Can You Beat Resident Evil 4 Remake Without Using The Merchant? 

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Glad I'm not the only one who thinks the grabbing enemies in this game are stronger than most of the bosses lmao

“Can you beat RE4 without talking to the merchant?” Considering there’s a trophy for it, yeah, probably.

If they do a randomizer, imagine a room full of grabbys

I love how Capcom gave the community so much respect by making many challenges and things such as the dittman glitch into references like Achievements and charms

You can actually crouch the grabs. If you press sprint it immediately cancels the crouch.

I read somewhere that throwing a golden egg into Salazar's mouth takes 70% of his life. Even on hardcore level.

I did this challenge like on day 2 and I love how the game allows these kinds of challenges having the LE 5 be able to mount scopes and be found in the freezer makes the regenerator section possible for this run. I swear the devs knew people would do this

For that first red zealot at the clock tower, if you drop an iron ball and immediately run and activate the lift, the ball should instakill the zealot as he runs up the stairs. Makes that part a lot easier.

If I had a shot for every time you said bloom I’d be feeling pretty good right now Edit: 13… Never mind, I’d be obliterated

Fun tip for anyone trying to get the hand cannon unlocked: you can sell all the bonus weapons without voiding. hella starter money :)

*reads the title* Yeah, seeing as there is a challenge tied to it its very possible

(He's over moving to not letting the bloom, decrease to minimal) which is then accurate enough for fair distance.

23:15 A stun grenade will also work. Just need to bait the Gigante over the grate and quickly flip the switch before the stun wears off. Tried it a few times yesterday on Hardcore and found that it helps to throw your stun when you're practically already on the switch to hold because you really don't have much time before the stun wears off.

It could be wrong, but I feel like the "bloom" of the Red 9 is reduced if you let the radical come back into a cross. Like ready your aim, don't move and wait for the two halfs to become a cross again. I alwaya hit my shots, even from afar.

Mods that remove the bloom and the zoom out reticle makes this game SO enjoyable. Like it's clear as day with and without the mod.

I understand bloom in games where you can aim down sights, or as representation of shotgun blast radius. But man, I did all the shooting gallery games on S rank and some of them made me tilted beyond belief (and I very rarely actually tilt while gaming) when I missed the last shot required for premium target because the bloom just decided to fuck me over (looking at you TMP, but also basic handgun)

I’m new to speed runs but let’s just say I’m addicted to the game and I’m super excited to see more content from you because how amazing this game is already have 71 hours of game play

Great run! The only improvement I would suggest to anyone insane enough to try this challenge is to collect both golden eggs. Even on professional difficulty, golden eggs destroy Salazar. Since you can’t sell them to the merchant, they have no other use.

You've saved my future Professional S+ run with those skips in the Gallery room and the scope door skip at the wrecking ball

you can reduce the effects of bloom by a ton by standing still, not moving leon or the crosshair, it is doable but messy for something like water hall archers, but super reliable for something like destroying catapults from a safe distance

All I hear when you speak about the bloom is that I finally have an excuse for my storm trooper aim. Also, from what I've heard, there are two ways of dodging grabs: running away at the perfect angle (can't confirm) and crouching (only works on non-plagas enemies, so not the broken neck ganados).

you might already be aware but you can end the village sequence early if you manage to shoot the church bell from the 2 floor roof in in the shotgun building, easier on ng+ but still doable I think esp with practice

i havent finished it yet but your opening statement is the same feeling i am having. i played the original on gamecube when it came out and always seem to come back to it. the remake is insanely good and i see myself playing it and the original a lot in the future!

5:10 the enemy is named "Brute". J.J.s are also called ranged Brutes now, I believe. You can see their names in the concept art/models store.

The bloom is balanced out by having the ability to hold still and the crosshairs will get smaller. The red9 is by far the least accurate handgun, which is why I use the black tail. Fully upgraded, you won’t really know the difference in power, but it’s so much more accurate. The red9 requires more patience to get good accuracy out by holding as still as possible. Bloom is how they’ve balanced our moving while shooting, it requested you to hold still to get off accurate shots, so you can’t just move all the time and kill everything like the doom slayer lol. Is it somewhat random where the Bullet goes? Yes, but you can control the size of the bloom and how you use it to be near perfect in accuracy and precision.

