Abiotic Factor takes place in an underground research bunker packed with paranormal phenomena and little means to survive. A containment breach and system failure inadvertently flood the facility with even more supernatural enemies, military sects, and otherworldly portals, so you’ll need to hunker down and bolster makeshift defenses. That’s not easy when resources are so scarce.
Among the rarest resources are Power Cells. Only a handful of these little treasures exist in the entire game. Worse, there is no recipe to craft them from lesser materials. Regardless, they are essential to building firearms and other survival needs. Luckily, Abiotic Factor has a few ways to slowly build your stock.
Abiotic Factor main story, enter Flathill for Power Cells
The most direct method is the main narrative. Early story objectives involve collecting Power Cells, and these quests unfold in a linear manner. Basically, the game tells you where to go and what to do in the early hours. Eventually, you need to get past a locked door into Silo 3. This involves hacking the door with a specialized tool, which itself requires three items: an LCD Screen, a Controller, and an Infrared Emitter.
Once you finally clear the way, you can enter a portal to Flathill. This misty settlement has three Power Cells lying around. That may not sound like much, but you only need to wait a while.
After a certain amount of time, a temporal anomaly causes the portal worlds to reset. This replenishes all the items in the area, including the Power Cells. You can just go back and pick them up again. Granted, that’s a royal pain, but it’s a foolproof method. For those who don’t feel like waiting, though, Flathill isn’t the only place to get these goodies.
Find Power Cells in the Manufacturing area
You can also acquire Power Cells in Abiotic Factor’s Manufacturing area. This is what starts the little scavenger hunt in the first place. A wounded man named Grayson tells you that the Manufacturing sector is a possible escape route. To get there, you need to open the path via a forklift. However, this device actually requires one of the Power Cells found in Flathill.
Yes, this is a roundabout process, but it’s all worth the hassle. The Manufacturing sector has a few more Power Cells to collect. Plus, once you open these two zones, then you can access them at any point. With the aforementioned temporal reset respawning the items, you could scoop up several Power Cells in an endless cycle. It may bog the game down in grinding, but it ensures that you never run out of these valuables in Abiotic Factor.
