I am generally bad at games, so I use a lot of tip videos and walk throughs to compensate. So when I say no one seems to have done a video on this thing I found, it is pretty conclusive. In Meagher Valley, at the intersection west of the baseball field is a set of buildings. A pharmacy connected to an office, an army navy store and 2 nondescript buildings behind the pharmacy. This area should be your first destination as soon as you have a vehicle to drive, better still go find a van. Between those two buildings you will loot four material rucksacks and two fuel every time. The office has given me books and mods, the army navy is an army navy, and the pharmacy is also a no-brainer. I have come away with three useful facility mods, a mechanic book and eight rucksacks. All of this from an area that takes moments to clear if there isnt a heart in one of the buildings, even on day one. I did tell another 'tuber about this but he does long form play through videos and this is more your cup of tea.
If you have a lot of stuff at your base to sell, go enlist a follower from a friendly enclave(preferably one that costs 0 influence). Just bring them home and sell directly to them. Helps save trips filling up car trunks. Or, fill up the car, sell everything elsewhere, and pick up the friendly enclave person on your way home to continue selling without making another trip. When you’re done, just dismiss them.
@@wilmer007 Not only has it been quite awhile since I've played, I uninstalled the game too, so I can't check :(. Regardless, if you wanted to get a bit more out of the stilling process, there it is! But to answer your question, I'd say not worth compared to a useful 5th skill.
with the right facility mod pill press - turn food into (2)Ethanol + (1)med(skill Pathology) produce highest painkiller(6) - 6 sell at 204 influence don't take much to reach max influence
That's a pretty good one. I tried to avoid tradeskill based combinations to make it more accessible to any player, but there is definitely room for improvement which I think is a good thing. SoD2 is all about putting your own personal touch to things.
Me: " I know influence, I hit 10k over and over. I dont need to watch" As always another great vid. Things I over looked you talked about. More ways to make influence that I missed, fuel bombs. Straight forward vid man. You nailed it.
I watch a lot of videos that I know the information of. I watch Warframe resource farming videos even though I've heard them 5 times. Sometimes I just like to hear the game being talked about.
For a second there I felt like I got way more info than I needed and was disappointed that I didn't allow myself to naturally come up with these really in depth ideas. Thank you
I'm actually the same way. I don't look up very many guides myself as I enjoy the discovery process. It means I tend to learn slower, but I also tend to have different ideas since I'm less influenced by others.
It's interesting to watch this after the juggernaut edition release. With the automatic revealing of the plague hearts, going from map to map on the easier difficulties is more efficient!
I attacked a plague heart during a warlord mission where u gotta help the survivor you told to leave your turf. She was in range of my grenades and got pissed off and turned hostile. Had to shoot her in the face and abandon the mission lol
Serves her right. Your characters even alone ALWAYS yell something along the lines of "frag out" even alone. So bitch had NO excuse to not GTF outta the way
With this recent update at my base “ Whitney Field” in meager valley on Nightmare mode. I can just keep summoning zombies with the announcer box. 1 minute sieges get me 200 influence. It used to be an every couple hours thing. But now you can do it as many times as you want.
I'm at that base I have 3 hydroponics with compost bins and 3 food outposts 2 med outposts and 1 ammo outposts a trader leader to trade my beer and buy any thing I need and a barracks for beds my Red talons give materials I don't lose anything
Edit: Isn’t crafting Strong Painkillers just completely broken? 6 per med with pill press means 204 influence per med. For 2 med rucksacks you can make 1600 influence versus 500 for plague cure. And you produce the needed ethanol at base versus killing zombies for samples. Plus let’s you save the samples for BioChem crafting. If the numbers haven’t changed much, seems like Fuel bombs are on par with Bulk Plague Cure for money per “rucksack”. 8 meds + 20 plague samples = Bulk Plague Cure (63 influence / med) 2 fuel + 40 parts (1.3 Materials) = 12 fuel bombs for 204 influence (62 influence / fuel & material) *Also needs Filling Machine and CNC Mill mods, as well as Chemistry 5th skill
Everyone has to start somewhere. I mean. I guess some people jump through hoops and do sub-for-sub things, but the subs you get aren't interested in your content. They're not organic subscribers. When I started TH-cam, I had no illusion that it would fast or easy. It took months to learn the software and get the hang of it enough where I wasn't constantly making mistakes. The first video I made is like a few minutes long, but the recording session took me 6 hours because of how many mistakes I made during it. In the end, the subs will come as long as the content is both good and relevant to people's interests. It is just a matter of time.
