Character Builds + First Moves

[JakeAM]

Hey guys, just wanted to create a thread in which people can share their builds and what their first moves are when spawning in the evac shelter.

Here’s my archer build:

Stats

Str 10
Dex 12
Int 8
Per 8

Positive Traits

Fleet-Footed
Quick
Inconspicuous
Robust Genetics

Negative Traits

Heavy Sleeper
Glass Jaw
Lightweight
Trigger Happy
Truth Teller
Ugly

Skills

Archery **
Survival **

First Moves

1. Smash two windows in the evac for 2x 3ft string and 1x heavy stick
2. Craft a longbow
3. Smash a ton of chairs in the evac and craft around 200 arrows.

Hope you find the time to write up your own, they can really help people wanting to dry different play styles! Thanks.

[Izicata]

Muscle Wizard

Stats

Str 14
Dex 8
Int 13
Per 10

Positive Traits

Night Vision
Robust Genetics
Martial Arts Training - taekwondo

Negative Traits

Heavy Sleeper
Poor Hearing
Glass Jaw
Lightweight
Addictive Personality
Truth Teller

Profession

Chain Smoker

Skills

None

Plan

1. Head to town.
2. Abuse Windowframes/Shrubs/Cars, punch zombies.
3. Find sewing kit, get 3 tailoring and some actual clothes.
4. Fitted Tank Top + Fitted Under Armour = Punching takes 25 move
5. ORA ORA ORA

[iceball3]

Am I the only one who never puts points into Dex?

Mamizou

Stats

Str 10
Dex 8
Int 11
Per 10

Positive Traits

Fleet Footed
Quick
Parkour Expert
High Adrenaline
Light Step

Negative Traits

Poor Hearing
Glass Jaw
Insomniac
Addictive Personality
Truth Teller

Profession

Chain Smoker

Skills

None

Plan

1. Acquire fitted kevlar and two fitted under armor, and two fitted tank tops, as well as arm guards, motorcycle helmets, fanny packs, fitted sneakers, and fitted cargo pants. Layer two fitted skirts underneath the cargo pants as to provide additional defense.
2. Kite zombies like a windy day for hand to hand skill up
3. Train skills all across the board, with tailoring to reinforce my clothes, mechanics for cars, and electronics for water purifiers.
4. Find tremendous amounts of 9mm rounds and have 9mm SMG. Train SMG skill amazingly with the new badass rapid-firing animation. For lotta fun. Go through over 3000 rounds daily and harvest turrets.
5. Be a roving high speed fighter who somehow acclimated 10 dodge skill (tanking attacks still trains dodge, btw) and has amazing amounts of armor. Be a brutal at a medium and short range, making short work of everything else using rawkets.

Also, get lossa survival and electronics skill to get some CBMs~~~

[iceball3]

Sorry for the doublepost, but it feels a bit odd just editing this in to my previous one and I am honestly a little impatient to wait until another post.

[quote=“JakeAM, post:1, topic:1704”]Hey guys, just wanted to create a thread in which people can share their builds and what their first moves are when spawning in the evac shelter.

Here’s my archer build:

Stats

Str 10
Dex 12
Int 8
Per 8[/quote]If I may suggest, perhaps taking two or three points out of dex and distributing them to perception and strength? Strength to act as a buffer against str debuffs while in pain so you can still draw your bow, and perception as it offers more ranged benefit than dexterity?

[TonicEngine]

re: “fitted kevlar vest”

How do you tailor kevlar? Was this added after the 0.5 release?

[Nemonole]

[quote=“TonicEngine, post:5, topic:1704”]re: “fitted kevlar vest”

How do you tailor kevlar? Was this added after the 0.5 release?[/quote]

You can’t. Occasionally you will find one that fits you.

[vultures]

My one and only advice can and will be to start with a lvl 2 mechanix skill; collecting some supplies and tools plus creating a stash followed by setting up a base comes naturally, only to have time to practice survival, construction, some ass-kicking skills and again, vehicle build-up. Pay mind to wrecks that abound in the fields and push some hard and spiked plating followed by a 5.0 v6 and don’t hesitate to engage into melee, as it is often followed by an increase in first aid skill that increases your encounter rating and success chance for CBMs greatly. Always leave markers on your map, and plan a few days ahead; keep in mind your battle stance (regarding outfit) and choice of weapons, and you’ll do fine.

[i2amroy]

If I may suggest, perhaps taking two or three points out of dex and distributing them to perception and strength? Strength to act as a buffer against str debuffs while in pain so you can still draw your bow, and perception as it offers more ranged benefit than dexterity?

Small note here, but it is possible to draw a longbow with less then 10 strength, it’s just that you get major range penalties when below that (-2 range for each STR point below 10). You can still draw it until you get under 5 STR…

[Justice]

[quote=“Nemonole, post:6, topic:1704”][quote=“TonicEngine, post:5, topic:1704”]re: “fitted kevlar vest”

How do you tailor kevlar? Was this added after the 0.5 release?[/quote]

You can’t. Occasionally you will find one that fits you.[/quote]

Well, you can with one minor, but realistic, adjustment to [tt]items.json[/tt].

[spoiler]Before:
[tt]“material” : [“kevlar”, “null”],[/tt]

After:
[tt]“material” : [“kevlar”, “cotton”],[/tt][/spoiler]

Kevlar vests are made of kevlar and cotton, in the real world.

