Guide for NieR: Automata BECOME AS GODS Edition

Chapter 01: Prologue

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You won't be able to save for a while, so start the game only when you have some time.

Die as soon as you can by not shooting at the enemy and steering into the laser beam deliberately to get the ending broken [W]ings (E-W). Note: do this as soon as you have control, before you reach a checkpoint.

After reloading, play through the intro, which is pretty straightforward, giving you a taste of all of the different combat styles. You’ll come to a boss fight with a huge excavator. Keep dodging its attacks while constantly shooting at it. When done, continue again through the Factory. Just follow the path and destroy everything in your way. When you get out, you’ll face two excavator arms at the same time. The tactics are the same: keep shooting the arms and dodging the attacks. A Goliath will emerge; aim at its head and attack its arms after dashing. When 9S shows up, run up the Goliath and hop in your flight unit after the cutscene. Keep fighting to finish the prologue and unlock

Resuscitated Body
Stare into space from the Bunker.
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You will find yourself at the Bunker. If you didn’t do it yet, connect to the network. You’ll be guided through the game settings, then head to the Commander. Speak to her, then go to the Hangar. An aerial combat will begin. You can earn the following achievement with natural progression, or you can shoot the enemies, keep dying at the rotating enemies (Medium Flyer), and repeat until you unlock

Ruler of the Skies
255 enemies destroyed using a flight unit.
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Chapter 02: Resistance Camp

At the beginning of this chapter, you’ll earn

Vestiges of Prosperity
Arrive at the city ruins.
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You start with your Bare Fists (W-01), one weapon: Virtuous Contract (W-02), one pod: Pod A (P-A), and one pod program: R010: Laser (PP-01). Position the camera so that you can look under 2B’s skirt until she turns around ten times for

What Are You Doing?
2B's secret discovered 10 times.
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Die and find your body (blue arrow on map), then retrieve it for

The Circle of Death
Have your body collected.
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You will see bodies of other players scattered throughout the game. Keep retrieving them (you will need 100) for

Cherish Our Resources
Have 100 bodies collected.
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From the beginning of the game, try and save your money (G) until you gather 100.000. Spend a bit here and there if you must but focus on saving, until you unlock

Desire Without Emotion
At least 100,000 G in possession.
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Use an Animal Bait (if you don’t have it, you can buy it at the camp) near a moose or a hog, then ride it with around the city. After a couple of minutes, you’ll get

Animal Rider
Any animal ridden for 5 kilometers.
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NieR Automata: Chapter 8, Route A - walkthrough NieR Automata: Chapter 1, Route A - walkthrough NieR Automata: Chapter 1, Route B - walkthrough NieR Automata: Chapter 5, Route A - walkthrough
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Go to the resistance camp, then SAVE. Remove your OS chip to get the ending fa[T]al error (E-T). Reload and talk to the leader. Talk to the Weapons Trader, then do his fetch quest, The Weapon Dealer’s Request (S-01). You’ll have to go to the marked area and gather some Complex Gadget. Deliver them for

First Errand
Complete your first quest.
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Talk to the Supply Trader to start The Supply Trader’s Request (S-02). Similar to the previous quest, go to the marker, kill the enemies, then return with the required items. This will open up for the plugin chip trade. The next achievement requires that you have 44 out of 55 different chips. Those with the same name with different numbers after them are counted as the same type. By natural progression, if you don’t sell any chips, around the end of Route A you should unlock

Chip Collector
80% of all plug-in chips collected.
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Talk to Anemone at the Resistance Camp and agree to help her to start The Machine Surge main quest.

Chapter 03: Adam and Eve

You’ll be sent to the desert to clean it from machines. On your way, you’ll pass Desert: Camp Access Point with a trader, and a bit later you’ll meet Jackass, who will clear the way for you. Get to the marked areas and destroy all of the machines. You’ll have to chase one to the Housing Complex. After the Desert: Housing Complex Access Point, look for the red fire escape stairs on a building to the left. Go to the top to find Fang of the Twins (W-03). Follow the path until you arrive at an arena-like place. Adam is born, and a boss battle starts. Win this fight to earn

It's a Healthy Baby Boy!
Complete the desert area.
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Escape the place and return to the Resistance Camp. Talk to Anemone, and you’ll get access to your room. Keep visiting here for useful items. Leave the camp to initiate MIA main mission.

