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[FArgHalfnr]

Damn. I had a ton of spoiler berries in my last save but I died to a zombie bio-operator despite the fact that I was a super mutant martial art god. Any tips on killing them?

[Sheb]

They can shock you, so meleeing them sounds like a bad idea. Have you tried applying a shotgun to the face?

[scrdest]

They can shock you, so meleeing them sounds like a bad idea. Have you tried applying a shotgun to the face?

Rivtech short shotgun is my all-time favorite backup for cases like this - it's powerful enough and small enough to count as a handgun for holsters, so you can eliminate any non-mechanical enemy in around three turns. The ammo rareness is only more of an incentive to use it as an emergency weapon.

[RangerCado]

PTW, and post to finally getting around to playing this.

Any tips for a first time player with only a couple videos as knowledge? (I'll learn quickly )

[Graknorke]

Experiment and fail quickly. It's the best way to learn the colossal amount of content in this game.

[i2amroy]

Three important pieces of advice:
1) Take things slow. Try to deal with zombies 1-2 at a time. Don't try to take on the whole horde with nothing but good intentions.
2) Don't get hurt. Your ability to fight degrades as you get hurt (as well as your ability to run away), which means you can very quickly snowball into a loop of you getting hurt which makes you less able to fight/run which means you get hurt more and so on. Lure zombies onto things like bushes and other things that slow them down, take a potshot, and then lure them onto something else. Never give them a chance to strike back.
3) When in doubt, RUN. You can outpace most things that would try to hurt you, with a few notable exceptions. Learn what those exceptions are, and learn when you have to turn and fight because you can't run, but when in doubt always try to run away first.

[pisskop]

Get a car.  Use it to find a place.  Caves and underground in general still seems like a pretty safe bet.  But a bike/car/quad/bus are ideal to help you avoid the tedium of dodging zombie dogs through houses.



There's apparently 3x3 refugee centers

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That have working cars with a little fuel, but tons of npcs to keep you safe.

[Rince Wind]

Hm, the last refugee center I went into (was also my first) was empty upstairs, and I did not manage to get downstairs.

[pisskop]

Hm, the last refugee center I went into (was also my first) was empty upstairs, and I did not manage to get downstairs.

Mine always have zombies that spawn in the top-right quadrant.  Lulz are had as I bait them into the npcs.

[FArgHalfnr]

How do you guys find those centers? I've been looking for one of them for ages.

[Sindain]

What can you do with the plutonium generators at military outposts?

[Graknorke]

Disassemble for minireactors and plutonium cells.

[Cheedows]

PTW, and post to finally getting around to playing this.

Any tips for a first time player with only a couple videos as knowledge? (I'll learn quickly )

Knife spears. Seriously, knife spears are amazing and are the best generic starter weapon (barring martial arts). If you use the latest 0.C though forked spears are better but take more work. Also, tailoring in general is a vital part of the game and can help you survive the first few days. Along with tailoring is learning how the encumbrance and layering system works to be both protected and able to fight zombies.

[Gentlefish]

PTW, and post to finally getting around to playing this.

Any tips for a first time player with only a couple videos as knowledge? (I'll learn quickly )

Knife spears. Seriously, knife spears are amazing and are the best generic starter weapon (barring martial arts). If you use the latest 0.C though forked spears are better but take more work. Also, tailoring in general is a vital part of the game and can help you survive the first few days. Along with tailoring is learning how the encumbrance and layering system works to be both protected and able to fight zombies.

Alternatively, cudgel, which will deal with skeletons and stun opponents with great speed.

[Cheedows]

Cudgels might actually be really good now that they can be used in fencing. It seems that the forked spear is superior to both since it has the block tag instead of parry.