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Balachko is a special Pyro Fatui Agent in the Natlan region of Genshin Impact. As a Local Legend, Balachko is a miniboss with greatly increased health and damage compared to most overworld enemies. Three achievements are associated with defeating this shady figure, so let’s get to work. Where to find Local Legend Balachko Balachko can be found near the People of the Springs, in the cave to the left of the Sanctum of Rainbow Spirits domain. There are a few tribal enemies in a camp. Defeat all the enemies to clear the way and unlock a Precious Chest. Balachko is behind a locked gate that requires two Keys to Somewhere to open. Balachko's location (underground) Screenshot by Destructoid Where to find the Keys to Somewhere The first Key to Somewhere can be found in a cage at the far end of the cave. The second Key is at the end of a rope dangling from the ceiling above the Precious Chest. You can climb on the chest or some nearby boxes to reach it or jump up with a tall character. Once you have both keys, activate the switch to open the gate. Balachko awaits in a small arena behind the gate. Screenshot by Destructoid Screenshot by Destructoid Beating Local Legend Balachko: which clone is the real one? Prepare to fight Balachko by bringing at least one Hydro character. You may also want to cook some food to grant yourself buffs. Local Legends are no joke; Balachko can down you in one hit if you’re not careful, and he has a massive health pool. Shielders like Zhongli and Diona can help prevent you from being one-shot. If you’re having trouble beating Balachko in your world, see if you can join someone else at a lower World Level. Since overworld enemies scale to the host’s World Level, you might have an easier time in co-op. As a Pyro Fatui Agent, Balachko has a ****** habit of going invisible and summoning shadowlike clones of himself. Periodically, he will uncloak himself and attack you in tandem with his clones. Deal damage when you can, and wait for him to summon a ring of clones around himself. These clones will throw blades at you. Only the real Balachko throws a red Pyro blade. The clones throw white Physical blades. Look for the clone that launches a Pyro blade and hit it with Hydro attacks to break through Balachko’s disguise. Screenshot by Destructoid Once you’ve broken Balachko’s shield, he’ll be stunned for a while and take increased damage. Take this opportunity to deal as much damage as possible. You’ll only have a few seconds – enough for one team rotation. After he recovers, repeat the previous steps to stun him again. How to get all achievements for Local Legend Balachko Genshin Impact features three achievements associated with Balachko. They must be done one at a time; you can’t do multiple in one fight. Once defeated, Balachko respawns daily, so these achievements will take a minimum of three days to complete. If you don’t want to wait for him to respawn, see if you can tackle him in another player’s world. Balachko Achievement 1 Balachko Achievement 1 is simply to defeat him. Refer to the steps above and do whatever you need to do to win the fight. Balachko Achievement 2 Balachko Achievement 2 requires you to destroy only the real Balachko during the ring-of-clones phase. Look for the clone that throws a Pyro-infused blade and hit it with Hydro attacks. Single-target Hydro appliers like Yelan or Xingqiu are helpful, since AoE attacks risk hitting other clones in the area. Hitting a clone once or twice is fine as long as they are not destroyed. After meeting this requirement, defeat Balachko to get the achievement. Balachko Achievement 3 Balachko Achievement 3 requires you to destroy three fake clones during one phase. I recommend bringing multiple Hydro characters to apply as much Hydro as fast as you can. I got this achievement using Xingqiu and Kokomi. Look for the clones throwing white Physical blades and hit them with Hydro attacks as quickly as possible. You need to take down three clones during a single phase. After taking down three clones, focus on the real Balachko. You might need to wait for the next ring-of-clones phase, where you can just target the actual boss. Defeat him to get the achievement. The post How to beat Balachko in Genshin Impact: all achievements guide appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

