Take a look at our Wordle tips if you’d like to refresh your daily puzzle solving, then use everything you learn there to help you make the most of the hint for today’s Wordle. Don’t worry about spoilers—our clue is supposed to give you a boost, not give the game away. Although if that sounds like your kinda thing, then you’re in luck. The February 9 (1331) answer is only a click away.
Every odd thing I tried today seemed to work out in my favour, as if I was tapped into a secret supply of Wordle luck. I’m not complaining—I kind of enjoyed seeing “Well, what’s the worst that could happen?” become a huge success—but I hope it sticks around for tomorrow’s puzzle too.
Wordle today: A hint
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Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, February 9
This is a nice extra, a little something more on top. The main thing is that it’s above and beyond the usual, and not to be expected.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?
No, there is not a double letter in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day
If you’ve decided to play Wordle but you’re not sure where to start, I’ll help set you on the path to your first winning streak. Make all your guesses count and become a Wordle winner with these quick tips:
A good opener has a mix of common vowels and consonants.
The answer could contain the same letter, repeated.
Avoid words that include letters you’ve already eliminated.
You’re not racing against the clock so there’s no reason to rush. In fact, it’s not a bad idea to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Sometimes stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective.
Today’s Wordle answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
Let’s finish the week with a win. The answer to the February 9 (1331) Wordle is BONUS.
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Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answers
Previous Wordle solutions can help to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer isn’t likely to be repeated. They can also give you some solid ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.
Here are some recent Wordle answers:
February 8: STEEP
February 7: SWATH
February 6: PUPIL
February 5: PEDAL
February 4: TOOTH
February 3: REVUE
February 2: CHORE
February 1: CEASE
January 31: TOAST
January 30: FALSE
Learn more about Wordle
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There are six rows of five boxes presented to you by Wordle each day, and you’ll need to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the daily puzzle.
Start with a strong word like ALIVE—or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You should also avoid starting words with repeating letters, so you don’t waste the chance to confirm or eliminate an extra letter. Once you’ve typed your guess and hit Enter, you’ll see which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.
Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).
If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.
Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.
They say detective work is primarily about sitting in front of a computer, and if so, have I got the desktop for you. Armed with Nut OS 1.1, the Cashew PC offers speedy net surfing and thorough database searching – all without the bloat of a modern Windows machine, or the sluggishness of a genuine late ‘90s PC. It’s the main tool in your arsenal in The Roottrees are Dead, a game about filling in a massive, tangled family tree.
In the wake of a recent tragedy, which has claimed the lives of the current president of the Roottree Candy Company, his wife and their three daughters, you’ve been hired by a mysterious client to chart the Roottree dynasty in incontestable black and white. That means combing through fictional websites, library books and periodicals for the facts required to pin them down on your big, conspiracy-style cork board.
Need to know
What is it? A game where you fill in a family tree. Much more exciting than it sounds. Release date: Jan 15, 2025 Expect to pay: $19.99/£16.75 Developer: Robin Ward Publisher: Evil Trout Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, GeForce RTX 2060 Steam Deck: Unknown Multiplayer? No Link: Steam
Sure it’s easy enough to uncover the names of the three sisters that died in the crash – they are currently plastered all over the internet – plus their professions and a photo each to “lock them in”. But what about their parents? And the parents of their parents’ parents? You have 90 years of this stuff to dig up, so get searching.
Every time you find a clue—if you even noticed it, as they can be cleverly buried—you have a number of avenues to turn to (on your swivel chair). There’s the evidence on your evidence desk (maybe I should get an evidence desk): relevant photos and documents you’ll return to, time and again, to cross-reference new information. But your main port of call is the World Wide Web, the Information Superhighway, which—just as in the real 1998—has exactly three sites of note.
Fictional search engine SpiderSearch is useful for looking up the more famous Roottrees, or notable incidents involving them, while any books you have uncovered may be available from a central library database. Periodicals are also handy for digging up the titbits you need to complete an entry. I lost track of the number of times I had used the married rather than the maiden names of the Roottree spouses.
Bloodlines
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Technically you’re only required to fill in direct descendants on the family tree (company founder Elias Roottree was a bit obsessed with the bloodline), but when every name or profession or discovered photograph feels like sifted gold, you’re going to slap them all on the cork board anyway.
After every few successful entries, the game fades to black to pat you on the back, confirming your work by locking those entries in place. The game is essentially one giant puzzle—pretty daunting when you zoom out to a sea of question marks and no idea where to start—so it’s best to take notes, whether in real-life or with the in-game notebook.
Actually, speaking of that notebook, it’s one of the niftiest notebooks ever made. Just one element of an interface that works its socks off to keep you immersed in the detecting flow state. Found a clue on a website, in a book, or in one of your evidence folders? Simply highlight it with the mouse for options to search for it on the internet, or to add it to your notebook, no typing required. The Roottrees are Dead never feels fiddly, repetitive or time-consuming, and in a game about transferring information between menus repeatedly, that’s no small feat.
The AI-generated artwork of the original is thankfully gone, replaced by beautifully hand-drawn photos, magazine covers and promotional flyers.
I said much the same thing back when I reviewed the earlier, free version of The Roottrees are Dead, which is largely similar but neatly eclipsed by this paid remake. The AI-generated artwork of the original is thankfully gone, replaced by beautifully hand-drawn photos, magazine covers and promotional flyers, while the action has spread out from just your desktop to your entire living room. The corners of the room are dominated by your PC, your cork board, the evidence desk and the front door, which is where your client will occasionally pop up to progress the overall story.
With such a large cast of characters, and often cursory details about their lives, I felt like I knew a lot and very little about the Roottrees after playing the game. It was fascinating to unravel their history, their secrets, to follow potential clues down rabbit holes and feel like an actual detective, but very rarely did I discover anything to make me care about the characters.
