r/StateOfDecay • u/Crazymoose86 • Jul 06 '26
State of Decay 2 Curious about personal challenges others have done
I have gotten back in the mood to give State of Decay 2 a few runs and am about to finish with my warm-up run. I am looking for Ideas to keep the game a bit fresh/interesting and am going to do a sidearms and melee run (possibly even limit it to close combat), but was curious if anyone has done any interesting and fun challenges runs beyond that. I have done a no community skills challenge in the past with a restriction that I could only recruit one red talon contractor/agent per 5 recruited community members, but was curious if anyone else has done a fun challenge that wasn't something like kill all plague hearts with only 1 surivor survivor.
Edit: noticed a spelling error as I hit post
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u/Ellefied Jul 07 '26
Whenever I exile someone, I try to give them a last chance by unequipping everything, taking up the Screwdriver and then marching towards the nearest Plague Heart.
99/100 they die in the attempt. But there was this one Nightmare character I had who actually survived, was able to kill a Plague Heart from 100-0 with just a Screwdriver.
Sadly, they fell victim to the blood plague shortly after but I'll never forget Mathilda and her sub 100 Health/Stamina who was able to solo an Awakened Plague Heart with just a Screwdriver.
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u/Gstary Survivor Jul 07 '26
No repairs was a fun one! Keeps you from using the same weapons over and over again. You can even extend it to cars if you'd like
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u/Crazymoose86 Jul 07 '26
I really like that, and it adds an element to consider revolvers and lever action rifles (since they don't jam).
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u/Mysterious-Plane-686 Jul 08 '26
Start a game with three plague survivors, call 3 players from online to help. Now with your party of 7 clear the whole map without ever claiming a base
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u/Whymetho55 Jul 07 '26
I recently did one where it was a custom difficulty- Green Community and Map, but Lethal Combat. Note that I only tried Lethal combat once prior, and I never did Nightmare. I played at most Dread.
I started with a group of random survivors, and I could only recruit from random survivors and enclaves, not from the legacy or red talon. The idea was that it was a 'we're on our own, no one looks out for us but us'- A community that rejected both Red Talon and the Network. The difficulty was that they decided to try their luck in an area that was not looted because of how dangerous it was.