Metroid Dread: Every Piece Of Equipment (& Where To Find Them)

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Menu Directory Menu Follow Followed Like More Action Sign in now More Close By Tom Bowen Updated Dec 5, 2021 Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and features from time to time, he spends most of his time writing guides these days. Sign in to your Game Rant account follow Follow followed Followed Like Like Log in Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Try something different: Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap This article is part of a directory: Metroid Dread: Complete Guide & Walkthrough Getting Started in Metroid Dread How-To Guides How to Kill the EMMI Robots Every Type of Door (& How to Open Them) How To Get Through Hot Areas (Varia Suit) How to Destroy Fire Plants How To Unlock Gallery Art (Chozo Archives) All 100% Completion Rewards How To Get The Phantom Cloak Early (Spider Magnet Skip) How To Get Bombs Early (Diffusion Beam Skip) How To Get The Gravity Suit Early (Skip Space Jump) General Tips and Tricks Things We Wish We Knew Before Starting Metroid Dread MIstakes to Avoid in Metroid Dread Useful Tricks for Metroid Dread Shinespark Tips and Tricks FAQs How Long to Beat Hard Mode Differences What are the Blue Butterflies for? What Blue Walls Do & How To Interact With Them The Main Story Bosses Corpius Kraid Drogyga Chozo Soldier Escue Twin Robot Chozo Soldier Experiment No. Z-57 Golzuna Raven Beak Where to Go Next Guides Where to Go After Getting Spider Magnet Where to Go After Getting Phantom Cloak Where to Go After Getting Speed Booster Where to Go After Grapple Beam Where to Go After Spin Boost (Stuck in Ghavoran) What To Do After Getting The Ice Missiles What To Do After Getting The Storm Missiles Where to Go After Getting Space Jump What To Do After Getting The Gravity Suit What To Do After Getting The Screw Attack What To Do After Getting The Cross Bomb What To Do After Getting The Wave Beam What To Do After Getting The Power Bomb Equipment and Upgrade Guides Every Piece of Equipment (& Where to Find Them) Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Artaria Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Cataris Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Dairon Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Burenia Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Ferenia Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Ghavoran Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Elun Every Energy, Missile & Power Bomb Tank in Hanubia

Much like its predecessors, Metroid Dread does an excellent job of implementing its upgrades and power-ups. Not only do they help to make players feel as though they're growing stronger as they make their way through the game, but they also completely change the way that Samus and the player explore Planet ZDR and its many regions.

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With each new piece of equipment and technique that players unlock and learn, brand new routes will open in front of them, allowing them to unearth new secrets in areas that had already been quite thoroughly explored. These upgrades also play a pivotal role in Metroid Dread's devilishly difficult boss-fights, which, even with Samus' powerful new equipment, still provide just the right amount of challenge.

Updated December 4, 2021 by Tom Bowen: Collecting new equipment and upgrades has always played an important role in the Metroid series; helping not only to steer players in the right direction, but also to provide them with a near-constant sense of improvement as they make their way through the game. Metroid Dread is no different in this regard and actually boasts more power-ups than any other Metroid game before it. This guide has information on where players can acquire them all, as well as the order in which they can expect to find them.

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Beam Upgrades
Charge Beam		Wide Beam		Diffusion Beam
Grapple Beam		Plasma Beam		Wave Beam
Hyper Beam		Omega Cannon
Missile Upgrades
Super Missile		Ice Missile		Storm Missile
Aeion Upgrades
Phantom Cloak		Flash Shift		Pulse Radar
Suit Upgrades
Varia Suit		Gravity Suit		Metroid Suit
Morph Ball Upgrades
Morph Ball		Bomb		Cross Bomb
Power Bomb
Miscellaneous Upgrades
Spider Magnet		Speed Booster		Spin Boost
Space Jump		Screw Attack

Every Beam Upgrade in Metroid Dread

Charge Beam

Where to find the Charge Beam

Players will find the Charge Beam being held by a Chozo statue in the southwestern corner of Artaria. Before they can reach it, however, they'll first need to drain some water by stepping on a special tile and then follow the path through a missile-locked door to the statue.

How to use the Charge Beam

The Charge Beam is the first upgrade to Samus' power blaster and allows players to unleash a more powerful shot by holding down the Y button. With it, they can open orange Charge Beam doors and deal additional damage to enemies.

