Fresh start what to take and what to do

well, are you new? free to play? a 'hard to die' person? you're coming in the right guides! come~
how to maximize your gain as a free to play player
*edit new update 2020

New update 2020

• "nothing" perk now only appear at lv4 or above
  
• now laser weapon have books
  
  
• there is new grade for books, beginer and advanced one
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• now books can only fill your skill at 0 ~ 99 point, 100 ~ 150 you will need to spend twice amount and 150 ~ 200 is triple
  *tips : spend wisely, only spend it on something that book can't compensate and for next tier (100 ~ 200 skill level). now fell free to struggle and crawl for maximum gain (i won't blame you if you spent it on conversation skill, justified but bear in mind bible exist for that)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• new perk (the rest that is not listed bellow) is useless, the most charming one is "sharpshooter" perk which give you 6 gold for each 3 headshot in a row but the cons is you don't face that many zombie to begin with and the bonus will barely help you in your economy so better take it last
  
  
• laser is still pretty much still useless if you're free to play person, karl 3000 (from coin shop) will always outperform it
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• climb on the dinosaur remains for possible extra loot
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• sun city NPC ant joy 3rd quest need to give x2 and 4th need x4 (6 each in total) and gain +10 karma
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• new weapon attachment, purely cosmetics and useless (no extra zoom)
  

Start up! "what i need to know?"

Gentleman! a hero WAS born! (or it supposed to be) now it's the start of your journey for the game.

First thing that you need to know is this is a zombie "mini game", it's super fun as long as you keep it neat.

1. DO headshot! i mean, oh come on! it was explained many times in the loading screen, what can't be better than 3x damage and 1 shot 1 kill? get used to it or die with it

2. it's every beginner mistake to do anything to increase firepower first like increase critical skill or fire arm skill, but i'm going to tell you this game early play is much more enjoyable so what you really want to have prob "driving skill" to decrease fuel consumption, you're not wrong, but not really necessary to do at lower level since you'll get free 15L every levelup. increase trading and purchase a book and weapon like a boss

3. "i'm afraid of using gun, i want to conserve my ammo" NOPE!. CEASE THAT TOUGHT! you'll get a lot of them, so just happy triggering (note: afaik 7.62mm is the most dropped)

4. YOU NEED SPADE (SHOVEL) TO DIG!. i'm not gonna lie, you need it BUT not at the first map (woodland). why? good question, everytime you got treasure map activated, and when you go shortie, you will see a shovel right near the digging spot (just lying there at the bench, waiting you to pick it up). yet, i'll never ever tell you to "hey, when they need you to pick mele, don't choose spade" but i will advice you to TAKE IT. you can sell them (the ones you pickup at treasure quest) to trader

5. you'll get loot as scraps, sell them after you take "scavenger 1" perks but i heavily advice you to not sell the gold ones before you get "scavenger 2" since each of them increase profit by 30% from scraps (only scraps)




6. NEVER! EVER! HAVE 100% (70) HP! why? first is, you can survive with 20HP. second is when your backpack is full you can always have extra empty slot by drinking water or eating bean cans. third is because if anything comes to shove, you can always open your backpack (literally pause the game) and then select bandage and use it directly without casting animation

7. rejoice! you need firepower skill? you need HP regen skill? and additional speech skill for above 30 point? i have solution! learn "READING" perk but don't ever forget it has followup perk "BOOKWORM". it's supper good and take my advice to keep all your book on your storage until you have them both so your skill increase in efficiency will increase more (book of science is for 2 more skill point and perk doesn't affect the gain). now you know what to do, buy all book from trader and don't loot any book at the city, don't worry, it won't disappear.

