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Destructoid Saturday, February 15, 2025 5:58 PM
BitLife is getting wacky with its latest Cunning Cougar challenge. This challenge is about turning your character's 30s and 40s into an adventure, especially when meeting new people. This one is trickier than usual, but there are a few strategies to make it easier to complete.
BitLife Cunning Cougar challenge guide
BitLife's Cunning Cougar challenge has five tasks to complete:
While the first four tasks involve choosing the right country, university degree, and romantic partners, the last is almost entirely luck-based. Having the Golden Pacifier makes this a cakewalk, but trying to do this legitimately may take a few resets.
Be born a female in Canada
The first task of BitLife's Cunning Cougar challenge is to be born as a female in Canada. Doing this requires picking female as your starting gender and Canada as your country. You can customize the rest of the character creator options however you wish as long as you meet these two requirements.
If you have God Mode, setting your character's fertility to 100 may help you have twins later. However, it isn't required; there are a few ways to do this without changing your stats. If you struggle with completing the last task after a couple of attempts and already own God Mode, it's at least worth trying.
Become a forensic scientist
After aging up your character and graduating from secondary school, it's time to pursue a Forensic Scientist career. First, though, you'll need a university degree in Criminal Justice. Although other science-related programs like biology or chemistry also work, you have much higher odds of finding a Forensic Scientist role if you get a criminal justice degree. Look for this in your university program list or use the Golden Diploma before pursuing the job.
Once you're ready to become a Forensic Scientist, head into your full-time job list and scroll through until you see either Crime Scene Analyst or Crime Scene Technician roles. By selecting these, you'll see they're technically "Forensic Scientist" careers, even if they're not listed as such. Nonetheless, applying for and landing these jobs will knock out the task, bringing you one step closer to finishing the challenge.
Hook up with and marry someone 10 years younger than you
Now that you have a successful career as a forensic scientist, it's time to meet some new people. This section of the challenge is split up into two parts:
To complete these two tasks, you'll need to age up until your character is at least 28 years old. Your best bet is to age up a little more until they're around 35 to line up with the fifth and final challenge task. Once your character is somewhere in the 28-35 range, head into Activities, Love, and Hook Up before finding anyone who's ten years younger than your character.
After completing that task, you can find a lifelong partner to marry. This one is much simpler, as you can use the Dating App to find someone within a desired age range — in this case, someone 10 years younger than you — before sealing the deal and getting married.
Have twins after age 35
Once you get married and finish the other four tasks of the Cunning Cougar challenge, you'll be ready for the one and only luck-based objective. If you have the Golden Pacifier, you can get your character pregnant before choosing twins as your option. Otherwise, you can try to have twins naturally or pursue IVF.
IVF, also known as in-vitro fertilization, will raise your odds of having twins when your character gets pregnant. Since you only have until age 45 or so to have children, going for IVF and having a few children will give you the best odds of having twins without resorting to pay-to-win means.
Alternatively, you can go the natural route and create new characters until you get lucky and have twins. It's possible to do without IVF, but it is much rarer. More often than not, you won't have twins even if you constantly get pregnant from age 35 to 45 or older. Finishing this task may be luck-based, but doing so will complete BitLife's Cunning Cougar challenge and reward you with a random character cosmetic.
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Destructoid Saturday, February 15, 2025 3:56 PM
The new Ashfall update in Fisch has added some interesting content, which includes solving a puzzle to open the secret Bunker at Birch Clay.
This spot was initially locked in the game, but the Volcano Eruption event has activated it. You can now visit the place and open the Bunker to head inside. To do so, you'll have to find a way to open the door.
How to get to the secret Bunker in Fisch
The first job is to reach the location where the Bunker is located. This part will be a lot easier if you already have a GPS device with you. Just go to the following coordinates, and you'll be at the correct location (XYZ: 1700, 143, -2400). Once you reach the location, you'll come across the white birch tree behind the arch.
Here, you'll find the secret Bunker, which you can open by just interacting with it. I am not sure if this was how the developers intended it to work. It seems that the main task is just to locate the Bunker, as you don't have to do anything more. Once you open the door, a dark tunnel will be revealed. Use the tunnel to travel all the way underground.
Once you head inside, you won't find anything with which you can interact with. It has a couple of lockers on either side of the room. There's a white-colored table as well, and you'll find a couple of photo framers. I believe that this location will be required as part of a future event to some degree, but so far, we don't have a precise idea.