The Roottrees are Still Dead
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That’s just one element bettered in the expansion, which is included as part of this remake, and accessible after you complete the main game. Roottreemania deals with the fallout of the explosive ending of The Roottrees are Dead, enriching characters from the previous game while introducing additional branches to the family tree. Here, you’re following the trails of various infidelities—an area not really touched on in the previous game—and the illegitimate offspring that now have a claim to the Roottree fortune.
Partway into this tougher investigation, I realised I’d been touched by some of the stuff I had uncovered. Little details had fully brought many of its characters to life. The game generally summarises websites and documents, rather than delivering them to you wholesale, and more interesting and affecting details about their lives have been picked out here.
This second part of the Roottree saga is also a better detective game, with a greater amount of useless information to sift through (making the genuine clues, when you find them, all the more rewarding), and a more challenging method of inputting information. In the first part, you select first and last names from a reassuringly dwindling list, but here the pool of available names is considerably larger, and it doesn’t deplete, meaning you’re less able to rely on guesswork to fill in the blanks.
All in all, you could hardly ask for a better follow-up to The Roottrees are Dead, which itself is a lavish revamp of the free original. This is a game for the quiet hours at your desk, your lamp low and the coffee steaming away, and one of the best games about unglamorous detective work.
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Kickstart your weekend Wordle with our clue for the February 8 (1330), designed to give you a helping hand without immediately giving the game away. You can also use it further into the puzzle if you like, to nudge any yellow letters into place and sweep away those greys. Not clicking? Not enough rows left to risk another guess? No problem. Today’s answer is waiting for you just a little further down this page.
Wow, I cleared Wordle today before I’d even realised it had begun. Over, just like that. My coffee hadn’t even had the time to get cold, and my eyebrows remain unfurrowed. Great. Er, see you again tomorrow? Oh and don’t worry if your own puzzling isn’t quite going to plan, there’s a hint on this page that’ll definitely help you out.
Today’s Wordle hint
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Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, February 8
If a hill was at this angle, it’d be a tough climb. This word is also used for high prices and even the act of leaving tea to brew.
Is there a double letter in Wordle today?
Yes, there is a double letter in today’s puzzle.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day
A good starting word can be the difference between victory and defeat with the daily puzzle, but once you’ve got the basics, it’s much easier to nail down those Wordle wins. And as there’s nothing quite like a small victory to set you up for the rest of the day, here are a few tips to help set you on the right path:
A good opening guess should contain a mix of unique consonants and vowels.
Narrow down the pool of letters quickly with a tactical second guess.
Watch out for letters appearing more than once in the answer.
There’s no racing against the clock with Wordle so you don’t need to rush for the answer. Treating the game like a casual newspaper crossword can be a good tactic; that way, you can come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Stepping away for a while might mean the difference between a win and a line of grey squares.
Today’s Wordle answer
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What is today’s Wordle answer?
Get your letters in a row. The answer to the February 8 (1330) Wordle is STEEP.
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Previous Wordle answers
The last 10 Wordle answers
Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. They are also a good way to eliminate guesses for today’s Wordle, as the answer is unlikely to be repeated.
Here are some recent Wordle answers:
February 7: SWATH
February 6: PUPIL
February 5: PEDAL
February 4: TOOTH
February 3: REVUE
February 2: CHORE
February 1: RIVET
January 31: TOAST
January 30: FALSE
January 29: UDDER
Learn more about Wordle
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Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and you’ll need to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them to keep up your winning streak.
You should start with a strong word like ARISE, or any other word that contains a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You’ll also want to avoid starting words with repeating letters, as you’re wasting the chance to potentially eliminate or confirm an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which ones you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.
Your second guess should compliment the starting word, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. With a bit of luck, you should have some coloured squares to work with and set you on the right path.
After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the right word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words (so no filling the boxes with EEEEE to see if there’s an E). Don’t forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS).
If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.
Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.
In Monster Hunter Wilds, nobody hunts alone. Not unless you want to, anyway. Multiplayer has always been a Monster Hunter mainstay, although connecting with friends still carries some lingering clunkiness from the series’ earlier years.
While Wilds has a few options for bringing along hunting partners, wrapping your head around its lobbies, Link Parties, and SOS flares takes some doing. Luckily we’re here to serve up a Monster Hunter Wilds multiplayer hunting guide to make those fiddly bits less fiddly. If you want to bring some friends along when you set out to slay any number of fanged beasts, flying wyverns, and various reptiles, here’s how to do it.
Worth noting up front, though: You’ll need to complete character creation and the initial Chatacabra tutorial hunt before you can mess with multiplayer. Get that out of the way before trying to head online.
How does multiplayer work in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta?
To understand Monster Hunter Wilds multiplayer, you’ll need to know two things: lobbies and Link Parties. If you’re not playing Wilds solo, you’ll be playing in a lobby. In Monster Hunter, lobbies are large online game sessions where hunters can socialize, group up, and join each other’s quests on the fly—and in Wilds, lobbies are larger than they’ve ever been, with up to 100 hunters sharing the same online session. Lobby members can see each other roaming around base camp, and can join each other’s quests from the quest counter by talking to Alma.
If that feels a little too public, you also have the option to form a private lobby. These are invite only and have a smaller player cap, but are a good option for hosting larger hunting sessions with a Discord community or something like that.
If you want to play with a small, hunting squad-sized group of friends, however, you’ll want to use Link Parties. These are smaller, private groups that exist independent of lobbies. If you invite a friend through Steam, this is what they’ll join. At the quest counter, you can join quests posted by Link Party members by selecting “Link Member Quests,” making it easy for you and your friends to hunt together once you’re partied up. You can even be in the same Link Party while in different lobbies.
To summarize, if you want to invite friends to a hunt in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta, follow these steps:
While in a public or private lobby, invite your friends through Steam or through the in-game friends system. Once they accept, you’ll be in a Link Party. (Make sure they don’t have a quest posted in their own game, or they won’t get your invite.)
Start a quest by either talking to Alma or by attacking a monster in the wilderness until it initiates a quest.
Your friends can now join your quest through the “Link Member Quests” menu by talking to Alma.
Prep, depart, and hunt! (Unless you started your quest by smacking a monster; just wait for your friend to show up, in that case.)
