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Grounded 2
How to Enter the Network Center: Networking Walkthrough
Networking is the final story quest in Grounded 2. Read on for a full walkthrough of Networking including info on how to enter the Network Center, all bosses you'll encounter, and rewards you can get for completing the quest.
List of Contents
Networking Walkthrough
| Networking Objectives Summary | |
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| 1 | Enter the Statue The goal is to reach Ranger Station: Flower Bed and defeat the boss, Captain Nitro. |
| 2 | Enter the Network Center Follow the branches (and the red ribbon) and keep heading up until you reach the center of the statue. Use the ladder to reach the Network Center. Note: Be prepared to fight Lieutenant Blade when you reach the area with the red ribbon. |
| 3 | Reach the Top Floor of the Network Center Make your way to the top of the Network Center. On the way, you'll have to fight General Berserker - a Cockroach Queen boss. |
| 4 | Defeat the Masked Stranger and Bandit At the top floor, defeat both the Masked Stranger and the Bandit (Wolf Spider) bosses. |
| 5 | Find BURG.L's Head Once the bosses are dealt with, interact with BURG.L's Head and speak to Sloan via the terminal to finish the quest. |
Enter the Statue
| 1 | To start, hop on your ant buggy and make your way to the Statue on the eastern side of the world map. ▶ How to Enter the Statue |
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| 2 |  Once there, you'll have 2 ways to reach the base of the statue. Enter the Cement Tube from either Statue: Northern Ascent or Statue: Southern Ascent to begin. |
| 3 | Inside the Cement Tube, head to the center and make the turn that leads to a locked door. |
| 4 |  For now, you won't be able to enter. Instead, look to your left to find dead roots that you can crunch through using your ant buggy. Follow the corridor to the end to reach the Rock Maze. |
| 5 |  The Rock Maze is pretty easy to navigate. Once you emerge from the tunnel and into the rock maze, turn left and simply follow the path north. There won't be any tricky turns so you'll pretty quickly find yourself exiting the maze into the large area at the base of the statue. You'll know you're on the right track if you see a red ball and a green hose after exiting the maze. |
| 6 | Follow the green hose south until you find the boss, Captain Nitro. Defeat it to reach the dead roots that lead the way to the Network Center. |
Enter the Network Center
Tip: We recommend doing this section of the quest during the Day since it may be hard to see the path forward at night.
| 1 |  After beating Captain Nitro, crunch through the dead roots nearby using your ant buggy. Follow the branches until you reach a door with a green light. Note: If you need a few heals, you can head through the door to find a few Grumble's Granola Bars that you can loot. Exit back onto the branches once you're done looting. |
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| 2 |  Instead of going through the door, look down and you should see a branch beneath the structure that leads forward. Follow that branch, crunching through dead roots and defeating any ORC Weaver spiders along the way, until you reach the area with the roses and the red ribbon. |
| 3 |  Hop on the red ribbon to find another boss called Lieutenant Blade. Defeat it to progress. |
| 4 |  With the way forward clear, hop on your ant buggy and keep following the red ribbon until you reach the branches of the bush again. |
| 5 |  Once back in the bush, you'll want to keep using the branches to head upwards. Defeat any ORC Weavers and Mosquitoes until you reach a maple leaf that you can use to hop onto the actual statue. |
| 6 |  At the statue, run along its perimeter until you see a white fuse box you can hop onto. Use it to go up a level and reach the center of the statue. Once at the center, simply climb the ladder and you should find yourself inside the Network Center. |
Reach the Top Floor
| 1 |  After entering the Network Center, use the Pneumatic Transit tube to go up from the B1 level all the way to Level 01 of the facility. You'll know you're in the right area when you find yourself hacked by a mysterious Someone claiming to have BURG.L's head. |
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| 2 |  From this main room, go through the door to the left of main desk. Keep going through the rooms in this area until you find one with an ORC Weevil inside. Bait it into exploding before going inside. |
| 3 |  This last room will have two doors: one that leads to the Pneumatic Transit tube and the other to a room with a chest. Make sure to loot the chest first since it contains 3 Garden Snail Fragments. When you're done looting, use the Pneumatic Transit tube on the opposite side of the room to go up to Level 02. |
