The Outer Worlds 2: How to Unlock the Terminal During the "Casting Off the Veil" Mission

Published: 23:13, 28 October 2025
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The Outer Worlds 2: How to Unlock the Terminal During the "Casting Off the Veil" Mission
The Outer Worlds 2: A terminal that needs to be powered on
The Outer Worlds 2: A terminal that needs to be powered on

"Casting Off the Veil" is a mission tied to Tristan, one of the companions. During this mission, you'll come across a locked terminal with a puzzle behind it. Here is how to solve it.

The companion number six in The Outer Worlds 2, the newest action RPG shooter developed by Obsidian Entertainment, is Tristan, a Protectorate agent with several side missions tied to his upgrade progression and perhaps the longest companion mission of all six companions available in the game.

The second of Tristan's missions is the one called Casting Off the Veil, and it is the lengthy one with so many objectives and jumping from planet to planet all the time.

This mission will eventually bring you to Central Control, where you'll be tasked to investigate a certain terminal, which, unlike most other terminals in the game, will be powered off, and your task will be to find the way to restore its power and access the secrets it hides. Here is how to do it properly.

How to restore power to the terminal in Central Control during the Casting Off the Veil mission

Once you exit the elevator and enter the secret room inside the main building in Central Control, Tristan will immediately head towards the terminal and comment that it is powered off and that you must find a way to restore the power.

You'll be able to interact with several objects inside the room, but only one object is the correct one, and it is probably the only one that is well hidden, or more precisely, hidden in plain sight, so it is very easy to overlook its location.

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The Outer Worlds 2: This is the object you must interact with to open a secret hatch
The Outer Worlds 2: This is the object you must interact with to open a secret hatch

To find the object, you must stay in front of the terminal, facing it head-on, and look to the left. You'll notice a strange, globe-like object you can interact with only if you come very close to it. Go on, approach it and interact with it. Once you do, Tristan will comment that something has opened, and he will leave the terminal.

A secret hatch will open in the middle of the room you can interact with, and once you do, Tristan will tell you to open the terminal while he holds the contraption. Go to the terminal and open it once it powers on. A video will play, and you'll finish this part of the quest.

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