Strength or Fitness?

[Karina]

Lumberjack, can either take +2 strength or +2 fitness. Whats more important in your opinion? Axes are pretty tiring to use. Fitness is also a ♥♥♥♥♥ to train.

[Armagenesis]

Tbh, both.
But if you have to choose, fitness.
Strength is easier to level up once you find barbells.

[Shurenai]

Imo each has a major boon that I don't want to ignore. But if I had to choose, I'd pick fitness first. Not only is it a pain to train, but with no fitness your stamina is painfully limited- Being exhausted is going to be one of the things that gets you dead more often than nearly anything else.

[Karina]

I noticed that i get moderate amount of xp by simply fighting zombies with melee weapons. And push ups give more xp then anything fitness related, especially when i ate a lot of proteins.

[Karina]

Originally posted by Cat Supremacist SM:

I tank both and train them up personally, but I do use treadmill mod for that. Fitness is best to keep/add since it takes longer to train mod or not.

I could take -2 strength to afford +4 fitness instead of +2. Or maybe even -5 strength - it will take like couple of days to train strength back to 4.

[PlayerEmers]

free fitness points are better overall because you will get tired less often/make you more productive each day... also fitness is harder to level up

strength is easier to level up (you level just by carrying ♥♥♥♥ and fighting) and you can circumvent lack of strength by finding good backpacks (and not hoarding unecessary ♥♥♥♥ all the time) and leveling weapon skills (weapon skills give more damage than strength)


taking 0 strength and all in on fitness is the best option possible on character creation since you will level up strength in no time by just fighting and carrying 50%+ your carry weight

bonus tip: fighting with fast attacking weapons level up strength and fitness faster (knifes for easy stamina management, spears for easy damage)

[Quill]

Originally posted by PlayerEmers:

free fitness points are better overall because you will get tired less often/make you more productive each day... also fitness is harder to level up

strength is easier to level up (you level just by carrying ♥♥♥♥ and fighting) and you can circumvent lack of strength by finding good backpacks (and not hoarding unecessary ♥♥♥♥ all the time) and leveling weapon skills (weapon skills give more damage than strength)


taking 0 strength and all in on fitness is the best option possible on character creation since you will level up strength in no time by just fighting and carrying 50%+ your carry weight

bonus tip: fighting with fast attacking weapons level up strength and fitness faster (knifes for easy stamina management, spears for easy damage)

Also you can get a Protein XP boost for when doing Exercise. This XP boost only applies to Strength Workouts and not Fitness.

When doing workouts the ones that need a Barbell or Dumbell also give a MASSIVE XP boost. For an example the best Fitness workout will only give 4xp per action. The best Strength workout gives 28xp per action as a baseline.

[Animalman]

Not only are axes tiring to use, they are louder. And they are also a tool that you will require at some point for its strength in cutting of trees.
However

Axe at level 1 will one hit some zombies, two handed. Like a spear, but no animation. When tired, an axe swing is pretty good compared to a blunt swing while moderately or heavily exhausted.

Strength is more important to have than fitness. Fitness may increase the time you are under pressure, running or sneaking for. But strength gives combat and carry. Much more useful. Axe is also decently heavy. Heavier than a blunt. Fitness will help you run away for longer, in a high crowded area, you maybe circle that buildings a few times without any exhaustion causing you to bail for a line of sight break and something to eat.

I guess there is some depends
if you took Asthmatic you could take the fitness over the strength.
But if you didnt take Asthmatic take the strength over the fitness.

But a good build can be made with both strength and fitness. Which i think they are best used together. If used. Otherwise stick with defaults on those stats.

[Red Speedcito]

Strength, for the boost on damage and the extra loot you can carry.

[King Smidgens]

The EXP boost for starting with 1/2/3 in a stat is massively helpful for Fitness.

I find Strength, even without a barbell, trains up faster than Fitness. They feel about equal if Fitness starts 1 higher, but Strength does outpace it.

Strength is very good in the early game for finding necessities if you tend to base, but Fitness is just an awesome stat. Helps you work out more!

[JeQ]

+4 fitness and -3 strenght (to not lose that 125% boost, if it even does count). But if gonna survive for long non of these matters as eventually they goes up anyways. It is more likely to die overexhausted than overencumbered.

[Karina]

Originally posted by JeQ:

+4 fitness and -3 strenght (to not lose that 125% boost, if it even does count). But if gonna survive for long non of these matters as eventually they goes up anyways. It is more likely to die overexhausted than overencumbered.

There is no xp boost for strength/fitness.

[hardy_conrad]

Yeah definitely strength, all the way.

[Goose]

rule number #1, cardio.

[katsuragi]

I always make a fire officer with +4 strength and fitness for a 10/10 starting score. I can't be bothered to train either one, just give me the max from the start. This way I can fight with anything I find and save my axes for their true purpose... chopping down trees.

[Felix]

Ideally would be starting the game with both stats high but if points are an issue i'd say Fitness is slightly more useful than Strength.
It's also easier to work out Strength if your Fitness is high