RE4 Separate Ways DLC: How to solve the mountain symbol puzzle

Very early on in the RE4 Separate Ways Ada DLC, you’ll encounter an altar with a bunch of weird symbols on it. If you’ve never experienced these types of puzzles in the core game (or you just forgot about them – it has been a while since the RE4 remake came out); the gist is that you need to discern symbols in the immediate area and press their corresponding button on the altar. Here’s a quick and easy solution.

How to find the symbols

Here is where to find all three symbols:

• One of them is super simple to locate: it’s right near you, next to the locked door and the puzzle altar
• Another symbol is directly to the left (facing away from the altar), located on the mountainside, slightly above the grappling hook icon
• The last symbol is back where you came into the zone: spread across multiple planks. Piece these chunks together to figure out the final symbol.

The mountain symbol puzzle solution

If you don’t feel like hunting for them yourself, you can just follow the solution above! Simply press all of the correct buttons and the door will open. Again, this puzzle requires three symbols.

Note that most of the symbol puzzles in the Resident Evil 4 remake operate similarly, so once you’ve discovered how to search for them (and that sometimes, perspective shifts can show you multiple pieces of a single symbol), you’ll be able to solve the rest of them with ease.