Welcome to DF2, YOU SUCK!

Just trying to write an updated df2 guide.

TL;DR

Go ahead to bottom #_Yolo Power Leveling Guide, game start after you reach lv50.

If you are a FPS & Open-world gamer, your df2 life will be easier.
You gotta travel a lot, take missions and farm.

About Dead Frontier II

Dead Frontier by Creaky Corpse Ltd, had quite a bit of history.
From a text based adventure game (2008) to DF 2D, then DF 3D, and finally DF2 (2018).

DF2 GAME FEATURE

• Old unity game engine (flame, creep fart drop your frame rate!)
  
• Loading simulator! Poor Server (LAG!)
  
• Pure RNG (Max +300% unique finding chance, still loot garbage! :D)
  
• Frustration from some boss & zombie (Scythed Kid!)
  
• Merchant ruin game market (even post-apocalypse zombie world can't stop monopoly!)
  
• SCAM CHEST!!!

Apart from those and these... Is this game fun? Sure it is!
You can almost call it a hardcore game! Do you like Dark Soul? Try melee build! DON'T

#1 Useful Tool, Resource, Suggestion

• DF2 Official Discord

All players sharing their loot / mission info there, totally a DF2 database.
Lots of dedicate volunteers shared their daily mission guide there.
If you want to level fast, know all the newest mission / equipment, then you must visit.

Find #df2_mission_info channel, click "Pinned Message".
It got most the mission info you need! Story mission, blue print mission etc...

• df2profiler.com

A website extract all the DF2 building / mission location from game server.
Most volunteer player doing their daily mission map with this site.
(Also df2haven, another place player post their daily mission guide there.)

• DF2 Fandom Wiki

Lots of page are outdated.
But its bestiality entry (boss info) & mission guide are still useful.

• List of past event collection (plus Golden / Corpse set).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3373145895

• DF2 character building (weapon, equipment, skill).

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3376969809

• Steam Overlay Cheat Note

Press [Shift+Tab] summoning the steam overlay, add new note, copy paste the boss/mission item location from discord (in code block, else the formation will gone).
Now you don't have to switch window to check guide!

• Quick Market Item Searching

You can search supply quicker by searching only 3 words (space included).

Iced Coffee	dco
Energy Drink	y d
Coffee Granules	eeg

Language affect this trick. Be creative, inventing your quick search keywords!

\_Configure Setting (Control, Graphic)

Why Bother Configuring?

Avoiding carpal tunnel syndrome!
Also avoid eating White Truffle by accident!

My suggestion is, Remap some unused key as [Submit], [Cancel].

CLICK LESS HELPS YOUR PLAYING MORE COMFORTABLY.

Either assign the side button on your gaming mouse, middle scroll button,
or assign [Space], same as dodge, so when zombie crowned you, you can loot & dodge.

Basic Control

Map	[M]	Open map. Mark-able. Important skill !
Move	[WASD]	Common control key map.
Action	[E]	interact with door, NPC, loot stuff.
Submit	[Enter]	Confirm in certain dialog, otherwise open chat dialog .
Cancel	[ESC]	Common key to cancel
Inventory	[I] or [TAB]	Check your loot, use item etc.

Skill (Utility)

Sprint	[Shift]	Run.
_Toggle Sprint	[V]	You will auto sprint while moving, press again to cancel.
Stealth	[Ctrl]	Crouch down, move without noise, zombie can't see you until get close.
_Toggle Stealth	[C]	Don't need keep pressing [Ctrl] in loot run.
Dodge	[Space]	You become invulnerable for 1 second! (Can change direction while dodging)
Kick	[Alt]	Kick & stun zombie! Useful while looting, or need space to reload.
Aim	[Right Click], [X]	Aiming.
Shoot	[Left Click], [Z]	BangBang
Reloading	[R]	Common key map in shooting game, press again to cancel (for escaping)

• When you are using melee, Left / Right click swinging weapon in different way.
  [Left click] chopping from top to down, can reach enemy from behind.
  [Right click] is swinging, you hit more area in front of you, also step forward more.

Quick Healing	[Q]	Be considered the most useless utility in game, often pick wrong medicine.
Chat	[Enter] or [T]	Communication is important.
Shout-Out	Keypad Number (0~9)	Quick phrase help communicating.
	1	Help!
	2	Look Out!
	3	This Way!
	4	Let's Go!
	5	Wrong Way!
	6	Reloading!
	7	Out of Ammo!
	8	I Need Meds!
	9	I Need Food!
	0	I Need Water!

Graphic Setting

Better graphic not always give you better gaming experience.
Sometime the in game weather have thunder/flash (storm rain).
Toggle [Lighting] off so that flash won't blind your eye.

Even in "low" graphic profile, game still looks nice.

You can turn off *almost* everything, being a cute potato! No more fear of darkness!

Turning almost everything off (Differed Rendering, Lighting) benefit you:

• Less distraction
  
• Less computer resource used
  
• Easier to spot enemy/loot outside far away (For heavy challenge zone player)
  
• Room become brighter
  
• Ugly

With "Differ Rendering", can't see further, but easier to spot zombie.

Without "Differ Rendering", can see further, 
but harder to spot some zombie (green one, Hysteric).

Help! I Accidently Make My Left Click "Cancel"!
How Do I Restore Everything To Default??

Right click your DF2 in steam, [Properties], [Launch Option], choose [Restore Default Setting].

#2 Outpost Service

Outpost offer you many handy and important service.
Tutorial, green text which keep popping out at low level should have taught you.

Trade NPC

• Buying from market, you can't get everything by your own.
  
  
• Selling (all trade tax you 15% of profit!)

• Scrap item at "Selling", right click "scrap" for quick cash.

