Resident Evil 4 Remake: Best Weapons For The Exclusive Upgrade …

While the recently released remake of Resident Evil 4 remains mostly faithful to the original, its newly added Exclusive Upgrade Tickets allow players to purchase any weapon’s coveted exclusive upgrade for free, without having to fully upgrade the weapon. With Resident Evil 4‘s wide variety of weapons, however, it’s hard to decide which weapons should get the few tickets available on a single playthrough. While Resident Evil 4‘s weapons mostly have the same merchant upgrades (power, ammo capacity, reload speed, and rate of fire), once fully upgraded, each weapon also has a special exclusive upgrade that gave a large boost to the weapon’s attributes.

Now, with the Exclusive Upgrade Tickets, the player no longer needs to wait till a weapon, like Resident Evil 4 Remake‘s first shotgun, is fully upgraded to get this boost to their arsenal. While some charms from the shooting gallery can give important discounts, how to make use of the game’s two Exclusive Upgrade Tickets is still an important decision.

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Resident Evil 4 Remake’s Best Exclusive Upgrades

The Resident Evil 4 remake’s Upgrade Tickets are best spent on specialized weapons with specific use cases, like shotguns, rifles, and magnums. Not only are these weapons, on average, more expensive to upgrade but they also typically are only used in certain situations, like sniping faraway enemies with a rifle or killing tough bosses with a magnum.

Because of this, power is by far the most important attribute on these weapons, with other stats taking a backseat – unlike pistols or submachine guns, which players will likely want more general usability out of. Saving tickets for these specific weapons makes them powerful tools while saving money for more generalist weapons.

The SR M1903 Is A Powerful Sniping Weapon

The SR M1903 is the first rifle to become available, and with its damage-increasing exclusive upgrade, the most powerful, boasting well over double the power of the game’s two other rifles when fully upgraded. It can also, however, be unwieldy to use, being a somewhat unreliable choice in close quarters, and interrupting players’ aim between shots for its bolt-action animations.

These flaws mean that the weapon is likely only to be pulled out when players need to take care of faraway enemies or weak points, and sinking too much money into it can leave other, more versatile weapons underpowered. As a result, the M1903 is a perfect candidate for an Exclusive Upgrade Ticket – especially as its exclusive upgrade is one of the most expensive in the game, clocking in at 100,000 pesetas. With the rifle’s power fully upgraded, players are free to spend as much on the weapon’s other attributes as needed, making it a potent sniping tool while saving a substantial amount of money for other weapon upgrades.

Players using the M1903 over Resident Evil 4‘s other rifles will find it a prime candidate to spend an exclusive upgrade ticket on, giving them an extremely powerful option by the game’s halfway point.

RE4 Remake’s Broken Butterfly Is A Potent Boss Killer

Like the rifle, the Broken Butterfly is all about damage, outstripping its competition, the Killer 7, with its 1.5x power exclusive upgrade. Resident Evil 4‘s magnums, however, face a hefty restriction, as magnum ammo is both incredibly rare as a pickup and costly to craft, with its recipe requiring 17 gunpowder and a small resource. As a result, magnum use is restricted to difficult boss fights or truly desperate situations, with the more plentiful ammo pools of other weapons being better suited for general combat. Fully upgraded, however, the Broken Butterfly becomes an incredible source of damage against the game’s bosses.

Related: Resident Evil 4 Remake: How To Find The Broken Butterfly Magnum Owing to its high upgrade costs, however, the Broken Butterfly’s exclusive upgrade is difficult to access without an Exclusive Upgrade Ticket, and purchasing every upgrade has the potential to leave other weapons lacking. Upgrading just the weapon’s power and using a ticket is an efficient way to have it be a powerful boss killer without costing too much money – especially as its exclusive upgrade, like the M1903’s, costs a hefty 100,000 pesetas that could be better spent on other weapons.

For players who choose the Broken Butterfly over the Killer 7, making use of a ticket turns the weapon into a potent tool against any boss.

The Bonus Primal Knife Makes Durability A Nonissue

Lastly, for players who have beaten the game and destroyed all 16 Clockwork Castellans, the Primal Knife bonus weapon can be a powerful tool, with its exclusive upgrade giving it infinite durability. Resident Evil 4 Remake‘s gameplay changes greatly expand the functionality of Leon’s knife, making it one of his most versatile tools. Aside from simply damaging enemies in melee or breaking boxes for ammo, the knife in the Resident Evil 4 remake is used for parrying attacks, finishing off enemies or killing them from stealth, and quickly breaking out of grabs. Crucially, however, these actions all come at a cost to the knife’s newly limited durability.

The Primal Knife’s exclusive infinite durability upgrade means that players who unlock it can freely abuse the knife’s myriad use cases – and using an Exclusive Upgrade Ticket on the weapon lets players completely skip past upgrading its durability, the total cost of which comes out to 80,000 pesetas. While the exclusive upgrade itself costs a relatively paltry 10,000 pesetas, being able to skip an entire attribute makes it well worth spending the ticket, and the negated cost of knife repairs is a nice bonus, especially for any player who make heavy use of the game’s parry mechanics (or lets themselves get grabbed a little too often). As the first game in the series to make money an important resource, Resident Evil 4‘s weapon upgrades are crucial to the game’s progression, and its remake is no different.

While saving up the Spinels to get the merchant’s Exclusive Upgrade Tickets can be a hassle, the power of the exclusive upgrades, as well as the saved money, makes the endeavor well worth the effort.

As a game with a large arsenal of weapons, the Resident Evil 4 remake presents a variety of interesting choices for players to make.