The hugely popular comedy-drama Succession returns in October. HBO confirmed on Twitter that Succession Season 3 will debut the month after next.
The specific premiere date has yet to be revealed–in fact, the tweet from the official Succession account contained nothing more than the word “October” and an image of Logan Roy, the fearsome Roy family patriarch and founder of Waystar RoyCo, played by Brian Cox. But it’s exciting news for fans nevertheless–check the tweet out below:
The hugely entertaining first trailer for Succession Season 3 was released in July. All the main cast are set to return, including Jeremy Strong as Kendall, Kieran Culkin as Roman, Sarah Snook as Siobhan, Matthew Macfadyen as Tom, Hiam Abbass as Marcia, Nicholas Braun as Greg, and Alan Ruck as Connor. New cast members for this season include Alexander Skarsgård (Godzilla vs. Kong), Adrien Brody (Peaky Blinders), and Hope Davis (Captain America: Civil War).
Season 2 aired in 2019 and subsequently won seven Emmys, including Outstanding Drama Series and Outstanding Lead Actor In a Drama Series for Cox. Production on Season 3 was set to begin in April last year but was delayed due to the pandemic. The show was created by British comedy writer Jesse Armstrong (In the Loop, Peep Show).
Free Guy has held onto the top slot in the US box office charts. The Ryan Reynolds-starring Disney movie made $18.8 million in its second weekend on release.
As Box Office Mojo notes, the movie only dropped 33.8% from its opening weekend $28.4 million gross, a far less dramatic second weekend fall than other recent Disney releases such as Black Widow and Jungle Cruise. Unlike those movies, Free Guy isn’t also available as a Premium Access title on Disney+, meaning that a theater visit is the only way to see it right now. Free Guy’s US gross stands at $58.8 million, bringing its worldwide total to $111.9 million.
The week’s highest new entry was Paw Patrol: The Movie, at No. 2. The big-screen version of Nickelodeon’s popular animated kids show made $13 million in its first three days. This number was particularly impressive given the movie is also available to Paramount+ subscribers for no extra cost.
There were three other new entries in the box office Top 10, but none of them faired that well. The action movie The Protégé, starring Maggie Q and Michael Keaton, made $2.9 million in its first three days to enter the chart at No. 7. The horror movie The Night House is at No. 8 with a $2.8 million opening gross, while the sci-fi thriller Reminiscence made $2.0 to claim ninth place. The latter was also released simultaneously on HBO Max.
The rest of the chart includes titles that have been on release for several weeks, namely Jungle Cruise, The Suicide Squad, and Black Widow, plus Don’t Breathe 2 and Respect, which entered the chart last week.
Marvel has tapped Yassir Lester to serve as head writer on Armor Wars, the Disney+ series that will star Don Cheadle.
Variety reports that Marvel’s upcoming Armor Wars series has landed comedian-turned-actor and screenwriter Yassir Lester as its head writer. Lester recently worked with Cheadle on the Showtime comedy series Black Monday, for which Lester serves as a writer and co-executive producer, as well as starring on the show.
Lester’s other notable writing credits include HBO’s Girls and The Carmichael Show on NBC, together with the comedic late-night talk show Earth to Ned, which premiered on Disney+ last year. As an actor, he is probably best known for portraying Chris in Fox’s Making History, as well as voicing a character called Yangzi in the Fox animated series Duncanville.
Taking to the writer’s room on Armor Wars, which is based on the classic Marvel comic series of the same name, Lester will be tasked with crafting a plot that revolves around Cheadle’s James “Rhodey” Rhodes a.k.a. War Machine, who will be forced to confront what happens when Tony Stark’s advanced technology falls into the wrong hands.
Armor Wars is just one of two MCU series planned to spotlight Tony Stark’s legacy, with the other being Ironheart, also for Disney Plus. That series will follow the story of Dominique Thorne’s Riri Williams, a genius inventor who just so happens to be “the creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man.”
Cheadle recently reprised his MCU role for a brief cameo in Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. The actor picked up an Emmy nomination for his fleeting appearance, which saw him having a pivotal conversation with show star Anthony Mackie, who plays Sam Wilson in the MCU, about the decision he faced over taking up the Captain America mantle.
Our Spidey senses are tingling, and yours should be too as leaked footage of the Spider-Man: No Way Home Trailer has seemingly made it online.
A low-resolution clip of what appears to contain major spoilers for the Spider-Man No Way Home trailer is believed to have made its way onto social media. Whilst Sony has been quick to quash leaks, it hasn’t stopped those who watched the clip from posting spoilers online.
