I've been playing for over a year and your close combat advice in the beginning was something yet again I have been able to learn. You're doing great stuff!
Another great instructional video Brian. I've only had the game a couple of weeks and watching your various videos has taken me from getting my arse seriously whooped most of the time to now holding my own even against a couple of ferrals. Thanks mate you saved the game for me as I was nearly at 'uninstall' point with it due to frustration......now?.....well now I can't stop playing it.
Thanks for the guide bro! Made me better at combat! One detail that I learned is that crouching boosts your stamina recovery significantly, so crouching to recover your stamina speeds things up!
Hey Brian! I never knew of the static dodge and counter till I saw your videos. I'm building it into my gameplay with decent success and maintaining control of the distance whereas prior I was dodging out of combat and had to re-engage and risk damage. Chur!
Good content man. I been playing for some weeks now, finished my third legacy in nightmare action (map and community in lethal, as you adviced in one of your videos) and seeing this I realize been using just a fraction of the tools available for fighting
Great guide! Super late to the party but I didnt know you could squish them against a wall. I wonder if it also works on fences or burned out cars (terrain). My two cents you can use: 1) the kick is more effective if the zombie Is downed. You're character will initiate a curb stomp, which has the capacity to kill. Its great for striking/swordplay if you're finding the executions long. 2) if you press the kick action and have a heavy weapon equipped, your character will instead do a crosscheck move, pushing the zombie back. It's actually quicker than the kick frame wise, but less range.
Mines marathon discipline and swordplay. Execute standing zombies and tou can leg sweep them to cut off the legs and if you're light carrying capacity you run for FREE! I do like close combat as well w resourfulness and backpacking and the acrobatics and striking for blunt weapons is fun af I love the running jump attack w blunt weapons
I want to do the dodge-grab-push with a controller. Dodge is B. How do I grab and then push? Also, how is he bringing in zeds to practice on? Ok, finally found the info I was looking for. It's B to dodge, hold RT to grab, then A to push. Bonus, its A to kick.
I consider myself a pro player & yet I don't know how to perform most of these very useful action moves. It's too late for me to change my gameplay style. All my playthroughs are similar. But for new players they are 💯LIFE & 💯TIME SAVING instructions. I wish today was my 1st day in SoD 👌
One of the first things you do try to avoid hordes 8+ but if you have a character with swordplay there’s a chance you could take care of it quick but don’t try if you’re not experienced enough in evading bites
The AI controls the other characters your not personally controlling during a base under attack quest.. what combat build is best for the AI effectiveness rate 🙌
an auto shotgun/timberwolf and a blunt weapon with high knockdown or a bladed weapon with high letahlity..thats what i give mine ...but i think the meleeweapon doesnt make much of a difference if they do their ai stuff
Hey Brian, great guide, I've watched all your SoD2 videos and they're the best I've seen, by far. One question, on the Heavy Weapons, what are you doing to do the heavy attack on the plague heart? I've looked at my settings but can't even find the option to do like a "heavy" attack. Can you only use it if you have Powerhouse? I want to begin using your recommendation to phase the plague hearts before I blast them. Thank you for your time.
Great guides Brian. I am very new and there is so much to learn. I have not yet seen the Stims you use, how can I obtain them please. I have been watching your guides more than playing atm. I am poor at combat but practice the push which I find awkward to manoeuvre atm on xb. Keep up the excellent guides and all the best to you and your family. 👏
I love the close combat skill but i got a problem every time i want survivor to learn close combat skill it doesn’t show like it just shows striking skill and endruance skill i always use close combat fighting type for this survivor and it always doesn’t show close combat skill in the skills list pls i need help with this how can i let my survivor learn close combat skill do i have like when every time i see i zombie do i have like to do some move to show close combat skill or what?
how to push the zombie ? i hold X button to grab zombie and if i press right click, the character will execute the zom or if i stop holding X, the character will free the zom
Great guide bro but for 1 thing...you are explaining things like "you grab the zombie and then you throw them"..etc..all good but you need to include what keys you are using to do what. Most people don't know the different keys or what they do. especially if you are just starting out. Most people come from console to PC and they are two totally different controls.
