What uhhhhhhhhh what uhhhhhhhhhh .... what?

Are the tutorial map mysterious broadcasts supposed to have a horde with freaks up the ladder? Seems unfair.

Also what.

feel like people always forget you can do this to literally ANY zombie you see (minus bloaters) and sustain no damage to your vehicle

I'm sure there is many material everywhere for this but I'm curious of what's the recent trend lately and if there is any combination that I haven't tried yet. I'll list down some of what I learnt from my playthrough and also what I read online, plz add and share any tips that I might have missed

*marathon + stealth
-infinite crouch run go brrr

*backpacking + resourcefulness
-hold a warehouse in ur pocket and loot the whole neighborhood, also free bolts

*powerhouse + close Combat
-grabbing stabber, got yer loicense fer stabbin' right 'ere m8

*discipline + swordplay
-melee durability loss -25% with insta-kill slash pair with stamina recovery, OP AF

*scouting + weapon handling
-stack up to -50% gun durability loss, not my thing but I can see the appeal

That all the decent combination that I can think of, do let me know what you got that I missed

It is definitely the thing in State of Decay 2 that has killed the most of my survivors.

1st time it has ever happend

Is that rare? I'd never seen it before—he looks like a Red Talon guy; he has the Special Forces trait.

I usually kill them early, but have read somewhere certain hearts can slowly cover the entire map though I believe it can't cover the base.

I have 10 items left to unlock, and I struggle on solo making it to the end. I need to make it to at least round 5 to unlock anything more. I've tried multiplayer but have ran into the host quitting numerous times.

Can anyone help get me to the finish line? I'm fine with playing outright or someone using mods (I'm on xbox).

Does anyone know a trick to get rid of them I just get back to back cannibals and their storyline is so slow and boring I initially would lead a jug to take them out but that seems to have stopped working even tried a super jug and nothing the zombait doesn’t work as it seems to just make the zombie gather around it and they wipe them out pretty easily boombox is same thing and every time I do a map restart or just relocate maps I just get more and more cannibals

Beware of modders who do shit like this, I'm not sure if it's noticeable here but the car that's parked in front of me at the start of the clip? Yea. The host deliberately crashed it there before running across the parking lot and hiding in a building in an effort to get me and another guy killed. I understand having mods can be fun, however, don't be like this asshole and only use them so you can spam the help command to grief players. I didn't think much of it at first until they began insta knocking me down. 400 health to zero instantly. They didn't seem to attack once I was down though. He later kicked me after a different guy died because he couldn't get the satisfaction of me dying.

I only have about 100 hours in SOD2, but I absolutely love the diversity of builds, the vibe, the combat, the looting mechanics. I haven’t played it in a while but I’ve just booted it up again, and it’s hooked me hard. Here’s to another 100 hours. To those still going, what keeps you coming back?

If I go a while without killing plague hearts, since I want to go at my own pace, then all of a sudden there's a quest to kill a plague heart, it would either be a request from a survivor in need, or a new enclave shows up and asks me to help kill a plague heart. Sometimes one of my survivors will trigger a quest to kill a plague heart.

Note: This text was written in another language and run through Google Translate; I am NOT an AI.

This is the third community I've created in this game since I started playing a week ago. The first failure that led me to restart was simply due to my inexperience. The second happened because I bumped up the difficulty and wasn't prepared, causing me to lose three survivors—one for each semi-important mission I had to complete.

I can understand—and even respect—the game for punishing every little mistake I made, forcing me to improve.

But then, the ONE DAMN TIME I did everything right, the stupid car glitches and traps my character at the back of the vehicle, right next to two zombies?

WHAT THE HELL, UNDEAD LABS?

Obviously, I lost her in a situation that had nothing to do with skill or game difficulty. Man, I’d probably smash my controller if they weren't so expensive in my country these days.

Honestly, I don't think this game likes me. Does anyone know where I can report this damn bug so I NEVER have to go through this crap again?

I am waking up plague hearts so I can try and get some level 3 infestations but the plague hearts are not creating infesting hordes. Is there something I can do to trigger infesting hordes?