Holding [Shift], buy / sell / scrap multiple items at once!

Notice Boards

• You can one click starting all missions (of this outpost)!
  
• You can also submit all missions here for reward!
  
• You may join competition, check other player's score (loot, kill boss, pvp etc).

Before submit your missions, equip +exp gears, drink Orangizer, joining outpost attack...
Do anything boots your +exp gain! Your exp reward increased as well!

Workbench

• Crafting Item here! (see next section)
  
• Fix your broken armour here!

Stash

Your storage box, All your characters can access it from different outposts.
Default slot is 40, expandable via buying "Slot Upgrade" with 500c at character selecting screen.

Another place to store item is your vehicle (max 80). Character specific though.

Trainer

NPC for resetting skill points.
You got one free reset per account, use it wisely! Afterward it cost 100c (~850k game cash).
Also a place for creating your own Clan! Cost you one million!

Mysterious Man (Cosmetic Shop)

Cool hat is not free.

\_Workbench (Crafting, Blue Print (BP))

Some items can only be obtained via crafting, require blue print (BP) first.
Either via looting, special mission reward, or event.
*Unique key BP unlocked after player reach lv30

Via Looting (BPs are books, "+finding book chance" helps)

Survivor's Stew	Pete's Recipe	Everywhere?
Nerotonin-2	Torn Magazine	Lootable after lv30, wiki said
Salvaged Scrap Pieces	Council's Memo	Everywhere?
Soft Soles	Old Snippet	Comer & Son (raid building)
Hobnailed Soles	Old Snippet	Comer & Son (raid building)
Scavenger's Pouches	Scavenger's Diary	Haverbrook
Utility Pouches	Palehave DIY Issue #7	Greywood, Duntsville
Camouflage Cover	Palehave DIY Issue #12	Lerwillbury, Wolfstable

Rumor said "Scavenger's Diary" can only be found outside. (I loot mine from trash can)
Old pouches are outclassed by Halloween / X'mas / Lunar New Year event upgrade.

Via Mission

Complete some story (BP) mission reward you a BP.
Mr. Moore & Doom Sayer, are just story mission give player BP.
The other however, are heavy RNG, can cost you more than 20MIL cash and several month!
Those BP weapons are supposed to be end game item, do not take it lightly!

Mr. Moore (Carl part)

Drink buff you +20% exp, +20% movement speed but also +25% dmg taken lol
Good for Stalker Mission, submitting mission or fighting some PZ boss.

Doom Sayer

A pouches give [+10% inv, +5% searching speed], for body / leg slot.
Outclassed by lots of event upgrade, Not worth crafting.

Blueprint Weapons

Check "#4 BP Missions" section for detail.

\_Vehicle (BGM: Gas Gas Song)

Car is for travel between outpost, duh.
But I add this section to remind player,
With enough gas (and better vehicle parts)

You can reach all outpost at level 1!

So you can get more missions!
Loot certain building, killing mutant (lv1 zone boss count!), etc.

Vehicle Inventory Slot: (Max +300%, gives 80 slot)
Vehicle MPG (mile per gallon): Travel cost less fuel.
Vehicle MPH (mile per hour): Cost less character energy / hydration.
Vehicle fuel capacity: Car can store more fuel

#3 Welcome to Palehaven: Know Game World

Press [M] open world map! (If you are indoor, click the upper red arrow on top to see outside!)

Zaa-WooRuDo!!!

World Reset Everyday, Big Reset Every Week!

Game reset every day (~UTC 9:00), building interior will change (except few special building).

Every Sunday, WHOLE WORLD's building location RELOCATED!

The More Toward East (Right), The Stronger Infected Spawned

Past lv10, mutant (boss) show up, not just zombie with buff modifier.
And further it goes, infected and mutant get more buff modifier!
Some weak mutant (Mother, Finger, Choir), start running after lv30+ zone.

Buff Modifier	Zone
Bloody	lv15+	+50% DMG, cause Bleeding
Irradiated	"	+25% HP, cause Radiation Poison
Diseased	"	Some with fly DMG Aura, cause Bacterial Infected
Burnt	"	Some with flame DMG Aura, cause Server Burn
Scythed	lv35+	+ DMG (plus long stun), cause Bleeding
Spined	"	Bone protect zombie from bullet, CS/melee bypass bone protection
Cystic	"	Fungus? Gun fire EXPLODE it, the smoke cause Bacterial infected
Optic	lv45+	BYPASS STEALTH! Bullets only work on its eye!also less HP. CS/melee bypass eye protection
Tentacled	"	+ Even More HP, Tentacle have high contact damage!
Pale	lv55	"Secronom Lab" only, Huge HP buff, attack cause Pale Bite, player lose 100% HP in 5 minutes!

\_Challenge (Purple Zone, PZ), Outpost Attack (OA)

PZ

The purple zone on map is a "Challenge".
20 mins per cycle with 4 challenges on map.

Once you enter challenge zone, all enemy will be aggroed & running;
"Deleg" zombie to manage their spawned, or man fight hoard of zombies.
(Fighting technique for more detail)

Challenge types from easy to hard:

• Kill worms / crows; (It is easier to catch crows if you stand next to wall.)
  
• Exterminate infected
  
  
• 1 Mutant + infected
  
• 1~5 mutants

Even harder challenge:

• "Rumbling in the fog" (KILL 15 MUTANTS)
  
• Brood Mother + Spiders (Big@ss Spider, fastest enemy excluded event mutants)
  
• Exterminate 700 infected (May reward "Sign of Hoard Slayer" for BP Backpack)
  
• Cultist + Mutants + Infected! (May reward "Cracked Symbol of Worship" for BP Melee)

Super hard challenge also reward more handsomely! (Weapon is elite)

OA

And every 4 hours, an outpost attack occur, siren will song and challenge will pause.
During this 20 minutes, one of the three outpost on map will be under attack!
Any player joined OA will received a 2 hours buff!

