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Best weapons in Pragmata
Pragmata's weapon system is a bit weird. Aside from your basic Grip pistol (which you'll be able to change later on), every weapon is treated as temporary. As soon as you run out of bullets, the gun is used up and disappears, forcing you to scavenge for another one off the battlefield. While you're pushed to be resourceful in a pinch, knowing the best weapons gives you a better idea of what to equip in your starting loadout, and what to prioritise collecting mid-fight.
You can also improve your guns, and each upgrade gets progressively more expensive. When you're balancing that with suit and tool upgrades, you're going to have to make some sacrifices.
Best Pragmata weapons
Your weapons are split into four categories: primary, attack, tactical, and defensive. Your primary unit regenerates ammo, while your other weapons vanish as soon as they run out. As the category names suggest, attack units are heavy hitters, tactical units typically offer offensive utility, and defensive units are focused on more passive utility. amunra.help
You'll only be able to carry one of each type of weapon at first, but you'll get an upgrade later on to let you hold two attack and tactical weapons.
Here's what I'd recommend using and upgrading for your loadout:
Slot | First choice | Second choice |
|---|---|---|
Attack | Shockwave gun | Charge Piercer |
Tactical | Sticky Bombs | Stasis Net |
Defensive | Decoy Generator | Drone Hive |
Shockwave Gun
Besides the fact that it fires a blast of energy, the Shockwave Gun is your average shotgun. It's by far my favourite attack weapon in Pragmata purely because of its high damage, stagger power, and ease of use: get up close and let it rip. It's slow-firing, but you can improve it with upgrades or swap to another weapon while it recharges.
Charge Piercer
While the Photon Laser and Homing Missiles have their uses, the Charge Piercer ticks all the boxes for an attack weapon. It can pierce enemies for AoE and deals massive damage in a short window, which is crucial given how limited some of your damage windows are, especially against bosses. The Charge Piercer's only drawback early on is its slow charge time, but you can improve this by upgrading it to levels three and six, further boosting its damage, too.
Stasis Net
A lone robot isn't too much of a challenge, but getting swarmed often spells your doom. The solution is the Stasis Net, which holds enemies in place. It's obviously great for crowd control, it also gives you easy opportunities to hack enemies, which can become quite time-consuming and complicated later on. I'll note that it becomes a lot more useful when you upgrade it to level three, increasing the net radius.
Sticky Bombs
This tactical unit is a must-have in your loadout once you unlock it. Enemies' hacking grids become ever more complex, giving you more things to either pass through or avoid, both of which eat up your time. By attaching bombs to enemies (including bosses), you can temporarily shrink the hacking minigame and remove the clutter. The damage isn't anything to write home about, but it's an invaluable tool and pretty ammo-efficient too.
Code Generator
The Code Generator, earned from getting triple bingo on the Specialist Stamp Board, is a very unique weapon. It doesn't really do any damage by itself, but it makes up for that by boosting hacking damage, removing error nodes, and spawning OPEN nodes to make enemies vulnerable for longer. It's an invaluable tool as you reach the game's final levels and Red Zones.
Decoy Generator
As much as I like the idea of the Drone Hive defensive unit, it's hard to compete with the Decoy Generator. All it does is create a hologram to distract enemies, yet that's all it really needs to do when you're dashing and hacking to survive in a Red Zone. You don't really even need the upgrades if you're being a real penny pincher.
Pulse Carbine
The Pulse Carbine is a primary unit that you'll unlock midway through Sector 3: Terra Dome, after the mandatory Red Zone. I was initially under the impression that this replaced the Grip pistol you start with, but that's not actually the case. You can swap between these two primary units, and they're upgraded separately.
While the Grip Gun deals more damage per shot, it's hard to compete with an assault rifle, really. It deals serious, consistent damage and is a great source of heat generation, which can synergise with certain builds.
My only gripe with the Pulse Carbine is its strong, left-pulling recoil. If you're getting distracted looking at the hacking matrix while firing, you'll inevitably waste some shots.
