Combat doesn't make sense.

[your average tarkov rat]

How do I attack a zed aside from a stealth kill, in vinyl store there's one that I can't stealth kill and idk how to attack nonstealthily.

[Quentin1980]

well if you dont mind spoilers then here It goes: the vinyl record shop zombies can be random. There are 3 zombies in the shop for the players first experience to clear out the zombies in the area in order to move into the vinyl record shop as shelter. I take it that first and second zombies u should not have problems to dealing them. The 3rd ones at the end of the Vinyl shop who is located at the kitchen facing directly to the staircase door right at your survivors when climb down from second floor.

Guide: survivor proceed up to the 3rd floor roof top grab the junk food at the left side of the tennis court. Then proceed to the right side of the roof top ledge there, press space bar (or vault over) to grab the ledge and fall down on the 2nd floor balcony there safely. Select crouch then continue to climb down from the balcony, u will find that your survivor is now right behind of the last zombie, crouch down open the door and take out the zombie safely ;)

[Ordisoftware]

If you're talking about a zombie in front of you that's not moving, throw a glass bottle on the other side to lure it away so it turns its back to you. If you're talking about a zombie behind a door that's going to knock it down and attack you, you can only attack it or run away and sneak back in when it's calmed down. Or as mentioned, go another way and take it in reverse through a window or another door, or sometimes the ceiling.

The goal is not really to fight most zombies, but to avoid as many as possible while making the least noise, unless you really want to free up a place. Thus, the first thing is to move stealthily all the time, for several meters before an entrance to a building otherwise the footsteps attract attention, which is logical.

[Mouse]

Originally posted by scary atf: mirage man oh no:

How do I attack a zed aside from a stealth kill, in vinyl store there's one that I can't stealth kill and idk how to attack nonstealthily.

there are 2 ways of combat the one you know has stealth and the frontal combat punches if you have no wepon and if you have a bat or a hachet EQUIPED you can just hit them head on but heads up noise can atrack more sleeping zeds.

[Ordisoftware]

The knife makes little noise and is unattractive as it only has one point in the weapon description, and can be easily crafted with the workbench.

[Emperor Anydakas]

Since no one actually answered the actual question, you just push e to swing your weapon normally, if it hits the zombie it does damage, stealth is always more efficient for durability and this is when a weapon's actual damage value comes into play as well as a character's traits. But yeah, normal combat is push e to swing weapon.

[Ordisoftware]

The game always displays the eliminate key in a square on a zombie that can be killed in stealth mode when behind it, thus that's not the issue.