Story Walkthrough — 8 Chapters
A full step-by-step for a 100% run: every key item, every file, every weapon and every puzzle answer, in the order you reach them. The route is Prison → Training Facility → Palace → Private Residence → Airport as Claire, then Rockfort and the Antarctic base as Chris. Pick a chapter below, then use the Previous / Next buttons at the bottom of each chapter to move through the game.
CH 1Rockfort PrisonClaire — the island prison
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Claire wakes in a cell after being captured in Paris. The guard Rodrigo Raval lets her out and returns her belongings. FILE #1 Playing Manual is already in your inventory. Take the KEY ITEM Lighter — keep it equipped for dark rooms all game.
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Collect Handgun Bullets and the WEAPON Combat Knife near the cells.
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Barracks Bunkhouse: FILE #2 Prisoner's Diary on the bunk by the entrance. MISSABLE Examine the shelf beside the window. That triggers a zombie to crash through the glass; killing it drops the WEAPON M-100P dual pistols. Skip the shelf and you never get them.
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Barracks Mess Hall: pick up the MAP Prison Map.
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Observation Room: FILE #3 Facility Entrance Fax on the west-wall workstations, and the KEY ITEM Hawk Emblem hidden in a drawer inside the computer desk. Flip the blue wall switch.
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Security Corridor: FILE #4 User's Manual on the workshop table. This room has the metal detector and the 3-D Duplicator.
The Security Deposit Box here is not an item box — anything you leave in it will not reach Chris later.
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Yard: cutscene introducing Steve Burnside. Take the WEAPON M93R handgun from the ground (already loaded) — this is Claire's main sidearm.
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Graveyard: use the Extinguisher on the burning truck.
It becomes the Empty Extinguisher. Put it in a real item box and never discard it. Chris refills it in the Antarctic to reach the Magnum — without it that weapon is lost for the whole game.
From the wreck take the Briefcase, which holds the KEY ITEM TG-01 alloy and FILE #5 TG-01 Product Description.9
PUZZLE 3-D Duplicator: scan the Hawk Emblem and feed in the TG-01. The machine prints a Special Alloy Emblem — a non-metal copy that passes the metal detector. Use it on the large gate to leave the prison.
The Prison has exactly one onward exit and it leads into the Military Training Facility. The Palace cannot be reached any other way, so ignore any guide that sends you to the Palace first.
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CH 2Military Training FacilityClaire — first pass
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Cross the burning bridge, push the crates to reach the stairs, deal with the dog, and continue through the Passage into the Military Training Facility.
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Observation Room (2F): WEAPON Cross Bow Handgun (Bow Gun) on the table and FILE #6 Memo on the Pass Number. Pick up the MAP Training Facility Map at the Control Room fax machine.
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Drain the pool with the wheel to reach the KEY ITEM Storage Key, then open the locker for the Bow Gun Powder.
Combine Bow Gun Powder + Bow Gun Arrows to make Gunpowder Arrows. Only a handful of powder pickups exist in the entire game — never spend these on ordinary enemies. They are your best answer to the Tyrant.
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Take the KEY ITEM Eagle Plate from the Gallery wall, and the photocopied picture.
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PUZZLE Pass number: from the Control Room, aim the security camera at the red skeleton picture at the back of the biology lab and zoom in. The number written on it is 1126 — enter it on the Preparation Room lock.
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Back Courtyard: use the Eagle Plate on the stone panel on the balcony to get the KEY ITEM Emblem Card. It opens the Boiler Room gate, the Basement Storehouse shutter and the Command Center.
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Basement Storehouse: open the shutter with the Emblem Card for the WEAPON M79 Grenade Launcher. Take the KEY ITEM Army Proof from the Control Room.
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Head on toward the Palace.
The MTF Warehouse is sealed behind a shutter that needs the Biohazard Card from the Airport, so you will come back here later. This back-and-forth is why guides disagree about the area order.
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CH 3Palace & Private ResidenceClaire — the Ashford estate
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In the Palace hall, take the KEY ITEM ID Card from under the small chest. PUZZLE Umbrella security lock: examine the ID Card and read the back — the password is NTC0394. Enter it at the hall computer to unlock the doors.
