Desperate Escape Professional Tips

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I've been working on getting a strategy together to make a solo Professional Run on Desperate Escape easier. This run will most likely not get you an S Rank, and personally, I do not recommend trying to get an S Rank on the Professional difficulty without a seriously skilled Co-Op partner.

 

I've split the Run into 4 parts.

 

Tips:

SAVE ALL GRENADES! You do not want to use up any of the grenades if you can avoid it, especially the Frags and Flashbangs, they will be important later.

DONT GIVE THE AI THE MAGNUM! In the 5 runs I've made, I only saw the Magnum ammo spawn three times, and only two where the Magnum spawned. Save it for yourself, and don't use it until the end.

HEALING SUCKS! Don't bother healing yourself, most enemies will either Insta-Kill you or knock you into Dying State. Only use a healing item to get out of the Caution State and move faster. Also, having the AI resuscitate you is faster than healing. Also, the resuscitate animation has some frames where you and the AI are invincible. That will be handy if you end up surrounded by Majini's or cornered by a Sub-Boss.

 

Part 1: Ladder Camping

In the beginning, just run over to the dish and jump down to the floor. Immediately run-up to the ladder and climb up. Make sure to open the room and kill any Majini if one spawns in there, you do not want him to grab you from behind (Side Note: If a Machine Gun Majini spawns, make sure to kill him quickly). Make sure to body shot him, sometimes he might end up turning into a Whiphead and you won't have any Flashbangs at this point. Grab whatever is in the safe and camp at the ladder. Knife anything that climbs up until no more Majini's spawns. Do not give the AI any ammo as he would waste it on the Majini climbing up. An important note is to NOT grab the key, grab everything else in the room. If you get a shotgun, keep it for yourself, if you get a pistol, either give it to the AI or discard it. Make sure to run fast to the checkpoint when you unlock the door. Restart to the checkpoint to despawn any enemies that pop up. At this point, feel free to give all relevant ammo to the AI, but do make sure to keep the Healing items to yourself.

 

Part 2: ClusterTruck

This is the part with the two broken ladders and a big truck near the end. DO NOT GO UP THE LADDERS! They are a deathtrap and if you go into Dying, your partner most likely won't be able to save you. Make sure to take out the RPG guy up on the walkway immediately, and do not blow up and of the Red Barrels or Oil Slicks. They will be important for the Sub-Boss. If you are lucky to get a Mine drop, grab it and make sure to kill any and all Majinis before deploying it near the first Shipping Container door, the one near the 3 breakable boxes. Climb up on the truck and the Sub-Boss should spawn. If you're lucky, only the Gatling Majini will spawn, and the Mine will do most of the damage. If you're unlucky, the Chainsaw Brothers will spawn, this is the point where the oil slick will be handy. If you're quick enough, you can stun the Sub-Boss with the Oil Slick and take him out quickly. (NOTE: If you got the Chainsaw Brothers, when you pick up the Key, the Chainsaw Majini will "revive" and go after you.) Once you grab the key, don't bother staying around, immediately run to the door and move to the next part.

 

Part 3: Rockets of Pain

In this part, I recommend you grab the items at the starting part. And making the run for it to each Rocket Mounts to open the Gates. Do not bother staying and fight, at this place either Fire Men or Reapers will show up do not bother fighting them, just go around them. If you are lucky, you would make it to a checkpoint and can move up, section by section. The only real issue I had was the AI partner kept fighting the Sub-Boss instead of following me to the Locked Doors. Make sure to grab the Magnum if it spawns in the safe near one of the Rocket mounts, it will be important later on. In this section, I only died once, and it was because a Reaper cornered me and instantly used its Insta-Kill. 

 

Part 4: Ladder Camping 2 - Electric Boogaloo

In this section, before triggering the next checkpoint, grab everything in the room in front of the elevator. Make sure to grab the First Aid Spray too and the breakable boxes inside the shipping container. Once you trigger the checkpoint and the Free For All begins, immediately go up the ladder on the Shipping Container, stay near the ladder, and focus on the Majini climbing up the two ladders, the one in front, and the one in back. Those are the two places where the Majini's will be coming in from, make sure to keep an eye out if Machine Gun Majini spawns. DO NOT KILL THE RPG MAJINI! The RPG Majini is surprisingly helpful by committing the horrendous crime of team-killing and the occasional stun-lock of the Sub-Bosses. In this part, I've had either Gatling Majini and Chainsaw Majini spawn or Reapers and Fire Men. The Sub-Bosses has the habit of coming up at the jumping point across you, right next to the Heli-Pad. So they would have to cross the walkway to get to you, if they get that far, just jump off and run around up the ladder. With the Gatling Majini's, remember those Grenades? Use them, 5 should be enough before using your gun. The Chainsaw Majini's will be the problem as they can corner you easily and don't pose a big of a target as the Reapers or FIre Men. Also, make sure to use your Flashbangs or Incendiary grenades at this point. The Flashbangs will immediately takeout any Whipheads or Armored Majinis, and the Incendiary grenades can stun-lock the Sub-Bosses. The only one that did not get Stunlocked was the Reaper. The Magnum will be very important here at dealing big damage to the Sub-Bosses if you run out of grenades. (NOTE: There are several grenades on the concrete block where you are camping.) In this section, I only died three times, two was because the AI decided it was time to knife the Reaper. 

 

This strategy should apply to Co-Op runs, but I am not sure how the spawns or AI behavior would change. I've used this guide extensively PS3 Desperate Escape Guide, and I felt that while it was good, it did not give the best instructions on how to get past several parts in the Professional difficulty. There are images there that will show the camping location for Part 4, so if you have a hard time finding the camping location, feel free to go on there and take a look.

Edited March 23, 2021 by dakk55