Chapter 11 - Reconnecting | Walkthrough Guide The Evil Within 2
Last update: 08 November 2017
Chapter 11 begins at Torres' hideout. The player is tasked with returning to The Marrow and getting to O'Neal again.
Pass through The Marrow to find a way to O'Neal
After you finish talking to Torres, explore the hideout and collect all the items lying around. Here, you can find a new type of Bolt (Freeze Bolt). It allows you to freeze most of the weak enemies - then all you need to do is to deal any damage to them to shred them to pieces. Keep this bolt, as it will be useful later on. In Torres' hideout, you also find the File [Torres' Journal]. Collect all the items, and use the computer to get into The Marrow.
Collect all the items, one component in particular, namely the Condenser. You can use it to craft Freeze Bolts. Continue through the corridors in The Marrow until you reach exit CE-C03. Turn on all the fuses in the box on the left of the entrance to continue. Upon getting to the other side, turn left and take the Slide lying on the altar-table.
You have to reach Hoffman's hideout, the one you have visited several chapters before - if you do not remember how to get there, use the map. There, you find out the woman is missing - take out the comlink to collect the Residual Memory and find out what happened. Interact with the computer to collect another File [Computer File: Hoffman's Notes], search the hideout (and use the mirror, if you have to). Then, approach the door Hoffman has gone through in the Residual Memory.
Follow Hoffman to locate O'Neal
Run through the long corridor, collect the Shotgun Pouch lying next to the the Mobious Soldier's corpse and use the elevator to continue. Go through the destroyed gates and enter the room to the left, where you can find another mirror, several items to collect, and the computer with another File [Computer File: Security Protocols]. Return to the corridor and go through the double metal door to continue. The room with tanks is safe - collect all the items lying around and go on. Here, you have to approach the large metal door, next to which you can activate another Residual Memory.
Search the Laboratory to get the Unity Cerebral Chip
After the last Memory, you will receive a new objective. Investigate the ground floor first (do not go to the first floor) and collect all the items. Watch out, as there are several enemies - regular ones, however, they pretend to be dead. Then, go Lab 01 - inside, you will find more items, a jar with Red Gel, and the File [Report: Irregularity Studies].
Locate the locked door with the damaged fuse box next to it - shoot it with the Electric Bold to open the door. Continue forward, and then, enter a small room to the right. Inside, you can find another File [Computer File: Pit Observatory]. Upon leaving the room, Anima is going to appear - the enemy you have already encountered before.
Now you have to avoid Anima's sight at any cost - if she sees you, the main protagonist dies. She cannot be hurt either. Stay behind the curtains and everything should be fine. First, go right to initiate the cutscene which changes the scenery. Now, go left and run downstairs.
After going downstairs turn right, and approach the lockers by the wall to the right - some of them are going to be opened and Anima will rearrange the room. Now, you have to sneak to the middle of the room, where the enemy is looking for you. Wait until Anima turns around and get behind the locker, and then behind the folding screen. Wait for her to turn again and continue leftwards, behind the columns. A locker is going to shoot out of the wall and Anima will rearrange the room again.
Go a bit to the left, for the room to be rearranged for the last time. As the road to the exit is now open, wait until the enemy turns around and go to the exit indicated by the red light. Go through the double door to return to the previous location in The Marrow. After you regain control over the main protagonist, take the Slide lying on the desk.
Return to the room with the locked door (the one you opened with the Electric Bolt). Go upstairs and into Lab 02. Inside, you can find several items, a Residual Memory, and the Medical Pouch, which allows you to carry 4 syringes simultaneously.
Leave this room and go to Lab 03. Inside, you find another File [Computer File: Operative Case], and a corpse lying on the operating table. Interact with the panel located at the end of the table and type 0128 on the keyboard to extract the chip from the dead man's head. Collect the chip lying by his head.
Go through the door and find Hoffman and O'Neal
Now, go through the metal door Hoffman opened in the Residual Memory. Be careful, as there are new enemies in the area. Kill them or avoid engaging them. Approach the door to open it. The road in front of you leads to a new boss, so it is worth considering to return to Sebastian's room (the mirror is by the entrance to this location) and crafting several more Freeze Bolts - they will be useful when fighting the next boss. When ready, go through the door into a large room, and then go to room no. 4 to start the confrontation with the boss.
Boss - O'Neal
Fighting mutated O'Neal is probably the most difficult one in the entire game. The enemy uses the Flamethrower dealing much damage and putting the area on fire. The fire keeps on burning until you put it down by activating the sprinklers with special switches (glowing green). After doing so, the room is filled with water extinguishing the fire.
Fighting O'Neal requires you to constantly move and avoid his attacks. The opponent clearly indicates his attack, which you have to dodge. It is best to use Freeze and Electric Bolts - the former ones freeze the enemy so you can shoot him with your shotgun from up close, while the latter ones disarm him for several seconds. After you hurt the enemy enough, he will drop his mask and his attacks will become more aggressive - he can now spin around while shooting out flames. If it reaches you, you can lose up to 2/3 of your health, so make sure to maintain a safe distance. Continue the fight until the enemy drops.
Search the back room and find the machine
After the battle, take the Damaged Flamethrower from the body of O'Neal - it will allow you to craft a new weapon (The Flamethrower) in Chapter 13. Enter room no. 4 and activate the Residual Memory there. Continue to another room to activate the cutscene.
Talk to Esmeralda
Use this moment to collect all the items lying around and then talk to Esmeralda in order to set off the explosives and end Chapter 11.