Christmas 2023: Snow Devil guide

quick simple guide for christmas 2023 winter event.

Merry Christmas!

Aight now that that's out of the way

a quick guide to the new event

seasonal zombies and debuffs

sugar craving debuff = getting it during the event with drops or zombies. Makes you move faster 15% movement speed and 20% search speed buff. AT the cost debuff of 10% headshot 10% bodyshot and -1% health for the duration

frostbite debuff = -30% movement speed -1 health per second and - 5% inc damage

undead helpers = they are the small tiny children with hats. A little tanky but more so harder to hit. Getting hit causes the sugar craving debuff

christmas zombies = the original ones are just zombies with hats on that can absorb quite a lot of damage depending on the location. They'll be the regular male zombies all the time but vary on mutations like tentacles scythes cysts optics armored in higher lvl areas.

Krampus = old boss type. Has a snow effect around it. it moves slow but rushes with the stalker animation and lunges with the reaper animation.

Wendigo = Spitter with skull cosmetic. It power walks / drags fast and has a roar that causes the sugar cravings debuff.

Snow devil = new infected zombie type for event. Reapers with white and a horned face. Will leap at you. Can cause significant damage and are pretty tanky

Frost tyrant = old event boss. Snowman creep. Can be found variants around places but the big guy is only found in purple zones (pzs)

Voracious Snow Devil = new event boss. Snow devils but bigger. Very fast and tanky. Reaper tactics of walking slowly then rushing at you. Thankfully these do not lunge at you but they are fast and high reload knockback or decent distance for reloading are to be considered to battle it as it is fast and leaves very few room for error.

edit: snow devil boss nerfed with recent update. Now is slower and walks longer giving ample time to keep distance and reloading

purple zones

there are several seasonal old and new types. Do note some only drop keys not sprockets which are used to open the fatman factory locked doors depending on which ones you get. Keys include: Cold key, Bone key, and Coal key.

low lvl 1-10 pzs involve undead helpers 15 to kill and christmas infected 25 to kill. Very easy to do. Can give xp cash and sprockets or keys

lvl 15-20 pzs involve usually the undead helpers 25 to kill and krampus 1 to kill. Can give cash xp and sprockets or keys

lvl 25-35 pzs involve wendigoos 1 to kill and snow devils 5 to kill. Can give cash xp and sprockets or keys
edit: reduced after update to only 3 needed instead of 5 and each snow devil can randomly be looted depending

lvl 40-50 pzs only involve the big seasonal bosses. The snow tyrant or the viracious snow devil. Killing 1 will yield cash xp (a significant amount) and 35 sprockets.

Fatman npc and Fatman's factory

Fatman npc can be found inside greywood. Like previous holiday npcs talk and they give quests.
only 1st day subject to change but seems to be consistent in the past updates:

1. he'll ask you to kill 50 undead helpers aka the small children with hats. The tiny ones. They are a bit tanky but not much else. You can do PZs, kill in the wild outside, or the 1st and 2nd floors will have them. If you don't see them in the larger rooms (double doors); enter a single door and there are usually about 3-4.
turn in get xp cash and sprockets to craft holiday stuff

2. He'll ask you to kill snow devils the new enemy type. You can find them on the 3rd and 4th floors of the factory, in PZs, in the wild, or just wait a bit in the factory they'll spawn randomly.
kill 15 and get xp cash and sprockets

3. he'll ask you to kill the frost tyrant aka the big creep snowman reskin pz. Kill 1 and turn in for xp cash and sprockets.

layout of the factory:

factory loot is tied to the lvl. Day 1 is in lvl 30 areas south of greywood outpost so all loot and stuff found in the puzzle boxes or boss drops will be lvl 30-35 ish

there are 3 locked rooms that require keys to open and have bosses behind the double doors and loot rooms with the festive enemy types. Bosses drop sprockets. Also some zombies will randomly be lootable for 3 sprockets or so a small quantity randomly. Plus the area is perfect for finding egg nogg and holiday drops.

1st floor / main floor = zombies and undead helper zombies. Cold key required locked double doors which at the end of the hallway double door is a snow tyrant creep. Killing drops 35 sprockets.

2nd floor = more undead helpers (tiny children zombies) and rooms

3rd floor = start seeing snow devils mostly behind the bone key requiring locked double door. Killing the snow devils in the hallway one will yield sprockets about 3 usually. Behind the double door is Wendingoo boss. Kill to get 35 sprockets

4th floor = last floor on top. more loot rooms and zombies. Coal key requiring locked double doors. Behind the double door inside the loot room is the krampus boss with some undead helpers.

sprockets and craftables

they're back

collect them to craft stuff along with cash to craft



25 sprockets 10 rare enhancers and 10k cash = 1 elite enhancer



300 sprockets and some cash can craft upgrades:

-snow devil pouches lvl 40 = 3% infected damage 8% mutant damage and 3% inventory capacity

-festive pouches lvl 40 = 10% search speed inventory capacity %find ammo and %find medical chance

-festive token lvl 50 = 10% unique and elite find chance on head gear



600 sprockets and about 50k cash can craft (stats randomly based on crafting outcome RNG and stats mentioned starting or minimum stats given):

-ravenous gunslinger pistol = a revolver that uses .40 ammo. Powerful but the main selling point aside from ammo type is 80% starting attack speed which is pretty fast

-fatman's hedge trimmer = gives 24% base starting jogg speed sprint speed sprint cooldown and about 40% sprint duration. Along with 25% find unique chance

-jeans of greed = give -20% inc damage 40% health 24% jogg / sprint speed and 40% find medical chance as well as a debuff of -40% find food and find drink chance

-boots (shoes) of greed = gives 24% sprint speed jogg speed sprint cooldown 40% sprint duration and 40% find ammo chance as well as a debuff of -40% find food / drink chance

christmas holiday buff

as any seasonal event you get
100% xp gain
100% find ammo chance
100% find unique chance
100% find elite chance

for the duration of the event.

That's about it

Good luck

and Merry Jolly Happy early Merry Christmas!!!!

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

they nerfed the snow devil and some other enemies. Strategy is still good for low speed players but recommend keeping high speeds to kite with less hassle with the new chainsaws.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

standard strategy:
-farm keys with multiple characters
-save em for down time OAs or when the pzs aren't giving sprockets (happens at least once maybe twice before the next Outpost Attack)
-do the fatman missions of killing undead helpers and snow devils. Then wait for the frost tyrant
-swap out during down time for other characters
-do the rest of the pzs for extra keys and sprockets.

guaranteed 1100 - 1400 sprockets a day depending on how many characters you got.
fatman's factory 35 each boss 6-9 extra about almost 45 x 3 = 135 per character + 25 35 45 from fatman npc quests 105 + 135 = 240 per fatman npc and factory grinding.

[Fumo Bnnuy n Frends]

forgot to add but recommendation for crafting:

-fatman's hedge trimmer 1st for the speed buffs making it a good stat stick.

then

shoes for better mobility

jeans can be 2nd if you dont have decent pair to use

pocket upgrades for the pants or other gear

pistol dead last b/c ammo prices will rise and very niche for pistol users vs everything else.