Months after its release, Resident Evil 9: Requiem continues to surprise its player base. The latest discovery comes from a keen-eyed player who identified a hidden environmental interaction during the game's grueling Chapter 3 boss fight — a multi-phase encounter with the grotesque "Weeping Chorus" that has been the bane of many players' existence since launch.
The strategy, which has quickly spread across gaming forums, Discord servers, and YouTube, involves baiting the boss into a specific position near a destructible wall in the abandoned cathedral arena. Once the boss's attack animation triggers, it inadvertently collapses the wall, triggering a ceiling collapse that deals massive damage to all enemies in the vicinity — including the boss itself.
What makes this discovery particularly exciting is that the environmental interaction appears to have been intentionally designed by Capcom as a hidden tactical option rather than an outright glitch. The timing required to pull it off successfully is tight, and players who attempt it without proper positioning risk taking heavy damage themselves. But when executed correctly, it can nearly halve the Weeping Chorus's health bar, transforming a 15-minute endurance battle into a manageable 5-minute skirmish.
Community Reaction
The RE:9 community has embraced the discovery with characteristic enthusiasm. Speedrunners have already incorporated the strat into their routing, shaving valuable seconds off their completion times. Casual players, meanwhile, have praised the discovery for making what was previously a roadblock encounter much more accessible.
"I must have died 30 times to this boss before I quit for a week," one player wrote on Reddit. "This discovery single-handedly made me reinstall the game and finish the playthrough. Capcom's environmental design is truly next-level."
Capcom has not officially commented on the discovery, but given that it relies on legitimate physics interactions rather than code exploits, the strategy is widely expected to remain in the game. As the RE:9 community continues to explore every corner of the game's richly detailed environments, there are sure to be more secrets waiting to be unearthed.