how to use the holographic shroud

If you have been playing Outer World, you must have encountered some areas that are restricted. But in order to get important hands-on information and stuff, you need to sneak into these areas, which are not possible if you go as you are. In order to trespass in certain areas of the game, you need the holographic shroud. There are chances that you must have already found the holographic shroud but the issue most of the users are facing is actually how to use holographic shroud and how to make it work. But do not worry, I have managed to gather all the important information regarding the holographic shroud. You will get to know where to look for it and mainly how to make it work so that you can explore the restricted areas of the game.

How to use holographic shroud

What is a Holographic shroud?

For those who are not well aware of holographic shroud well, it allows the player to disguise himself as someone other like a fellow NPC. This helps the user to explore, discover, and search in restricted areas. If you try to enter into the restricted area without the shroud, you might get into big trouble; the NPC's will attack and kill you on the spot. The shroud was created by Dr. Phineas Welles, and it is one of the most important pieces of equipment in the game that allows you to get through the game.

Where to Find & How to Use Holographic Shroud?

Now that you have all the basic ideas on what it is Holographic Shroud, let's see where to look for the shroud? How to use Holographic Shroud or equip it?

The Location

So once you leave the area of Edgewater, you will be able to unlock the Holographic Shroud. After the basic introduction of the Holographic shroud by Dr. Phineas Welles video, you can set off to find the Shroud. Thankfully you do not have to make a long journey to get this piece of equipment. It is present in the Captain's quarters. For your ease of understanding, check the below image.

How to use holographic shroud

How To Use It

When you pick up the Holographic Shroud off the captain table, it will go into the inventory under quests. It will be present here, and you actually do not have to equip or attach anything to it. You just need to have an ID card, and whenever you visit a restricted area, it will automatically work.

So for the first time when you pick up the Holographic shroud, a small popup window will appear, giving you some basic information regarding the working, but it is pretty vague. This is where most of the players face issues. As the description talks about some correct ID cartridges, and without these cartridges, you will not be able to use the shroud.

ID cartridges

One more thing that you must keep in mind is that since there are multiple restricted areas in the game and for all the restricted areas, there is a different person or disguise, so the shroud needs to know the correct disguise for that particular restricted area.

That is why we need the ID card for that particular area in order to project the disguise by the shroud. Lastly, when you find an ID Card, it will also go into your inventory. Once you have the card, you can move freely in and out of the restricted area without getting caught.

How to use holographic shroud

Things that you must know when using the Holographic Shroud

Now that you have all the knowledge on using the shroud and ID cards, there are some things that you must know while you use the shroud actively.

Every time you put on the shroud, there will be a purple bar located below which will you tell you the remaining time left until your disguise went off. This purple bar tells you how long that disguise will last.
Every time you walk, run, take action. The purple bar will start to lose, so you need to make your moves very carefully.
Once the purple bar is about to lose completely, there are two things you can do.
- Either leave the area and then come back again with the bar full
- Let your disguise go and answer the guard's questions. Make sure that you answer correctly and carefully. If your answer is correct, the bar will come back to full, and you can quickly move around.

Conclusion:

In this article, I have given a lot of crucial information regarding the holographic shroud in the outer world game. Does the guide cover all the common queries, which mainly includes what is holographic shroud? Where To Find and How to use Holographic Shroud? And some important things that you must know while using the shroud.

Hopefully, all your queries have been covered. Thank you!