Can you kill zombies in this game?

[Rascal]

Seems that wacking them in the skull around 20 times with a pipe(not exaggerating) does nothing as they stand back up as if nothing happened. Is this supposed to happen? Am I not supposed to use melee? I'd figure this would be a "fixed" up, less clunky Dead Island of the sort, right?

[Nepgear]

Pipe doesn't do much damage. There are much better weapons to be had later on.

[Dragon]

The starting weapons in the game are garbage, so that is why you have this problem.

You are supposed to find the hidden "developer weapons" called EXPCalibur and Korek Machete and then use those, because they do decent damage for the early game even when they are "broken."

[Blade Master]

This is because in the beginning game prefers you to use parkour instead and rely on your Agility skills instead of combat. Combat should be your last resort in this stage into the game, eventually as you deliver airdrops to Quartermaster and obtain Survivor experience from quests, helping survivors, etc, you'll rank up and start finding stronger weapons, these are scaled to your Survivor skill-tree.

[Prodaddy]

Early on in the game avoid zombies. Eventually you will be a zombie killing god.

[|)()R()]

yeah

[Rascal]

Originally posted by BladeMaster:

This is because in the beginning game prefers you to use parkour instead and rely on your Agility skills instead of combat. Combat should be your last resort in this stage into the game, eventually as you deliver airdrops to Quartermaster and obtain Survivor experience from quests, helping survivors, etc, you'll rank up and start finding stronger weapons, these are scaled to your Survivor skill-tree.

That sounds pretty lame but alright.

[Igris]

Originally posted by boifu:

Originally posted by BladeMaster:

This is because in the beginning game prefers you to use parkour instead and rely on your Agility skills instead of combat. Combat should be your last resort in this stage into the game, eventually as you deliver airdrops to Quartermaster and obtain Survivor experience from quests, helping survivors, etc, you'll rank up and start finding stronger weapons, these are scaled to your Survivor skill-tree.

That sounds pretty lame but alright.

No , it's not , you are meant to avoid zombies and parkour will help you avoid them.

[Rascal]

Originally posted by It'sJustCasey:

Originally posted by boifu:

That sounds pretty lame but alright.

No , it's not , you are meant to avoid zombies and parkour will help you avoid them.

No, that really does sound lame. I want to kill them not avoid them. What's the point of this being a zombie game otherwise.

[Hakke]

just play a little more and you will be in killing loads of them- just takes a few hours to get rolling

[Blade Master]

Originally posted by boifu:

Originally posted by It'sJustCasey:

No , it's not , you are meant to avoid zombies and parkour will help you avoid them.

No, that really does sound lame. I want to kill them not avoid them. What's the point of this being a zombie game otherwise.

I agree with It'sJustCasey, but I understand your point. I know you want to go out and slay everything, it's fun, we all know that. But there exists time and progression for everything, you must achieve it by progressing in skill-trees. Eventually a lot will unlock and you'll be able to kill everything you want, just hang on and follow the game progression, it's rewarding in the end.

You can speed up the process of developing your character by following this play style criteria:

1. Be on Normal mode, this is best difficulty to start the game if it's your first ever playing it. It's most balanced between fun and challenging, ideal for learning the game.

2. Don't rush story, take it slow. A lot think if they progress into story game will get easier, this is not true because zombies don't scale to your skill-trees, rather they only scale to this 3 factors, story %, difficulty and NG+. The first two has greatest impact.

There is a lot to do besides story, side quests, exploring open world which you will encounter a lot during, doing activities, etc.

3. Finish as many side quests as you can before progressing story and do your best exploring open world. Grab airdrops and deliver packages to Quartermaster, this will level up your Survivor skill-tree. While traversing in open world you will also level up other skill-trees.

Higher the Survivor rank, stronger the weapons you will find. Loot as much as you can. Particularly police vans and chests, however remember that loot you find in police vans, vendors and chests depend on your Survivor rank, so at low ranks you will feel like you aren't finding anything powerful. The loot as well as zombies eventually respawn, so you don't have to worry about running out of it.

[Lar Dass]

*after you finish the game*
"why is it so easy to kill zombies?"

[Twinkletoes]

Originally posted by boifu:

Originally posted by It'sJustCasey:

No , it's not , you are meant to avoid zombies and parkour will help you avoid them.

No, that really does sound lame. I want to kill them not avoid them. What's the point of this being a zombie game otherwise.

Don't worry about it.

It starts off as a resident evil kind of zombie(better to run then fight) and ends up as a dead rising kind of zombie(slaughtered by the dozens). In the mean time try to get the hang of parkour and alternatives to direct combat(like luring them into spikes or tackling/judo throwing them into fire or posion).

Learn to loot, lockpick and parkour to the drops.

End game you will be a butcher at his butcher shop, all the meat you could ever want to cleave.

[Red]

The early game is more about avoiding the zombies ESPECIALLY if you start on nightmare like I did, but once you move forward with the story a bit you'll find far more powerful AND COMMON weapons that will allow you to kill them in a few hits. Then, while you're doing that you'll level up your power attribute a few times you'll be able to unlock abilities that will allow you to one-shot them no matter the power of your weapon (Those abilities will cost stamina for the most part).

You'll eventually be able to kill them from behind with the press of a button, kick their head off while they're down (And knocking them down can be done in MULTIPLE ways) and kill them while jumping above them. There's a lot of ways to deal with them while moving forward and you won't even have to play for so long to unlock most of them.

[Dragon]

Originally posted by boifu:

I want to kill them not avoid them

Then do like I said, and find the developer weapons. The other posts telling you to avoid the zombies (which you should not be doing) instead of to find the developer weapons and then kill the zombies (which you should be doing) are steering you wrong.

[just.nuke.em]

No, this is a running away from zombies simulator.