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Call Of Duty Black Ops 6 Campaign Safes Guide: Where To Find The Safe In Every Mission

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As you play through the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 campaign, you're going to want to grab all the cash you can to buy upgrades that can power up your character with a variety of useful perks. Finding that cash can prove troublesome, however--money is scattered haphazardly through missions and often in small amounts, unless you can find and open safes....
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Destiny 2 Arcane Embrace God Roll Guide

Destiny 2's Festival of the Lost brings a few unique weapons to the game alongside its spooky season-themed activities. New this year is Arcane Embrace, a one-of-a-kind shotgun with a new archetype that fires two slugs with each pull of the trigger instead of one. Especially with its god roll perks, it's an extremely powerful option for leveling tough enemies or dealing boss damage.Arcane Embrace is only available during the Festival of the Lost and only from specific sources. Here's how to get...
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Destiny 2 Ice Breaker Guide: How To Get The New Solar Sniper Rifle

Vesper's Host, the dungeon that's part of Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant content release, brings a new Exotic weapon to the game that's actually an old one: Ice Breaker. The Exotic Solar sniper rifle was a fan favorite in the original Destiny thanks to its ability to slowly generate its own ammunition, making it great for hitting bosses with an intense amount of damage.The new version of Ice Breaker is a bit different, but it has similar perks that make it a great boss damage weapon that you'll w...
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Destiny 2 Exuviae God Roll Guide - Best Perks And How To Get It

Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant puts a big emphasis on Stasis abilities, providing a series of unlockable mods on its Artifact that greatly amplify all your enemy freezing abilities and weapons. All those buffs make Exuviae, the episode's new Stasis hand cannon, a handy primary weapon for Stasis synergy. That said, you'll probably want Exuviae for its PvP capabilities, where it can get a whole lot of range and accuracy.Like most new guns that drop with each Act of an episode, the first Exuviae you...
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Destiny 2 Liturgy God Roll Guide - Best Perks And How To Get It

Destiny 2's new Stasis grenade launcher, Liturgy, is a fairly remarkable breech-loader for a couple of reasons. First, the Episode: Revenant weapon is one of the few Double Fire archetype launchers, which means it fires two grenades at a time instead of one for double the explosive power. Second, it goes in your primary weapon slot and is imbued with Stasis, an element that is highly in vogue thanks to boosts coming from the Revenant artifact. And finally, the excellent perks in its god roll syn...
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Destiny 2 Vantage Point God Roll - Best Perks And How To Get It

While a few other guns in Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant stand out a bit more, like Exuviae and Liturgy, the adaptive frame Arc pulse rifle Vantage Point you can get from the episode is pretty good, too. Its god roll makes it a well-rounded weapon in PvE in particular, and can work well with Arc builds focused on delivering Jolt to enemies to keep them electrified while keeping yourself Amplified.Right now, Revenant weapons can be earned by playing the episode's main attraction, the wave-based On...
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Destiny 2 Revenant - Every New Exotic In The Episode (So Far)

Revenant's season-pass weapon is available either as soon as you start Revenant, if you've purchased the season pass, or at Tier 40 on its free track if you haven't. It's a pretty remarkable gun, giving you the chance to play a support role on your team while still knocking out lots of enemies quickly.Alethonym is a Stasis grenade launcher that uses primary ammo--the first to do that since Fighting Lion. When you get final blows with it or impale a more powerful enemy with the exploding ice stak...
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Destiny 2 New Dungeon Vesper's Host: Release Date, Disabled Weapons, And Everything To Know

Alongside Destiny 2's Episode: Revenant content drop comes Vesper's Host, a three-player dungeon that, like previous dungeons, is sure to offer some intense challenge to endgame players. That challenge is going to be more intense than usual for the first weekend of Vesper's Host, because for the first time, Bungie is running a world's first completion race similar to those it puts on for its raids. As players compete to be the first in the world to finish Vesper's Host, they'll have to deal with...
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Destiny 2 Revenant Tonics Guide - How To Get More Tonic Recipes And Fieldwork