What’s the deal with Environment Links?
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If you’ve got a friend in your link party in the Wilds beta, you’ve probably noticed the option to invite them to an Environment Link. You’ve also probably noticed that you don’t see your link party buddies while you’re roaming around the Windward Plains, and that they disappear once you finish a quest together.
The Environment Link is yet another specific kind of multiplayer connection. An Environment Link lets link party members run around the open wilderness together and initiate expedition quests on the fly. Unfortunately, you’ll be limited to whatever monsters happen to appear; you can’t post traditional quests while in an Environment Link.
To invite your Link Party to an Environment Link, go to the Communication menu > Link Party > Invite All to Environment Link. When you’re ready to go back to traditional quest posting and joining, go back to the same menu and select Disband or Leave Environment Link, depending on whether you’re hosting or not.
How do SOS Flares work?
SOS flares act as a kind of multiplayer on-demand option. When you’re in a quest by yourself, you can request assistance from other hunters by going to the menu > Missions & Quests > SOS Flare.
Once you’ve launched your flare, other hunters anywhere—including other lobbies—can respond by visiting the SOS Flare Quest section at the quest counter and searching for quests with flares active. They can specify criteria, like quest rank and target monster, and if your quest is a match, they’ll join your quest.
After some time passes, if you’ve still got open slots in your quest, they’ll be filled by AI-controlled “support hunters.”
Does the Monster Hunter Wilds beta have crossplay?
Monster Hunter Wilds does have multiplayer crossplay. To play with a friend who’s hunting on consoles, you’ll need their Hunter ID, which they can find by going to Menu > Communication > Player List > Link Members.
When you’ve got their ID, you can search for them by going to Menu > Communication > Player List > Hunter ID Search. Once you’ve found them, you can add them to your in-game friends list, after which you can invite them to your Link Party or search for their lobby when you start up the game.
If you could also use a helping hand fighting some of the the Monster Hunter Wilds beta monsters, read on:
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With the public launch of Windows version 24H2 last year came a security issue that was only ‘resolved’ this week. Those who installed Windows 11 from a media file using the October or November version of the software seemingly can’t access any future security updates, and the solution is a fresh install of just the Windows OS.
As acknowledged in the recent Windows release health update, this security issue was opened on December 24, 2024, and ‘resolved’ on February 6. This issue notes that it happens with those using install media, like a CD or USB drive, to install Windows 11 files that were distributed in October and November 2024 updates.
As the Windows 24H2 update launched in October officially, if you happened to have upgraded as it launched, you will want to get the most recent build and install it. However, if you installed 24H2 via the Windows update tab, your Windows 11 will be able to get security updates as usual.
This was ‘resolved’, as the fix is effectively ‘Don’t install the Windows 11 updates that have security update issues.’
Windows security updates are used to fix vulnerabilities in Windows that can be exploited by third parties or can result in stability issues. Getting security updates is a necessary part of the software upkeep of your Windows 11 PC as going without security updates can put your rig at risk. This is why Microsoft ending support for Windows 10 at the end of the year is a big deal to those who haven’t upgraded yet. The longer you go without regular software maintenance, the more risk your rig is undertaking.
Coincidentally, a brand new workaround to install Windows 11 on devices that don’t fit the hardware requirements was created around the launch of 24H2. This means that if you used Rufus or Flyby11 recently to install Windows 11 on a rig incompatible with Microsoft’s OS software, you will need to do a clean reinstall in order to fix it.
If you have the version of Windows 11 without future security updates, it’s pretty simple to update and you can use the same method you did in the latter half of last year. Just grab the latest version of Windows 11 and install it.
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Unfortunately, this does mean having to sit through the Windows 11 update screen, but you don’t need to remove personal files to do a clean install so it shouldn’t be a huge ordeal. Just make sure to do it soon, as the allure of putting off Windows updates is a tempting one. I’ll get to it later.
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Monster Hunter Wilds features some truly terrifying beasts, like the frog-gorilla hybrid Chatcabra and the hulking bear Doshaguma. But just like our wilderness, there can only be one at the top of the food chain. While the aforementioned monsters can be found in the Windward Plains, even they have to bow down to the area’s Apex Monster—the lightning wyvern Rey Dau. This fearsome beast only appears during thunderstorms, giving it quite the theatrical entrance. You’ll need to give it your all to defeat Rey Dau in the Monster Hunter Wilds beta.
Since we’ve only fought this crackling wyvern in the beta so far, this Rey Dau guide is aimed at helping you do the same with the limited weapons and gear at your disposal. For the final game, we’ll update the guide with details on the best weapons and armor to craft, Rey Dau’s weaknesses, part drops, and more.
Rey Dau is a new Flying Wyvern introduced in Monster Hunter Wilds and is the apex predator of the Windward Plains—which is the starting biome in the game. The most striking feature of Rey Dau is its ability to harness electricity through the horns on its head and channel it into railgun-like blasts. And considering it only appears during thunderstorms, there’s no shortage of lightning. The electricity will build up during the battle, with its wings and tail glowing blue when it’s fully charged.
But even without the power of Thor on its side, Rey Dau is no slouch thanks to a spiked tail and massive wings that have (also massive) sword-like blades at their tips. The wyvern’s mix of both short-range and long-range capabilities means that if you don’t go in well prepared it’s extremely likely you’ll be heading home on a cart.
How to fight Rey Dau
Rey Dau attacks to watch out for
Rey Dau has a number of attacks you’ll want to keep an eye out for, a lot of which it shares with fellow Flying Wyverns. Here’s how to counter them.
Tail Spin – One of Rey Dau’s most common attacks is doing a 180-degree turn while whipping its tail. It telegraphs this attack by looking over its shoulder before spinning the opposite way. You’ll want to dodge backwards away from Rey Dau. This attack’s impact is also lessened by severing Rey Dau’s tail, which removes the massive club on its end.
Stab – Rey Dau will pause, rear its head back, and bring its horns forward and then stab at you while emitting a lightning bolt. It also commonly does this move out of a charge. Just dodge out of the way during the pause, and you should be fine.
