Monsters

[BIG GIT]

I'm playing on normal difficulty for both and I'm currently in the apartment buildings. I've noticed that some of the enemies get back up after you have definitely killed them previously. Some outside, some inside but it doesn't seem to be all enemies. So my questions are:
Is this random?
Can the same enemy get back up multiple times or just 1 extra time?
Is there a pattern i can look out for?
How does this work and why?(presuming there's an answer)

It's not so bad outside you can avoid them but inside especially in the corridors it's a lot harder and I'm needing to use some ammo on occasion which us annoying since I killed this thing once already.
Thanks for any info or help.

[Raz]

My understanding was if you pound when they are down and the puddle of blood comes out , then they dead, Though i had one that i stomped on probably 20 times at least , and it got back up.

[burumanet]

Some do seem to revive if you stay in the area too long. One of the guys I killed in the record shop early on gave me a nasty shock when I tried to leave.

[InstableMonster]

Stomping them enough seems to do the trick. I used to do 4 hit on the ground, one or 2 got back up or were already on the floor and got up layer, so I'm not taking any chances and doing 10 stomps now. It's oddly cathartic

[halfmonkey]

Originally posted by burumanet:

Some do seem to revive if you stay in the area too long. One of the guys I killed in the record shop early on gave me a nasty shock when I tried to leave.

I hadn't even left the back room of the record shop before they both revived. (And I am of the habit to stomp until; not only do I see the blood pool, but hear a distinct 'cracking' noise.) I think some creatures are specifically scripted to revive no matter what you do.

[ArmedTerror]

I haven't had one revive on me since the hospital. It seems to happen moreso whenever I have to backtrack for some important reason. I stomp the crap out of them now though to make sure they are dead twice over. There is no discernible pattern I could make out, although at a certain point in the hospital I had two enemies spawn, and they ended up killing me, and then the next time they did not spawn. So I am not sure if there are random spawns or not. A lot of it seems to be scripted, but that one event made me unsure. I am playing on hard.

[halfmonkey]

There are random spawns- at least outside. At the current point of my playthrough there are several downed enemies with new ones shuffling in nearby. I have also had some outside enemies slither into inside locations while chasing me or if they see or hear me through windows and doorways.

I think the "important backtracking" might be related...

[Ravenns24]

Originally posted by halfmonkey:

There are random spawns- at least outside..

No, this is not it actually. I've watched nurses revive, I was literally standing next to them and they revive, and it's not like game just spawns new off screen. There's actual animation for it. Nurse starts to twitch on ground and raises up, full animation. It's definitively intended feature.

However I am not sure if it's chance based or related to key items player having in inventory, similar how to Nemesis would pop up in og RE3 based on which key items player had in inventory.

[ArmedTerror]

So the respawns may very well be event-driven, given my earlier insight about respawning occurring after key points. I am well past the hospital right now at the next major exploration area, and I just got a key item, and upon going back to the spot I was at earlier, 3 of the monster revived, one right before my eyes.

[BIG GIT]

If it's event driven then fair enough or sticking around to long (i have a bad habit of taking way to long, always worried I've missed something) its just weird when you kill one and go past it multiple times and then were it was is just a pool of blood and oh there they are further down the corridor happily looking to kill me all over again. Well at least I'm not alone with them resurrecting..