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[GlyphGryph]

Utility vest is free, and I'm usually not carrying enough stuff for it to be a huge deal. If I run, I'll keep it all on, since it only encumbers melee and if I'm in a situation where I have to run it's probably an emergency shotgun situation. If I decide to go killing, I'll drop the pack and all the loot I've picked up (notice that I don't need it to carry the stuff listed, meaning that even in the unlikely event I have to leave it behind I don't lose much of value), which drops encumbrance to just the kevlar.

Which, admittedly, is significant, but the penalty to melee is more than surpassed by the ability to almost completely ignore slashing damage where it hurts the most.

If I'm deciding to hunker down at a window to fight off a bunch of basic zombies, I'll drop the kevlar and the backpack both, but less so as my melee skill improves and it becomes less important.

Also, I should add that I also often carry a second backpack in my backpack, just in case I find something huge that I want to carry back to my base. But that sort of stuff really needs to be dropped before combat anyway - I can always come back for it later. Or, if its too hot, abandon it altogether, head a town over and get a couple more.

The key is not getting too attached to stuff.

edinsert: Also, about sight and such. Do the zombies attack as soon as you can see them, or are there any chances of getting by them unnoticed?

They do not notice you right away, no - I don't think your auto-stop triggers until they do, so that's a good sign. However, seeing you definitely increases the odds, which is why it's better to travel at night - they can't see in the dark either. (especially with night vision goggles, night travel is amazing)

[Graknorke]

My initial strategy generally involves running from Zs, scavenging supplies then resorting to drinking bleach and ammonia then get hooked on all available drugs for entertainment. Usually after I give up on success. This is why I never get anywhere, thinking of it. I'm too quick to call the save doomed and make the death funnier for giggles.

[rhesusmacabre]

The extra storage in vehicles has meant my character travelling lighter, but has resulted me hoarding a lot more stuff I really don't need.

The key is not getting too attached to stuff.

Yup. Due to an accident with the cruise control and my clumsiness, I recently drove my scratch-built bike loaded with supplies into a river in the middle of nowhere. Instead of going back to my base, however, I headed in a different direction and quickly found plenty of cool stuff (mutagen, mini-nuke) lying in the road. I soon found another bike and headed off to pastures new. And was blown up by a mine. Then drove into a wall. Hell of a day.

[TempAcc]

My latest games have been ended by overly mutating , I aways end up getting the radioactive ones, and radioactivity in this game basicaly turns you into some kind of ever mutating fiend constantly growing horns and becoming vegetarian and vomitous. I need to stop drinking every mutagen and eating all mutated body parts I see, but I can't help it, its so much fun when you have claws, horns, talons and move at the speed of sound and turn unarmed skill into something that can tear hulks down really fast.

[GlyphGryph]

I once got maxxed out radiation and the ability that heals you basically instantly from radiation.

Unfortunately, I was killed by the sun and a swarm of ants/bears/zombies - alas, but even my godly regeneration and body composed of nothing but an enormous mass of tentacles could not stand long against that (mostly because I was starving, actually. Damn labs being bereft of food).

[Graknorke]

I just started up a new save and remembered why I always give up.
I have no useful clothes to hold anything, and everything is houses, and there's zombies everyhwere, but I stumbled upon a basement full of guns and ammunition.
This will only end in the swarm not stopping from trying to maul my face.

[GlyphGryph]

Bash down a door, use the 2x4, check the wardrobes in the houses for decent clothing, and work your way in an unexplored direction, preferably out of town.

Don't see any reason to give up yet.

Although a zombie swarm already is awfully odd, you should have a significant safe period when you first start before the swarms activate.

Avoid using the guns at all costs. Probably not even worth taking one with you (though its worth marking on your map)

[Graknorke]

It was literally just after the half-hour grace period, I came out of the basement, looked out of the window and about 6 Zs out of each side of the house.
I know it's not a conventional swarm, but it's big enough to cause me problems. Especiallu when I have literally nothing worth having besides the gun and a carving knife. SOME canned drinks too, but they're not helpful in combat.

I'm pretty sure this guy's screwed. I've been through this bit of the map on a more successful character, and there's really nothing useful for a while around.

[Orb]

I've been considering uploading a save with one of my highly progressed characters. It would have high crafting and ranged combat skills, a vehicle, and quite a few bionics, depending on how far I get.

It seems people have trouble starting up, and I figured this would help. It would give some other experience besides just getting mauled immediately, for those just starting out with the game. Might ruin some of the fun, though. Would anyone be interested?

[Girlinhat]

Spoilers gonna spoil, upload away.

The trick to early game, is running.  Don't fight, run.  Run through buildings to lose followers and take stimulants if you can.  Quick trait and Pain Resistant help a great deal as well.  I always die from slowness.  One zombie hits me, that's -2% speed, and that stacks pretty quickly until I get swarmed from pain.

[Tiruin]

Question: Do automated {deployed} turrets that are friendly to you have...unlimited ammo, as in they won't run out?

[Girlinhat]

They are unlimited, yes.  The craftable turret item that spawns hostile in labs and bunkers, is unlimited.  The ones mounted on vehicles are limited.

[jocan2003]

I've been considering uploading a save with one of my highly progressed characters. It would have high crafting and ranged combat skills, a vehicle, and quite a few bionics, depending on how far I get.

It seems people have trouble starting up, and I figured this would help. It would give some other experience besides just getting mauled immediately, for those just starting out with the game. Might ruin some of the fun, though. Would anyone be interested?

Or i could just post a small tutorial to cheat your starting character points. Basicly making it unlimited.

[Gamerlord]

I've been considering uploading a save with one of my highly progressed characters. It would have high crafting and ranged combat skills, a vehicle, and quite a few bionics, depending on how far I get.

It seems people have trouble starting up, and I figured this would help. It would give some other experience besides just getting mauled immediately, for those just starting out with the game. Might ruin some of the fun, though. Would anyone be interested?

Or i could just post a small tutorial to cheat your starting character points. Basicly making it unlimited.

O_O Please....

[Moogie]

But the beginning struggle is a major part of the gameplay. I don't understand the desire to skip that journey. Once my character basically becomes undefeatable in typical city/lab exploration, I get bored.