I would love It! I actually just finished a NG Hardcore No Merchant No Death Challenge Run As Well, and Would love to start routing it more for speedruns! Here Is My Run of it and Some Solid Strats I did For it(some slow cuz it was challenge run but first 70% of the game was decently fast)

Well I got to Miranda without dying on (NG Hardcore) Merchantless yesterday, its a really fun and neat run. So its def doable without NG+. I think itd be really neat to have a NG Merchantless Category just like RE4 did especially since that was a pretty cool and unique category.

I've been runnin Hardcore Merchantless No Death Runs, and its not too bad even without selling any weapons. Merchantless VoS I'd Say 100% allow weapon selling lmao But Merchantless Hardcore Def Isn't too bad at all, just takes some really good routing and planning

I was wondering if there was going to be a Merchantless Category, especially for like Hardcore or something. Was Also wondering that If there was going to be a category for it if players are able to sell weapons at the merchant at all or not? RE Village Doesn't allow you to discard weapons out of your inventory. Only way to is to sell them at the Merchant. So Example: You grab the Regular Shotgun at the beginning of the game and the Sniper later on. You come across the Tac Shotgun, Magnum, or M1911 Pistol, you can't grab them because you have no inventory space, as well as not being able to drop weapons to grab new weapons. So would you be allowed to sell weapons just so you can pick up weapons later, or just have Merchant interactions completely banned(besides like an accidental interaction with him where you don't trade anything)?

Like in title, you don't need to barricade the door of the house that the 2nd Lycan fight is in. Nothing breaks through, and Lycan will still spawn anyways. Nice one Capcom

I just did the strat 1st try on Hardcore, then continued labbing it and it seems to only work with the big guy spawned, but even then sometimes it doesn't work and enemies get through the front door after big guy breaks it. So it seems RNG Based. I've also been trying it on Village of Shadows with big guy spawned, and without him spawned, and it doesn't seem to work on VoS Difficulty at all.

(Was Tested and Consistent on Hardcore and VoS) You can just run past the Lycans in the first field by hanging a left against the fence and don't have to slow down. 100% of the times tested I have not been hit, and it allows you to get the box with metal scrap on your way back for free cuz theres no enemies anymore.