Outpost Defender (2 Hours) Slay 100 Infected	+20% Exp Gained Find Ammo Quantity Find Fuel Quantity Find Elite Item Chance Find Unique Item Chance
Outpost Guardian (2 Hours) Slay 200 Infected	+40% Exp Gained Find Ammo Quantity Find Fuel Quantity Find Elite Item Chance Find Unique Item Chance

However, if failed to protect outpost, it will become a building full of infected / Mutant!
Except Trader NPC remain, all other NPC will be gone for an hour!

Note: Sometime a bug cause PZ disappear on map after OA.
Go loot outside, travel via car to fix.

\_Building Type

Where Is Police Department / Hospital / Hotel / Industrial?

Check df2profiler, it tag every building's type behind its name.
Check discord #df2-mission-info pinned message, other player may put weekly map there.
Or you can just check in-game map, building name often reveal its building type.

Police Department (PD)	$District_Name +Police Department	0-1 PD per District. +Find Ammo Chance +Find Weapon Chance
Hospital	$District_Name +Hospital " +Psychiatric Unit " +Medical Center	0-4 Hospital per District. +Find Meds Chance
Hotel	+Hotel +Hotel And Spa +Motel +Cabin Inn	Medium or Big Building Small building with "Inn", are Restaurant
Industrial	+PLC Machines, Mechanic, Factory, Warehouse, Oil ^keyword in building name	+Find Fuel Chance +Find Vehicle Part Chance Name with "Devices" are Office building

Dallbow PD and Haverbrook Memorial Hospital,
two outposts should give you clue what PD & Hospital looks like, they are tall building!

Note: Hotel may also share the same building look.

Industrial buildings had two building look, big brick building,
or two small building sit next to each other.

Restaurant / Household

Restaurant building give you "+Food / Drink Finding Chance", but it doesn't matter.
Restaurant is small and ALWAYS have a boss room, ideal for boss hunting.

Household however, only 1/2 chance spawned boss room at 2F (rare case at 3F),
but always have a locked room, ideal for lock-picking looter.

These two small building are R1/R2 boss hunting's primal object building.

\_Raid Building, Mission Building

Raid Building (Red Color)

If you saw a red text name outside (or on map).
That's a raid building, for lv50+ player(s).

Inside building it give player debuff, but it also give you better loot!Probably not
There are 5 raid building on map.Except some event time only raid building

Raid Building	Building Debuff
Palehaven City's Archives (PCA) Located @ Richbowhunt (lv30-40 inside, based on spawned zone) *If locate at low level zone, spawned mutant also weaker		Easiest raid building, best place for lv30 unique. Also a mission building for "Doom Sayers", "Wandering Survivors". Loot "Kate's Eatery Invitation" here for "Vicious Hoarder" BP Mission. Interior layout never changed.
Comer And Son Inc Located @ Lerwillbury (lv50 inside) Has 20 floors! (Part of Mara Nix Mission Chain)		Loot "Nix Key" in locked room for "Mara Nix Mission Chain" Loot "Old Snippet" here for "Hobnailed Soles" / "Soft Soles" BP Loot "Diseased Solder's Diary" here for "Stairway to Hell" BP Mission. *Have a boss room with 3 bosses, +500% unique elite item drop chance in this room.
Ravenwall Heights Community Hospital Located @ Ravenwall Height What a nice way to troll noob (lv50 inside)		Infected got more buff modifier and worms! Cultists, a very strong mutant lives here! Loot "Weird Old Book" here for "Call of the Accursed" BP Mission. Exclusives Loot: [Reckless] Gloves, Helmet, Armour, Trouser, Boots. [Brand New] Upgrades
Nix Mansion Located @ Archbrook (lv55 inside) Lots of Spiders! (Part of Mara Nix Mission Chain)		Good luck fighting spiders. Exclusive Loot: [Secronom's Protective] Mask, Gloves, Suit, Boots
Secronom Lab Locate @ Wolfstable (lv55 inside) All zombie have Pale buff modifier (Part of the Mara Nix Mission Chain)		Find NPC (Mel) in locked door For "CCT-10" BP Mission. Exclusive Loot: Same as Nix Mansion Plus exclusive upgrades: Hacking Tool, Secronom's Trauma Kit

Mission Building (Orange Color)

Most of them are part of the story/BP mission. Check "Mission" section for more detail.

Mission	Building
"Mr.Moore" story mission	Play Stop, Welcome Retreaet Apartment, Creaky Corpse Ltd
"Doom Sayer" story mission:	Drowned Mine, Bart's Mysteries n Trinkets
"Ronin's Blade" BP mission	Kenneth's Hideout
"Call of the Accursed" BP mission	Mole's Lane
"CCT-10" BP mission	Dead End Shop (spawned along with other raid / mission building)

"Dead End Shop" also allow player buy some crafting item with ridiculous price, or trade said item for common goods

Torrance Household however, is a building summon super mutant to kill player.
Inside there are NPCs talking nonsense, after trigger the event, one flaming tentacle reaper (higher damage/hp than usual one) will enter, player can't leave room before killing it. Player received "Harbringer's Sword" form its corpse, a COTA's based item, but rare grade with random 3-4 stats of melee. Harbringer's Sword's biggest usage is extract its skin with 300c, making player have a COTA melee skin.

Notice this item has blue print melee's base stats, higher base damage/surprise attack than mace.
Its -50% dodge duration make dodging's last landing animation frame gone, so dodging no longer slow player down.