13:33 This is the exact reason why I used the starting pistol with the laser sight throughout my entire play-through, the bloom in high intensity shooting (especially on the Red9) is aids

Merchant is definitely a Cockney and not an Australian

10:50 I’m glad I wasn’t the only one, this room gave me so much trouble on professional mode. Considering I just finished cabin which was pain.

I believe you can parry Krauser's thrown knifes to get a brand new knife fot yourself to use. Idk if the drop rate is 100% or if it works on pro, but it does happen on standard. Might save someone who didn't save up enough knifes vs Krauser

Him talking about bloom made me think that maybe I'm not bad it's just the game also on the topic I want to flex my 87% accuracy in chapter 7

Sharing information is also about building on it and double-checking its application. If one person discovers a technique, they can use only that one technique. But there is a high chance that it's the lynchpin to discovering several other techniques that the original finder would never have figured out on their own. They also may not have considered additional contexts in which it can be used because of the way human memory focuses on associating information with the location or context in which it was learned. Sharing discoveries leads to more discoveries that will help everyone in the long term, including the original finder

When I defended Ashley in Water Hall (my first runthrough Hardcore) I almost thought I would be softlocked, but after like 4 attempts I managed to get past the cranks with 2 bullets to spare.

You forgot to grab the le5 in the Honda mom room

Do you know abou the villag skip You can shoot the chirch Bell to skip the vilkag section

seeing that there is the silent stranger achievement (don't talk to the merchant even once). the answer to that question is yes. however you did without any bonus equipment on a new savefile which is awesome. i am planning on doing it on my new game plus that i am currently playing.

You can shoot the church bell in the distance and it instantly ends the village encounter.

Did you not get the LE5? It’s in the room with the Wrench Regenerator

"NO SHOWERS, NO GRASS, NO GIRLFRIENDS!" Thank goodness I work from home and have a fiancée. No grass and no girlfriend time for gaming. 😂 I love these videos.

the bull head guys are called brutes but I lovingly welcome udders

24:30 if you pull the spike ball lever and immediately jump onto the lift the red ganado dude will die as he spawns in

The idea (and strenght) of bloom as a game mechanic is that the Game's set pieces require different guns for different situations, as you wouldn´t really use a handgun when on a 100 yrd target.

I known you already know this probably but you can shoot the bell in the village to skip the whole sequence

You could use Golden eggs to absolutely destroy Salazar. One from the chapter 4 and the other one in that same chapter I believe

How to beat plantera from Terraria you got to spin around a circle and use weapons like the death sickle the razorblade typhoon the chlorophyte shot bow the mega shark the uzi the Superstar shooter the bubble gun the tsunami the Daedalus stormbow those weapons delete plantera and destroy her tendrils

I am a hero I am a hero to the end of the night he's gotta be strong and he's gotta be faster than this guy to be there for the fight I am a hero🎉

The room with the two blind guys as long as you don’t past halfway on the big table in front of them and only use the bolt thrower even mines they big blind guys will not break off the wall just no regular guns but you can use flash boomers. You can kill all the regular enemies then take on the blind dudes using the bells which lets them injure each other. The game hints to use the bolt thrower since it has bolts and mines as drops around the room.

A tip for ashley's section: pulling the gong lights in the mauseoleum can be done in a zigzag pattern starting on the left, then right, then left, then right again. You avoid all the knights doing this. Then you just run into the room. Ez. No stopping to make them freeze with the lamp.

Did you know in the bingo segment you can shoot the church bell to end it in a few seconds i swear to god

COTD: if they do remake resident evil 5, what do you hope they will keep, and what changes do you think that need to be made?

The merchant is not Australian 😂😂😂 he's supposed to be a cockney aka someone from London.

you can just stand still for a second and your crosshair shrinks and accuracy is no longer a problem

The Merchant isn't Australian, his accent is Brittish, or Cockney, to be more specific. To be fair though, I hear people confusing these accents quite often...

I like how the dev basically admit that blooms sucks because the removed it for the mine cart section.

