Side Quests & Manhattan
Everything across open Manhattan — FBC Tasks, Secret Hideouts, Thresholds, Mold Incidents, the Sketchbook, Pope's research, the karaoke rescue, outfits and the dog. A few containment contracts are best done before the District 8 sequence.
Diligent Consultant
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Complete 20 FBC Tasks.
Diligent Consultant
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Silver — Complete 20 FBC Tasks. FBC Tasks are the repeatable bureau side-jobs across Manhattan. Complete 20.
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Grab tasks from boards/NPCs as you roam; they also raise zone levels and reputation.
Form Over Function
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Obtain 12 outfit items.
Form Over Function
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Silver — Obtain 12 outfit items. Collect twelve cosmetic outfit pieces from exploration, shops and rewards.
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Loot thoroughly and buy from vendors — outfits also feed Out of Uniform.
Panopticon Intern
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Contain Altered Items and help Langston.
Panopticon Intern
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Silver — Contain Altered Items and help Langston. Complete Langston's containment questline (the optional paranatural-containment contracts).
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One of the containment contracts best done before the District 8 sequence — prioritise it to avoid any risk of missing it.
Be What You Want to Be
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Save everyone during karaoke.
Be What You Want to Be
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Save everyone during the karaoke sequence. In the karaoke side quest, make the choices/actions that keep every participant alive.
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A one-shot moment — know it's coming and act to save all; reload a manual save if someone's lost.
Threshold Researcher
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Deal with all the Thresholds in Manhattan.
Threshold Researcher
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Silver — Deal with all the Thresholds in Manhattan. Resolve every Threshold (a recurring anomaly/objective type) across the zones.
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Mark them as you find them; clean up any stragglers in free-roam.
Budding Analyst
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Help Pope finish her research.
Budding Analyst
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Silver — Help Pope finish her research. Complete Pope's multi-step research questline.
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Follow her quest thread whenever it advances; it spans several visits.
Work-Life Balance
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Complete all instances of the Sketchbook.
Work-Life Balance
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Silver — Complete all instances of the Sketchbook. Finish every Sketchbook puzzle/entry scattered through Manhattan.
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A collectible-style set — a location guide keeps you from missing the last few.
Dog's Best Friend
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Gain a furry friend.
Dog's Best Friend
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Silver — Gain a furry friend. Adopt/befriend the dog via its little side quest.
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A wholesome one-off — interact with the dog and complete its short questline.
Backroom Espionage
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Visit all the Secret Hideouts.
Backroom Espionage
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Silver — Visit all the Secret Hideouts. Each Secret Hideout is a self-contained puzzle that opens an underground room with a Health or Power upgrade inside — so this doubles as upgrade farming.
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Do these for the upgrades anyway (they feed Personal Development/Astral); a map guide marks every hideout entrance.
Budding Mycologist
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Deal with the major Mold Incidents in Manhattan.
Budding Mycologist
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Silver — Deal with the major Mold Incidents in Manhattan. Resolve each of the big Mold Incident events across the city.
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Handle them as they appear per zone; free-roam covers any you skipped.
Out of Uniform
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Equip an outfit item in every customization slot.
Out of Uniform
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Equip an outfit item in every customization slot. Fill every cosmetic slot with an outfit piece.
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Once you have 12 items (Form Over Function), just equip one in each slot.
Up to the Task
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Complete a World Feat.
Up to the Task
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Complete a World Feat. Finish one of the open-world Feats (mini challenges/objectives) in Manhattan.
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You'll trip one early just exploring — World Feats are everywhere.
FBC Recruit
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Complete an FBC Task.
FBC Recruit
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Complete an FBC Task. Your first bureau task — an early, unmissable pop on the way to Diligent Consultant.
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Grab the first task board you see and finish it.