This mission can only be done once per character, asking other strong player help you is  recommended; on the other hand, trying to farm a good stats "Harbringer's sword", is not recommended unless you have too much free time.

#4 Mission & Sweet EXP!

For new players without level & powerful gear, mission is your primal exp source.
Among missions, "Human Remain" (HR) and "Stalker Mission" (SM) reward player the most.

But first know some tip.

Mission Building Name Is Green, Submit Mission Before World Reset!

If it is not obvious enough.

Mission has spawned pattern (limitation)

Mission item/NPC ALWAYS SPAWNED IN 3 DOORS!
\_Stair count as one door, 99% mission item/NPC spawned at first 2 floors, rarely at 3rd floor.
in theory it can spawned at 4th floor hall, but never have seen one.

Find item mission have only one loot spot!
\_The room spawned mission item, have only one loot spot, if you see 2 loot spots, pass.
\_Blood sample & HR, do not spawned loot spot, 'cause zombie killed for loot count as loot spot.

Mission Items Can Submit Via Noticeboard, Without Starting Them!

As long as you have mission item, you can submit via noticeboard for reward!
This feature allow map makers in DF2 discord community writing their mission guide.
"Finding Item Guide" only require player loot the mission item, then submit.

However, "Bring Item" mission require you start the mission first.
Say you found a NPC outside want you bring him water.
You can back to outpost, buy water from market, then submit via noticeboard!

"+Exp Gained" Increased Mission Reward (+300% Maximum)

INCREASE +EXP GAINED BEFORE SUBMIT MISSION.
Before you reach LV50 you need around 5Mil EXP, but it really isn't that hard.
Many way to increased your Exp Gained state.

$$$	Gold Membership	+100% Exp Gained
Skill	Fast Learner	+10% per level (Max +50%)
Equipment	+EXP stats can come from "Weapons", "Gloves", "Head". "Dead man" unique series have "Body", "Leg", "Feet" clothes with +EXP Gain.	Max "+exp gained" stats scale with Item level, hence your level x 4 (from items). Plus 30~40% if you buy 3 "Dead Man" body, leg and feet clothes.
Food Buff	Well Nourished (Survivors Stew / Last Birthday cake) Orangized (Orangizer) Easter High (Easter egg) Easter Feast (Easter cake)	Well Nourished (+20%) Orangized (+20%) Easter High (+20%) Easter Feast (+30%) *Easter egg/cake are event time only item.
Outpost Attack Buff	Outpost Defender (Slay 100 infected) Outpost Guardian (Slay 200 infected)	+20% +40%
Event Buff	Weekend Event Buff Holiday Event Buff	+35~100%

For example, you skilled "Fast Learner V" at level 20;
Manage find two weapons, head, gloves with "+15% EXP Gained" stats;
Finished an OA and get the buff;
Buy or craft Orangizer / Survivor's Stew & consume them.

Then for the very least, you get (50+60+20+40) +170% EXP Gained.
Extra 30% If you buy "Dead Man" unique clothes on market.
Numbers can easily go higher with weekend buff! (Or buy gold membership)

\_Learn How To Read Map

Lets find an example, a daily bring item mission map by me.

This map mark "bring item" NPC location on map, visit them, back to outpost, buy stuff then submit.

Most mission map use full building name, but in this case I shortened them.
Example: Greywood Police Department > GPD

Common Abbreviation

TL	Turn Left
TR	Turn Right
H	Hallway
W	White
SD	Single Door
DD	Double Door
A	Across

LWSDA=Left White Single Door Across
It takes time to learn, but it is the fastest way doing mission.

Most map maker only do mission above lv35.
It is risky for low level player visit end zone, but all you need is;
Move speed (Sprint / Sprint CD, Jog),
Search speed (Looter, equipment + search speed)
Optional, sneak visibility (Stealth skill, stats from "Body" / "Leg" clothes).
Avoid unnecessary fight, find NPC / loot mission item then leave.
Optic (lv45+ zone) infected can see you even if you max out you sneak visibility!

\_Human Remain (HR), Stalker Mission (SM), Wandering Survivors

Human Remain

Kill a mutant & loot human corpse from its stomach!

This type of mission need killing power, often fighting boss at tiny space.
Try low level zone (under lv30) HR mission if you don't have confidence.

Stalker Mission

You should have met that creature already... Stalker! RE3 Namesis
Unstoppable, scary AF... but reward player handsome EXP if you escape it successfully!

0~10 Stalker Mission on map per day, on average 3-4 SM each day.

Way to Escape:

• Run back to Outpost
  
• Run around for 3~5 Minutes. If inside building, can up/down stairs.
  
• If inside a single door room, before it spawned, block the door, afk 10+ minutes.
  ^if can't block door in time, log out (change character) then back to reset the spawn.

Player Level	Escape EXP Reward
15	1000
25	3000
35	10000
45+	16000

All you need is +movement speed & +Exp gained equipment!
Lv45+ player with max +EXP gained, can earn wholesome 64k EXP!

Wandering Survivors

See next chapter, I put it here just because unlike other BP missions,
Its side quest is for power leveling, 3 of them reward you 12k+ exp each (before +exp manipulate).

Quest Giver
Bronze Face	Kill 400 Infected
Bush Girl	15 Salvaged Scrap Pieces
Tin Head	Complete 14 Challenges

2024 Update
Can't farm mission / coins any more.
You can only complete their missions 20 times (for 20 coin), then they no longer give mission.
By the time you complete 20 of their mission, you should reach lv50+ already. Get the BP.

\_Story Mission

DF2 Fandom wiki has updated story mission[deadfrontier2.fandom.com]

Chief Bank + Mr. Moore

New player should do Chief Bank's mission first as tutorial.
"Grave Digger" is good unique for beginner, can scrap for 5k later.

