Newly discovered Resident Evil 4 Remake speedrun strats are also great for normal players

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Resident Evil 4 Remake is a faithful recreation of the classic game, but it's also added or adjusted some environments and systems to refresh things. Speedrunners have been digging into those changes while reconfirming strategies from the original game, and they've already found some tactics and time-savers that can come in handy even when you aren't racing against the clock. 

Minor spoilers for some Resident Evil 4 Remake levels ahead.  

Speedrun guru WaifuRuns (opens in new tab) recently released a fabulous round-up of the discoveries made since the remake's release. As you'd expect, some of the most popular skips are proper glitches that push Leon out of the game world or through doors. A sniper rifle equipped with a scope is key to a lot of these glitches, as aiming the scope at the ground apparently pushes Leon's character model back just enough to clip through some geometry and avoid many large sequences or fights. Some of these skips are actually too effective because they can let you access boss fights or scripted areas in the wrong chapter, soft-locking the game. 

That said, a lot of the strategies used by speedrunners are just clever but fairly normal weapon interactions, and on top of saving precious minutes in timed runs, they can save you a lot of headache in a normal playthrough. This started with small discoveries like skipping the village fight by shooting the church bell, or using gold eggs to nearly one-shot a particular boss, and there's plenty more where that came from.

As WaifuRuns reports, you can breeze through the opening windmill encounter just by shooting a lock off a door through a window in the rear shed. In a similar vein, several counterweights in the castle section – particularly the