I just started playing this game like 3 days ago and am trying to move into a bigger base, so mans got to hunt for influence, Your videos are fk helpful so well done mate.
Stumbled across your video for influence points. Pre-ordered the game and then life happened and I'm just now able to pour serious hours into the game due to England being in total lockdown from Covid-19. But had to post you a comment because wow!! Absolutely brilliant bruv! 💯 Hands down one of the best and easiest to understand TH-cam game guide type videos I've ever watched. Thank you for taking time to share information with the rest of the state of decay community. Keep doing what you're doing mate because you are killing it! Cheers bruv. 👌✌️
My main survivor has unbreakable, funny, went to yardsales, and learned surgery. She also has +30%influence gained for a hero bonus. I also had a survivor with her on my first nightmare run that had +15% for a total of +45% influence gained between the two. Needless to say, I never needed to farm influence.
I guess it could also depend on how much you buy. I buy a TON of stuff. When the mysterious trader arrives, I'm usually dropping beyond the 9999 influence capacity to buy all the stuff I want.
Great guide as always but with the setup I’ve got at Whitney field, I just spam the “lure zeds” option over and over which yields me 220 influence every min
I've got a infinite influence money making system this will however work on meghear valley first your gonna want to buy the Whitney field base and number 2 go to base and look for a speaker like marker on the base go on it and press start seige or something it will you guessed it cause a seige and If you survive hopefully you will get about 200 ish influence there is no cool down to it and keep doing it on resources will be spent I think and you can do it whenever you like
Co-op shares all influence I believe. My friends and I keep 1 community out of the 3 as a farming community after we kill the hearts we delete it and start a new community to farm again.
I would only add reserving an outpost placement for quick deposit of anything other than rucksacks while looting, and it also helps to drop an outpost next to someone you're trading with without creating a pack mule caravan. Finally, enlisting an ally for 100 and then simply selling junk to them as you loot it.
I think looting everything you find definitely helps with this. Dumping off trash weapons you have loads of to the graveyard of backpacks you've accumulated from ignoring enclaves the influence adds up extremely fast. A week's worth of backpacks is usually a couple thousand influence if you keep everyone you come across and feed the occasion enclave or stranger to a homemade horde. Definitely gonna start selling my standard toolkits since my auto mechanic can make the upgraded ones. (Definitely didn't import him from my legacy pool)
Some people always complain about the sheriff legacy bonus, but personally, they give pretty good stuff, They'll occasionally stash uzis or 870 shotguns to your locker. And strong painkillers/stimulants. So 100% worth it in my opinion. Much better than the warlord or trader legacy starts. I use builder and sheriff. Amenities and charity they're called. Seriously helpful if you keep plague hearts around. Since every day is a free deposit and you get Base wise power and water with no noise/threat cost or fuel cost daily.
I usually sell bulks of strong painkillers since they usually go for like 204 and are cheap to make once you have a pill press and a steady supply of ethanol and medical supplies in my case I usually use online mode to get ethanol while scavenging or trade while I rely on my herb farm to produce meds
7:06 wow thats a lot of friendly enclaves. i always have so much trouble trying to keep them in my game. just yesterday i completely focused on one of them and completed about 4 or 5 missions for them. but then they asked for ammo that i couldn't spare and they left after 1 failed mission.
A very minor tip is to constantly show movies and watch TV in the lounge. If you have the manpower to spare and don’t mind the noise bump, they both net you decent Influence while costing you absolutely nothing. Only problem is, they do take a while. But every little bit helps...
