Days Gone Remastered: NERO Injector Locations & Interactive Tracking Guide

NERO Injectors in Days Gone Remastered are the 30 permanent stat upgrades scattered across Oregon — the only way to extend Deacon's Health, Stamina, and Focus bars beyond their starting values.

With exactly 30 available and each stat requiring 10 to reach its maximum, the math works out cleanly: 30 Injectors is precisely enough to fully max all three stats if collected without exception.

All 30 locations can be seen and tracked on our complete Days Gone Remastered interactive game map.

Two Source Types, Very Different Access

• NERO Checkpoints (12 Injectors) — require the full activation process: destroy all speakers, find fuel, insert fuse if needed, power the generator. The activation unlocks the MMU building where the Injector sits in a white cooler.

• NERO Research Sites (18 Injectors) — no activation process. Research Sites are simplified field stations: white crates beside helicopter wrecks, in caves with red blinking lights, on cliff ledges, at the end of railroad lines, or inside mines. Some require a Nitrous bike jump to reach; most just require finding the location. Approach and collect.

How Injectors Work

Hold the Injector from the inventory menu and press the corresponding button to assign it: Square for Health, Triangle for Stamina, Circle for Focus.

Each use permanently extends that stat's bar by 25 points. The assignment is irreversible — there's no way to reallocate a used Injector.

• Health — total damage capacity before death. The most universally useful stat, especially on higher difficulties.

• Stamina — governs running distance and number of rolls. Extending it allows longer foot pursuits and more evasive combat manoeuvres.

• Focus — controls slow-motion duration during aiming. Note: Focus only has value in combat after unlocking the "Focused Shot" skill from the skill tree. Using Injectors on Focus before that skill is unlocked provides no practical benefit in fights.

Two Trophies, One Strategy

"Better Living Through Chemistry" (Bronze) — use any Injector for the first time. The first is awarded automatically during the "He's My Brother" story mission — this trophy unlocks without any extra effort.

"Performance Enhanced" (Silver) — max out any single stat (Health, Stamina, or Focus completely). The fastest path: apply the first 10 consecutive Injectors to a single stat rather than spreading them across all three.

Health is the most tactically valuable for an immediate combat improvement. Once the Silver pops, spread the remaining 20 evenly across Stamina and Focus.

None Are Missable — But Research Sites Need Finding First

Research Sites appear on the map with a white "X" marker once Deacon gets close enough to discover them — they're not pre-marked from the start.

Clearing Ambush Camps reveals nearby NERO locations automatically, making camp clearance the fastest passive reveal method. Post-story free-roam keeps all 30 accessible indefinitely.