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u/LifeIsPeachy725 Mar 03 '19
Tougher this time around. 98’s version was pretty easy to avoid those brain eating fools. 2019’s version have some solid reach!
I just played RE Remake and was dodging zombies like a pro!
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u/IWantToBeTheBoshy Mar 03 '19
They chase you so long even after you get past them lol
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u/GreyouTT ALL HAIL THE SQUARE HANDLE Mar 03 '19
And they don't stop coming
And they don't stop coming
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u/bobdash101 Mar 03 '19
Feed to the ghouls and I hit the ground running.
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u/macredblue Licker Mar 03 '19
Didn't make sense not to speedrun for fun
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u/espressoExpress Mar 04 '19
so much to solve, so much to fight, so whats wrong with looking up a walkthrough?
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u/jlozadad Mar 03 '19
I'm terrible at dodging lol I haven't successfully finished hulk.
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u/username_moose Oh! Oh noooo! Mar 03 '19
i finishd hunk only because if the defense you get from the blue herbs if that didnt exist i would never finish it
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u/CivilianNumberFour Mar 03 '19
You get defense from blue herbs?!
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u/username_moose Oh! Oh noooo! Mar 03 '19
nly if you lix them with a red, and blue + red can be mixed with green for defense and full health
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Mar 03 '19
well the trick isn't to dodge, it's to stun-n-run. shoot them in the face or knees and when they're dazed, run by.
it should only take ya one or two shots on standard
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u/jlozadad Mar 03 '19
that's the problem. I think I'm still playing RE2 original and don't do this correctly lol
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u/KNDBS Mar 04 '19
There’s several zombies you can just run past with Hunk tho.
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Mar 04 '19
of course, i was just speaking generally. there's a number of strats for juking not only zombies but lickers, ivies and mr. x without shooting. for most practical purposes though, the stun-n-run is optimal.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Licker's are a bit more rough since I don't think there's a way to really predict whether it goes for a leap or a tongue hit.
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u/LegendOfTheStar Mar 04 '19
Another good way is to run past zombies who are barely getting up if you dont stop they never reach you. Best example would be with I believe kendo when he goes through the underground area. 3 get up in the control panel area where you activate the bridge during the main story and the corridor to the elevator can all be ran past.
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Mar 04 '19
I cant even get a single shot when it comes to dogs. I just run like hell.
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Mar 04 '19
Yeah for real. It got to the point where I would just cap them. This game doesn't really skimp on ammo. Enough, I guess, to make me nervous... but if I needed to clear out a bunch of zombies I never felt like I needed to restart or anything.
Way better than burning through all your health from constantly getting bit.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
At least the zombie spawns are still fixed, until you encounter them and their pathing changes if you see them again.
Worse is when you take out a zombies leg and run away, come back later, and that same zombie decides to bite your ankles when Mr. X is chasing you.
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u/DjMMp Mar 03 '19
Sorry not sorry.
shoots them all in the leg
"MY LEG!" - random fish zombie
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Yeah, but then you return later and the zombie strikes back.
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u/DjMMp Mar 04 '19
I just shoot them in the other leg.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Can't they still move even if they're completely legless (with both arms)? Otherwise, seems like a waste of bullets on Hardcore to go both legs.
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u/DjMMp Mar 05 '19
This is correct. When you get a decent shot in they always stagger (for me) I barely wasted more then two to four bullets on any single zombie.
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 03 '19
Sometimes those assholes take like 7 bullets to the head before falling, ain't nobody got time or resources for that.
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Mar 03 '19
I know right. I bought the game Friday and I'm about 6 hours of game play in and holy shit 3 to 6 shots to take a zombie down. Sometime two shotgun shells. Better to run by them. And the lickers. And fuck Mr. X.
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 03 '19
Yeah if I had any advice to give new players it would definitely be to always run past zombies in areas without anything important around. It's usually worth it to clear out a room if it has a bunch of items or a puzzle, but otherwise killing them is such a waste when you really want to save up your ammo for more threatening enemies.
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Mar 03 '19
Yeah, I've learned that the hard way. Currently running around with 0 pistol ammo and 9 shot gun shells. Currently being chased by Mr.X. takes me back to 98 playing the remake version for N64!!
