Instant Death from raid monsters

[V.4.7™]

I'm wondering if i should take magic pixel with me to advance through high level gauntlet.
I know in rev2 glasp and pedro can cause instant death, but i have never get instant death from rev1 creatures such as hunter and scagdead.

Do hunter still have their insta-death attack ? I remember i got insta-death from them in rev1.

Is there any other creatures can insta-death you in raid mode that i should be aware of ?

[Gucky]

Scagdeads and Glasps....maybe that Executioner (Hooded guy with Hamaxe).
And WTH is Magic Pixel

[V.4.7™]

Originally posted by Gucky:

Scagdeads and Glasps....maybe that Executioner (Hooded guy with Hamaxe)

Never get pounded by that hamaxe guy from RE5. He is too slow.

[Soren]

Insta-death moves kill even if you use the magic pixel skill. Best to avoid wasting SP on the skill unless you're looking to achieve the raid record for maxing out a character.

[Cellardoor]

Originally posted by Soren the Impaler:

Best to avoid wasting SP on the skill

This, at the level of the maps. It's better I think to die and try over, or burn a blue crystal if you want, than to put SP into this skill.

Instead put that SP into a skill with stopping power, like the magnum skill. Or something that will give you breathing room from the monster giving you trouble, ice bombs/smoke bombs/stealth. Any of these will give you more use than magic pixel.

[Akasha]

Originally posted by Soren the Impaler:

Insta-death moves kill even if you use the magic pixel skill. Best to avoid wasting SP on the skill unless you're looking to achieve the raid record for maxing out a character.

Well that's lame, they want to make sure you die some way some out for those hearts.

[Cellardoor]

Originally posted by Akasha:

Well that's lame, they want to make sure you die some way some out for those hearts.

It's more they want to create tension and difficulty with some monsters. None of these monsters are hard to deal with atm, apart from fast moving scagdeads, and even those can be killed without taking damage if you prepare well and play well.

[Akasha]

Originally posted by Cellardoor:

Originally posted by Akasha:

Well that's lame, they want to make sure you die some way some out for those hearts.

It's more they want to create tension and difficulty with some monsters. None of these monsters are hard to deal with atm, apart from fast moving scagdeads, and even those can be killed without taking damage if you prepare well and play well.

Breaking skills isn't the way to do, see RE6 No Hope mode they didn't need super zombies to make that interesting they just needed numbers and with the amount of "grenade" and AoE type abilities it would work great instead of like 5 zombies at a time.

[Wings]

Insta-kill skills on enemies are always BS no matter the game. I got insta-killed by scagdead 3 times in a row within about 15 second time.. (used 3 blue gems) that thing ignored smokescreens too... Damn i hate scagdeads.

anyway i don't think there are other insta-kill enemies than scagdead and glasps... yet. even so as someone said that magic pixel doesn't even work on them, i'd say that is useless too.
didn't even know hunters ever had an insta-kill move...

[Cellardoor]

There's only two monsters with death animations, scagdeads and glasps.

I'm genuinely surprised glasps kill anyone, they are loud as ♥♥♥♥ with massive visual tells and move at snail pace.

Granted scagdead's are a pain when buffed up with fast moving, but they aren't what I'd call skill breaking. In the sense I've died more from things magic pixel can save you from than these two monsters ever.

Magic pixel is a waste even without these two monsters - right now you're always better off picking an offensive skill over it.

[Unlosing Ranger]

Yeah. Glasps should never kill anyone, because they're crazy slow and easy to deal with.

Scagdeads are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and if they weren't in Rev1, I imagine a lot of people would be complaining that they were created just to get people to burn revives.

[V.4.7™]

Originally posted by Soren the Impaler:

Insta-death moves kill even if you use the magic pixel skill. Best to avoid wasting SP on the skill unless you're looking to achieve the raid record for maxing out a character.

Now this is surprising. I haven't use magic pixel yet but if this is true, i would not even spend single point for this skill.

Originally posted by Wings:

I got insta-killed by scagdead 3 times in a row within about 15 second time.. (used 3 blue gems) that thing ignored smokescreens too...

As far as i know scagdead still affected by smokescreen but they can't be stabbed from behind. This is simply because they are rev1 creatures.

Originally posted by Cellardoor:

I'm genuinely surprised glasps kill anyone, they are loud as ♥♥♥♥ with massive visual tells and move at snail pace.

Yes, i only died from glasp because i want to see the death animation. They are even easier to spot when they have their death cloud around them.

So, right now i've been thinking did hunter lost their abilities to cause instant death in rev2, i've been encountering them for a while and not even a single hunter do their instant death claw attack like rev1.

[RopeDrink]

Do not, under any circumstances, level Herb abilities - or Magic Pixel. MP is designed to prevent death from hard-hitting (non-instant kill) attacks and is based on the players current HP. For it to even be worth it, you'd need to level it pretty high - and even without +HP passive, there's very little that'll do tremendous enough damage in one hit from 50%+ HP for it to trigger anyway.

Neither is worth it as healing via herbs means you will not acquire all medals - and medallions should ONLY be used if a) you happen to have found Red+ weapons from chests and/or b) you fought all the way to the very last part of the map and died -- using a medallion just to get the map out of the way (if you have plenty to spare) can still result in full-medal clear -- but in most cases it's still better to just start over even if you die on the finish line.

Magic Pixel is a throwback to StreetFighter 4 where players can make a comeback or just plain win a fight even when they have that invisible 'pixel' of healthbar remaining -- a nice nod from Capcom to a fellow Capcom game.

Here's a prime example of the magic pixel (non-RE).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3OqYvzQOXY

[DooMap]

Yes hunters do have a one hit kill where they cut off your head. If you want to test it out, the first hunter you encounter just stand there and you'll lose your head. :)

[B4nn3dB4]

I havent had any encounter of a hunter's fatal strike. scaggs eat you to unavoidable death. infected pedro's drill charge will be if added in raid mode since it was DEATH in story mode.

for the higher levels of raid mode, i've uploaded videos of eachstage on very hard difficulty. yes, i will upload more once they're released.
you can get to the videos via my profile if youre interested. theyre up so people can be creative to where they can figure out how to go about clearing missions.

[AX3L_D]

Magic pixel actually works with any kind of damage. In fact, it doesnt actually work against instadeath like the flies one. My gf who is not very skilled has the skill always equipped and Im 100% sure it works on any kind of attack, since she gets down to 1 hp 3 or 4 times per mission. Either she is the luckiest person in the world or the skill works for every kind of death. I didnt saw her surviving a single glasp attack ever.

Originally posted by RopeDrink:

For it to even be worth it, you'd need to level it pretty high - and even without +HP passive, there's very little that'll do tremendous enough damage in one hit from 50%+ HP for it to trigger anyway.

I disagree. Max level (5) lets you use the skill from above 1%. And max level is quite easy to get since it only has 5 levels.