@@GitGudFox OK I have a riddle for ya. I hope you have some tactics you can share. I got an Eviction quest. Easy… just send my Gunslinger to headpop them. So I thought. As soon as I arrived, one of them starts throwing Bloater Gas Grenades. With flawless accuracy, of course. And every three seconds he throws another. My character gets stun-locked with every hit, and I can do nothing about this, and I barely fled with my life. So I sent another Gunslinger with stealth. Sure enough, as soon as I’m close. SPAM SPAM SPAM those gas grenades. I tried a car… no, they hurt you in the car, too. I tried Zombie Bait, but he starts spamming the second I come anywhere near. I am completely at wits end on how to take this f**ker out. I really see no way to do it. Any ideas?
for the record, Zombie Bait only works in the house, I see. If you throw it on their doorstop, the zombies will just mill around until you come into range and then they attack you.
And never mind, a horde of zombies wiped them out while I was away. He had an Echo Wraith Gas Grenade Launcher. Refreshing to see karma sometimes affects people even in video games
I didn't notice your comments until now. TH-cam is really bad for continuing conversations. I don't get notifications for replies only for brand new comments, so it's very easy to lose conversations.
I've got 1534 Ferals Outwitted, half of that is from daybreak at least I imagine. But there's something else that's important to note... There is a SOD2 mod you can download on your PC and just give yourself influence, resources, and even prestige. You can even fully customize your community in a more detailed but complex way than how it's set up in-game. After 486 hours of loving this game, suddenly I have fallen into a State of Depression if you will, with State of Decay that is. The sense of feeling like going on a resource run was an accomplishment faded. All 71 of my daybreak victories now feel useless. I'm just waiting for a new map, or maps from what I've heard. Although I don't feel I should have to pay for them because I pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of the game back in May. I'll just look at it as a way of supporting Undead Labs I guess, which I do.
That's definitely burnout. It's also why I don't play SoD2 day in and day out. I experienced that with Daybreak shortly after completing the collection.
I've heard some people say that it's actually better to use the farms to grow meds, and the stills to brew ethanol, and sell Strong Painkillers, instead of selling craft beer. What's your thoughts on this? Either way, you're buying food and using the stills for the same period of time, so it's not any faster.
Both will result in plenty of influence. People argue about which is better all the time. I've never sat down and crunched the numbers because there are a lot of variable like having the "bar tending" skill which makes bonus alcohol items. The important thing is that both of these are perfectly good ideas.
You have to say the influence numbers that you gave for the freaks is only for green zone. A screamer in even dread mode is 20 not five should also depends on the level at what you're playing at nightmares even higher and to kill a feral even on dread is 50 in Florence jugs get even higher especially if they're plugged heart jugs
Lol little bro, that's because they were added in a patch. SoD2 launched with only a single difficulty zone. The other difficulties were added in updates later. This video was made before a "green zone" or a "dread zone" even existed.
if you gather the right survivers you can create strong painkiller dirt cheap and they sell really high. combined with my totally broken main char that can carry 8 of them in 1 stack, its just a joke xD ps. opening up the meds menu over and over again gets anoying tho.
some nice refinements here, I will probably use most of them on a smaller scale cuz I try not to work too hard. if I spread the burden of gaining influence over a few resources I wont end up scrambling because too many bad things happened at once.
@@mikeemmons1079 Whenever I record, I'm always concerned that I am saying more than is necessary or that I am rambling on. I write a script for every episode to keep myself on track, and sometimes a voice over is thrown out altogether if I hate it the next day. So, for me, it's funny to hear it described as tightly packed while I'm simultaneously worried about being too drawn out.
How do you go somewhere else? You mean beat the game? I've beat it 4 times and always start back out fresh with the stuff I have on my characters. I found out I could load up all my stuff on (rucksacks,guns and mods) go complete my legacy and start a new map with my 3 players. But I didn't know you could go to a different map?? How?