Wide Beam

Where to find the Wide Beam

Players will find the Wide Beam in the central area of Dairon. To reach it, they'll first need to activate the generator to restore power to the area. Next, they'll have to head through a missile-locked door and then a Charge Beam door to find the Chozo statue that's holding the beam.

How to use the Wide Beam

The Wide Beam allows Samus to fire three separate beams with each shot rather than just one. As well as allowing players to hit enemies multiple times or multiple targets with a single shot, it also enables them to open the doors that are covered by the orange three-dot domes.

Diffusion Beam

Where to find the Diffusion Beam

Players can find the Diffusion Beam in the southwestern corner of Cataris shortly after defeating Kraid. They'll need to exit the boss room from the right side via the blue Spider Magnet panel and then head through the missile-locked door to find the Chozo statue that's holding the beam.

How to use the Diffusion Beam

When charged, the Diffusion Beam allows players to damage enemies through platforms. It can also be used to damage the red organic matter through thin walls and surfaces, which will be needed to exit the room in which players find the beam.

Grapple Beam

Where to find the Grapple Beam

Players can find the Grapple Beam in the northern part of Artaria. As with other beam upgrades, it's being held by a Chozo statue behind a red missile-locked door.

How to use the Grapple Beam

To use the Grapple Beam, players will need to hold the ZR button and then press Y. It can be used to swing from special Grapple Beam blocks in the ceiling, open Grapple Beam doors, and pull certain blocks. It can also latch onto the blue Spider Magnet surfaces, making it an invaluable tool for climbing and vertical exploration.

Plasma Beam

Where to find the Plasma Beam

Players will find the Plasma Beam in Elun shortly after passing through a Morph Ball launcher. They'll need to destroy a red missile dome and then shoot through the ceiling to gain access to the room with the Chozo statue that's holding the upgrade.

How to use the Plasma Beam

The Plasma Beam is a more powerful version of the Diffusion Beam and will allow Samus to destroy the green domes that are covering certain doors. It can also pierce through enemies and allows players to damage metallic enemies without the need for charging.

Wave Beam

Where to find the Wave Beam

The Wave Beam is the last permanent upgrade for Samus' arm canon and is obtained by defeating the purple E.M.M.I. robot in Ferenia near the end of the game.

How to use the Wave Beam

The wave been can penetrate solid objects, including enemies, walls, and ceilings. Players can also use it to destroy the purple Wave Beam domes that cover certain doors on planet ZDR or destroy the red organic matter to open up new routes.

Hyper Beam

Where to find the Hyper Beam

Players will unlock the wave beam after the fourth phase of the fight with Raven Beak. They'll be able to use it during the final phase of the battle as well as the escape sequence that follows it.

How to use the Hyper Beam

The Hyper Beam replaces Samus' other beams and is able to destroy pretty much every type of block in the game. It's also needed to unlock the door that leads to Samus' ship.

Omega Cannon

Where to find the Omega Cannon

The Omega Cannon is a temporary upgrade that's obtained by absorbing the power from Central Units. Players will unlock the weapon at six different points throughout the game and must use it to kill the E.M.M.I. robots by destroying their cores.

How to use the Omega Cannon

The Omega Cannon has two different modes. The first, the Omega Stream, is activated by holding the L and Y buttons at the same time and is used to heat up the shielding around the robots' cores. The second, the Omega Blaster, requires players to hold the L and R buttons to charge and is then fired by pressing Y.

Every Missile Upgrade in Metroid Dread

Super Missile

Where to find the Super Missile

Players can find the Super Missile in the arms of a Chozo statue in Ghavoran. It's to the south of the area between the two elevators to the south of the region and can be accessed with the aid of missiles and Morph Ball bombs.

How to use the Super Missile

The Super Missile is just a more powerful version of the regular missile and is used in the exact same way (hold R and then press Y). As well as dishing out extra damage, this increased power also allows players to destroy the green mesh super-missile domes that cover certain doors on planet ZDR.

Ice Missile

Where to find the Ice Missile

Players will unlock the Ice Missile after destroying the blue E.M.M.I. robot in the Ghavoran region.

How to use the Ice Missile

The Ice Missile is used in the exact same way as earlier missile upgrades (hold the R button and then press Y). As well as being more powerful than Super Missiles, they can also be used to freeze certain enemies and objects and are the only way to destroy Enky, the strange fire plants that block certain routes in the game.

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