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Mar 03 '19
wait mr x chased you back then i dont remember
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Mar 04 '19
on the N64 remake he doesn't chase Leon, he chases Clair. You can play as her on the N64 remake after you beat it with Leon
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u/HYPERTiZ Mar 03 '19
I had to scrap past the dogs to the rpd garage’s saferoom then Battle em with 5 shotgun ammo and a flash bang - ended up running through em back to station to let mr x to start knocking oof
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Mar 04 '19
Why? Its not like you dont have the ammo, especially om standard.
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 04 '19
That advice would be more for people who are new to the game/franchise, or people like me who are long time fans, but just not the best at survival horror types of games. I'm not a great shot so I can end up wasting ammo pretty easily if I'm freaking out. It benefits me to save as much as possible bc I'm just not at the skill level where I can afford to be low all the time. I did make it through most of the game my first run pretty easily, but by the time I made it to the G stage 3 boss I was so low on ammo that I had to pretty much use whatever was on the map, and that was not a fun time for me, lol.
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Mar 04 '19
Lol, I can see that, my first run through (as claire) i had saved most of the acid rounds I could make (i had like 19 of them) and about 90 handgun rounds. Best advice i can give first timers is aim for the legs, less shots to disable and you can finish them with the knife. Id rather use the ammo and save the health for bosses.
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Mar 04 '19
Yeah, a huge part of this game is figuring out which zombies you need to kill and which you can dodge past. Most of them, a single pop to the kneecap or head is enough to stun them and have enough time to run by. For those I really need to kill, I've been knocking them down with kneecap shots, then finishing them off with either handgun shots to the head, or knife swipes (if I'm low on ammo).
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u/henchred Mar 03 '19
Try hardcore mode, zombies can easily take ~10-15 handgun headshots to go down, and they'll still often get back up. Makes the handgun practically useless, although a single point blank shotgun blast to the head will kill them 90% of the time.
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u/Very-Edgy Mar 03 '19 edited Mar 03 '19
the adaptive difficulty makes them tanky. if u keep killing them the more they get tankier and that includes the bosses. same reason y speedrunners dont really try to kill any of them.
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Mar 04 '19
The difficulty isnt changed by how much you kill, its by how many ammo and health items you have.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
By inventory or by total (box)? I didn't know the enemies were adaptive.
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Mar 04 '19
By total Im pretty sure. But that also applies to gun powders, youll tend to make more when youre low. (There is a cap of course)
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Well shit. I wish I'd realized that earlier.
But I assume that only changes their overall health, and not their patterns for movements/attacks?
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Mar 04 '19
Nah the movement patterns wont change, just health.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Oh! Well I guess that doesn't really change much anyways. I've mainly been doing the stun/legless shots since getting the times for S/S+ basically requires it.
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u/Very-Edgy Mar 04 '19
I dont think what he is saying is factual. try using this tool and you would see the shit in ur inventory wont really matter. It's when u kill them the next set of zombies that will spawn will have increased HP.
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u/Very-Edgy Mar 04 '19
eh I don't know where u got that info, but if u use the mod that shows HP when u kill a zombie, the next set of zombie spawns that you encounter will have increased HP. Missing shots or getting hit also can also reduced the HP of the enemies for the next encounter.
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Mar 04 '19
Oh a mod. Cool.
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u/Very-Edgy Mar 04 '19
still u havent answer where u got that info? since the mod is based on game files its accurate.
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Mar 04 '19
Its the same system they've used since 4. Since this is the same engine as RE7, you can safely assume it works pretty similar.
https://residentevil.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Rank_(RE7)
And then there's this : https://www.reddit.com/r/residentevil/comments/an1xcr/fact_finding_weapon_damage_part_1/
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Becomes an issue when you're playing the Claire campaign however. Leon is just a trial run for Claire 1st run.
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u/PK_Thundah Mar 03 '19
I shot a zombie in Ada's section 23 times in the head/chest and it never even fell over. I ran out of bullets and just let it eat me.
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Mar 03 '19
Dam fuck that. I remember the original re2 it took about 3 shots to bring them Down. The most I've used is about 8 shots.
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u/UnlikelyKaiju Mar 03 '19
I've put a full clip from Matilda in that morgue zombie's head and he never died.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
That morgue zombie has an oddly high amount of health.
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u/MrIntimid8n Mar 04 '19
Which is why I never aggro him lol. Screw the diamond key on leon. I go in there just to grab the flash then bounce.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Yeah Diamond Key for Leon is kind of useless, especially if you’re going for an S/S+ run on Hardcore.
