Locations

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"Private Note. It's undeniable that operations at Cascade are being monitored by external forces. This much the Cascade Executive committee have been permitted to know. Exactly who has been infiltrating our communications, and to what ends, remains unknown." - Dr. Derek Manse

The GATE Cascade Research Facility, where the story of Abiotic Factor takes place, has many different sectors and mysterious locations. Exploring the facility reveals many Portal Worlds, which are portals to otherwordly, mysterious and often hostile environments that contain various items and enemies. A few Portal Worlds are extra hidden, requiring a specific interaction to enter.

Portal World Reset

The Portal Worlds, also called Anteverses, have their resources reset on a set timer. Currently this occurs at midnight, between Wednesday and Thursday and between Sunday and Monday. A message will appear indicating the reset has happened. ^[1] This allows repeated trips to the Portal Worlds to gather certain items. The reset does not affect any items or objects placed by players, but only on the "natural resources" of the Portal World. This allows staging areas to be built within the Portal Worlds, which persist through reset, without impairing reset of the Portal World's resources (provided no one is inside for a time prior to reset).

The facility itself does not reset in this manner.

Curiously, despite featuring a countdown to reset, the vocal announcement of the nightly reset starts at midnight, meaning the reset (and the UI message of it) occurs before the announcement begins, rather than at the end of the vocal countdown.

↑ Note that Portal world resources will not refresh when a player is inside of one or shortly after a player has discovered a portal world for the first time. Once players are out of the portal world, the timer will be re-enabled for reset.