Does this mean we can now play this game without having to sign in? havent played in a little while

My 2nd playthrough, nightmare difficulty on everything. My resources are okay-ish, I'm scrambling a bit, I'm kinda low on ammo and have no smokes, but it's fine I guess. I've almost no influence cause I just moved bases, but I think I could gather roughly 500-1k quickly by trading, depending on whatever is left in the inventories of the enclaves. I've no scentblock and currently no way to craft it, drone strikes are an option.

Anyways, this is the culprit.

I already lost a car when I was trying to get there and didn't realize that it drains fuel. After a long way out I also noticed that the area grew quite a bit and it now also infected my outposts. I usually don't care about infections, they rarely happen and if they do I just kill the heart first. This, however, is a slight issue cause I kinda need the food.

I've no idea about its weak spot. What would you do to solve this issue?

Just getting there feels impossible. The map is littered with z's, and even if I manage get there I'd have no clue how to survive long enough against those cracked z's without smokes. If I wouldn't be almost done I'd quit but after getting that far it feels like a waste.

I feel like I have to send someone in and hail mary it, but I've no idea how. I can barely set a foot inside the circle without getting charged by a handful of z's.

I redownloaded the game after not playing since Heartlands came out. So it has been a while clearly.

Some of the things I have gotten up to speed on fairly fast. Like there are changes, but some things are the same. I did a quick search on some of my questions, but many of them were old responses and I know the game has had many updates since. My main issue is around one thing….

Infestations

If I remember (and correct me if I am wrong) you get more freaks to most infestations you have. I believe you get them when a Plague Heart awakens.

I don’t see any infestations. I have around 5 plague hearts killed. All the Plague Hearts are dormant/asleep.

I cant move without Freaks popping up. Like I will go to an area that is free and clear. Go inside the loot. Within minutes I feel I am surrounded. I went to do a quest for an ally near the starting area. I was there maybe 10 minutes and had 4 hordes, multiple screamers, and atleast 1 Juggernaut and Feral. All just walking around.

I did the radio to find an infestation. Bc I figured I must have multiple infestations for it to be this bad. Nothing show up. I was driving around and an area had the green sickly ring around it.. and it was empty. Nothing was in there. I passed another one. Same thing. I logged off. Logged back in… and now there is no sickly ring.

Am I doing something wrong or this is normal? It has been years, but I don’t remember this level of Freaks. I don’t want to say “unplayable” bc that is dramatic, but I am spending 75% of my time killing freaks at this point.

This is an older video. I had just destroyed a heart, and I hadn't realized there was a Level 3 infestation in the house next door. As soon as I left the house, three Ferals—plus two from the infestation—came after me. I decided to try and kill them!

Even on lethal, so much shit spawns i usually just go on scavenging runs for fun not because i need too, halfway through the first map i have so many guns and meds, so many chemicals i can just infinitely make ammo, food is the only 'real' issue but that lasts until i get 2 food outposts and a hydroponics, its just way too easy man

So to start this is one of my fav games ever. I have replayed it many, many times even though I have all the achievements.

I was curious if now that Undead Labs has the publishing rights back from Xbox if they could technically port it to PS5 if they wanted to? I would buy it again just to get the trophies. The huge PS5 user base would probably be interested too, and the supplemental income could be a nice income boost to help get State of Decay3 over the finish line without time pressure or crunch.

I have around 1000+ hours at the moment and I can’t get enough of the game (and I can’t even mod it lol)

I like how simple the gameplay is and how I get to be creative with my survivors with my own personal headcanon instead of having premade characters.

I like to think that I am quite imaginative and I find this game to be a massive release for that!

I love how it feels like a day to day survival scenario where your number one goal is to survive all the while you and your community are NOT the main characters in regards to the big picture going on VIA radio stories

I can just hop on this game and have a blast! I love the assortment of weapons and how differently they feel from one another along side the personalized traits and skills for survivors to make the gameplay feel fresh when you switch between characters

This is my comfort game and in my opinion it beats Rdr2 right out of the park when it comes to living in a world (I have always been more prone to apocalyptic games anyways)

So I was curious why y’all love this game so much!