The film itself, alongside a number of actors rumored to be appearing in Spider-Man: No Way Home, has since been trending on Twitter, meaning that it might be worth setting up some of the advanced muting options that the platform has to offer or staying away entirely until the storm passes.
As per a lot of leaked content, the quality of the footage is rumored to be dreadful. For the safety of your own eyes, we’d recommend waiting for the actual trailer to be released. On Twitter, Managing Director of Decider, Alex Zalben, kindly summed up what most Marvel fans thought about the supposed spoiler.
If the phone is being held in the wrong orientation for the aspect ratio, that’s just a nice bonus.
Speculation surrounding the trailer’s release date has been circulating on social media for months. The Spider-Man: No Way Home Twitter account tried to lighten fans’ expectations when rumours that the trailer would be releasing surfaced back in June. While theories have circulated about the film’s cast and plot over the past few months, No Way Home’s official social media channels have kept quiet.
— Spider-Man: No Way Home (@SpiderManMovie) June 9, 2021
Despite there being no official release date for the trailer, Marvel star, Tom Holland recently posted a cryptic story update on his Instagram account. The post reads, “You ain’t ready!”, which could link to a number of things non-Spidey related, the timing of the post is certainly convenient. With the rumor mill currently hoovering up content across the web (if you’ll pardon my pun), fans of the franchise across the world will be hoping that Holland’s message hints at an official trailer arriving in the not too distant future.
For more Spidey-related news, you can swing by this article detailing Tom Holland’s desire to play Spider-Man years before appearing in the MCU. Alternatively, to tide you over until the official No Way Home trailer releases, why not check out the latest clip for Marvel’s upcoming movie, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings below.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
In the first real skirmish in Aliens: Fireteam Elite, you encounter more of the series’ iconic Xenomorphs than in all of the films combined. This third-person shooter trades the slow tension of escaping one extraterrestrial predator for the chaos of trying to survive waves of hundreds at a time, instilling a different type of dread that the franchise has rarely balanced successfully. While not without its issues, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a strong step towards realizing the potential in that approach, with a surprisingly deep progression system, consistently entertaining firefights, and engrossing presentation that keeps the action gripping throughout.
Akin to squad-based shooters such as Left 4 Dead, Aliens: Fireteam Elite plays out over a series of acts which are part of larger chapters, and each one features new enemies and set pieces for your team of three colonial marines to tackle headfirst. The story leans heavily into iconography and tropes from classic Alien films, but its narrative is also influenced by modern entries such as Prometheus, directly referencing events from the divisive project. It doesn’t add much to the overall lore of the series in its trajectory, nor does it potentially set up anything meaningful, but it is a nice touch for each chapter to feel like it has a significant place within the universe.
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The third-person action is the foundation on which everything is built, though, and it’s a strong one at that. Aliens: Fireteam Elite pulls generously from the pool of weapons available to Colonial Marines, with the recognizable pulse rifle just being the tip of the iceberg in terms of enjoyable weaponry you’ll be able to wield. There are notable inclusions in every tier of weapon type, with powerful flamethrowers and enemy-seeking smart guns being desirable heavy weapons and a burst-shot hand cannon or sawn-off shotgun being notable in the sidearm category.
Each weapon can be customized with three attachments, too, letting you enhance their effectiveness against stronger enemies while also imbuing them with unique abilities. One of my favorites would restore ammo straight into my magazine on successful precision kills, not only giving me some relief from the often-strict ammunition limits, but also letting me go on absolute rampages when my aim was on point. Attachments also contribute to your overall combat rating–a numerical value used to determine your offensive ability like those used in games such as Destiny–incentivizing you to routinely consult the merchant in the game’s hub world and seek out hidden caches in each act to unlock more.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite features five classes for you to choose from (four initially, with the final one unlocking once you’ve finished the game once), each of whom has their own active and passive abilities as well as loadout options. The standard Gunner class, for example, has access to one rifle slot and one CQC slot, letting you take a pulse rifle and shotgun into battle. The Tactician, on the other hand, can only use a smaller sidearm and CQC weapon, but has access to a deployable turret and shock grenade that is extremely effective at crowd control.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite adds a variety of different Xenomorphs variants, such as the Burster-type that explodes when it gets close enough to your squad.
