"No merchant" restriction definitely works much better in this game than it does for Resident Evil Village (on Village of Shadows at least). Most of the strategies follow roughly the same idea of a regular run (even the stealth sequences) but with alternative loadout/setup. But it also requires some insanely careful planning with resources (which I personally don't mind but I can imagine it being pretty restrictive for most people) since the game will not give you the expected resources before encounters at all. This game is heavily designed with crafting in mind so that it's the player's responsibility to craft special resources like flashbangs and heavy grenades but those two are not available for this run since the recipes require you to use the merchant. Similarly, you cannot repair your knife, and the game stops giving you knives at random once you have two of them in your inventory and you can't send them to store either to stock them (except for the combat and fighting knife). All of that requires some huge planning if you want to make sure you have the right resources you need for each section. I designed my route to not rely on random regular/heavy grenade drops so you can apply these ideas in every single run. I made adjustments to not rely on random knife drops as well. Bosses: - Del Lago (0:32:42) - one cycle - El Gigante (0:46:22) - Bella sisters (1:15:00) - Chief Mendez (1:23:31) - Garrador (1:36:12) - Double Garradors (2:46:57) - Verdugo (2:54:46) - Double El Gigante (3:07:04) - Krauser 1 (knife fight) (3:20:22) - Salazar (3:39:21) - Krauser 2 (4:23:56) - Krauser 3 (4:28:35) - Mutated Krauser (4:31:42) - Saddler (5:10:49)
Most of the times, players would rather grab enough treasures and resources in the world, in order to fulfill the requirements of their plan (weapons, upgrades, ammunitions). By avoiding the merchant, it maximizes the importance of the loot from the world (boxes, fixed items), and it nullifies the value of treasures and money. A very interesting challenge, and the execution was perfect. Good job !
IDK what's more badass doing w/o saves, or S+ w/o merchant. After your video No Save, seeing stealth tips, how kill zombies correctly, how to avoid encounters with Hammers my game become way better. I see you put a lot of work to reach this results, consistent strats, avoiding encounters, good aim on gamepad, perfect parry/dodge timing. Thanks for the high quality content.
Nice video! It was very entertaining to see someone put the CQBR to good use with no infinite ammo lmao I got a question though: why do you shoot the 4 orange spots in the novistador cave? What does that do aside from completing a request for the merchant?
Dude, WHAT! I haven't seen any of the big challenge runners do this, and you make it look easy. What a champion, I feel like I just walked past Jimi Hendrix playing on a street corner. Keep going bro!
the most difficult game segments to overcome with so much ammunition expenditure you can make them stealth what to say ... congratulations excellent play
5:10:40 🙈😅 Becareful the merchant sell rocket launcher to saddler with big discount🤣 Aether the Assault Rifle really work well even without upgrade🔥👏🎉🔥 If the normal run on Professional mode i guess standard Handgun + Riotgun + This Assault Rifle is enough to beat this game with upgrade. Magnum will no need anymore for speedrun S+ on Professional mode with upgrade. 🤣 Again, many thanks for great quality strategy for your fans. No much to say, i sure stars Redfield will also proud for your awesome no merchant run. 🎉🔥
Fantastic work as always king! Very entertaining run. I love this game to death but man, the perfect parrying on Pro definitely needs rebalancing. I know walking backwards can increase the frames for it (which I learned watching your other vid) and that mitigates a lot of trouble, but once they are right on top of you, the parry prompt doesn’t even show up. You just have to eat the damage which is annoying. Plus parrying the pitchfork enemies is a pain, no idea when the appropriate time to get it. Tested it out plenty and I still can’t get a lock on it. Hopefully, with Separate Ways, they also update some aspects of the game due to player feedback especially since they haven’t really done any QoL updates in a good while but I doubt it. A man can dream though
Yeah, the perfect parry definitely needs a lot of adjustments. For the regular Ganados I think it works pretty decently. The fight that kinda really needs adjustments for me is mutated Krauser since it is centered on the parry mechanic and it's where the parry is at its worst. For the pitchfork enemies, I'm okay with how they are because the charge attack they do, you don't have to parry, it is consistently stoppable with a shot once they start moving with the pitchfork. The other attacks they have are relatively easy to parry if you back up a little. In terms of QoL, I hope they would change Krauser's QTE to work on "hold" option. They advertised this game would remove QTEs (or most of them) and as of now we still have that absurd QTE (way worse than any RE4 og QTE) where you have to spam for your life to not take damage. It goes against the whole purpose of having "hold" option for QTE - invalidating the accessibility design completely.
