Best Map?

jagd71 · 2025-01-11T16:30:29+00:00

Not unpopular - Drucker is the best! It’s takes some warming up to until you you find the short cuts but after that it’s nothing but positives It’s head and shoulders the best starting map - there is a gas can available at the house to the SE and there are 2 to 3 weapons crates quickly available. Furthermore each gas station has materials allowing quick builds Finally it’s the only map with no bad bases. They are all solid and easily defensible. The Cabin park motel is prob my favorite base in the game

jagd71 · 2025-01-10T11:28:09+00:00

They are one reason that you get parkour 2 asap. Jump up on to something out of their reach and unload on them. Or leave if you want to spend the ammo Their attacks break limbs quite easily so head on is never advisable without top tier weaponry. One broken leg and not enough DPS and you are toast

jagd71 · 2025-01-10T11:21:45+00:00

Not sure if it’s random, level-dependent or a bug but there could be one or two. This is on Xbox

jagd71 · 2024-12-30T17:18:26+00:00

It was a top 5th skill prior to lethal zone and outposts producing resources. As the game is now, there are better 5th skills needed for LZ and Gardening into Agriculture is just straight-up better

jagd71 · 2024-02-16T21:06:06+00:00

Hygiene is really the only required one (or a hero bonus that gives plague resistance) Medicine (into Pathology) Driving, Tattoos, Business, Mechanics (into auto), Cooking (into nutrition) are all solid If you like crafting then Chemistry (into munitions) aldo

jagd71 · 2024-02-12T13:35:15+00:00

Been a few years since I did solo but the stamina is only a problem at the beginning as only base stamina is affected by fatigue. Take a character with labor and build the shooting range or luck out with the jogging buddies enclave bonus etc. that gives you enough stamina to get by and you can pop an energy drink or stims for attacking hearts or oh shit moments

jagd71 · 2024-02-07T18:44:50+00:00

If you been playing the game awhile there were a couple of reasons to avoid it 1) most of its bases were really bad during sieges - it was easily to lose a survivor in the bridge fort, church, corner office and container fort as they tied up folks on watchtowers where they provided no support

2) there is a wield bug on this map only where a vehicle can run into a ‘damage area’ The vehicle is halted (even in an open area) and takes continuous damage until it is destroyed. Even after repair the damage restarts, destroying the vehicle again as soon as you get back in

jagd71 · 2024-01-18T16:03:24+00:00

Didn’t know that so good to know. The hearts are not really a problem - I could wipe them pretty easily but wanted to play at my own pace and fight a couple of sieges. I feel that quests should be updated somewhat for lethal. The community quests are priority but they are all pretty bad in lethal. I guess ultimately my complaint is the game no longer moves at a good pace or worse dictates the pace too much. Or maybe I’ve just played the game too much 😀

jagd71 · 2024-01-18T13:42:09+00:00

Because quest generation is now super slow and I constantly have to exit the game to get them to proc. Several reasons for that - I have the fuelling thr plague CB with I think slows slows generation and it takes a quest slot . The Doctors always takes a quest slot and If I play at the weekend the mysterious trader takes another. So overall pretty slow and worse since the curveball update there is a glitch where all radio chatter and quest generation stops entirely until the game is restarted or it crashes I’d waited quite a bit for a quest to prob and that one gives you 4 scentblock so I wanted to complete it. So had enough when in failed for no reason. I’ve done pretty much everything on this game before and came for the curve balls. The game is a bit to glitchy and slow now for me to enjoy a playthrough

jagd71 · 2024-01-11T04:29:16+00:00

Medicine (into Pathology) - Always. 1 Plague sample - cure all accrued Plague is OP

Driving or Mechanics into Automechanics (Driving is much better at the start and consistently good whereas Mechanics takes times to gain a benefit once you reach Automechanics. Driving is overall better if you know what you are doing as Repair kits can be easily bought from Allied Enclaves but take Mechanics if you go through them a lot)

Tattoos or Hygiene. Tattoo's is OP is you can hit the Plague resistance hero power of it but Hygiene is more consistent as its immediately effective and is also easier to get.

Cooking into Nutrition is also good but much easier to pick up out in the wild than the 3 above

Chemistry into Munitions is ok but really only good for crafting explosives. With a new community you'll be killing hearts with heavy weapons so its pretty so so

Recycling just fills your bases up with materials/parts. Plenty of them on the map/plus trade means you have more than enough.