Chapter 04: Mad Songstress

Follow the marker, and descend to the sewers. Fish in the water to find Iron Pipe (W-04). You might want to wait with this RNG weapon until later. Go to the end, through a collapsed section, and climb the ladder. Here you’ll find a huge tree with chains around it, with Virtuous Dignity (W-05) inside it. Go back down and take the other ladder you passed earlier to arrive at Park Ruins. These machines won't attack you unless you harm them, so be nice and don't attack them. There are standard machines (white life bar, will retaliate) and friendly machines (blue life bar, won't retaliate). Explore the park and talk with every unique character to collect some unit data. Find the Access Point by going through a gate halfway up the stairs, then turning left and following the small alleyway. SAVE, then look out for friendly bots (they have a blue life bar). Kill 10 of them for

Wait! Don't Kill Me!
10 friendly machine lifeforms destroyed.
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It's up to your conscience to reload or leave the machines destroyed (they might respawn later). From the Access Point, use the rockets as a platform to jump over to the other side. Fight the Goliath Tank, then go up to the rollercoaster platform. Jump on the rollercoaster and fight the machines on your way. After dropping down, you will fight the Opera Singer. Keep attacking her while avoiding her attacks. A mini hacking game will start at some point. Just destroy all of the black blocks to open up the ball for your attacks. At the next stage of the fight, shoot the bodies to avoid taking damage from them. When the Singer is defeated, leave the castle to find a friendly bot with a white flag. Agree to follow him, and he’ll lead you to Pascal’s Village. You will also get

We Await Your Next Visit
Complete the amusem*nt park ruins.
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Chapter 05: Excavated Land

When arriving in the village, SAVE. Talk to Pascal to start the Machine Request quest. Explore the village and talk with all the machines to unlock some Unit Data. Now we’ll do some side quests.

Talk to Big Sister Machine, and accept her quest Lost Girl (S-03). You can find her at the bottom of the tree, just take the ladder down from the Access Point. Back from the Access Point, take the ladder up, then keep to the right to find Jean-Paul, and accept his quest Jean-Paul’s Melancholy (S-04). Find the Machine with Makeup in the village and talk to her. Head back towards the Amusem*nt Park, and when the game switches to sidescroller view, jump up on some platforms to find a treehouse and the Scientist Machine. Start his quest, Half-wit Inventor (S-05). Leave the Village, but take the right path at the fork, and move a block in the fence to open up a shortcut between Pascal’s Village and City Ruins: Near the Tower. Get back to the Resistance Camp, but don’t progress the main quest yet. Talk to the Resistance Member to start the quest Resistance Disappearance (S-06). Still at the camp, if you face Anemone, take a right towards the backyard of the camp. Climb the ladder and find the Manager who will give you The Manager’s Request (S-07).

Use the Access Point to get back to the Bunker, then SAVE. Self-destruct by holding and to get deb[U]nked (E-U). Find the Commander, then start the quest Improving Communications (S-08). At the Hangar, 16D will give you 11B’s Memento (S-09). Transport back to the Resistance Camp. From here, head out towards the Access Point, City Ruins: Near Factory. Not far from the Access Point, you'll see a collapsed highway with a rusty truck next to it. Jump up to the truck to reach the top. Follow the path to reach another Access Point, Factory: Entrance. Take the stairs and go towards the water. Close to the edge, next to your own body (where you died in the intro) you’ll find Virtuous Treaty (W-06). Turn around, go up the stairs, and enter the Factory where you have multiple ways to reach 11B's body. The following circle is optional but recommended for easy G and loot.

Cross the huge silo and go down until you find an opening at the railing. From here, you can jump over to a crane. Cross it and follow the railing. Activate the ladder so that you’ll have a shortcut. Use the machine next to you and jump over another crane. From the top of it, aim the bridge hanging in the air and shoot it to make another shortcut. Find the body at the Factory together with 11B’s Escape Plan (A-01). The body is where you fought the excavator arm at the beginning of the game. Delivering the belongings will reward you with YoRHa-issue Blade (W-07).

Now head to the Desert. Talk to Jackass to activate Jackass’s Research (S-10). You might not be able to finish it right away, but don’t worry about it. Talk to Machine in Love at the Desert Housing Complex area, then look for the missing girl in the desert. After finding her, escort her to the edge of the desert. Go to Park Ruins, find the Music Box for the Manager, talk to Machine with a Dream, then head to Pascal’s Village. You'll get a reward for finding the lost girl and give presents from the fans to Jean Paul. Talk with the fan at the Village before you leave.

