Old Tricks not working anymore.

[Winter]

I played the original enough to develop a few trick, but it seems like none of them are working this time. Stuff like shooting the villagers in the legs as they run to make them trip & wait around the farm to stock up on eggs, hows everyone else doing?
I don't think the game will drop more than a few eggs in one location, & needless to say using the knife to save ammo wont work anymore. I've been trying to take it slow & conserve resources IE survival, but the game seems to be punishing me for that. I've also noticed the bear traps aren't that useful anymore, even had one run right over it & nothing, I guess granny had been watching her weight.

[Krypto]

Super cool detail about bear traps. If you manage to get an enemy caught in one, a melee will blast their leg right off.

[KRON]

I'm more upset about Broken Butterfly no longer being a pick up in the castle. They replaced it with an assault rifle, apparently.

[TheHuskyGT]

I laughed so hard when I climbed the tower in the village during the first mob and the damn floor collapsed. The devs know XD

[X i i K]

You can most certainly make enemies trip by shooting legs while they run lol

[Seizure Storm]

Golden eggs is out (set drops now), 3 shots to knees, 2 shots to head for stagger (sometimes u can get lucky). I think if u upgrade durability on the knife all the way, you can play it like the old game and stab people on the floor but before then thats 100% smoked.

[The Who]

Shooting legs to make them kneel still works. It just needs more than 1 shot most of the time.

Same with Novistadors; in the original, only one handgun hit while they're flying can kill them, but in the remake on Standard, all of them needs 2 shots to drop them on the ground, and not all of them are instant kills. Some of them may still require you finish them with the knife.

The chicken dropping eggs are random occurance. I reload my checkpoints a lot throughout the game, and in some plays, the chickens drop brown eggs like candy. It all depends on your luck and current stock(the game seems to adjust drops depending on what you have or don't have in your inventory).

[SmashMalla]

Originally posted by Winter:

needless to say using the knife to save ammo wont work anymore.

Use the Bolt Thrower, it's about as strong as the pistol and doesn't alert enemies so you can fight a few guys 1 on 1 without wasting ammo, 2 on 1 is fairly easy to do also. Speaking of ammo yeah, I don't think you can do the old SMG only run because before ammo would drop frequently if it was the only gun you were carrying, now I'm not so sure.

[Shichiya]

Originally posted by SmashMalla:

Originally posted by Winter:

needless to say using the knife to save ammo wont work anymore.

Use the Bolt Thrower, it's about as strong as the pistol and doesn't alert enemies so you can fight a few guys 1 on 1 without wasting ammo, 2 on 1 is fairly easy to do also. Speaking of ammo yeah, I don't think you can do the old SMG only run because before ammo would drop frequently if it was the only gun you were carrying, now I'm not so sure.

SMG only run might be possible, I was attempting pistol only run and after a while instead of random gun ammo, the only ammo that dropped was pistol ammo.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by KRON:

I'm more upset about Broken Butterfly no longer being a pick up in the castle. They replaced it with an assault rifle, apparently.

You can get the Broken Butterfly the moment you get to the Castle so there's that at least, not that I would use its precious ammo so early and with such low dmg before upgrading since there is no more ammo reset with capacity upgrades now...

OP shooting in the leg can allow them to kneel and then if you go behind them you can supplex. There is that lol.

You can exploit ladders against stronger than usual enemies, or even normal mobs, in a few ways.
1) Pistol shoot them like the bull hammer guy / chainsaw until they're near top then swap to shotgun and 1 round in face for huge dmg plus knocks them down so they got to climb again. Rinse and repeat for zero dmg taken easy kill.
2) If you are cheap you can just knife them as they climb up and then jump down, loop a bit and climb ladder back up when they are on ground and got some space, then repeat until they die.

Originally posted by SmashMalla:

Originally posted by Winter:

needless to say using the knife to save ammo wont work anymore.

Use the Bolt Thrower, it's about as strong as the pistol and doesn't alert enemies so you can fight a few guys 1 on 1 without wasting ammo, 2 on 1 is fairly easy to do also. Speaking of ammo yeah, I don't think you can do the old SMG only run because before ammo would drop frequently if it was the only gun you were carrying, now I'm not so sure.

It might be possible. Like Shichiya mentioned ammo drops are likely based on currently carried weapons with those in storage not counting. I'm not 100% but I recall not getting SMG ammo dropping unless insane coincidence, when not carrying it and same for bolt ammo.

Plus, there appears to be a bug (not confirmed) where the SMG has a high frequency of crafting the bonus +15 bullets (total 45) when crafting as me and others have reported other ammo types almost never get the bonus while the SMG one seems to get it an absurd amount (note: I only ever see it on the first craft attempt, no subsequent so maybe don't craft it multiple times back to back... how to tweak the RNG for crafting it would need to be tested / save scummed to really abuse but still quite a nice extra boost).

[Winter]

Originally posted by TheHuskyGT:

I laughed so hard when I climbed the tower in the village during the first mob and the damn floor collapsed. The devs know XD

Same here, I was staring at the herb thinking that I better come back for it later when it happened.

[Winter]

Originally posted by X i i K:

You can most certainly make enemies trip by shooting legs while they run lol

I've seen them step into traps on there own, I've just had no luck baiting them into one.

[Winter]

Originally posted by Seizure Storm:

Golden eggs is out (set drops now), 3 shots to knees, 2 shots to head for stagger (sometimes u can get lucky). I think if u upgrade durability on the knife all the way, you can play it like the old game and stab people on the floor but before then thats 100% smoked.

I've been having Leon waiting in the location while I do something out of game. In short Farming eggs, it doesn't seem to be working for me now, even tried resetting the game.
Any ways I'm ok with the lack of golden eggs, I'd be ok with 10 or more brown eggs, ya I really cheesed this mechanic in the OG (not on my first run of course).

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Winter:

Originally posted by Seizure Storm:

Golden eggs is out (set drops now), 3 shots to knees, 2 shots to head for stagger (sometimes u can get lucky). I think if u upgrade durability on the knife all the way, you can play it like the old game and stab people on the floor but before then thats 100% smoked.

I've been having Leon waiting in the location while I do something out of game. In short Farming eggs, it doesn't seem to be working for me now, even tried resetting the game.
Any ways I'm ok with the lack of golden eggs, I'd be ok with 10 or more brown eggs, ya I really cheesed this mechanic in the OG (not on my first run of course).

Egg drop rate is very poor in my experience. Fish however... plentiful bounty.