8. exploding barrel do no damage to player. a good thing indeed, a cheat level isekai barrel that will help you shave bald the big zombies, keep it intact so if any big bad pretty boy want to rape your ass you can always depend on it

9. the zombies, literally have attack speed which result you can kite them to come and try to hit you and all you need to do is step back a few little step to dodge their short arm and smoll hands, they need you to fap. (becareful of those red-orange fatty who loves to suicide tho)

10. there is this 3 perk with useful effect but the devs really loves to play with us kekw. fist is "nothing" yeah it does nothing except it gives you 2 more perk as a compensation because the perk DOES NOTHING! really.... the second one is "animal language" you can talk with animal and accept quest like an autism does, but no, you don't really need it immediately, maybe at below lv11. third is "good student" and so what it does? +1 skill point each levelup! WTF so good! get this ASAP

11. never skip an encounter, because your encounter can include safes you can lockpick and earn items and gold coins

ok dude, that's your tablet of stones from moses plus bonus from me. now let's head up to the next level

Vehicle car

any F2P out there concerned about fuel expense? we do! but calm yo teets boi, no need to upgrade your car with gold. this is a spoiler, you'll get another car at sun city and it's DOPE, so do your best to levelup faster

Free weapons

1st free weapon : STG / M4 garand
*bonus* free claim MP5 for 0 gold coin
2nd free weapon : springfield sniper / shawed shotgun
3rd free weaon : Vector
4th free weapon : papasha / omerta shotgun (or money)

that is all until lv39

Let's get some action!

what perk you really want? what weapon should i use? what skill to invest? here comes the heavy topics! let's get in line

so, here is the plan :

>do your quest, carefully plan anything since you don't want to waste fuel. check ladder at the house where it keeps your melee weapon, take the book, keep it on your inventory. storage unlocks at lv.4

>becarefull, dying means losing any loot you got at that stage

>don't claim level reward book before you can consume it

>roam around city, check corners for book, don't take it yet. there is one at the tree house near amanda too. remember where it is.

>first level up! congrats! now invest all in speech skills, now you can get glock (9mm) from amanda for free. sell it

>second level, invest for speech again (skill speech lv.30) now you can ask for ammo from NPC

>lv.3, your first perk! yay! take "nothing" and you'll get another 2 perk points, take "scavenger 1" and "good student" and it's time to sell any scraps (exclude gold) to the trader

>do take "trading" skill for less coins to purchase a book or weapon from trader. i'll be frank, it helps a lot evenmore with buying some expensive stuff. buy books! shooting for beginer, bible, book of science, and many more. (outdoorsman skills is optional, since it increase camo and decrease our encounter)

>skill you should take :

• "speech" up to lv 40 for starter (first town) to learn curing from leiah for free
  
• "trading", you'll buy a a lot books and maybe ammo or even new guns so this is a must
  
• "driving" is for F2P like me
  
• "critical" this is for you to survive with the free guns

>skills you don't need :

• outdoorsman : increase camo (decrease encounter chance, not a really good thing but you can increase from books if you want. it literally sold by any trader)
  
• lockpicking : are you kidding me? don't even try to invest this if you're not having too many unused SP
  
• health / defense : you're not in dire situation to need this. just kill them before they reach you and if you're really cornered, just open bag and use bandage, really... (alternatively health can be increased from hospital building at open world map)
  
• melee / laser weapon : it's screaming hell! laser is hard to earn and need to manually buy the ammo from trader, it's for end game user only. as for melee, their damage not as good as your imagination, so forget it.
  
• firearms : nope... just get a book "shooting for beginer" and use it.
  
• critical hit : good for surviving with free weapon but you don't need this asap
  
• radiation resistance : nope. just take a food buff rad-x for more good resistance, easy drop.

>lv.6 your second perks skill earned from levelups! now learn "extra EXP" perks, but wait, you need to keep the perk point until you're lv8 to take.

>lv.9 finally! take this "animal language" perk so you can take quest from the da*n chicken for 300 exp (and also from the goat at second town.)

>if you go to second town, do anything to complete chain quest for a new car and do nothing else to conserve your fuel. but first you need weapon from the mayor, the legendary "vector" smg (9mm)

>DO NOT buy a house. it only useful for end game ppl, it produce very little amount of ammo and not stackable (ex. it produces 50 ammo each hour but if you didn't take it, it won't continue to produce upgradeable but pricey) and you have to loot it manually. imagine you running back and forth just for picking a little bit ammo, worst nightmare for F2P

>DO NOT go to open world map after the chain quest series from chuck. it's fuel consuming and you'll be struggling there without proper gear. and if you go there for the first time, GO CLEAR EVERYTHING THERE i mean any quest that spawn there will be time limited and the loot decrease every hour so the only choice is to do it wholeheartedly and be wholesome.