Wing Slash – Rey Dau will slam its sword wing down as lightning bursts from it. It then drags it across the ground before swiping rubble into the air. It telegraphs this move by raising one wing into the air, but you don’t get too much lead time. This can be dodged by rolling forward and to either side. Rey Dau will also do this attack from the air, swiping the sword across the ground as it flies by.
Flying Wing Smash – Rey Dau will lunge back while spinning into the air before slamming its wing sword down into the ground. Following the slam, its wing will be stuck in the ground, allowing you the chance to counterattack.
Lightning Bolt – Rey Dau will point its horns forward and shoot out bolts of lightning at you. Before the bolt is fired, a smaller line of lightning will shoot out, showing you where the actual blast will follow. These are pretty slim so dodging to the side will do the trick, but beware of Rey Dau firing multiple shots in a row. This move can be performed on the ground or in the air, but the horn tell still persists across both variants. The monster will also swipe its tail as it fires, so be careful when attacking from behind.
Charge Beam – Rey Dau will throw its head up into the sky and harness lightning into its horns. It will then step back and point its horns forward while charging up electricity throughout its body before letting out a massive beam of lightning. Thankfully, this beam is only shot slightly in front of the monster into the ground, so you’re completely safe around the sides. This move can also be done in the air, with Rey Dau jumping backwards dramatically before spinning and taking aim. This version still takes time to charge, so you’ll have time to dodge. After this attack Rey Dau will let its guard down and its horns out, leaving its face completely unguarded. When unguarded, its face counts as a wound, so using a focus attack here will net you a knockdown and allow you to pile on damage.
Rey Dau’s weaknesses
Currently we don’t know what Rey Dau’s weakness is in Monster Hunter Wilds officially.
Based on the design and moves of Rey Dau, we know with almost 100% certainty that its weakness isn’t going to be thunder. But outside of that, Capcom has given no indication of what elements will be strong against Rey Dau. Looking at previous Thunder Flying Wyverns, we have the Khezu, which is weak to fire, and the Astalos, which is weak to ice and water. Between these two, we’d assume that Rey Dau will be weak to ice, especially since the Fanged Wyvern Zinogre—which also harnesses electricity—is similarly weak to it.
Granted, this won’t matter in the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta anyway, as you won’t be able to craft weapons during the test. You’re stuck to non-elemental weapons, and you’ll need to do your best to succeed.
Rey Dau guide: Best weapons and armor
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Best weapons against Rey Dau
Due to Rey Dau’s strong long- and short-range capabilities, you’re going to want a weapon that offers a lot of mobility, making us recommend the likes of Sword and Shield, Charge Blade, Long Sword, Dual Blades, or Insect Glaive. These weapons will also be good for chopping off the tail of the Rey Dau, which significantly reduces its capabilities as an offensive weapon.
That being said, a blunt instrument like the Hammer or Hunting Horn could be good for smashing the bone swords on Rey Dau’s Wings, or even its horns, which will reduce the damage from its lightning attacks.
Best armor and skills against Rey Dau
Monster Hunter Wilds’ beta is too limited to give us choices in gear or ideal skills to equip against Rey Dau, but we’ll have more to say here when Wilds hits its full release.
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Everyone is talking about Nvidia these days. The gaming graphics card company, turned datacentre company, turned AI company, turned Wall Street darling… even my Nan asked me about them recently. But today is not Nvidia’s day. Nope, this build is powered by AMD and Intel parts, working in total synchronicity.
You might be surprised to hear that I’ve used an Intel CPU and an AMD GPU for this mid to high-end hero: a Core Ultra 5 245K and RX 7900 XT. I built it prior to the launch of the RTX 50-series, not that you can buy one anyways, but I wanted to try to be a little more sensible with my money—a $2,000 GPU isn’t in the PC Gamer budget.
My main takeaway from this build is just how easily it came together. A spacious chassis with room to manoeuvre, paired with a motherboard with some of the simplest SSD slots known to humankind, and topped off with chip cooling powered by a single cable—small shortcuts that made the process of building this PC feel like child’s play. And that’s not me bragging about my magnificent building ability—I’ve had an absolute ‘mare with PCs plenty of times. Not here.
When I was planning out this build, I had one thing in mind: ‘don’t go overboard, mate’. I mostly managed that, though you’ll forgive a PC gamer for a little overzealous ordering.
As mentioned above, this gaming PC is built on Intel’s latest processor platform, Arrow Lake, and the Z890 chipset. I’ve opted for ASRock’s Z890 Steel Legend WiFi to provide the necessary LGA1851 socket required for the Core Ultra 5 245K, though it’s a stellar choice for a few reasons. Namely, the RGB light bar along the lower SSD slots.
Only joking. The lighting is a nice touch but I’m reppin’ the Steel Legend for its pair of Thunderbolt 4 Type-C ports, 18+1+1+1+1 phase VRM, and some of the best NVMe slots in the biz.
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All this talk about SSD slots—what’s the big deal? Usually where a motherboard would employ a screw, or many screws of varying sizes (yuck!), this absolute legend stuffs a couple of quick release sliders to unleash any one of the three covered NVMe slots (there’s one uncovered slot, too). More than that, once you’re under the hood, there are no tiny screws to unleash the SSD itself—just a twisty locking mechanism. I was in and out of those slots in no time, and without even reaching for my screwdriver.
I don’t get the benefit of heaps of NVMe slots rated to PCIe 5.0 speeds on this motherboard, just one. That’s due to the Z890 chipset’s available lanes, and is in direct contrast to AMD’s top chipset with many. But I’m not opting for a PCIe 5.0 SSD in this build to help reduce costs. Instead, the Solidigm P44 Pro 1 TB sits within this machine—a stalwart pick for its reliability and affordability.
