Quick Answer
Pull both prototype chains, collect your guns, then pull the R&D exit chain together. Both players must reach the common room door, and each must hold Interact for five seconds at their takeout machine. In We Were Here Tomorrow, Norcek Proprietary upgrades only the Goop Gun to three goops; the Hook Gun keeps two hooks.
How do you get through Norcek Proprietary?
Leave the waking room together, reach the common room, pull the prototype room chains simultaneously, collect both guns, and operate the R&D exit chain together.
Norček Proprietary is the first checkpoint in Chapter 6, The R&D Headquarters. You start together on your third awakening in the waking room. Your immediate task is to get back to R&D and retrieve your equipment before leaving through its shared exit.
- Both players step out of the waking room. Its doors open once you have both stepped out.
- Go through the hall toward the common room.
- Bring both players to the common room door. It opens with both of you there.
Keep your partner alongside you through these opening doors. If one of you reaches the common room first, wait there for the other player. Both players being present is part of the route, so reaching the door alone does not complete this step.
Your third awakening: the broadcast tells you to go inside Rift Zero.
Shown at 166:35 in Aravien_’s video.How do you open the prototype room in R&D?
Pull the prototype room's two chains at the same time, with one player on each chain.
Once you reach R&D, make this your next shared action. The prototype room has a pair of chains, so split between them before trying to open it. Tell your partner when you are ready, then pull together.
- Put one player at each prototype room chain.
- Agree on when to pull.
- Activate both chains simultaneously.
- Continue to the takeout machines to collect your equipment.
The prototype room chains and the R&D exit chain are separate interactions. Open the prototype room first and collect your guns before moving on to the exit.
How do you collect your guns and unlock Once More?
Each player must hold Interact for five seconds at their own takeout machine to receive their gun and unlock Once More.
Collecting the equipment is an action for both players. One person retrieving a gun does not replace the other person's pickup. Divide the job between you: the Goop Gun player takes the Goop Gun, and the Hook Gun player takes the Hook Gun.
- Approach your gun's takeout machine.
- Hold Interact for the full five seconds.
- Have your partner collect their gun from their machine as well.
- Check which equipment each of you now carries before heading to the exit.
Hold Interact rather than giving it a quick tap. The pickup requires five seconds, so allow time for the interaction before moving away.
Once More is tied to this equipment pickup. If you are following the We Were Here Tomorrow achievements, this is the named achievement associated with collecting your guns here.
Which gun gets upgraded in Norcek Proprietary?
Only the Goop Gun gets an upgrade here: it now holds three goops, while the Hook Gun retains two hooks.
The two players therefore leave the machines with different capacities. Keep track of your own weapon rather than assuming that both pickups provide the same improvement.
| Equipment | Capacity |
|---|---|
| Goop Gun | Three goops |
| Hook Gun | Two hooks |
The uncertainty is easy to recognize in the remark, "I don't know if that's another upgrade or not." The practical distinction is the Goop Gun's additional capacity. Another remark captures that change: "Yeah. So, I have three rocks now."
Do not expect a third hook from the Hook Gun pickup. The extra capacity belongs to the Goop Gun; the Hook Gun still has two hooks.
For your next move, the important check is that both players have collected their equipment. The upgrade does not replace the shared exit interaction.
How do you leave R&D and finish the checkpoint?
Both players must pull the R&D exit's two-handled chain together to finish Norček Proprietary.
After collecting your guns, regroup at the exit. This is another cooperative pull, now using the two handles on the exit chain. Have each player take a handle and coordinate the interaction, just as you coordinated the prototype room opening.
- Finish both equipment pickups.
- Move together to the R&D exit.
- Take one handle each on its two-handled chain.
- Pull together to end the checkpoint.
The equipment pickup and the exit pull are consecutive tasks. Receiving the upgraded Goop Gun is not the final action of this section; the checkpoint ends with both players operating the exit chain.
After that shared pull, the second checkpoint of Chapter 6, V3 Prototypes, takes you to the monorail.
How do you take the last monorail ride in V3 Prototypes?
Goop the slot by the hatch, press the hatch button, pull the two-handled chain together, then sit in the monorail seats. The Goop Gun player is the one who frees the hatch button; the Hook Gun player cannot do this step.
- Goop Gun player: goop the slot by the hatch. This frees the hatch button.
- Either player: press the hatch button.
- Both players: pull the two-handled chain together.
- Both players: sit in the monorail seats for the last ride.
The last monorail ride, with the destination set to Rift Zero Staging.
Shown at 168:59 in Aravien_’s video.The checkpoint ends when you get off the monorail at the other end. Continue with The World Beyond the Rift.
FAQ
Return to R&D together, open the prototype room with a simultaneous chain pull, retrieve both guns, and use the two-handled exit chain together. Each gun pickup requires holding Interact for five seconds.
The Goop Gun can hold three goops after you collect it here. The Hook Gun remains at two hooks.
Coordinate both players on the R&D exit's two-handled chain and pull together after retrieving your equipment. That shared action ends the checkpoint.