In general just try to loot food, ammo, parts and morale items.ĭo not loot multiple special items like toolbox/dumbell/DVDs/cement - they cannot be recycled, and just take up space.

Head to the hardware shop, loot the stuff (you need parts and toolbox, the rest is optional) Main thing here is to loot and deposit the gasoline from the car outside so the generator is working today - otherwise you get hit with a morale penalty on first day for generator not working. Your char is weak now, but you can give her a knife so she is not completely useless for now. In shelter storage give Anita baseball bat and medical bag with some bandages in, and give Joel the nightstick, drop everything else - you need to have maximum weight allowed to loot your trip. Talk to the scrubs, pick Anita (she can carry more, she will be your main zombotank for now, and she has some medical skills as well). This is where being ranged helps, because even though you were pushing social skills you can still drop a bunch of baddies with a shotgun, whereas melee character requires much heavier combat skills investment to be effective and hit stuff. You can check the guides around the web for optimal stat allocation for effective shelter management, it mostly includes heavy investment into social and medical skills. Then I stick on Ranged it until I have 6 pips for 2 perks (pick crit on humans and AP reduction per shot as your perks), then keep focusing on negotiation/leadership after that, then some medic/survival. I put 3 pips into survival for the map visibility rangeģ pips into negotiation for the morale bonus So, everything into perception (10), then agility (6 or so), then after you max agility you can put some into Strength because you will want to wear heavier armor by then so you are not dropped unconscious in 1 stray shot. Yes yes, you can get real heavy armor and delete a guy in full military gear every turn with Critical Strike on Katana, but with Combat Shotgun I tend to delete 2-3 mofos per turn, and safely hunt zombies with a bow from respectable distance without getting mulched.Īlso on insane difficulties the tanks get shot so hard the armor does not help as much, and the last thing you want to do on your ironman playthrough is to get 2-shot critted with a combat shotgun to the face, the game is just over then. I usually go with ranged, because you tend to live longer and the damage and control output is just insane (shotguns have a huge chance of knockdowns). This is how I powerplay the first few days in Dead State: Reanimated to get me on really good track (that's on max difficulty, hardcore etc) There's just so much to explore, I'm not sure if I should be strategizing a few key members to hire early or if I should just go with the flow and let whoever come whenever. Or if there's already a discussion of this topic somewhere and I missed it? ^^ Originally posted by Frission:Just curious what some of your strategies are for which allies to go after first and early, which ones you skip, and so on.

Dead state map allies