RNG really screws up your speed run plans

[bulldog0890]

I've died so many times getting out of the club room with the jack because the lickers decided to camp the door even though i walked silently through the hallway. most of the time they're off doing whatever, but sometimes they just like being in completely different spots. makes S+ runs annoying when you saved before g1

[Panic Fire]

Use the heart door nob to despawn the lickers.

[Wyrtt]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Use the heart door nob to despawn the lickers.

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[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by Wyrtt:

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Use the heart door nob to despawn the lickers.

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As leon you need to open the club door in licker hallway of death.

Once you make it in the Club room, Mr. X speeds to your position.

Running out of the clubroom into the licker hallway of death is a bday day so you walk over to the Heart Door (that leon can't open) and try to open it. You will twist the door nob and for what ever reason it despawns the lickers in the previous hallway.

[bulldog0890]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Originally posted by Wyrtt:

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As leon you need to open the club door in licker hallway of death.

Once you make it in the Club room, Mr. X speeds to your position.

Running out of the clubroom into the licker hallway of death is a bday day so you walk over to the Heart Door (that leon can't open) and try to open it. You will twist the door nob and for what ever reason it despawns the lickers in the previous hallway.

huh thats amazing if it really works. i'll try it

[magicaleye7]

go past the first licker then go back to the reception room, the licker will disappear. me also use wooden boards to avoid zombies in this hallway

[ColdNhungry]

Originally posted by bulldog0890:

I've died so many times getting out of the club room with the jack because the lickers decided to camp the door even though i walked silently through the hallway. most of the time they're off doing whatever, but sometimes they just like being in completely different spots. makes S+ runs annoying when you saved before g1

Yeah, that one doorway they camp...Love it. You just have to keep your sub weapons for these moments. That is in my opinion the most resourceful strategy to get through s+, which is not missing or wasting any sub weapons. They are basically "get out of jail free cards" for any situation where you feel overwhelmed. You can easily spend an extra 10-15 minutes clearing the police station properly if you want (including looting the whole weapon storage room) and still make the 2:30 mark. This will make the rest of the game much easier. Part of a speed run strategy is having sub weapons that can help you bypass these rng moments at the least, until you have memorized how to deal with each room perfectly.

[✰N0ni✰]

You can sprint past the lickers to the club door if you keep to the far right side (one will attack and near miss as you round the corner to the club door) then jiggle the heart door in the jack room to despawn them (100% success rate).

For a first S+ run some good save points are the Club Key, Sewer Entrance, Lab Entrance. Once everything becomes second nature you can switch the last two to before G2 and before G3. G1 imo isn't worth a save.

[bulldog0890]

Originally posted by ✰N0ni✰:

You can sprint past the lickers to the club door if you keep to the far right side (one will attack and near miss as you round the corner to the club door) then jiggle the heart door in the jack room to despawn them (100% success rate).

For a first S+ run some good save points are the Club Key, Sewer Entrance, Lab Entrance. Once everything becomes second nature you can switch the last two to before G2 and before G3. G1 imo isn't worth a save.

yeah that heart door trick completely doesn't work. i just tried it

[Hassohappa]

Huh, for me whenever I'm at that part I can just sprint through the hallway, the only licker I see in that hallway always spends his time moving from the floor to the wall, then I see him flying past me as I open the club door. The zombie that climbs through the window bashes in the door to the jack room and after I'm past him I just sprint back to the entrance of the RPD without hearing hide nor hair from the lickers. I haven't figured out exactly what route is best before that, depending on some different things Mr. X either is joining the window zombie in the jack room or I end up seeing him at the entrance.

[talgaby]

That door trick only works if the lickers are still in the previous hallway since it is considered a separate room for whatever reason (some hallways are separated into more than one area in terms of enemy spawning and patrols).

It is a pure guess, but I think just like in RE7, the door opening screen actually puts you into a hidden small area way below the map for that one camera shot (RE7 used this for the shadow puzzles) to ensure no enemy attacks you during it. This should put you in a spot where enemies in previous rooms are reset to their spawn points.

[Dagon'sRealm]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Use the heart door nob to despawn the lickers.

I did that and the lickers were still there. Now I just knife them when they spawn one at a time(one when you first go through and one after returning from the parking garage section), since knifing puts them in stun-lock.

[BassChamber]

use a flashbang, problem solved.

[Biebs 3D]

The lickers in this game are such a joke. It's either avoid or take a hit unless you have the grenade launcher. Flash is the only real option for leon and it sucks tbh

[BassChamber]

Originally posted by Biebs:

The lickers in this game are such a joke. It's either avoid or take a hit unless you have the grenade launcher. Flash is the only real option for leon and it sucks tbh

You can kill them easily with the knife, or if you want to go pow pow with the magnum.

Of course, it is not advised if there are two of them in the same room or Mr X is near.

[Lynfinity]

Originally posted by Biebs:

The lickers in this game are such a joke. It's either avoid or take a hit unless you have the grenade launcher. Flash is the only real option for leon and it sucks tbh

They were even more of a joke in the original, where you can just outrun them.