Veterans add tips in this thread for the incoming newbies to help ease their experience!

[BongHitsForFeds]

I'll start. It can be very useful to go to settings>general>auto notes> and enable map extras. This will put markers on your map for events/goodies you may have missed otherwise.

[xjulep]

What is a handbrake for?

[coyo7e]

Originally posted by xjulep:

What is a handbrake for?

Stopping your vehicle immediately. It has to roll a saving throw vs your vehicle skill though and you can go into a accidental slide and wreck if you are unlucky or going too quickly when you hit it.

[xjulep]

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[xjulep]

My torso is at II... and the health menu says "Balance: Impaired (-46%) is that bad? What does "balance" impact?

[Johnerson]

When in doubt on what you can do in a menu, press "?" and it will list all the possible things you can do and what button to press to make them happen!

There are many menus, and they often have wildly different things you can do in them. This helps understand all the possibilities!

[Blastmetal]

Originally posted by xjulep:

My torso is at II... and the health menu says "Balance: Impaired (-46%) is that bad? What does "balance" impact?

balance messes with your doge ability and can be a game ender if it gets out of hand. it also loweres your chance to hit others.

[Blastmetal]

try certain mods they will enhance your experience in order to install mods in your world make a world first and then afterwards go and clone that world and then go into the mod settings when you are replicating that world. its a bit wonky but in the free version you can do all this stuff beforehand in the launcher.

[Caba da Muleste da Paçoca]

If you have a pipe cleaner or firearm repair kit, select your gun, press (m) to mend, which will allow you to clean and lubricate your weapon, and also accurize it if you're skilled enough.

If you see a flaming eye, don't ever engage it or the gamer RGB dogs will eat you.

Starting at the Evac Shelter with an unskilled character, one of the best and easiest weapons to get is a quarter staff. Search the bathrooms for a first aid kit with a pair os scissors, grab a rock outside, smash a young/small tree for a long branch, get fabrication level 1 by doing anything, then craft a quarterstaff with the scissors and long stick. A solid weapon for both offense and defense, good even for a weak and unskilled character. Alternatively pick the street fighting backgroung during character creation to have an easier start and not die to basic zombies.

[Maeldun81]

Major veteran tip here....if you die, don't do that, but if you do do that, make a new char and do don't that again

[Underscorecow]

Soldier zombies are armored loot piñata's if you can get to a point where you can kill one.

Youll get food, weapons, and decent clothing/materials for wearing/tailoring. All of which are extremely helpful for the early game

Just make sure to only attempt to take one down in a controlled environment, your first one may take multiple attempts as you slowly whittle down its health.

Might want to use indirect ways of killing it like with a fall or a vehicle.

[Maeldun81]

Originally posted by Underscorecow:

Soldier zombies are armored loot piñata's if you can get to a point where you can kill one.

Youll get food, weapons, and decent clothing/materials for wearing/tailoring. All of which are extremely helpful for the early game

Just make sure to only attempt to take one down in a controlled environment, your first one may take multiple attempts as you slowly whittle down its health.

Might want to use indirect ways of killing it like with a fall or a vehicle.

You can chuck rocks at them and kite them all day long, easy-peasy

[Mr. Ice Guy]

My tip for newbies? Go online and get the free version. How the new devs have monetized other people's work is disgusting, don't encourage their bad behavior with money.

[Popinfresh]

Originally posted by Mr. Ice Guy:

My tip for newbies? Go online and get the free version. How the new devs have monetized other people's work is disgusting, don't encourage their bad behavior with money.

Here goes:
From what some of the other developers and contributors have said, the one who listed this has their permission to do so, including the monetary aspect. Cant say if everyone ever involved has said so, but a chunk have.
To be fair, this was also a concern of myself and a few others on Steam. Might help if the store page mentioned something about it.

[xjulep]

Is there a way to save personal autosort zones so I don't have to redefine them on every character?

[xjulep]

Why can't I [G]rab an NPC and throw him off the evac shelter roof?