I don’t play on controller that’s why I didn’t say I have no clue what the grab button and stuff is for people and my key-binds are custom so I don’t remember what the defaults are either 😂
@@BrianMenard oh god sorry bro..now i feel bad..maybe i should be like a reporter interviewing a celeb..you know give a list of questions i will ask so you look awesome with your responses...lmao.BTW i love Brian Menard he is just the bomb..he is good to the elderly and donates to the world wildlife fund to save endangered animal's,How was that bro..lol
Wicked guide, finally someone actually included everything that I was looking for. I can't do the push, my characters got powerhouse but I changed the key to alt so I'm thinking that that's the problem, gonna change keys and see if it fixes it. 👍🏻
@Brian - What difficulty did you capture these techniques on bud? Just wondering if the timings would be shorter on lethal mode. Keep up the amazing work. 👍🏼
2022 - I don't know if this is working as intended but my dude just keeps kicking instead of melee attacking ever since I got the shooting ability assault and I'm not even aiming.
I can do everything but the kick. I play on console, and I don't understand if it's because I'm holding a melee weapon, or if it's because I don't have powerhouse or close combat. Day 45 and I feel stupid af.🤣
I must be missing something. In sod 2 I can never grab a zombie until I level up fighting to specialize it. The only attack I can do right off the bat is normal melee and the y execution. Are you playing modded?
No mods now if your referring to grabbing a zombie from the front yes you need upgraded skills to do that but from behind any survivor can grab a zombie and hold them
I have a real problem where to put my hold zombie hotkey, x is too hard to find in the heat of battle. And dodge is assigned for my mouse side button. I have another free side button and its slightly further away than the first one, not sure if thats convenient enough too. And what about you, Brian, do you play on pad or keyboard ?
Well i just bought the game and i searched on net and keybinds and every where it should throw zombies with space after grabbing them but its not working for me ! Can someone explain or help ? Couldnt find the solution ,
Thanks for this video. A request. Could you indicate the controls or speak a little slower when explaining such important things? I don't speak English well and although I learn a lot from you, I don't understand some of the things you say.
@@BrianMenard ok nice. Which one? You have a couple. I've listened to them both but tbh I was playing too so I kinda didn't pay a lot of attention unless something specific caught my attention. I was usually too focused on staying alive in my own game. I've been through all of 2 series of lethal now, like multiple times because I play it in the background as I play. I've paid the most attention to the 1st episodes, but after that I start getting drawn more into my missions. I do it because I want tips but if I have time to watch then I have time to play. So I try to do both. But I won't die if I ignore you a bit. Can't say the same about the game. Here's a question I asked fox and he gave me suggestions I'm gonna try. But I don't have much time to try games anymore. So what are some games similar to sod2? I'm not into 1st person games. My favorite part of sod2 is the begining, starting out and building something, increasing in skill and equipment. I like the randomness of the survivors and recruiting to the community but that's not a necessity. I like building and crafting but I don't like to be bogged down by it. Project zomboid seems appealing but I'm on Xbox. I've seen you before but only finally subbed recently and started appreciating your videos. Thanks for your time and all the effort you put into your videos
Am I not paying attention, or did he not even show how to grab a zombie? Just starting the game and I dont know to grab zombies. Is it a skill, a button combination etc.
This guide could have been half as long. Way over explaining things repeatedly. You keep repeating yourself and then at the end of everything you give another summary of everything you just said. From the very start of the guide even with the super basic stuff. I get that this is for new people but even still... if people really want to see it again they can just rewind the video. You only need to explain things once. Otherwise a good helpful video, I enjoy you and your content!
Noted yeah im still new at this and explaining things isnt a strong suit of mine hahaha but i really appreciate the tips i strive to be better in the future and its comments like this that will help me get there so again thank you
I've been playing for over a year and your close combat advice in the beginning was something yet again I have been able to learn. You're doing great stuff!
Glad to help! seriously 😁
In the middle of combat if you can find a window of time and you are out of stamina you can Crouch you regain it back twice as fast
Nice ty didn't know
Such a good guide! There's nothing else like this out there that I can find - great stuff
Much appreciated!
Another great instructional video Brian. I've only had the game a couple of weeks and watching your various videos has taken me from getting my arse seriously whooped most of the time to now holding my own even against a couple of ferrals. Thanks mate you saved the game for me as I was nearly at 'uninstall' point with it due to frustration......now?.....well now I can't stop playing it.