| 4 | Level 02 will be a conference / office area. Deal with the Weevils, Larvae, and Red Soldier Ants that guard its rooms to reach the Pneumatic Transite tube that takes you up to Level 03. |
| 5 |  Level 03 is home to a Cockroach Queen boss called General Berserker. Defeat it to progress. This boss will have a second phase, so prepare yourself for more combat after depleting its first HP bar. |
| 6 |  After beating General Berserker, head to the upper level of this circular room and look for a human corpse next to one of the locked doors. Loot it to get the Network Center Access Pass. |
| 7 |  Next, enter the door on top of the ramp with the green and pink arrows. Deal with the ORC Cockroach and Cockroach Nymphs inside. |
| 8 |  Once the area is clear, go to the green side of the room and activate the first switch. |
| 9 |  Then, backtrack to the pink side of the room. Since the way to the second switch is blocked, look for a broken wall panel that you can enter. Navigate through this dark vent area to reach the other half of the pink room. Here, you can find the second switch you need to activate. |
| 10 |  With both green and pink switches active, backtrack to the circular room where you fought General Berserker. This time, head up the blue ramp and enter the door at the top. |
| 11 |  This area is much simpler. Deal with the Cockroach Nymphs inside then head over to the final switch. Before you can flip it, you'll need to restore the power. |
| 12 |  Next to the unpowered switch is a hole leading into the vents beneath the blue room. Jump down and follow the blue wire. Keep following the blue wire until you find 3 exposed portions of wire. Patch them up to restore power to the final switch. You can easily spot these exposed wires by looking for sparks flying off of the blue wire. |
| 13 |  With the wire fixed, head back to the final switch in the blue room and flip it. This should allow you to interact with the main terminal back in General Berserker's room. Backtrack and hit the red hand button to unlock the door leading to the Pneumatic Transit tube. Use the tube to go up to Level 04. |
| 14 |  Level 04 will be a large Server Room filled with Weaver Jrs., Red Soldier Ants, and Spiderlings. Deal with them and look for a ladder that leads up into an area filled with cardboard cutouts of Beaumont. Drop down into the open vent with a white wire. Navigate through these red-lit vents to reach the Pneumatic Transite tube that takes you up to Beaumont's penthouse. |
| 15 |  After exiting the tube, you'll find yourself in front of a large set of metal doors. Before doing anything, prepare yourself for a series of boss fights. Once you're done prepping, use the SCA.B 2K Scanner to open the doors to the top floor. |
Defeat the Masked Stranger and Bandit
| 1 |  After the doors open, you'll immediately be thrust into the Masked Stranger boss fight. The Masked Stranger will heal after you drop it to half HP. After it heals, you'll have to drop it to back down to at least the last third of its HP to trigger the next phase of the fight. |
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| 2 |  Once the Masked Stranger dips down to one third of its HP, it'll leave the arena and summon Bandit, a massive ORC Wolf Spider boss. After beating it, the Masked Stranger will concede defeat and unlock Beaumont's penthouse. |
Find BURG.L's Head
| 1 |  With the way inside open, talk to BURG.L's Head on the desk. |
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| 2 |  After talking to the head, go to the large terminal in the back and speak to Ms. Sloane Beaumont. Once your conversation ends, the quest will finish. |
Networking Quest Rewards
| Networking Quest Rewards | |
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① Frenzy Mutation: Deal increased damage with melee weapons and regenerate health while enraged. Perfect block timing is reduced. ② Charred Recipe: Unlocks the crafting recipe for the  Spicy Coaltana weapon.③ Sizzling Key ④ Network Center TURBO Optical Disk: Unlocks the recipe of the Orb Weaver Buggy for purchase at the shop. |
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Grounded 2 Related Guides
Walkthrough and All Story Quests
All Story Quests
| # | Story Quest |
|---|---|
| 1 | Do It for BURG.L |
| 2 | Resource Management |
| 3 | Moving Targets |
| 4 | One Tool to Rule Them All |
| 5 | Hammer and Shovel |
| 6 | Missed Connection |
| 7 | Hatching a Plan |
| 8 | What the Ants Ordered |
| 9 | Egg Hunt |
| 10 | The Art of War |
| 11 | A Strange Warning |
| 12 | Signals and Stashes |
| 13 | Wait, There's More! |
| 14 | Overload! |
| 15 | Networking |
| 16 | Return to Office |
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