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You customize each class further using a perk system, with numerous modifiers unlocked as you level up its respective class. Unlike other conventional systems like this, Fireteam Elite seems to take inspiration from the inventory system from Resident Evil 4. You have a grid with a limited number of spaces where you can place new modifiers and perks, each of which has a distinct shape and size. Some modifiers need to be placed on particular sides of the grid in order to affect one of your active abilities, leading to further complexity when attempting to maximize the space you have effectively. It’s a little strange at first, and compounded by the absence of a tutorial that breaks down some of the system’s nuances. But once you’ve unlocked a reasonable amount of space, it is a crucial component of your overall progression, unlocking abilities and combinations that will be vital to success on higher difficulties.
The sheer number of perks available helps this too, letting you completely redefine how a particular class works in between runs. This becomes crucial with higher difficulties, where your class benefits from a perk loadout that suits the types of enemies you’re going to face. For example, Xenomorphs are weakest against fire, which makes the Tactician’s turret more effective when equipped with its short-range flamethrower variation. On the other hand, the slower-firing but higher calibre rounds of its other variation make it more effective against slower-moving synthetics, forcing you to think carefully about your loadout choices on every run. Each of the classes can be altered in similar ways, redefining their active abilities with appropriate pros and cons to give them more depth than their standard archetypes suggest initially. This makes spending time with each individual class rewarding as you start tinkering them to be both fun to play and effective as part of your team.
The ways in which your chosen weapons, selected classes, and equipped attachments affect gameplay is directly influenced by which enemies you’re matched up with, and Aliens: Fireteam Elite has a deep pool of aliens and androids that it pulls from. Some are immediately familiar in terms of the archetypes they populate–the Prowler hides on ceilings and pins you down, while the Burster explodes into a puddle of acid blood when killed–but there are numerous others that all introduce new combat wrinkles to consider. The Drone (the same type of Xenomorph from both the original film and Alien: Isolation) emerges from vents and crawl spaces to do some quick damage before disappearing again, making it a consistent threat unless you manage to kill it before it retreats and gets ready for another surprise attack. Heavily-armored synthetics will force you to engage with cover mechanics and chest-high walls in a way that fast-rushing Xenomorphs don’t, challenging you to break from your established muscle memory. Aliens: Fireteam Elite uses enemy sizes and skill sets to constantly keep you adapting to their respective threats, never letting you get comfortable by ensuring you can be attacked from the ceilings, small crawl spaces, or directly ahead in equal measure.
Aliens: Fireteam Elite features many deep cuts to films and novels from the Alien franchise, including references to the events in the 2012 film Prometheus.
Also available for purchase are consumables that can be used once during any run, which include sentries with limited ammunition, an assortment of elemental mines, and useful recon drones that buff damage inflicted on enemies they mark. Perhaps one of the most useful consumables are challenge cards, which can be activated before a run to change up how it plays out. These can make things easier, like giving you double the health or more ammunition, but the most interesting ones are those that change the ruleset and increase the probability of failure in return for drastic money and experience boosts. Some memorable ones included a card that constantly introduced a Drone into the mix, meaning my team was always hunted by a strong and deadly foe at the worst possible times. Another turned all regular enemies into exploding variants, while another reduced regular damage by a third but tripled weak point damage. Each of these changes the way you approach a particular act and shakes up the gameplay in fun and tangible ways, making otherwise routine motions through a level feel fresh again.
This is particularly welcome in the face of the objectives in each level boiling down to the same structure, which does become stale rather quickly. Each stage is a linear path from one big ambush section to the next, peppering the route with some exciting engagements against pockets of enemies. But the indicators of your progression through a stage never really change; once you reach an area with an ammo box and some spare health packs you know you’re about to dig in deep and defend your position for a bit, with each level usually containing two or three of these sections throughout. This further dilutes the Horde mode that is only unlocked once you’ve finished the story campaign, given that it’s just a distillation of the same objective you’ve already been repeating to get there. There are sparse exceptions to this rule, especially the final climatic escape, which dials up the Alien horror as far as it goes in-game, but if you aren’t playing around with challenge cards or plunging into harder difficulties, the level design of each stage doesn’t do enough to keep things that exciting.
