Okay, let’s talk about tracking down these shadow briefing locations. Man, that took some time. I decided to log how I went about it, step-by-step.
First off, I just started running around the usual spots. You know, the big named areas on the map. I figured they’d stick these briefings in obvious buildings, maybe command centers or something that looked important. Spent a good hour or two just searching interiors, high and low. Found nothing. Absolutely zero. It was getting pretty frustrating, felt like running in circles.
Then I thought, maybe I’m going about this wrong. These are shadow briefings, right? Maybe they aren’t meant to be obvious. So, I stopped aiming for the big buildings and started looking at the spaces between places, or hidden spots.
My Process Went Something Like This:
- Listening Carefully: I turned up my headset volume. Sometimes, games have little audio cues. Started listening for weird static, humming noises, or maybe faint voices when I got close to certain areas. This actually helped more than looking at first.
- Checking Under/Over: Instead of just ground level, I began checking underground areas like basements, caves, sewer tunnels – anything below the surface. Also started climbing things, looking on top of structures that didn’t seem important.
- Looking for Oddities: I paid attention to weird props or structures that seemed out of place. Like, a single computer terminal sitting alone in a corner, or a weird antenna tucked away somewhere.
My first real find happened near that abandoned factory zone. I wasn’t even looking for the briefing itself, just exploring a collapsed section. Heard this faint electronic buzz. Followed it around back, behind some rusty old tanks, and there it was – a small laptop setup tucked into an alcove. Almost missed it.
After finding the first one, the others got a bit easier because I knew what kind of subtle clues to look for. Found another one:
- Underneath a bridge, accessible only by dropping down carefully onto a narrow ledge.
- Inside a locked shack that needed a keycard I found earlier.
- In the back of a cargo truck parked way out in the boonies.
Recording everything was key for me. As soon as I found one, I took a quick screenshot or jotted down the location details in my notebook. Just describing the nearby landmarks, like “behind the waterfall” or “top floor of the broken lighthouse”. Didn’t want to rely on memory later.
Honestly, it felt a bit like trying to find that one specific setting buried deep in your phone’s menu system. You know it’s there, but the designers made it intentionally obscure. Drove me nuts for a bit, but figuring them out one by one felt pretty good. It wasn’t about speed, just methodical searching and paying attention to the little details. That’s how I got through it.
