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You’ll need to stock up on a variety of materials to forge weapons and armor in Monster Hunter Rise, but one of the more elusive resources in the early part of the game is Machalite Ore. This ore is required to forge several pieces of low-rank armor, making it a valuable commodity in the early going. Fortunately, there are a few areas you can reliably find it, so if you need help tracking some down, here’s where to mine Machalite Ore.

Where To Find Machalite Ore

Machalite Ore is one of the materials you can potentially harvest from mining outcrops around Monster Hunter Rise’s different maps. The ore will be available in a few different areas in HR2 Hub Quests, so you can find it in a few places with some persistence (and a little bit of luck).

The materials that mining outcrops produce are generally random, so you’re not guaranteed to get Machalite Ore from a specific outcrop. However, it’s common enough that it shouldn’t be too difficult to find, so make sure you mine any outcrop you come across during a hunt to increase your chances of getting it. You can also increase your chances of finding it by equipping armor with the Geologist skill. At level 3, that skill lets you gather one additional time from a mining outcrop.

We’ve harvested Machalite Ore from mining outcrops in the following areas:

• Flooded Forest
• Sandy Plains
• Lava Caverns

Which Armor Requires Machalite Ore

As previously mentioned, a few of the first armor sets you can craft in Monster Hunter Rise require Machalite Ore, making it a hot commodity as you’re just diving into the game. Here are the armaments that require Machalite Ore (among their other materials) and how much you’ll need to craft them:

Alloy Armor

• Alloy Helm – 2 Machalite Ore
• Alloy Mail – 2 Machalite Ore
• Alloy Vambraces – 2 Machalite Ore
• Alloy Coil – 2 Machalite Ore
• Alloy Greaves – 2 Machalite Ore

Wroggi Armor

• Wroggi Helm – 2 Machalite Ore
• Wroggi Vambraces – 1 Machalite Ore

Aknosom Armor

• Aknosom Mail – 1 Machalite Ore

Barroth Armor

• Barroth Vambraces – 2 Machalite Ore

Tetranadon Armor

• Tetranadon Vambraces – 1 Machalite Ore

Ingot Armor

• Ingot Mail – 3 Machalite Ore
• Ingot Greaves – 3 Machalite Ore

Basarios Armor

• Basarios Mail – 2 Machalite Ore
• Basarios Vambraces – 3 Machalite Ore

We’ve put together a few other guides to help you out in Monster Hunter Rise, including a buddy explainer, some beginner tips, and how to kill every monster. We also have a weapon explainer to give you an overview of the game’s many different weapon types, as well as a guide on how to use Amiibo.

Destruction AllStars is getting a physical version. Following its run as a PlayStation Plus freebie, Destruction AllStars will go up for sale as a digital game on the PlayStation Store beginning on April 6. A physical version will launch a day later, on April 7.

This will be just in time for the release of Destruction AllStars’ first piece of major post-launch content. In April, Destruction AllStars Season 1 will begin, adding a new playable character, battle pass, competitive 3v3v3v3 mode, and more.

Developer Lucid Games announced Destruction AllStars’ physical version in a PlayStation blog post that detailed how the studio used PS5’s tech to bring its game to life. In the blog, Sony xDev senior producer John McLaughlin revealed that Lucid turned to SIE Japan Studio for help in getting the most out of the PS5’s DualSense controller.

“We had a chat with [Astro’s Playroom creative director] Nicolas Doucet,” McLaughlin said. “He’s always approachable, was always very helpful. He [and his team] were coming to the end of their dev cycle, because they were wrapping up a bit earlier. So we sent them a build over for them to take a look. They gave a ton of hints and tips about where and how to use haptics, use it in conjunction with the speaker and the triggers and things like that. I think overall, we got a really compelling control scheme because of that.”

Disco Elysium: The Final Cut adds a lot to the RPG, including four new quests that flesh out the experience: the “political vision quests.” These four quests act as a culmination of the story of your character’s personal politics in the game, but if you don’t meet the right prerequisites, you can miss them entirely. Here’s what you need to know to trigger each of the quests so you can make sure to get the most out of Disco Elysium: The Final Cut.

First, you should know that the political vision quests are optional, but they play a big part in the ideology your character can espouse throughout the course of the game. There are four quests in total, but you can only access one per run through the game. Each quest corresponds to one of the four major ideologies you can gravitate toward based on dialogue and choices you make in the game: Communism, Moralism, Fascism, or Ultraliberalism.

Unlocking Political Ideology

You’ll need to lean into at least one of those ideologies in dialogue throughout the game. When an ideology takes route enough in your character because of your choices, you’ll unlock a related Thought in the Thought Cabinet. As long as your dialogue answers are mostly pretty consistent in their politics, that should be enough. These are the thoughts tied to each ideology.

• Mazovian Socio-Economics (Communism)
• Revacholian Nationhood (Fascism)
• Kingdom of Conscious (Moralism)
• Indirect Modes of Taxation (Ultraliberalism)

Those Thoughts are a key element in activating the political vision quests, so make sure you choose one.

Starting The Political Vision Quests

Political vision quests don’t become active until Day 4 in the game, but you’ll actually need to have your ideology ready to go by the end of Day 3. Work your way through Day 3 until you’re ready to go to sleep, where you’ll activate a dream sequence. During that portion, your Ancient Reptilian Brain will ask you what you’re doing all this for.

