- Start with a better character. Beginning is the hardest part. Playing as a police sniper or anyone with a gun will give you an equipment edge starting out.
This is bad advice.
Guns are loud and require ammo, the class that come with them also don’t give you magazines for those guns that use them, so reloading those is slow as hell. Shooting will attract zombies, and the character won’t have the ammo nor the skill to deal with more than a handful of zombies.
Those classes, therefore, cost you a bunch of points for things that are a bad idea to use that early in the game unless it’s an emergency and you really know what you’re doing.
Learn what to invest in and build on day 1. If you start with a knife, invest in slashing or piercing skill, otherwise stick with blunt weapon skill as blunt weapons are easiest to make starting out. Learn what skills you can typically train using items from the evac shelter and typically non-hostile zones. It’s pretty easy to safely get a rock for example, and a forest is probably going to be nearby.
This is bad advice.
Most knifes are terrible weapons, therefore, investing in the slashing or piercing skill on chargen just to use the knife is a waste. Piercing if you’re planning to make a spear super early? Ok, that’s better. Bashing? Eeh… so so.
Melee combat, on the other hand, will work with all melee weapons and reduce your misses and fumbles.
Investing chargen points on skills you can easily learn from easily-obtainable items is also a bad advice. Why put points in bashing or throwing when a few minutes and a rock will get you that, and you could have used them to get better stats, better traits, or to jumpstart a skill that is not easy to train at the start like mechanics?
Might also be a smart idea to carry a rag to use in case you start bleeding.
Not bad advice, but not good one either. You can turn nearly any clothing item into rags if you have something that cuts in very little time, and there’s clothing galore to loot, and if that fails, you can just take off your socks or something and butcher them.
Start as a bionic monster. Get Krav Maga. Keep on beating your head against the difficulty until you can kill Mi-Gos with your bare hands. Everything will come with it.
Krav is a pretty good fighting style, but a mediocre one for bare-handed. You want Krav because it boost your stabbing, which boosts most of your reach weapons.
If you want bare handed, you want something else. I’ve got a few posts in other threads breaking down the styles available and just what they offer, but the short of it, for an unarmed killing machine, you want Boxing, Tiger or Dragon, or Quian if you know what you’re doing.
