This tutorial will help guide you through the optimal fight for the standard difficulty speedrun of Resident Evil 3 Remake.

I'll go through all phases of the fight step by step. This will help you understand this tricky fight better and slay.

Warning: Please read the notes before trying this and watch the attached video. Test it for yourself to see whether it works for you.

I labbed Nicolai shots today and wanted to test the bajejness of the cursor.

What I did was mash M1 to shoot as soon as the scene started. I did this whilst pulling the mouse to the right. The reason for this is that the cursor starts around Nicolai's left thigh area.

I kept doing this and despite the cursor appearing far to the right of Nicolai, I was not missing the shot.

See the video .

As long as I didn't pull left (since the cursor is already left) or too far right the shot did not miss.

Please test this out with a lot of repetitions before trying in a run. I don't know if this will work for anyone else.

I hope this helps everyone to not miss their Nicolai shots.

As per rules, we can do a restart/pause buffering to gain time and manipulate spawns.

As you go into the second chamber of the stronghold, you can do a restart to manipulate the spawns. However, sometimes this restart causes the enemies and Urias to not spawn. You can run straight to the room before Urias and do another restart skip to make Urias appear again. I don't see anything in the rules that mentions that situation and whether it's valid (and it appears to be a well-known issue with the game).

Would this still make the run valid or do we have to keep restarting until the enemy spawns appear?

It's happened a couple of times in a run so I was unsure if that meant I still had a valid run.