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If I were using one of Intel’s last-generation processors, the fiery 14900K for example, the door would be largely closed to an air cooler. Though with significantly reduced wattage by comparison, the 245K works just fine alongside the Be Quiet! Dark Rock 5. In fact, as you’ll see in the performance section, temperatures remain pretty low throughout testing. And this isn’t even the largest version of this air cooler available. With only a single fan to install, I had but a single fan header to connect before moving onto the next job.
The Dark Rock 5 didn’t cause any compatibility issues with the RAM I’ve chosen for this build: Corsair’s Vengeance RGB DDR5-6600 32 GB. This Vengeance gear isn’t like the stuff of yore, it’s still rather large for all the RGB LEDs stuffed under the hood. The more important part is that it’s rated to 6,600 MHz (effective), which is a speed the Intel chip could actually benefit from to some very tiny degree. The main thing is it is actually relatively affordable memory, even for its speed, lighting and capacity.
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The 245K might not be top of the performance charts, nor the sales charts, but it is a better chip than some give it credit for. Namely, I can reasonably pair it with an air cooler, as I have for this build, and enjoy playable temperatures and low noise. You can’t say that of a 14th Gen chip. The alternative here was one of AMD’s smart and affordable Ryzen processors. While one of those would be a great fit, I wanted to give Intel’s latest processor a run for its money.
The 245K comes with a mix of P-cores and E-cores—six and eight, respectively. There’s no Hyper-Threading so it totals just 14 threads. Nevertheless, it’s relatively impressive in encoding and rendering benchmarks, such as Handbrake and Cinebench, and draws relatively low power for this performance compared to previous generations from Intel. However, if you want the fastest gaming chip around, this isn’t it. Even following a series of performance patches from Intel, I’m still left wanting for more.
Thankfully, the graphics card takes on most of the burden with rendering frames these days, especially at higher resolutions. I’ve opted for the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT for this build for a few reasons: 1) they’re cheap by comparison to the outgoing RTX 40-series; 2) the RTX 50-series wasn’t yet available when I made this PC, though good luck getting one now; 3) the RX 9000-series is set to launch sometime in early March, so isn’t available.
If I’m going to opt for a last-generation card, at least at the time of building, I could get a lot more for my money out of the RX 7000-series. The RX 7900 XT, too, has been frequently discounted and features a healthy, long-lasting pile of GDDR6 memory chips—20 GB of the stuff, to be precise.
The final two pieces of the puzzle are the MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 PSU, which needn’t be PCIe 5.0 for AMD’s card, which lacks 12VHPWR or 12×6 connectors, but feels the right choice for longevity (and because I had it close to hand). Then, last but not least, the Be Quiet! Shadow Base 800 FX.
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The Shadow Base 800 FX is wicked. Partially that’s because of its simplicity and spaciousness. There’s ample room for near-enough anything inside this case. The four Light Wings 140 mm fans make for quiet operation too, befitting the brand on the box. But it’s more that I have very recent memories of building in the Be Quiet Dark Base 900.
The Dark Base 900 has sat in various living spaces of mine for at least five years. At one point it was fitted with parts for my own PC, but these days it’s surrounding my partner’s PC instead. It has ample room for components and lots of flexibility—though perhaps a little too much. It’s a massive hassle to do near-enough anything in it. The screws are fiddly, some are now threaded, the motherboard tray is a nightmare, the PSU shroud feels awkward to remove and reinstall. Altogether, I’d be happy to see the back of it—but the Shadow Base 800 FX has shown me just how far PC cases have come in recent years.
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The Shadow Base 800 FX comes part with ease, leaving a cavernous interior ready to fill with all manner of cable mess. Cable mess that is neatly hidden beneath the huge PSU shroud and cable management shroud running vertically through the centre of the case. I’ve taken multiple pictures of the space between the PSU and front fan, as you could fit nearly two more PSUs inside it. The case doesn’t feel excessively large, however.
The fans in the Shadow Base 800 FX come connected to a controller on the back of the motherboard, which only needs to be connected to a motherboard fan and RGB header for easy operation. It also comes away with a single thumbscrew to ease cooler installation.
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I’ve been thoroughly impressed with this chassis. Not because it does anything spectacular, it’s simply easy to build into and looks smart without much effort on my part. As I mentioned in the headline, altogether this felt like a gaming PC build on easy mode. From start to finish, I hit no roadblocks, cut no fingers, and when I reached for the power button, it booted first time.
The build
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Prep the motherboard
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Fit the CPU into the socket
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Plug in the RAM sticks
Make sure to use the correct two slots—usually the furthest away in both banks, as shown.
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Ready the CPU cooler
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Attach the cooler plate on the rear of the motherboard
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Secured (ish)
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Secured with the mounting points and screws
Don’t forget the thermal paste!
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Cooler mounted 👌
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Fan connected and connected to fan header
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Time to prep the case
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Place the motherboard on the standoffs and screw into place
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Connect fan controller to motherboard headers (PWM and RGB)
On the front, don’t forget to connect the front panel connectors
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Plug in the required cables into the PSU
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It’s ready to go 👍
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These PSU brackets are a God-send
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Locked and loaded
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Look at all this room for activities!
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The GPU is loaded into the PCIe slot
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It’s connected to two 8-pin power cables
Make sure to use dedicated cables for both 8-pin connections
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More or less ready to go!
Scroll through the gallery above for the step-by-step of how I put this build together.
The performance
Far from the highest scoring, fastest gaming PC in our testing, there is something to be said for how well the RX 7900 XT runs in most modern games. Comparing a few similar builds, the 7900 XT is often ahead of the RTX 4070 Super, and not far behind the RTX 4070 Ti Super. The RTX 50-series might crush it game-for-game, but its 20 GB of GDDR6 keeps it in the game for longer.
The Core Ultra 5 245K manages to keep up in games, though I’m sure I could eke more out of this graphics card with a speedier X3D chip in this machine. It does perform admirably next to the Ryzen 7 9700X more broadly in system benchmarks, and while slightly dampened by the occassionally higher performance of the Core i7 14700K, it is thankfully much cooler.
