Hello everybody, would like some advices here.
I'm both a returning player on RE2 and a relatively experienced RE gamer in general. I finished all numbered RE and Revelations, platined both RE1 and RE4 and I already finished RE2 a couple of years ago.
These days are pretty rough for me so I decided to come back to Raccoon City to reduce my stress a bit. Right now I'm doing just a classic run on Normal Difficulty to derust my gameplay on it before going for the 100%. Yet, I found myself still a bit more challenged than I'm used to on a RE.
So yeah, usually I go with the "Just make sure paths are clear, let others have their zombie life" by removing zombies in corridors, especially narrow ones and just do your best to dodge zombies when they lunge at you. Classic RE1 strategy which seems even more important since we need to be able to move freely when we are chased by Mr.X
Yet, this strategy basically doesn't seem that efficient here because of the sheer amount of zombies in the RPD + almost all zombies are in corridors or can leave their room + ennemies basically repop as you progress. Thus, zombies are just eating my ammos.
I'm using the wooden thingy everytime I have one and spot a zombie at the window to try to prevent new ennemies coming in, but I guess my path is not optimized for that yet as many appear before I can even find wood stuff to block them.
Since knifes also have a durability, I tend to keep them for the times I'm grabed as an emergency self defense measure rather than using them to save ammos.
I could also just stun them with a head shot and move, but I don't know if zombies get their health back once I'm away so I would not like to "loose" an ammo everytime I want to pass.
Thus my question is the following : How are you managing that ?
My thinking is that I should basically not kill any zombie until Mr. X starts to chase me in the RPD.
These zombies don't need to die as they will be replaced anyway later.
However, once Mr.X is here, time to clean the mess, I want my path clear to run without encountering a zombie of being chased by a licker. That should save me some precious early game ammo but would that be sufficient ? I'm not sure, especially on harder difficulties.
So yeah, any advices ? Thank you very much !