While it may lack in mission design, each act does deliver in terms of its outstanding visual presentation. Each takes place in a new area, which slowly evolves over time as you make your way through it. The game is steeped in familiar iconography and eye-catching details, from the grossly wet hallways of a Xenomorph hive to the dirty but opulent control rooms of an Engineer station. Lighting does a great job of highlighting the attention to authenticity in these areas, while also creating numerous pockets of darkness for threats to hide in, making tracking incoming Xenomorphs suitably tense. Weapons also stand out in terms of how they brighten up each scene with their deadly ordinance, with the searing flames of the flamethrower being a particularly good example of this. The blinding heat of the devastating weapon is a sight to behold, accompanied by the satisfying screeches of the enemies burning to a crisp in its wake. It’s all so faithful to some of the franchise’s most memorable film setpieces, grounding the action within the franchise even if its pace couldn’t be further from it.
To spice up missions, you can select special challenge cards that adds interesting modifiers and bonuses, some of which make the Xenomorphs an even greater threat.
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Playing alone sadly does a disservice to the entire experience, while also diminishing many of the strategic and dynamic elements of Fireteam Elite. With other players, you’re consistently making calls and pinging dangerous enemies, while also composing your team carefully for the challenge ahead. Alone, you’re just playing with two AI bots, who are competent at best when it comes to aiding you. They’re generally good at reviving you should you go down or drawing some attention from the hordes of Xenomorphs, but they don’t have the ability to intelligently synergize with your chosen class’s abilities when it matters, which makes higher difficulties almost impossible. Aliens: Fireteam Elite acknowledges this when choosing anything above its regularly difficult, recommending player-controlled teammates over the bots, which severely limits replayability if you’re wanting to go at it solo.
Despite what its reduced price might suggest, there’s a lot here to keep you entertained for numerous hours, especially once you’ve managed your first run through all four acts and start tackling them again with higher difficulty settings in the pursuit of consistently better gear. There’s so much satisfaction in customizing and managing a handful of classes with enough depth to transform them into the Colonial Marine you need at a given time, along with a plethora of great weapons to make the moment-to-moment action engaging from the first time you pull the trigger. What it lacks in dread it makes up for in pure white-knuckle action, making Aliens: Fireteam Elite a great place to engage with this iconic sci-fi franchise again.
Developer Bungie will be hosting a special live stream for Destiny 2 on August 24. As for what fans can expect, Bungie revealed that the game’s upcoming expansion The Witch Queen will be in the spotlight with a first look debuting this week.
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Bungie’s Witch Queen reveal stream will go live on Tuesday, August 24, at 9 AM PT / 12 PM ET, with a preshow beginning an hour earlier. Other than that, Bungie has kept quiet on any other details for the expansion save for a new short video that hints at the game continuing to delve into morally grey areas. “Truth…is a funny thing,” a shadowy figure, who is likely the Hive god Savathun, says in a brief tease of tomorrow’s latest trailer.
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As usual, Bungie’s stream can be watched on its official Twitch channel, while the studio’s YouTube channel will likely host the reveal trailer and its signature vidocs after the event has concluded. We’ll also be streaming it here on GameSpot, so check back closer to the start time to tune in.
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While Destiny 2 expansions usually arrived in September, Bungie changed its strategy last year with the launch of Beyond Light. Arriving in November during the launch of the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S consoles, the series continued to build on a new seasonal model that allowed the story of the franchise to approach unexpected topics regarding Guardians, the nature of their struggle against the Darkness, and the forging of unlikely alliances.
If this week’s stream sticks to the script of previous Destiny expansion reveals, there’s a good chance that players will see not only the new threat on the horizon, a new location to explore, and a possible look at the next Darkness-powered subclass, but also an update on which content is either being retrieved from the Destiny Vault or placed inside of it so that the game’s overall size can remain manageable.
The Witch Queen expansion won’t be out this year, as Bungie has instead scheduled the new content to arrive in early 2022.
Until the expansion launches, players will be exploring Destiny through its latest seasonal event, the Season of the Lost. Awoken queen Mara Sov is already confirmed to be making her long-awaited return to the game after spending the last few years working in the shadows and manipulating Guardians before the arrival of Savathun.
Season of the Lost will begin at 10 AM PT on August 24, after The Witch Queen showcase concludes.
Dune hasn’t even hit theaters yet, and Denis Villeneuve is already thinking about how the movie could potentially evolve into a trilogy.
According to Collider, Villeneuve discussed his plans for Dune and the sequels it could spawn during an interview with CBC Radio Canada. He explained that, while the first two movies are planned to cover the first novel in Frank Herbert’s seminal sci-fi series, a third movie could serve as an adaptation of Herbert’s 1969 sequel novel Dune Messiah.
