Thanks for the tips, I never thought about burning the meat to lure the zombies away but I run through cars and kill the zeds that followed me into the car.
[quote=“Nighthawk, post:5, topic:1795”]First, even if you have 2 dodge skill right off, zombies are pretty likely to hit you at least once while you’re fighting them. You can counteract this by luring them over shrubs or counters and hitting them while they spend 200 move points getting over.
Second, and yes, this has already been said, but… combat knives have a -4 to-hit penalty, making your likelihood of hitting pretty awful unless your cutting weapon skill is really high. If you want to use cutting, find a machete or something.
Third, bears are insanely strong. Fighting them with a pocketknife is like asking to die. In fact, fighting them in melee at all is asking to die. If you managed to kill one with a crack pipe, you were either very, very lucky, the bear was already injured somehow, or your character was somehow amazingly skilled at that time. To take out dangerous foes like bears and zombie brutes, I recommend finding a pistol with ammo if you can, equipping it when a strong enemy is after you, waiting for them to get really close, and firing point-blank. That kills most things.
Last, and maybe this isn’t for me to judge, but it seems like you expect the game to be really easy. It isn’t. If taking out enemies was as easy as fighting them one by one, anyone could clear an entire town simply by being careful. But as it is, a single zombie is enough of a threat. Don’t expect the game to be like any other roguelikes you’ve played where enemies are weak at first and steadily get stronger until they overwhelm you. Enemies will always be strong. You just need to get strong enough to take them on.[/quote]
Trust me I know this game is hard that’s why I love it, and as for the bear I lead it to a trap pile I found and waited for him to get damaged and would butcher him but he was tougher than I thought and apparently I was wielding a crack pipe and managed to finish the bear that way.