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With Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant comes the new Onslaught: Salvation activity, and with it, a new system for crafting special tonics that provide you with lots of different bonuses. These break down into two categories--Volatile tonics, which give you specific combat buffs, and Enriching tonics, which help you tune which rewards you receive from activ...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Guide: How To Solve The X-Ray Puzzle In Brookhaven Prison

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Making your way through Silent Hill 2 Remake's Brookhaven Hospital requires solving lengthy puzzles to uncover the story of its strange, obsessive Director. To make your way all the way through the hospital, you'll need to solve the puzzle of the X-Ray Viewer on the third floor, which requires finding and arranging a group of radiographs in order to...
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Destiny 2 Episode: Revenant Season Pass Gear And Exotics

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The second of Destiny 2's new content episodes, Revenant, has arrived, bringing a whole new season pass and a bunch of new rewards spread out over its three Acts. With the replacement of the old seasonal model with the new episodic approach, Destiny 2 has also changed its paid battle passes, expanding to a total of 200 levels where once there were on...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Coin Puzzle Guide For Wood Side Apartments

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When you first arrive in Wood Side Apartments in Silent Hill 2, you'll find a strange cabinet with spaces to insert several round objects and a poem on top. This cabinet is the remake's version of a similar puzzle from the 2001 original, and you'll spend the next few hours of your time exploring the apartment building in order to solve it. To finally...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Moth Puzzle Guide For Blue Creek Apartments

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Early in the Silent Hill 2 remake, protagonist James Sunderland makes his way to the Wood Side Apartments, and after searching almost every inch, leaps across a small gap into another building, the Blue Creek Apartments. It's here, in Silent Hill's strange and frightening Otherworld, that James faces even more puzzles blocking his progress. One of th...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake Guides Hub

Though it's often pretty faithful to the 2001 original, Bloober Team's remake of Silent Hill 2 is also filled with differences. Chief among those are the puzzles. While this new version of the game often works to preserve the spirit of elements, like the famous gallows scene or the coins scattered through the Wood Side Apartments, the puzzles themselves have been altered so that you can't just remember old solutions to make your way through this new trip into the fog.In addition to a huge number...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Trick Or Treat Elevator Quiz Answers

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Brookhaven Hospital in the Silent Hill 2 remake is a weird place, but no part of it is weirder than the unprompted, radio-style quiz show that plays late in the level. As protagonist James Sunderland rides an elevator, he's asked three questions about the history of Silent Hill. If you've been exploring the town thoroughly and paying close attention,...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Weights Puzzle And Hanging Poems Guide

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Late in Silent Hill 2 Remake, James makes his way into one of the strangest and most intense locations in the game: Toluca Prison. The dark and frightening location in the original game includes the gallows, one of the game's most iconic puzzles, where players are tasked with identifying which of six criminals is innocent based on the descriptions of...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Apartment 206 Safe Code In The Blackout Room

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While the Silent Hill 2 Remake sticks close to the original's story and path through the game, it's filled with puzzles that are similar to what was in the 2001 game, but not quite the same. One of those is the lengthy search for three coins in Wood Side Apartments that are necessary to make your way through to the second apartment building, Blue Cre...
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Silent Hill 2 Remake - Bug Room Door Code In Toluca Prison

Entering Toluca Prison is one of the more unsettling and strange moments of Silent Hill 2, and that disturbing vibe is amplified early on when you find yourself trapped in a room filled with bugs, with a keypad locking the door and barring your exit.The only way to escape this room is by punching in the right code on the door's keypad, but finding the code can be difficult--especially as the place periodically fills with bugs you'll need to smash if you want to keep them from attacking you. The...
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How Long Is Silent Hill 2 Remake? - Playthrough Times For All Play Styles

Like the 2001 original, the Silent Hill 2 remake is a dense game with lots to find within it if you're willing to scour its foggy and dark corners. With a greater emphasis on combat and a few areas that feel larger and more involved, and with new puzzles that often require multiple steps to complete, though, it's going to be a while before you can escape that town. If you're wondering just how long it'll take, that depends greatly on how completionist you intend to be and whether you want to lea...
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