Temperatures are a real benefit of this lower-power processor. Despite a single-tower air cooler with just one fan in the Dark Rock 5, the 245K remained chilly under high load.
Gaming benchmarks
System benchmarks
Temperatures
The conclusion
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So there you have it: a gaming PC born of simple, straightforward parts that has made me appreciate the small stuff.
The SSD slots, the fan controllers, the roomy chassis—these are the little details that have combined to make a big difference when it comes to my experience crafting this gaming PC.
It really has made a noticeable improvement. When I was building in that Dark Base 900 a half-decade or so ago, the complexity and fiddliness felt like the price you pay for a case with all the extras. Nowadays, there’s little of that.
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Kurvitz is a particular fan of the first Fallout, like everyone else who is correct and right about things. During the stream he calls its character creator “the best thing on Earth” and draws attention to the way it informs you, via a dead body in a Vault suit found in the tutorial cave, that you weren’t the first person sent out into the Wastes to find a water chip. That’s right, skeleton storytelling was part of Fallout from its opening moments.
At the end of the stream viewer questions are asked, including this: What would Karl Marx’s favorite Fallout be? “Second Fallout definitely,” Kurvitz answers with confidence. “The first Fallout is like a perfect mood capsule that’s almost Biblical in its annihilation. Humanity is truly on its knees. It makes other post-apocalyptic worldbuilding seem like an amusement park—except maybe Threads or some of the really darker TV series. It’s a mood piece, but the second one is really very very about trade and social economics and about all of these settlements influencing each other, and so on. It’s definitely Fallout 2. I’m 100% sure that Marx would not have gone for any of the Bethesda Fallouts. I’m just talking about Marx here,” says Kurvitz, who is definitely just talking about Marx’s opinion on Fallout and not that of anyone else, “but he would have had no respect for any of those.”
It’s not all politics and deep thoughts, though Kurvitz does call Fallout a Gesamtkunstwerk before the video’s even 15 minutes in. He also delights in the squeaky death of a rat, saying, “Fallout has wonderful violent sounds. It’s not as much a thinking man’s game as people make it out to be.” He says this while wearing cat ears on his headset, because we all need to feel pretty in these trying times.
The topic does turn to Disco Elysium briefly, like when Kurvitz suggests the value of any work of art, videogame or otherwise, is not the thing itself, but the people it draws together. “I think that art is like a bonfire,” he says, “but there need to be people around the bonfire talking about it, and then it does something.” Did calls this, “another Kurvitz quotable,” which he laughs at before carrying on. “I have OK metaphors, but they don’t mean as much as they sound like,” he says. “But I think what’s worked is probably people have played Disco Elysium and they’ve connected to other people who’ve played Disco Elysium and then they’ve talked about it.”
Kurvitz and two other members of the ZA/UM diaspora, Helen Hindpere and Alexander Rostov, have formed a studio called Red Info. Last we heard they were involved in a legal battle with Studio ZA/UM over the rights to Elysium, and had submitted a copyright for something called Corinthians. Meanwhile, the shambling animated corpse of ZA/UM has been flogging a poverty-chic Disco Elysium plastic bag.
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What is a legacy? I’ve struggled with that question as I’ve tried to write about Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O., the latest entry in the series that invented 3D fighting games before eventually fading from the public consciousness. R.E.V.O., a new version that just hit Steam last week, is a chance to reset that, for one of the most beloved fighting games ever made to find a new worldwide audience.
But the first thing you have to understand about Virtua Fighter 5 is that it’s old. The original game released in Japanese arcades in 2006. To put that into perspective, that’s a year after the Xbox 360 launched; Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare were still a year away, Street Fighter 4 was two years out, and Apple’s App Store didn’t yet exist. I’ve been asking fighting game players why a port of a 19-year-old game matters in 2025—and why Virtua Fighter matters in general, despite collecting dust for longer than it was active as a popular series, at least in the West.
The answer runs deeper than Virtua Fighter pioneering 3D fighting.
“It’s hard to describe the feeling to someone who’s never played it before because it’s not flashy like a Tekken or Soul Calibur or even Dead or Alive, but everything about the fighting system just clicks,” said domaug, who’s been playing competitively since 2001’s Virtua Fighter 4. Domaug explained that the lack of bombastic supers and combos can make it look like not much is happening in a Virtua Fighter match, but in experienced hands the games move fast.
“It’s like you’re watching a kung fu movie unfold in front of you. I think why it’s survived this long is because its fluid fighting system hooked its players, never letting go. It’s a fighting game that’s truly unique; no other fighting game ‘feels’ like Virtua Fighter.”
You feel that when you play it. Unlike Tekken, Virtua Fighter has a block button and simpler inputs: instead of mapping a limb to each button you have a punch, kick, and block button, and that’s it. Virtua Fighter seems very easy to pick up and play, but it’s as deep as an ocean, and matches happen faster than you can spit.
Commentator Lawrence “WingedRegent” Maldonado described it this way: “Virtua Fighter is a lot more grounded … if a game like Tekken or Soul Calibur or even Dead or Alive is your favorite shonen anime, then I would say Virtua Fighter is your favorite martial arts movie … It’s a lot more reined in in terms of what the characters can do … When you see two VF players at a top level do what they do, you get to see that beautiful flow of combat.”
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Having spent a lot of time in various versions of Virtua Fighter 5 over the years and R.E.V.O. itself, it’s hard to disagree. Virtua Fighter is a game of move and countermove. It’s pure and focused, and in a genre where games are increasingly fantastical and characters more and more powerful, it feels increasingly rare. Nobody is transforming into a devil and shooting eyebeams or conjuring energy from thin air.
Cory “Virtua Kazama” Mewborn reminded me that Virtua Fighter’s reputation for cutting-edge tech isn’t just down to pioneering the 3D fighter in 1993. “Virtua Fighter has always been the blueprint for the 3D fighting game because it always makes itself into something brand new,” he said. Mewborn has been active in the scene since 2010 and organizes tournaments in addition to competing and commentating. Considering how long it’s been since the series has seen a new entry, its diehard players have had plenty of time to brush up on their history.
