Hello gamers, how's everyone doing? Hope you're all great. We're back with more DEATHLOOP and this time I actually have good news for a change — because after that brutal failed attempt at the laboratory that I told you about last time, I went back in ready, focused, and determined. And this time, things went completely differently. I finally took down Dr. Wenjie Evans, the first Visionary on my list, and on top of that I unlocked one of the most important mechanics in the entire game. Blue weapons started showing up, the Residuum system finally opened up, and honestly DEATHLOOP just jumped to a whole new level of fun. Let me break it all down.
Finally Making It Into Wenjie's Laboratory
So going in this time I already had a huge advantage over my previous attempt — I knew the layout. I knew where the cameras were, I knew which corridors were packed with clones, I knew where the green and blue annexes connected and how to move between them without walking blindly into a room full of Wenjies waiting to unload on me. Knowledge really is the most powerful weapon in this game, and that's not something I say lightly after spending so many runs getting completely dismantled in that place.
I went in during the afternoon, which is when the lab is fully open and active, and I moved deliberately from the moment I entered The Complex. Hackamajig out early, turrets flipped to my side before pushing deeper, cameras neutralized as I went. The approach was slower than I'd like but infinitely smarter than what I tried last time. And it paid off. The clones were still a problem — make no mistake, there are a lot of them spread across every level and every annex of that lab, and each one requires real ammunition and real attention to put down. But this time I had the resources and the patience to work through them systematically instead of panicking and burning through everything at once. Room by room, floor by floor, I pushed deeper into that laboratory and kept moving forward no matter what the clones threw at me.
The structure of the fight itself is genuinely interesting once you understand it. Each clone you eliminate leaves behind a clue pointing toward where the next one is hiding, so the whole thing plays out like a trail you follow through the building. It forces you to keep moving, keep pushing, keep engaging even when your instinct is to stop and catch your breath. There's a real rhythm to it once you get into it, and when you finally take down that last clone and Wenjie goes down for good, it feels earned in a way that very few video game moments do.
Finding the Residuum Experiment
Here's where things got really interesting. After putting Wenjie down, the game directed me toward a Portable Harvester sitting near her body. And this is where the whole Residuum system finally clicked into place for me in a way the game had been building toward since the very beginning. You pick up the harvester, use it on Wenjie's remains to absorb the Residuum she leaves behind, and then activate a nearby experiment that she had been running. That interaction is what unlocks the full Residuum Infusion system for Colt.
And I have to say, finding this experiment and understanding what it meant for everything going forward was one of those genuinely exciting game moments. Because suddenly the whole loop structure of DEATHLOOP makes a completely different kind of sense. The Residuum that Wenjie was studying, the glowing chromatic deposits you've been seeing scattered around Blackreef this whole time — all of it connects to this system that essentially lets Colt cheat the loop in a very specific and very satisfying way. It's the missing piece that the early hours of the game were building toward without ever fully explaining.
Finally Keeping Weapons After Dying
And this is the part I had been waiting for without even fully realizing it. Once the Infusion system is unlocked, you can spend Residuum to permanently lock weapons, trinkets, and Slab powers into Colt's loadout so they carry over between loops instead of disappearing when the day resets. This is enormous. Before this, every new loop meant starting from scratch with whatever basic gear you had, and any interesting weapon or ability you picked up during a run would just evaporate when the cycle ended. It made progress feel fragile in a way that was occasionally frustrating even when the overall loop structure made sense narratively.
Now? Now you invest Residuum into the items you want to keep, and they're yours permanently. And the moment I started doing this, blue-rarity weapons started appearing and entering my loadout — noticeably stronger, more interesting guns with better stats and unique properties that grey common weapons simply don't have. The difference in firepower is immediately noticeable, and knowing that I can now hold onto these weapons across loops without losing them completely changes how I think about every run. Now there's real investment happening. Real progression. Every Visionary kill farms Residuum, every glowing deposit on the map is worth hunting down, and every loop I complete makes Colt meaningfully stronger and better equipped for what's ahead.
The Infusion system also works on Slabs — the special abilities you take from Visionaries — and on trinkets, which are passive upgrades that tweak your performance in various ways. So the buildcraft potential here is genuinely deep. You're not just keeping weapons, you're constructing a version of Colt that gets more refined and more powerful with every loop you run.
On to the Next One
So Wenjie is down, the Residuum system is open, and DEATHLOOP has officially shifted into a completely different gear for me. I still don't know exactly who the next Visionary target is going to be or what their situation looks like, but I know they're out there on Blackreef somewhere, going about their endlessly repeating day completely unaware that Colt is now properly equipped and coming for them. Each Visionary is its own puzzle — a different district, a different time of day, a different personality and set of abilities protecting them. And now that I have the tools to actually retain my progress between attempts, tackling each of them feels like a real campaign rather than just surviving moment to moment. So gamers, stay tuned because this is just getting started. See you in the next one!