“There is Dune’s second book, ‘The Messiah of Dune,’ which could make an extraordinary film,” Villeneuve teased, sharing his ambitions for the Dune franchise beyond the first movie, which is due out in October. “I always saw that there could be a trilogy; after that, we’ll see. It’s years of work; I can’t think of going further than that.”
The first book in Herbert’s Dune series is an incredibly dense and multi-layered story, with many rival factions and characters, set against the backdrop of a futuristic human civilization. The sprawling saga has been notoriously difficult for filmmakers to adapt for the big screen, which is one of the reasons behind Villeneuve’s decision to split the story across two films.
The filmmaker has addressed some of the changes that had to be made for the movie, such as keeping one of the villains, Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, in reserve for Part 2. “The book is so rich. There are so many fantastic details about the different cultures,” he said. “In order to preserve and have the time to bring that to the screen, we had to make important choices.”
Villeneuve recently shared his eagerness to work on Part 2, revealing that Zendaya’s character Chani would emerge as the female protagonist of the adaptation’s next installment. She would star alongside Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides who would remain the central focus of the sequel, in keeping with the scope of the roles set out in the original novel.
A lifelong fan of The Simpsons: Hit and Run has taken to remaking the game in Unreal Engine 5 and Joe McGinn, the lead designer on the original title, is impressed by the feat.
Reuben Ward, an Unreal developer, has seen recent success on his YouTube channel after remaking games in Unreal Engine 5. Following a polished-up version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the developer’s latest project features a shiny new remake of The Simpsons: Hit and Run.
In a comment on the YouTuber’s video, lead designer on The Simpsons: Hit and Run, Joe McGinn said “Amazing what you accomplished! Really gives a taste of what a full modern remaster could be. Impressive work!” – high praise for a project that apparently only took the developer a week.
Ward began his remake of The Simpsons: Hit and Run with its in-game map of Springfield. After importing the map using a tool created by another developer, Ward took a number of inventive shortcuts to reskin the game’s outdated textures. Using AI-led image resolution enhancement software and a bit of DIY photoshopping, he was able to reskin the entire map and give it a more modern feel. The YouTuber even added in a few stylized trees to give Hit and Run’s “New” Springfield a bit of extra life.
After the map, Ward got to work on other elements of the level. As the game’s initial playable character, Homer Simpson received a few tweaks in the remake. The developer worked on coding advanced animations for the character and also enabled a first-person mode – because, as Ward so adequately puts it, “Why the hell not?”
The developer also made upscaled changes to the game’s UI, added missions and collectables, ripped audio from the original game for voice work on his characters, and enabled ray tracing. The whole package was then released by Ward as a playable demo. Unfortunately, however, the developer has since had to remove the demo over copyright concerns. Despite not being able to play Ward’s modern take on this Simpsons classic, you can still watch the full video detailing the changes the developer made to the game over on the Reubs YouTube Channel.
With Simpsons Hit and Run nearing its twentieth anniversary, fan-made remakes might be the closest we get to a true modern remaster. We recently spoke to Simpsons writer Matt Selman who explained why we might not see a remake anytime soon. Selman explained that whilst he “would love to see a remastered version of [Simpsons Hit & Run]“, it would be “a complicated corporate octopus to try to make that happen.”
Ward’s Hit and Run remake isn’t the only fan-made content to come out of Springfield this week. We recently wrote about a fan-made Simpsons’ TV set that has been brought to life by way of a miniature 3D-printed replica. The miniature set acts as a working TV and plays the show’s first eleven seasons at random.
Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.
After being officially revealed last week, PlayStation players will have the first opportunity to try out the next entry in the Call of Duty franchise, Vanguard. An alpha for the game exclusive to PS4 and PS5 owners is set to start this upcoming weekend, complete with the debut of a brand-new game mode, Champion Hill.
The alpha, which will be free and open to anyone on a PlayStation console, starts on August 27 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET and runs until August 29 at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET. PlayStation owners will also be able to play without a subscription to PS Plus, Sony’s online service for its platform.
While a new game mode, Champion Hill, will be available during Call of Duty: Vanguard’s alpha it’s not clear if other multiplayer modes will also be available. According to an announcement post, players will have access to some of the game’s arsenal and even be able to customize weapons with up to 10 attachments.
Champion Hill, according to the same post, is heavily inspired by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s Gunfight, which placed two small teams of two or three against each other on close-quarters maps. The game mode pits multiple squads against each other in a round-robin tournament on a large map that’s split into five sections. During Call of Duty: Vanguard’s alpha, squads will be limited to two or three members, but larger games with more players may be included during a beta or when the game launches.
