In Aion 2, main story Episodes become locked at set points until the Ascension Gauge is filled. Completing Regional side quests raises the gauge by just under 5% each, and Episode quests also fill it, so players focused on the main story likely need only three or four extra Regional quests.
In Aion 2, old gear cannot be sold, but Item Extraction lets you recycle it instead. Select a piece of gear in your inventory (The Cube), click the flask icon on the description panel, and confirm; each extraction costs a small amount of Kina currency. Extraction rewards upgrade materials such as Enhance Stones plus a cosmetic skin of the extracted gear.
Ghost of Yotei Most Wanted is a new roguelike mode added with Ghost of Yotei: Complete Edition, where players start as Atsu and can unlock four playable hunters, including Jin Sakai from Ghost of Tsushima. Unlocking Jin requires spending 30,000 currency on techniques, weapons or shop items, earned by completing runs and opening chests between rounds. Once unlocked, he keeps all four stances from Ghost of Tsushima, uses the Dance of Wrath as his ultimate, and carries a Sticky Bomb and the Hankyu.
Aniimo codes grant bonus level-up materials and other currency, including glimmer. Though the game lacks a traditional gacha system, these freebies remain useful for raising your aniimo army, buying items in the in-game shop, or exchanging for Sparkling Cubes to use on eggs.
Control Resonant has six secret hideouts, each requiring a puzzle to enter, and finding all of them unlocks the "Backroom Espionage" achievement. They are located in Downtown, Central, West Incursion Zone, Evacuation Zone, The Park, and the Unknown, with rewards including lore collectibles and a health upgrade point.
In Part 1 of Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Bird Time is the only way to raise any character's support level with Eshmel. Since Eshmel is only a bird throughout the first routes and cannot be controlled, the only option to build a bond is a quick chat at the Perch, similar to tea time in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
You can save on PC games during Steam sales and beyond by keeping a large Steam wishlist and using price-tracking sites like IsThereAnyDeal to compare deals across vetted retailers. Bundle storefronts such as Fanatical, Humble, Green Man Gaming and Digiphile often offer steep discounts, while the Epic Games Store regularly gives away two titles a week and one a day during its end-of-year celebrations. Playnite can help you organize games across Steam, GOG, Epic and Itch.
In Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, bitter leaves are not a rare material, but they can only be found in a few locations scattered across the four corners of the map. Visiting at least one of these spots is worthwhile, since the material is needed to complete Leda's perform quest, "Popular Drink Recipes."
The endings in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are made up of several separate epilogue quests and cutscenes, resulting in a seemingly endless string of combinations. Your choices—fraternizing with assassins, scheming against kings, finding a lost daughter, killing monsters, and seducing sorceresses—determine the outcome.
Aion 2 is out now, but incorrect PC settings can prevent players from finishing character creation. The guide suggests enabling automatic date and time, then switching DNS servers to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. If the account or IP has been flagged and banned, the only workaround is using a Taiwan VPN and creating a new Taiwan-region account.
In Control Resonant, a mysterious dog sits on a rooftop, and interacting with her starts a quest to find her a toy, with one located nearby. The dog appears in multiple zones, so players must find several toys to complete the "Every Dog Has Her Day" side story quest.
In Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave, Renown is one of two stats needed to recruit new team members, with some characters requiring level 10 Renown, and each Flame Lord's campaign builds Renown separately. Completing main story battles is the biggest source of Renown, with arena battles granting at least around 500 points, and each of the four Flame Lords has their own exclusive Renown-gaining method, such as Cai's Kindness Quests.
Not all romances in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt are created equally, with some romanceable characters being mere flings while others can become the love of Geralt's life. This guide covers the romance paths, whether players stay faithful to Triss or Yennefer or pursue others.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered adds an armor appearance transmog feature officially called Reforge, unlocked by completing the Master Armorers questline from the blacksmith at Crow's Perch, which is recommended for level 24 and requires defeating an Ice Troll and an Archgriffin. After completion, the new forgemaster Yoana lets you pick one piece of gear for its stats and another for its appearance, paying a small fee per altered piece, and Reforge can only be used by returning to Yoana.
Quick Sign Casting in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered was originally added in TW3's next-gen update and lets you hold R2/RT on a controller, then press a face or shoulder button to cast one of Geralt's Signs. With it disabled, Geralt can only cast an equipped Sign with R2/RT and must swap Signs through a selection wheel that pauses the game. If you've never played The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt before, Quick Sign Casting should be turned on; the only reason not to use it is if you're already used to the older style.
Enemy Upscaling in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered keeps every encounter challenging, so even with the best sword you won't one-shot weaker foes in early areas. Turning it on makes lower-level quests less boring but means spending more time fighting weak enemies, and whether to enable it comes down to personal preference.
The Ursine armor diagrams are found in The Skellige Isles and require level 20 to equip, with sirens, wraiths, gargoyles, and a rabid rock troll standing in the way. The basic diagrams sit in the ruined castle on Urialla Isle, and the upgrade diagram locations come from buying Ibrahim Savi's maps from the Kaer Trolde armorer.
The Griffin armor diagrams are found in Dragonslayer's Grotto in east Velen and require level 11, with wraiths, endrega, an ekimmara, and a wyvern in the way. The set has four armor pieces and two swords but no crossbow, and can be forged at Crow's Perch, Novigrad, or Kaer Trolde. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrades come from Edwin Greloff's maps, the last bought from Éibhear Hattori after completing Of Swords and Dumplings.
The Wolven armor diagrams in The Witcher 3 are found at the old signal tower just south of Kaer Morhen keep, with a level 14 requirement and plenty of wraiths to fight along the way. Activate the teleportation crystals with Aard to open a portal and loot the diagrams from a corpse in the cave. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrade diagrams are unlocked by buying notes from Éibhear Hattori in Novigrad, Lindenvale's armorer, and Kaer Trolde's armorer.
The Feline armor diagrams are found in a cave on Temple Isle in Novigrad and require level 17, with drowners, wraiths, a golem, and a witcher standing in the way. The light set includes four armor pieces, two swords, and a crossbow, boosting attack power at the cost of damage resistance. Enhanced, superior, and mastercrafted upgrade diagrams come from buying Adalbert Kermith's maps at the Blackbough merchant, Crow's Perch quartermaster, and Lindenvale's armorer.
The Witcher 3 Remastered lets you transmog armor and swords, but only at two master smiths: Yoana at Crow's Perch for armor after the Master Armorers quest, and Hattori in Novigrad for swords after Of Swords and Dumplings. Each reskin costs 100-200 coin, and any armor or sword placed in Geralt's inventory unlocks as a skin. The system isn't retrospective for existing saves, and Lazare Lafargue in the Blood and Wine DLC can't transmog armor.
PC Gamer outlines an unofficial method to enable 4x Multi Frame Generation (MFG) on RTX 40-series graphics cards. Users download the ReShade HDR Installer, install the unofficial RTX 40 MFG and OptiScaler mods for a supported game, then set Frame Generation to Dynamic and Frame Count to Up to 4x via Nvidia Profile Overrides. The method is not officially supported and can introduce smeary frames, latency issues, and possible anti-cheat detection.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered adds a Loot Merge mechanic that makes the first corpse you loot after a battle include items from nearby corpses. It does not apply to chests, containers, or corpses that were already dead before you arrive. Loot Merge is handy and does not break the game's flow, so it is worth enabling.