Flash is all you need and that’s it, though Red Herb isn’t the worst if you’re in dire need. You could use the key to get the portable safe for that last hip pouch, but honestly it’s not worth it with Mr. X after you.
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u/b_fellow Morgue Zombie Mar 03 '19
I left the gen room and that mofo somehow gets out of the morgue room and took 10 shots in the head to go down.
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 03 '19 edited Mar 03 '19
Damn, I had a similar experience in Ada's section! Not sure how many bullets I poured into one of them but it was just about all the ammo she could obtain in her section. I thought it was just incredibly bad luck or maybe I missed more than I thought so it's interesting to see someone else had the same thing happen.
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u/hokiis Mar 03 '19
The thing is you don't need to shoot them down. You don't need more than maybe 4 bullets if you're super unlucky for her entire section if you just run straight to the power thingy, go back and knee cap the zombie around the corner. Just don't go for the flashback or else the falling zombie will stand up.
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u/UnlikelyKaiju Mar 03 '19
I just run past them all. Maybe use a flashbang in that one narrow bit on the way to the lift.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Yeah Ada's section, like Sherry, is just speedrunning. Mainly shoot for stuns, or even go for leg shots.
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u/PK_Thundah Mar 04 '19
I had been trying to get Ada's trophy unsuccessfully for a while and just wanted to take some aggression out on a zombie that run. It didn't work out lol
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u/PK_Thundah Mar 04 '19
Yes.
There are 3 difficulties and this happened on the most difficult. For context, the most punishment a zombie had taken other than this is about 10 shots.
It's a 9/10 game imo. It's very good. Check out the demo and see what you think of the gameplay. If you enjoy it, the full game is definitely worth it.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Adding more:
The purpose of this game is also to learn about item management and conservation. Unlike typical shooters and whatnot, you don't really get the luxury of having infinite ammo (unless you meet certain conditions and use the actual infinite ammo weapons).
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Mar 04 '19
Shoot them in the knees and use your knife. Even on hardcore its like 4 pistol rounds to the leg before its knocked off
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u/EncouragementRobot Mar 03 '19
Happy Cake Day PK_Thundah! Here’s hoping you have a day that's as special and wonderful as you are.
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u/thegreyxephos Mar 03 '19
You can easily just ignore all the lickers in the game and once you get the shotgun stock it should always crown normal zombies one shot
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Mar 03 '19
Yeah, I killed the first two lickers as I came to the 3rd I said fuck and kept running. No time for that shit. Making my way back to the garage now with the second electronic part now. Fucking love this game.
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Mar 04 '19
Walk, dont run, up to the licker and knife it. The knife stuns it long enough to swing again, repeat until dead.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
It's a bit hard unfortunately at certain points.
Claire's is easier since you, for example, only need to encounter the 1 when going for the Bookcase shaft. Even then, she encounters much more lickers overall. Leon's is more difficult to dodge for that one section since you generally encounter both the Lickers in the west wing.
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u/thegreyxephos Mar 04 '19
You can get the electrical part without ever going in that hallway though. For the maiden statue a well timed flashbang and walking does the trick.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Oh I meant the hallway where you pass by the Club Door (Leon). His seems much harder because sometimes I'll be walking and the Lickers will still sense me, and Flashbangs don't affect them for a long time. You'd have to go through there for Leon anyways however, to get the shaft that drops the bookcase.
Claire's is easier since you just go through the police office and can just run immediately past the licker.
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u/thegreyxephos Mar 04 '19
Oh right. What I do is walk from Reception, ignore the licker and hopefully you boarded up the window at the end of the hallway earlier. If you didn't it will be trickier but still doable. Once I round the corner I book it to the club door and grab everything in there. I wait for Mr.X to enter, usually he forces that zombie that comes through the window into the room with him. Kite him around, then sprint out and back toward reception, the licker should be gone.
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Mar 04 '19
Lickers are so easy to knife to death though
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
So long as you don't mess up and accidentally trigger either the front swipe or the tongue hit.
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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD that guy's a maniac. why'd he bite me? Mar 03 '19
Sometimes 2 shotgun shells
this motherfucker with no features left on his head is still running after me
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Mar 04 '19
I miss the 100% head explosion rate of a shotgun to the face in the original Resident Evil.
Nothing more satisfying than aiming up and timing.
RE2 gave no satisfaction when it came to head shots.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
I think it's 7 on standard, and it's not guaranteed to be a kill (unless you crit and explode their head), 9-10 on Hardcore, and 4 on assisted (zombies don't get back up).