@@Aether2125 oh yeah, the Krauser fight does have its issues with the mechanic. I think my memory blocks it’s out due to how frustrating it was getting trying to do parries for it. I think the hit box on a couple of attacks are super deceiving, correct? Also, I thought it was weird it general how grabs from behind from regular enemies and the grabs from Krauser damage you even though their clearly isn’t a reason for it. I understand other grabs doing damage, but those make no sense. I do the hold QTE thing as well because button mashing just isn’t my thing anymore so I just take the damage. It’s lame for sure. Say what you will about Callisto Protocol, but when you pick the press/hold button to automatically beat any QTEs, it means it plus no damage aside from the long neck egg sack fuckers but they are easy to take out on subsequent playthroughs.
This looks fantastic, but I have two questions: 1. after the Gigante's plaga (ch.4) is revealed, you just have to wait for him to fall, so no need to throw flash grenades or shoot the plaga to make it fall? I see you just run/pass under him until he falls on his own during the first times that this happens. 2. I see that after you shoot the first insects that show up during the Saddler boss fight, no more of them appear. Is this something that happens or you need to stay on specific spots to sort of un-trigger more insect spawns?
Check the recent no merchant run (it is done with no saves and has much better strategies). For El Gigante, yes he falls down after some time. For Saddler boss, the flashbang prevents him from summoning the big wave of Novistadors and it prevents him from having eyeballs on all four legs.
@@Aether2125 Thank you!! I've been playing around with the No Merchant challenge but always stopped at the Gigante fight because flash grenades are a luxury in this kind of gameplay, and throwing them at the giant was a big waste.
That was awesome to watch! Your attention to detail and item management was superb. I'm curious, how long did it take to settle on this final strat and why did you often choose the slower method instead of using more traditional skips/speedrun strats? Was this a segmented run edited together, or completed in a single sitting?
It was segmented (it’s in the title/description). I usually do single segment runs but for challenges like this I tend to do an initial run with limited saves to get a sense how doable it’d be. For Separate Ways, I eventually did no merchant single segment. This one is also doable however there’s a glitch that can get you infinite loading screen in chapter 14 and it makes me not feel like trying yet. I routed this run on the fly deciding what to do in each segment before recording but I had completed no merchant before so I had a good idea of what I needed to do beforehand.
Sniper ammo because of CQBR that you get in chapter 10. Healing items because of practice and you need at least one RG to prevent more herbs from dropping at random in most areas.
@@Aether2125oh shit !! I have been using both a sniper and the assault rifle. I thought they use different ammo 😅. I sold my magnum to upgrade it. Guess I ll go back to an old save and not use it. I prefer my wooden old sniper with full upgrade it is better. Thanks bro for replay 😂 ❤
@@iamapigeyedtraitorthatisin1319 this is a no damage run, meaning that if he gets hit even just once, the run is over, so picking up the herb is just useless. You can sell the herb for money but this's also a no merchant run.
Insane.. but I find it kind of weird how the pistol is so strong in the beginning on chapter 1. One shot usually does nothing, but i noticed everytime u shoot someone, they actually get hurt
If you mean when I shoot while they’re running, it’s a consistent tech I found to get the suplex that works on Professional too. Some specific shots in certain animations are guaranteed pushback/staggers in this game.
In the section right before Mike dies, why does the Brute not spawn in? Whenever I pull either lever a JJ ripoff jumps down on the same side as me. Are you able to prevent it from spawning in?
