Quit telling people to shoot off legs

[Raemnant]

I keep seeing posts here and other mediums where people suggest wasting ~5 bullets shooting off legs instead of shooting them in the head. Youre going to leave them alive anyways. Just figure out which zombie will be troublesome, shoot them in the head ONCE(Sometimes twice) and it will send them reeling, unable to attack you, then slip by

Or learn how to dodge zombies. Make them lunge at you and sprint away. Or Run at them at a diagional, so even when they do grab you, your character pushes them off safely. I may have found myself low on ammo quite a few times but A)I was killing a lot of them for fun, and every Licker for spite, and B) I never used my gunpowders until late game

Crawling zombies are just a pain. Who wants to fill their games with literal anklebiters?

[Sïckosis]

No no there's a bug right now from the last patch that distorts the hitboxes so the zombies' heads are in their knees. Go for the knees everyone. Shoot the zombies in the knees.

[Gweenie]

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

[Raemnant]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

It makes them easier to misjudge or underestimate and get bitten by. Meanwhile, you waste ~5 bullets and I only use just one, doing the same thing

[RedLion7420]

"You are going to leave them alive".

The knife is there to finish the job. Shooting the legs take also less bullets if you are accurate.

[Gweenie]

Originally posted by Raemnant:

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

It makes them easier to misjudge or underestimate and get bitten by. Meanwhile, you waste ~5 bullets and I only use just one, doing the same thing

With their legs missing they are far slower and less likely to grab you, while one bullet to the haed if your lucky enough to recoil a zombie with one bullet only temporary staggers them.

[JohnTravoltage]

Crawling zombies are a lot easier to dodge, and in many cases leaving them standing could prevent you from being able to dodge around them. That said, I feel like zombies are much harder to dodge in this than the originals.

Sure you can walk carefully and prevent aggro, or bait them around, but try baiting them into a lunge when you are stuck in a hallway, and with potentially mutliple zombies. If you are on hardcore, then risking a lunge also puts you straight to red health.

If you know you are going past once then yeah, headshotting to stun then going around is best bet. But imo I prefer to shoot them in the legs, since you can run around crawlers in some of the tighter corridors fine.

There are plenty of crawlers on early playthroughs that I ran past enough to end up saving ammo by shooting their legs off, and its also nice when mr x is there.

[Gweenie]

The knife is there to finish the job. Shoot the legs take also less bullets if you are accurate. [/quote]
Also this, knife does wonders

[Raemnant]

Originally posted by RedLion7420:

"You are going to leave them alive".

The knife is there to finish the job. Shoot the legs take also less bullets if you are accurate.

I meant to add an "anyways" after that. This post assumes you dont go arond killing every zombie, because thats not what youre supposed to do

[Raemnant]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Originally posted by Raemnant:

It makes them easier to misjudge or underestimate and get bitten by. Meanwhile, you waste ~5 bullets and I only use just one, doing the same thing

With their legs missing they are far slower and less likely to grab you, while one bullet to the haed if your lucky enough to recoil a zombie with one bullet only temporary staggers them.

And thats all you need

[Three-Headed-Monkey]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

making them dead is even better ;) ... theres enough ammo on hardcore to clear out the important routes

[Gweenie]

Originally posted by Raemnant:

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

With their legs missing they are far slower and less likely to grab you, while one bullet to the haed if your lucky enough to recoil a zombie with one bullet only temporary staggers them.

And thats all you need

The one bullet isn't 100%, I've had zombies shrug 6+ bullets without a stagger

[Raemnant]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Originally posted by Raemnant:

And thats all you need

The one bullet isn't 100%, I've had zombies shrug 6+ bullets without a stagger

Thats why I said sometimes twice. No zombie is taking 6 shots back to back without staggering even once. Maybe 3 shots on rare occasions. Maybe 4 if youre statistically unfavoured heavily. Not 6+

[WolfishMeat7]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

it doesn't work on HARD so stop it, please....they'll grab you from 1.5-2 m away on hard no matter what ,even without hands they'll easily bite you.But if you play on normal then the game is 9999 times easier and there is no need to shoot of the legs at all

[Gweenie]

Originally posted by WolfishMeat7:

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Because making them anklebiters makes them easier to dodge

it doesn't work on HARD so stop it, please....they'll grab you from 1.5-2 m away on hard no matter what ,even without hands they'll easily bite you.But if you play on normal then the game is 9999 times easier and there is no need to shoot of the legs at all

Don't remember hardcore being specifically mentioned in the OP.

[Raemnant]

Originally posted by Noctwinds:

Originally posted by WolfishMeat7:

it doesn't work on HARD so stop it, please....they'll grab you from 1.5-2 m away on hard no matter what ,even without hands they'll easily bite you.But if you play on normal then the game is 9999 times easier and there is no need to shoot of the legs at all

Don't remember hardcore being specifically mentioned in the OP.

Its more of a general suggestion. Works either way