Heya all, I am new to the forums. Carcinogen kinda brought me here and I was browsing for a bit.

I am currently preparing to run Resident Evil 2, to be more precise, the sourcenext version, and have a few questions on that matter! So let's get started...

1 -> Am I allowed to run the SN version or do I have to use the original pc version of BH2 / RE2 ?

2 -> Is watching other runs and gathering information on spawns etc. a good enough strategy to train other than just doing it? I am currently writing an outlining plan on where to go, what to do, what to expect in terms of enemies etc.!

3 -> Is the re2 timer / Health Bar application enough of a timer for the run combining it with the ending slate of the game to determine my time or do I have to use the usual split timer?

Other than that, all tipps welcome. I want to try and compete with you guys a bit. Having GuitarJunky's PB/WR up on the leaderboards is a hefty goal. A sub 60 for my first attempts is a goal I can work with for the beginning :)

I have played it numerous times on my old PS1 before and got the times to unlock all the extras in the dual shock version, but that is a way back and I need to get back into it.

Greetz, Pax

Hello Paxton, great to have you :)

To sum up...

1 - SN version is what the runners use for PC. It is also the fastest.

2 - Leon A was my first speedrun and I learned it from watching one run. I would advise practicing the scenario's in half, so get to before train Birkin (If you know what that is) and save and run the two halfs to become efficient enough and you will have a good idea of what is coming up.

3 - The timer actually display what the IGT (In-game timer) is saying at the current time. So the time on the timer that you have when you finish the game (Black screen) is the time you are going to get at the end

Hope this helps. If you need anymore help, then just post it in the forums or as one of the mods on twitter.

• uhTrance

Thanks for the quick Reply uhTrance :3

Heh, train Birkin originally seemed like one of the hardest fights. So I take it I save right after getting the shotgun parts in the saveroom right before the train?

What buggs me a bit, is the window size of the Sourcenext version... Is there any way to make it bigger? I've been playing around a bit... I mean it wouldn't mean much if I'd have to keep it at the size but a bigger screen makes seeing stuff a lot easier ^.^

• Paxton

No problem

You can lower your screen resolution apparently, but i speedrun RE2/3 on 640x480 anyway so I got used to it and I assume that everyone else did aswell.

• uhTrance

So I just finished my first test stream with the first run, i messed up pretty bad and ended up with a first PB of 1:27:25, I am fine with that really, now I'll start training to improve my segments. Some of the dodges went really really well...

One thing tho... Would it be a better strat to get the shotgun parts and cut the fight against train birkin shorter than with the deagle? Or does the deagle deal more damage after all?

-Paxton

Deagle deals more damage than the shotgun. Train birkin takes 9 bullets. Final birkin takes 12 and G-Embryo takes 6 (If you use the strat). If you don't know the strat I can find you a video somewhere.

• uhTrance

I do know the strat as it is, but I really thought the improved Shotgun would deal more damage but is neglected because of the time it takes to make the round about in the underground tunnels!

Are we talking normal or hard mode? Final Birkin took 10 bullets from the improved deagle as far as I remember, have to check the video to be sure tho...

If any1 is interested, heres my first attempt. It's with german commentary because I only had germans in my stream, hope you guys dont mind, you can just mute it since the commentary is not that important :)

Ah, upgraded deagle... Everyone has done it at some point. You are not supposed to get the upgrades as it wastes to much time during the cutscene and shooting birkin is longer. So the ammo that I described is for non upgraded magnum.

Ah! I'll need to write that down... Don't upgrade Shotgun, don't upgrade deagle, don't fuck up in the archive room and don't get grabbed by the damn arms in the briefing room hallway :D

Many things that are to be improved tomorrow in offline testing, I'll attempt a new sub 60 on sunday :)

I also messed up my inventory somehow, I forgot to put away one of the items in order to grab the deagle as long as the zombies are not broken through the windows allready. I then managed to leave the vent grip behind in a chest and had to run back to get it :/

All in all if I had dodged a few more and didn't mess up the order of pick ups resulting in me running into a licker in front of the morgue and having to resort to opening the weapons cache room to get ammo I'd have managed to get it to around 70 minutes... About halfway through I decided to go for a casual no rules run and see where which enemies pop up. Got the upgraded pistol and stuff, and for all that a sub 90 is not so bad :)

Even got an A rank and the rocket launcher for the saved game :D

Haha great. If you need me personally, just message my twitter so I can reply as soon as :)

You're playing the Japanese version.

Drop the knife, don't pick up the shotgun.

Practice dodging.

Heal with green herbs and FASes. Ignore your rank, rank doesn't matter for speedruns.

The only gun you should pick up is the Magnum, no upgrades.

Do these things without practicing and you'll have sub-hour within 3 days.

You know he also wasn't skipping doors? So he will have a 55 in no time

Thanks Carci, and thanks uhTrance for showing up to my stream to tell me I can skip doors. I trained a bit offline last night after finishing my stream and I got the timing for the skip down now :) I allmost made it in my attempt last night, the dodging is fiddly and I need to improve on that a good amount still.

Do you guys play with a gamepad or is using the keyboard better in the bio2 version?

So far my strat is to only get the deagle and use the pistol for railcar birkin's arm by locking him into that hole over the door. I do drop the knife going back from killing the fire and getting the key/pin with the helicopter. I only pick up two or three FASes in total, if I manage to dodge all threats correctly that's even more than you need right?

I was raging hard at the end of my stream... how unlucky can you get, getting caught two times by the lickers by doing what you have to do to evade them and still not tricking the AI? The attempt would have at least been a new PB sub 70 minutes otherwise

Well that would explain why 1:27. LMAO

Hi, I don't want to open a new thread, so I just post here.

I want to speedrun this game with the sourcenext, but every time I try to play, the game is very slow, I am on windows 8.1. I tried with the 1.0 and the 1.1 patch, sometimes it work fine, but most of the time it is really slow ...

Can you help me? Please?

Sorry, my english is not very good ...

If Resident Evil 2 runs slow on the PC version, it doesn't matter, as the game timer is based off how many frames are loaded. so if the game was running at 10 FPS instead of 30 FPS. the game timer would be 3 times slower. Hope this helps

It's barely unplayable, and it's like cheating I juste want to play the game, i'll make a vidéo later

what is your computer specs

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Memory 8.1 GB Operating System Microsoft Windows 8 (build 9200), 64-bit