I’m really happy to hear that seriously puts a smile on my face
Thanks for the guide bro! Made me better at combat! One detail that I learned is that crouching boosts your stamina recovery significantly, so crouching to recover your stamina speeds things up!
Glad I could help
Watching you the past few weeks has taught to kill hordes of zoms easier.. thanx for the great videos
I've been playing SoD2 for a couple of months now and I had no idea about the grab mechanics! Super helpful tips and demonstrations!
Great guide, even a veteran like myself learned something.
absolutely, full agree
Hey Brian! I never knew of the static dodge and counter till I saw your videos. I'm building it into my gameplay with decent success and maintaining control of the distance whereas prior I was dodging out of combat and had to re-engage and risk damage. Chur!
This video was SUPER helpful, the best Melee fighting guide I have found for SoD2.
Good content man. I been playing for some weeks now, finished my third legacy in nightmare action (map and community in lethal, as you adviced in one of your videos) and seeing this I realize been using just a fraction of the tools available for fighting
Great guide! Super late to the party but I didnt know you could squish them against a wall. I wonder if it also works on fences or burned out cars (terrain).
My two cents you can use:
1) the kick is more effective if the zombie Is downed. You're character will initiate a curb stomp, which has the capacity to kill. Its great for striking/swordplay if you're finding the executions long.
2) if you press the kick action and have a heavy weapon equipped, your character will instead do a crosscheck move, pushing the zombie back. It's actually quicker than the kick frame wise, but less range.
I have been playing sod and sod2 for about a decade now and i still managed to learn some tips from this video ... thanks . good stuff buddy
Acrobatics and close combat is my favorite fighting style with the Sprint jump kick
Mines marathon discipline and swordplay. Execute standing zombies and tou can leg sweep them to cut off the legs and if you're light carrying capacity you run for FREE! I do like close combat as well w resourfulness and backpacking and the acrobatics and striking for blunt weapons is fun af I love the running jump attack w blunt weapons
I want to do the dodge-grab-push with a controller. Dodge is B. How do I grab and then push? Also, how is he bringing in zeds to practice on?
Ok, finally found the info I was looking for. It's B to dodge, hold RT to grab, then A to push. Bonus, its A to kick.
I'm seriously going to go practice this immediately! :) It will improve my gameplay and I want to do a nightmare run by March 22!
I consider myself a pro player & yet I don't know how to perform most of these very useful action moves. It's too late for me to change my gameplay style. All my playthroughs are similar. But for new players they are 💯LIFE & 💯TIME SAVING instructions. I wish today was my 1st day in SoD 👌
Then u ain't no pro muddasucka
Your State of Decay 2 videos are the best!!!!!
One of the first things you do try to avoid hordes 8+ but if you have a character with swordplay there’s a chance you could take care of it quick but don’t try if you’re not experienced enough in evading bites
Keep 'em coming, love these guides!
The AI controls the other characters your not personally controlling during a base under attack quest.. what combat build is best for the AI effectiveness rate 🙌
an auto shotgun/timberwolf and a blunt weapon with high knockdown or a bladed weapon with high letahlity..thats what i give mine ...but i think the meleeweapon doesnt make much of a difference if they do their ai stuff
My survivors i dont use are all equipped with timberwolfs and echo mamba, works very well on lethal zone
haha love coming back to these... your camera in those days man :p good to see you climb high :D
Top video Brian, learned plenty. Cheers 👍
Grappeling is underated.
very good guide and explain the mechanic well
amazing camera qualitry!11!!1 good guide too
Hey Brian, great guide, I've watched all your SoD2 videos and they're the best I've seen, by far. One question, on the Heavy Weapons, what are you doing to do the heavy attack on the plague heart? I've looked at my settings but can't even find the option to do like a "heavy" attack. Can you only use it if you have Powerhouse? I want to begin using your recommendation to phase the plague hearts before I blast them. Thank you for your time.
You need the powerhouse skill for the heavy attack then all you do is hold the attack button and you will charge the swing
Even though i’m a pro at State Of Decay 2 I still learned much from this video!
Brian is good at transferring knowledge.
