from the left button attack being useless, to the right button.

[random person]

as the title said, before no one ever used anything but the power attack, but now its the opposite.

i know all this stuff is hard to balance, but maybe someone can find a creative balanced solution, so ill leave this post here for people to post their ideas about this topic.

[Exxodous]

I don't find the right button useless at all. Even early game one hit with the right button knocks them down and gives me time to assess the situation before I finish them off. I use both right and left button attacks on nearly every zombie. More than 3 or 4 and I back off and use my bow and only switch to right button swing after they are "hurt" by the arrows.

 

Works pretty well and much better than previous build in my opinion.

[HungryZombie]

I use the power attack all the time still. Why is it useless? I right attack till they drop then power attack once or twice to finish them.

[FranticDan]

I'm finding power attacks would only be useful on survivalist and insane difficulties (and I suppose irradiated zombies) as i'm killing them quite quickly with normal attacks, I haven't come across any irradiated yet and I'm about to have my day 21 horde.

 

As for mining etc, the penalty for power attacks needs some attention for sure as I find it's completely useless for the stamina cost and from what I've seen, there's no perks for power attacking with mining.