Read Jericho City Before You Push On

The official description sets the scene precisely: you wake up weeks after your plane is shot down, in a derelict detention facility inside Jericho City, where armour-clad soldiers enforce martial law, robots rampage, and a nanostorm expands over the skyline.

Soldiers are your earliest upgrade source

Martial-law troops carry the kind of kit a freshly rebuilt rig needs. Because looting in The Surge 2 works by severing specific body parts, soldiers are the practical place to practise choosing a target part before a fight rather than after it.

Robots are patterns, not health bars

The store describes robots on a rampage alongside brutal melee combat. Machines rarely reward trading, so the useful habit is reading what each one does before committing your stamina to a damage window you cannot escape.

The nanostorm is map pressure

An expanding nanostorm is described as looming over the city rather than as an enemy to defeat. Treat it as a reason the city changes and a reason to keep your rig current, not as a fight you can solve with one more attempt.

Rebuild before you explore

You start in a detention facility weeks after the crash, which means your first real task is re-arming. There is no point in pushing into a lethal district while the rig is still the one you woke up in.

Once you are equipped, cut the limb you actually want and build the rig around implants and drones.