>lv.12 now you're at second town already, take the "reading" perk and be patient until you learn "bookworm" at lv.15 to get 50% increase bonus from reading and then start consume all your books (if your backpack crammed with books before you got the skill, just read the camping book for outdoor skill)

>never buy any weapon from trader except M24 Sniper. love the damage, 1 bullet for each head and have the range advantage you can scope as far as the farthest fog goes and still see the zombies shadow, headshot confirmed
see weapon
(advanced player only, karl98 3000 have the best damage afaik but it's still bolt action and only iron sight so you need to be on another level of calmness to use this weapon, especially against that annoying jumping zombie)

>if you get secret box encounter and got the laser pistol, that weapon isn't that good. keep it or sell it, your choice

>do take "driving" skill AFTER you done taking trading, both 50 now. then continue taking trading skill for more books and cheaper guns and ammo

>advanced perks plan :

• "More criticals 1 and 2" 5% more critical each
  
• "better critical" it increase crit damage, take it only if you took more crit 1 and 2
  
• "fast hand" and "fast hand 2" this is optional for faster reloading or so it should be but this is useless, just drink vitamin and get 20% reload buff or even better if you are rich just upgrade your weapon base reload speed (10% each upgrade for 3 times mex)
  
• "bigger backpack" this is what we need most, so less loot wasted because of limited bag
  
• "steady aim" so exoTHICC but useless. optional, but it'll be safer if you take this after everything else taken, only useful if you upgrade your weapon fires peed to 3
  
• "lucky child" increase 5% loot seems atractive but useless DO NOT TAKE IT, save it for last
  
• "traveler" increase storage slot by 5, useful for F2P player who need slots to keep their fuel jug, but only if you're going to open world map so you can go back and forth (for crafting fuel) more efficiently
  
• "skilled" anything else is not really interesting and just by reading it you know that it's less usefull, especially "skilled" it's exchange perk for skill point (SP+1 per leveup but perks no longer every 3 level but 4. take this with caution, only when you have no longer have the need to take another good perks) a really bad trade except you have no more good perk to take

well, that's it. despite my highest level at 39, i did restart my game plenty times. i hope this will help you.

Mayor bug and dissapear, i cant complete his quest!

ok here is the trouble from having exceed EXP bonus. Becareful with ruby quest line.
the mayor is a traitor, and he want to kill ruby. later you will kill him.

try finish bandit extermination faster than ruby main quest line

[LotsOFun]

FYI... the MRE on top of the dinosaur remains can be reached from the ground... get close and look up to see it... wait for prompt... then take... yum!

[Bif]

Scavenger 2 unlocks at level 30, just confirmed it. elitesyncopation is correct.

[elitesyncopation]

yeah it's unlocked around level 30 haha. i just finished the current version of the game already, just grinding gold coins in open city

[Bif]

CrystalBreak, thank you for this incredibly useful guide. Huge help.

You may want to update the guide since the 'Nothing' perk is not available until level 4 nowadays.

Anyway, beautiful job on this. Heartfelt thanks!

[CrystalBreak]

yes maybe, or either you have not enough level or you haven't completed a certain story
my guess would be your level sir

[elitesyncopation]

Hi Why is there no Scavenger 2 in the Perks even tho Scavenger 1 says that it will unlock the former perk? Is its a bug or I need to unlock something before Scavenger 2 becomes visible?

[inovade]

yes, i take it before and it's just another few simple mission (didnt find any in newest city though)
pretty much that's it, still better than most useless perk though (imho)

[CrystalBreak]

animal language will help you reach the soft cap level in each region (or literally easy-early-boost skill point)

[Jtwizzle]

To take quests from the various animals.

[inovade]

what's the use of animal language?