@@Aether2125 Interesting! Either way I wanted to say thank you for the work that you've put into this game. I just managed to complete a no damage run on pro myself while using a lot of ideas I've seen from your videos. Couldn't have done it without streamers like you. I honestly didn't think it was THAT bad of an experience overall but I'm curious what you would rate this game in terms of no-hit specifically considering your experience with no-hit runs overall.
@@jglessner22007 Initially I had pretty negative thoughts about this game when it comes to no damage runs. After learning and getting used to a lot of designs in the remake, I would say that it's not that bad as well and there are some cool and interesting moments definitely. The game has a lot of interesting ideas and encounters but some particular design choices can ruin the flexibility of the game. With a few adjustments in game balance (for example, with the grabbers, the aiming system, the movement, the parry detection on Professional, etc...), I think this would be an excellent game.
Early starting chapter 2 you create more Rifle ammo is swift action for late chapter. I was wondering why you don't keep machine gun ammo and after watching 2 Garrador now i understand 1 Large Resource + 10 fire powder = 7 Rifle ammo is better than one Large + 6 fire powder Resource just have 30 machine gun ammo...😅 Off course the Rifle damage is much better.
@@Aether2125Yes! Minimalist trophy! I would love to see your take on it! You are more than capable and your vids have helped me to get my S+ rank on RE4 remake too!
Aether, can I please have the information and specs for your latest gaming PC? Also if you have a streaming PC or laptop or not, can I have the specs and information too?
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"No merchant" restriction definitely works much better in this game than it does for Resident Evil Village (on Village of Shadows at least). Most of the strategies follow roughly the same idea of a regular run (even the stealth sequences) but with alternative loadout/setup. But it also requires some insanely careful planning with resources (which I personally don't mind but I can imagine it being pretty restrictive for most people) since the game will not give you the expected resources before encounters at all.
This game is heavily designed with crafting in mind so that it's the player's responsibility to craft special resources like flashbangs and heavy grenades but those two are not available for this run since the recipes require you to use the merchant. Similarly, you cannot repair your knife, and the game stops giving you knives at random once you have two of them in your inventory and you can't send them to store either to stock them (except for the combat and fighting knife). All of that requires some huge planning if you want to make sure you have the right resources you need for each section. I designed my route to not rely on random regular/heavy grenade drops so you can apply these ideas in every single run. I made adjustments to not rely on random knife drops as well.
Bosses:
- Del Lago (0:32:42) - one cycle
- El Gigante (0:46:22)
- Bella sisters (1:15:00)
- Chief Mendez (1:23:31)
- Garrador (1:36:12)
- Double Garradors (2:46:57)
- Verdugo (2:54:46)
- Double El Gigante (3:07:04)
- Krauser 1 (knife fight) (3:20:22)
- Salazar (3:39:21)
- Krauser 2 (4:23:56)
- Krauser 3 (4:28:35)
- Mutated Krauser (4:31:42)
- Saddler (5:10:49)
You fantastic, was waiting for a replay..
Anime
Lol at the part when Ashley says “a little warning next time?” And Leon’s like “Next 1:34:27
This is by far the best most realistic playthrough I've watched! Bravo & kudos!!! 👏🏿
من هزار بار ویدیو این بازی رو از یوتیوبر های دیگه دیدم ولی هیچکس حرفه ای تراز شما نبود.نفر اول دنیایی
You are insane my man pure skill. Are you a robot? 😅
Absolutely insane. Doing this on a normal run is already tough let alone No Merchant AND Professional AND S+.
Thank you!
and no damage!!!!!
4:34:17 that krauser fight was intense to watch. Your hand eye coordination is off the charts. Lovin all these different strats. Excellent video!
2:48:34 best moment in the game 🤣
Most of the times, players would rather grab enough treasures and resources in the world, in order to fulfill the requirements of their plan (weapons, upgrades, ammunitions). By avoiding the merchant, it maximizes the importance of the loot from the world (boxes, fixed items), and it nullifies the value of treasures and money. A very interesting challenge, and the execution was perfect. Good job !
Congratulations, it was perfect ! The fight against Saddler and the waterhall... it was impressive !
