I've been noticing a dramatic difference in enemy behavior between these two runs. I was wondering if anyone had any clarification as to why. I can only think its d.a figuring how my normal Separate Ways runs are sloppier and have more mistakes than my SW+ runs, but I'm not sure. I first noticed the difference in chapter 4 before the battle ship area when it was seemingly harder to bait enemies into attacks and easier to just run past them without getting hit. For example the tall intimidating armored enemy with the long metal weapon at the start of chapter 4 wouldn't even swing until I was half-past him, but in SW+ he was a must dodge kind of guy. I'm trying to come up with a consistent strat for this run and the different enemy behavior compared to what I'm used to in SW+ is making it difficult. Any knowledge as to why they're behaving differently and/or how to make them behave the same way every time is much appreciated :).

Hey version ONE and PS4 NTSC is "harder" than all versions, rank (Difficulty adjustment) has increased.

It's rank and rng, enemies pattern are more or less aggressive. enemies don't have only one pattern, frozen patterns, semi aggressive patterns and aggressive patterns (with turn around, etc.) but with the low rank is possible to "dodge" all pattern easy straight ahead. 60 fps it's impossible for the first ennemy chapter 4 or you need 3 or 4 death :) for exemple. You need to play with the DA, run with the same dammage and kill per chapter, i think for ONE version, take 4 damages in chapter 1 and 1 for chapter 2 than my old run Steam and retry el gigante after hook shot and DA will not reset.

SW+ ONE sub 24 is possible. don't compare SW and SW+ if your damage aren't the same, rank (http://www.speedrun.com/re4/guide/3sahj for your no merchant normal also), dodge possible or not, enemies are rng also and strat SW+ is safe with grenade and chicago.

Yeah Separate Ways isn't a principal category but training and knowledge are necessary.

Thanks Chrioden. i'll have to play around with it a bit and see what works on ONE for me when. appriciate the help!