

Increased scouting range and enemy detection Increased Stamina, light encumbrance limit, and weapon durability. Increased carrying capacity more effective Health and Stamina items.

Silently open locked doors while crouched. Quiet Interactions, and reduced visibility to enemies. Improved by searching containers and exploring the map. Reduced Stamina costs for melee, grappling, and finishers. Fatigue accrues more slowly.ĭodging and climbing are quicker and cost less Stamina. When you pause, you’re still vulnerable to a random zombie, and your community might suffer if it’s on the verge of breaking down. The reason why we say “sort of” is because the game only stops time when you shut it off. They get harder to destroy as you keep destroying them, so take your time in stocking up your molotovs and weapons so that you can deal with the game. There are 10 Plague Hearts out there for you to kill in a state. If your base resources count is in a good place, seeking out neighbours to help is a good way to earn some Influence, find potential recruits, and even gain bonus radio commands like a plague cure supply drop. If you’re out of food, the neighbour who needs help with supplies-searching is going to have to wait. It benefits you to help everyone you’re able to — but it’s important to emphasize the “able to” part. Help Your Neighbours, But Only If You Canīalancing your Community needs along with your neighbours is a constant struggle.

Spending your influence to radio in on resource spots or backup is a small price to pay, but you’ll survive longer and you’ll make your base situation a little more tolerable. When you’re stuck and there’s no resource in sight, always use your radio. And don’t worry too much about your survivor buddy he or she is going to run just as fast as you. If your weapons are jammed or broken, your knife isn’t going to do much against 10 or more zombies running at you. If you’re getting swarmed by plague zombies when dealing with a Plague Heart, there’s really no other option except to run like hell. When you’re making noise, a white circle will ripple outward from your location — when you’re walking, it’ll be a small circle when you’re blowing something up (or failing a quick search), it’ll be a big one. You get visual information about how much noise you’re making on your minimap in the bottom left corner of your HUD. Bum-rushing it means you risk attracting potentially bigger threats to your direction. If you see a lone zombie shambling away from you, quietly kill it. Noise attracts zombies, so sneak into places and do things quietly if possible. Be Like Jim Krakowski’s Character From “A Quiet Place” This means that whatever stamina-using abilities they have will drain their stamina meter faster. Keep in mind that some survivors get encumbered easily if they carry too much. Most items and consumables can be scavenged in State of Decay 2’s many locales. There are other essentials like gas cans or molotovs (for the Plague Heart bits), but the four key things above are a bigger priority.