All Pragmata weapons
Here are all 15 guns in Pragmata and the first time you'll come across them:
Weapon | Type | First Unlocked |
|---|---|---|
Grip Gun | Primary | Starting weapon |
Shockwave Gun | Attack | Sector 1: Solar Panel Plants, Power Distribution Center |
Stasis Net | Tactical | Sector 1: Solar Panel Plants, Power Distribution Center |
Riot Blaster | Tactical | Sector 2: Mass Production Array, Shopping District |
Charge Piercer | Attack | Sector 2: Mass Production Array, Side Alley |
Decoy Generator | Defense | Sector 2: Mass Production Array, Lim Recycling Facility |
Pulse Carbine | Primary | Sector 3: Terra Dome, Plant Factory |
Sticky Bombs | Tactical | Sector 3: Terra Dome, Eco Modeling Lab |
Photon Laser | Attack | Sector 3: Terra Dome, Soil Research |
Homing Missiles | Attack | Sector 4: Lunum Mines, Mine Entrance |
Impact Barrier | Defense | Sector 4: Lunum Mines, Crane Operation Yard |
Drone Hive | Defense | Associate Stamp Board, triple bingo |
Code Generator | Tactical | Specialist Stamp Board, triple bingo |
Hacking Mines | Tactical | Director's Stamp Board, triple bingo |
Jackhammer | Attack | Complete the game |
Pragmata guide: My full guide after nearly 20 hours.
Pragmata Red Zones and Gate Keys: All locations.
Pragmata blue and red crystals: Break these barriers.
Pragmata Sector Guard: Your first boss.
Pragmata Luna Digger: Whack this worm.
Charlie Cox has finally played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33—a bit
I don't expect every actor to play the videogames they're connected to, and have a lot of respect for the way Walton Goggins just straight-up said he hasn't played Fallout and won't play Fallout. Good for him. You don't want to join us down here in the pit, spending the rest of our lives trying to convince people Fallout 2 wasn't as good as the first one. Get out while you still can.
When Charlie Cox admitted he hadn't played Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, even though he voices Gustave in it, that seemed fair enough to me. It's a 45-hour JRPG with a frankly quite divisive ending. You don't need that in your life while also trying to maintain Daredevil's abs.
In a more recent interview with our comrades at GamesRadar, however, Cox said he finally got around to playing it. A bit. "Not the whole thing," he added. "I haven't completed it." He's seen the impressive introductory area, though. "I've played the opening bit for a while and kind of walked around and met the people and garnered the information and all that kind of stuff. Not very well."
Cox highlighted how different Clair Obscur felt when compared to the videogames he grew up with, like Goldeneye, Mario Kart, and FIFA 98. "They weren't, like, stories that were so carefully carved out and created over the course of a game with the level of detail and the way in which information is received. It's not just all spelled out—you discover these things as you go on through the game," Cox said.
It must be an uncanny experience, playing a videogame as a character you've provided the voice for. "It didn't really feel like me... I didn't really think of it as me, I thought of it as Gustave."
Though he didn't say whether he'll go back to play more, I suspect Cox won't be collecting all the achievements any time soon. He seemed sensibly incredulous when he said, "there are people who've played it, there are people who've completed it, there are people who have 100%ed it, which—as far as I could work out—is 50-plus hours, maybe 100 hours, sometimes, of gameplay." Honestly, that is too much, and he's right to say it.
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Street Fighter exudes visual identity and charisma in its official trailer
Street Fighter. Præcis som med Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Tetris eller enhver anden tidløs videospilsklassiker, får selve det at nævne navnet praktisk talt alle i verden til at spidse ører og automatisk danne et mentalt billede af en scene, hvor to farverige karakterer står over for hinanden med slag, spark og et strejf af kampsportsmagi. Og ligesom næsten alle de foregående eksempler står vi over for at se en filmatisering af det på det store lærred.
Vi kender efterhånden holdet bag og de karakterer, der skal optræde i Street Fighter, som lander i biografen den 16. oktober 2026. Vi spekulerede dog stadig på, om dette spring fra konsollen til biografmørket ville være noget mere seriøst eller mere i stil med den ujævne (dog for nogle kultagtige) film fra 1994. Heldigvis ser det ud til, at Street Fighter i 2026 kan blive et sandt massefænomen; for selvom den er fuld af humor og lettere sekvenser, ser den ud til at levere en film med masser af karisma og personlighed.
I traileren, som netop er blevet offentliggjort i forbindelse med CinemaCon, har vi allerede fået et glimt af plottet, der udspiller sig i 1993. Vi har også fået et tættere kig på Ken (Noah Centineo), Ryu (Andrew Koji), M. Bison (David Dastmalchian), Guile (Cody Rhodes), Zangief (Olivier Richters), Chun-Li (Callina Liang), Vega (Orville Peck) og selv Blanka (Jason Momoa), og vi har fået en fornemmelse af deres personligheder i filmen, som instrueres af Kitao Sakurai. Se med herunder.
Pete Hegseth citerar Pulp Fiction som skrift och jämför sedan pressen med Jesu fiender
Det har varit en märklig vecka att vara Pete Hegseth. På onsdagen stod försvarsministern vid ett Pentagon-podium och höll vad han beskrev som en bön som används av stridsbesättningar, en bön han tillskrev Gamla testamentets Hesekiel. Problemet: den liknade mycket mer en monolog före avrättningen av Samuel L. Jackson i Pulp Fiction.