I dont think i have seen this type of playthrough without taking damage meticulous and incredible well done
IDK what's more badass doing w/o saves, or S+ w/o merchant. After your video No Save, seeing stealth tips, how kill zombies correctly, how to avoid encounters with Hammers my game become way better.
I see you put a lot of work to reach this results, consistent strats, avoiding encounters, good aim on gamepad, perfect parry/dodge timing.
Thanks for the high quality content.
I was so impressed I had to subscribe.
You are a absolute legend man
Nice video! It was very entertaining to see someone put the CQBR to good use with no infinite ammo lmao
I got a question though: why do you shoot the 4 orange spots in the novistador cave? What does that do aside from completing a request for the merchant?
It stops the Novistadors from respawning.
Dude, WHAT! I haven't seen any of the big challenge runners do this, and you make it look easy. What a champion, I feel like I just walked past Jimi Hendrix playing on a street corner. Keep going bro!
the most difficult game segments to overcome with so much ammunition expenditure you can make them stealth what to say ... congratulations excellent play
5:10:40 🙈😅
Becareful the merchant sell rocket launcher to saddler with big discount🤣
Aether the Assault Rifle really work well even without upgrade🔥👏🎉🔥
If the normal run on Professional mode i guess standard Handgun + Riotgun + This Assault Rifle is enough to beat this game with upgrade.
Magnum will no need anymore for speedrun S+ on Professional mode with upgrade. 🤣
Again, many thanks for great quality strategy for your fans.
No much to say, i sure stars Redfield will also proud for your awesome no merchant run. 🎉🔥
Yeah the CQBR is the most important weapon in this run probably.
1:17:48 that was close
This is next level
Incredible Stuff as always.Love watching your runs:}
You’re the king of games
I don’t watch gamer’s because none of them play professionally like you!
Love from Arabia ♥️
Thank you!
Fantastic work as always king! Very entertaining run. I love this game to death but man, the perfect parrying on Pro definitely needs rebalancing. I know walking backwards can increase the frames for it (which I learned watching your other vid) and that mitigates a lot of trouble, but once they are right on top of you, the parry prompt doesn’t even show up. You just have to eat the damage which is annoying. Plus parrying the pitchfork enemies is a pain, no idea when the appropriate time to get it. Tested it out plenty and I still can’t get a lock on it.
Hopefully, with Separate Ways, they also update some aspects of the game due to player feedback especially since they haven’t really done any QoL updates in a good while but I doubt it. A man can dream though
Yeah, the perfect parry definitely needs a lot of adjustments. For the regular Ganados I think it works pretty decently. The fight that kinda really needs adjustments for me is mutated Krauser since it is centered on the parry mechanic and it's where the parry is at its worst.
For the pitchfork enemies, I'm okay with how they are because the charge attack they do, you don't have to parry, it is consistently stoppable with a shot once they start moving with the pitchfork. The other attacks they have are relatively easy to parry if you back up a little.
In terms of QoL, I hope they would change Krauser's QTE to work on "hold" option. They advertised this game would remove QTEs (or most of them) and as of now we still have that absurd QTE (way worse than any RE4 og QTE) where you have to spam for your life to not take damage. It goes against the whole purpose of having "hold" option for QTE - invalidating the accessibility design completely.
@@Aether2125 oh yeah, the Krauser fight does have its issues with the mechanic. I think my memory blocks it’s out due to how frustrating it was getting trying to do parries for it. I think the hit box on a couple of attacks are super deceiving, correct? Also, I thought it was weird it general how grabs from behind from regular enemies and the grabs from Krauser damage you even though their clearly isn’t a reason for it. I understand other grabs doing damage, but those make no sense. I do the hold QTE thing as well because button mashing just isn’t my thing anymore so I just take the damage. It’s lame for sure. Say what you will about Callisto Protocol, but when you pick the press/hold button to automatically beat any QTEs, it means it plus no damage aside from the long neck egg sack fuckers but they are easy to take out on subsequent playthroughs.
Og ost makes this game just bearable enough. Funny how that works lol
1:55:51 wow! Impressive!
Red9 was ready at chapter 4 is the reason of this challenge.
You are Mythical Player!
