How do you fight 2+ more zombies ?

[parupiro]

1 zombies is easy you can just push and stomp it and if there more than 1 i always find fence and just 1-2 hit with stomp or any weapon when they jumped the fence, but when there is no fence how you suppose to melee them ?? if you knock one of them the other will attack you and by the time you knock the other the one who get knocked down earlier alrdy get up, sometimes i stand too close, my character always swing down the knocked one and ignoring the closest one then get bited.
I never survive more than 4 night.
Always got problem in finding good house to sleep.
Havent build a base yet.
Also bad at inventory management.
If you going to loot on warehouse or something then there a hordes there, whats your plan ? do you kill them all or just bait them to get out there ?

Yes im noob, enlighten me.

[DivineEvil]

Assuming you're playing 41b version:
- Initially it is not expected for you to fight more then one zombie, or two with a heavier weapon and better beginning stats. Bladed weapons such as axes are more fatal then Blunt, so they can be used to simply kill the zombie upright, but then you have to pay attention to weapon durability and your own exhaustion.

Meanwhile, some higher-end blunts like a Lead Pipe or Shovel have greater reach, that allow you to hit multiple zombies with one hit. In either way, you are only going to become dangerous to multiple zombies after acquiring some weapon skills while fighting 1v1.

- Any house is good for sleep as long as it has doors and windows intact. If any of them are broken or hit by multiple zombies, you will wake up. If zombies keep coming up while you sleep, it might be because you or your clothing is bloodied, which slowly leads zombies towards you. Use Soap and some water to clean yourself before sleeping to avoid uninvited guests.

- Depends. Killing them all is something you do as a strong, armed character. Baiting them out is something you do with a fast, stealthy character. If you'd try to do it other way around, you'd probably fail.

[Wild colonial boy]

In sandbox.
/thread

[noctoskanan]

i personal lead them around sneak running and loop around objects getting them caught up and then weeding them out one by one. it's slow but keeps you alive

[Gilga ™ |Yonaguni|]

Originally posted by DivineEvil:

f zombies keep coming up while you sleep, it might be because you or your clothing is bloodied, which slowly leads zombies towards you. Use Soap and some water to clean yourself before sleeping to avoid uninvited guests.

Are you sure about this?

[Ficelle]

You dont melee 2+ zombies at once in B41 as multihit / multipush is disabled by default
So, 2+ in melee range at once is a wound (death...) sentence

Become good at pulling to only agro 1 whenever possible

If more than one is agro, you have to separate them at least a bit to be 1 on 1
Use environment, some distance, cars...whatever
If you cant, then move away and go elsewhere

Later, with good weapon accuracy, you do a lot of 1-2 shots, so, it is less of a problem

Against a lot of zombies you cant fight 1 on 1 (or dont want to fight), lure them away...shouting, shotgun, car horn, siren...
There are also some 'mass killing' ways....car rampaging for some tens, fire for hundreds...

Now, in easy difficulties like Builder and Survivor multihit is activated
No need to explain here, fighting is as easy as in previous builds
You can also activate multihit in Sandbox


You can sleep anywhere with a bed, chair, sofa...
2 stories prefered
Good locations without knowing the game too much is anything NOT in the city, at least not in the center
Spawn houses are terribad for the most part...not all, but most are in horrible locations, full of zombies...dont stay there

[onestep87]

A good starting proffesion is lumberjack - you have slight better strenght, 2 skill in axes and you could use woodcutters axe for normal because this profession gives you unique buff to take swings more faster
Also good atrategy is to have long reach weapon and after every swing you ran from zombies before your animation ended, i can kill with 3-5 zombies without problems(and often have oneshots in full stamina) but check your stamina because it reduces here very fast and don't do it in sneak mode, it will reduce your speed

[Kahorn]

Space bar to push zombies until one of them fall then kill the other one. You can do that while you get back and use this to kill three zombies by pushing two of them down.
Personnaly, I run when there are more then three.