Go to City Ruins: Near the Tower and collect the parts for Improving Communications. Get back to the Manager at the Camp and deliver the Music Box. He will open the gate so you can progress Resistance Disappearance. Go back to the Desert to find the killer, and take a trip to the Housing Complex too to speak with Jean Paul’s fan again. On your way back through City Ruins: Center, look for a quest marker on the top of the roof. Get to the top of the neighboring building (with the boxes on top), and from there use the ,,+, combo to dash over. Fight Father Servo, then accept his quest Robo Dojo – White Belt (S-11). Immediately after jumping off the building, you can return here to get Robo Dojo – Brown Belt (S-12). There are three more quests here, but we’ll get back after some levelling up.

Next target is Resistance Camp again. Talk to the client to finish Resistance Disappearance. Continue the story mission Machine Request by delivering the fuel filter to Anemone. Talk to her again to finish Improving Communications as well. Get back to the Village through Park Ruins, taking a detour to the last fan. In the village, talk to Jean-Paul to finish his quest. At this point, you should’ve done everything, so only Jackass’s Research (needs some levelling/upgrade) and Half-wit Inventor (needs more money) are in your Active Quests.

Find Pascal to finish the Machine Trade quest. This will trigger a Goliath attack. SAVE. Take the path back to Park Ruins to earn a mountain too [H]igh (E-H). Run back to the first building where you landed at the beginning. You’ll find yourself in a boss battle with a Goliath. After some fighting, enter your flight unit for more aerial fighting. After winning the battle, more side quest opens up, but now we’ll progress the main story just enough to unlock fast travel. Pick up Flooded City Recon and continue to the hole at City Ruins. Fight the Linked-sphere Types by attacking their glowing parts, then descend into the caves. Following the quest marker, you’ll trigger a fight with Eve, Mortal Kombat style.

Creation and Insurrection
Complete the alien ship.
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When done, go back the same way you came from to meet Jackass again. Now, fast travel will be opened up between all the activated Access Points, making completing side quests much faster.

Chapter 06: King of the Forest

Transport up to the Bunker. After the cutscene, read your mail, and get back to the Desert Camp. Talk to Jackass to receive a Mackerel. SAVE. Eat the Mackerel to get the ending aji wo [K]utta (E-K). Talk to Jackass again to finish Jackass’s Research. Transport to Pascal’s Village and progress the Machine Recon mission. You’ll be heading to the Forest Kingdom. Cross the bridge and enter the shopping mall. After some fight, go through the hole, then activate the Forest Zone: Center Access Point.

Now that all of the necessary areas are opened up and fast travel is available, it's time to go fishing. You can start fishing next to any body of water by holding . Use or to cast your pod, wait until it fully submerges, then press or again to reel it in. If you're lucky enough, you'll catch a fish. There are 41 different fish and you’ll need to catch 20 kinds of them. The fishing is RNG based, so instead of having specified what to catch, just go and fish at the following places:

- at the pond front of the Resistance Camp
- in the sewers between City Ruins and Park Ruins
- at the bridge in Park Ruins, front of the castle
- at the rivers of the Forest Zone
- at Desert: Oil Field
- at Flooded City, towards the open water and near the rocket, next to the waterfall

Rotate between these places or just stop by when you are near them, and after the 20th fish, you’ll earn

A Round by the Pond
20 different kinds of fish caught.
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Back at the Forest Zone, get down to the base of the waterfall to record the third coordinate for Photographs. Finish the quest before continuing. In the Forest Zone, look for two rivers running down into the valley. Find the one closer to the bridge leading towards the Castle. From this waterfall, head back and upwards to the other waterfall, jumping from cliff to cliff. You should end up near the big waterfall where you found the coordinate for Photographs, but up on the cliffs. Look for a chained tree with Virtuous Grief (W-09) in it.

The next target is the quest marker not far from Forest Zone: Center. Fight the Animal-loving Machine until he surrenders, and choose to spare the animals. If you cannot trigger the quest here, save and reload, then came back again and start Animal Care (S-22). Head back to the shopping mall ruin and find the Medical Journal. Return with it to finish the quest. Continue towards the mission marker until you reach a square with a big wooden gate and some columns. Look for the one column leaning up against another. Climb up here, then do a long jump combo ,, to reach the top of the gate. From here, double jump over the next two columns and do a long jump again to the next gate. Repeat this once more to reach the chest with the weapon Cypress Stick (W-10).