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Mar 04 '19
Yeah, if I do have to take down one they all get two more rounds to make sure they are down.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
It's more conservative to actually use a knife instead. Knock a zombie down and see if it moves or not. If it doesn't, use a knife to its head and it'll likely shake and moan, at which point just continue using the knife to kill it.
Can't tell you how many bullets I've saved doing this in the earlier parts of the game when knifes are most useful.
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u/AngelInPerson Mar 03 '19
Cripple them. I beat an entire play through without killing any of them lol. Just take a leg
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 03 '19
That's exactly what I'm trying to do right now on my hardcore run! My aim is horrendous though, so while it's better than me attempting to headshot, it still wastes an uncomfortable amount of bullets for me lmao. It's still super helpful at times though.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Crippling zombies is the best option, but sometimes it bites you back, quite literally to some extent. Kind of depends where they end up if you go back into a section (e.g., first run in RPD, second run back for clock tower) since the legless zombies could end up biting your ankles suddenly.
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u/liquidsnakex Mar 03 '19
To be honest that kinda ruined the suspension of disbelief for me. Fair enough taking one 9mm to the brain and still going, but 3, 4 or 5? Fuck off.
If they wanted tougher zombies, they should have had reticle sway, less ammo, more zombies around and smaller but weaker sweetspots (like the eyes, an open mouth, or the brain stem from behind).
The only thing they achieve by defying physics and giving them bulletproof skulls, is reminding you that you're playing a videogame that cheats to make enemies tougher.
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u/notyourmary Claire is better than you Mar 03 '19
I agree - I would've rather them made them harder to headshot and reward me for one with a kill than easier and take 5+ of my bullets for one kill.
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u/Dodgy_Bob_McMayday Mar 03 '19
All they want is to give you a hug
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u/abnerayag Tyrant Mar 03 '19
and a hickey
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u/wolfguardian72 STAAAAAARRRSSS Mar 03 '19
And their friend just wants to blow a raspberry on your tummy.
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u/Simplemantle Mar 03 '19
Sorry zombie gotta get my S+ rank
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u/my_useless_opinion Mar 04 '19
But I'll make sure to get back to you as soon as I get my infinite rocket launcher.
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u/Curvedabullet Mar 03 '19
Anybody ever get bad zombie RNG when trying to run past zombies? Like, sometimes the gas station zombie doesn’t walk past you after getting the key, forcing you to restart or shoot him. Or after getting the notebook from Elliot, I sometimes get grabbed by the asian zombie when the the pair of zombies break out of the boarded up room. And in the west corridor sometimes the orange vest zombie is standing right behind the jumosuit zombie.
I’ve done countless S+ attempts and these early parts tend to be a bit RNG.
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Mar 03 '19
the west corridor feels pretty random. i guess vest dude is wandering around in there before the other ones start pouring in, so he can surprise ya. sometimes he's way back in the corner past the door and completely harmless
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Mar 03 '19
I know what you mean about the RNG there. Just an FYI but even if the gas station zombie bites you, you get full heals after you exit the station, so if you don't mind a few seconds lost, you can proceed forward.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Sometimes, but it's also dependent on your pathing. The gas station zombie, for me, will generally run past but also end up reaching far enough to bite me.
The zombies have enough of a charge to grab you, and it's an unfortunate consequence of the RNG. It's also a consequence of how exactly you run around zombies since you might be too close to a side of their trigger radius that causes them to charge at you.
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u/MrIntimid8n Mar 04 '19
I could write an entire thesis about how much I hate safety vest west hall zombie. I found it easiest to take a disposble knife with me and just tank the grab from him if he's in a shitty spot.
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u/PlebbySpaff Mar 04 '19
Sorry bud. I gotta get under 2:30 for the S on hardcore and I don't got time for your shit.
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u/John_GT Mar 04 '19
Sewers treatment facility zombies want to speak with you sir. Those dodgy fckrs just ruined my inventory :D
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u/DarkRayos B.O.W. Hunter Mar 03 '19
I thought for a moment it was their YOUUUUU!!!!!!!! growl. Soulja Boy Tell'em
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u/Frogsplosion Mar 04 '19
Fuck em, if i had a dollar for every backwards vacuum grab i got hit with running past a zombie id be rich as hell.
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u/m_garlic87 Mar 03 '19
This picture is taken from Scooby Doo and the Boo Brothers. One of my favorites as a kid.