The 88+ Campaign Mix Player Pick SBC is now live in EA FC 25, and you can complete the challenge to add a promo item to your squad. This SBC features cards from older promos that were available earlier in Ultimate Team. Additionally, only cards rated 88 or higher have been included, which raises your chances of getting amazing items. Let's take a look at all the available rewards before you invest your resources in the challenge. Complete list of 88+ Campaign Mix Player Pick SBC rewards in EA FC 25 The SBC features cards from the following promos: Thunderstruck, Ultimate Succession, Globetrotters, Winter Wildcards, and NumeroFUT. Ultimate Succession Joshua Kimmich 88 Le Sommer 88 Marcus Thuram 88 Sandro Tonali 88 Lamine Yamal 89 Gregor Kobel 89 Selma Bacha 89 Marquinhos 90 Lionel Messi 92 Globetrotters Oscar 88 Carrasco 88 de Ligt 88 Douglas Luiz 88 Nagasato 88 Savinho 88 Suarez 88 Brahim 88 Kante 89 Dembele 89 Odegaard 90 Cristiano Ronaldo 90 Salah 91 Kerr 92 Winter Wildcards Juan Mata 88 De Gea 88 Danilo 88 Laporte 88 Sorloth 88 Bowen 88 Tillman 88 Mainoo 88 Parejo 88 Icardi 88 Janssen 88 Openda 88 Diaby 88 Rudiger 89 Bernardo Silva 88 Rolfo 89 Pedro Porro 89 Mead 89 Vitinha 89 Lacazette 89 Al Dawsari 89 Lookman 89 Lavelle 89 Son 90 Rice 90 Wirtz 90 Neymar 91 De Jong 91 Sophia Smith 91 Hansen 93 Vini Jr. 93 Haaland 94 Thunderstruck cards Andrich 88 Greenwood 88 Unai Simon 88 Randall Kolo Muani 88 Alexander Isak 89 Jules Kounde 89 Michael Olise 89 Karchaoui 90 Gyokeres 90 Pajor 90 Saliba 90 Reiten 91 Valverde 91 Rashford 92 Foden 92 De Bruyne 93 Mbappe 94 Numero FUT Dante 88 de Jong 88 Bright 88 Sugita 88 Vanderson 88 Galton 88 Fishlock 88 Maddison 88 Stiller 88 Hato 88 Vlahovic 89 Anton 89 Gilmour 89 Dumfries 89 Trapp 90 Cuadrado 90 James Rodriguez 90 Dunk 90 Pickford 90 Goretzka 90 Remiro 90 Mapi Leon Sarr 90 Endler 90 Balde 90 Roord 90 Walker 91 Alisson 91 Camavinga 91 Gabriel Martinelli 91 Eder Militao 91 Lewandowski 92 Rafa Leao 92 Griezmann 92 Once you complete the challenge, you'll have to pick a card between three different choices. It will be added to your squad, while the two remaining items will be discarded automatically. The post All EA FC 25 88+ Campaign Mix Player Pick SBC rewards appeared first on Destructoid. View the full article

Assassin's Creed Shadows will clock in at a massive 123GB, making it the game with the largest file size in the franchise's history. After facing multiple delays, Assassin's Creed Shadows is finally slated to be released on March 20, 2025, and fans may want to take the time to free up some space before the title's launch. View the full article

Starfieldmay have some big news next week, according to one Bethesda leaker. Bethesda's epic sci-fi RPG, Starfield, has enjoyed a number of important improvements throughout 2024. One update brought new city map icons to the game and another added the Rev-8 land buggy that allows players to travel across vast landscapes more quickly while exploring planets. Of course, the biggest addition to Starfield was its Shattered Space story DLC, which was released in September. View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Destiny 2’s year of content post-The Final Shape closes out with a spooky and mysterious Episode called Heresy, and it’s all about the Hive pantheon. The game even tells players that “something strange is near” in the new content, but what does that mean? Savathun, Xivu Arath, and Oryx are set to return and shake things up in the final Episode of the year before a new Destiny expansion comes out later in 2025, and the Dreadnought‘s coming with the new Episode, too. Get ready to explore the massive ship’s secrets, fight secret bosses, and get new loot while journeying through the darkened halls within. View the full article

It's the 6th anniversary of Apex Legends this month, and what a journey it's been. Respawn's multiplayer shooter has been through some highs and lows over the years, rising through every challenge to remain a pillar of the arena FPS scene. To celebrate lasting so long, several additions have been announced over the coming year, including big gameplay tweaks to keep even seasoned players on their toes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Apex Legends characters and abilities list The best multiplayer games to play with friends 2025 Apex Legends' tap strafe movement has been nerfed, and top players are furious View the full article

You’ll need to track down multiple items for various tasks and quests you have to complete in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Some are easier to find than others, and a notable one that might be a lot of trouble is knowing where you can get a spade shove. The spade shovel is not a unique item or tool, as people are actively hoarding or want to keep for themselves. The only thing special about it is that it allows you to dig up graves or digging spots, which happens in several quests or activities, like finding bandit treasure or if you’re working on The Lion’s Crest DLC. You can track down a spade shovel in a few ways, and it’s easier than you might think. Here’s what you need to know about where to find a spade shove in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. View the full article

It's the 6th anniversary of Apex Legends this month, and what a journey it's been. Respawn's multiplayer shooter has been through some highs and lows over the years, rising through every challenge to remain a pillar of the arena FPS scene. To celebrate lasting so long, several additions have been announced over the coming year, including big gameplay tweaks to keep even seasoned players on their toes. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Apex Legends characters and abilities list The best multiplayer games to play with friends 2025 Apex Legends' tap strafe movement has been nerfed, and top players are furious View the full article

