How in the world do you beat the game in under 7 hours?

[Muton]

Im like at 24 and in chapter 13

[Renarde-Louve]

Practice?
Joke aside, once you know the game and got better weapons, you can beat the game under 4 hours.

[Muton]

oh you keep your upgraded weapons? And I imagine people use that cat ear thing with infinite ammo

[Dr. Atrocious]

You basically have to just keep running and avoiding enemies whenever you have the chance and ignore treasure that is too far out of the or requires backtracking. This isn't an objective you're expected to do on your first playthrough.

[Forrestern]

Originally posted by Muton:

Im like at 24 and in chapter 13

On NG+ I think. BawkaSoup did it with infinite rocket launcher on one playthrough. He's done many speedruns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HKvcQkNhF0&t=2436s

[Renarde-Louve]

Yeah, you keep your weapons on New Game +

On New Game, you still have acces to Handcannon, Chicago sweeper and Primal Knife if you have unlocked them.

But like the most time consuming thing is track backing for treasures. It much faster to go straight to the objective.

[dethtrain]

run forest, run!

[Jeffery2048]

You can watch guides, but to me that always feels a bit cheap and it takes away from the enjoyment of doing a harder run. I would recommend actually going through the game and taking notes on what you can do quickly, in terms of fast side quests and treasures, what enemies you can just run past, tricks to get through sections more quickly. Try to make your own route and really learn the game. That process is a very enjoyable part of RE games.

[Kuruk]

speedrunners beat the game in about 2 hours give or take on new game on professional (which is high tier ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and heavily rng based) so its really not that hard. Its not really possible on a first run of the game though unless you knew what was up and where to go from the get go.

The main time saves as a casual player to get the time requirements for like professional s+ as an example (under 5 hours, new game, no unlocked weapons, 15 saves or less) is to basically only grab whats in front of you and ignore going out of the way for stuff, skip most enemies unless they are directly blocking you, will pose a severe problem, or you have to kill them to progress. But you dont want to try skipping so many that you're constantly eating hit after hit leaving you with no healing items constantly and you do need to make sure you have enough ammo to handle forced fights like chainsaw twins, salazar, etc.

[Soren]

It's not that you technically spent 24 hours on the playthrough. The game can add bloat to your save file's recorded time if you use checkpoints or load up your save file while in-game. Say you spend 5 minutes spending your coins in the shooting gallery and load up because you want to try respending your coins. Those 5 minutes spent in-game are kept up when reloading your save file and will be permanently added to the save file if you save afterwards even though you never spent those 5 minutes in that reloaded instance of the game.

Personally, I don't really understand why the game does this. Adding time to the save file unless you specifically quit out to the menu before reloading saves makes no sense. If your goal is a low time on your save file, that feature punishes you simply for not knowing the nuance of the system. But that's what they chose to do.

[HeeRoTH]

2ิ ways you can do the time under 8hrs
1.speedrun new game 5.30hrs save 15 times to s+ rank
2.new game plus with infinite rpg you can do time under 8hrs with fullwalkthrough like all treasures all sidequests

[Dou B Jin]

You can skip a lot of enemies by just running past them

grab treasures thats along the way but dont waste time going out of your way to grab ones thats of the beaten path .

Save all the high damage stuff to delete bosses, alternatively RPG is your best friend, save up for one.

You can casually S+ pro if you don't waste time exploring and go from objective to objective and grab some treasures thats along the way.

Also cutscenes count into your timer, so you really shouldn't be expecting to speed running on your first playthrough. Relax and enjoy.

[Tommy Wiseau]

Wemod

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From my experience just go on NG+ and don’t do any side stuff with the highest damage outputting weapons in the game. For a first time trying to go super quick on a NG+ run I’d recommend using the infinite rocket launcher and keep as many knives and heals as you feel you need to continue.

[DessIntress]

It's quite natural that the first and maybe the second run takes a lot longer. You might run around in a disorganized way, which you don't do later. You watch the videos and documents, which you skip later. You collect all sorts of things and talk to the merchant a hundred times, which you don't do later either. You have to test out which enemies die how or how you can avoid them, which you don't do later.
etc blah blah.

And if that's not enough for you, you still have NewGame+, with all the unlocked weapons.

When I play a game for the first time, I usually try to do everything right away. So I don't just leave everything lying around or skip entire rooms. I go through everything and if there's anything left over, I just do it the next time. This also takes more time on the first playthrough than just following the story.

If you die and click continue or load on the continue screen, your playtime will be replaced by the current time of your failed run. To avoid this, you have to go back to the main menu and load it from there to delete the "progress" of your failed run. (An extra time of about 5 seconds)

[Krypto]

Gotta go fast!