Resident Evil Requiem’s The Closing Puzzle has lastly been found out, and it is simply as difficult and lengthy as you’d assume: ‘We do not get the doll if we do not AFK on the grinder’

Whenever you hear the bluebird whistle 5 instances after the clock strikes 15:41, stroll three steps in direction of the Orion constellation and watch for quarter-hour. Okay, that is not the precise steps you could take to finish The Closing Puzzle in Resident Evil Requiem, nevertheless it’s additionally not far off.

Spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem: The Closing Puzzle forward

After 4 days, some absolute madlads have managed to determine essentially the most convoluted puzzle to grace Resident Evil but, and it is lengthy. We already found out the start of the puzzle, or at the very least a part of it, by figuring out which letter within the DNA code sequence corresponds to the solar, moon, or star symbols.

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Apparently, the trick lies with getting your mitts on a Marie doll. You may see them at numerous factors in the course of the playthrough, however you possibly can solely ever decide one up at one second and solely after having accomplished a myriad of unusual duties.

The subsequent step is to go to the basement, in direction of the grinder, and as a substitute of turning the machine off immediately, save and wait there for about quarter-hour, till all of the our bodies have dropped into the disposal. Then flip the conveyor off and soar into the pit, however don’t kill any of the zombies that attempt to assault you.

Guaranteeing that each zombie dies by the grinder is outwardly a situation for fixing the puzzle: “We do not get the doll if we do not AFK on the grinder,” BigRedtheBard explains. That is supposedly so there’s sufficient blood within the system to pull the doll as much as the place you will ultimately discover it. So as a substitute of killing the zombies outright, you possibly can shoot them within the legs or stun them in order that they get caught up within the grinder.

You will know whether or not it is labored or not relying on which textual content shows after you drain the blood after the grinder. An everyday playthrough will present “a number of blood flowed out”, whereas the puzzle resolution playthrough will learn “a ton of blood flowed out.”

Then, after you escape the basement, head again to the Hospital and go to the toilet. There, you could flush the bathroom eight instances. Why? The primary file within the sport is a picture of a lifeless physique in a bathroom stall subsequent to the quantity eight scribbled on the wall in blood.

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Then progress usually to the underground laboratory, however earlier than you escape, make certain to select up a doll that you will discover on the backside of the steps. Carry this doll with you for the remainder of the sport, end the sport, and begin once more. There is not any NG+ in Requiem, however it is possible for you to to hold the doll into your subsequent playthrough. Progress usually, however as a substitute of taking Emily to the ultimate puzzle field, convey her to the lead researcher’s workplace together with the doll, enter the code, and there you’ve it. The Closing Puzzle is full.

It is definitely some of the convoluted ARGs I’ve come throughout, particularly in a Resident Evil sport, nevertheless it’s fully enamoured the group, so on the very least, gamers have had some enjoyable attempting to determine it out.

There are a couple of gamers who’ve been barely disenchanted with this puzzle, because the payoff would not appear fairly value it to them. “The dangerous half is that you simply solely get a message saying you solved The Closing Puzzle, no weapon, pores and skin, or something,” one participant says. The reward is definitely 20,000 CP, the forex which gamers can use to purchase skins, idea artwork, and different endgame bonuses. However possibly the actual reward was all of the puzzles we solved alongside the best way?

The Closing Puzzle ended up being an enormous group effort, and whereas some gamers did resort to datamining to seek out the reply, many additionally managed to get to the tip due to sheer willpower and a few useful ideas from fellow gamers: “It was a enjoyable group effort, and actually gave us one thing to collectively rack our brains about.”