Steam has recently rolled out a new change that informs buyers if that shiny new game they’re about to pick up has actually been abandoned by its developers. The new feature was noticed by SteamDB, now store pages for Early Access games which have gone at least a year or so without an update will […] Source View the full article

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 has steadily been receiving new content since it launched in September 2024. From new weapons, modes, enemy types, and maps, so much has been added to keep players busy. It's been an extremely generous offering, especially as all of these updates - outside of some new cosmetics for specific factions - have been completely free. However, it has kept the community alive and strong, much to the delight of Saber Interactive, the game's developer. View the full article

Marvel Rivalsis getting new skins for two of its characters this week, and fans are already eating them up. As a live-service game, skins are Marvel Rivals' microtransaction bread and butter. They completely alter a character's appearance, sometimes also changing their animations, so players can have a greater degree of customization over their preset characters. What's more, since skins are all over Marvel Rivals' battle pass, they serve as a way for players to show off their accomplishments along with their style. View the full article

Reading maps is a vital part of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, as they can lead you to where you can find treasure or lost items. If you picked up the Vidlak Bandit’s map after having the gamemaster, you can find a chest full of items. Narrowing down the exact location of where you have to go to complete this treasure map is tricky. Although it points you to an exact location, the treasure might not be there, as it could have moved due to natural elements, or someone might have taken it to a different location. Still, knowing the exact spot you have to go is difficult, given how large of a world map you have to explore. Here’s what you need to know about how to complete the Vidlak Bandit’s treasure map in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. View the full article

The Mace is a very powerful melee weapon on its own, but you can make this Minecraft tool even more effective if you equip it with enchantments. Like all other weaponry, armor, and tools, there’s a select group of best enchantments for the Mace. Some enchantments are only available for the Mace while others can be applied to an array of different types of gear, including the Mace. It can be tricky to figure out what enchantments work for this weapon, which makes the enchantment process decently confusing, so here are the best Mace enchantments in Minecraft. View the full article

Anime Reborn on Roblox features some of the most popular anime characters of all time as units—but which ones do you need to add to your team to glide through your quests? Like any other tower defense game on Roblox, you need to know the units that help you sail across the story quickly. Each unit has unique traits like Dark, Fire, Wind, Light, and Fierce, and you can always change their base stats by rerolling using Potential Keys. View the full article

Activision has announced plans to launch a free Call of Duty: ****** Ops 6 multiplayer and Zombies trial. PlayStation, Xbox and PC players will be able to try out a selection of content without charge from February 6-10. The trial includes 10 multiplayer maps, including Bounty and Dealership, which launched last week with Season 2. Dealership is set in a car dealership, while Bounty plays out across a crime lord’s **********. Read More... View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

Since our first glimpse of the Switch 2 last month, we've been left guessing on many crucial hardware details, including the all-important launch price. Now, Nintendo has hinted that the unsteady state of the international money market may play an outsize role in that pricing decision. Addressing a question about Switch 2 hardware pricing during an investor Q&A session Wednesday, Nintendo president Shintaro Furukawa said (via machine translation): In addition to the current inflation, we are aware that the exchange rate environment has changed significantly since the launch of the Nintendo Switch in 2017. We also need to consider the affordable price that customers expect from Nintendo products. When considering the price of a product, we believe that it is necessary to consider these factors from multiple angles. At this time, we cannot disclose the specific price of the Nintendo Switch 2, but we are considering it while taking various points into consideration. At this time, we do not plan to change the price of the Nintendo Switch hardware. Most of that is the usual polite executive-speak shorthand for "we're not ready to answer that yet." But the bit about exchange rates and inflation got us wondering just how vulnerable a Japanese company like Nintendo might be to the yen's historic weakness, and what this might mean for the Switch 2. Read full article Comments View the full article

Just like that, season 24 of Apex Legends is almost here. Named Takeover, the sixth anniversary season of the game is going to significantly change how it’s played—as has become tradition with these anniversary seasons. While last year brought us Evo upgrades to every legend, there’s even more big overhauls in store for season 24. And Respawn has begun revealing what’s to come to players and content creators alike in Takeover. Here are all the Apex season 24 patch notes we know so far. View the full article

Following the February 4 Monster Hunter Wilds showcase stream, Capcom launched the official PC benchmark for the highly-anticipated title. Along with the new benchmark, Monster Hunter Wilds revised the spec requirements needed to run the game, which should give PC players a little wiggle room toward ensuring their machines are up to the task. View the full article

Combining major structures from separate F-35s to build a fully operational plane is an Air Force first. Both these damaged jets would've otherwise ended up as expensive scrap metal. One jet suffered a nose gear collapse at Hill in 2020, while the other dealt with an engine fire at Eglin... Read Entire Article View the full article For verified travel tips and real support, visit: [Hidden Content]