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Behind the unlocked door take the KEY ITEM Duralumin Case (locked — it needs the Lockpick you get much later, so just carry it) and a First Aid Spray.
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Secretary's Office (2F): FILE #7 Secretary's Note on the coffee table. Note the gold plaque with two pistol-shaped slots — the Gold Lugers go here later.
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Family Portrait Room (1F): FILE #8 Memo to the New Family Master on the ledge under Alfred's portrait. This memo is the clue for the portrait puzzle.
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Umbrella Meeting Room (1F): FILE #9 Hunk's Report on the desk by the projector screen.
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Screening / Collection Display Room: press the blue button to watch Alfred and Alexia's childhood film — remember it, it is the clue for the dragonfly puzzle. Behind the ant jewel display, take the KEY ITEM Steering Wheel.
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PUZZLE Weapon display — saving Steve: taking the Gold Lugers off the wall locks Steve in the hidden room. A panel appears asking for a matching pair of guns. The answer is C and E. Steve is freed and keeps the Lugers for now.
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Cross to the Private Residence. Alfred's Bedroom (2F): FILE #10 Message Card on the desk. Stopping the music box here yields the KEY ITEM Silver Key.
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Private Study (4F): FILE #11 Newspaper Clip on the wooden steps, and FILE #12 MISSABLE Confession Letter on top of the east shelves — you must push a box to reach it. This is the single most-missed file in the game. Also here: KEY ITEM Air Force Proof.
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PUZZLE Silver Dragonfly: take the Silver Dragonfly, then examine it and remove its wings (exactly as in the childhood film). The wingless body is the key — slot it in to reach the upper floors.
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Submarine Dock: grab the MAP Palace Map, then use the Steering Wheel on the dock podium to call the submarine and ride it to the Airport.
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CH 4Airport & Rockfort EscapeClaire — the long way back
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Take the Side Pack from the submarine — it permanently adds inventory slots. Collect Bow Gun Arrows.
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PUZZLE Cargo crane: raise the hook fully, move it left, then drop it to shift the crate so you can climb. Behind it is the KEY ITEM Biohazard Card, which opens the shuttered doors back in the Training Facility.
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Return to the MTF Warehouse and open it with the Biohazard Card. WEAPON Ingram ×2 (sub-machine guns) are on the upper floor. Taking them triggers a scene: a Bandersnatch corners Claire and Steve smashes through the window and kills it. This is a cutscene, not a fight — you cannot lose it. Steve trades the Ingrams for his Gold Lugers.
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Steve becomes briefly playable. Clear the zombies in this stretch as Steve — anything he kills stays dead for Claire. Control returns to Claire shortly after.
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Collect the KEY ITEM Hemostatic Medicine from the MTF save room.
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Go back to the Prison and give the Hemostatic Medicine to Rodrigo. He hands you the KEY ITEM Lockpick, which opens the Duralumin Case and locked drawers for the rest of the game.
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Open the Duralumin Case with the Lockpick for the M93R Part — combine it with the M93R to build the WEAPON M93R Burst.
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Clinic (Prison): FILE #13 Anatomist's Note on the office table. A tough anatomist zombie guards this area and drops the KEY ITEM Glass Eye — place it in the model in the office to continue.
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PUZZLE Iron Maiden: take the Rusted Sword from the statue, rotate the central statue to face the right way, then thrust the sword into the hole. The maiden opens and yields the KEY ITEM Piano Roll.
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Use the Piano Roll on the Palace casino piano. It is an auto-play piano — you do not play notes. The tune trips a compartment holding the KEY ITEM King Ant Object.
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PUZZLE Family portraits: press the buttons under the portraits in Ashford succession order — the woman → the man holding twin babies → the red-haired man with the teacup → the red-haired man with the plate → the man with the vase → the man with the candlestick → the large portrait of Alfred. You receive an Earthenware Vase — break it for the KEY ITEM Queen Ant Object.
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PUZZLE Music boxes: put the Queen Ant Object into Alexia's music box to get the Music Box Plate, then put the King Ant Object + Music Box Plate into Alfred's box. The hidden passage opens.
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PUZZLE Alfred's office computer: the code is 1971. The antique music box in the room reveals it one digit at a time as you turn it.
