Video game Easter eggs exist to give the devoted a secret thrill. You spend a few minutes jumping on invisible platforms and you find a note from the developers joking about how you're wasting your life. That sort of thing. But some programmers didn't get the memo about how they were hiding "cute little bonuses," and instead mistakenly believed that they alone were the sole protectors of the Ark of the friggin' Covenant. That's the only way to explain these impossibly obscure Easter eggs ...

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The Battlefield series is the Rolls Royce to Call Of Duty's lifted pickup truck (complete with TruckNutz). But still, it's a shooter at heart, and those aren't always known for their cerebral puzzles. Yet Battlefield 4 has what might be the most elaborate Easter egg puzzle in the history of gaming, and the prize for solving it is a snazzy new suit for your character -- even if, by all rights, it should be a key to the goddamn White House.

In the Dragon Valley stage, you find a lantern next to a pillar with a skull printed on it. Stand next to it long enough, and the lantern will start flickering. Eventually, some fan with nothing more important happening in their life realized that the lantern was flickering in Morse code, and they deciphered a message ... in Belarusian. That's already a ridiculous amount of encryption for some video game clothes, but it's not over. After a quick trip to Google Translate, it turned out that the message was just telling players that a puzzle existed.

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"Y-O-U A-R-E W-A-S-T-I-N-G Y-O-U-R T-I-M-E"

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Elsewhere on the map, there's a temple with 20 lanterns in the ceiling, which turn on or off in a random order when you throw any one of seven tiny switches hidden in the level. These switches, by the way, are so small that they're difficult to spot, and very well-hidden -- one of them is inside a tree that can only be accessed by helicopter, after blowing up the tree with explosives.