D'Arcy on 20/10/2006 at 03:09

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That's a Cyberguard. You should shoot it with your pulser. Pressing TAB cycles between Pulser and Drill: Pulser is used to attack enemies (Cyberguards, Cyberdogs, and Cortex Reavers); Drill is used to, well, drill the ICE shields that are sometimes protecting cyberspace objects.

You should try to pick up all the programs you find. You can pick up upgrades for both the Drill and Pulser softwares (usually these are red cubes), or for your cybershield (usually yellow cubes). Once you have cybershield, you should activate it by double clicking on the entry on your inventory, You only have to do this once; after that it will always be active when you enter cyberspace.

Blue cubes are other types of software, like Recall (double click on it and you'll be taken back to the start of that particular cyberspace level - pretty useful when SHODAN detection is imminent and you see no exit nearby), Decoy (if you use it, your enemies will shoot at it instead of shooting at you), and Turbo (just makes you move faster in cyberspace).

The purple cubes are data fragments, containing some useful information that you may access on your data reader. Besides this you can also pick up games in cyberspace, like Eel Zapper. Finally, there are also access cards that you can pick up, and switches that once flipped will open doors in the outside world.

Here's an approximated diagram of the Medical level cyberspace:


+----2
| .....|
1......|2a
........|
.....3-+

1,2, and 3 are the cyberspace rooms. What you should do is:

1. Get Pulser v1
Get data fragment
2. Shoot Cyberdog
Get Ping game software
Get data fragment
2a. Get cybershield in tunnel (while avoiding mines)
3. Shoot Cyberguard
Get Pulser v2
Flip switch (it will open a door outside where you'll find a Magpulse)
Collide with the infonode (it will give you useful information)
Get out before SHODAN detects you (assuming you're playing with a time
limit in Cyberspace)

The X-door is opened somewhere else in that level. But you don't need to open it if you don't want to. Usually what people do is to go around. You'll eventually come across a radioactive trench. Just activate the force bridge over it, follow the path and you'll find yourself on the other side of that door.