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Use the Silver Key in the Palace to reach the second Eagle Plate. Place the Skeleton Picture in the Gallery to reveal the model and take the KEY ITEM Gold Key. Collect the KEY ITEM Navy Proof from the Palace walkway.
Checkpoint: you now need all three — Navy Proof, Army Proof and Air Force Proof.
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Put the three Proofs into the seaplane hangar podium to lower the bridge. In the transport plane cockpit take the KEY ITEM Control Lever, fit it to the bridge control panel, and collect the KEY ITEM Airport Key.
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A t-Virus release starts a five-minute escape timer. Head for the plane.
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BOSS Tyrant (T-078), first fight. Equip the Grenade Launcher or Gunpowder Arrows. Fire, back away steadily, repeat — roughly ten heavy hits. Do not let it pin you against the flames.
MISSABLE Boarding the plane is a point of no return — Rockfort Island is closed to Claire forever. Before you board, confirm: the M-100P (window-shelf trigger), the Confession Letter, Newspaper Clip, Hunk's Report, Secretary's Note and Anatomist's Note are collected — and the Empty Extinguisher is in a real item box.
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BOSS Tyrant (T-078), second fight — plane cargo hold. You cannot win this with damage. Lure it into position and press the switch to launch the cargo crate into it and knock it out of the plane. Two or three cycles. Run wide circles to dodge its lunge.
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CH 5Antarctic BaseClaire — the Umbrella facility
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The plane crashes at Umbrella's Antarctic base. Climb down the ladder.
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Worker's Bunkhouse (B1): FILE #14 Worker's Diary on the table in the north-west corner, plus herbs and locker ammo.
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Office (B2): FILE #15 Alexander's Memo on the north-wall cabinet. Push the bookcase aside to reveal a hidden area — FILE #16 MISSABLE Butler's Letter is in the locker there.
A locked cupboard in this room holds another file, but only Chris can open it later with the Halberd. Don't waste time on it now.
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Fight past the moths and Black Widow spiders. Collect the KEY ITEM Bar Code Sticker from the crate.
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PUZZLE Crate conveyor: stick the Bar Code Sticker on the crate and run the conveyor to deliver the B.O.W. parcel. The room floods with gas and the compartment opens — take the KEY ITEM Gas Mask. Also throw the blue light and power switches.
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Weapon Room (B2): take the KEY ITEM Mining Room Key from the silver crate and the KEY ITEM Detonator from the corpse. Attach the detonator to the explosives on the locker to open it — WEAPON AK47 Assault Rifle inside.
The Colt Python Magnum is visible here behind flames but Claire cannot reach it — she has no full extinguisher. Chris collects it later.
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Find the KEY ITEM Machine Room Key under the plant pot in the hidden area, and the KEY ITEM Valve Handle beyond the catwalk.
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PUZZLE Lathe: run the Valve Handle through the metal lathe in the tool storeroom to make the KEY ITEM Octa Valve Handle.
It stays attached where you use it — Chris collects it from that same valve much later, so don't panic when it disappears from your inventory.
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Wear the Gas Mask, enter the Mining Room, fit the Octa Valve Handle and shut off the gas.
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Cutscene: Alfred tries to shoot Claire and Steve saves her. Alfred drops his rifle on the lower level — take the WEAPON MR7 Sniper Rifle.
It has 7 rounds and no resupply. It exists for exactly one fight — do not waste a single shot.
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BOSS Nosferatu (Alexander Ashford) — Helipad. Fought as Claire with the MR7 Sniper Rifle. Back yourself to the edge, scope in and shoot the exposed heart. Keep well clear of his lashing appendages — they knock you off the helipad for an instant death.
His purple gas causes a special poison that Blue Herbs will not cure — you need the Serum.
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Cutscene: Alexia awakens and Claire and Steve flee. Control now passes to Chris Redfield.
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CH 6Rockfort Island ReturnChris — back to the ruined island
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Chris lands on the wrecked island with the Combat Knife and Glock 17. Everything Claire left in an item box is available to him.
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Find the dying Rodrigo. He gives Chris the Lighter.
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BOSS Gulp Worm — MTF B3 Cave. It tracks you by ground vibration. Stand still, and the instant before it bursts up beneath you, move — then unload while its body is exposed. Being swallowed is an instant kill.
