Pistol Only
Florida, USA

Nice SpeedIdol. I like your spots to lower DA with boss fights. I thought about using magnum too but could never even get that far. It’s a handgun, so it should still count... I guess we never got the magnum in RE2R because it would add so much time and also bot really necessary either. Nice run.

Belgium

We never got the magnum cus it was banned. only claire had some form of a magnum cus it was an attachment

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Florida, USA

I didn’t know it was banned I just thought it was too out of the way for memer Leon, and yeah Claire does get that upgrade, I wonder what rules they’ll come up with. Still trying with no magnum lol

magnum would have been fine to grab on 2nd run if it was allowed. Handgun only is pistol only(none from the box). Technically a magnum is a handgun but not considered a handgun in a handgun only run. Unfortunately a typical handgun only run doesnt seem to be possible(on standard any way). Might have to use the knife aswell or limit it to assisted if thats even possible.

I never used the magnum part of the upgrade for claires handgun. Was that allowed?

Russia

Claire's magnum upgrade is allowed

Interesting.

Assisted is possible with unupgraded G19 and whatever carlos has, In doing so Ive learned that Standard will be impossible or extremely tight to do typical handgun only.

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England

I tried a DA manip route using the SRT, my conclusion is that it’s completely pointless

DA is reset to Lvl 7 for both Flame Nemmy and CT Nemmy, so the only way to reduce your DA is to get bit as much as possible before the fight, THEN to get any significant improvement in actual damage you then have to spend 3/4mins dying to the boss. Time that could have been spent just fighting the bosses anyway.

CT Nemmy length is based on the rng you get, if he climbs the tower a lot you’re gonna have a bad time, but I think you can manip this by not looking at Nemmy at all while he runs around, instead just look at the ground and listen, most of the time when I do that he doesn’t climb the tower and he’s beaten fairly quickly.

Edit: Also upon reloading my save from when I beat CT Nemmy, my starting DA was rank 8, I then manipulated that down to 7 for the fight and saw a negligible difference in how the fight panned out

Edited by the author 3 years ago

I prefer him on the tower. Which if you stand under it he will always jump from it. So if you dont want him to jump from it possibly find where you do like him jumping from and stand right under it.

I like the tower because he wont hit you when jumps off if you are in the right spot and he will corner you which is nice for dodge counter attacks.

You may lose time while hes running in circles like dork but if executed right youll gain time by strings of dodge counters.

On standard earlier i got stuck at the nest 2 hunters as i ran out of ammo each time.

Pretty sure if i get enough ammo past hunters the rest is a breeze.

England

Did you remember to grab the G18 in the hospital? I haven’t routed that far myself but in theory with the G18 and ammo en-route as long as ur not needlessly shooting stuff in between u shud be fine for ammo for hunters and acid nemmy

Russia

WhamBam, are you sure about CT Nemesis DA ? I saw reseting DA to 7K only before Flame Nemesis.

England

Yes, if your DA is less than 7, your DA is put at exactly 7000 as soon as the cutscene starts on the bridge prior to CT Nemmy

I think my DA is too high, zombies double lunging which is 8k isnt it? Im on console so theres no way to check. But I will load an earlier save and take some damage and see if that changes anything.

Russia

Ok. Thanks for the reply.

England

It’s difficult to really tell as I can only assume from RE2R but these zombies feel different, but in re2r it was possible to get double lunges north of 7500 albeit rare and common double lunges would be 8500+, though with how rare it is to get double lunges below 8 unless it’s happening once in a blue moon I would say it’s safe to assume you’re above 8000 DA

How much ammo have you got prior to nest 2 hunters? I’m just curious if it’s a DA thing or an execution thing that’s stopping your progress

Edit: the key to effective hunter fights with Jill is perfect dodge rolls away from hunters, using the slowdown to break the shell that covers their weakspots then they shud drop like flies to the G18

Edited by the author 3 years ago

The only way to do it is the dodge or catch them in an attack animation. They are hopping all over the place. and all the zombies double lunge especially the naked ones. The tentacle zombies are attacking with the tentacle and then lunge instantly after. Stuff I never seen on higher difficulties even. Feels like hardcore not standard. I will take more damage earlier in nest2 later when I play. See what happens.

England

That defo sounds like max DA, though this is what CT Nemmy does tbh, most standard runs will be at max da after beating him. I wanna try SpeedIdols method of dying to CT Nemmy to see how exactly that is affecting the game and also need to compare it to my no death route to see if it’s even saving time

Edit: what exactly is going on with this btw? I spoke with one of the mods briefly and they mentioned that upgrades aren’t allowed? Which technically makes 0 death runs impossible and what are the views on picking up the G18?

Edited by the author 3 years ago
United States

Hi everyone! I been reading this forum post and have seen you guys really putting in work for Pistol Only runs.

Correct me if i'm wrong here:

Assisted and Standard can be done without NG+ items And i've noticed you guys are picking up the Magnum too.

My question for you, is it impossible to complete without the Magnum? Has anyone tried this on other difficulties yet?

Keep up the good work :)

Edited by the author 3 years ago
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England

I think the magnum is just that one run, most of us aren't using that at the moment to my understanding. I believe it is possible to beat this game with only the handgun, though I'm not entirely sure if its possible to do without the G18 handgun Jill gets in the hospital.

However, I have this kill routed atm which ends up with plenty of ammo after CT Nemmy. I just need to capture the entire route and finish it off.

If anyone can take this and build on this then they should have a finished run.