Resident Evil Village Mercenaries | How to unlock Magic Magazine and other abilities

The Mercenaries is a mode that opens up in Resident Evil Village once you’ve complete the main campaign. It costs 10 CP from the Extra Content Shop to unlock, and is a single-player challenge mode. Points are awarded for killing enemies against the clock, assisted by a range of bonus abilities that are exclusive to this mode.

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The majority of abilities can be picked up straight away, but a few — including the very popular Magic Magazine — have some unlock requirements attached.

In this guide we’ll cover what Mercenaries abilities do, how to pick them up, and how to unlock the really good ones.

How to use abilities in Resident Evil Village: The Mercenaries

While playing The Mercenaries, you’ll notice there are floating orbs scattered around each stage. Yellow orbs add extra time to the stage while blue orbs contain abilities.

In order to pick up and equip an ability, you simply need to get within range and press the interact button when the prompt appears. You’re then given a choice of three random abilities to activate.

If the same ability appears more than once on a stage, you can equip it multiple times. The effect will stack, which can be very powerful. There’s also no limit to how many abilities you can have at a time, so there’s literally no need to hold back when you spot a blue orb in the vicinity.

All abilities you pick up will persist between areas within the same game. However, you don’t get to keep any of them when starting a new game.

Magic Magazine | How to acquire locked abilities in Resident Evil Village: The Mercenaries

While most abilities in The Mercenaries are available from the start, there are four that require an extra step to unlock them.

You need to get an S rank or higher on each of the four Part I stages to add Magic Magazine, Execution, Lightning Speed, and Masamune to the random pool of abilities you find in orbs.

Resident Evil Village: The Mercenaries — Abilities list

Ability Name	Ability Type	Effect	Unlock requirements
Agile	Agility	Speed increases.	None
Assassination Dash	Agility	Movement speed increases when knife is equipped.	None
Lightning Speed	Agility	Movement speed greatly increases but damage taken increases too.	Finish 'The Factory (I)' stage with an S rank or higher
Corpse Combustor	Enemy Debuff	Enemies will likely explode when they are defeated with a gun.	None
Slow Motion	Enemy Debuff	Enemy movement decreases.	None
All Brawn	Offensive	Attack increases but speed decreases.	None
Break Shot	Offensive	Initial attack does more damage when the enemy's HP is full.	None
Execution	Offensive	Attack greatly increases when the enemies' HP is below 30%.	Finish 'The Castle (I)' stage with an S rank or higher
Fickle Shooter	Offensive	Attack increases when switching between enemies.	None
Infighter	Offensive	Close-combat attacks do more damage.	None
No Brainer	Offensive	Headshots do more damage.	None
Out of Reach	Offensive	Long-distance attacks do more damage.	None
Adrenaline	Support	HP recovers slightly when attacking with a gun.	None
Gruesome Gourmet	Support	Recover a little HP when an enemy is defeated.	None
Healthy	Support	Max HP increases.	None
Super Guard	Support	Damage no longer taken when guarding.	None
Thick Skinned	Support	Damage taken decreases.	None
Blade Master	Weapon	Knives do five times more damage.	None
Pistol Master	Weapon	Handguns do more damage.	None
Shotgun Master	Weapon	Shotguns do more damage.	None
Magic Magazine	Weapon	Ammo capacity doubles.	Finish 'The Village (I)' stage with an S rank or higher
Masamune	Weapon	Knife attacks are 10 times stronger, but damage from other weapons greatly decreases.	Finish 'The Mad Village (I)' stage with an S rank or higher

Recommended abilities

The abilities you find in orbs will be random, so there’s a limit to how far you can plan a character build. And, as we’ve already pointed out, there’s no reason to ignore an orb, even if none of the abilities on offer are particularly inspiring.

However, given the choice, we recommend always prioritising Magic Magazine and Execution when they come up once unlocked. Unlike the other two unlockable abilities there’s no devil’s bargain involved in equipping either of these. They respectively allow you stack ammo capacity and lethal damage, indefinitely, with no downside.

If you’re eager to unlock The Mercenaries mode, you’ll need to start from the beginning, so check out Part 1 of our guide to completing Resident Evil Village.

Or if you want more information on the game overall, read our review.

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