Do you think there will be a RE4 REMAKE randomizer in the future?

i saw a video of a dude killing salazar by throwing 2 golden eggs at him, not sure if its real tho

Hey, since playing the remake I've been watching a lot of your old content, especially the Dante rivalry, keep it up.

Use the Gold Egg on Salazar. Regardless of difficulty it does 70% damage

24:37 The first red guy on the lift segment can be killed if you pull the lever for the ball trap and immediately jump down to start the lift, red guy will spawn in front of the rolling ball and die to it. 25:07 This game doesn't just have bloom, it seems the non-rifle bullets deviate from its intended trajectory like bolt thrower bolts do(shoot at long range and watch them fly in random direction after a bit). Also the AA gun on helicopter part can be destroyed with grenades, saving time and probably bullets.

Can’t wait for the “how lucky is the Resident Evil 4 Remake speedrun” so we can watch Waifu explain how lucky the rng handgun ammo from that one barrel was

Just So you know as this will be Pretty useful for speed runs you can just skip the whole Village survival section By just shooting the Bell tower in the distance your self. You can do it with a pistol too. so no wasting ammor or waiting for a timer.

Did you know you can crouch the church bell while scoped in to skip the bloom on the single moms

waifu have you see that you can kill salazar whit two golden eggs

Back when Speed runners didn't know the secret of the golden egg

For now, it feels like a platinum trophy due to S+ requirement is for me something impossible.

I swear your entire crosshair can be 3 meters off the target and you will still blame bloom you are just so arrogant

I thought you could parry the grabs tough. Saw it happen a couple of tiems when i watched a playthrough. Leon absically slashes their arm off this way.

pro tip for Salazar just toss a golden egg at him.

I like the end you are eating goldfish

I mean if you do it with infinite handcanon you can do it

Leaving a like and saving to my watch later, but dipping out til i get the chance to play. Preemptive thanks and gg for the run!

hey waifu, what about a "canon run", i always try to do this runs in every re. the rules are simple, you can only use what the game shows in cutscenes, (almost in every case) the starting handgun. you can upgrade it and buy attachments but only the guns leon uses in the cutscenes, also you can upgrade the knife and use the small knives, granades and flashes so its not imposible (also you can buy the body armor, because it shows on the cutscenes to). it could be on standard but you are free to do it in whatever difficulty you want. good luck if you wanna try it, and love the content, keep it up

Fun fact, for the salazar fight, if you collect an egg and throw it in his face at the start, it wipes out like, 80% of his health bar. The video I saw used a golden egg, so not sure if it has to be that one (haven't tested myself yet) but that could be a game changer possibly.

I've only played the demo, but as soon as I grabbed the first gun, and saw that the guns had bloom, I knew it'd be a terrible fucking mechanic. As far as the rest of the game, it does truly seem phenomenal

Will you make a video explaining all the current glitches and skips that have been found so far?

Golden eggs do op damage to salazar try it!

You can kill Salazar with two golden eggs and skip his fight

There's an achievement without ever talking to the merchant, so obviously it's 100% impossible to beat the game without ever talking to the merchant. -____________________________-

How have I never seen this channel before?!? You’re breakdowns of speed runs are genuinely entertaining and informative. Subscribed!

Suggestion: can you beat re4 remake without using a single healing item ? I think u can an achievement for that but I’d like to see you do it, on a NEW GAME that’d would be legendary, maybe be allowed to use the body armor from the start or something to help

9:29 "I didn't save the dog because I'm a speed runner" I: **closes the video immediately** I will not support soulless maniacs content

I have never had a problem with Grabber enemies, or Bloom... I think you're just too used to 2005 mechanics that you're body won't adjust to the 2023 ones

Hi, im here from the future.. how mad are you now knowing you coulda ended Salazar with 2 golden eggs? 😂

... got it then discover how bullshit the whole system is about the cases, charms and UNLOCKABLE accesories. Thet locked some stuff behind paywall or also know as microtransactions. The two best cases are only for those that pre-order the game, so are some of the best charms. Then we have accesories, in other remakes getting S+ rank in easy unlocks something to help you get S+ on standard and so on. But this time? They give us a INDESTRUCTIBLE KNIFE... which is ONLY indestructible if you use the tickets you trade spinel with the merchant, which there are only 2 tickets I believe and both cost 40 of the currency. Which means you will have the "unique" effect of the weapon only on two new weapons each playthrough.... unless you but the "you start with two+ tickets for 9,99$ dlc".

