Glitched Challenge Rooms

A Glitched Challenge Room (GCR) is the special challenge room of Infinity's Edge. Every IE level has one. Its portal is called Break Level Seal: "Powerful foes will emerge. Defeat them to pass."

Solara calls it the seal: "Every layer has one, preventing you from going deeper." Clearing it is the only way to go deeper or to reach the boss of the current depth.

Rewards

When you clear the room, it drops orbs and opens a reward area.

Orbs

The room drops 16 orbs as its base amount, multiplied by the depth (x1.0 at depth 1, +0.25 per depth). In Infinity's Edge they count as Quantum Orbs. That is 16 at depth 1, 28 at depth 4 and 72 at depth 15, before other orb bonuses.

Reward area

The reward area holds four things:

Position	Reward	Cost	Effect
Top left	Golden UP from Serenity	Shards, by depth	One random Golden UP. See Golden UPs.
Top center	Infinity Protocol	Free	"Descend deeper, towards Infinity's Edge." Takes you to the next depth. Not offered when you are at your max depth.
Top right	Corrupted UP from Symera	Free	One Corrupted UP with a benefit and a downside. See Corrupted Upgrades.
Center	End Run portal	Free	"Collapse the sim and face ..." Takes you to the boss fight of the current depth.

• Golden UP: Serenity only offers Golden UPs you have unlocked and have not seen or collected in this run. If none are left, she offers nothing.
• Corrupted UP: Symera only offers Corrupted UPs you have not collected in this run.
• The first time you meet each of them, a short intro dialogue plays. After that, each says one random line.

Golden UP price by depth

Depth	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shards	256	512	768	1,024	1,280	2,048	3,072	4,096

Depth	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
Shards	6,144	8,192	12,288	16,384	20,480	24,576	28,672

See also

• Infinity's Edge
• Infinity's Edge Depths
• Corrupted Upgrades
• Quantum Orbs