Tips for a new player? I'm kind of overwhelmed

[Loop!n]

The game kinda just throws a load of things at you when you first get to your base and I'm a little lost. There are so many things on the screen it's insanely overwhelming. Did anyone else feel that way starting out too or is it just me?

[KoiCarp]

Bhè il primo impatto è strano, la componente gestionale di questo gioco non è complessa, ma peculiare e legata alle caratteristiche dei personaggi che compongono il tuo clan. Capirai col tempo le tue possibilità, perchè sono determinate dalla quinta abilità dei personaggi, dalla classe del tuo leader e da quanti slot ha la tua base. All'inizio ti serve soltanto l'infermeria e l'officina, esplorare, raccogliere di tutto e sopravvivere senza uno scopo esistenziale. La modalità campagna ti guida un pò nel capire le meccaniche base. Per il resto è soltanto un susseguirsi di missioni secondarie a tempo ed eventi.

[KoiCarp]

Dimenticavo ... all'inizio oltre a infermeria e banco da lavoro, e più pratico affidarsi ai vantaggi offerti da alleati e avamposti, che concentrarsi sulla creazione della base dei sogni ...

[Ladez]

Just take it slow and don't try to do everything. Enclaves will keep coming as long as there's room for them, so you're not missing out on anything if some of them skips town or turns hostile. Focus on getting your base and your characters leveled up while you loot the map thin.

[jamesglen7]

Welcome to one of the best survival challenges in my opinion. Videos and this game hub will help you along and there's a manual at the store page you must read. Wiki has info on skills & traits you should view, copy, and save for future reference.

There's no substitute for experience as you will soon see just like no two games are the same. Set your difficulty low for fun while you learn and only change it when you master a successful strategy. You'd better be on your way now since the road ahead is a long one.

[CommandDork]

Remember you can climb cars, trucks and shipping containers. Gets you out of many scrapes.

[Loop!n]

Originally posted by CommandDork:

Remember you can climb cars, trucks and shipping containers. Gets you out of many scrapes.

I don't think fighting the zombies is hard I just find everything overwhelming like they just throw all these missions and other things at you at once lol

[billy_blue69]

Yeah, when I first started it was like "Only YOU can prevent forest fires". LOL. I ran around EVERYWHERE and tried to please and help everyone. I had NO bullets. No health. No stamina. No meds. No gas. No car. You get the idea. I sometimes had 6 different missions at one time. Like geez give a guy a break. Can I just explore the 2 houses next to me first?

[Oniichan]

Take it slow. Gather resources according to the need like food, fuel, meds. Tutorial gives a nice walkthrough and having medical early on is very helpful. Then try hitting houses near you then find a car. Climb cards quickly when feral started to gang up on you and certainly find any strong unmoving objects that you could climb against juggs. Always keep pills then go for vials for areas. Craft then survive look for survivors I looked quickly for survivors with farming and meds so other stuff can be focused on. After you are satisfied destroyed plague hearts then clear the whole area. If whole area is cleared then proceed to other difficult of your choice. Enjoy.

[Protectron]

I made an extensive guide as a thread ages ago, but I think I'll let it be in oblivion.

Instead, I'll give you the 3 pieces of advice that you really need to enjoy the gameplay, which is the #1 feature of this game.

1. You can ignore all missions showing up. They will either go away or return depending on mission type. Enclave missions (the ones where the mission giver is an external community) can sometimes have the negative consequence that you lose standing with that community - ultimately either turning them hostile or they'll leave the map. Either way, new "Enclaves" will come by, so losing them may even be a good thing. In other words; the game is designed around the idea that you can't help everybody and should look after yourself and your community first and foremost.

2. Many players try to loot every possible site around their starting base on foot, and to me that is a waste of time unless you bring back a rucksack of resources (i.e. don't target sites with no rucksack icon). However, it probably feels natural to do it this way for most players, and I no longer tell new players to not do this. Going somewhere else in your car to find the best sites to loot only works if you already know the map. What the game tells you to do in the beginning is to find a Cell Tower or other place to Scout, in order to put info on the in-game map. This is a hint that you need to scout the rest of the map as well. The best way to do this is to get hold of the Survey Car and drive relatively slowly around putting every site on the map. Once you know which sites have Materials, go there and fill up all slots in the car trunk before returning home.

3. Once the Tutorial has finished, the game immediately tells you to start attacking the Plague Hearts, which are basically "nests" or "spawn portals" of a nasty kind of zombie; the Plague Zombie, who are covered in oozing blood. These Hearts are quite dangerous to attack without incendiaries, explosives or full-auto guns, which you are unlikely to have enough of this early on in the game.

I would advice against attacking them right now. If you started on Normal or Dread difficulty, they are not that much of a problem straight away - and building up the community is much more the lifeblood of the game anyway. Start doing that; complete missions to recruit more people; get better guns; upgrade and build facilities so that you can craft more ammo, repair weapons, produce trade goods to gain more money (Influence), and gain bonuses to health and stamina; set up Outposts; explore the 5 maps; move to bigger, better bases or even new maps; and so on.

[Retro Dude]

Personally I suggest you to not do everything, even tho its worth doing it, some missions are way too far from your house and the reward is really likely not to be worth it, since its mostly just influence points, Focus on closer missions or mission chains, you can differ a chain from a normal mission by the title, chains usually have the same starting title, I also recommend focusing on having an stable base first, keep at least the food high and meds decent, and at last keep it clean, dont push yourself to do absolutely everything, specially if you are on a low difficulty since you will most likely not need everything you get

[Retro Dude]

oh and also I would suggest you to NOT TRAVEL ALONE, this is the only really useful and common tip I could give you since a companion can help you clear a horde, your suroundings, take your items, and overal they help a lot, travel with a vehicle if you can since you can save some resource bags on the back