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DOOM: The Dark Agesgives players a lot more room to explore than past entries, and with that extra room comes a lot of secrets and collectibles to uncover.
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The first level of the game, Village of Khalim, has a smaller number of secrets to find than in other levels, with only six secrets and five collectibles to track down across the map.
Secret Locations
Life Sigil #1
The first secret in the Village of Khalim is the first Life Sigil, which grants an extra life.
Immediately after completing themelee combo tutorial, you’ll enter a burning room with a few enemies and a climbing wall to scale. Instead of climbing up the wall, turn left and look for thewooden planks with a blue symbolcovering a gap in the wall.
Shield Bashthrough the planks (it should lock on when you raise your shield), and you’ll enter a secret area, with a Life Sigil standing by the gate to your left.
TheImp Toyis locked behind a gate with a blue lock, requiring you to progress through the level until you’ve gotten the blue key near the Cultists, and then head up the path to the gate again after returning to the main courtyard. Approaching the gate will automatically open it.
Life Sigil #2
Enter thecavenear the Shredder weapon payload to activate a secret encounter, locking you in a room full of fodder enemies. Defeat all the enemies to unlock the doors to either side of the cave, as well as a third door in the middle of the passage with aLife Sigilwaiting behind it.
Soldier Toy
Go to thecliffbehind the Shredder weapon payload and look down off the far right edge. Drop down onto the secret pathway, which leads to a room containing theSoldier Toy.
Weapon Skin: Combat Shotgun - Nightmare
In the courtyard with the Shredder wepaon payload, face the Life Sigil cave entrance and turn left. Go straight forward to thecliff, and look down and to the right to see alarge openingin the side of the cliff.
Get a running start and Sprint Jump across the gap to the room, which will spawn enemies that you must defeat. Once the room is cleared, you’ll be able to grab the “Nightmare"weapon skinfor the Combat Shotgun.
Life Sigil #3
The third and finalLife Sigilis behind a gate with a purple lock. To obtain thepurple key, you’ll need to head up the path to the right of the Shredder weapon payload, then bear a right on the fork in the road past the encounter.
Head back to the courtyard outside of the castle gate to find the purple lock in the side of a small mountain in the center of the area.
Codex Locations
Codex #1: Doom Slayer
Head down the path to the right of the mountain with the purple door and look right to see a bridge leading to a special enemy in front of asmall cliff. Defeat the enemy, then head around the right side of the cliff to find aclimbing wall.
Climb the wall and follow the path up to reach the edge of the cliff, where theCodexentry for the Doom Slayer will be sitting.
Codex #2: Village of Khalim
The Second Codex entry can be found rightbeforethe Sentry Turret sequence at the end of the level. While heading along the path following the battlefield of enemies, round the corner and look behind you to see a climbing wall, which leads to a small area with some soldiers and theVillage of Khalim codexnear some ammo.
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