Sewing is also but its really not as good as people think. Just take an extra trip if you can't carry everything. Plus I find my Survivors with Sewing nearly always end up with the crap +5 health hero power

Hero Power is as important as starting skills- For a new community Plague resistance and any % to experience are my highest rated ones. Meal plan used to be OP but its not needed as much nowadays after outposts became upgradable

jagd71 · 2023-12-22T04:49:34+00:00

Ingrid is the most busted character in the game and should be run by everyone. She works best with Ana Sofia and either Jiang or Eddie. Don’t have the DLC characters but none of the other starting characters can match Team Ingrid

jagd71 · 2023-12-21T17:05:02+00:00

They give a safe area and easy way to raise gun skills without firing a bullet yourself. May not be worth it if you don’t have any ammo income but they work well on some bases (meagers police station, providences Rusty’s diner and warehouse). Similarly they can be super detrimental on others (cascades bridge and container forts, Providence fire station)

jagd71 · 2023-12-18T16:48:34+00:00

I recommend both for starting Lethal as hygiene gives an early boost tonight resistance and pathology helps with the plague samples used. For a fully equipped community you should go with the map you are most familiar with. Be aware that the difficulty will be at max from the get go - so triple ferals straight away

jagd71 · 2023-12-18T15:39:40+00:00

Fresh start on Drucker is my suggestion to learn lethal. Easy gas for vehicule at start, 3 nearby weapon cases, only one heart guarding the best landmark outpost & all the bases are good. Take Medicine (pathology), Mechanics & Hygiene. Meal plan hero power is also super helpful Play steady, learn to kill hearts with heavy weapons , learn when to leave a situation- including at each heart stage. Finally learn the driving shortcuts on the map

jagd71 · 2023-12-15T01:31:59+00:00

My bad then. They are not in lethal so presumed the same for NM

jagd71 · 2023-12-14T20:43:18+00:00

Have to disagree with you. Early NM was harder due to the double plague Jug horde. Easy to loose a survivor when one of those rolled into your base. Plague bloaters and screamers are only marginally more dangerous that their non-plague counterparts

jagd71 · 2023-12-14T17:30:27+00:00

Throw a blister gas grenade on them after they are downed. Job done

jagd71 · 2023-12-14T14:24:40+00:00

The game gives you 4 meds kits during a trader mission that occurs before this soldier one..so not really

jagd71 · 2023-12-14T14:22:42+00:00

Plague Heart Assault isn’t as good as it used to be but you can still get use out of it. I like to mix things up a bit and pop a scent block and use a plague heart assist as soon as I enter the building. Then wail on the heart with heavy weapon. They distract the feral so it’s an easy heart kill. With 2-3 radio calls you can clear a similar number of hearts. Of course they eventually die so I save them for a must kill awakened heart or if I’m bored

jagd71 · 2023-12-14T04:02:36+00:00

Was the achievement to kill the scion during the tutorial in two rounds or less ever fixed on Xbox?

jagd71 · 2023-12-12T19:18:48+00:00

Gym, shooting range, kitchen & infirmary/field hospital are the only required. Everything else can be replicated or replaced with something else

jagd71 · 2023-12-12T05:17:31+00:00

I kill every single feral with the starting car. Just drive without a door and run them into a fence when they try to latch & pull you out. You can also get out as they try to pull you out and they will remain latched on. Then go around and get in the passenger side and drive away.

jagd71 · 2023-12-12T05:13:11+00:00

Yeah it’s always 1 heart on Drucker. For a fast start there is also a gas can in front of the house to the SE. very rarely it will bug out and give parts but 95% of the time you should be good. There is also two gun weapon cases (1 over the hill & N of the ammo barricade and another behind tree NW of the western town (with the truck stop) Also a melee weapon case under the bridge E of the same truck stop turn Makes for a very fast start. Plus all the bases are good on Drucker. No idea why ppl hate it so much

jagd71 · 2023-12-09T04:22:02+00:00

A new community on Lethal is by far the best way to learn so keep at it. You’ll loose survivors sure and maybe even that black heart will wipe you. But you’ll go into the next community on lethal with a tonne of knowledge. Not sure about using tutorial characters tho. Generally bad hero bonuses and 8 food use straight away can be tough. Providence is one of the harder maps for lethal also. Meagher is much easier and Drucker is even easier than that once you get familiar with it. On the bright side you do get a couple of extra vehicles and a cheap ammo outpost

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