Mastering the Shield Wall Puzzle in Resident Evil 4's Separate Ways DLC

September 21, 2023

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As you progress through Resident Evil 4’s Separate Ways DLC, you’ll come across a puzzle involving a shield wall. This puzzle is located in Chapter 4 and is part of the quest to find ingredients for medicine. Solving the puzzle will open a cabinet containing the first ingredient, red ink. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to solve the shield wall puzzle.

Step 1: Solve the lithograph puzzle

Before you can access the shield wall puzzle, you’ll need to solve a lithograph puzzle to open the door leading to the shield room. Once you’ve solved the lithograph puzzle, the door will open, and you can proceed to the shield room.

Step 2: Obtain the shield wall puzzle hint

Upon entering the shield room, you’ll notice a printing machine. Interact with the machine to obtain a piece of paper that provides a hint for solving the shield wall puzzle. The hint suggests that you need to shoot specific shields on the wall.

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Step 3: Locate the correct shields

To find the correct shields to shoot, turn around from the printing machine and look at the fireplace along the wall behind you. To the left of the fireplace, you’ll see a set of five shields that match the picture on the paper you obtained from the printing machine.

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Step 4: Shoot the shields in the correct order

You need to shoot three shields in a specific order to solve the puzzle and open the cabinet. The order is as follows:

Shoot the bottom left shield.
Shoot the top right shield.
Shoot the bottom right shield.

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Step 5: Collect the red ink

After shooting the three shields in the correct order, a drawer will open in the room. Go over to the drawer and collect the red ink, which is the first ingredient for the medicine. Congratulations! You have successfully solved the shield wall puzzle.

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Now that you have the red ink, you can continue your quest to find the remaining ingredients and help Luis create the medicine to aid in fending off the infection. Good luck on your Resident Evil 4 adventure!