Go out find a rock
Drop near the corner top left, inside, in the shelter
Smash 2 locker
Smash a window; pick a string 3 feet, drop it with the other stuff
Pick a Sheet, cut it, drop rags
Make a Spike, make a Crowbar, make a Knife spear
All the rest depend of the loot in town; it’s about find storage and water (food is useless, there is a lot of wild life stock food).
When you go back if you find a spider (not the wolf one) let him attack you, it increase dodge skill while it’s almost harmless.
[quote=“Oragepoilu, post:41, topic:1967”]Fun fact that nobody talk about knife spear.
Go out find a rock
Drop near the corner top left, inside, in the shelter
Smash 2 locker
Smash a window; pick a string 3 feet, drop it with the other stuff
Pick a Sheet, cut it, drop rags
Make a Spike, make a Crowbar, make a Knife spear[/quote]
I usually skip the knife-spear and go straight for Javelins.
Ah, my latest love affair, The Awlpike. Sooo beautiful and deadly. Lives in a mansion, too. Them big buildings are a great, great way to go when leaving behind the dreaded Shelter. (!)
I gather some rocks (3 unless I get like a backpack or a utility vest) and I slowly pick off zombies by throwing the rocks at them. I’m also careful not to attract the attention of zombie hulks and brutes unless there is a set of traps or a fumarole nearby that I can lead them into.
I then gather supplies and books to read with a couple of trips, taking them back to the shelter as long as the shelter is at least a small ways away from the town/city.
Then I skill up, reading books until I get some decent skills before I really start playing.
Rock get -2 to hit. try getting something else quickly, like crafted weapon with bonus. Even if it’s a bit more volume/weight it’s easy to craft and left alone … and way better to take down stuff with.
Be near city isn’t a problem if you use static spam. Even stick in middle of the city isn’t a problem. Just clear the Z nearby and everything will be fine (unless wildlife spawn, like bear or moose, but its the same everywhere for that)
[quote=“Oragepoilu, post:47, topic:1967”]Rock get -2 to hit. try getting something else quickly, like crafted weapon with bonus. Even if it’s a bit more volume/weight it’s easy to craft and left alone … and way better to take down stuff with.
Be near city isn’t a problem if you use static spam. Even stick in middle of the city isn’t a problem. Just clear the Z nearby and everything will be fine (unless wildlife spawn, like bear or moose, but its the same everywhere for that)[/quote]
Throwing rocks at enemies is faster than trying to spend a day crafting a weapon that I’ll have to get into melee range to use effectively, and probably safer since I don’t have to get into melee range unless the enemy is faster than I am. Also, throwing at higher level will quickly negate that penalty.
Interesting thing about this game is that even throwing a rock against the wall can help level up your skill. Same as shooting an arrow at the wall… It’s just a shame that you can’t really train melee skills with the same ease.
Interesting thing about this game is that even throwing a rock against the wall can help level up your skill. Same as shooting an arrow at the wall… It’s just a shame that you can’t really train melee skills with the same ease.[/quote]
Well, if you want to train up melee skills, you might do well to find a rabbit or a squirrel in a building (a mansion most commonly), wear a bunch of stuff on your torso to increase torso encumbrance (usually 5-6 is good), and then wield either a rock, a pocket knife, or your bare hands (for faster, weaker attacks) with no martial arts stance, and just repeatedly “attack” that enemy until you actually hit them.
Also, part of the reason why I’m not overly big on melee combat is because torso encumbrance will generally render melee combat useless if you have more than 1 torso encumbrance. As in, if your not geared specifically for it, it’s useless.
And yea, could just drop your backpacks and loot to fight. And a spitter zombie can just come along and destroy everything. (Just so you know, because I know somebody is going to suggest this.)
Interesting thing about this game is that even throwing a rock against the wall can help level up your skill. Same as shooting an arrow at the wall… It’s just a shame that you can’t really train melee skills with the same ease.[/quote]
Well, if you want to train up melee skills, you might do well to find a rabbit or a squirrel in a building (a mansion most commonly), wear a bunch of stuff on your torso to increase torso encumbrance (usually 5-6 is good), and then wield either a rock, a pocket knife, or your bare hands (for faster, weaker attacks) with no martial arts stance, and just repeatedly “attack” that enemy until you actually hit them.
Also, part of the reason why I’m not overly big on melee combat is because torso encumbrance will generally render melee combat useless if you have more than 1 torso encumbrance. As in, if your not geared specifically for it, it’s useless.
And yea, could just drop your backpacks and loot to fight. And a spitter zombie can just come along and destroy everything. (Just so you know, because I know somebody is going to suggest this.)[/quote]
Yeah, i know about how to lvl up skill. But we are more talking about early game when you start instead of how to reach lvl 5 in a skill in less than 5min.
