You don’t have to finish the main game to launch the Extermination Instinct DLC, as you can do it directly from the main menu. On the other hand, the DLC continues the storyline of the original, so you’ll understand the events that take place in it (though not all of them) much better if you’ve completed Atomic Heart. Either way, after choosing the first of the four planned story DLCs, specify the desired difficulty level and confirm your decision.
The annoying lady
It all starts with the opening video, in which the finale, where Major Nechayev refuses Khraz and does not go against Sechenov, is taken for the canonical ending of the original. The protagonist wakes up in the company of the crazy Eleanor – the same weapon machine for crafting and upgrading equipment. There is nothing to do with Eleanor in the first room, so go through the only wooden door. If you want, you can read all the messages on the device on the left, and then go outside. You are in the “Legkaya” hotel.
Listen to Eleanor, who will turn off the storm. Immediately after this, the bridge on the right side of the first dome, house #18, will become available. There is no point in going down, so immediately press the “up” button on the control panel to the left of the bridge to rise to its far part to house #7. You can go inside and read various messages. Each house has computers with data, and in some – dead people with preserved memory. If you wish, you can examine all this. Having risen higher, press the “up” button on the control terminal again. Go to house #42, then press the “up” button again and get to house #37. Having entered it, go down to the lower floor and pull the lever.
Go back outside and press the up button on the other control panel to get to house #22. There are no control panels here, so use the second bridge and run down to house #24, from which go along the flat bridge to dome #12. Enter it and find a lever on the floor below that you need to pull. Get out of the dome and run down the bridge opposite the entrance to get to house #06. Immediately press the down button to go down to house #39. Once you do this, press the down button on the control panel again and run to dome #34. Go out into the hall and pick up the “Alenka” launcher from the stand . You will try it out very soon, so I will tell you about it below.
Exit through the wooden door and get the new melee weapon “Klusha” from the robot . Go to the hole in the wall to see a cutscene. Nechayev will get to the surface!
In the quagmire of worries
All the nearby houses are locked, and you don’t have gloves to collect resources right now, so move along the only route through the flooded village and fight the new robots. These “dolls” are much stronger than standard Wolves, they can attack in close combat, and also throw their limbs (arms and legs). All the dolls look the same – mannequins painted in light brown tones. If you see such a motionless mannequin, hold down the RMB in advance to prepare a powerful blow. With one powerful blow, you will break the dolls into pieces, but this is not a victory yet. Run up to the torso or any other part of the body, and deliver several blows until it explodes (turns black). In this case, you will be absolutely sure that the doll will not be restored. We continue the guide to the passage of the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.
If the doll starts to twist its arms, it will run at you very soon. Just dodge to the side by pressing Shift. A little later, Baba Zina will appear, cursing Nechayev. Soon you will be attacked by a huge group of dolls – it’s time to try out “Alenka”! Hold down the TAB key, select the chocolate bar and release the key. Wait a few seconds: Eleanor’s powerful whirlwind will pull all enemies into the center, and then tear them apart. Get closer to the hut and wait for Baba Zina to fly away. Continue moving along the only route, killing enemies. There will be a chest near the building on the left, but again, you won’t be able to search it without Khraz. Clear the area around Professor Lebedev’s laboratory, after which he will send you an elevator. Ride up and listen to Lebedev. As soon as the professor offers, sit in the chair. You can ask him all the questions. As soon as you choose the last one, the major will get up from the operating chair. From this point on you will have access to the glove.
In the add-on, the glove does not contain all the abilities that were available in the original game. You have fully upgraded branches of health, energy, and electroshock. You can also upgrade time dilation (Technostasis) and the shield familiar from the original. In addition, from this point on, you can again collect parts from defeated enemies and search chests or other objects. If you wish, read the messages on the terminals, and then leave the lab on the elevator.
Magnetic vehicle Bus-A
You can go back, search the chest and collect parts from the defeated dolls. Also on your way you will meet a talking foul-mouthed goose for the first time, who, like Baba Zina, is clearly not thrilled with our hero. Do not get too close, watch from afar and listen to what he says. If you approach, the goose will run away. You cannot harm him.
