Quick guide for those still struggling in early days of an A17 game.

[Aldranon]

You don't really need heavy investment in intelligence early on. You can get by just fine repairing your stone axe and eating charred meat and boiled water. You don't get much, and those points can be valuable for a particular build.

 

There are three critical things starting off:

1. Prioritize what you need, and stick with it. Do you need materials to build? Focus on it. Do you need to work for the trader to get some early tools and antibiotics? Focus on it. Do you need to scavenge? Stick with it. Avoid becoming too distracted with everything in front of you. Have a dump chest and save 'inventory sorting' activities for nighttime. Getting distracted often means picking up too much loot, which inevitably leads to overencumbrance, which wastes daylight. Pick up only what you need, and avoid sidetracks or aimless waffling.

 

2. Prioritize who you want to be. Spreading your perk points thin may help early on, but it can sabotage obtaining higher tier perks. EVERYTHING looks important, but what you don't realize is that you CAN do without them by compensating elsewhere. Why cook when you can earn dukes to buy pasta from all those random vending machines? Why get Boom Headshot if you want to be a stealthy-boi when you can focus heavily in Hidden Strike, Shadows, and Ninja Movement? Do you want to be a builder, a melee tank, a ninja looter, a run-and-gunner? Focus on the key skill combinations that fits your build first.

 

3. Always have a way out. If you hear an angry zombie and you don't know where it is, back out. If it's BM night, have an accessible plan B location if your defense plan fails or isn't done. If you focused on priorities, you should be ready.

 

To focus is definitely good advise for this game and life in general.

 

I would add that a player needs to know how they will deal with the radiated when they begin to appear, all too soon.

 

For me, melee is "all in" or nothing. You don't need any perks to kill a normal zombie by melee. Your main attack method should always have killing radiated in mind.

 

EDIT: 17.2 made BM hordes not as important, but ranged attack is still the thing and a bow weapon will not kill radiated that well, certainly not in a POI. **(Bow+Stealth could work)

 

So, Ammo, Ammo, Ammo. And a mod'ed out damage hose (AK, SMG, Shotgun) is the best way IMO.

[fishjie]

i haven't played 17.2, but heavily disagree about ranged attacks. i thought ranged was the way to go, but it wastes too many bullets on bullet sponge. i use heavy armor, pain tolerance, heavy weapons, and headshots. i also have points in stealth and ranged headshots. what i usually do to clear POI now is use sneak + steel arrow to aggro just one green at a time with a headshot, hopefully far away enough where it doesn't wake the other greens, then when it comes close i use my sledgehammer. i have 4 pts in heavy weapons, so most of the time it knocks them down. then i meelee their prone bodies until they die. if it all goes to ♥♥♥♥ and a bunch of greens aggro, i use the power attack to crowd control and hopefully it knocks a lot of them down. then i will retreat down a preplanned path, where i can then snipe at them from a distance with sniper. i try to retreat down a chokepoint area so that they can only come at me single file. usually a straggler leads the pack. i will snipe at the straggler, then switch to shotgun, and then finally when its close finish with sledgehammer.

 

in this way i can clear out POIs without having to resort to wasting tons of ammo. the issue of course is that anything that touches you causes you to bleed, because for some reason they decided that all zombies should proc bleed now. carry bandaids, invest in an aloe farm. also invest some points in cooking so you have steak + potato meal to heal you.

[lee_terry_jr]

According to the wiki the chair has a burn time of 50 seconds, but would break down into two wood which burn for 50 seconds each.

Am I missing something here?

 

That comment was probably made during a previous version which has been patched since. Earlier someone mentioned secure doors being good for that and it was also patched. I think they may have gone through and made sure everything burns for the same time as the parts you used to craft it would because everything I have tested so far has been like that.

[SylenThunder]

That comment was probably made during a previous version which has been patched since. Earlier someone mentioned secure doors being good for that and it was also patched. I think they may have gone through and made sure everything burns for the same time as the parts you used to craft it would because everything I have tested so far has been like that.

You're responding to a comment made in a previous version.

 

Don't raise the dead please.