Hey, always good to see new guides for this game. Small correction though: when atacking a downed zombie the cursor location does not determine if you attack its head, it's rather only based on your character location - so you need to make sure you are standing closer to the head than to the hips, otherwise it will just be a body hit. Retanaru has a video on this called "This is not a headshot" explaining this in detail.
You can avoid being grabbed by letting go of RMB (combat stance) and pressing Shift at the same time to run away. If you try to do that by walking away, they'll grab you. Very useful when your Nimble is low and you're fighting hordes in melee.
I have 8 hours in this game and I keep making the mistake of running into even more zombies, these tips should help me stay alive for more than 10 real-life minutes. Thank you!
Actually really good video. Though some things to note Survivour enables multi hit by default. Guns can actually be used as intentional noise makers. If you have the ammo, you can just attract all the zombies in the area and kill them to both make herding easier and make escapes easier. This also makes fitness more stronger as running will attract zombies + give you more time to stand still and shoot. Also, it helps to kill any stragglers onve you lose them with the aforementioned Houses, trees, half and high fences.
Good video. My suggestion would be for people to get comfortable with fighting before wasting too much time building bases only to die. Secondly nimble, especially getting to lvl 3 is important because you can back up at the same speed as zombies walk. Also realize that where your character hits is where you are standing, not where your weapon lands, stand on there head to hit it.
If you are playing with a game controller, I’ve never had the circle cross hairs come up for where and who I’m striking in combat. Although with using the green highlight I never really need it. Something you missed is that if you push a zombie down and walk on them and stop. They can’t get up even if they have full health. It’s good for when you have 2-3 zombies and you’ve pushed one over and rather than get up again, you step on their chest and whack the other 1 or 2 before dealing a headshot to them or a boot shot.
1.) If a zombie is mauling at a window and you want to kill it, let the zombie bash through that window. Oddly enough, when zombies cause noise (unless you changed your settings for them to trip alarms) other zombies will ignore that particular noise. 2.) Never EVER underestimate the power of house alarms, car alarms or car sirens. They have a much larger attraction radius then you could anticipate. 3.) This is not a combat tip but, once you take the KEEN HEARING trait, you will never play a game without it. 4.) Anyone who brings a SLEDGEHAMMER and uses it as a weapon in this game deserves to be bludgeoned to death by it. 5.) You can use cars to take down hordes, as long as you're doing backwards doughnuts. Always hit them with the rear end to keep your engine safe. 6.) The only vanilla weapon worth a damn in this game is the shotgun. As long as you have the ammo for it, you can shoot to your heart's content.
4:52 where you put the aim cursor actually has no impact on where you hit the zombie. instead, the game checks what part of the zombie your character is closest to. for a headshot you should stand on the zombie's upper body or head. the cursor just tells you what direction you're looking in.
Would not recommend beginner to enter houses to lose thr horde. First, they don't know lay out of it, so they can end up in dead end, or there could be zombies that would cut off escape root and swarm you You could also suggest use of small fences to make zombies fall to the ground and take way more damage (you can oneshot theme with a frying pan, if done from correct distance)
The house escape method is still recommended for new players. For one, the plan is pretty simple that even new players can do so if they follow the plan. Just go through a window or door and escaping through the otherside is easy/quicker. Actually observed streamers and new players achieve this easily once they know how to. The other thing is if you have attracted the area, there shouldn't be zombies at the other side. And even if there were, it'll only be 1-2 zombies which is easy to just fight or escape anyway. Even if they are blocking, it's easy to just juke them by opening the door/window and escaping through anyway. The half fence is really good to slow them down, though the high fences are also really good. May need good fitness, but it practically guarantees your escape from that horde and even random zombies at the otherside are non existant.
The sledgehammer and the wood axe are noob traps. Its true they swing harder, but its VERY easy to get locked into the slower animation and die because you cant cancel animations in PZ. Sledge for destroying walls and wood axe for cutting trees, don't F around and find out.
You should also try to improve and level Nimble as much as you can as fast as you can early on. you are really shit with lvl 0 or 1 nimble but it will get better after lvl 3.. Just aim walk a lot early game to get your nimble up. I also do suggest you pick up gymnast and this way you get +1 nimble and more important a 75% boost allowing you to get nimble 3 a bit faster :)
Finally, if you got comfortable and got the hang of the combat, start in Rosewood, take some supplies, and clear the entire Rosewood Prison solo as a rite of passage.
Hey, always good to see new guides for this game. Small correction though: when atacking a downed zombie the cursor location does not determine if you attack its head, it's rather only based on your character location - so you need to make sure you are standing closer to the head than to the hips, otherwise it will just be a body hit.
Retanaru has a video on this called "This is not a headshot" explaining this in detail.
POV: You never reached the heli event with your original character because you became too overconfident too quickly
You can avoid being grabbed by letting go of RMB (combat stance) and pressing Shift at the same time to run away. If you try to do that by walking away, they'll grab you. Very useful when your Nimble is low and you're fighting hordes in melee.