To win a match, players have to compete in a round-robin deathmatch tournament against other squads, reducing their life counts to zero for a full elimination. The game mode is also integrating one of Call of Duty: Warzone’s key features with a buy round between combat where players can spend cash earned by killing enemies on weapon upgrades. Upgrades can also be purchased during a round in a designated buy zone.
PlayStation players who are eager to hop into Vanguard’s alpha can pre-load it starting today. Two other betas are currently scheduled for the game as well, with a beta for PlayStation owners who have preordered the game set to take place from September 10 to 13.
The game’s second beta, stretching from September 16 to 20 will be a mixed bag depending on what platform players are using and whether or not they have preordered the game. This beta will be entirely open for PlayStation owners, while anyone else will have to preorder the game to play on September 16 and 17. From September 18 to 20, the beta will be completely open to players across all platforms.
The Fortnite Week 12 challenges are nearly here. The Legendary Quests will go live on Wednesday, August 25 at 7 AM PT / 10 AM ET, while the bonus Wild Weeks Quests and Epic Quests will follow precisely 24 hours later. As usual, hundreds of thousands of XP are up for grabs if you know where to look. In this guide, we’ll lay out the complete details so you can complete all challenges with ease.
Week 12 Alien Artifacts
Before we jump into the challenges, we want to make sure you know there are once again no Alien Artifacts this week. For reasons only Epic knows, there are no Artifacts you can reliably find this week, meaning you’ll want to focus on knowing how to open Cosmic Chests if you still need to unlock more cosmetics for Kymera.
Week 12 Legendary Quests
Get Slone’s orders from a payphone (1) – 15,000 XP
Deal damage to opponents with alien weapons (150) – 30,000 XP
Deal damage with an alien parasite attached (150) – 30,000 XP
Purchase from vending machines (3) – 30,000 XP
Search ammo boxes at Dirty Docks (5) – 30,000 XP
Hunt wildlife (3) – 30,000 XP
Week 12 Wild Weeks Quests
Deal damage to opponents within 20 seconds of gliding in Solos, Duos, Trios, or Squads (250) – 20,000 XP
Deal damage to opponents within 20 seconds of gliding in Solos, Duos, Trios, or Squads (3,500) – 30,000 XP
Deal damage to opponents within 20 seconds of gliding in Solos, Duos, Trios, or Squads (15,000) – 50,000 XP
You’ll be heading back to Holly Hatchery for several quests this week.
You’re on a mission for Slone once again this week and picking up her orders at any payphone will suffice. Look for payphones near gas stations, or we also like the one in the west end of Misty Meadows. To craft a weapon with nanites, refer to our nanite guide.
We’ll soon have guides on the many story-based one-off quests such as where to destroy target dummies, where to find books on explosions, where to deploy scanners, and where to collect three alien devices, so check back soon and before the challenges go live to get those full details.
Moving onto Epic Quests, the list is, as usual in Season 7, a bit more straightforward. You’ll want to start by dealing damage to saucers piloted by opponents. The best place to do this is any invaded location (written in purple font on your full-size map). It’s there where aliens are already piloting saucers, and they tend to be quickly hijacked by players, whom you can then shoot at.
To deliver a saucer to Rick Sanchez, refer to our UFO locations guide to grab a convenient saucer based on your descent, then use our NPC guide to bring it to Rick at Defiant Dish on the hill east of Weeping Woods. Alien weapons include the Kymera Ray Gun, which you can reliably find at Holly Hatchery in the hands of the patrolling alien NPCs. Take one down, then take his weapon and take out other NPCs in the area.
The same strategy can be used to deal damage with an alien parasite attached. Allow the parasites in the southeast corner of Holly Hatchery to hatch and latch onto your head, then take out the aliens once again.
The last three challenges are all pretty simple. You can buy from vending machines at any gas station. Then you can search Dirty Docks for ammo, which is randomly scattered all across the location–like all locations. Lastly, when hunting wildlife, we recommend looking to the hills west of Misty Meadows, where wolf packs tend to spawn in threes.
The Wild Weeks Quests are intentionally straightforward and are best played in Team Rumble where you can re-drop with every defeat and even re-drop when jumping from any height greater than a few feet. The final tally of 15,000 damage seems like a lot, but remember your teammates will boost your totals too, so you don’t have to do it all alone.
That’s the full slate of Week 12 challenges. Be sure to check out the new J Balvin skin too if you want more reggaeton in your cosmetic library.
