Which version should I buy ?

[The_GarlicBread]

There are more than 21 DLCs ? I don't understand. Not interested in costumes that much. But Are these DLCs worth it ? Like the Treasure Map or Deluxe Weapons or The Upgrade Tickets ?

From What I understand, Deluxe Edition won't have these upgrade tickets. Are these tickets useful somehow ?

Why don't they just keep it simple like PS Games.

[[-iD-]]

heres my advice, buy the base game... if you are having trouble getting all the treasures get he treasure map, if you want the deluxe weapons (they are slightly better than starting weapons) get the weapons.
play the game to its entirety to find out what the tickets do and buy them if you want them. you get plenty of them in game.


or just cheat the tickets you can get them for free with cheat engine.

[Trevor Fox]

So, in this game, there are chokepoints for upgrading your weapons (unless you're on Professional difficulty). You can only upgrades your weapons to a certain limit until you hit certain areas of the game. Whenever you've upgraded your weapons all the way, the merchant provides a new, exclusive upgrade that unlocks some sort of bonus for the weapon. 2x damage, 5x crit chance, etc. It's different for each weapon.

The merchant also sells these exclusive upgrade tickets that you get by trading spinels to him for doing his sidequests. First ticket becomes available in the castle area. These tickets allow you to bypass fully upgrading your weapon to get the exclusive perk immediately. You just spend the ticket and boom. Exclusive perk is yours.

The ticket DLC allow you to have that exclusive ticket right off the bat and upgrade your weapons sooner than you otherwise could.

[Καελισυς]

I only got the DLC that came with the pre-order and deluxe edition, which is everything apart from the upgrade tickets. This kind of tells you that the DLC practice is not as egregious as it looks.

The treasure map is definitely useful - it reveals all treasures and adds treasures, so it changes the economy in the game a fair bit. Kind of a cheat that it reveals the treasures but after a few playthroughs you'd have most things memorised anyway (and the alternative is to buy the three maps in the game, which aren't expensive).

Not sure about the other DLCs, they're certainly not essential or as useful as the treasure map. There are DLC weapons but I haven't used them yet (I assume they're going to be overpowered so I leave them for fun-runs rather than legitimate playthroughs).

The upgrade tickets are very useful, but buying them is kind of shameful so I wouldn't bother. Basically - they give you in-game items (very expensive in-game) from the start that allow you to get the exclusive upgrade for a weapon without fully upgrading it (in other words, your guns are going to be much more powerful than you'd ordinarily be able to afford).

[The_GarlicBread]

Lol, So these tickets are like Cheats disguised as DLCs. Whoever thought of that is a marketing genius..

Thanks guys, will buy base version then. I played RE4 years ago. Time to see Mr. Scott Kennedy in action.

[GeassV]

pick normal version
for treasure map expansion: you get more treasure than in base game, basically you can get more "extra" money to buy or upgrade weapons
for upgrade tickets: basically you can "early" upgrade exclusive weapons perk

[Xaelon]

You can honestly ignore the paid DLCs if you want. The only one that adds content is Mercenaries and that DLC is free. If you're not interested in giving Capcom some extra money just skip the paid DLC for now. It's not going anywhere.

Most paid DLCs are just character skins or other cosmetics. The weapons are side-grades. The Sentinel 9 pistol has a larger mag than Leon's default pistol but the other stats are almost exactly the same. The Skull Shaker shotgun is arguably worse than the first shotgun you get because the mag size smaller.

The expanded treasure map is 100% NOT worth it. The treasure maps you can buy from the Merchant are way more useful.

Originally posted by Καελισυς:

The treasure map is definitely useful - it reveals all treasures and adds treasures, so it changes the economy in the game a fair bit. Kind of a cheat that it reveals the treasures but after a few playthroughs you'd have most things memorised anyway (and the alternative is to buy the three maps in the game, which aren't expensive).

The expanded map does NOT reveal what the merchant's maps do. I assumed the DLC map would show me the same stuff as those sold by the merchant, but considering I purchased no maps from the merchant and missed about half the treasures on my first playthrough this is definitely not the case.

The expanded map shows you a completely different set of "treasures" that are, as far as I can tell, just a few extra gems and mostly tokens you can use to get charms. The DLC map really doesn't give you much extra money at all.

The weapon upgrade tickets are just a shortcut to something you can unlock by playing the game. I just reached the end of my second playthrough and my entire loadout is fully upgraded without using any of the paid tickets.

The paid tickets mostly function as a way to make game's first area easier since they let you access something you can't normally unlock until about half way through the second area of the game. It's worth noting that this is an offline single player game so if all you care about is giving yourself a leg up there are free mods that do the same thing.

[The Dapper Dragon]

Buy the OG. No DLC garbage, and it's better in literally every single way.

[Funpire]

Originally posted by The_GarlicBread:

There are more than 21 DLCs ? I don't understand. Not interested in costumes that much. But Are these DLCs worth it ? Like the Treasure Map or Deluxe Weapons or The Upgrade Tickets ?

From What I understand, Deluxe Edition won't have these upgrade tickets. Are these tickets useful somehow ?

Why don't they just keep it simple like PS Games.

The deluxe weapons are great and so is the case that gives extra gunpowder. I got the deluxe version for $50. So, I don't see why you'd buy the base version.

You can use cheat engine to do everything the upgrade tickets do and unlock all content for free. They are just cheats for those who can only afford a console.