You can save a ton of ammo on the Salazar fight, throw a golden egg at him and he's almost dead

A ray of light shines down on a leather-bound storybook. The book opens and a voice begins reading its text: SHREK: Once upon a time there was a lovely princess. But she had an enchantment upon her of a fearful sort which could only be broken by love's first kiss. She was locked away in a castle guarded by a terrible fire-breathing dragon. Many brave knights had attempted to free her from this dreadful prison, but none prevailed. She waited in the dragon's keep in the highest room of the tallest tower. For her true love and true love's first kiss. The voice laughs. A big, green hand rips out a page of the book and shuts it closed. SHREK: Like that's ever gonna happen. What a load of - We see an outhouse and hear the sound of a toilet flushing. Out steps SHREK, an ogre, who tugs at his underwear and shakes his foot of the page still stuck to his shoe. He looks lovingly at the swamp he calls home, and goes about his daily routine. This includes taking a mud shower, brushing his teeth with bugs, bathing in a muddy pond, gathering giant slugs for dinner, and painting a warning sign.

you can end the village early by shooting the bell in the distance outside the map its an EE that is really convenient

Haven't seen a no ammo pick run? Crafting ammo only?

i can't believe its 2023 and game developers are still putting random bullet bloom in shooter games.

You can technically duck the grabs, there is even a tip that tells you can crouch to avoid grabs. Although it’s very inconsistent, it’s usually 50/50 whenever I play. Sometimes I dodge them, other times I just get grabbed anyway despite crouching 2 seconds before I got grabbed. I could see why you thought the grabs are uncrouchable. The crouch dodge wasn’t implemented very well.

for someone that uses machine girl music in every video there is suprisingly a lack of neon white speed run videos

Paused the video less than a minute in to say the following: - The merchant isn't Australian, at least not in the remake. He speaks with a Cockney accent, presumably making him British. - Yes, you can beat the game without ever talking to the merchant and there's even an achievement for doing so, which I obtained 35 hours into the game in a Professional Pistols Only run that took me about six hours.

What do you think of people who do No Merchant Runs but buy the attache case upgrades? They can play the game however they want, but it always bugged me in the original. "Oh, I did a No Merchant Run, except for the space upgrades. Which I bought. From the Merchant."

I love re4 remake, but my only gripe is the way the game handles enemies. The game does this wave thing with enemies and it can get really annoying sometimes. Had a lot of ammo? Well get ready for 3 waves of enemies that spawn out of nowhere and now u have 20 spare handgun bullets for the next section of the game. As much as I'm complaining though I absolutely adore this game and it's one of my favorite RE games ever so I would still recommend it 👌

I can’t believe someone left a comment about speed running like that! With that way of thinking, even real world science would not matter since every improvement in all fields were built on someone else’s discovery. Just because you began at someone else’s technique doesn’t mean there is nothing further to find or optimize. People get better much faster when they build on each others findings! (As long as the original method is credited).

@26:20 REAL REAL REAL

The same way the no shooting video has, "Can you beat the game without shooting?.... of course not!" I expected this video to be like, "Can you beat Remake without using the merchant?.... Obviously yes, the game gives you an in-game challenge to do so!"

You can't kill the merchant in the remake right? I think it would be so cool that if you shot him it triggers a boss fight harder then anything in the game and he has access to everything that he sells you. You win somehow and he drops everything, you can of course only pick up what you can carry and he never shows up again. The more you progress in the game and more items you buy depletes his inventory in a later game fight but his drop would naturally be smaller. And item storage would be tied to the merchants life or death, you kill him and no item storage. Idk I think it would be cool

I just thought you would all enjoy knowing if you shoot the church bell during the village fight it ends as soon as it starts :)

thanks to the bloom, the Silver Ghost is best pistol by far now. Capcom nerfed the Red 9 hard