Breathedge 2 Map

You do not start with a map. The Service Routes map is a quest item you have to go and take, and it is guarded. Until then you navigate the Outskirts by landmark, which is what most of this page is: the landmarks worth learning, in the order you meet them.

The starting region is far bigger than anything in the first game, so knowing where the oxygen is counts for more than knowing the terrain.

Getting the Service Routes map

The map becomes available after the three antennas are repaired, when Sui needs the Service Routes data. It sits at the ticket booth, watched by an automated turret.

The turret reacts to movement, not to line of sight. Get close and the game tells you to freeze — and it means it. Move while it is watching and it opens fire. The way through is to alternate: stand perfectly still while it scans, work in the gaps, freeze again. Players who read only "cut the cables" and start swimming across the open ground get shot.

The disable sequence itself:

1. Knock out the control panel on the ceiling
2. Pull the batteries
3. Cut the yellow cables with the Cutter — there are two places to cut

Do it properly and the turret shuts down for good, which also makes the ticket booth area safe to harvest afterwards. Then repair the terminal inside the ticket clerk's office and head back to the train's phone booth so Sui can finish reprogramming.

VGTimes lists exact figures for the battery count and terminal material costs. The repair prompt in game shows the same requirement directly, so the precise numbers are left for you to read there.

While you are there, the booth has its own knob puzzle worth solving.

Landmarks in the Outskirts

Navigating without a map

• Oxygen points are your real map. Learn where the Air Stations and Oxyworm nests are before you learn the geometry; running out of air two minutes from a refill is what kills new players.
• Use silhouettes, not distances. The ring-shaped wreck and antenna masts read clearly against the planet, and the Cosmostation terminal is a white industrial module in blue gel and rock.
• The shuttle station is the reliable waypoint. Orange shuttle pods and charging posts, easy to spot, and it refills tool batteries for free.
• A camp with string lights in the debris field marks a human-scale rest point — a useful anchor when everything else is wreckage.

The Silent Zone and the three jammers

Once communications get jammed, the route moves into the Silent Zone, patrolled by police robots. You need three strong readings before anything can be located:

1. The first is near where you repair the heaters
2. The second is straight on from the first
3. The third triggers the message that the reverse interference vectors converge here

With all three, the triangulation points at the tower at Central Depot — the building the interference is coming from. The walkthrough picks the story up there.

Relative to the yellow pipe network: two of the jammers sit along it, one inside the yellow duct at the far end of a right turn, and one on the white rim of the huge arc-filled pipe above the second.

A note on this page

Landmarks below are things you can confirm in game; exact quantities are given only where a named source states them, and are otherwise left out rather than guessed.

Oxygen is the map you actually navigate by

Because the region is so much larger than the first game's, distance is measured in air rather than metres. Three supply types:

Plan routes between those, not between landmarks. Most early deaths are a return trip misjudged by one refill.

Shelter and the abandoned station

The abandoned station is the one place that does everything: sleep, workbench, water, food, oxygen and suit upgrades. Repairing its control panel converts it into a proper base, which is also the prerequisite for the Spraytron recipe (titanium covers the cost).

Fatigue is a real mechanic, and it becomes a problem in the jammer facility section — so knowing where you can sleep is part of knowing the map.