Is his campaign that much shorter or am I unknowingly speed running? Haha I didn't realize I was about to fight him so I didn't do the inventory management I needed for the fight. I am assuming the shotgun shells are as affective as the acid rounds on him or the magnum bullets? He has so many different handguns and handgun ammo I have no idea what the hell is what at this point xD

He had too many guns in my very honest opinion. If compared to Claire, I'd said it was simply overkill as half of the invetory is not needed/effective on Birkin. My weapons of choice were the MQ 11, Spark Shot, flamethrower and ... I don't remember. He had too much guns and not enough ammo.

Yeah that's what I fear I am suffering from right now. He gets the spark shot AND the flamethrower? Yeah were the hell does anyone get that kind of inventory space and you can only make shotgun, regular pistol and magnum bullets =x That's what was throwing me off too - I was apparently picking up high impact rounds that was only working for handgun x but when I made bullets, they only worked on handgun y and the matilda because they were regular bullets. I was just like wtf, there should just be 1 handgun that takes regular bullets, but you could find a stock for it that allows for high impact bullets, period.

HIP POUCHES!?! Do you have all of them? You can get 1 (or 2?) in the locker room. I reckon you can get one in the steam room as well and in the old bureau. I'm pretty sure I maxed out all hip pouches for both Leon and Claire. I had a hard time with sorting out my ammo. I always made bullets I did not need ;___;

LOL yes I know you can get hip pouches but you still need to pick and choose what weapons you bring with you and honestly I hate having to go into my box to keep switching out gear so I rather there be less options? So after playing RE for years, I'm used to running around with a little ammo and not killing everything. A lot of enemies you can just run around and don't have to kill because you will never have to go back to that area again or they are easy to dodge. My first play through with Claire I ended with SO MANY gun powders and white gun powders, it was ridic because I rarely made ammo. when I did it was to make 6 acid rounds with the large gun powders (and yes I was that person that would save right before making them and reload until I got 6 rounds xD).

I KEPT GOING TO MY BOX TO GET HEALIES!!! I agree with you on dodging (or use knife!!!!) but man, lickers were always jumping on me because the game decided I just couldn't walk by. They HAD to jump on me/touch me. Which hey? It sucks big big time because they never give up (unless you leave the room and find refuge somewhere).

Claire definitely got the best out of it and I loved playing as her.

Yeah the one nice thing about the lickers is they can't open doors. The knife is really shitty though unless they are already on the floor. The acid rounds were nice to cripple them when they crowd you and then pick then off 1 by 1 when they are down.

I love me some knives tbh. I get grabbed a lot because I'm a poor idiot and I've wasted too many grenades because I was not selecting my knives!! Do you headshot your zombies? I just get them some wobbly knees and leave haha.

Yeah I headshot them. I can knock them down with two well placed headshots (still alive just down) but sometimes all I do is rip up there face with bullets. Like literally the guy will be missing half his skull and still be walking around, complete bullshit

WASTE OF AMMO!!!11!! Just give them wobbly knees (or explode them).

I'm getting there, a little closer every session. I unlocked a character on Soul Caliber III, and according to the information about them, I'm at 900+ battles. Almost halfway there!

So I started playing again (it's been a super hectic week) and now I have a bunch of legless zombies crawling around but much easier to get around xD I also did the part with the jail cell and WTF that was such BS. I somehow glitched the game out with attack priorities and made it out relatively ok xD I had no herbs with me LOL

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) I take that my wobbly knees idea was ... good? Eh eh eh. Haaa no herbs?!?! Damn! But then again, I've done the same haha. Sometimes we can make it out unscattered!

It's more of a missing knee than wobbly knee but yes :p I didn't know what was going to happen and I used my heal running around all the stupid dogs. It was this weird thing where a zombie grabbed me and was about to bite me but mr. X threw a punch at the same time and I guess it hit the zombie so I was let go and just kept running

But if the zombie could get up - it would be a wobbly knee! UGH the dogs! The keep jumping around at full speed and it's giving me whiplash haha. They are annoying lil doggos. That's one lucky move tho. Mr.X did kill me once but that was me being an idiot and forgetting that the floorboards in the library could collapse. He just collected me on the way at the bottom xD

I prefer the lickers to the dogs. At least you can sneak around those. So my boyfriend didn't know you couldn't kill Mr. X while he was stalking you so he tried fighting him. He shot him with flame rounds and Mr. X comes walking out of the flames like you see in the movies and just bitch slaps him. Then my boyfriend got falcon punched and died. It was so great xD

So what I used to abuse all the time in the old games and RE4 was the action sequence priority over enemy attacks. For example, if an opponent is about to attack you, but you bend down to pick up an herb, the attack will go right through you. Anytime I used to be running or fighting someone, I would also stop to pick up an item to my advantage. They got rid of most of that in this game, but things like walking up and down ladders or fighting off an enemy will still do that. I was running around the library trying to get the bookcases together while Mr.X chased me around and I didn't keep track of where he was in one pass through so as I was climbing down the ladder he punched through the wall in front of me and I freaked out xD

You can force Mr.X to give you a knee, but that's about it. You can stall him with grenades too, but it wouldn't kill him (woohoo for buying time tho!)

I'm not really well versed when it comes to RE. I've only played the remake (RE2) and RE7 Biohazard. I did not even know you could do that sneaky trick!

I just run around and send him on a merry chase. It takes more time to do things, but it conserves ammo.

The old games now are probably harder to get into because the controls are so clunky and the camera angles are a nightmare. I used to be able to beat RE3 in 3 hours. If you're good at dodging, it makes it easy to speed run. It takes a few runs to get comfortable, especially when you can't look where you're going. Some areas, like near a save room, it's just easier to kill whatever is there so you don't have to worry about constant attacks.

That's my aim but I've gotten myself into tricky situations. I've been blocked by X and several zombies and/or lickers. Couldn't really do anything aside stalling him to take care of the rest :c!

The camera angles are clunky. I really hate when the camera zooms into a door and I can't see what is going on. I'm like stuck in between and cannot see shit. Have you gotten that??

Like are you hanging out in the door frame? The only time I've had issues is when I am trying to crack open doors and shoot from the door frame.

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Just beat remake on Leon's story mode. I feel like I burned through way more ammo with him, but still somehow ended the game with tons of gunpowder and yellow gunpowder.