Leon is best dodging and stealth! 😁
Ashley is got fear of knights! 😅
This looks fantastic, but I have two questions: 1. after the Gigante's plaga (ch.4) is revealed, you just have to wait for him to fall, so no need to throw flash grenades or shoot the plaga to make it fall? I see you just run/pass under him until he falls on his own during the first times that this happens. 2. I see that after you shoot the first insects that show up during the Saddler boss fight, no more of them appear. Is this something that happens or you need to stay on specific spots to sort of un-trigger more insect spawns?
Check the recent no merchant run (it is done with no saves and has much better strategies). For El Gigante, yes he falls down after some time. For Saddler boss, the flashbang prevents him from summoning the big wave of Novistadors and it prevents him from having eyeballs on all four legs.
@@Aether2125 Thank you!! I've been playing around with the No Merchant challenge but always stopped at the Gigante fight because flash grenades are a luxury in this kind of gameplay, and throwing them at the giant was a big waste.
@@sunnyrose9130 I recommend using at least one flash grenade for the giant as it deals almost 8% of his HP.
Thats a really good gameplay brou, do u live stream ?
That was awesome to watch! Your attention to detail and item management was superb. I'm curious, how long did it take to settle on this final strat and why did you often choose the slower method instead of using more traditional skips/speedrun strats? Was this a segmented run edited together, or completed in a single sitting?
It was segmented (it’s in the title/description). I usually do single segment runs but for challenges like this I tend to do an initial run with limited saves to get a sense how doable it’d be. For Separate Ways, I eventually did no merchant single segment. This one is also doable however there’s a glitch that can get you infinite loading screen in chapter 14 and it makes me not feel like trying yet. I routed this run on the fly deciding what to do in each segment before recording but I had completed no merchant before so I had a good idea of what I needed to do beforehand.
So you finally made peace with this game? 😂😂😂 Cant wait to watch it.
It's a little better but not much has changed. lol
@@Aether2125 I realized you can do No damage no knife only. Because you are not restricted with No merchant. Unless youre going to no upgrades.😂😂😂
1:07:00 Placing this timestamp for Luis's Lawyer
Another excellent run.
RE4 is the first game i 100%ed & still kept playing after for fun lol
That's insane bro! Good job! 👍
Thanks!
Extremely impressive! I think the biggest take away for me is crossbow enemies only shoot 3 times and then they will reload.
Yeah, that’s something they inherited from Resident Evil Village’s bow lycans.
I duno why he keeps health Items and make sniper ammo when he is not getting damaged and does not have a sniper rifle 😅😅😅😅
Sniper ammo because of CQBR that you get in chapter 10. Healing items because of practice and you need at least one RG to prevent more herbs from dropping at random in most areas.
@@Aether2125oh shit !! I have been using both a sniper and the assault rifle. I thought they use different ammo 😅. I sold my magnum to upgrade it. Guess I ll go back to an old save and not use it. I prefer my wooden old sniper with full upgrade it is better.
Thanks bro for replay 😂 ❤
I haven't watched yet but I give you a like.
Well played man, also at 23:35 how come you put your weapons in storage?
You can do it from the inventory at any time.
I love this💖🤗👏😍👍
It's always nice to see you meet these challenges. Good job
First it was almost a jill sandwich, now it's almost a Leon pancake. 😂
This is so restrictive it's painful! I watched you walk past an herb and was confused why you didnt pick it up and had to remind myself. Good stuff.
Why didn’t he pick it up?
@@iamapigeyedtraitorthatisin1319 this is a no damage run, meaning that if he gets hit even just once, the run is over, so picking up the herb is just useless. You can sell the herb for money but this's also a no merchant run.
@@MinhPham-ku6mv lol, I can’t believe I didn’t think of that. Thanks.
Whats your next no damage run?
Probably level 1 weapons, but with no save no damage.
@@Aether2125 Same game? How about other games
@@jackjax7921 I’m also working on a couple of other games.
