The Surge
67 Achievements
40-50h
Ghost in the Machine
Accompanied a father and his little daughter on their way through the facility Details for this achievement will be revealed once unlocked
5.2%
How to unlock the Ghost in the Machine achievement in The Surge - Definitive Guide
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.
This is a clear (although not very loud) video of the steps you must take. Not mine, please thumbs up the creator on youtube!
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
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.
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.
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.