Of course, you can complete the Dr. Finneus quest inside the game, which will require you to complete a hard task. Doing so will help you unlock an exclusive in-game title, along with a free boat themed around the Ashfall island.
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Destructoid Saturday, February 15, 2025 3:28 PM
Playing as the archer is a classic in all D&D-inspired games ever released. But if you want to play as the ranger in Avowed, then you might be wondering which skills to prioritize. We will give you all the details on the best ranger build in the game.
Best attributes for a Ranger
You start out with 10 skill points you can assign to your character, since you are just starting out we would recommend focusing on a classic Ranger build, at least for the moment. It is possible to take your build in a different direction later on.
Since at the start, you can assign a maximum of three points per Attribute, we would recommend focusing on Dexterity and Perception, in particular. Later on, you can also invest in raising your maximum health points and resistance, by focusing on Constitution.
Might will rule how much you can carry before becoming encumbered, so keep an eye on it. Intellect might also be a stat to invest in, but only if you are planning to build a Ranger wizard. At the start, it is safe to ignore.
Best skills for a Ranger build
There are several skills you can start with as a ranger, such as Tanglefoot which summons vines that block enemies. We would recommend prioritizing Parry first, along with Evasive, as that will allow you to take less damage right from the start.
While you can also choose others in the Fighter class, such as Charge, none of them are particularly game-changing. If you are planning for your ranger to be a magic user, then Magic Missile could be a good choice, otherwise, sticking to Tanglefoot for your first hours is also fine. Survivalist is also a good skill to focus on, allowing you to make good use of potions and health-recovering items.
Here is a breakdown of all the skills.
Once you have reached level 5, you should decide what kind of Ranger you want to be. The Piercing Thrusts skill is great if you are planning to use daggers or any kind of melee weapons for special attacks. Finesse, instead, prioritize if you prefer classic one-handed weapons. If you are not using any of those and just prefer your bow and arrow, then focus on Marksmanship.
Naturally, you might also want to spread your points across all three and try out how they work. In case you change your mind, you can always re-spec your ranger. Shadowing Beyond might be the most useful skill of them all in order to find places to attack from.
Once you reach level 10, you have some more skills you can choose from. Out of them all, Quick Switch might be good if your build requires you to juggle between different weapons a lot. Power Slide is okay but not really required. Arrow deflection goes well with Parry if you are building a classic Ranger.
Finally, on Level 15, you get something interesting. Critical Strike? Yes, please, you want your strikes to deal as much damage as possible so invest in that. Bear Ally is pretty fun, as you get to summon a bear that can be used to distract other enemies, good if you aren't very strong on the melee front. Sniper requires you to be very stealthy, so, depending on your build, it can be skipped. Finally, at Level 20, if you want to keep building your Ranger with a melee flavor, then Flury of Blows is for you, and Staggering Shot is for classic archers.
Best skills for a Ranger wizard
There are not a lot of Wizard skills that are absolutely mandatory for your Ranger unless you are in love with the idea of using magic spells a lot. You can add your magic spells as an additional ranged attack, which will allow for better flexibility when dealing with enemies.
The following are Wizard skills that can be useful for your Ranger.
As mentioned, if you want to keep your options flexible, then both Mastery abilities, the Wand and Grimioire ones, will be good choices. Naturally, it depends on whether you are planning to use your wand or prefer to simply cast spells through your spellbook.
If you want to keep using magic spells, then Harvest Essence will be a great help to avoid running out of Essence, as you can harvest it from enemies at twice the quantity. While we recommend focusing on both Spirit Lance and Blackbow as additional magic skills, as they offer greater flexibility, you can also choose to focus on other kinds of magic damage (Fire, Shock, Poison, and Ice).
Best skills for a Ranger fighter
If you want to build your Ranger to be a strong melee fighter, keep an eye out for some Fighter skills that you can definitely use. In particular, you want your Ranger to be a bit tanky, so choose Toughness to improve your health points and Constant Recovery to make sure you won't run out of HP.
Here are the Fighter skills you want to choose from your Ranger.
Also, if you are planning to be wearing anything except simple Light armor, then by leveling up the Armored Grace skill you will be able to run much faster than usual.
If your Ranger is particularly skilled with melee weapons, then the combo of Devastating Criticals and Clear Out will deal a massive amount of damage to your enemies as you whirlwind your way through them.
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