Any tips on killing Zombies early in the game

[J_EndersZone]

Just bought Dying Light and downloading right now for the PC and after playing my friend's copy for a bit I notice the zombies can take a while to kill and that the weapon break easy. Any advice on how I should approach them in the early parts of the game. I want to gain as much experience to level up my skills.

[mgsmith02]

Gas pipes, molotovs, throwing stars. All work well in early stages of the game. You can also shoot the red barrels and the gas tanks, but creates noise and attracts virals.

[kemical]

Early on I'd say pick your fights. Keep your distance as things can go badly quickly. Your kick is a handy way of keeping some distance but once too many bodies start to press you'll be quickly overcome so learn when to back out too.
The dodge skill and firecrackers I find invaluable so try and grab them as soon as you can. Weapons do last a lot longer later on in the game as you learn to care and maintain them so weapon breakage isn't so much of an issue.
Guns are a double edged sword due to the noise they make and the type of zombies (virals) they attract. Use sparingly.
Enjoy the game.. :)

[NZPorterDJ]

Firecrackers to make a group, Molotov to cook and Flammable Liquid to speed up the dying. Then you can go hand to hand with the stragglers if you want or just go and regroup the Zs and cook some more.

[GObonzo]

Originally posted by DJPorterdNZ:

Firecrackers to make a group, Molotov to cook and Flammable Liquid to speed up the dying. Then you can go hand to hand with the stragglers if you want or just go and regroup the Zs and cook some more.

+1
certain areas like the electrical station(early quest) and others where you can get what seems like 100s of them in a small area and just cook the hell out of them with molotovs. tons of loot and experience for low level characters. just try to stay above the groups on cars, obstacles, buildings, etc lure them in and it's barbecue time.

i found a few electrical fences very early where you can lure a few small groups at a time through and get some extra early loot.

make sure you go out of your way to get as many air drops as possible early too. fastest way of leveling early.

[NZPorterDJ]

Originally posted by GObonzo:

Certain areas like the electrical station(early quest) and others where you can get what seems like 100s of them in a small area and just cook the hell out of them with molotovs. tons of loot and experience for low level characters. just try to stay above the groups on cars, obstacles, buildings, etc lure them in and it's barbecue time.

That's a great area. Good thing about it is that you can stay on the outside of the fence and group them up and barbeque from the outside without endangering yourself.

Then do an end run through the opening and up onto the transformer and continue burning and winning.

Usually get 1~2 power levels each time it restocks.

[Honor Guard]

try the spikes ,kick them into them ,you can easily loot them,and it rather easy

[UNABOMBER]

Well, when I started I went straight to combat as soon as I left the tower.

I had a bad time. The main character is incredibly weak and ill-prepared when you start the game.

Now that I'm older and wiser, I suggest you avoid combat entirely until you get a couple points in the Agility skill tree.

At the very least, focus in acquiring and mastering the Dodge skill, it's the first one (agility). It can save your bacon even if you get mobbed and will remain useful throughout the game.

Grapple, Dropkick, Vault and Escape/Instant Escape are all agility skills, incredibly useful in combat.

While they can be used to attack, they are mainly defensive skills. Once you learn how to use them, your fights will become much faster, easier and fun, and you will level up combat much quicker than focusing on it from the get go (and getting your ass kicked repeatedly).

Molotovs are an excellent method to kill a bunch of zombies and earn lots of combat points very quickly, but keep in mind that while it's very useful to level up combat, it won't give you any actual combat experience.

Of course you should use it often, just don't rely too much on that.

Most important though, do not advance the main quest too fast. Take your time levelling up and chase all the airdrops you can.

[Jihad Johno]

Keep to the high ground. Thats why they made the game using parkour

[BulltproofBeard]

Loads of molotovs, high fround to pick em of with guns, and hit em in the head while croufhing down on top of a bust,, When you find a cleaver or machete you can aim for the next and behead em up one shtting. Keep and weapon upgrade units for the orange/legendary weapons, luckily you only need abut 3 weapons

And yeah, Alwayas have a plan, mine usualy incvoves fiightin in open areas as my weaopons are strong. Fight near something you cah quickly clumb at all times.

[SolusiRadikal]

get graple -> throw everyone into nearest spike

Done