In case anyone hasn’t realised yet - you can cheese some of the challenge points so easily :joker:

First off the crafting ones - you can just keep reloading. Load a save where you have plenty of crafting supplies, craft stuff (say 10 items), quit, reload, craft the same 10 items... they all count. Just reload until you get master survivalist :shrug:

Cat Burglar the same. Save near a lock that needs picked, keep reloading and picking the lock.

Poacher - same near some animals.

Butcher
Executioner
Pew Pew
Boom Stick
Sharp Shooter
Fire in the Hole
30 Big Holes
Dakka Dakka
Pineapple Ace
Mind Your Step


So long as you have a decent stock of ammo for each gun/explosives, you can reload either the village wolf attack or the wolf stronghold section repeatedly and get ALL of these in no time. Just quit and reload when the ammo for the one you’re getting runs dry...

I’m not sure if this is intentional because it makes a tonne of the challenges ridiculously easy but :shrug:

Mercenaries is also quite fun, just got my first S (village). HOW you get SS or SSS I have no idea since I’m not losing my combo streak at all and being as fast as humanly possible to get the S?

It’s not a patch on Resi 4 mercenaries though.

Does anyone else think they’re gonna do a DLC with the duke as a boss fight

Probably not, I don't think they've done any meaningful RE DLC since 7, and I don't think any were mentioned in the big leak they suffered a while back.

My guess is that they'll move on and we'll get an official announcement about the RE4 remake or 'Outrage' in about 5 months or so.

Nah I think he’s supposed to be a parallel with The Merchant from 4 (he even mentions him being “an old friend”) so I think their allegiances and motivations are essentially supposed to be unknown... they are eternal fence-sitters who aren’t really on either side. I’d assume we’ll see other merchants in future games and they eventually might dig into the lore of the link between them as a group and maybe their intentions.

Also The Duke’s shop is part of the Mercenaries game mechanic so it would be odd to have you fight/kill him and then still trade with him in that mode.

I think maybe we will get a DLC following

The inevitable PC mods have arrived...

https://i.imgur.com/zgHERjH.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9Za1aIY.jpg

:joker:

https://i.imgur.com/KqsVf5t.jpg

Terrifying... ... ...

And one for Scott:

Ugh chris is so hot

Just dropped 8 achievements in one speedrun :laugh:. Knives-only casual speedrun, finished in 2hrs 46min.

https://i.imgur.com/gqbi894.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/rkfj1zF.jpg

In the order above,

- Use 4 or less healing items (I only used 2)

- Finish in under 3 hours

- Spend less than 10,000 lei (I didn't even open the shop)

- Knife only, no gunz

- Craft no items

- Don't organise your inventory at all

- Finish 3 playthroughs (this was my third - Standard, Hardcore, this speedrun)

- "Overachiever" is for getting 70+ achievements, the other 7 took me to 74 :hee:.


I also got the "beat Heisenberg in under 4 minutes" achievement on this run too, he's pretty soft on Casual and you still get to use the little tank thing, as an exception to the "knives out" rule.

Did the “Kill Moreau in under 1 minute” achievement on casual using a fully upgraded infinite ammo WCX assault rifle... he dropped in less than one full clip, it can literally only have been 5 to 10 seconds, making it hilarious, and totally on brand for the character :joker:. “Raaaarrrr I’m gonna kill y- oh no I died.”

Moreau was such a disappointment, they could have done so much with his section, but it all felt like an afterthought. I can only imagine his section was one of the last ones to be finalised since it's such a downgrade from the others.

Random (cheese xD) but i thought the giant werewolf guy with the hammer WAS heisenberg… like was it not? I’m confuse

No... and they're three different guys :joker:. One in the village, one in the wolf stronghold, then a 3rd you fight as Chris. The concept art makes it clear that they're different fellers (the first one was the village chief, the second his brother... I'm not sure who the 3rd was meant to be).

Heisenberg just looks like a normal guy, but he has X-men magneto powers, then mutates into that massive Megatron thing.

I do get similar vibes for that section; during the knife-only speedrun I did the whole section in 7 minutes :think:. And that's with the boss fight taking about 2 mins 30 because of only using the knife, and having to dodge enemies for the boat key... if you blast those out the way with a shotgun and use upgraded weapons against the boss I reckon you could clear the whole section start to finish in 5 mins.

For comparison, the castle took 25 mins and the factory 30+. You can do the house pretty fast on a speedrun but that's because it's puzzly and once you know the solutions you can skip half of the puzzling.

Also all three other sections are significantly longer if you watch the cutscenes... the reservoir only has like 2 very short ones.