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I ticked off a few more achievements in Crackdown 3: riding the Agency Spider vehicle up 3000 feet and getting gold on all Rooftop Races. These were sidelights to my real aim, though, and that was hunting those darn orbs.

There are hundreds of agility and special orbs to find. The special orbs, which used to be called hidden orbs, are devilishly hard to find. They emit a sound to help you but you have to be very close to them to hear it. The city is large and there are so many places these things can be. I found some tucked behind dumpsters, in rooms hard to find themselves, between rocks on a shoreline, and everywhere else you can think of. The only thing you can rely on is that, generally, special orbs are on the ground, and the agility orbs tend to be up high, on the top of things and sometimes just floating in the air. They can be seen at distance making them easier to hunt down, but easier than friggin’ impossible is still not easy.

Up until now, I’ve tried to do something else while hunting orbs to keep myself from frustration. Mark and I play through the campaign again for fun, or I make more progress on my legendary run. Distractions like these lead you in different paths and can give you another perspective. Once I just started driving around and, BAM!, I saw two more orbs. I try to think of places I haven’t been, or things I haven’t done, to turn my eyes to a different part of this very large city. It's all too easy to retread old territory without realizing it.

Co-op provides an extra set of eyes that makes it easier. You can see the orbs you need and any the other player hasn’t got too. Those appear white. If I see a white one, I call over the other player so they can collect it. There have been some problems with co-op, though. Sometimes the system lags or even drops the game. Most of the time it’s fine, but almost every session it happens eventually and ends the game.

I’m confident of finding those last agility orbs. Special orbs seem too difficult, but I’ll check the numbers. Then there’s my legendary run and an achievement for getting gold on all racing challenges. Some of those races are really terrible, so I don’t know, but I’m getting excited to 100% this game.