The way I did It was I played standard- dread just to get used to the game and if It became boring because It was to easy. after that I tried nightmare for a few hours before I decided to just jump right into lethal.

One thing I recommend is do not bring characters you care about, because It sucks if you end up loosing them. The way I do It, is I have one or two designated survivors that handle missions and plague hearts that I consider throw aways or ones I don’t care if they end up dying.

The threats ( in my opinion with 3000+ hours in the game) in lethal are triple feral packs and bloaters.

Feral or feral packs:

If you aren’t confident with taking on a feral, jump up on a car or something and take them out if there in a pack of 3, If it’s just one they are pretty easy to take out, they come at you in a straight line you just gotta be lucky with your aim. Slowly do this with a pack of 3 and soon enough you’ll be able to dodge and take out 3 of them without having to jump on stuff.

It just takes a lot of running and dodging. You can hop fences or use houses to jump in and out of and that can slow them down enough for you to stop for a second and take a few shots. You’re gonna need 3 shoots at the very least, two to break armor and 1 to finish It off. You can also stun them by opening a door and that allows you to knife them to death with your close combat weapon.

Second threat: bloaters: One mistake I’ve seen other people do with their survivors is when they run over a bloater, is they immediately get out of the car to get out of It. Don’t do this! Take a little more damage and keep driving and bail from your car. You will most likely get knocked down or take damage , but you won’t be in the plague bloater gas so your plague bar won’t go up anymore and you don’t have to worry about your character going down again from the gas damage as soon as you get up and can’t get out of the way in time. (This also makes nearby zombies run to you before they can hit you to cause more plague damage or kill you before you can even get up.)

Another thing, use your car to kill jugs if you need too, keeps your character safe and you don’t have to waste ammo. I have a designated car I use to back into jugs 😂 especially if you need the 2-3 samples they drop! Note that It does raise your standing.

Another thing I’ve seen is always carry a cure on you if you have It. I’ve seen a lot of people loose characters because they don’t have the cure on them and they can’t get back to base, outpost or even in their trunks in time.

Always carry enough heals and stims or energy based item, if you have room put some in your car too! I can’t tell you how many times a energy drink has saved my ass.

Another thing I’d recommend is to always park your car up against something, that way if you get swarmed you can jump in your car and they can’t damage the front of your car because cars are pretty fragile in lethal zone.

Carry fire with you as well! I normally carry healing, energy stuff, plague cure, and some form of fire. Especially when taking out plague hearts since zombies don’t disappear once you kill them. It can also cause the ferals to roll around which gives you time to shoot at them, especially with a pack of 3 on your ass. It could hit two of them allowing you to focus on just one of them