The game then checks if you’ve got any of the above ideology Thoughts in your Thought Cabinet. You only need one to get access to the quests, and you’ll get a choice as to which quest to take on. You’re not locked in to a single quest based on your ideology in your Thought Cabinet, but once you make a choice, that’s the only quest you’ll be able to take on.

Depending on how many of the ideology Thoughts you have, up to four different Skills will offer answers:

• Communism: “For the working class.” (Rhetoric skill)
• Fascism: “For Revachol. Always and only Revachol.” (Endurance skill)
• Moralism: “For the greater good.” (Empathy skill)
• Ultraliberalism: “For the money, baby.” (Savior Faire skill)

At that point, you get to choose your quest, with an option for each Skill that chimed in with an answer. So the more ideological Thoughts you have, the more quest options you have. You can only do one political vision quest, though–once you’ve made a decision, you’ll be locked out of the others.

After making your choice, you’ll wake up from the dream with a new Skill, determined by which quest choice you made. You’ll also receive instructions about how to start proceeding on your political vision quest.

And that’s it–just make sure to develop your political ideology enough that you have at least one of the Thoughts listed above in your Thought Cabinet in order to access the new content. Check out our preview on all the other changes in Disco Elysium: The Final Cut for more information on the new version of the game.

Hearthstone‘s new expansion, Forged in the Barrens, is now live. The new expansion launch means you can purchase packs a la carte, buy into the new Tavern Pass to start earning towards the rewards track, and try out new cards and new deck combinations.

The expansion launch isn’t going off completely without a hitch, however. Blizzard has acknowledged a bug that is preventing players from queuing into games, and it says it is working on a solution. The company has only acknowledged the issue for ranked games, but players have reported it in other modes as well.

The company temporarily disabled opening Classic packs, due to an apparent bug that was still giving out cards that were added later, and were not part of the original Classic set. However, that issue has been fixed, so an update has once again enabled the feature.

Forged in the Barrens also marks the start of the Year of the Gryphon, and a new year means certain cards cycle out of Standard play rotation. This year Blizzard has made that an even larger change than usual by implementing a new Core set system. This curated set of cards replaces the Classic and Basic sets, letting Blizzard swap which cards serve as the foundation of Hearthstone every time it begins a new year of content. You can earn the entire Core set by simply leveling up the various characters, and if you’ve already leveled them up you’ll automatically have access to the entire Core set from the start.

Other changes include some tweaking of the Tavern Pass including new Diamond card rewards, the launch of Classic mode which reverts cards to their 2014 state, and an upcoming Mercenaries mode. For more on Hearthstone’s big changes, check out our interview with Blizzard designers on how they reimagined the iconic dragon cards for the new Core set launch.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales developer Insomniac Games has revealed a brand-new suit for PS4 and PS5 players to equip, which is included in an update that is out now.

The Advanced Tech Suit equips Miles with an incredibly shiny and futuristic look, like that of Peter Parker’s in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The colors represent the familiar black and red stylings of Miles’ signature look, while also looking like it could have come out of a Tony Stark lab. Check it out below.

The new suit comes to the game alongside a new update, which Insomniac says addresses some lingering issues across both platforms. Exclusive to PS5 players, however, is a new graphical feature that will allow for accurate muscle deformation of specific suits. The exact ones weren’t shared, which might give you an excuse to try out even more of your favorites beyond the new Advanced Tech Suit to see it in action.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales launched with the PS5 back in November, acting as a follow-up to 2018’s Spider-Man on PS4. It follows Miles Morales after the events of the first game, this time during a winter in New York that sees Peter Parker on a leave of absence. To find out more about the game, check out our Spider-Man: Miles Morales review, and keep an eye on our PS5 stock alerts if you’re still trying to pick up Sony’s latest console.

Nintendo has rolled out its latest update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ companion service, NookLink. As previously announced, this update adds a new feature to the smartphone app: the ability to earn Nook Points, which can then be redeemed for exclusive items.

Following the update, you can now receive 10 Nook Points each day by opening the app daily and tapping on the new Nook Points icon. These points can be redeemed within the app for a handful of brand-new items, which you will then receive in your game. The items include photos of Tom Nook, Isabelle, and Timmy and Tommy, as well as a Nook Link doorplate and poster. The full list of items and how much Nook Points each costs can be seen below:

• Nook Inc. poster – 10 Nook Points
• Nook Inc. doorplate – 40 Nook Points
• Aloha-edition carrying case – 60 Nook Points
• Timmy and Tommy’s photo – 100 Nook Points
• Tom Nook’s photo – 100 Nook Points
• Isabelle’s photo – 100 Nook Points

On top of that, Katrina the fortune-teller will impart some “words of wisdom” each day you claim Nook Points. Katrina herself has yet to make an appearance in New Horizons, so this currently the only way to receive one of her famously profound fortunes.

NookLink is a service within the Nintendo Switch Online smartphone app. To use the app, you’ll need to have a Nintendo Switch Online subscription. In addition to NookLink, the NSO app features companion services for Splatoon 2 and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

In other Animal Crossing news, eggs have started appearing in the game once again ahead of Bunny Day, which falls on April 4 this year. Fortunately, the eggs won’t be around for nearly as long this time. Nook’s Cranny is also selling a few brand-new Bunny Day items each day leading up to the holiday, while whoopee cushions are available to order from Nook Shopping until April Fool’s Day.

The Animal Crossing Sanrio Amiibo cards also recently launched in the US. These cards can be scanned in the game to unlock Sanrio-inspired villagers and items. Unfortunately, the cards are available exclusively at Target, and their rollout was a mess.