Follow the marker through the marked building. Immediately turn left and search 3 chests. In the courtyard on the left there is another chest, but also 3 enemies. Look for another in the bushes in front of the second building that you need to go through (inside it, jump over the beam and find a chirper on a chair ). Eliminate another enemy group, turn left and find a chest inside the building. When you search it, the goose will run out again. At the end of the road there are two buses, and on the steps of one of them lies a chirper . There is a chest behind the bus.
Follow the marker to the park with several dolls. Fight your way through this place. You can find several chests. On the bench at the far end, not far from the destination, lies a Chirper . Defeat several dolls, then listen to Lebedev and pick up Busa. Take her to the elevator to give to the professor. Go down one floor and pick up a new firearm “Secator” from the table near Terentyev . Return upstairs and talk to the professor. After asking all the questions, leave the lab.
Superficial approach
So, the main task comes down to finding 8 BUSs scattered both on the surface and inside the Mendeleev complex.
Tip : If any gates SUDDENLY turn out to be closed, although the marker points in their direction, restart the game. Bugs are possible. Move along the marker and clear the location near the domes. On the left side, near the device for loading the BUS, on the bench lies a chirper . Also behind the domes you can find a talking corpse. Also on the left are several buildings and scaffolding. Climb them to loot the roofs, on which there are about 5-6 chests. One of them is yellow, and inside you will find the first upgrade for the “Klusha”. As always, unlocked upgrades first need to be purchased and installed in Eleanor.
Go inside the building where you are attacked by regular BUSes. Shoot or hit the glowing elements at the top. Do not attack the BUSes if they are rolling around the location, since they are fully protected in this state. After victory, the yellow BUS will stop. Attack it, then take it with your glove and place it in any socket. One of them is inside the dome, the other is outside. We continue the guide to the passage of the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.
Move to the next location marked by the marker and clear the familiar location until the red BUS stops. Once done, place the BUS in the nearest socket. By the way, for the previous and this BUS you will receive two weapons – a Makarov pistol and a KS-23 shotgun , which were in the original.
Immediately after this, return to Lebedev’s laboratory, go behind it and listen to Baba Zina. Enter the indicated cave and get inside the complex.
Integrated approach
Immediately upon arrival at the complex, search the chest and cabinets. Move along the corridor, on the left side there will be a red door – as usual, such doors lead to the room with Eleanor. But do not rush, because on the bench to the right of the door lies the Chirper . If you go to the end of the corridor, behind the door you can see the “Easy” hotel, but you will not be able to get there. Listen to Eleanor and use her services. If you plan to use only new weapons, which is a priority, then disassemble the pistol with the shotgun to get materials for upgrading the “Klusha”. You can also buy upgrades for Technostasis and the Shield in the polymer upgrades menu. You can create ammunition for the “Secator”.
Go outside and search the yellow chest on the right. Open the wooden door to see a cutscene. From now on, the BUSes will be able to combine together, forming a powerful enemy. Up to three of them can be combined this way. Shoot the glowing points of the connection to separate the enemies. Clear the catering area of all enemies, pick up the third BUS and place it in the marked raster. Be sure to search the dining room, collect supplies. There will be a can of condensed milk on one of the tables – it will increase the damage done, so save the item for the battle with the boss. There are two chests near the bell. You can also exit from the dining room into the corridor with Eleanor’s room.
Go to the kitchen and run through the corridor on the right, dodging the moving cart. At the end of the corridor, collect supplies and interact with the door. Click your finger to activate all 5 elements. This mini-game is familiar to you from the original. Clear the room. Among the enemies will appear ostriches and mobile red turrets from the main game. After defeating all opponents, deactivate and place the fourth BUS in the socket. Search two chests, look into Eleanor’s room. By this point, killing all the enemies and thoroughly cleaning the locations, I managed to fully upgrade Technostasis (without upgrading the polymer shield).
Enter another door in the room where you picked up the fourth BUS. Kill the enemies behind the corridor, there will be another room with Eleanor on the right, and it was there, in a chest, that I found an energy booster upgrade for the Secateurs. Go into the huge hall where the statue of Mendeleev is located. Look around carefully, collect supplies from two chests. When approaching the statue, you will receive a warning from Eleanor that serious trouble awaits you. And indeed, if you activate the statue, the boss will appear.