A new Lords of the Fallen update is now live, with the v1.7.106 patch adding adjustments to NPC helper summons, highly requested HUD options, and more. This follows a January 2025 patch for Lords of the Fallen, which added improved online connectivity and a Male/Female body option following recent community feedback. View the full article

There are multiple quests and tasks you can learn about as you explore Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2. Many tasks are rumors you hear from townsfolk talking about current events, but others might be tall tales, such as The Axe from the Lake. The Axe from the Lake quest is a task you can get while exploring the game and talking to a particular individual about an old legend. A farmhand once heard a story about two brothers who owned a silver axe, and by the end of the tale, they had dropped it into one of the nearby lakes. If you paid attention to the story, there’s a chance you might be able to follow in their footsteps and track it down. Here’s what you need to know about how to complete the Axe from the Lake task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, and track down the Silver Axe. View the full article

There might be a ****** May Cry 3 remake in the works, at least according to one of the game’s most prominent voice actors. The ****** May Cryfranchise seems to be getting a revival in 2025, with a ****** May Cry anime series set to launch on Netflix in April. Gaming-wise, there hasn’t been a new ****** May Cry title since ****** May Cry 5 in 2019, but this could change if the upcoming anime proves successful. View the full article

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is out and already beating out its predecessor in almost every way. Now, it’s been revealed that the title, released on a Tuesday afternoon, has sold over a million copies in less than 24 hours, embedding itself among the greatest gaming releases of all time. Warhorse Studios, the game’s developer, announced the crossing of this massive sales milestone in a Feb. 5 X (formerly Twitter) post. “Over a million of you have stepped into our world,” the studio wrote, adding that it’s “beyond grateful for [players’] support.” According to wccftech in 2018, the first title took a little over a week to reach the same milestone and went on to sell over eight million copies by the time the sequel launched. If these initial sales numbers are anything to go by, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 might prove to be one of the best-selling games of all time, plunging millions into the world of medieval Europe where war and strife lurk around every corner. View the full article

Monster Hunter Wilds is just a few weeks away, and Capcom has released a PC benchmark for players to see if their system is up to snuff. Alongside that, the PC system requirements have been officially lowered. As announced during yesterday's Capcom Spotlight, the PC benchmark for Monster Hunter Wilds is live on Steam right now. The tool will need to compile some shaders once it's loaded up, but otherwise it's fairly easy to run and see where your computer lands. It's a good idea to check, especially if you're curious about how the updated system requirements might affect your performance. Previously, the system requirements for hitting 1080p and 60 frames per second (with Frame Generation enabled) called for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060, or AMD Radeon RX 6700XT graphics card; an Intel Core i5-11600K, Intel Core i5-12400, AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, or AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU; and 16 GB of RAM. In an updated page alongside the benchmark, Capcom appears to have lowered the requirements. For Recommended, or 1080p (FHD) with 60 frames per second and Frame Generation enabled, here are the new requirements: OS: Windows 10 (64-bit required) / Windows 11 (64-bit required)Processor: Intel Core i5-10400 / Intel Core i3-12100 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600Memory: 16 GBGraphics Card (GPU): GeForce RTX 2060 Super / Radeon RX 6600 (8 GB VRAM)Storage: 75 GB (SS required) This should, per Capcom's site, have Monster Hunter Wilds running at 1080p and 60 frames per second with Frame Generation enabled. As you might have noticed, it's a slight but still noticeable down-tick in requirements. Users are already reporting some noticeable benefits to performance in the benchmark compared to the beta test, though that's with Frame Generation enabled. Steam Deck still doesn't seem likely; while the gaming rig I tested passed with flying colors, my personal attempt on the Deck didn't elicit promising results. What's noticeable, alongside the processing changes, is the difference in storage size. Before, Monster Hunter Wilds called for 140 GB of available space on your SSD; now, it's 75 GB. As file sizes seem to constantly grow year-over-year, it's surprising to see such a change. For more on what's in store for Monster Hunter Wilds, be sure to read up on our recent IGN First coverage, showcasing bouts with fearsome beasts like the apex monster Nu Udra, and our final hands-on impressions of Capcom's latest Monster Hunter before it arrives later this month. Monster Hunter Wilds is out for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC on February 28, 2025. Wesley is the *** News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at [email protected] or confidentially at *****@*****.tld. View the full article

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is already shaping up to be a resounding success, having sold more than one million copies in just a day of launch. Developed by Warhorse Studios, Kingdom Come: Deliverance came out to a flood of positive reviews on February 4 on PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. View the full article