It's how I feel thematically in game. If we stop to think about it, I'm intentionally allowing the plague hearts of my region to exist specifically so I can sell bulk plague cures to other people, so it's like I'm purposefully making them live with life threatening blood plague so that there will always be demand for blood plague cure.
WOW!! Thanks dude, very helpful. I'm reall yscratching my scalp on how to pile up influence. Also, my community is fucking nuts, disputes here and there.
@@ruckeebryebautista6259 Once you start getting them out, you get used to it, and you're going to feel even better when you replace them with people who don't argue all the time.
Great question, you can change maps to reset things. If you want to stay in the region, you can just change maps twice. You can trade with neighbors for resources and also build some resources yourself such as ammo supply from a workshop.
Doesn't calling for resources always refresh it? Because I've had bags appear in already cleaned out locations, more often than not in the same building thrice-fold 😂
Hmm, I'm not sure. A lot of the stuff comes from fairly logical places or is extremely random. Like, medical mods will come from clinics. Ammo presses will come from gun stores. Gun stores will have civilian weapons while a military camp or checkpoint will be more likely to have military grade guns, but the really rare stuff tends to be random. Even if you find a special loot location, it could be a gun or a melee weapon.
Guys new glitch create a new community and have the warlord boost then head over to the marker then setup base then take all the ammo you can hold then return to the menu then delete the old community then create a new one with the warlord boost then you should have lots more ammo.
I am curious as to what I am to be using all my influence on, I am swimming in the stuff and I already have a max base and lack no resources. I am still new to the game so I am curious what does one in my position do with influence apart from radio calls?
Depends on what you want. If you are trying to find better survivors to upgrade your existing survivors, you can spam the "find other survivors" command, on cooldown, to constantly generate allies. You can start buying retraining manuals to optimize your character's skills because they let you unlock all 4 skills for the category of the book they read. The books are really expensive as well. You can use the Trade Depot to begin collecting any mods you're missing because each merchant will bring mods with them. You can buy Mysterious Wander Trader stuff, start collecting B50FGs for all your community members. You can start buying bounty broker stuff which can be pretty optimal like the ice axe. Each one costs 850 influence, so it adds up quick. Those are some examples.
@@GitGudFox Thank you , I had no idea I could even buy mods from the traders. I just happen to luck out and find my first +2 on my current dreadworld, I have gradually been building my survivors, they are now +3 heroes about to finish Dread and move on to nightmare, I have 12 with almost great traits I have gathered in the time it took to get here. I think I will shoot for maxing all their gear and inventories, just so I can start new games with them tweaked out, thank you for the advice ! :) Now I know what I am gonna do, engage!
Another good way is by selling all 6 slot and 7 slot backpacks since we dont need them and they accumulate. Also sell any melee weapons that you arent using and most guns you will never use
This video was created before Nightmare Zone was invented. Ironically, it actually applied even more when Nightmare Zone first came out. Ferals were worth double the influence when the "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" update first released, and since they could appear in a group of 3, you could score 150 influence + 20 influence bonus since the 3 ferals counted as a horde. I've already beaten Lethal Zone the 4 times to get all the legacies, and I've done it from fresh starts without DLC and character deaths.
When Lethal Zone came out, though, Undead Labs adjusted the scaling of influence and reversed them. Before, the higher difficulties yielded more influence, but then they decided it should be lower difficulties that give more influence while higher difficulties give reduced influence.
The game originally had no difficulty settings. It was just "State of Decay 2" with what we call "Standard Zone" being the default difficulty. It's kind of like how Heartland is right now. There's only 1 difficulty for Heartland. That's how all of SoD2 was for nearly a year.