Before fighting him, go through another door. Search three chests, kill enemies and look in on Eleanor. Then there is a circular corridor – that is, no matter which way you go, you will come back. Both on the left and on the right there is a room with two enemy waves. Between these rooms there will be a corridor with a restroom (there is a chest in one of the stalls) and a turn to the red fence (on the other side you were at the very beginning of the path through the complex). Be sure to turn to find a stand with a chocolate bar “Alenka” (I recommend leaving it for bosses or enemies when you are looking for the last BUSES) and a chest. By the way, from those same ostriches with two power elements on their backs, energy modules fall out (round things needed for some more advanced upgrades of Klusha and Secateurs). Also in the chest near “Alenka” there is a hidden store upgrade for Secateurs. We continue the guide on how to complete the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.
Return to the large hall with the statue, press the button and watch the cutscene with the boss appearing. In fact, it is several dozen BUSes combined into one large machine. The battle consists of three stages. In the first stage, you must destroy any of the two long arms. Damage is inflicted only on those BUSes that are highlighted. In the first stage, the boss can hit the ground with his long right arm once, after which the arm will remain on the floor for a while. Use Technostasis to slow down time and hit the arm with your pumped-up Klusha. If you stand behind the boss and attack the left arm behind his back, he will try to hit you with a spin. In both cases, you need to dodge. Occasionally, the enemy will shoot from his left hand. And again, you need to dodge. Regardless of which arm is destroyed, the boss will fall apart. Some BUSes will activate, and you will have to destroy them.
After that, the second stage will begin. The boss will use the remaining arm. This time, raising it up, he will hit the floor three times in a row. So dodge three times, then throw Technostasis and attack the arm again. After destroying it, you will have to destroy several BUSes again, after which the third stage of the fight will begin, the final one. The boss will act more aggressively, but the set of attacks will mostly remain the same. The only exception is that the enemy will periodically throw sparking sources, when approaching which you will receive an electric shock. It is best to destroy them with the Secateurs. After the third stage, break all the separated BUSes again. The boss will try to get up, but will fall apart, and you will be able to take the fifth BUS. After doing this, follow the marker, put the BUS on the floor and clear the room. Place the BUS in the socket. There is Eleanor’s room nearby, the corridor on the right is a dead end, but contains enemies and a chest. Also, in the large hall where you fought the boss, there is a chirper on one of the benches . And be sure to take “Alenka” from the stand near the funnel, in which you placed the fifth, black BEAD.
Return to the hall and go through the indicated door. In the room with Eleanor, there will be a chest on the left with an upgrade for the Secateurs. Go to the far room and search the two chests. Then interact with the floor panel to start solving the puzzle. You need to rotate the circles to move the important elements and feed three blue beams to three receivers. First, go to the far part and move the source with the blue beam two positions to the right (if you look at the entrance to the room). Go closer to the receivers. On the left, there will be two nodes with splitters at once. They need to be moved two positions to the right, under the blue beam, to split it into a total of three beams. All of them will hit the receiver, and the puzzle will be solved. Go back a little and go down the stairs two floors below.
Kill the four dolls when you reach the fork. You can go in any direction, but let’s follow the marker to the Radiochemical Laboratory. Along the way, look into the room with Eleanor on the right to find another upgrade for the Secateurs (an alternative to the energy supercharger) in the chest. At the end of the corridor, kill the two dolls and take “Alenka” from the stand on the right. You will be able to move between the two labs. In the one on the left, there is a Chirper on one of the tables . Search the tables and examine the computers. To get a BUS, move behind several of them, pull them with the glove and hide them inside various mini-labs. Be sure to close the doors behind you. There may be computers and chests in the labs. When you place about 4-5 BUSes, they will stop and you can pick up the main one. Place it in the socket. There are two more left!
Move forward and enter the huge hangar. Go down and destroy several mobile turrets. Climb up other stairs to find several chests. One of the stairs leads to a yellow chest. On the left side of the hangar, inside a large container, look for the second yellow chest. Leave the hangar through the indicated passage, but note that to the right of it there is a stand with a chocolate bar “Alenka”. We continue the guide to the passage of the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.
