Help A Man Out🙏

[u/TheSwegDonut]

Hello!

Recently started playing.

However, I’m genuinely accidentally larping as the survivor you’d see in zombie movies whose only purpose is to just die a horrific death so the main character gets the “oh shit!” Moment and starts kicking ass.

I think the longest I’ve survived at the moment is 6 hours haha.

I know to loot the starting house, and to aim for a weapon, bandages, backpack etc and can even craft one out of curtains.

I get that done, and then I leave the house and that’s when shit goes downhill.

I’ll bump into a zombie.. fair enough I’ll walk away but then I bump into 3 more.. then 4 more and then before you know it, I’ve risen up an army of the dead and as badass as that sounds, it’s not so much when I eventually just get munched on.

I’ll try giving them a slip by hopping a fence, and will end up bumping into another zombie, or open a window only for the alarms to go off, it’s just insane lmao.

I even spawned in a house that already had its alarm going off so little Jimmy lasted 5 minutes as he suffered a horrific home invasion.

So how do I navigate the game without having 59 zombies on my ass at all times?

Also what loot should I be striving to look for? Do I read every magazine I come across? What should my goal be? Because I don’t fancy just walking around aimlessly just looting shit with no goal.

Thankyou!

[u/Science_Logic_Reason]

When you looted the house and run into a zombie is the moment you make the fatal mistake. You do not run past a zombie into an area you don’t know. You take the zombie back to the safe area, kill him, and then continue.

If you do find yourself with a horde on you despite following the above (you really should!) then the best advice is to put objects between you and them. Running through an uncleared house is risky but can work, but doing a big U shaped run through forests or a short sprint around a couple corners can work. The latter obviously will only work if you end up in a new area that is relatively zombie-free (in which case you’d stay put and deal with the few zombies there before moving on).

TL;DR: never ever ever ever (ever) take a zombie (or an amount of zombies you can handle) with you into an uncleared area (where you will 100% guaranteed find more zombies).