Hegseths version inleddes: "Den nedskjutna flygarens väg är omgiven från alla håll av de självismens orättvisor och onda mäns tyranni." Quentin Tarantinos original, uttalat av Jacksons lönnmördare Jules Winnfield precis innan avtryckaren, börjar nästan identiskt. Den faktiska versen i Hesekiel 25:17 är en enda mening om hämnd mot filistéerna.
"Den som säger att ministern felciterade Hesekiel 25:17 sprider falska nyheter och är ovetande om verkligheten." Detta enligt Sean Parnell, talesperson för Pentagon, som också bekräftade att bönen var "uppenbarligen inspirerad av dialog i Pulp Fiction."
Nästa morgon var Hegseth tillbaka vid podiet (denna gång för en genomgång om Irankriget) och sträckte sig mot en annan passage. När han mindes en söndagspredikan om fariséer som konspirerade mot Jesus trots att de bevittnat ett mirakel, vände han sig mot de samlade reportrarna. "Jag satt där i kyrkan och tänkte: vår press är precis som dessa fariséer," sade han. "Vår presss hårda hjärtan är endast kalibrerade för att fördöma."
Inom en timme skrev påve Leo XIV (som för närvarande är på en resa i Afrika och redan inblandad i en eskalerande fejd med president Trump – kolla in våra senaste nyheter i denna fråga) på X: "Ve dem som manipulerar religion och Guds namn för egen militär, ekonomisk och politisk vinning, och drar det heliga in i mörker och smuts."
Historiker inom amerikansk religion har noterat att medan amerikanska administrationer länge åberopat tro under krigstid, har Trumps Vita hus gått längre än de flesta, med ett språk som, enligt en forskare, är "skarpt och otvetydigt" på sätt som tidigare presidenter undvek. För Hegseth, en självutnämnd kristen nationalist vars användning av religiösa bilder blivit ett kännetecken för hans tid i Pentagon, var denna vecka, om inget annat, helt i sin stil.
Pete Hegseth citerer Pulp Fiction som skrift og sammenligner derefter pressen med Jesu fjender
Det har været en mærkelig uge at være Pete Hegseth. Onsdag stod forsvarsministeren ved et Pentagon-podium og holdt det, han beskrev som en bøn, som blev brugt af kampredningshold, en han tilskrev Det Gamle Testamentes Ezekiels bog. Problemet: den lignede langt mere en monolog før henrettelsen af Samuel L. Jackson i Pulp Fiction.
Hegseths version åbnede: "Den nedskudte flyvers vej er omgivet på alle sider af de egoistiskes uretfærdigheder og de ondes tyranni." Quentin Tarantinos original, fremtalt af Jacksons lejemorder Jules Winnfield lige før han trykker på aftrækkeren, begynder næsten identisk. Det egentlige vers i Ezekiel 25:17 er en enkelt sætning om hævn over filistrene.
"Enhver, der siger, at ministeren fejlciterede Ezekiel 25:17, spreder falske nyheder og er uvidende om virkeligheden." Dette ifølge Sean Parnell, Pentagon-talsmand, som også bekræftede, at bønnen var "åbenlyst inspireret af dialog i Pulp Fiction."
Næste morgen var Hegseth tilbage ved podiet (denne gang til en briefing om Iran-krigen) og rakte ud efter en anden passage. Han mindedes en søndagsprædiken om farisæerne, der planlagde mod Jesus, selv efter at have været vidne til et mirakel, og vendte sig mod de forsamlede journalister. "Jeg sad der i kirken og tænkte: vores presse er ligesom disse farisæere," sagde han. "Vores presses hærdede hjerter er kun kalibreret til at betvivle."
Inden for en time skrev pave Leo XIV (som i øjeblikket er på en rundrejse i Afrika og allerede låst i en eskalerende fejde med præsident Trump – tjek vores seneste nyheder om emnet) på X: "Ve dem, der manipulerer religion og Guds navn til egen militær, økonomisk og politisk gevinst, og trækker det hellige ind i mørke og snavs."
Historikere af amerikansk religion har bemærket, at mens amerikanske administrationer længe har påberåbt sig tro under krigstid, er Trump-administrationen gået længere end de fleste og bruger et sprog, der, ifølge en forsker, er "skarpt og utvetydigt" på måder, som tidligere præsidenter undgik. For Hegseth, en selvudnævnt kristen nationalist, hvis brug af religiøse billeder er blevet et kendetegn for hans tid i Pentagon, var denne uge, hvis ikke andet, helt i orden.