I have 8 hours in this game and I keep making the mistake of running into even more zombies, these tips should help me stay alive for more than 10 real-life minutes. Thank you!
never be afraid to take out small groups, even without a weapon you can feesably take on 2-4 zombies depending on your skill level and timing
Actually really good video.
Though some things to note
Survivour enables multi hit by default.
Guns can actually be used as intentional noise makers. If you have the ammo, you can just attract all the zombies in the area and kill them to both make herding easier and make escapes easier. This also makes fitness more stronger as running will attract zombies + give you more time to stand still and shoot. Also, it helps to kill any stragglers onve you lose them with the aforementioned Houses, trees, half and high fences.
Good video. My suggestion would be for people to get comfortable with fighting before wasting too much time building bases only to die. Secondly nimble, especially getting to lvl 3 is important because you can back up at the same speed as zombies walk. Also realize that where your character hits is where you are standing, not where your weapon lands, stand on there head to hit it.
If you are playing with a game controller, I’ve never had the circle cross hairs come up for where and who I’m striking in combat. Although with using the green highlight I never really need it.
Something you missed is that if you push a zombie down and walk on them and stop. They can’t get up even if they have full health. It’s good for when you have 2-3 zombies and you’ve pushed one over and rather than get up again, you step on their chest and whack the other 1 or 2 before dealing a headshot to them or a boot shot.
120 Hours in and I'm finding your videos very helpful still, it's good to fact check with someone else and your Vids are spot on with the latest info.
Yay next video! Thank you. This is going to even better equip me! "take their multi-vitamins" 😂
I’m really happy it’s helped you! Yeah I want some of what they have 😂
Thanks for making the video this helps a lot
It’s my pleasure. Glad it helped you!
hey man thanks for making these vids im actually improving alot now lol , keep it up
It’s my pleasure! Im so happy it’s helping you! Keep going!
:D
1.) If a zombie is mauling at a window and you want to kill it, let the zombie bash through that window. Oddly enough, when zombies cause noise (unless you changed your settings for them to trip alarms) other zombies will ignore that particular noise.
2.) Never EVER underestimate the power of house alarms, car alarms or car sirens. They have a much larger attraction radius then you could anticipate.
3.) This is not a combat tip but, once you take the KEEN HEARING trait, you will never play a game without it.
4.) Anyone who brings a SLEDGEHAMMER and uses it as a weapon in this game deserves to be bludgeoned to death by it.
5.) You can use cars to take down hordes, as long as you're doing backwards doughnuts. Always hit them with the rear end to keep your engine safe.
6.) The only vanilla weapon worth a damn in this game is the shotgun. As long as you have the ammo for it, you can shoot to your heart's content.
Good Call! Thanks for the heads up on that one
4:52 where you put the aim cursor actually has no impact on where you hit the zombie. instead, the game checks what part of the zombie your character is closest to. for a headshot you should stand on the zombie's upper body or head. the cursor just tells you what direction you're looking in.
Would not recommend beginner to enter houses to lose thr horde. First, they don't know lay out of it, so they can end up in dead end, or there could be zombies that would cut off escape root and swarm you
You could also suggest use of small fences to make zombies fall to the ground and take way more damage (you can oneshot theme with a frying pan, if done from correct distance)
The house escape method is still recommended for new players.
For one, the plan is pretty simple that even new players can do so if they follow the plan. Just go through a window or door and escaping through the otherside is easy/quicker. Actually observed streamers and new players achieve this easily once they know how to.
The other thing is if you have attracted the area, there shouldn't be zombies at the other side. And even if there were, it'll only be 1-2 zombies which is easy to just fight or escape anyway. Even if they are blocking, it's easy to just juke them by opening the door/window and escaping through anyway.
The half fence is really good to slow them down, though the high fences are also really good. May need good fitness, but it practically guarantees your escape from that horde and even random zombies at the otherside are non existant.
The sledgehammer and the wood axe are noob traps. Its true they swing harder, but its VERY easy to get locked into the slower animation and die because you cant cancel animations in PZ. Sledge for destroying walls and wood axe for cutting trees, don't F around and find out.
you also get tired quickly.
You should also try to improve and level Nimble as much as you can as fast as you can early on. you are really shit with lvl 0 or 1 nimble but it will get better after lvl 3.. Just aim walk a lot early game to get your nimble up. I also do suggest you pick up gymnast and this way you get +1 nimble and more important a 75% boost allowing you to get nimble 3 a bit faster :)
According to the wiki, one skill point in the character creation actually gives a 400% skill gain boost
Finally, if you got comfortable and got the hang of the combat, start in Rosewood, take some supplies, and clear the entire Rosewood Prison solo as a rite of passage.
It's tradition
I am a newer player looking to do some co-op streams. Are you interested?
WHY... WHY WOULD THEY MAKE IT A SETTING TO BE ABLE TO HIT MORE THEN ONE ZOMBIE ON A SWING.
For the sole reason of helping people get used to the game. After a while, it’s a natural transition to turn off multi hit
Because it’s not really realistic to cleave 5 zombies with some blunt weapon
im godly at pve but i get scared
Classic PZ experience hehe
@@ProjectTweak fr, most fear comes from boredom for no reason at all