The RPG will save you a ton of ammunition on those difficult boss battles. If you can take out 3 or more enemies with a single grenade you are making money. Like a suplex grenades are effective and awesome. Then you can store the whole lot at your next sanctuary where you'll need it for the next boss battle. This will cause magnum ammo to spawn at a greater rate than if you had a large assortment of guns in your inventory. Store your shotty and just carry your pistol and your magnum in your inventory. In circumstances where you can get by with just your pistol.
Therefore, only upgrade a gun's ammo capacity when the clip is empty.Įach weapon has a role and may not be needed in a level, however, you may need ammunition for that weapon for a future level. Self explanitory, more damage = less spent ammunitionĮvery time you upgrade a gun's ammunition capacity at the vendor it comes with a fully loaded clip regardless of how many bullets were in there to begin with. Upgrade your gun's damage as soon as possible Balance this with the situation you are in as you may incur damage from being too reckless. Suplexes cause massive damage, as well as looking awesome, so do them as often as possible.Īfter knocking an enemy down with a shotgun or a kick you can run up them and slash them with your knife. Later on in the game, Leon can perform a suplex on enemies after shooting them in the knee.
Headshots cause the most damage to most types of enemies, more damage = less spent ammunitionĪfter shooting a Ganados in the head you have the opportunity to kick them in the chest causing a fair amount of damage. If anyone has any insight into the couple of points above, that would be awesome and help me stop being extremely overkill with my ammunition conservation and actually start playing the game.Ĭonserving ammunition in RE4 comes down to several things.Īim for the head (or other vulnerable body part e.g.
I realize this is pretty overkill, so I've been wondering - are there any guidelines around how much ammo I actually need at given points in the game? I always feel as though I'm going to eventually come up against something in pro that will need a lot of bullets to kill and I won't have enough.Īlso, which bullets should I be using? I found myself at the end of normal mode having killed almost every boss with the mass handgun bullets I'd found + maxed out Red9 (because it's boss) with around 50-100 handgun bullets and then 600+ of rifle/shotgun bullets. Sometimes it takes me over an hour to clear a single room and by that point I've managed to do the entire thing without using more than 2 handgun bullets or similar. The first point actually hinders me quite a bit because I always end up feeling like I've used too much ammunition and restart to try improve on what I've done. Walking through one, killing a couple enemies, walking out, walking back in to kill a couple more and repeat until you've cleared the room (enemies reset their positions when you leave).Restarting from a continue point when you've been struck too many times and thus used too many healing items / ammunition.
One of the keys to professional is using the continue points in the game to your advantage massively, in ways such as: I've mastered the use of the knife in previous games and normally end up with ridiculous amounts of ammunition at the end. Honestly, it is pretty difficult, but obviously it is not impossible. Now that it's come out on Xbox 360 (yay) and of course has achievements, I'm trying to complete the game in professional mode.
When RE4 came out on PS2 I loved it, finished it on normal difficulty and forgot about it.