Also should do Mr. Moore mission next,
"Orangizer" is a very useful drink, for stalker mission or increased mission exp reward.
Player also can loot "Lost Spartan" inside "Welcome Retreat Apartment.
As for ending, I advice pick the "bad" ending,
since "Carl's Worn Cap" come with "find book chance", it will be useful later.

Doom Sayer

Player can try "Doom Sayer" mission as soon as reaching level 25.
Doom Sayer require you loot & read "Fade Note" to trigger mission.
When mission progress to find dream catcher, kill the Hysteric!
"Trinket Shop Shotgun" is a great free 20 gau unique shotgun!

If you hand out dream catcher, at last part of mission you unlock the room at PCA 4F.
By killing super mutant "Finger Guardian" will reward you a lv20 +exp gained armour,
but you can revisit again whenever you want, just stealth loot & complete the mission.

Mara Nix (Patient Zero)

This is end game content, and have many steps to complete the mission chain.
Player's goal is farming enough "Secronom Token" to craft Unique Enhancer.
The whole mission chain reset every day, but mission progress won't.
If you only unlock 2 terminal in lab for today, then next day you only have to unlock other 3 for P0.

Note that if you complete the mission chain, all mission relate items will be gone.
So do not hoard "Crumpled Note", if you have other note in car, when you hand out crumpled note to Mara, you will received one secronom token, and all other crumpled note on car will be gone for nothing.

\_Blue Print (BP) Mission

IT SUPPOSED TO BE HARD TO CRAFT END GAME GEARS,
It may require heavy RNG to find book, item, or certain PZ.
It always cost you fortune (20 millions or more),
It can take you months, even a year to complete.
or pay to win, buy credit & sell it, craft unique keys to open scam chest.

DF2 Fandom Wiki have updated info about BP mission[deadfrontier2.fandom.com]

Among all the BP mission, Gore Trimmer (Wandering Survivors) is the easiest to unlock,
also ideal for power leveling as its side mission reset daily.

After unlock mission, find the gore wizard's body here.
LDD, TL, RWSD (Left double door, turn left, right white single door)
Careful, Hysteric mutant will enter this room!

BP mission released order:

• STH (Stairway to Hell, end game rifle, 2022)
  
• Ronin's Blade (End game pistol, 2022)
  
• Gore Trimmer (End game chainsaw, 2023)
  
• Vicious Hoarder (End game backpack, 2023)
  
• Call of the Accursed (End game melee, 2023)
  
• CCT-10 (End game double barrel SG, 2024)

Some event / holiday limit weapon are close to BP weapons.
Consider using them before crushing your soul to craft a BP weapon.

Stairway to Hell (STH)

Loot "Deceased Solder Diary" in Comer to start the mission.
(Some player spend a YEAR in Comer and still no luck.)
Then you need loot 6 STH parts all over Palehaven and 7 others unique rifle to craft it.

Ronin's Blade

Loot "Gun Enthusiast's Diary Page" at lv30+ zone to start the mission.
Player need loot two very rare crafting item (roughly 1/10000?);
Also need total 24 white truffles, that's ultra expensive!
Require 7 unique pistol to craft its part.

Gore Trimmer (Wandering Survivors Mission)

The easiest to unlock / complete BP mission,
Most difficult part is collecting those 7 unique CS, Grinder worth 32MIL+ on market!
New update: you can't complete it's side mission for more than 20 times now.
So feel free complete sack-head's mission, get the BP.

Vicious Hoarder Backpack

Unlike other BP weapons, this item can't be obtained through unique chest or market.
Loot "Invitation to Kate's Eatery" book in PCA to start the mission,
Also require a sewing machine (which unlock archive sets BP);
LOTS of crafting materiel (2 duct tapes, 13 Nylon Thread etc. Worth more than 10mil);
Also "Sign of Hoard Slayer" from exterminate 700 infected PZ.
Just buy a "Pouches Of Endless Luck" upgrade on your (kid's) backpack.

Call of the Accursed

"Useless melee unique recycling mission" in my opinion (For heavy unique chest opener).
It need more unique item than any other BP missions, need total 16 unique!
Like "Gore Trimmer", It gives monstrous stats, but unlike Gore, it cost 100 mil to craft.
Its -50% dodge duration debuff makes player's dodge no longer slow/pause moving.

CCT-10

Good luck looting 3 disk inside "Secronom Lab" to unlock the BP!
Its small base ammo cap (3!) makes player need heavy investment on head/gloves to fix.
For this reason it is by far the cheapest BP weapon (less than 30 mil).
Players joking it as the worst BP gun ever, calling it a stat stick (high DvM, walk speed).
But by its high state alone, worth the pain, few player even play it as a body shotgun!

#5 Kill La Kill: Fighting Technique

For beginner, please pick pistol, rifle or shotgun as main weapon.
SMG/AR are powerful, but they are too expensive to maintain for beginner.
CS on the other hand, need lots of skill and end game gear to be effective weapon.

Stun

Your attack can stun boss every 3 seconds!
If you can't kill mutant fast enough, you gotta hit & run (kiting).
A brief but valuable time for reloading or creating space.

Mutants can be stunned up to 2 seconds;
Mutants have 100% stun recovery, so player need 4 seconds stun duration for max stun.
That's why some kick-chainsaw build need extra kick-stun stats gear.

Can't aim head well?
Stun Enemy > Shoot Head > Run 3 Sec > Repeat

Fast mutant like Brood or Tendrill, if they reach you = death.
Player need stun them whenever possible to keep them at bay.

Easier said than done;
Newbie either run into obstacle / corner, or can't aim well under pressure.
Plus other infected will distract attention often, so yeah, stay kalm.