“Virtua Fighter 2 gave us motion capture for the very first time,” he said. “3 gave us environments [with stairs and slopes] and eye tracking. Virtua Fighter 4 gave us sabakis, which is basically an attack with reflective properties.”
If being cutting edge is Virtua Fighter’s legacy, though, R.E.V.O. isn’t that. It’s still, at its heart, a revision of a game that is nearly 20 years old. But R.E.V.O. is the first time the series has appeared on PC since some ancient Windows 95 ports; it also marks the first time the series will have rollback netcode, a now-genre staple that has made playing with other players around the world possible without major drawbacks. While R.EV.O.’s rollback can have lag issues if one player’s connection is bad, I’ve only ever had excellent matches on it.
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But this is about more than a netcode solution: It means that a community that has previously been somewhat segregated by regions and different game versions can finally play together.
“Even with Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown, when that came out, there was… the global version of the game, and then there was Virtua Fighter eSports, which was the Japanese version of the game that was on arcade and PS4, and those two player bases could not interact,” Maldonado explained. “With VF5 R.E.V.O., that last remaining sort of border has eroded, and now players can just finally reach out and play with each other across the world.”
It’s a huge win for a community that has survived, in many ways, on sheer love and force of will. And that’s saying something for a corner of the already fiercely loyal and protective FGC.
“The community has welcomed everyone, trying to get as many new players as possible through community tournaments, locals, Discord servers, and overall positive attitudes,” domaug told me. “I know many of the long-standing members of the North American and European VF communities have done everything they could to get Sega’s attention as the game’s focus has almost exclusively been on Japan. They wanted to show Sega that Virtua Fighter is beloved outside of Japan, and they eventually noticed and rewarded that loyalty in a huge way.”
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Mewborn puts it more simply. “We try to bring it all together. We try to level each other up.”
It’s been a tall ask, but R.E.V.O.’s release has shown that Sega is listening, and I’ve rarely seen a community more deserving to have their work rewarded. R.E.V.O. isn’t just a port of Ultimate Showdown with new netcode (itself a prettier version of Final Showdown, a game from 2012). It’s also bringing balance changes to Virtua Fighter 5 for the first time in 13 years. Imagine if Capcom hadn’t touched Street Fighter at all for more than a decade, and suddenly brought Street Fighter 4 to modern platforms, prettied it up, and even rebalanced it and added in some favorite moves from earlier games in the series.
“The gameplay is still Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown, but the balance patch was what made a difference because there were moves that we never thought we would see again,” said Mewborn. “There’s some moves, some throws, that were taken out. It really made us rethink how to play our characters that we know and love.”
Rediscovering how things work is now a new experience, even for series veterans. “It’s a trippy experience,” said Maldonado. “Even people who’ve been playing since VF5: FS in 2010, even in the arcades, they’re now learning new things about their characters after not having had a new thing to discover for 14 years.”
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And Sega is clearly listening to fan feedback. The community discovered, for instance, that a change to one of Eileen’s moves could produce a pseudo-infinite because of an added stagger effect on normal hits, but Sega quickly fixed it. It’s hard to overstate how much goodwill a quick response like that builds.
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. is resurrection. Rebirth. A chance for one of the greatest, longest-enduring fighting games and its community to finally get their chance in the sun again, revitalizing them before the release of Virtua Fighter 6 from the same team that develops Like a Dragon.
If you’re part of the FGC, you have that fighting game that defines you; that, to quote Mewborn, “will stick with you no matter what.” Those players believed in Virtua Fighter when even Sega didn’t seem to. That faith has been rewarded, and they’re excited to see new people play Virtua Fighter for the first time. If that community has a message, it’s this, from domaug: “I really hope you enjoy Virtua Fighter going forward and I want it to make you as happy as it’s made me over the years.”
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With the re-release Legacy Collections now launched, you’ll want some Sims 2 cheats in your mental rolodex to keep the early aughts life sim under control. The Sims 2 was a pretty big jump from The Sims 1—from 2D into 3D, a bigger overall simulation of life, and a much bigger list of cheats too.
This is the point in the series where some popular staples like bigger money cheats and needs cheats came into play, which we’ll walk you through below. It’s also the game that has a handy registry of cheats if you type “help” into the cheat console. That thing is a bear to scroll through though and doesn’t always provide the context you’d want to figure out how to put those cheats to the best use. I’ll walk you through the most helpful cheats in The Sims 2 along with some that aren’t actually listed in the in-game menu.
How to enable Sims 2 cheats
To open the cheat console in The Sims 2 press Ctrl + Shift + C which is the same as all the other Sims games. Type in one of the cheats below and hit enter and then type “exit” and hit enter to close the cheat console when you’re done.
The Sims 2 console doesn’t give much acknowledgement that the cheat you entered was successful so you’ll have to keep a close eye on the interface to verify that you got the results you wanted.
Best Sims 2 cheats
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Sims 2 money cheats
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Cheat
Effect
kaching
Adds 1,000 simoleons
motherlode
Adds 50,000 simoleons
familyFunds [name] [number]
For example “familyFunds Goth 50000”
familyFunds [name] [+/-][number]
Increase or decrease family funds by a specific number. Note there’s no space between the +/- and the number!
Sims 2 needs cheats and mood cheats
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Cheat
Effect
maxMotives
Maxes out the needs (motives) for all sims on the lot
motiveDecay [off/on]
Turns sim needs decay off or on
Unlike The Sims 1, luckily The Sims 2 does have a couple cheats for controlling your sims’ moods. It refers to a sim’s needs as “motives” in cheats parlance. You can make your sim instantly happy with the “maxMotives” cheat and then disable decay on all their needs with “motiveDecay off” if you want to keep them happy until you decide otherwise.
You can also use testing cheats and the Shift+Click cheats (below) to click on the lot mailbox to make everyone on the lot happy at once.
Sims 2 move objects cheat
The move objects cheat in The Sims 2 is “moveObjects on” and like The Sims 1 it works a little differently than you’re used to if you’ve been playing The Sims 4 for over a decade.