Very helpful thanks brother
Great guides Brian. I am very new and there is so much to learn. I have not yet seen the Stims you use, how can I obtain them please. I have been watching your guides more than playing atm. I am poor at combat but practice the push which I find awkward to manoeuvre atm on xb. Keep up the excellent guides and all the best to you and your family. 👏
Thank you so much those can only be looted and the best ways to find them is on enclaves and traders and I mainly get them out of plague hearts
Swordplay is where its at. Fully upgraded you can Takedown from the front.
Need a tip on how to melee a blood feral, I can't even get over first day of Lethal because of these things
Check the description of the video 😁
I love the close combat skill but i got a problem every time i want survivor to learn close combat skill it doesn’t show like it just shows striking skill and endruance skill i always use close combat fighting type for this survivor and it always doesn’t show close combat skill in the skills list pls i need help with this how can i let my survivor learn close combat skill do i have like when every time i see i zombie do i have like to do some move to show close combat skill or what?
You can dodge right after you eat a snake to cancel the animation.
This was a great video, nothing exaggerating yet everything you want to see
how to push the zombie ? i hold X button to grab zombie and if i press right click, the character will execute the zom or if i stop holding X, the character will free the zom
Great video! I'm just wondering what the duration on the i-frames are during the dodge mechanics
Not sure
Great guide bro but for 1 thing...you are explaining things like "you grab the zombie and then you throw them"..etc..all good but you need to include what keys you are using to do what. Most people don't know the different keys or what they do. especially if you are just starting out. Most people come from console to PC and they are two totally different controls.
I don’t play on controller that’s why I didn’t say I have no clue what the grab button and stuff is for people and my key-binds are custom so I don’t remember what the defaults are either 😂
@@BrianMenard oh god sorry bro..now i feel bad..maybe i should be like a reporter interviewing a celeb..you know give a list of questions i will ask so you look awesome with your responses...lmao.BTW i love Brian Menard he is just the bomb..he is good to the elderly and donates to the world wildlife fund to save endangered animal's,How was that bro..lol
@@michaelvial125 🤣🤣💀💀 spot on hahaha
Wicked guide, finally someone actually included everything that I was looking for. I can't do the push, my characters got powerhouse but I changed the key to alt so I'm thinking that that's the problem, gonna change keys and see if it fixes it. 👍🏻
@Brian - What difficulty did you capture these techniques on bud? Just wondering if the timings would be shorter on lethal mode. Keep up the amazing work. 👍🏼
this was nightmare and no the timing is the same with animations the only difference would be stamina costs will be slightly higher in lethal
@@BrianMenard Thanks very much for the answer. Again, thanks for your amazing work. 👍🏼
very useful guide
Glad you liked it
2022 - I don't know if this is working as intended but my dude just keeps kicking instead of melee attacking ever since I got the shooting ability assault and I'm not even aiming.
I can do everything but the kick. I play on console, and I don't understand if it's because I'm holding a melee weapon, or if it's because I don't have powerhouse or close combat. Day 45 and I feel stupid af.🤣
It's might be the jump button did that help
I must be missing something. In sod 2 I can never grab a zombie until I level up fighting to specialize it. The only attack I can do right off the bat is normal melee and the y execution. Are you playing modded?
No mods now if your referring to grabbing a zombie from the front yes you need upgraded skills to do that but from behind any survivor can grab a zombie and hold them
I have a real problem where to put my hold zombie hotkey, x is too hard to find in the heat of battle. And dodge is assigned for my mouse side button. I have another free side button and its slightly further away than the first one, not sure if thats convenient enough too. And what about you, Brian, do you play on pad or keyboard ?
I changed that key because I was having the same issue. I made it a button on my mouse
Hi, I cannot get to take out Juggernauts by execution on my Xbox? What keys should I be using please?
When there down I think it’s Y but I’m on PC so I’m not 100%
Hoping to see your guide for dealing with ambush plague feral packs. :)
Do You Want To Kill Plague Ferals??? 😁👍🏼 ua-cam.com/video/LGic7Wjxzh8/v-deo.html
@@BrianMenard thank you!!
