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Combat Guide
By Red riding hood the third
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Category: Gameplay Basics, Weapons
Languages: English
Posted
22 Dec, 2020 @ 12:47pm
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Guide Index
Overview
Mechanics 
Dealing with one Zombie 
Dealing with multiple zombies 
Ranged 
Author Notes 
Comments
Mechanics
Hand to hand
  • lvl 1: Allows to aim at body parts.
  • Crippled enemies easily tumble if their legs are targeted
  • Tumbled enemies will be stunlocked if attacked repeatedly
Ranged
  • lvl 0: Easy to miss targets, will attract attention
  • lvl 1: Able to aim at legs
  • lvl 2: Able to aim at heads
  • Snipers lose against bows due to firing speed and similiar range
Sneaking
  • lvl 0: Able to do sneak attacks
  • lvl 0: Able to sprint while sneaking
  • lvl 5: Able to sprint while sneaking without getting detected
  • Unarmed sneak attacks lead into choking holds, huge exhaustion
  • Armed sneak attacks with the hunting knifes lead into stabs, possible to perform on fitness lvl 0
Armour and Helmets
  • Blocks bullets, arrows and sharp weapons
  • Useless against blunt weapons, molotovs, pipebombs and zombie bites
  • Can break over time
Dealing with one Zombie
Fighting
  • Zombies cannot deal normal damage, they solely rely on grabbing and biting.
  • Zombies will leap occasionally, if they miss they will tumble and be on the ground for 1-3 seconds.
  • Zombie can easily be crippled if you aim at their legs, even with the hunting knife. (Needs lvl1)
  • Zombies can be stunlocked when they're on the ground. Making them easy to handle one on one.
  • It is possible to deal with white strain zombies at fitness lvl 0 and hand to hand lvl 1.
Assassinate
  • Zombies can be dispatched quickly with a hunting knife while sneaking up behind them.
  • At sneaking lvl 0 sprinting while sneaking will alert them.
  • At sneaking lvl 5 sprinting while sneaking will not alert them.
  • Approaching zombies from behind with wind direction aimed forward will alert them per smell.
  • Approaching zombies from behind with wind direction aimed backwards will not alert them.
Fitness
  • lvl 0 fitness will easily exhaust you in combat.
  • You can recover during combat if it's only one zombie, side step and be patient.
  • Assassinating without a weapon will exhaust you too much, causing it to fail early.
Dealing with multiple zombies
Fighting
  • Determine their colour and cripple the weakest ones first. Green -> Blue -> Red -> White
  • Do not kite groups of zombies into open areas, it will easily alert other zombies and exhaust you.
  • Rely on forests to make them lose sight of you and change directions.
  • Take advantage of settlements on the map and make them deal with the zombies.
  • Crippled hordes can be dispatched one by one, stun one by targeting their legs and repeat.
  • You can lure zombies to your directions by sight or smell, forests are the best place for 1 vs 1.
  • Hide inside cars or buildings in emergencies. Sneak and leave from a different direction.
Ranged
Firearms
  • lvl 0: Useless, will attract attention
  • lvl 1: Allows to aim at legs
  • lvl 2: Allows to aim at heads
  • Useless against armour and helmets
Archery
  • lvl 0: Useless, wont hit anything
  • Very effective against snipers by stunlocking them.
  • Effective for bleeding out humans
Molotovs
  • Can take out humans in one hit before they start burning
  • Can take out green zombies in one hit before they start burning
  • White zombies have too much health, making molotovs near useless unless used in bulk
  • Can take out wooden barricades
  • Ignores armour
Pipebomb
  • Can one shot white zombies
  • Can demolish iron fences
Author Notes
A simplified version of the weapon and skill guide.
2 Comments
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Red riding hood the third  [author] 23 Mar, 2021 @ 6:13am 
Hand to hand improves damage. Fitness is for stamina.
y-man 23 Mar, 2021 @ 4:34am 
Hi ! Does a higher level in 'Hand to hand' help to lose less stamina ?
Or does it only help to maximize the damage ?