You must activate them before entering the area or restarting the area after you activate them. There are many challenges tied to hexes however, and they cannot be activated on Casual mode. Hexes are additional challenges that make the game slightly more challenging, there are 5 total you can equip, and you can equip any number you want, they are entirely optional. Challenges relevant to secrets will not lose progress if you quit, even if it is uncompleted. The head on your HUD, between your two weapon slots, will start to glow when you are close to the entrance of a secret location. Most of the levels also have вЂsecretsвЂ™ which are hidden areas with chests. However, if you have an uncompleted challenge with any progress, you will lose all the progress. If you fully complete an objective, and then leave the level, you will not lose that challenge. Each level has 5 challenges to complete, and after you complete all of them, your prize is 5 more elite challenges on every level. There is a total of 41 levels in the base game, 16 in the Motorhead DLC, and 5 in the Fractured Worlds DLC.

Playing on Hardcore is not any harder than the regular game, but keeping the Hardcore status is very difficult, especially on Hard difficulty. This character will not share a stash with your other characters. There is also a вЂdifficultyвЂ™ called Hardcore, which is nothing more than a designation that your character has not died. However, you cannot go back to Hard once this is done. If you start a campaign on Hard and decide you donвЂ™t like it, you can switch to Normal. Hard mode is where you have all 5 hexes permanently equipped and is incredibly difficult at first (until you reach about level 7). You can freely switch between Normal and Casual mode, the difference being you cannot equip hexes while you are on Casual (hexes described below). There are three difficulties you can play on.

Tips on playing are located at the very bottom, I suggest you at least look at those. This page will be dedicated to explaining different aspects of the game, you can skip this page if you want, but all this information can be incredibly useful. This game is not вЂhardвЂ™ per se, but it does take an immense amount of time due to some achievements being completed by random drops.

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