Specimen Storage

Resident Evil 4 guide · Finding the keycard

Leon must navigate Specimen Storage in Chapter 13 while upgrading the Keycard to Level 3 to unlock Ashley's cell. The area is filled with suspended specimen body bags and lurking Regeneradors. You must maneuver through the room, carefully avoiding or eliminating the creatures to reach the card-overwriting terminal and progress further into the facility.

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Biosensor Scope: In the Incubation Lab, start from the northern room with the card-overwriting terminal and look directly to the open metal case resting on the counter adjacent to the terminalHow: pick it up from the open caseMissable because: lost permanently after boarding the cargo lift at the end of Chapter 15, which locks out the laboratory area for the rest of the game

Items

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Level 3 Keycard: Terminal in the Incubation Lab/Autopsy progression path

Enemies

Regenerador

Weak to Parasites (plagas) inside its body visible via the Biosensor Scope

Will regenerate lost limbs rapidly unless all internal parasites are destroyed.

Tips

Do not sprint blindly through the hanging specimen bags, as bumping into certain ones will drop a live Regenerador into the room.
Equip the Biosensor Scope onto a compatible rifle or SMG to spot and destroy the plagas glowing inside the Regenerador bodies before they can close the distance.
Running past Regeneradors is possible in certain narrow sections, but destroying their legs with a high-powered shot can buy you enough time to slip through without wasting ammo on every parasite.

Not listed for this area: secrets, shops and people.

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