My last experience with melee is i’v clear with only a knife spear a megatore without a scratch ; i first catch few Z in bush, pick up under amor /tank top fitting, and then slaying everybody in middle of the store. Then you got the full store for yourself in less than 10min IRL just after creating your caractere.
Yeah, i know about how to lvl up skill. But we are more talking about early game when you start instead of how to reach lvl 5 in a skill in less than 5min.
My last experience with melee is i’v clear with only a knife spear a megatore without a scratch ; i first catch few Z in bush, pick up under amor /tank top fitting, and then slaying everybody in middle of the store. Then you got the full store for yourself in less than 10min IRL just after creating your caractere.[/quote]
I’m a tad bit skeptical of that myself. I know the knife spear gets rapid attack, and a weak block, but to use either of those you need to get a critical right? Do you start with a point or 3 in melee skill?
If I’m playing my melee character
1.I smash a locker, take a pipe, a rock and a piece of scrap metal
2.make crowbar and improvised picklock
3.open map
4. look for garages, public works and hardware stores
5. if there is any try to find some storage then die
6.if not look for car and gas station then die
7. if I don’t die look for something easy to kill preferably a cougar
8.get killed by wolves.
if I’m playing one of my archers
break two windows
make shortbow or longbow depending on which archer I use
charge in to town wielding a pocket knife
look for storage
leave town
6.find deer
7.stab deer until dead
8.make wood javelin
9.almost die of thirst
run into nearest town to find toilet to drink out of
die because all my stats are like 1 and I found a coyote
Yeah, i know about how to lvl up skill. But we are more talking about early game when you start instead of how to reach lvl 5 in a skill in less than 5min.
My last experience with melee is i’v clear with only a knife spear a megatore without a scratch ; i first catch few Z in bush, pick up under amor /tank top fitting, and then slaying everybody in middle of the store. Then you got the full store for yourself in less than 10min IRL just after creating your caractere.[/quote]
I’m a tad bit skeptical of that myself. I know the knife spear gets rapid attack, and a weak block, but to use either of those you need to get a critical right? Do you start with a point or 3 in melee skill?[/quote]
I don’t know about critical needed for that. I don’t think so. And i start with 20 strenght (yeah pretty hight cost) with no skill, no trait but the one that allow you to move in every type of terrain for same cost as normal one. Only dog are real problem : they can attack you even in iregular terrain and make you bleed/hight dommage if crit. They are also hard to hit. But other (basic Z, spitter, the electric one, hulk) arent a problem, just keep near car, and do hit /back. They won’t be able to hit you so much. And basic Z won’t hit you at all if you back before.
The first thing I do is butcher the npc (if I have them turned on) for their equipment. I then open my map, and see if there is a fungal bloom. I then run there, check for marloss berries, grab them and run to town, and then I turn one of the houses into a temporary base, generally by boarding up all the windows and doors (after moving everything into a bedroom) leaving one window unboarded, which I shove furniture in front of until I have to leave for supplies.
Now that the crowbar is zero mechanic skill recipe, I usually go for a rock, then to smash a locker from evac shelter. After that it’s fridge smashing time for rubber hose and a liquid container for gasoline that I siphon from wrecks. After that I’ll try to find a gas station to fill up and a public works for some cosmetic yet spiky changes to the vehicle in use.
Crowbar & improvised “picklock” crafting is efficient way to maximize one’s mechanic skill, especially when everything one needs is available at a public works. That makes public works one of the best locations for early-game situations for me.
TL;DR: crowbar, hose, car, pulp and the world is your oyster?
[quote=“Livingstone, post:57, topic:1967”]Now that the crowbar is zero mechanic skill recipe, I usually go for a rock, then to smash a locker from evac shelter. After that it’s fridge smashing time for rubber hose and a liquid container for gasoline that I siphon from wrecks. After that I’ll try to find a gas station to fill up and a public works for some cosmetic yet spiky changes to the vehicle in use.
Crowbar & improvised “picklock” crafting is efficient way to maximize one’s mechanic skill, especially when everything one needs is available at a public works. That makes public works one of the best locations for early-game situations for me.
TL;DR: crowbar, hose, car, pulp and the world is your oyster?[/quote]
I usually take Fast Learner to level skills quickly.
First off make a crowbar to use as both pry and melee weapon, make some lockpicks as well to hit 1 on Mechanics, then raid a house or two trying to find some bottles and a pot or pan. While there, smash a fridge and grab the rubber hose.
Back at shelter, make a slingshot, then bang some rocks together for ammo and spend a while shooting at squirrels and rabbits, and foraging to boost Survival.
Once Survival is at 1, go to the woods and spend a little time punching young trees and crafting digging sticks, which boosts it up to 3 or 4 a lot faster than butchering corpses.
Once Archery hits 3, build a longbow and some field arrows.
At this point, can readily make food indefinitely by shooting and butchering critters, and can boil toilet water to clean it, so mere raw survival is now sorted. From here, will start raiding more specialised buildings to look for stuff that will help for the long term.
