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There are a bunch of items and resources in Resident Evil 2 that are completely optional, such as hip pouches that expand your inventory space or ammo for some of your most powerful guns. These are typically hidden inside safes or lockers with letter dial locks. You can find the combinations for these either in memos or even scribbled somewhere on a wall.

Whether you’re playing as Leon or Claire, the solutions remain the same and can be accessed without grabbing the memo that hints at their solution. The only exception to this are the items you grab by developing film rolls–though, there is a minor exception even to that. Regardless, below you can find details on all the optional items locked behind safes, lockers, or hidden in the environment.

For more guides, be sure to check out our beginner’s tips, as well as our gun upgrades location guide. Otherwise, be sure to read our Resident Evil 2 review.

Safes

There are two safes in the RPD–one in the West Office and the other in the Waiting Room. Both yield valuable resources well worth grabbing. We won’t spoil what’s inside each here (spoiler: they’re all useful items), but we will reveal how to open them. The safe solutions are found in memos scattered around the building, which we’ve detailed the locations of for all of you completionists out there.

West Office (RPD 1F)

The West Office safe’s combination is as follows: 9 Left, 15 Right, 7 Left. If you’re curious where to find the memo containing this solution, you can find it in Captain Wesker’s office in the S.T.A.R.S. Office on the second floor.

Waiting Room (RPD 2F)

The Waiting Room safe’s combination is as follows: 6 Left, 2 Right, 11 Left. If you’re inclined to grab the memo associated with this safe, you can find it in the Observation Room on the first floor.

Dial Locks

There are three lockers in the game that are sealed by letter dial locks. Each hold valuable ammunition for your more powerful guns that you don’t wanna miss.

Shower Room (RPD 2F)

The Shower Room’s dial lock combination is CAP. Interestingly enough, you can find this solution written on a whiteboard in the connecting room between the Operations Room and the Records Room on the first floor.

West Hallway (RPD 3F)

This locker is located in a hallway you can reach by getting to the third floor from the western side. It’s right beside the broken wall and the mannequin shadow. The dial lock combination is DCM. This is the only film roll item that doesn’t require you to first develop the film to get (more on this later).

Control Room (Upper Sewers)

The Control Room locker is located in the Upper Sewers by a desk. The dial lock combination is SZF. If you’re curious where this solution was found, it was on a Jazz festival flyer found in the Workers’ Break Room.

Film Roll Items

Other optional items don’t show up until you’ve developed a film roll with photographs that point you to their locations. Whenever you find a roll, develop it in the Dark Room on the western side of the police station. The resources you gain by completing these are typically more lucrative, so try to set aside time to complete these item hunts.

Commemorative Photo

This film roll is interesting in that it doesn’t point you to the location of resources; rather, it points you to an item you can use to gain some valuable stuff. Located in the Safety Deposit Room, grab the film roll by keying in the proper code to unlock the locker its sealed in. Though, you’re by no means required to develop the film roll to get the items its photograph hints towards, but it does help direct you towards what you need to do

When you develop the film roll in the Dark Room, it reveals a photo of a statue found in the Art Room. Before you go there, you’ll need to grab the Red Book in the Library by the door with the Spade insignia on the second floor. Once you’ve got this, head back to the Art Room, grab the stone arm beside the statue and combine it with the Red Book. Then take the arm and insert it back into the statue to unlock the scepter from its right hand.

Examine the scepter to obtain the Red Jewel. This goes into the Bejeweled Box, which you can get in the Interrogation Room. Accessing this area requires the Club Key, so if you don’t have that yet, keep progressing the story until you get it. Once you’ve got the Bejeweled Box, combine it with the Red Jewel to get the S.T.A.R.S. badge. You can use this item in two locations: the Underground Stairs in the Middle section of the Underground Facility, and the S.T.A.R.S. Office.

