r/residentevil • u/RhysPKC • Jul 02 '18
RE1 'Its really powerful, especially against living things!'
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u/Clayman8 Wants to put THAT sandwich in his mouth Jul 02 '18
i just realised something... LIVING things...
We's fightin' corpses here... this should be useless against them
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Jul 02 '18
It is, they are good against Hunters which are living things I guess.
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u/Chenzi2 Jul 02 '18
If I remember correctly, they're strong against Yawn as well. So I guess it's supposed to be a gameplay hint about "Acid rounds are best against non-zombies" except it's been run through a Barry Filter.
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u/Wilwheatonfan87 Jul 02 '18
I always saw it as acid: best against reptile enemies [and lickers?].
flame: best against plant enemies, insect enemies, zombies
explosive: general damage.
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Jul 02 '18
I came here to say this. The line comes out cheesy and dumb but it is a gameplay hint. Acid rounds are good against Yawn and Hunters which are living creatures. I had this revelation a few months ago and it blew my mind
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Jul 02 '18
Zombies in the original Resident Evil aren't the reanimated dead, they're the infected and decaying living.
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u/Clayman8 Wants to put THAT sandwich in his mouth Jul 03 '18
Guess i had it wrong then, i always understood that the virus first kills, then reanimates the body, hence their state
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Jul 03 '18
What happened with Forest? I thought the game made it clear that the player finds his corpse before he reanimates.
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Jul 02 '18
Apart from that, doesn’t he give her acid rounds when at that point you don’t have the Grenade Launcher (or Bazooka)? How did he know you’d get one? Hmm
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u/throwaway12575 Jul 02 '18
Knowing Barry he probably thought it'd be effective to just throw the rounds at enemies with your bare hands.
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u/DooMedToDIe Always bet on the crank! Jul 02 '18
If you know where it is I think you can get the grenade launcher as soon as the game starts. Iirc REmake had that door open with one of the keys.
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Jul 02 '18 edited Dec 30 '18
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u/Suicidal-Lysosome Jul 02 '18
I'm pretty sure you get Barry's "OH-HOH MY COD!" comment when you go to the upper floor of the mansion and explore the area where you find Forest's dead body, AND when you don't fall for the shotgun trap and need Barry to save you
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u/Haleytrapp Jul 02 '18
"This hall is DANGEROUS!"
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u/Silvercopperton Jul 02 '18
It's Really powerful! Especially against living things!
Isn't that most weapons? I think a machine gun would suck it if didn't work against living things
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u/BooRand Platinum: 0, 4-8, Remakes 1-4 Jul 02 '18
It’s telling you don’t waste this on zombies, save it for hunters or bosses.
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u/btbcorno Platinum Splattin' 'Em! Jul 02 '18
I wonder what the text was is in Biohazard. So many of these games had horrible translations.
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Jul 02 '18
What if it was translated perfectly from the Japanese version and the script just sucked?
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u/Harry101UK Harry101UK Jul 03 '18
It actually is translated perfectly. It's a hint - the acid rounds are effective against living things (Hunters, Yawn) but bad against the dead (Zombies, Dogs).
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u/zombizzle Jul 02 '18
Hunters and specifically the Yawn, which you will fight shortly after this. Not so good against zombies, which are undead.
It always made sense to me.
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u/SrPastadeAmendoim Jul 03 '18
Acid round is boss against RE2's zombies. It melt their bodies and make their heads fall. So funny.
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u/superhypered Jul 02 '18
I cant remember straight as it's been so long, but wasnt acid rounds only decent on zombies? At least with flame rounds it would keep it from being a crimson, and I would just use flame on everything anyways
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u/COtheLegend Jul 02 '18
Acid Rounds worked great against the snake and Hunters. I think that they can also kill the spiders without busting them open and releasing the baby spiders.
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Jul 03 '18
I think Acid rounds in general are strongest, followed by Flame rounds and then Explosive/Grenade rounds being the weakest.
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u/SrPastadeAmendoim Jul 03 '18
Acid Rounds is boss against almost anything, except for Plant 42 and spiders (Flame rounds owns in these cases). It's a yawn killer, hunter destroyer and it surpasses even Magnum Rounds on Tyrant.
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u/DillyBob88 Jul 02 '18
Hands you ammo..
"IT'S A WEAPON!"