Before long in The First Descendant, you’re told to decrypt a couple Encrypted Vaults. The problem is that we are not told at all how to find or solve these, and there are no markers on the map. Allow me to give you a hand.

Table of contents

• How to find Encrypted Vaults in The First Descendant
• How to decrypt an Encrypted Vault in The First Descendant
• The different types of vaults and their rewards in The First Descendant
• How to get Code Analyzers in The First Descendant
• All Encrypted Vault rewards in The First Descendant

How to find Encrypted Vaults in The First Descendant

Encrypted Vaults are genuinely difficult to find in The First Descendant, although you may have seen their markers a few times while completing missions.

You’ll find Encrypted Vaults in every region in the game (apart from Kingston!), and they’ll stay in the same place. This means that once you know where they are, you can return to keep looting them (like Munitions and Resource Boxes).

Note: Even though the vaults will spawn in the same location, I’ve noticed that they may take on a different difficulty (more on that later), so make sure to come prepared when hunting down vaults!

You’ll identify them as small graphical images on the floor. These indicate that a vault is nearby. If you press tab to activate your Ecive, you will hear a small beep and a white marker will show on your screen. You may have to look around to find it.

This marker shows the location of the nearby vault. The white marker will promptly disappear, so you may need to activate your Ecive numerous times to track it down.

Travel over to the white marker and you’ll be able to start the decryption.

If you’re struggling to find a vault, you may be better off spamming your Ecive as you explore a region. You’ll eventually hear a beep.

How to decrypt an Encrypted Vault in The First Descendant

Now that you’ve found your vault in The First Descendant, let’s hack into it. Thankfully, it’s easier to crack into these vaults than it is to find them.

Upon walking up to an Encrypted Vault, you’ll use the appropriate Code Analyzer to start hacking into it, consuming the item. So if you fail, you’ll still lose the Code Analyzer.

You’ll be met with a quick-time event.

You’ll have to press the button shown to you in the middle of the dias right when the red line is inside the highlighted zone. The moment you do, you’ll have hacked the vault.

If you don’t do it in time, or you miss, then you’ll have failed.

And that’s all there is to it! The lead up is much trickier than hacking the vault itself.

The different types of vaults and their rewards in The First Descendant

There are three different types of vaults in The First Descendant, although you won’t be able to tell which one is which until you go to decrypt it.

Here are the different Vaults and their rewards in The First Descendant:

The Code Analyzers will only work for vaults in the same difficulty. So Code Analyzers found by bosses in Normal difficulty missions can only unlock Normal difficulty encrypted Vaults.

It seems that every boss has the potential to drop each Code Analyzer, although the chances are pretty rare.

All Encrypted Vault rewards in The First Descendant

The rewards from the Encrypted Vaults, no matter the type, depend solely on the region you find them in. So, if you want a specific item, you’ll need to find any vault in a specific region.

Here are all the vault rewards and the regions you’ll find them in:

As you can see, Kingston doesn’t have any Encrypted Vaults. I suppose the Magisters never decided to hide vaults in there.

Now that you have all the information about Vaults you could possibly need, you can finally go out there and hunt them down.

Research materials can be pretty hard to find, so make sure to give yourselves breaks when grinding for Descendants and Weapons!