Deleg

Most important technique while doing challenge (PZ)!
You can break enemy leg if it received 40% of total hp damage.
This also work on most boss! (Titan, event mutants can't be deleged)
It is possible to deleg Reaper, but hard to aim its leg

Deleg serve another purpose, managing infected spawning.
Map can only spawned limited enemy (~14) at once.
Before you entering PZ, deleg every infected, walk into PZ;
then you can fight them one by one while other zombie crawling on ground.

Sound, SFX

Some player keep dying because their PC's speaker (or headphone) is mono channel!
Game have 2 channels sound, one for BGM, another for sound effect (SFX).
When zombie about to attack, they always scream; when a hysteric is near, you can hear its buzzing noise; when doing hard PZs, spiders are after you, if their footstep noise is gone, then it means it is time to turn around shooting. Sound/SFX plays big role surprisingly.

Back Pedaling

Mostly used by Chainsaw build, but useful for gunner as well!
You can back pedal in front of Reaper face with 100% walk speed (it won't leap if close).
Gunner with 185% walk speed, Creep can't reach you!
Extra distance you can make while you are shooting.

Cleaning

Only work on indoor fight (boss room).
Enter room > kill infected > leave & re-enter, repeat until only mutant left.
Doesn't work with deleg, infected will also restored to full hp if not killed.

Path-finding Abuse

Abuse enemy's bad path-finding, mutant often freeze at the edge of table / chair.
Mostly used by chainsaw player, attacking them through small obstacle;
But this trick considered abuse.
You can step on box / bed / surgery table etc
Some player be reported for this trick & banned for 1 day. So doing this alone.

PZ Lure

Lure PZ mutants out of zone > kill > back to PZ > Repeat
Player used to do this to farm exp, but it had been patched in 2024.
Though it no longer work, but when holiday event start, some event NPC may require player to kill special infected (30 bunny/dragon infected etc), then it is faster lure out those special infected in low-level PZ to complete mission, than spends hours looking for those special infected.

Door Blocking

When boss hunt in a group, if you can't fight, just block the door.
At least there will be no more infected walk in the room.
Also useful if you need AFK a bit.
This trick also work for Stalker before it spawned.

\_Mutants

Please check wiki[deadfrontier2.fandom.com]

*Note that, inside building, mutants in small room are nerfed.
They either lost their ability, or can only run a little bit.

Easy Boss (The first 3 start sprinting after lv30 zone):

Finger	Tutorial mutant teach player "gaze damage". Shoot leg to deleg, or aim body then rise crosshair to shoot then look away, repeat.
Mother	Ignore its worm, just shoot, hits like a truck.
Choir	Huge body/head makes it a good bullet catcher! lol You can dodge its scream damage!
Titan	A screaming potato keep trying to hug you. Tutorial mutant teach player how to kite; If spawned in small room, then it can only walk few step, free exp & loot.
Spitter	The only mutant can't run. As its name suggest, it spit vomit and cause burned status

Harder Boss

Reaper	Everyone (except chainsaw build) hate this fker, its leap do ~350 damage! Small crawling creature, but has the highest HP pool! If it spawned inside small room then it won't leap. Either kill them far away, or fight it face to face (back pedaling) with 100% walk speed.
Twin	As fast as Tendrill, almost as tank as Titan! But it has short hands, can't touch you if you keep moving, so don't panic. The best attack timing is when it spewing swarm, need some walk speed.
Tendrill	Our old (girl)friend from DF1. Run fast, attack fast, long reach tentacle... fragile but deadly. Usually it is not a big threat because of its low HP, but if combine with "Spined", "Optic" buff modifier it will become a big threat.
Hysteric	Be hold, invisible zombie! Has lowest HP among mutants. When it sprint, head down; when it stop, head up. Can't run very fast nor long, not a hard boss, just annoying. Has a very iconic buzzing sound.

HARDER!!!

Cultists	Either appear in their own PZ, or "Ravenwall Height Community Hospital". May still be considered as event mutant, can't be deleg.
\_Blade Cultist (Acolyte Of The Nearing End)	Full armour, can only walk, insane blade attack.
\_Spite Cultist (Acolyte Of The Relentless Spite)	Spite like Spitter, then sprint and puching player. If want to fight it, Max Dodge CD recommend.
\_Tentacle Cultist (Acolyte Of The Nightmare Embrace)	A buffed tentacled stalker. Its (silently) scream giving player "Panic" debuff.
\_Optic Cultist (Acolyte Of The Unseen Demise)	Ravenwall Hospital only, an ultra tank optic Hysteric! Chainsaw is the only check.
Spider	Run faster than any other mutants, also spite web like spitter! It also breed small spiders, yikes. It takes times to reach its max speed, and have bad turn rate. Easy kiting. Also, Stalker can't enter that spider room!
Brood Mother / Matriarch	Big@ss Spider! Fastest enemy in game (~150 sprint speed for brood mother)! Brood mother appear in its PZ, require lots of Sprint speed/duration, and kite. Matriarch is the boss of Nix Mansion. Always run past columns. it will stopped spiders for a bit if they headbutt columns.

\_Other Boss Hunting Info (R1/R2, Backpack)

R1/R2

We call the two street at end (lv50) zone roll 1 & roll 2.
Boss hunting party usually go to the end of city boarder (R1);
Sweep all available building's boss room, from top map to bot map,
then to second roll (R2), sweep all the way back to top.

Human Backpack

You are likely run out of inventory space before finishing your run.
"Backpack" here means send item to other player via private trade.
Without slot upgrade, player get extra 10 space by send item to your teammate.
One big reason player need teammate, to carry more loot home!

#6 Looter, Scavenger.

• See chapter #[0], remap your "Cancel", "Submit", making your looting life easier.
  
