Ramon Salazar has a peculiar Achilles’ heel. Ordinarily Salazar is one of the toughest fights in the 2023 Resident Evil 4 remake, but a fan has discovered a weird way to beat Salazar with a Gold Egg in seconds. Here’s how to fight Ramon Salazar with the power of protein in the RE4 remake.
How to Kill Salazar Using a Gold Egg
You can find two Gold Chicken Eggs over the course of the RE4 remake. One is in the isolated chicken coop on the east side of the lake in Chapter 4, and is there to fulfill the terms of a particular side mission.
The other is in the castle’s Throne Room, which you can revisit in Chapter 12 after Leon’s trip into the dungeons. You’ll need the Cubic Device to open the case the Egg is in.
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In either case, the Gold Chicken Egg can be sold to the Merchant for 9,000 Pesetas, or eaten to provide Leon with nearly a 100% heal. In the original RE4, there was also a slim chance that chickens would randomly lay Gold Eggs, but if that’s still true in the remake, the odds must be astronomically low.
At first look, the Gold Chicken Egg in Salazar’s throne room the Resident Evil 4 remake appears to be a free healing item. However, on March 30, a streamer named Larxa posted footage that she’d thrown the Gold Egg at Salazar. On hit, it stunned him and seemed to inflict heavy damage.
Fans subsequently used speedrunner mods to research this, and discovered that a clean hit from the Gold Egg inflicts a full 70% damage on Salazar on any difficulty. Even better, the Egg shot dazes Salazar for a few crucial seconds, which is long enough to empty a Riot Gun or Magnum into him and end the fight.
This takes a little practice. As you may have noticed before now, Leon tosses Eggs in a shallow arc in the remake, so it doesn’t go exactly where you’d think it would. You also have to make a direct hit on Salazar himself, as opposed to all the strange organic matter that surrounds him. Only an egg strike to Salazar’s weak point will do the trick.
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Fortunately, there’s an autosave directly outside Salazar’s boss room on any difficulty besides Professional, so you can reload your save if you happen to miss the Egg toss.
There’s no particular bonus or reward for defeating Salazar with an egg. The only real benefit is, as noted above, taking a really silly shortcut through one of the toughest fights in the game. For less egg-related but no less important information on the Resident Evil 4 remake, check out our guides hub.
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