The Sims 2 move objects cheat does not give you full gridless placement but it does let you ignore placement distance requirements between objects. That means you can place furniture pieces clipping into each other or closer together if you want. See the build mode cheats below for more on better object placement.
The main function of move objects in The Sims 2 is still allowing you to pick up and move objects that aren’t normally editable. With move objects on you can move lot items like the mailbox and garbage bin or delete annoying things like leaky puddles. You can move objects while sims are using them or move prop objects they’ve pulled out. You can even move a sim or delete them entirely—though I don’t recommend that as it removes them from your family.
Sims 2 live mode cheats
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Cheat
Effect
aging [on/off]
Turns off aging for current household but needs to be re-entered any time you switch households
disablePuppyKittenAging [on/off]
Disables or enables aging for pets
aspirationLevel [0-5]
Sets current sim’s short term aspiration meter
aspirationPoints [number]
Add aspiration points to spend in the “rewards” tab of the interface
lockAspiration [on/off]
Locks aspiration score for sims on the lot
unlockCareerRewards
Unlock career items for current sim
setHour [0-23]
Change the time, where 1 = 1 am and 23 = 11 pm
forcetwins
Forces your pregnant sim to have twins
slowMotion [0-8]
Slows the game below normal speed with 8 being the slowest setting
stretchSkeleton [#]
Stretches or shrinks your sim’s height, for example “stretchSkeleton 1.3“
boolProp testingcheatsenabled true
Enables Shift+Click cheats (more below)
addNeighborToFamilyCheat [on/off]
Unlocks the Shift+Click cheat “Add to Family”
ageSimsCheat [on/off]
Unlocks the Shift+Click cheat “Set Age” to change a sim’s life stage
Sims 2 build/buy mode cheats
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Cheat
Effect
moveObjects on
Pick up objects that are normally non-interactable
setQuarterTilePlacement [on/off]
After turning on, press Ctrl + F to toggle object placement on quarter tile increments
roofSlopeAngle [15-75]
Sets angle of roof slopes on lot
changeLotClassification [low/middle/high]
Determines which townies will move into an apartment in the Apartment Life expansion
clearLotClassValue
Clears the lot classification in Apartment Life
One of the best build mode cheats for The Sims 2 is “setQuarterTilePlacement on“. Since The Sims 2 doesn’t have gridless placement, this helps you build homes that look a little less artificial with more precise object movement. After using the cheat, press Ctrl+F to toggle quarter tile placement on. You can use this in conjunction with “moveObjects on” to make use of small spaces by placing objects closer together than a single tile. Just make sure to test that your sims can still actually use them.
There is also an individualRoofSlopeAngle in the cheat registry but there’s a handier tool in the interface for that which will allow you to set a specified roof angle and click on individual pieces of roof to apply that angle.
Sims 2 UI cheats
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The following Sims 2 UI cheats can remove certain elements like plumbobs and thought bubbles for taking better screenshots or add unlockable post-processing effects.
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Cheat
Effect
plumbBobToggle
Toggle visibility of a sim’s overhead mood plumbob
showHeadlines [on/off]
Sets visibility of sim speech bubbles and thought bubbles
boolProp enablePostProcessing true
Enable custom bloom, vignette, letterbox, and film grain settings (below)
bloom [R G B #]
Sets custom color and bloom filter with values 0-1. For example “bloom 0.1 0.3 0.8 0” for a bluish hue with low distortion
vignette [X Y #]
For example “vignette 0.5 0.5 0.9” to get a strong blurry aura centered on screen
filmGrain [#]
Set film grain level between 0-1, for example “filmGrain 0.5“
letterBox [#]
Set letterbox effect for values from 0 to 0.4
Sims 2 Shift+Click cheats
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As you may remember in other Sims games, The Sims 2 has a set of Shift+Click cheats available for quickly triggering certain effects without typing in a command. Before you can use them, you need to enter the cheat “boolProp testingcheatsenabled true” and then you can hold shift and click on your sims or other objects to use the cheats below.
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Target
Cheat
Effect
Sim
Set aspiration
Change lifetime aspiration goal
Sim
Change suit
Change into outfits, including making a sim naked
Sim
Change fit
Make a sim “get fit”
Sim
Set birthday
Moves sim’s age meter up to 1 day remaining in current life stage
Sim
Spawn
Generates all sorts of debugging test objects and can also spawn a magic lamp and voodoo doll
Sim
Set age
Must use console cheat “ageSimsCheat on” first, then pick a life stage to change sim to
Sim
Display > Show sims gender pref
Gives a popup showing the sim’s autonomous romantic attraction
Sim
Give cellphone
Adds the NOYIN 2680 phone to sim’s inventory
Sim
Give MP3 player
Adds the Cozmo MP3 player to Sim’s inventory
Sim
Give game
Adds the LeTournament Decahedron XS handheld game system to Sim’s inventory
Sim
Make vampire / Cure vampire
Turn Sim into vampire or back into human
Sim
Kill > Give dead token / die by flies
Kill the selected sim
Unselected sim
More > Make furious with this sim
Makes selected sim furious with other sim, shown in relationship panel
Non-household sim
Make sim my contact
Adds neighbor to selected sim’s relationships panel
Non-household sim
More > More > Add to family
Adds neighbour to current household, requires “addNeighborToFamilyCheat on” first
Sink/Shower/Toilet/etc
Set dirty state
Set clean level, maintenance, clogged, and other states for plumbing objects
Mailbox
Make NPC
Spawns a specified NPC including burglar, skunk, random passerby, and many more
Mailbox
Make pet > Dog/Cat/Kitten/Puppy
Spawns a specified pet type
Mailbox
Neighborhood > Make me know everyone
Adds all sims and animals in neighborhood to sim’s relationship panel
Mailbox
Neighborhood > Make friends for me
Adds “best friend” status to sims in relationship panel
Mailbox
Neighborhood > Invite all neighbors
All sims living in lots in the current neighborhood spawn on the lot
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