Jump down and kill three dolls. Move along the long corridor, killing enemies, searching the side niches on the left and right, where there are several chests. At the very end, there will be a round platform. As soon as you find yourself on top, a very difficult battle with a huge number of enemies will begin. This is the best place where you can spend “Alenka”, and all that you managed to find by this point. There are really many enemies. After destroying them, grab the red BUS (the seventh) and carry it to the trumpet. Be sure to collect resources from all the killed enemies. On one of the side tables there is also a chirper (in the room where there was a difficult battle).
After that, use the elevator or the stairs next to the bell. In both cases, you will get to the same place. Kill several enemies. On one of the tables near the elevator is a chirper . You can go to the right. This path leads to the corridor through which you got to the hangar. Kill the enemies and search the only chest. Return to the elevator and shoot a shock at the power element above the closed door (V key). On the stand on the right is a chocolate bar “Alenka”. Do not forget – if the inventory is full, all found consumables are moved to the warehouse, and you can pick them up when interacting with Eleanor.
Move on, kill the doll and look into the room with Eleanor on the right. Complete the standard finger-snapping minigame to get to the control room. Immediately go to the dead end on the right by the wall to find a Chirper . Go up to the second floor and enter the elevator to get outside.
Superficial approach
Once outside, go forward to the aircraft. On the Mendeleev memorial, on the left side, look for the tweeter “Pond Prudi” . Having done this, go back and turn right, if you are looking at the elevator. Destroy all the BUSes and load the last element into the bell. Immediately after this, you can return to the elevator and go down into the complex.
Eleanor’s Heart
Go inside and listen to Eleanor. Once Nechaev has agreed with her, use the same elevator and go to the Mendeleev Memorial. Use the flying machine and return to Lebedev’s laboratory, in the Freedom Park. Try to move the battery, then listen to Lebedev. When he is finished, enter the phone booth nearby. After talking to Sechenov and Lebedev, return to the Mendeleev Memorial in the flying machine.
Enter the complex by going down the elevator, and then proceed to solve the final puzzle . So, on the right there are two diagrams that are a hint to solving the problem. There is a colored diagram. As you can see from it, colored BEADs depart from the black one. Moreover, there are 5 chains – a chain with one, two, three, four and five BEADs. The second diagram shows the location of these chains on the floor. Using both diagrams, you need to set all five chains in the correct sequences and positions. If the BEAD is installed in the right place, the cell will be highlighted in green. At some point, the Twins will appear, who will detain Eleanor. Continue until you place all the BEADs in the right places. We continue the guide to the passage of the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.
Right after that, the boss you encountered earlier will appear. He will act more aggressively, but the principle remains the same. The battle consists of three stages. In the first stage, you must destroy any of the two long arms. Damage is inflicted only on those BUSes that are highlighted. In the first stage, the boss can hit the ground with his long right arm once, after which the arm will remain on the floor for a while. Use Technostasis to slow down time and hit the arm with your pumped-up Klusha. If you stand behind the boss and attack the left arm behind his back, he will try to hit you with a spin. In both cases, you need to dodge. Occasionally, the enemy will shoot from his left hand. And again, you need to dodge. Regardless of which arm is destroyed, the boss will fall apart. Some BUSes will activate, and you will have to destroy them.
After that, the second stage will begin. The boss will use his remaining arm. This time, raising it up, he will hit the floor three times in a row. So dodge three times, then throw Technostasis and attack the arm again. After destroying it, you will have to destroy several BUSes again, after which the third stage of the fight will begin, the final one. The boss will act more aggressively, but the set of attacks will mostly remain the same. The only exception is that the enemy will periodically throw sparkling sources, when approaching which you will receive an electric shock. It is best to destroy them with the Secateurs. After the third stage, break all the separated BUSes again. The boss will try to get up, but will fall apart, and you will be able to take the fifth BUS.
Make sure you stop the remaining colored BEADS. After that, transform the puzzle solution according to the changes Eleanor made. Immediately after that, confirm the solution and watch the final video of the story add-on. We complete the guide on the passage of the story add-on “Instinct of Extermination” for the action game Atomic Heart on the StopGame.Ru website.