[SLEDGE] Best Crowd Control

[Riitoken]

I decided to spend horde night in a simple 4-wall steel base (SS foreground). I wanted to understand the net difference of the playing experience versus my standard melee base (SS background) that has a Robot Sledge.

I survived the night, but it was 3x more frenetic for one and only one reason:
The Robotic Sledge was not in play.

A single well-placed SLEDGE will reduce the zom crowd by a factor of 2 (hands down), and actually more like a factor of 3. The Sledge does some damage (Yes), but the main utility is to punch the zoms off the ramp before they get to my position behind the hatch.

The net effect on the gameplay gives you more time to plan headshots which has a very positive impact on ammo conservation.

Without the SLEDGE in the basic 4-wall test, I was firing continuously from 2200 to 0400. And I was firing faster and thus less accurately so ammo consumption was far greater.

In addition, with a Sledge, you don't need to build the 11-block high zom-go-round base. You only need to build a ramp high enough to prevent the zoms from bypassing the sledge.

You do not need any skills/perks to deploy a Sledge. It just works as advertised.

I am a fan.

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[Pain Weasel]

Good crowd control yes? Best? Not even close.

Replace the sledge with an electric fence, just be sure you can reach the second post in the chain with your repair tool. Anything that touches it is going to be stunned long enough for you to kill them, particularly since you are virtually guaranteed head shots because they are frozen in place. Even if you don't use a gun you can stun anything that gets in melee range long enough to kill it. Plus using an electric fence instead of a sledge lets you use a robotic turret. You get better crowd control, but extra damage.

Also, try a stun baton with a repulsor mod. Send entire groups of zombies flying, plus apply a stun and damage over time.

For a real treat, try it with Physician 5 for a 10% chance to insta kill anything you hit. You can go toe to toe with a zombie bear on Insane without breaking a sweat. The baton stun locks the bear because it recharges faster than the stun wears off (with Electrocutioner 5) and just reapplies the stun, and sooner or later the insta kill pops him. It is honestly a bit OP in my opinion.

Even at Physician 4 you are blasting any zombie without dismemberment resist into pieces. The insta kill is just for the big enemies.

My Day 7 base is a 7x9 block with a hallway running down the middle, with an electric fence at the end next to the door (less than 200 dukes each to buy the fence posts), a single generator will run it all night and only lose about 15 out of 1000 fuel. By putting the hallway inside my base it makes repairing the fences really easy, and I don't have to worry about zombies accidentally hitting the fence posts.

Double thick walls ensure the zombies don't even hit them more than once in passing because their AI prioritizes doors over regular blocks. On Insane the most damage any block in my outer layer took was 200 dmg. They don't ever even make it to the door though because as soon as they reach it they get stunned, then my baton knocks them back or insta kills them. They get up, run to the door, get stunned, repeat until dead. Even with increased blood moon zombie waves it was too easy.

The only downside is that I blasted one zombie into a wall, like actually inside the wall, then he glitched into my floor, ran up with just his head sticking out and bit my foot. Little bastard got a fully charged baton to the brain for that.

[Riitoken]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Pain Weasel:

Good crowd control yes? Best? Not even close.

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I hear ya on the specific benefits. And it makes sense.

What you describe is more complex to setup and maintain. So, there's that.

The sledge is probably the least amount of complexity.

I'm about to begin investigating Electricity.

[Pain Weasel]

The stun baton also has the added benefit of being hilarious.

I've blasted zombie corpses into the ceiling, dismembered limbs just dangling out of blocks like gory home decor and this morning I set my own personal record by launching a zombie vulture 92 meters off the roof of a building. Good times.