Also, I blew up the wall from the hidden library to the main lab first, then got the black key card. The black key card doesn't open the laboratory for me however. Is that bugged or am I missing something?
Where the fuck are these jump boots? There is an absurd amount of unprompted bullshit wallhugging he's expecting which is completely in opposition to the stamina system. Retarded design.
Someone should have mentioned the dev put up a playthrough:
The four ads in the first fight - firstly don't even die when the main plant dies, they should - but they also each have somewhere in the realm of 2.5k health and your basic attack does like 40 damage. You HAVE to triple shot all of them and that doesn't even kill guaranteed. What kind of design choice is that?!
Ran into a random goblin-looking guy outta nowhere back in the main building and he only had roughly 750~ health or so. I'm hoping the absurd health of the tentacles was just a "boss fight" thing.
EDIT: and WOW it is not kidding when it says your first aid move restores a small amount of HP. It gave me 63hp and the basic bitch enemies hit for over a hundred. Fuck right off.