The City Ruins | NieR: Automata | Walkthrough 4
3After spending time in the Bunker and getting a lot of plot exposition, you finally make your way to the surface of Earth. The main hub area of the map is the City Ruins, a destroyed city that had remained for years and acts as the crossroads to other areas you will visit during the game.
After you land, you can freely explore small sections nearby, but your objective will be to head towards the Resistance Camp within the area. The location will be marked on your mini-map and is located near a flowing river. You can take time while traveling to the camp to fight some of the weaker enemies here to gain extra EXP, items, and money along the way.
When you finally reach the camp, you will need to speak with the camp leader. She will tell you to speak to the different shop keepers inside the camp, who will give you quick side quests to complete for them. Doing so after you speak with everyone will allow you to purchase more items from Shops and continue onward with your main objective.
You can easily finish all of the Shop requests right outside of the Resistance Camp. Just go to the locations marked off on yuor map and defeat the robot enemies there to gather items for the requests. Once you do so, return back to the Resistance Camp and speak ot all the shop keepers again, they will each give you rewards and all ow you to purchase a wider variety of items and memory chips from them.
Once that is done, speak with the resistance leader one last time before leaving the area. You will get a call from the Bunker to visit the next location.