Silent Hill 2

PlayStation 2

VSilverwings 20 May 2023 14:38

How many handgun bullets should it take to kill say a nurse by shooting? I'm using something close to 30 for nurses on hard action which sounds ridiculously high. I don't recall it ever being that high but maybe I'm mixing it up with SH1 which I recently mastered.

valts 20 May 2023 15:23

Enemies have more health on higher difficulties.

A nurse on Hard takes about 20-30 Handgun bullets or 3-5 Shotgun shells depending on how close you are.

Handgun on Hard is generally meant for Fighting kills.

You're supposed to use Shotgun on nurses if you're going for a Shooting kill. Use Handgun only to get them to fall down before stomping them for a Fighting kill.

And remember that any enemy is completely invulnerable when they are getting up. Attacking an enemy while it's in a "get up" animation is a waste of time/ammo.

VSilverwings 20 May 2023 15:37

Thanks for the re-education. I was actually doing everything you said by the time you posted but thanks for confirming it. It's been some 9 years since I probably did this so I was surprised at the results when SH1 nurses were 7-8 hg bullets.

MauricioReis 27 Nov 2023 20:40

valts, can you tell me if it is possible to do this on normal difficulty? I ask about the amount of enemies

valts 28 Nov 2023 10:49

Honestly, I don't know.

It "feels" like the game should have 150 monsters on Action Level Normal.

Most areas have more than 10 and some of them respawns once. Otherworld Streets are crowded.

Creepers in the Trap Room where you have to guess the code under the Historical Society and the Lying Figures that appears when you hang the wrong persecuted in the Labyrinth respawn. I have not tested if they respawn infinitely though.

MauricioReis 28 Nov 2023 20:52

Thank you for your attention always valts, for those who also have doubts, I just managed to do it and it's totally possible on normal, I explored all the external parts to the maximum and got all the kills before even entering the Historical Society.

Hitchet 21 Oct 2024 05:32

Can confirm, got this on Normal during Labyrinth with 75 shooting / 145 melee kills at that point. It was very tight on ammo for sure and required a lot of planning, but doable. Still plenty of room till the end of the game too.