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Pull the wall lever and use the Lighter on the grate in the Tomb (B3) for a second set of WEAPON Ingram ×2.
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Garage (MTF 1F): FILE #17 MISSABLE Alloy Report on the table at the end of the east upper walkway.
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PUZZLE Coloured drawers (save room, B1): open them in the order RED → GREEN → BLUE → BROWN. The hint is a riddle about lava burning the forest, flowing to the sea and forming the earth. The brown drawer holds the KEY ITEM Luger Replica.
Keep the Luger Replica in your item box at the end of the game — it is the unlock condition for playable Steve in Battle Game.
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Collect the KEY ITEM Battery Pack, the KEY ITEM Chemical Storage Key and Chris's Side Pack. Take the WEAPON SPAS 12 Shotgun from the wall hook on the Iron Walkway (B1) — your best answer to the Hunters here.
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PUZZLE Refrigerator: open it with the Chemical Storage Key and set the temperature to 12.8°C (the dial reads 128) to obtain Clement Σ. The clue is the memorial plate description in the model exhibition room.
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Build the WEAPON Modified Glock 17 at the Weapon Repair Shop bench, and take Clement α from the shelves beside it. PUZZLE Combine Clement α + Clement Σ = Clement Mixture — an acid that dissolves the special alloy.
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Fit the Door Knob to the knobless door for the KEY ITEM Tank Object. Use it on the diorama in the Diorama Room to open the compartment behind the picture — FILE #18 MISSABLE Passage Memo and the KEY ITEM Turn Table Key.
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PUZZLE Oil pressure / bridge (Airport 2F Waiting Room). The bottom tank holds 10 litres; the feeder gauges are 1 L (broken), 3 L and 5 L, plus an empty button. You need exactly 7 litres. Press: 3, 3, 5, [empty], 3, 3, 5.
Why it works: 3+3=6, then the 5 only fits 4 more (tank caps at 10) leaving 1 L stuck in the 5-gauge. Empty the tank, pour 3+3=6 again, and the 5-gauge discharges its leftover 1 L → exactly 7.
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Place the three Proofs in the diorama room panel to open the route down, then descend into the water pool.
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BOSS Albinoid Adult — MTF B2 water pool.
Optional. It electrifies the water. You can skip the whole fight: dive, grab the Eagle Plate from the pool floor and get straight out.
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Apply the Clement Mixture to the Eagle Plate. The alloy shell dissolves, leaving the gold KEY ITEM Halberd.
MISSABLE Using the Halberd on the Jet Hangar door ends the Rockfort section for good. Before you go: Alloy Report and Passage Memo collected? Luger Replica stored? Shotgun stocked?
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CH 7Antarctic BaseChris — the second half
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Chris arrives in Antarctica. Shoot the tentacles blocking the terminal entrance and climb down.
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Collect the MAP Antarctic Map and shotgun shells.
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Office (B2): use the Halberd on the locked cupboard for FILE #19 MISSABLE Alfred's Diary — the file Claire could not reach. The Halberd also opens a wall slot holding the KEY ITEM Paper Weight.
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Retrieve the Empty Extinguisher from the item box and refill it at the Water Tank Room (B1). Take it to the Weapon Room (B2), put out the fire, and claim the WEAPON Colt Python (Magnum).
This is your primary boss weapon for the rest of the game — the whole extinguisher chain exists for this.
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Recover the Octa Valve Handle from the valve where Claire left it in the Machine Room, fit it to the green control panel and restore the generator.
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BOSS Giant Black Widow — Sorting Room (B1).
Optional — it wakes when you use the Crane Key. Keep moving and use heavy firepower, or simply take what you need and leave.
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PUZZLE Tiger statue (Art Room): first shut the power off at the High Voltage Room, then push the statue onto the cracked floor tile. Take the Red Jewel and the Blue Jewel from its eyes.
With the power on you get a hidden compartment instead of the jewels — the power must be off.
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Combine the KEY ITEM Socket with the Octa Valve Handle to make the Square Valve Handle, drain the water, and take the KEY ITEM Crane Key from the bottom of the tank.