Well i just bought the game and i searched on net and keybinds and every where it should throw zombies with space after grabbing them but its not working for me ! Can someone explain or help ? Couldnt find the solution ,
It should go into the setting to keys and make sure it’s set to space if it is I would unbind it and rebind it again
WoW thank you again
No problem 😊
@@BrianMenard want a detailed video about skills like your 5th skill video and thanks for the reply means a lot
Execute zombies with the golf swing while using blunt weapons.
Can you link your follow up melee guide, I can't find them
Is there a benefit to using the wall squash versus just using an execution
time and with armor zombies its just faster and you dont get locked into a animation
Good vid
State of decay 2 is so much fun...
Can you knock a ferral if you push a zombie to it?
No but it does stop it’s movements for a second but it doesn’t get knocked down
Thanks for this video. A request. Could you indicate the controls or speak a little slower when explaining such important things? I don't speak English well and although I learn a lot from you, I don't understand some of the things you say.
Yeah I can try next time for sure 😁👍🏼
is there no part 2?
Is there a part 2? Or advanced fighting techniques
No I ended up incorporating it into my lethal zone guide
@@BrianMenard ok nice. Which one? You have a couple. I've listened to them both but tbh I was playing too so I kinda didn't pay a lot of attention unless something specific caught my attention. I was usually too focused on staying alive in my own game.
I've been through all of 2 series of lethal now, like multiple times because I play it in the background as I play. I've paid the most attention to the 1st episodes, but after that I start getting drawn more into my missions.
I do it because I want tips but if I have time to watch then I have time to play. So I try to do both. But I won't die if I ignore you a bit. Can't say the same about the game.
Here's a question I asked fox and he gave me suggestions I'm gonna try. But I don't have much time to try games anymore. So what are some games similar to sod2? I'm not into 1st person games. My favorite part of sod2 is the begining, starting out and building something, increasing in skill and equipment. I like the randomness of the survivors and recruiting to the community but that's not a necessity. I like building and crafting but I don't like to be bogged down by it. Project zomboid seems appealing but I'm on Xbox.
I've seen you before but only finally subbed recently and started appreciating your videos. Thanks for your time and all the effort you put into your videos
what is the button? not everyone know the button u use for all the skills..
How do you do an arm drag and the sword frontal finisher
Maxed out close combat fighting skill or the maxed out sword play fighting skill
Is stimulants or Energy Drinks better?
stims are better
this was 2 years ago? i remember when you made it lol
what key do i press to grab zombie?
100+ hours into the game. Watched this video, still have no idea what key is grab.
Brruuuh!
I had no idea u could hold on to a zombie like that Smh 🤦♂️
how do you grab with pc controls?
how you use melee weapon while u have gun on PC i cant find any info !!!!!!
Just left click
Is it just me, or is that grab animation looking like a wife trying to get their husband to change a diaper?
🤣
Yeaaaah buddy. Give me all da tips (pause)
Am I not paying attention, or did he not even show how to grab a zombie? Just starting the game and I dont know to grab zombies. Is it a skill, a button combination etc.
Lmao I had to look up how to grab zombies
Love state of decay !!!you!!?!!🌡️💋
It’s my favorite game 😁👍🏼
Yeah ok, just lost a character trying to practice this. That's great if you have some mystery source of stim bottles but that's not realistic.
Make energy drinks or even snacks
And practice in daybreak not the real game if your losing people
You did excellent with the instruction, can you do it again with good editing? The blurry face is so distracting.
Lol I know I’m so sorry about that I may try to remake this video better thank you for pointing this out to me !
The camera didn't want to focus.
First :) hi
Second!
Third :)
learn to grab zombies.....doesn't show you how to grab zombies
the first method is dumb you shouldn't waste your time doing it
This guide could have been half as long. Way over explaining things repeatedly. You keep repeating yourself and then at the end of everything you give another summary of everything you just said. From the very start of the guide even with the super basic stuff. I get that this is for new people but even still... if people really want to see it again they can just rewind the video. You only need to explain things once.
Otherwise a good helpful video, I enjoy you and your content!
Noted yeah im still new at this and explaining things isnt a strong suit of mine hahaha but i really appreciate the tips i strive to be better in the future and its comments like this that will help me get there so again thank you
Any idea which weapon won't break? Or all weapon will break and need to be repaired at some point?