[BingChilling]

if you make sure they aren't clumped on top of each other, take one hit on one and run. Loop around the pack and get one hit on the one who isn't "in the pack" given enough time and a large space you can kill 15-20 zombies in a group this way. Just don't miss a shot! If you do you will likely die, the wiff animation is much longer than the hit one, and the zombie won't stagger

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Hand:

if you make sure they aren't clumped on top of each other, take one hit on one and run. Loop around the pack and get one hit on the one who isn't "in the pack" given enough time and a large space you can kill 15-20 zombies in a group this way. Just don't miss a shot! If you do you will likely die, the wiff animation is much longer than the hit one, and the zombie won't stagger

One hit and running is a bad idea. Unless the zombie is at the very LEAST knocked down. Leaving them standing and turning to run is suicide.

[DarkFaceGlow]

Originally posted by Ficelle:

You dont melee 2+ zombies at once in B41 as multihit / multipush is disabled by default
So, 2+ in melee range at once is a wound (death...) sentence

Become good at pulling to only agro 1 whenever possible

If more than one is agro, you have to separate them at least a bit to be 1 on 1
Use environment, some distance, cars...whatever
If you cant, then move away and go elsewhere

Later, with good weapon accuracy, you do a lot of 1-2 shots, so, it is less of a problem

Against a lot of zombies you cant fight 1 on 1 (or dont want to fight), lure them away...shouting, shotgun, car horn, siren...
There are also some 'mass killing' ways....car rampaging for some tens, fire for hundreds...

Now, in easy difficulties like Builder and Survivor multihit is activated
No need to explain here, fighting is as easy as in previous builds
You can also activate multihit in Sandbox


You can sleep anywhere with a bed, chair, sofa...
2 stories prefered
Good locations without knowing the game too much is anything NOT in the city, at least not in the center
Spawn houses are terribad for the most part...not all, but most are in horrible locations, full of zombies...dont stay there

[DivineEvil]

Originally posted by Gilga ™:

Originally posted by DivineEvil:

f zombies keep coming up while you sleep, it might be because you or your clothing is bloodied, which slowly leads zombies towards you. Use Soap and some water to clean yourself before sleeping to avoid uninvited guests.

Are you sure about this?

Pretty much. At least from my experience if I bother to wash the clothing, remove the blood and bodies, barely any zombies come around. When I didn't do those, I often find myself waking up to a zombie breaking a door. It also seem to increase the range at which zeds can spot you.

Might be coincidences of course, but I also don't think that you and your clothing getting bloodied in combat and possible to wash, and the blood splatters and bodies you can clean/bury, are completely arbitrary and pointless mechanics.

[parupiro]

Thanks guys for the answer i appreciate it.
Which one is true ? better hit and run, or fully run assuming you have no range weapon but a short weak melee weapon ?
Yes, its build 41 version.

[Coconut Tackle]

I did find a rather broken strategy but I don't know if it's been nerfed or not. Go lumberjack as someone suggested and grab the wood axe. Once you learn the distance you can slowly back away from zombies and essentially kite them as the wood axe will kill zombies out right often in one blow. As long as you're always aware of your surroundings you can kite big groups of 20 - 30 and kill them easily. I play on apocalypse and I got bored because it was so easy. If you want a more conventional strategy make sure you clear out houses and then use them as ways to break up zombie groups. You can open a window one end and another at the opposite end, lure the zombies through the window and then you can instantly kill them as they climb through the window on to the ground with a weapon such as cleaver or hand axe. If too many pile through make a break for the other window, which will often split the group into more managable sizes.

[Billy]

Keep backing up and swinging til you get an insta head kills. Works for me, just be careful and try to do it in good condition

[banetrapperdev]

Currently there is one broken solution to cleaning up hordes very easily, but drains stamina quickly as well.
Fences, we jump over them in less then a second, and zombies get stuck from 1 to 10 seconds on them. plus the 4 second animation for them to get over and up on feet, allowing you to jump over fence, whack 3-4 of them while they are down, and jump over another fence and
repeat. Can clear 100+ zombies at a time with properly setup fenced area