If you play the survival game Grounded, you have to face the Assistant Manager sooner or later, to get his key card. In our guide, we will guide you step by step to the location where the Assistant Manager is, so you can defeat him for the key card.
This is the Assistant Manager: The Assistant Manager is one of the mini-bosses you will encounter in Grounded. He is a dangerous variant of the Arc.R robot and will be your opponent once you have reached the final challenge in the Black Anthill area.
What you should take with you:
- Food and drink
- The right armor
- Weapons
- Torch
- Bombs
You have to complete the following tasks:
- The starting point
- Find the Black Ant Lab
- Access to Sector A
- Access to Sector B
- Location of the Assistant Manager
- Defeat the assistant manager and get the key card
Find the Black Ant Hill in order to get to the Assistant Manager in Grounded
So that we can guide you to the assistant manager as well as possible, we have set a starting point from which we can then start together. Your destination is the Black Ant Hill, which we have circled in red here.
To be able to guide you to the assistant manager as well as possible, we set a starting point from which we will start. Your first destination is Black Ant Hill, which we have circled in red here.
To avoid getting burned, you should walk on the edge of the sandbox towards the Black Ant Hill until you see its Entrance. You can easily recognize the entrance since there is a huge blue building block right next to it.
If you have the same view as in the picture above, jump down and go inside the entrance, into the shade, to avoid getting cooked by the sun, which will attack you strongly, while running on the surface.
Find the Black Ant Lab
Now go along the path that leads into the black anthill, and follow it straight ahead until you reach the following fork, then take the left path that leads upwards.
Walk up this path and follow it to the end so that you end up in front of a cave with cables and lamps on the ceiling. Go inside and follow the path again. Follow it to the end and take the first and only path that leads to the right, which will let you end up in front of the Black Ant Lab.
Access to Sector A in the Lab
Take a few steps ahead and turn right, where you’ll see a large round stone that you’ll have to blast away, as it’s blocking your entrance to the lab. The fact that you have to blast the stone is indicated by a bomb symbol that appears as soon as you approach the stone.
Go into the lab and turn left at the first fork to face the locked door, which you can open by placing your hand on the sensor standing next to it.
After opening the door, you will be greeted by a TAYZ.T, which you have to defeat. Once you’ve done that, go to the PC, that has an A on it, and get access to sector A.
Go back the way you came in and go, once you are outside, straight ahead, directly towards sector A.
Access to Sector B in the Lab
Enter sector A and jump through the big hole that is right in front of you. At the bottom of the hole, you will find a small hatch through which you jump down as well. You’ll find yourself in a room, which you’ll leave through the door on your left. Follow the corridor until you reach another door at the end of it. After opening it, you will be attacked by three TAYZ.Ts, which you have to defeat.
Once you’ve defeated all the TAYZ.Ts, go to the PC, that has a giant B on its screen, and get access to Sector B.
Location of the Assistant Manager – Fight him
Leave this room through its backdoor and follow the cables and lights, which are running along the ceiling, into the next corridor. Follow the corridor with the cables and lights until you reach a cave where the door to Sector B is already lit. Then enter sector B and locate the assistant manager to get his key card.
You’ll enter another lab section, which you’ll pass through, which leads you straight ahead to a dark cave passage again. Follow it to the end, where you will end up in another cave. The black ants that are in this cave will attack you after they see you. Go through the cave entrance at the back left and go to the ledge where you can open the big door on the right.
After the door opens, you can enter the lab through the entrance to the left of the ledge. Or you can simply blow up the glass wall and enter the lab through the resulting hole.
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Defeat the Assistant Manager and get the Key Card
On the other wall of the lab, under an orange lamp, you will find a PC that has “Intruder Alert” on its monitor, which you interact with.
Two TAYZ.Ts will appear, as well as the Assistant Manager, which you have to defeat. Once you have defeated them, you should go outside the lab for a short time, for your own safety, since laser beams start scanning the lab. Once they are gone, you can pick up the key Card from the assistant manager, who lies on the ground.
What the keycard opens: With the keycard of the Assistant Manager, you can open all the closed doors of the Black Ant Lab.
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