve obtained the leg, go back to Research and Development and hand the leg over to Alec so that he can fix Maddie.

The next time you will encounter them is in the Nucleus section of the game. Alec will be leaning against the wall in the Med Bay. Talk to him and accept the task of finding Maddie once again. Maddie is actually located behind the Med Bay. In order to get to this location you will need to have gotten access to the Med Bay all the way to the third floor. Once up leave the Med Bay and go right until you see a red platform. Jump on it and look back towards the Med Bay. You will see that there is a bottom section underneath it. Jump down there and you will see stairs in front of you. Take the stairs until you get into a room with a chrysalis. To the left of that room there is a path for you to hop down, take it. And follow it to the end. Once you’ve reached the end of the path, to your left there will be a lift that you will need to take up. Once you’re up there follow the path until you reach Maddie. Interact with her and you will obtain her necklace. Bring it back to Alec.

Once you're back in the Med Bay you will need to interact with Alec again. You will need to click on a certain prompt as the other one will not get you the trophy. Click the prompt “Maddy's Dead” then listen to what he has to say and the trophy will pop at the end.

Remember to make sure to talk to him as soon as you get into the Med Bay as progressing along with the game will make you miss out on this trophy. Also make sure not to attack either him or Maddy as it can lead to them dying and if that happens you will have to go for this next playthrough.

Video Guide

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Missable!

Once you make it into the R&D Medbay, there will be a man called Alec Norris, whose daughter Maddie has gone missing. Agree to find her for him. You'll find her when you can enter the large, circular room in Nano Production through a broken window. This is where you fight the first Proteus unit. Walk around the framework and jump through another broken window, and enter into a corridor. Maddie will be hiding in a room in this corridor. Tell her to call for her father, and return to MedBay, where they both will be now.

Talk to Alec again, and agree to find parts to fix Maddie's leg. Head to Central Productions B (you'll go there soon anyhow) and find an Arc-bot. Target it's legs and destroy it, pick up the robotic leg it drops, and head back to Alec to give him the leg. Exhaust all dialogue and move on.

Once in Nucleus, you'll again meet Alec, and Maddie has gone missing, again. Agree to find her. Move the Medbay lift to level 3, then jump on a red platform. Go up a set of stairs, fighting a chrysalid, and continue through a 'chicken wire' door, into a series of tunnels until you go up an exolift. Eventually, you'll find Maddie's body. Pick up her necklace, and return to Alec. You must tell him of Maddie's death, or the achievement won't unlock.

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The trophy can be missed or screwed up.

It is necessary to complete the quest of the father who lost his daughter. The quest is taken in the fourth location in the medical station, located in the middle of the exhibition center. First, we find the father’s office in the same location and talk to the daughter; you need to jump into the broken window in the middle of the location. Then, when the daughter appears at the medical station, the father will ask for help to repair her. We run to the second location and knock off the leg of this exact robot. The third time you will meet your father at the medical station in the final location and he will again lose his daughter. You can find it when you raise the medical station to the third level; you need to find the passage under the station from the second level. We find the daughter and tell the father about her fate. If you hit your daughter in your father’s office or accidentally hit both of them in the medical station, you’ll screw up the quest.

Video of the quest.
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28 May 2017 23:30

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The quest can be ruined if you do not bring the leg before getting to the Core location. Then the father will come out on his own and die next to the module, leaving the robot alone. In this case, the trophy will not be given.
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By Svoloch_Abramov on 06 Sep 2020 00:49
Another way to screw up the quest: when he asks you to find a leg for the robot, you need to answer “I’ll find it,” and not another option, otherwise the leg won’t spawn; but I was lucky - I returned to the dock in front of the administration and he again asked me to find a leg, I answered correctly and the leg spawned from the very first robot
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By skylark on 13 May 2021 14:23
If at the end of the quest (during the final conversation) with your father you decide to choose a different answer, the trophy will also pop up, but only after finding your father’s note - on the passage just above the second floor of the medical center. block. To do this, you will need to die or take a few walks around the location to let your father leave.
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By Timtim on 11 Aug 2017 23:10
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Another option for screwing up the quest:
Enter the girl's room for the first time without killing nearby enemies.

During the dialogue, the guards from the corridor entered the room and killed my robot.
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23 Dec 2019 21:13