Acid Rounds, how do they work?

[Sticky White Stuff]

What are they good for and how do they work?
Flame Rounds are better in every way, both on standard and hardcore.
They are only good for G3 and useful against Zambos/G-Adults and Lickers (All which are weaker to flame, mind you) You can craft them, so that's a plus.

But here is the thing. If you play anything like me on hardcore (Claire B), and avoid every single enemy you can, or just use pistol rounds for normal enemies and SMG for limbs. You probably rack up a huge amounts of Acid Rounds for the final two bosses, G4 and G5. You used 10 or 15 for G3, they stun him like crazy. So you have around 25 Acid and 5 Flame left, that makes 30 for G4 + Minigun x 400, right?

But they do NOTHING at all against the final boss. They do no damage, they don't stagger him and have no effect. Why? I don't know, they were a killing machine against G3, even Annette uses them in the cutscene.

So apart from looking cool when melting zombies and using them against G3, are they even worth having? At this point crafting SMG ammo is a better option. Like what if you didn't have any other ammo other than Acid for the final boss, what then? You saved ammo, but the ammo is useless, and it's useless for no reason at all.

Just asking, that's all. Because i was in a similar situation, and had to use the unlimited knife for the bastard.

[Vagrant]

This is why you use up the nade rounds before reaching final boss. Stack up on the rest, especially those delicious mag rounds.

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

As someone who hoarded a lot of acid rounds on my 2nd run as claire, I found the same thing xD

I still had enough ammo left in other guns to finish him off mind, especially my sls 60 which I made sure to save all the ammo for

[littleChama]

I beat the final boss with the Acid rounds in one run, but it took like 30 rounds after unloading the whole minigun

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by Lee-Han S-oh Kennedesu:

This is why you use up the nade rounds before reaching final boss. Stack up on the rest, especially those delicious mag rounds.

Claire doesn't have mag rounds, only enhanced ammo. How would one know that acid rounds do not damage the final boss? On what basis? They damage every other enemy in the game.

It's the same situation like the Combat Knife in Resident Evil 7 when doing a knife only run. You get it, but you can't use it against the final boss because it deals zero damage. Why? I don't know, you have to use the pocket knife.

[Shin Enzyme]

Originally posted by Shrimp On The Barbie:

As someone who hoarded a lot of acid rounds on my 2nd run as claire, I found the same thing xD

I still had enough ammo left in other guns to finish him off mind, especially my sls 60 which I made sure to save all the ammo for

I'd specifically held on to my supply of acid rounds for G4 and therefore used up my SMG ammo. I was less than pleased when I realised it was useless on him. Ran out of time trying to kill him with them before I reloaded and brought different weapons.

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by littleChama:

I beat the final boss with the Acid rounds in one run, but it took like 30 rounds after unloading the whole minigun

I tested it with 40 rounds and the minigun. No dice. They should at least stun him or something. Either that or they do little damage. The Spark Shot however does wonders.

[Shin Enzyme]

Originally posted by GLUE:

Originally posted by littleChama:

I beat the final boss with the Acid rounds in one run, but it took like 30 rounds after unloading the whole minigun

I tested it with 40 rounds and the minigun. No dice. They should at least stun him or something. Either that or they do little damage. The Spark Shot however does wonders.

Pretty much this. Minigun + Spark Shot, a couple of the high power pistol rounds to finish him off with 4 mins or so remaining vs totally running out of time trying to kill him with 30+ grenade rounds + minigun.

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

Originally posted by GLUE:

Originally posted by littleChama:

I beat the final boss with the Acid rounds in one run, but it took like 30 rounds after unloading the whole minigun

I tested it with 40 rounds and the minigun. No dice. They should at least stun him or something. Either that or they do little damage. The Spark Shot however does wonders.

Interesting, never thought to use spark shot on a boss

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by Shin Enzyme:

Originally posted by GLUE:

I tested it with 40 rounds and the minigun. No dice. They should at least stun him or something. Either that or they do little damage. The Spark Shot however does wonders.

Pretty much this. Minigun + Spark Shot, a couple of the high power pistol rounds to finish him off with 4 mins or so remaining vs totally running out of time trying to kill him with 30+ grenade rounds + minigun.

For sure, at least i know it this time. But running blind on Hardcore was rough, just because of those acid rounds. The first time i fought him on Claire A he was a joke. Minigun plus the regular pistol did the job fairly well.