[xLemor]

yeah you should go for higher perception instead, it boosts firearms skills by a LOT, dexterity doesnt do much beside +to hit which firearm skills boosts it much higher.
you could drop inconspicious (wich is next to useless i think) and raise your perception and lower dexterity.
10 str, 12-13 int, and 12+ perc. Necessary skills would be first aid and driving to start off with altho you can do without driving but first aid is really good to have, other skills are easy to train early from books and basic actions (like survival and butchering corpses). I usually go for First aid, cooking, survival and archery if i play archery just for the beginning until i find a good gun and some ammo. When you get good at the game just go for driving skill (driving is hard to train to level 4 to stop fumbling the wheel) and first aid. Also pick the robust genetic trait, its one of the most valuable trait you can have once you start playing with mutations

[Raital]

Strong, perceptive practical-learner. (0.6)

Stats

Str 14
Dex 8
Int 7
Per 14

Traits

Quick
Fast Learner
Robust Genetics

Heavy Sleeper
Poor Hearing
Insomniac
Lightweight
Trigger Happy
Wool Allergy
Truth Teller
Ugly
(usually prefer to be alone in these games so Ugly and Truth Teller wouldn’t bother me even if NPCs worked)

Profession: Chain Smoker
Skills: None

First Moves

1. Break Locker, grab pipe.
2. Go to town.
3. Break fridge in house, grab rubber hose. Kill anything that aggros in the process.
4. Get heavy stick (window or nearby forest), make slingshot, break stones for pebbles.
5. Level archery to 1 on rabbits/crows/squirrels/zombies.
6. Use String and heavy stick to make longbow, make 90 arrows from heavy sticks.
7. Loot and pillage.

[Ferodaktyl]

Step 1 : create random char.
Step 2 : check basement for anything remotely useful
Step 3 : Check char stats and deciding how to play
…
Step xxx : collecting anything remotely useful from the map and spending ridiculous amounts of time sorting and organizing loot i’ll probably never use

[Killa_Croc]

[quote=“Ferodaktyl, post:12, topic:1704”]Step 1 : create random char.
Step 2 : check basement for anything remotely useful
Step 3 : Check char stats and deciding how to play
…
Step xxx : collecting anything remotely useful from the map and spending ridiculous amounts of time sorting and organizing loot i’ll probably never use [/quote]

This pretty much sums out what I do up until I decide to rush a town and see how much damage do to a city’s zombie population before keeling over. Toss in a few personal rules like vehicles are for transportation only no crafting (yes I gather material, organize them into neat piles specifically to make crafting simpler and somewhat efficient, suicide in the nearest town, then delete my world and repeat.)

[Skates]

All purpose crafter

Stats

Str 10
Dex 10
Int 9
Per 9

Positive Traits

Quick
Light Step

Negative Traits

Ugly
Addictive Personality
Truth Teller
Trigger Happy
Smelly
Heavy Sleeper
Weak Stomach
Lightweight

Profession

Scoundrel

Skills

Dodge
Melee
Firearms
Archery
Mechanics
Survival

Plan

1. Break one of the lockers and grab a pipe.
2. Run outside and find a rock, craft a crowbar.
3. Head back into the evacuation shelter and break two windows, grab two pieces of string and a heavy stick. Craft a longbow.
4. Smash some benches and make arrows.
5. Head to the nearest collection of outer homes and kill zombies one at a time with a bow and break into the homes finding supplies.
6. Once enough supplies have been collected garrison a gas station.
7. Fill it full of supplies and fortify it by creating spike pits and traps around the outside and board up the windows.
8. Survive.

[DWC]

I’ve taken to making series of survivors.

The first guy, is mediocre but well rounded, with a point in every useful skill. I use him to scavenge up books and useful items and set up a base of operations.

Next guy has a lot of unbalanced traits, no skills, high attributes and I walk him over to the first guy’s safehouse to sit around and eat all his food and read books and craft stuff, work on the cars until he is a beastly renaissance man, equip him with the fine weapons and equipment gathered by the first guy then then send him forth in search of monsters to destroy.

Considering a combat oriented version of the first guy to make a sort of semi- disposable soldier that can go to the stockpile, grab up a pile of guns and stuff and go do dangerous assaults and explore hostile places without it being too much of a lost investment of time of he bites the dust in the process.

[Moral_Grey_Area]

NO ONE KNOCK MY SETUP UNTIL YOU TRY IT.

STR: 7
DEX: 4
INT: 7
PER: 4

Martial Arts

Addictive Personality
Jittery
Savant
Truth Teller

No Job

Unarmed: **********

EXTREME MARTIAL ARTS__

[Rookrune]

I call this the "Lucky 7’s build, its for when your looking for more of a challenge.
Stats

Str 7
Dex 7
Int 7
Per 7

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Pick any perk’s you feel at the time.

Its harder, but at l east you have luck on your side (WARNING: Luck may not be on your side.)

[system]

Has anyone attempted to make Joel from the “LAST OF US”?

[fishy1234555]

Hillbilly

Str: 7
Dex: 12
Int: 4
Per: 9

Traits

Positive

-Tough
-Thick Skinned
-Terrifying
-Skilled Liar

Negative

-Heavy Sleeper
-Illiterate
-Trigger Happy
-Smelly
-Chemical Imbalance
-Ugly

Profession
-Wannabe Mechanic

Skills

Bashing Weapons **
Shotguns ****
Cooking **
Survival **

[Zireael]

My setup:
All traits to 14
Grab some negatives and slap Fast Learner/Fast Healer on top of it