Very Cool
Hardest puzzled RE games no damage run:
Re 1 Remake no damage
re zero no damage
Code Veronica No damage
😂😂😂
That would be the bs no damage trilogy run if you make RE1R knife only. 🤣
Não acredito que a corrida tenha sido de primeira, mas independente disso foi incrível.
Não foi não, man. Tá escrito no título "segmented". Que é segmentado. Ele colocou as partes que deram certo
I would love more segmented runs if that means it makes it easier for you to upload content of other games like God of War :)
Maybe I should reserve some time for that.
4:30:07 how do you manage not to take damage when Krauser does this?
Mash the button pretty quickly.
Insane.. but I find it kind of weird how the pistol is so strong in the beginning on chapter 1. One shot usually does nothing, but i noticed everytime u shoot someone, they actually get hurt
If you mean when I shoot while they’re running, it’s a consistent tech I found to get the suplex that works on Professional too. Some specific shots in certain animations are guaranteed pushback/staggers in this game.
@@Aether2125 I see, well this is very impressive forsure. Probably the craziest walkthrough I’ve ever seen ! Amazing job
Fucking impressive
GG Aether!
wow
In the section right before Mike dies, why does the Brute not spawn in? Whenever I pull either lever a JJ ripoff jumps down on the same side as me. Are you able to prevent it from spawning in?
Yeah if you aim when pressing the switch you cancel a few frames and it somehow prevents his spawn.
@@Aether2125 Interesting! Either way I wanted to say thank you for the work that you've put into this game. I just managed to complete a no damage run on pro myself while using a lot of ideas I've seen from your videos. Couldn't have done it without streamers like you. I honestly didn't think it was THAT bad of an experience overall but I'm curious what you would rate this game in terms of no-hit specifically considering your experience with no-hit runs overall.
@@jglessner22007 Initially I had pretty negative thoughts about this game when it comes to no damage runs. After learning and getting used to a lot of designs in the remake, I would say that it's not that bad as well and there are some cool and interesting moments definitely. The game has a lot of interesting ideas and encounters but some particular design choices can ruin the flexibility of the game. With a few adjustments in game balance (for example, with the grabbers, the aiming system, the movement, the parry detection on Professional, etc...), I think this would be an excellent game.
Early starting chapter 2 you create more Rifle ammo is swift action for late chapter.
I was wondering why you don't keep machine gun ammo and after watching 2 Garrador now i understand 1 Large Resource + 10 fire powder = 7 Rifle ammo is better than one Large + 6 fire powder Resource just have 30 machine gun ammo...😅
Off course the Rifle damage is much better.
Yeah and the machine gun is available too late in the run. I tested it against the island bosses and it deals very little damage.
1:39:39 so why are you holding onto that healing item and discarding ammo and also a knife?
if you don't have at least one R+G combination in your inventory, the game will drop herbs at random.
@@Aether2125oh okay thanks for clarifying. Very impressive run by the way.
Bro maybe now mercenaries guide S++ all characters all maps?😊
Hm will think about it. Thanks for the suggestion, I honestly barely tried mercenaries in RE4R.
next,only knife??? 🤨
@Aether2125 how many attempts did it take you ?
It's a segmented run. A few chapters took some attempts, I believe chapters 7 and 14 were the trickiest ones if I'm not mistaken.
mission impossible....
I have to ask, which do you like more 4 remake of re 8?
re8 for the bosses, re4 remake for the other encounters
Will you be trying handgun/knife only run soon?
You mean on S+?
@@Aether2125Yes! Minimalist trophy! I would love to see your take on it! You are more than capable and your vids have helped me to get my S+ rank on RE4 remake too!
@@sidewaysshoguns443 Hm I’ll give it a test and if I end up liking the run I will create a walkthrough for it.
And will you do 100% for re 4 remake?
What are your settings?
Hey, bro why can’t you using the sniper shot?
It's only available if you use the merchant.
Oh this is segmented?
Yeah, I mention it in the description.
Aether, can I please have the information and specs for your latest gaming PC? Also if you have a streaming PC or laptop or not, can I have the specs and information too?
RTX 4080, i9 12900k, 64 GB RAM
🇧🇷
PS 5?
Yooooo