• You can loot if close / facing at loot spot, no need to "aim".
  
• Using melee / CS or kick won't interrupt channeling.
  
• It is viable go suicide "die back" after your inventory full, save traveling time.
  
• Melee's "surprise attack damage" doesn't stack with "body damage", only DVM, DVI

Looter either 1) avoid fight, use melee, or 2) fight, with silent / eco gun.

1): Maximum "Stealth Visibility" (-75%) is highly recommend.
Stealth looting works great with melee's surprise attack.
For looting at Comer or Ravenwall Hospital, your stealth visibility need reach 115%.

Stealth visibility has 1 sec CD!
If you break your stealth stage for more than 1 second (attacking, kicking),
zombie will notice you!

With max stealth, zombie can't see you til you touch their nose! (Care optic infected!)
BTW, touching won't aggro zombie, only by "sight".
So feel free to bury your face in their butt.

2): Looting with eco (cheap ammo) gun, pistol is most eco gun type.
Player may try "Ninja" build, rise your "Visibility", "Footstep Noise", "-Noise".
"Visibility" is similar to "Stealth Visibility", but unlike stealth, moving makes footstep noise.

Max noise reduction (Suppressor gun upgrade + hands + head), will be a fun play.
It effectively reduce the aggro in room, also a common tactic for comer 3 bosses room.

Those 3 stats can only come from equipment, no need to max them for being good.

BTW, "Silent Chainsaw Looter" build exist, CS is ideal for cleaning infected.

\_Strong Box, Puzzle

Strong Box's reward similar to locked room loot.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2927519106
If you still can't solve the puzzle, ask at discord #df2-puzzles-discussion.


3*5 light button puzzle is the easiest puzzle,
If button is dark, click the button under it. That's it!

\_Supply, Crafting Item & Where To Find Them

If you are looking for specific item's level zone, use market's level filter.

Ammo

	1	5	10	15	20	25	30	35	40	45	50
20 gau
12 gau
10 gau
5.56
7.62
8mm
9mm
.32
9mm round
.357
.38
.40
.45

Fuel can be found everywhere.

Medicine

"Cure Debuff" meds (bandage, burns kits etc) can be found everywhere;
Unlike ammo, meds' price are bond together, if market demands meds, all meds' price up.
So if players got butchered, it is faster earn cash via looting at low lv hospital for meds.

BTW "N-2 Base Vial" & "N-2 Medium Vial" appear at lv45+ zone.

Crafting

Crafting Material / Upgrades, 2 rarest item type to be found. (0.2% base?)
"Finding Chance" stats can come from "Weapons", "Gloves", "Head".

"Nylon Thread" / "Duct Tape" for "Vicious Hoarder":
Nylon Thread: lv40+
Duct Tape: lv50+

Rare Food/Drink

Such as "Single Malt Whisky", "Beluga Caviar", "Foie Gras" etc...
Among them, "White Truffle" is for "Ronin's Blade BP Mission", you will need 24 of them.

If you are looking for White Truffle, just loot at normal building (hotel or apartment) at lv50 zone.
Or try loot whole R1/R2 restaurant building. They are way too rare to target. (0.2%?)

#7 Character Building

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3376969809
After lv60 update drop, I re-wrote most of the build suggestion.
I list (not) recommend build for beginner, stat explanation, popular item pick etc.
Feel free to ask at Discord #df2-build-help.

#_YOLO Power Leveling Guide

Highly suggest new player in early stage pick:
[Fast Learner, Sprinter, Looter]

"Sprinter" first, then "Fast Leaner", "Looter"; later go all [Damage / Efficiency] skill:
[Weapon Expert, Reloading, Head Hunter, Quickshot, Hunter, AftH, Marksman]
Weapon expert can go last If you are not decide yet
It is not a bad idea keep 5 skill point til event unique out, they are free and powerful.

Check #7's building guide for building detail.
One weapon expert is enough, Pistol, Rifle or Shotgun.

Try saving money buy past lv15 event unique

Unique like "Ice Breaker Hat & gloves", or "Sunstroke" unique set.
They are good enough carry new player to lv50, or even 60.
(You mostly power levelling by doing missions, no boss hunt before first free event unique)

1) Complete "Chief Banks", "Mr. Moore" story mission (bad ending recommend) (#4, Story Mission)
"Grave Digger" + "Lost Spartans" can carry you all they way to lv20.

2) Try unlock "Wandering Survivors" Mission immediately! (See #4, BP mission)
With enough gas, you can immediately drive your car to greywood hotel.
After unlock, go to PCA, find gore wizard, dieback to greywood.
I done that at lv8, just run
Now you unlock power leveling side mission!
(Their location in hotel change every day, but always at 1F or 2F.)

Kill 400 infected, can be easily done if you join OA.
14 Challenge, is kinda difficult for new player, can pass.
Bring 15 "Salvaged Scrap Pieces",
^require player to loot "Council Memo" to unlock, see #1_1
That's why I suggest get bad ending in "Mr. Moore" to received "Carl's Worn Cap",
best low level +find book chance item.

However, after you find the memo and unlock the blue print,
You will need 15 damaged "weapons / vehicle parts" everyday!
Sometimes damage items price can be high because of this.

The cheapest way is making new character,
every new character start with damaged 2x4, ivano, and 4 damage vehicle parts in car.
Create new character > collect items > delete, up to 5 times a day.

Each side mission reward 12k+ exp (without exp buffed), you can easily done 2 everyday.

Max Your Exp Gained before Submit Mission!

Max Your Exp Gained before Submit Mission!!

Max Your Exp Gained before Submit Mission!!!

Please check whole #4 chapters, even if you can't fight,
Find item / SM mission can give you tons of EXP, you can reach lv50 in 1 weeks or less.
After reaching lv50, you can finally planning your build / equipment.
Now real game finally start.

