Vehicle door attacks

[Carm3D]

I know that plowing through zeds with your vehicle will damage them. Does the door attack damage he vehicle? It seems like it doesn't.

[Vagrant]

No, but the longer you let the zed slap the door, the more damage it takes.

[NATOMarksman]

It does. If you door attack five zeds off your car, you will eventually break off the door.

[Panic Fire]

Originally posted by Carm3D:

I know that plowing through zeds with your vehicle will damage them. Does the door attack damage he vehicle? It seems like it doesn't. :Lee:

Opening the door and plowing through zombies with it does minor dmg to the doors. eventually the back door will falloff followed by the front door.

[Carm3D]

Originally posted by Panic Fire:

Opening the door and plowing through zombies with it does minor dmg to the doors. eventually the back door will falloff followed by the front door.

Sounds like it's preferable to use over the bumper.

[Bigguns 93]

Opening your door and using the open door to smash a zombie does significantly less damage to the car than hitting it with the front bumper. You can smash a lot of zombies before the door finally comes off. I have smashed several herds and still kept the door. The car will still run fine, but you are now vunerable to being pulled out of the car. Hitting it with your bumper will cause the car to smoke, then catch fire, then explode. DO NOT HIT THE JUGGERNAUT OR THE BLOAT WITH YOUR CAR OR CAR DOOR. One hit on the juggernaut with car door and it comes off, hit the bloat and it infects the car for a short time.


Backing over them vs hitting them with the front bumper does less damage too, but the car will start to smoke and eventually catch fire. Just more slowly than hitting with the front bumper. Makes sense since the radiator and engine are in the front and more prone to damage. The exhuast and fuel tank in the rear would eventually be damaged.

In lifeline, the I have only damaged the military pickup by hitting a juggernaut or by hitting an obstacle (wall, another car, fireworks, etc..).

[Carm3D]

I haven't met those yet.. I met the big fat one.

[Zhorge]

When possible, don't hit zombies with your front bumper. The rear bumper and door are the ways to go. On the higher levels, zombies do much more damage to your vehicle than at low levels or the main campaign/Lifeline.

Also, Ferals are hard to kill if you attack straight-line with a vehicle. I tend to go back-and-forth while zig-zagging and banging my doors. That usually does the trick. If a feral jumps on the right side of your vehicle, he'll pull you out in short order, so scape him off as fast as you can.

A Juggernaut hit will wreck you car. A bloater hit will poison your car, so get out ASAP.

If you've beaten your car up enough that it's steaming like crazy and you may have possibly even seen a small burst of flame, stop hitting thigs with it as you're getting close to catching it on fire.

If you do catch it on fire, get the rucksacks in the trunk out. You have enough time. Just drop them on the ground, they'll stay there until you can get them with your new car. The big problem you'll be having is that you'll be attracting zombies and have to fight as well as unload the vehicle.

[Carm3D]

I just met the bloater for the first time tody... Disgusting!!

Thanks for the tips!

[Strauss]

If you have Raymundo Santos in your survivor, you will not need to save the cars (except modern truck or police cruiser of course). But it need a lot of influence to summon a sport car. It nice to save up influence for sport car to use when you bored. Just don't drive recklessly that make you be thrown 1000m... that suck and highly chance your survivor will death if there are zed nearby.