How to stop zombie grab?

[Licoix]

i'm new to the game and I keep getting grabbed by zombies from like a mile away, and it's really annoying, is there any way to prevent it with perks or something?

[David's Femboy whatft??]

skills unlock skills lvl up

[Big Boss]

unlock escape skill,it makes escaping grabs much easier

[lx]

cant really stop them. pretty annoying indeed, getting grabbed, from a mile away.
one thing works, though, turn your back. they cant grab you from behind. :)

[Maximilian17]

Grapple skills. Learn 'aikido' early. Throw them to the ground and stomp their head. Or climb to the high area. Throw them down toward the center of the earth and let gravity do the work for you.

[AgamottoTheAllSeeing]

Originally posted by lx:

cant really stop them. pretty annoying indeed, getting grabbed, from a mile away.
one thing works, though, turn your back. they cant grab you from behind. :)

I would like to grabbed from behind :)

No but jokes aside, either improving the grapple skill or the instant escape skill in the perk tree should help. Instant escape kind of makes it easier since it's just with the press of a button and further improvements lead to a stun after the escape. In fact instant escape lets you preemptively push the zombie back before it even starts biting you.

[peppergomez]

before you level up yoru skills you can kick them to break their grab motion, then follow that up with an attack

[lx]

naturally what works is, to hit them before they grab you, or get away.
the grab skills only lets you escape faster, do not prevent it.
the spacebar maneuver is very useful.
i use fast, bladed weapon and aim for the head. it cuts them in one hit. it is important, to change to a higher damage weapon, as the zombies get tougher, as the game progresses.
basic kick is useful, but not much against many. it hits just 1(or in a tight arc), while the weapon hits all, in a large arc.

this grabbing is actually one of the cool things, of the game. its very interactive and feels realistic. do not hate it.
the issue is the bad perspective, which makes things appear odd, like they grab you from a mile away.

... i was going to record a video for something else, but something happened.
in the video, it turned out, you can see a way, to not get grabbed
https://youtu.be/EZO55-b4GGI