First fight

[Secretghost1]

After many tries I saw the videos that show how you can win the first fight.
Now I won and know why it was not easy to reproduce it.

My impressions:

1) Stats

The distribution

Str 6
End 6
Dex 10
Int 10
Att 10
Pers 1
L 1

is very strong.

Key points are Dexterity 10 (helps you to run away)
Attention 10 (very important, perhaps also avoids knock down(?))
End 6 (avoiding knock down (?)) (nearly no problems with knock down)

(Glutton and Unlucky optimist)

2) Attention is very, very important and much more important than you would think

With Attention 10 I could use the AK and had a 99% chance to hit, although my skill points were 15 unter minimum.

I had a 94 % chance to hit with the Soviet army knife, although my skill level was about 20 under the minimum requierments (!)and killed all animals in one turn.

A attention of 10 seems to be so powerful that it overrules the skill points - minimum requirements don´t seem to matter any more. This can save you many skill points.

3) There are two important tiles - you have to stand still there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYwgMQnasMQ

Look at 2:14 and 3:04 - stand still there and don´t move.

4) Don´t take the knife in a slot - if the weapon is dropped the weapon seems to disappear (?),
first slot just unarmed, second your gun (don´t put the gun in the first slot)

5) Shoot and move away if you could be attacked

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Generally:

10 Attention seems to be very very powerful and even more important than 10 Dex or 10 Int.

But also: Winning the first fight breaks the balance of the whole early game and might also affect the midgame.

Therefore I would suggest to make a strong fighter build with the stats above and not to win the first fight(?) - or take only the great army knive with you and dont use the AK

Be aware: 1 Personality means you need a heavy boost so that you can be able to recruit Alexander later (needs 6 Personality)

[InEffect]

it's easily doable with att 7. I do it that way without many reloads. Once you tanked the 2 hits you have to take you are in the clear.
Int 10 is an overkill as well. most builds are more than fine with 8. I would go for 7 but there are a lot of int 8 checks. End below 8 is a total suffer to do that part as you can be dropped by some max rolled hits. And combat character wants end 8 anyways.

weapon does not disappear. they have 100% chance to disarm. You have to swap to fists before taking hits. that's why you use 1 slot in that fight.

[Neyreyan_Youtube]

Nice work, it was almost like a revelation when i first did that:)
Atention 10 is almost like cheating because the gun requirement are more like a scare tactic, only needed for companions:) Maybe the balancing will fix some of that
Int 10 and the perk for skills points, maybe even invest the first serum into it so you can get 30 skill points per level wich is crazy:) you can make a lot of skills over 100 but sadly most of them are not even relevant after a certain point but you can level up sneaking with the extra points

I like more skill points because you outgear the enemies pretty fast and this helps buying the rare gear:)
Endurace is another thing that i wish they would fix, you need it to be higher from the begining so in theory you could reduce At to 8 and then raise it to 10 with serum and golden fish but that's too much meta for my brain:)
Considering how much you can buff and after geting the you can avoid the slavers pretty easy...endurace can seem a lot less important in the mid game and end game. If you are playing on survivalist then it's a must have

If you drop your weapons in the first fight....terible things will happen, the weapons won't dissapear but you may kill them over the item and the item will still be there but you won't be able to pick it up. They can bug out your item:)

[cssneed]

Can this still be done with recent patch?

[RK47]

4 points in endurance is fine. There's enough food and chems that boosts your endurance up by 8

[kooto]

I tried with 7 AT, 4 ST :D and 35 Skill and got 0% to hit because AK-47 needs 6 ST and 100% knock down on me lol

[Obus UA]

Originally posted by cssneed:

Can this still be done with recent patch?

Yes. You can get level up in tutorial, so you can spent not only starting 20 skillpoints, but what you got from 2nd lvl and may pick 1 perk. And you can get buff +1 str +1 per from drink.
My test character before leaving the base, she is not quite optimized for the battle in the prologue, but with a bit of luck can win it.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/952975870969250861/8BB30F3ABA304267FF2212CE20E61D853E098538/