Continue the main story mission The Forest Kingdom until you reach the Forest Castle: Royal Chamber Access Point. From there, go back to the right, drop down, then pull out the box by holding + to access the Castle Blacksmith. This is the only place where you can upgrade a weapon to level 4, but you probably won’t have enough resources at this point. You can check back later, but we will visit again in Route B. Jump up on the box and continue. A2 shows up, and you’ll have to fight her. When done, jump out to the courtyard to unlock

The Mechanical Kingdom
Complete the forest castle.
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Chapter 07: Lost Child

Head back and you’ll meet some machines who open up the gate for you, making a shortcut towards Pascal’s Village. Just behind the gate, talk to Weird-talking Machine. Treasure Hunt at the Castle (S-23) starts. Next target is the Castle again. After the game shifts to sidescroller view, the first chest is at the end of the first building. You have to run up a tree and out to the balcony on the right to get it.

After fighting the Linked-sphere Type, continue across the next two rooms, follow around the corridor, climb up the ladder, and go and jump around counter-clockwise until you reach the next chest. Now, continue and fight the second Linked-sphere Type, then drop down to where the Castle Blacksmith works. From there, jump over to the right then jump over the gap again to find the final chest. Backtrack again to the library and find the stairs you climbed towards the second chest, but now climb down on the ladder next to it, and take the next one as well. Take the exit to arrive at a gigantic door.

There is a mini-boss fight here. Try to get the machine between 9S and you, and attack from behind. Pick up your last item along with Letter to the Forest King (A-05), then report back to the Weird-talking Machine.

SAVE at the village then kill all the machines. Check all the huts, down at the bottom of the tree, and all the way around. Don’t go far from the tree as some machines might respawn. After done, you’ll unlock the ending [N]o man's village (E-N). Finish Report on A2 by talking to Pascal, then transport to the Resistance Camp.

At this point, Emil’s Item Shop should spawn on the map. There are three possible spawn points: Desert: Camp, Ruined City: Near the Factory and Resistance Camp. The latter has different items to buy, and all three spots could have two different kinds of lists. You can only buy weapons at the Camp. Shoot the car to stop him. Buy or sell something for

Come Take a Look!
Emil's shop used for the first time.
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If you are lucky enough to find him around the Camp with the selection of weapons and you have enough funds to buy them, do it, else don’t worry much.

POINT OF NO RETURN. Starting Missile Supply Mission and going to the Flooded City can cause some quest to fail. You can get them on the second playthrough or later in chapter select.

Talk to Anemone to start the Missile Supply Mission main quest, and once more to trigger Camp Development (S-24). Follow the marker, clear the area, then report back to finish this quest and start Anemone’s Past (S-25). Transport to Factory, and pick up the data chips marked on your map. All of them are easy to spot, lying next to a machine. Report back at Resistance Camp to finish, but expect an ambush on your way out. Completing this quest rewards you with Powerup Part S. Back at the Forest Zone camp, which you cleared the path for in Camp Development, talk to Resistance Supply Trader to start Culinary Researcher (S-26). You can find both animals around the Forest Zone: Center Access Point.

At this point, when you are in City Ruins, Operator 6O should contact you asking for help in Investigating Communications (S-27). Head to City Ruins: Cave, clear the machines around it, and finally interact with the Access Point to finish it. Now, get back to Father Servo and activate Robo Dojo – Black Belt (S-28). After winning, you should have the necessary items to deliver them to Father Servo and finish the quest, if not, follow the map markers to get the last pieces.

You should get a call again from Operator 6O when in City Ruins, starting Terminal Repairs (S-29). Not long after this, when you’re at the camp, you should get a mail, again from Operator 6O, starting the quest Find a Present (S-30). If you already found the Desert Rose before, the quest is automatically completed. If not, follow the marker and pick one up. Reading your mails again concludes the quest and rewards you with the Type-40 Sword (W-11). If you didn’t finish yet, do Half-wit Inventor – you should have enough money to complete the quest.