The badge serves as a key to unlock the white holding case holding the gun parts for either Leon’s Magnum or Claire’s Sub-machine Gun in the Underground Stairs. These are good to grab, as you’ll be following up to use the badge in the S.T.A.R.S. Office to get the weapons themselves. But before you combine the badge with the computer tower, examine the badge’s backing to reveal a hidden USB. This can then be used to open the armory.

Hiding Place Photo

This film roll is found in the Work Room in the Upper section of the Sewers; you’ll see it in-between a cardboard box and tool kit on a small table. Develop the roll in the Dark Room back at the RPD to reveal a photograph showing you two locations–that you might recognize if you’ve got a keen eye.

The first photograph points to Captain Wesker’s desk in the S.T.A.R.S. Office on the second floor. Open the drawer to get a wooden box containing a gun part.

The second photograph points to a boombox found in the Press Room on the RPD’s first floor. Open the drawer to nab the treasure.

Pocket Safes

The RPD’s Safety Deposit Room is packed with useful resources, but not all of them are accessible at first. To get everything in those pesky electronically sealed lockers, you’ll need to get two replacement keypad keys. These can be found inside Pocket Safes scattered throughout the police station. To open a Pocket Safe, simply examine it and then input the correct button pattern. This require a little bit of trial and error to find out, but keep at it and you’ll unlock it in no time. Below you can find details on where each Pocket Safe is located.

Shower Room

You’re likely to find this Pocket Safe first. It’s located in the Shower Room on the second floor of the RPD. When you enter the room, turn right and you’ll see it on top of a shelf beside some lockers.

Linen Room

The second Pocket Safe is found in the Linen Room on the second floor. You won’t be able to open this room without the Diamond Key, so if you don’t have the means to access it, simply progress the story until you do.

The Super Bowl is as much an event because of the ads as the game, since so many companies go over the top with the commercials airing during the year’s most coveted TV time. But just because someone spends a lot of money to make an ad doesn’t mean it’s going to be very good. Case in point: The Stella Artois ad teased last week that sees Jeff Bridges reprise his role as The Dude from The Big Lebowski.

The Stella ad, which is now up on YouTube ahead of Sunday’s game, hinges on the idea of The Dude changing up his usual drink order. Throughout the Coen Brothers’ 1998 movie, the stoner detective drinks White Russians–but in the Stella ad, he changes his order and goes for the Belgian pilsner.

He’s not the only one. The Dude is joined by Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker’s iconic character from Sex and the City, who is known for drinking Cosmopolitans but switches things up in the ad. The change for the two characters shocks surrounding waitstaff so much, they drop several people’s dinners onto the ground. It’s not an especially good ad, seeing as neither Parker nor Bridges have good lines despite the fact both characters were birthed by comedies.

At least the ad is pushing a good cause as well as beer, though. The final moments of the commercial makes a very brief reference to a larger campaign Stella Artois is running, #PourItForward, which is defined by the idea of making social change as well as changes to drink orders. “Watch what happens when Carrie Bradshaw and The Dude change up the usual,” the YouTube description of the ad reads. “If every pour of Stella Artois can help provide access to clean water for someone in need, why choose anything else? Join Carrie and The Dude as they choose to change up the usual and do good.” As our sister site CNET notes, the #PourItForward campaign is a partnership with Water.org; for every Stella Artois purchased between now and March 31, Stella is donating a month of clean water access to someone who doesn’t have it.

But somewhat disappointingly, that the tease for the ad Bridges tweeted is not some indication of more substantive content featuring The Dude coming down the pipe. There may yet be a little more of The Big Lebowski, though. John Turturro, who played bowling sex offender Jesus Quintana in the movie, apparently wrote and directed a spin-off film about the character called Going Places a few years ago–so while it doesn’t seem there’s more of The Dude on the horizon, there may yet still be something related to The Big Lebowski waiting in the future.

Treyarch has another update on the way for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4. This week, the developer will be rolling out patch 1.12, which will make some big changes to the way armor works in Blackout mode, add classic weapons to Zombies, and kick off another limited-time event on PS4.

