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Fortnite: Battle Royale is continuing to roll out new challenges new weekly challenges. The Solar Arrays challenge is part of the latest batch of weekly challenges, as opposed to the separate set of challenges for the 14 Days of Summer event. Nothing says summer like a sweltering sun, so the latest challenge has you going green by finding a set of solar arrays.

Like many recent Fortnite challenges, the criteria itself is simple enough, but it helps if you know just where to go. In this case you just have to visit the arrays in the snow, desert, and jungle. Easy enough, right? It could be even easier, though, if you knew exactly where to go, and that’s where we come in. We’ve compiled a map and detailed views of all the arrays so you know exactly where to find them.

How To Complete Solar Arrays Challenge

Unlike challenges like the beach party dance-off, you merely have to find the solar arrays to count toward your goal. Just by getting within a certain range, you’ll tick off the challenge for each location. You don’t even need to press a button or perform any action, so even if you just sprint past an array on your way to complete some other challenge, it will count as completed.

Where To Find Solar Arrays

We’ve located each of the three solar arrays, and they’re spread fairly far apart. The clue simply says you can find them in snow, desert, and jungle. Check the map and coordinate information below for more detail on exactly where to find them, and consult the screenshots if you need a good view of what they look like inside the environment.

• Snow: section A8-B8, almost on the line between the two sections.
• Desert: section I8-J8, similar to the Snow array, on the line between the two sections.
• Jungle: northwestern corner of H2

Solar Arrays Challenge Reward

Completing this challenge rewards you with a five battle stars.

14 Days of Summer Challenges

Like clockwork, another free PC game is available from the Epic Games Store this week, replacing last week’s offering, Last Day of June. The game in question is Overcooked, the critically acclaimed, co-op cooking simulator from Ghost Town Games that spawned an equally good sequel, Overcooked 2. Now until July 11, the original Overcooked is completely free to claim and keep–all you need to do is create a free Epic account (if you don’t already have one) and add it to your library.

Overcooked’s premise is quite simple: You and up to three friends will take control of chefs working together in a kitchen to cook recipes assigned to you by the game. Sounds cute and relaxing, right? Now throw in a few kitchen fires, shifting stages, a beeping timer that indicates you’re about to miss an order, and dirty dishes piling up as you and your friends stumble around and bump into each other. Mastering Overcooked’s obstacles requires constant communication and strategic delegation of tasks, and you’ll be ranked on a three-star system based on how efficiently your team clears the level. You need at least one star to move forward.

Here’s the main thing to know about Overcooked: It is both very good and extremely frustrating. My boyfriend and I have gotten into serious fights over it and had to stop playing. But find the right people to play with, and Overcooked is such a rewarding experience that leaves you wanting more by the end (and fortunately, Overcooked 2 exists now). Unfortunately, Overcooked doesn’t have online multiplayer (the sequel introduced that feature), but you can also play it solo if you like. Either way, Overcooked is absolutely worth claiming and trying out, especially with it being free for the next week.

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While we’re discussing PC games: The Steam Summer Sale is still going strong until July 9 and has some of the best deals on PC games you’ll find all year. Catch up on all the best game deals in this year’s Steam Summer Sale, including the best cheap games you can get for $10 or less. There’s also a new Grand Prix mini-game you can participate in for the chance to win the top game on your Steam wish list for free.

From Software’s wild mech game Metal Wolf Chaos is coming next month, the studio and publisher Devolver Digital have announced. It will hit PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on August 6, for $25. If you pre-order you’ll get a platform-exclusive mech skin.

The re-release of Metal Wolf Chaos updates the visuals, revises the save system, and bumps the resolution to 4K with 16:9 support. The 2004 release was exclusive to Xbox in Japan, and became notoriously difficult to find outside of its home country. That makes this re-release the first opportunity many fans will have to play it.

The timing of this announcement on July 4–Independence Day in America– is no coincidence. The game is a comically over-the-top representation of American patriotism, as it stars President Michael Wilson taking to a mech suit to defend against a rebellion led by Vice President Richard Hawk. The battles take place across an array of American landmarks like the Grand Canyon and the White House. You can get a sense for the tone in the release trailer below.

The game’s style earned it a place in GameSpot’s Most American Games of All Time. “You can also unlock a rocket launcher that fires rockets in the shape of footballs that leave trails of streamers and fireworks in their wake,” wrote Peter Brown. “In other words: AMERICA.”

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Fortnite is known for its wild and sometimes wacky teasers of events to come, but the latest is a real sitting duck. An actual, gigantic rubber duckie, to be precise, relaxing in his stylish green shades near Tilted.

It’s not clear exactly what the rubber duckie does. It does appear to have a health bar with a whopping 1 million health, and only damage from pickaxes appears to stick. Nothing around the duck seems to clearly indicate what will happen if the community chips it down to zero health, but massive community goals have become a fairly regular occurrence, such as an event that had players vote for an unlock by chipping away at pillars that encased it.

If you’re looking to locate the duck yourself, he can be found in section E6, just southeast of Neo Tilted. You can consult our handy duck map below if you need a hand locating the quacker.

That is one cool duck.

For more on how to unlock rewards, check out our week 9 challenge guide, including where to find the solar arrays and fireworks. And keep up with some cool summer-themed challenges with Fortnite’s 14 Days of Summer event.