At this point you should’ve finished all your open side quests beside Mysterious Letter (DLC, optional), and your Cleared Quests should be around 45%. If you have trouble with some enemies, don’t worry – you will have another chance on Route B. You should have also earned the achievement for the 100 bodies by now.

Time to continue the story and continue with Missile Supply Mission. Following the marker, cross the sewer system to find Flooded City: Coast. SAVE. When you get to the point, where the bridge takes a sharp right, hop on to the rusty beam at the open water and fish. With some luck, you should catch Pod B (P-B) and unlock

Pod Hunter
All Pods found.
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Fight through the piers and enter your flight units. Prepare for some aerial fight, followed by an epic boss battle. The tactics are simple: use and to destroy and evade the orbs, and shoot everything that moves.

Ruler of the Deep
Complete the flooded city.
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Chapter 08: Copied City

You start without 9S, on 9S MIA mission at the Flooded City. Get back to the Resistance Camp, and talk to Anemone. Talk to the twins to get the pod program A170: Scanner (PP-04). Equip it, then hold to get feedback about hidden items. The more frequent the beeps, the closer you are. You can find two items at the Camp, and a couple more at the Bunker. Keep using it until you find ten hidden items, but don’t worry too much, there will be a quest later on to get some of these. Either way, after finding ten items you’ll unlock

Harvest King
Materials gathered at a hidden harvest point 10 times.
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The main quest might bug here, only letting you know to find YoRHa units, without a marker. Transport back to the Flooded City, where you started the chapter. Stand on the bridge coming from the city on the right side, facing the defeated boss. On your right, you will find your first YoRHa unit. Use the scanner to discover it. Turn right following the bridge, then drop down on the right after passing the school bus on your left. Right next to her is a weapon; scan the weapon to discover Iron Will (W-12). The next one is at the bottom of the building submerged in the water. The final one is at the last platform where you took your flight units, leaning against the bus. Talk to her, and this will progress the quest.

Transport back to City Ruins: Cave, then SAVE. Enter the cave, then take a right towards the elevator. After riding the elevator, you will arrive at the Copied City. Explore it before starting a boss fight with Adam. After defeating him, walk away from 9S to earn no [I] in team (E-I), or replay this sequence in Chapter Select 08-01_2 to avoid redoing too much.

Those Who Love Humans
Complete the copied city.
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Collect all of the bodies for some loot before going to 9S. You’ll be back at the Resistance Camp. Read your mails.

Chapter 09: Deranged Religion

Olive Branch starts. Transport to Factory: Entrance, SAVE, then meet up with Pascal. Enter the building and attack a machine for bad [J]udgement (E-J). Reload, then talk to the Priest. Follow him to the elevator, then prepare for some fight after the cutscene. When prompted, escape with another elevator. On your way, look out for a marker that leads you to Factory: Hangar Access Point.

From here on, the route is quite simple, until you reach an elevator. You can activate this to get back down to the previous Access Point, where a Goliath Biped will wait for you. Continue back up, and follow the path until you activate Factory: Furnace Access Point. Take the last elevator, and destroy the multi-legged Goliath. Run around until 9S disables the shield,then jump over the fiery rings and concentrate on the explosive machines when they got released. Finish off the Goliath with a melee weapon. Leave the Factory for another cutscene and unlock

Iron Soul
Complete the abandoned factory.
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Chapter 10: Loss

Weird Machines starts. Get back to Resistance Camp, and don’t mind the machines as they keep spawning. SAVE before entering, then leave right after the Camp attack cutscene (against B2’s warning). You’ll get the ending [L]one wolf (E-L).

Reload and clear the Camp, then fight a Multi-legged Goliath outside of the camp. Next up: Spherical Machine. Follow the marker for more fighting until you are pointed to the hole in the middle of City Ruins. Prepare for a fight with Eve.

Start by damaging him until you see some flying platforms. Jump up on these to reach him again. When it looks like you're about to win, he will recharge his life. Now you have to hold out until 9S hacks him. After that, keep damaging him while dodging the energy balls. After some progress, your system starts to fail and you can only use ranged weapons. Keep fighting and watch the final cutscene. You’ll receive the ending flowers for m[A]chines (E-A) and

One Battle Ends
Achieve ending A.
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Congratulations on finishing route A. You will get a message, then you’ll be prompted to save. Do that, then select Continue and load up your save. You’ll start Route B, playing through the first 10 chapters from 9S’s point of view.

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