Now try max prestige level, buy upgrade slot with 500c for more alt character space...

If you got question, feel free to ask at official Discord.

#_How to be RICH?

DF2, same as DF1, at some point it become a farming game lol

PZ reward Hunters

Fastest way, complete same PZ with different character (require slot upgrade) several times.
Say there is an easy PZ (kill 2 mutants, 5K+12g reward) near greywood hotel close, if you have lots characters who can fight, you can complete ~6 times in 20 mins, farm 30k, 6 pack of 12g, exclude the mutants loot in pz. (You can loot 6 item form mutants corpse each pz per account, big PZ is different though.)

PZ RNG affect profit, sometimes you can do big pz two times in 20 mins (80k + 2 elite weapon), sometimes it is bad PZ + far location, so you just do R1/R2 boss hunt.

Not hard making 1mil in a weekend (easily 150k+ or more per hour.)
But this method require heavy investment (500c buy slot upgrade, lots of lv50+ alt character who can fight), and it is exhausting keep switching characters.

Boss Hunting

PCA, R1/R2. You only need 1 strong character/equipment, and know how to fight.
Profit is pure RNG. You won't make noticeable big money unless you:

• loot good unique (Grinder, Hammer Time is the big Jackpot, at best once a year?)
  
• right stat line combo EE gamble material (rare gloves with [body damage, attack speed, DvM] may worth 1 mil).

You also earn exp along the way. As long as you don't make mistakes often, used eco weapon (Pistol, Rifle, Head Shotgun), then you always make profit.

Looting

Boring, but reliable and low risk.
You may earn more than boss hunt, if you loot at end zone with some looter gear.
Require lv50+ with looter equipment with high +finding craft (upgrade) chance (see character building guide, specialist build), In lv50 zone, you may loot good thing every 2-400 loot spots, if a nylon thread, white truffle, drum magazine pop out, one million profit.

Things like ammo/meds's profit depend on market, but they are easy to sell.
Even if you are low level, candy, orange juice, 5.56 rifle round ammo etc can sell surprisingly good price per stack.

Or be the lock-picker, equip items with [Unique/Elite/Weapons Chance] with max Lock-picking (75%), travel into the woods at the boarder of the map. From top to down of lv50 zone, there are small houses every 100-200M, loot all of it's locked room, you may loot ammo, unique item, upgrades, or broken key! (and tons of blue item :/)

Sad thing is, without slot upgrade, by default a character can only list 20 things on market.
But it is not hard making enough money buy 500 credit from market if you are willing to.

Merchant

Sometimes market is predictable.

Each holiday event's NPC's bring item mission have its patterns.
For example, candy, survivors stew... Sweet or crafting food/drink often become the needed mission item, merchant hoard tons of them, wait til event then sell it for big profit.

If you can correctly guess next event unique weapon type, then the ammo it used or its weapon type's best upgrade's market price will go sky high. Basically stocking gamble.

By far (2025), BP AR/SMG is not released yet. BP weapon always require 7 other unique, and merchants are hoarding said type weapon's unique already.

But guess what? Dev team hate merchants. They sometime break the old pattern to ruin merchant's monopoly game.

	Character Inventory (+300% Max)	Vehicle Inventory (+300 Max)	Stash	Trade Listing	Private Trade
Default character slot (2)	80	80	40	20	10
Per Bought (N) Upgrade (2+3N)	80	80	40 (+100N)	20+20N	10+20N

By default, if make one alt character as a pure storage cargo, then one character can store 190 items (exclude stash space). With each slot upgrade bought, per "Cargo" store 40 more. If you really want to make big profit by hoarding, business level of storage space is needed.

It's not a bug, it's a feature! ¯\(ツ)/¯

True auto sprint mode

• Press [W], [Shift], and keypad [8] at same time.
  
• Let go [W] first, then let go all key.

Now your character will move on its own!
To cancel, press [Up Arrow Key], your character will stop.

Inventory auto scro down glitch

If this happened, drag items near the top of your scroll bar, then auto scroll down should be fixed.

(Weapon) Model lag

You may notice, holding pistol and cycling around, it feel kinda clunky.
But it won't happened while you holding other gun/melee.
Small glitch but it give player tiny disadvantage when fighting deadly enemy.

0-day event glitch!

Something ALWAYS goes wrong at the first day of event.
Event mutants, items or PZ not working properly?
Somehow crafted event unique have trade remain?
All glitch will be patches, but it's funny to see how community reacted to all the chaos.

Exclusive loot?

Dev team probably just copy/paste the old building profile when they implant the new one.

In "Ravenwall Community Hospital", players reported that they loot "Old Way" and "Double Overkill", someone also report that he loot a "Nihilist's Solution" from non-cultist mutants.
In "Secronom Lab", player somehow looted "Brand New" upgrades , which shouldn't.

We don't know it is intentional or not, it may get patched, or stay this way. ¯\(ツ)/¯

(Des)Spawned special enemy

It is common seeing special enemy (finger guardian, cultist) spawned in weird place.
And few times (once a year), they are gone at their place for no reason.

Thanks For Reading

Lots of information come from strangers on Df2 discord,
Lots thank to DF2 content creator on Youtub such as Jimmy ShredZ, Xub Chillin,
Lots thank to DF2 wiki,
Lots thank to other player who collect/organize game data. (Chinese DF2 community)
Lets all enjoy the game!

[Nighty9]

@Relax, lane is hard.
I update the character building part, I find it is better split this guide.
Will try update this guide slowly when I have more spare time, mostly for its messy formation.

[Relax, lane is hard.]

Thanks, I found this guide quite useful even now, cheers!!

[The BoiizA]

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