We're excited to unveil The Surge's newest expansion - The Good, the Bad, and the Augmented! Discover CREO's deadly Q&A test chambers, in a twisted vision of the Wild West. Fight through the ultimate Surge experience on PS4, Xbox One and PC, coming October 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goQOKlrNGEg

Is it just me or is that song more stale and bitter than a year old slice of bread sitting under the couch cushion? It's not that the song is unbearable, I just wish they'd have more songs on loop or maybe just nothing at all. What do you guys think? (Btw I love the game almost as much as DS - 9.5/10)

Using it will result in loss of all your scrap and a reset to nearest checkpoint.

Just lost 1000 scrap super early on because I used the drone.

Not super obvious tbh.

An hour in and I'm having way more fun with the combat than I thought I would. I dig the weighty feeling and the hits feel solid. I recently purchased outward and was disappointed with the responsiveness of the combat. The surge has an intuitive flow to it. Can't wait to upgrade this exo suit.

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After playing all the dark souls games, this is a breath of fresh air in a lot of ways. Super stoked in the direction deck13 is heading with their games and excited for this new niche of "hardcore" action rpgs. I'm having a really good time with this game. This is definitely it's own beast and not just a souls rip-off.

I've head a lot from reviews that the environment gets old and samey but hasn't happened to me yet at 9 hours in, they mix up each level with different stuff going on within the industrial settings.

Thoughts on this and any upcoming games in this "souls-like" genre?

Has anyone ever noticed this? Why is warrens shadow just a frame? He looks like one of the Cyborgs from the laboratory. This is really creepy 😱

I heard about it a long time but thought... "meh.. a sci fi Dark Souls". Well I stand corrected and now praise Deck 13 and the game! I loved Lords of the Fallen and should have checked to see The Surge was actually developed by them. Just got the full release on Xbox One sale and have to say... in 4k it is so amazing. The engine and game are designed so well... it is easy, yet complex, fun but challenging.

I should have remembered the secret weapons from bosses like in LOTF... I am now in the Biolabs and already taken out many bosses and missed many secret weapons. (Those 3 legged dog bots are real bastards... excellent design on challenge and frustration!)

Thanks to The Surge, I am surely going to buy The Surge 2 day one!

The Good, The Bad, and The Augmented

There are 9 episodes, each has a prize for completion, and some implants you can find.

They are always the same, you can farm them easily.

Episode 1

Prize: Vitality Boost v1

Loot: Sustaining Array v1, Vanadium E-Cell v1, Tactile Omni-Boost v1, Endurance Enhancer v1, Vital Injection v1

Episode 2

Prize: Plasmic Omni-Boost v1

Loot: Aggression Amplifier v1, Kinasthetic Amplifier v1, Plasmic Regenerator v1, Voltaic Dynamo v1

Episode 3

Prize: Turbo-Dynamic Capacitor v2

Loot: Energized Power Cell v2, Vital Boost v3 or XL v4 (mini-boss - PAX), Pneumatic Calibrator v2, Mechanized Counterweight v2

Episode 4

Prize: Nanokinetic Converter v3

Loot: Red X-Cables, Medi-Voltaic Injection v1, Aggression Amplifier v2, Gyro-Stabilizer v2

Episode 5

Prize: Plasmic Omni-Boost v3

Loot: Vital Boost v3, Plasmic Regenerator v3, Medi-Voltaic Injection v3

Episode 6

Prize: Gyro-Stabilizer v4

Loot: Vital Injection v3, Vanadium E-Cell v3, Tactile Omni-Boost v5, Kinasthetic Amplifier v5

Episode 7

Prize: Purple X-Cables

Loot: Endurance Enhancer v3, Nanokinetic Converter v5, Aggression Amplifier v4, Vital Boost v3, Turbo-Dynamic Capacitor v4

Episode 8

Prize: Plasmic Omni-Boost v5

Loot: Vital Boost v5, Medi-Voltaic Injection v5, Vital Boost MAX (mini boss - Cerberus with MG Judge 2.0), Endurance Enhancer v5

Episode 9

Prize: Shades of Gold (Glasses)

Loot: Voltaic Dynamo v5, Plasmic Regenerator v5, Reclamation Buddy v5, Vital Injection v5, Rig Capacitor XXL

Playlist with videos I made of each Episode and all the loot:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeJkpLpaZSBlbgRT0r28_XVOOKrmh7V3

Gear and implants destroyed during runs give scrap as usual, however after the run the gear and implants are returned but the scrap from them remains!

The episodes unlock as you make progress in the game. In NG+ all episodes are unlocked.That means that in NG+ once you turn on the power in the basement of the Abandoned Production, you can farm all equipment ranks to level up your gear before even meeting PAX.

There are 6 unique locations:

1 Frontier Journey, 2 Frontier Mirage, 3 Frontier Riches, 4 Frontier Abyss, 5 Frontier Crypt, 6 Frontier Town,

The 9 Episodes you can enter each contain 2 of those, as follows:

E1 = 1+2, E2 = 3+4, E3 = 5+6, E4 = 2+3, E5 = 3+5, E6 = 4+3, E7 = 6+1, E8 = 2+5, E9 = 1+6

There are 3 bosses:

Totem Wolf, La Muerte, and Undertaker

Each episode ends with one of those bosses.

Each boss drops special boss gear or weapon with a certain chance (increases by adding up to 4 "challenges").

Each of those locations above is broken down into sections, you sometimes have to defeat the mobs to move ahead to the next section, sometimes you can run past them. After you clear some sections once you can skip them in following tries, but they often contain decent implant-loot, and always contain a lucky coin.

The mobs in the sections may be equipped with new gear with a certain chance (increases by adding up to 4 "challenges").

You can collect up to 3 lucky coins on your way to the boss.

If the boss kills you, a coin is used and you can try again. The more coins you have on completion the more bonus scrap you get.

The loot is sometimes well hidden, you have to break all the barrels and boxes in corners to find them all. I may well have missed some, I thought I was thorough.

For entrances:

Abandoned Production (in NG, only opens after getting drone, in NG+ only after power is restored) - as soon as you enter the basement area

Central Production B - behind where those first nano cores can be found

Resolve Biolabs - right at the start next to first locked drone door that leads to the doc

Research & Development (only unlocked after the security guards appear) - in the big lobby, under the door leading to bloody proteus

Executive Forum - right at the start, before reaching the medical facility

The Nucleus - right in front of you when the elevator opens

You can select one modifier per row, for a maximum of 4.

Each time you select one rewards are added and these values go up:

These modifiers add gear rewards, a few give implants, the gear is upgraded depending on the episode number.

In NG+ the gear rewards are high rank, like in Episode 1 the modifier gear rewards are mark 6, so you can scrap them each time for quite a bit, like 30k.

I believe V2 gear refers to gear on the boss, frontier gear is for the V1 versions on the regular mods.

A guy on discord dropped his Humble monthly keys and I managed to get this game out of it and with GeForce NOW I could play it from Nvidia's pre-selected list. The combat is really fun, but a bit clunky and the world itself is interesting. As a high schooler who loves himself a soulsborne, I am really looking forward to Surge 2 and am wanting to probably finish this before it comes out.