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Use the Crane Key to lift Nosferatu's body out of the ice. Beside it, take KEY ITEM Alexander's Pierce and examine it for Alexander's Jewel (green).
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PUZZLE Antarctic music boxes: stop the music in Alexia's bedroom and use the Red Jewel to get a Music Box Plate; then use the Blue Jewel with the plate on Alfred's box. A hidden ladder to the Conference Room opens.
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PUZZLE Symbol drawer (Alexia's Laboratory, B6): enter AA → CROWN → HEART → SPADE, then put the Paper Weight in the drawer. Alfred's corpse drops — take KEY ITEM Alfred's Ring and examine it for Alfred's Jewel (blue).
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Collect the Wing Objects: two in the Mansion Courtyard (one on the ground by the carousel, one on the urn beside it) and one in the Ant Farm. FILE #20 Queen Ant Report is on the desk in Alexia's Study (B6).
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Find Claire held behind the stairs and free her with the Combat Knife.
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BOSS Mutated Steve — Hall of Armors (B4).
You play as Claire here and the fight is unwinnable — no weapon hurts him and his axe cannot be fully dodged. Just run. Bring healing and carry as little as possible: everything Claire holds in this segment is locked away from Chris for the finale.
It ends on a script — Steve reverts to himself, saves Claire and dies.15
Detention Center (B4): FILE #21 Security File on the ground by the cannon on the upper level. This file contains the final password.
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PUZZLE Crystal: turn the cannon's handle to tip out the KEY ITEM Crystal. It cannot be broken by hand — place it under the falling weight and trigger the slab to smash it, revealing the KEY ITEM Security Card.
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CH 8Alexia's Lab & FinaleChris — the last stand
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Cutscene: Wesker confronts Alexia. In Code: Veronica X and HD this scene is rebuilt to show his superhuman abilities. He steps aside and leaves her to Chris. Wesker is never a fight.
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BOSS Alexia Ashford, 1st Form. Keep your distance — at close range she can kill in one hit. Colt Python Magnum, about 6–7 rounds (or roughly 14 shotgun blasts). She drops KEY ITEM Alexia's Choker — examine it for Alexia's Jewel (red).
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PUZZLE Three jewels: place Alexander's (green), Alfred's (blue) and Alexia's (red) jewels into the mural at the top of the main staircase to open the way on.
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Take the KEY ITEM Sterile Room Key from the study desk drawer. Collect the KEY ITEM Dragonfly Object from the Conference Room table.
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T-Veronica Lab (B4): FILE #22 MISSABLE Veronica Report on a control-panel seat. Use the panel to open the lower containment chamber for the final Wing Object.
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PUZZLE Combine the Dragonfly Object with all four Wing Objects to make the KEY ITEM Gold Dragonfly — it opens the Reactor Core.
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Alexia's Lab (B6): FILE #23 MISSABLE Virus Research Report on the console under the large north screen.
Final preparation — point of no return. Before using the Gold Dragonfly: confirm all 23 main-game files are read, stock Magnum rounds, grenade rounds and healing, and make sure the Luger Replica is sitting in the item box.
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PUZZLE Self-destruct terminal: use the Security Card, then enter the password VERONICA — it is written in the Security File. The base self-destruct begins.
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BOSS Alexia, 2nd Form — Upper Ant Farm. Open with a Magnum round, then use the Grenade Launcher as your main damage (shotgun or rifle if grenades run dry) — around fifteen heavy hits. Circle-strafe constantly and avoid the tentacle sweeps. Ammo conservation no longer matters.
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Grab the WEAPON Linear Launcher — its wall lock releases automatically once Alexia takes her final form.
It is not missable, and its ammo is infinite.
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BOSS Alexia, 3rd Form — the finale.
She is immune to every other weapon — the Linear Launcher is mandatory.
Zoom in, hold to charge, and release only when she pauses inside the reticle. Firing early wastes the shot, but misses are survivable.12
Chris escapes the flames. In Code: Veronica X and HD an extended ending follows — Wesker has Claire, Chris fights him with a metal pipe, and Wesker leaves declaring he is taking Steve's body. Chris and Claire fly out as the base burns.
Clearing the game unlocks Battle Game. An A rank unlocks the infinite Rocket Launcher — see the Unlockables tab.
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