In a post on Reddit, Treyarch outlined the biggest tweaks and additions that are coming in this week’s update. Among other things, the developer will be making further tuning changes to armor, concussions, and cluster grenades in Blackout mode.

The full list of changes will be detailed in this week’s patch notes, but Treyarch says it is reducing damage protection for armor “across the board.” On top of that, the developer is raising the number of armor plates it takes to repair level 3 armor, while the time it takes for cluster grenades to detonate is also being increased.

In Zombies mode, this week’s update will introduce five weapons to the Mystery Box across every map, as well as to the Zombies Armory: the MP 40, Grav, Daemon 3XB, SWAT RFT, and KAP 45. Treyarch says the MP 40 and Grav “will be unlocked by default in the Armory.” The PS4 version is also getting its second Zombies Gauntlet beginning January 29: “Vini, Vidi, Zombie!” for the IX map.

Also on PS4, Treyarch is kicking off another limited-time mode in Blackout. This one is called Ambush. It’s set to replace the current Down But Not Out mode and only features sniper rifles, melee attacks, launchers, and a continuously collapsing circle. Down But Not Out mode will remain available on Xbox One and PC for one more week.

The Super Bowl is this Sunday, marking one of the biggest events in professional sports. As usual, EA has run a simulation game in its annual football release, Madden NFL 19, and concluded that the Los Angeles Rams will defeat the New England Patriots.

The final score of the simulated game was 30-27, showing a high-scoring game with tons of offensive play. The Patriots led in the first half 17-3, but the Rams came back big in the second with three touchdowns and two field goals. The simulation also pegged Aaron Donald for the MVP award, given a record four sacks in a single Super Bowl game.

EA has used Madden to predict every Super Bowl game since 2004. While the simulation is never bullseye-accurate on the exact score or game-winning plays, the simulations have come away with a pretty solid 10-5 record of success in predicting the winner. One of those misses was just last year, however, when the game showed the Patriots winning against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles ended up winning in an upset, and QB Nick Foles received the MVP award instead of Patriots QB Tom Brady.

“Madden 19 is an excellent football game that improves on last year’s entry in almost every way,” critic Eddie Makuch wrote in GameSpot’s review. “There are problems, but there has never been a football game that more authentically represents the NFL than this in terms of presentation, controls, and depth.”

It’s your last chance to complete Fortnite‘s ongoing Ice Storm challenges before the world event officially wraps up. Developer Epic Games confirmed the event will end on all platforms tomorrow, January 29, with the release of Fortnite’s 7.30 update, which looks set to introduce another new weapon and more to the battle royale game.

Downtime for the update is scheduled to begin at 1 AM PT / 4 AM ET / 9 AM GMT, Epic confirmed on Twitter. As usual, the developer hasn’t estimated how long this maintenance period will last, but it has given fans a peek at a new item that will presumably be arriving with the update: the Chiller Grenade.

The Grenade is advertised as “coming soon” in Fortnite’s in-game News feed. Continuing the season’s wintry theme, it fittingly resembles a snowman’s head and sounds like it will function similar to the vaulted Chiller Trap. “Give your enemies cold feet with this winter blast,” its accompanying description reads.

You have until downtime begins to finish any outstanding Ice Storm challenges. The event began earlier this month when the mysterious icy sphere in Polar Peak burst opened and revealed the Ice King, who blanketed the entire map in fog and snow and summoned the zombie-like Ice Legion. Throughout the event, Epic offered new daily challenges to complete and rewards to unlock; you can find the full list in our Ice Storm challenges roundup.

We’re also nearing the end of Season 7. Epic hasn’t shared any details on what awaits in Season 8, although some strange objects have begun appearing in the game ahead of the new season. In the meantime, you still have a few more weeks to complete this season’s challenges. You can find tips for the trickier ones in our complete Season 7 challenges guide.