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by Shrimp On The Barbie:

Originally posted by GLUE:

I tested it with 40 rounds and the minigun. No dice. They should at least stun him or something. Either that or they do little damage. The Spark Shot however does wonders.

Interesting, never thought to use spark shot on a boss

Yeah, i thought it was useless and more of a gimmick here, turns out it isn't. If you can resist the temptation to kill the G-Adults on your way back, store it for later and use it on the last boss. It takes around all of its Clips plus around 100 Minigun ammo.

[them4pples]

Originally posted by GLUE:

Originally posted by Lee-Han S-oh Kennedesu:

This is why you use up the nade rounds before reaching final boss. Stack up on the rest, especially those delicious mag rounds.

Claire doesn't have mag rounds, only enhanced ammo. How would one know that acid rounds do not damage the final boss? On what basis? They damage every other enemy in the game.

It's the same situation like the Combat Knife in Resident Evil 7 when doing a knife only run. You get it, but you can't use it against the final boss because it deals zero damage. Why? I don't know, you have to use the pocket knife.

claire's enhanced ammo for the sls60 counts as mag rounds. they one shot zombies in the head just like leon's lightning hawk. plus in the bonuses menu, the counter increases for the "kill 5 enemies with MAG rounds" achievement thing if you use the sls60 with enhanced ammo.

I personally found the smg ammo to be better than the acid rounds. they shred the bosses and your aim doesn't have to be 100 percent on point since you can just spray, plus the large ammo count means you reload less often than using the g launcher with acid rounds. also, you can find smg ammo lying around so you can stock pile a lot more, where the acid rounds can only be crafted.

[Shrimp On The New Breed]

Originally posted by GLUE:

Originally posted by Shrimp On The Barbie:

Interesting, never thought to use spark shot on a boss

Yeah, i thought it was useless and more of a gimmick here, turns out it isn't. If you can resist the temptation to kill the G-Adults on your way back, store it for later and use it on the last boss. It takes around all of its Clips plus around 100 Minigun ammo.

thanks for the tips!

I'll try this the next time I do another run ^_^

[Sticky White Stuff]

Originally posted by them_apples:

Originally posted by GLUE:

Claire doesn't have mag rounds, only enhanced ammo. How would one know that acid rounds do not damage the final boss? On what basis? They damage every other enemy in the game.

It's the same situation like the Combat Knife in Resident Evil 7 when doing a knife only run. You get it, but you can't use it against the final boss because it deals zero damage. Why? I don't know, you have to use the pocket knife.

claire's enhanced ammo for the sls60 counts as mag rounds. they one shot zombies in the head just like leon's lightning hawk. plus in the bonuses menu, the counter increases for the "kill 5 enemies with MAG rounds" achievement thing if you use the sls60 with enhanced ammo.

I personally found the smg ammo to be better than the acid rounds. they shred the bosses and your aim doesn't have to be 100 percent on point since you can just spray, plus the large ammo count means you reload less often than using the g launcher with acid rounds. also, you can find smg ammo lying around so you can stock pile a lot more, where the acid rounds can only be crafted.

See, i didn't know that. I thought of it as a gimmick, pretty much like the enhanced ammo in RE3.
SMG is a beast, for sure. I mainly use it to shred limbs from zombies so i don't have to kill them, but i also use them for bosses just like Leons Matilda. However this time i stockpiled Acid Rounds instead of regular ammo. Thought 25 Acid and 5 Flame + Minigun (and 80 SMG) would do the job, if not be an overkill. Guess i was wrong since it didn't do a damn thing.

[Kuromiya]

Frag grenades work very well against G4, if you've hoarded them. 6+ grenades can kill him outright, and anything less + minigun is an easy kill.

Acid rounds are for plant zombies, normie zombies, earlier Birkins, and stunning G-adults so you can dodge past them. Save SMG for bosses and use acids for zombies instead.

[Shin Enzyme]

Originally posted by GLUE:

See, i didn't know that. I thought of it as a gimmick, pretty much like the enhanced ammo in RE3.
SMG is a beast, for sure. I mainly use it to shred limbs from zombies so i don't have to kill them, but i also use them for bosses just like Leons Matilda. However this time i stockpiled Acid Rounds instead of regular ammo. Thought 25 Acid and 5 Flame + Minigun (and 80 SMG) would do the job, if not be an overkill. Guess i was wrong since it didn't do a damn thing.

What got me was that I could have used all those resources to craft more useful ammo or used my fire rounds to put down the ivies and therefore saved more of other ammo, but nooooope, I saved it all for G4 :(. Lesson learned.