The Hex is a solo-only main Quest , released in Update The Drifter travels to the year of and teams up with the Protoframes known as The Hex try to locate Dr. After interrogating the Drifter, Arthur decides to chance on their story and join forces under a common goal. The former is revealed to be possessed by the Indifference. While making attempts to find Entrati and stop the nuke, the Drifter encounters Kalymos , who leads them to a recording from Entrati that they are trapped in an altered time loop and in order to escape they require a rare spark of energy: the nuclear explosion.
Thus, they would have to prevent the Hex from stopping the detonation. Entrati urges the Drifter to kill her to prevent the Indifference from further influencing the time loop, but they refuse.
The Indifference assumes their Operator form and whisks the three away to the Zariman Ten Zero , showing the Drifter that the Hex will die. Minutes before the explosion, the Hex make their move on the nuclear reactor.
Eleanor attempts to gain control the Techrot, but succumbs to the Infested hivemind and attacks Leticia. Quincy is killed while trying to hold off the Scaldra, Aoi dies from overexertion in an attempt to secure the reactor, Amir is fatally shot by Entrati, and Arthur succumbs to the nuclear reactor's radiation poisoning. Entrati leaves for Tau , but the Drifter chooses to stay behind to save the Hex.
Entrati warns that they cannot save the Hex unless the Drifter forms a personal bond with them. The Drifter uses their Duviri powers to rewind time and create a new loop, starting at the beginning of the year of After building up relationships with the rest of the Hex, the Drifter is able to intervene in the events in the reactor on New Years Eve, preventing the deaths of all of the Hex, and successfully defusing the threat, completing the Kalymos Sequence.
