Usefull fences

[The Big Devil]

Does anyone know if building a sturdier fence will keep the zombs from just wrecking them? the wooden palisades seems to hold little to no value, as the hordes just attack them instead of going through the openings i made to try and funnel them. any advice would be appreciated :)

[The Big Devil]

Originally posted by 🐾𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀💖:

Research All Construction Upgrades, and You'll get Better Homes & Better Walls/Towers. :GravityCat::hammerscrew:

But will those still get demolished by the hordes?

[The Big Devil]

How much longer approximately? Just whether it's worth it resource wise or if it's better to just forgo walls completely :P

these 2 person convos sometimes ends up with a comment or two in between during the time it takes to reply, that's why i do it :P

[The Big Devil]

I wasn't expecting like 5.8 seconds longer xD More just whether it was worth it, i don't always formulate myself too well :P

Then i'll be sure to start resarching it pronto :P

[Cotaks]

No!

at day 40 i just have 3 wooden towers spread over base with 3 squads, all is fine, waves every few days ranging from 3-10 packs.

Now i start to build fortified walls and gates, gate alone takes 3 days to build. Worst part the attacks are getting crazy, couple of waves per night of 20-30 packs including alphas. They demolish walls and gates that are being build, resetting your progress. They tear trough the walls if it's made out of branches. Such a big resource eater, every single night i get attacked by 30+ packs, no way to build up defense due to repair cost and resource starvation.

Stick with brick walls and build metal/fortified towers. Layer the brick walls 2 layers is already more hp then fortified wall. and only cost bricks, no wood and metal cost.

[psbaker0407]

Originally posted by The Big Devil:

I wasn't expecting like 5.8 seconds longer xD More just whether it was worth it, i don't always formulate myself too well :P

Then i'll be sure to start resarching it pronto :P

Walls are made to slow down the hordes so that you have time to reposition your squads to kill them before they enter your base and cause damage to many buildings. But you know that. The key is to have enough defense so that walls will not be breached. You definitely will need the best walls to accomplish this.

[The Big Devil]

I use abandoned buildings to help with my "Walls" so i only need some walls, but i think from this feedback that it may be the wrong approach, Walls and clear sight lines for towers may be better? I just built a fortified tower, they're taller and can field 3 guards, which is a good improvement :D

[mr_bman]

Build a lot of fortified gates as those have 6 defenders instead of the three you have in fortified towers. Have their ranges overlap to protect one another. Eventually you can equip them with shotguns or sniper rifles. You can also patrol around in a car at night to extend your vision and give you an earlier warning. That really helps when you get a big base and have squads on the opposite side from where they're attacking. Use the big trucks to run them over - that's the best weapon in the game but just be sure you get up to speed before running them over or they'll catch you and kill your squad.

[The Big Devil]

How many people are needed to make that work though? I have a hard time keeping more than 80 people fed, even with the scavenging runs :P

[The Big Devil]

Ahh i see, i haven't yet unlocked the greenhouse, is that a house you need to loot? My base is a lot smaller and more cluttered due to the place i live :P But thanks a lot, i completely forgot about the farming research, noob move on my part there xD

[The Big Devil]

I saw, thank you :D I just need to figure out how to get greenhouses and then i think i'll start over and change my priorities away from rushing the sniper and houses :P

[baddoggs]

@ shadow, yes & no to that, it could also be stated that without
strong defence the won't be anyone to feed...
As someone said before, comes down to personal style
how you go about sorting priority. What really matters is
getting it all done in a timely manner.

[baddoggs]

For the sake of discussion, there is food enough at the start
if you put out several squads to search.
If you want to talk "real" survival then water trumps food
and air trumps that.
the rule of 2..
2 min without air.
2 days without water.
2 weeks without food.
Now, the 2 weeks without food, the Av person can last up to and sometimes
a little past but after the first 3 days you wont be doing much physical
activity & you ability to think in a rational way will start to suffer.
The game however, is nothing like that.

[baddoggs]

One of the best things about this game is, there is no "right"
way to play it. Your free to express your own style,
Personally, i have tried both and i don't really have a preference,
it usually depends on the map. More buildings = more loot =
less of a rush for anything really.
I even did one playthrough where i didn't do food at all, just relied on
what i found.

[The Big Devil]

For others not getting greenhouses, it's in the beta branch or whatever they call it, not the standard version xD