@@GitGudFox I got it on my first playthrough with one of the starter characters. Don't quite remember the exact bonus but gives better buy and sale prices
Having someone with business or law often helps (Plus 10% influence gained). Plus, if their hero trait is a certain one, I forget which, it can offer increased influence gain of I think 35%? I'd have to confirm. And occasionally, certain enclaves offer an ability called "Spread the word" which increase it further I believe. I think it adds another 35 influence gain daily. That's on average (With a trade depot) 300-400 daily gain just chillin, plus, Whitney field's announcer box in meagher valley can force zombie sieges, which is naturally 60 a time in 2 minute intervals, with percentage increase, it's likely over 100. I've had bonuses at times where I got 95 influence every juggernaut kill. I was slaughtering them for fun for the new update that just dropped. 😂😂😂
You can't. If your characters are random, then they will have random leader types as well. I think if you do the tutorial, each of the 4 starting characters will cover each leader type though. I can't remember for sure.
@@GitGudFox Hi there, I am a huge fan of your channel from Baghdad_Iraq.. Sorry for my question earlier, but I have finished the game with 3 different leaders and I wanna finish it with the last remaining one which is the Sheriff, I thought you have an insight on the matter, thank you for your reply
That tells me you aren't spending enough influence. Retraining manuals and rare skill books cost up to 1500 influence each. You should ALWAYS have problems with influence; otherwise, that's an indicator you're wasting your influence by not spending it.
@@GitGudFox How many skillbooks do you really need though? I have mountains of them in my nightmare community and I don't even use them. I buy up resources and consumables from traders. I made a new community for lethal mode and am sorta role-playing it where I deal with the cards I'm given when it comes to skills... That and you can't get too attached to anyone in lethal mode
That's part of the reason why you would want the skill books. When someone needs to be replaced, you can quickly reconfigure their skills into whatever setup you want.
I no longer need influence some random joined mehe was driving my car around and was going at Super speed so I knew something was up then I went to a strange broadcast and he picked the sent block up and dropped a 999 stack so I took him to my base and give him 1 bulk plague cure he dropped tons I have over 500
Some people use duplication glitches to get what they want. I've never made videos on how to dupe items because I think it is more likely to harm the user's experience.
Hey man so i hope someone sees this i came up with a fast way today i didnt mean to so what i did was i have the Whitney Field base in Meagher Vally so i got in the announcers box and started the seige when i was done it gave me 50 infulience points every time without a cool-down and there was hardly any zombies. it takes maybe 60 seconds to do each one and ive been griridng it for about 2 hours made about 3k but im sure you can do it way fater
I just discovered that 5 shots from a model 70 and a full mag from an mp5 on full auto will kill a plague heart (may empties in like 1 second due to the insane fire rate). FYI my partner hit it a few times with a shovel so that might come effect this if anyone tries it lol.
I actually dragged my heels on this video, procrastinating for about 4 days. You can tell because I believed it would be more difficult in the beginning of the voice over.
My way of farming influence: got good guns on all 8 people even if there's no ammo for it Find a site that have the ability to call zeds to dinner Find a safe place call the zombie in 200 influence a siega plus the freak you killed
It can be especially bad on Nightmare Zone. I find one thing that helps is by traveling around the map a lot because it prevents the game from spawning lots of stuff in the game area. It spread the spawns out.
What part of the math didn't add up? Normally, an avalanche of people come out to point out errors in a video, but this is the first comment I can remember talking about math errors.
We've got to have... money!
I am generally bad at games, so I use a lot of tip videos and walk throughs to compensate. So when I say no one seems to have done a video on this thing I found, it is pretty conclusive.
In Meagher Valley, at the intersection west of the baseball field is a set of buildings. A pharmacy connected to an office, an army navy store and 2 nondescript buildings behind the pharmacy. This area should be your first destination as soon as you have a vehicle to drive, better still go find a van.
Between those two buildings you will loot four material rucksacks and two fuel every time. The office has given me books and mods, the army navy is an army navy, and the pharmacy is also a no-brainer. I have come away with three useful facility mods, a mechanic book and eight rucksacks. All of this from an area that takes moments to clear if there isnt a heart in one of the buildings, even on day one.
I did tell another 'tuber about this but he does long form play through videos and this is more your cup of tea.
Can we go to tahiti now Dutch? Oh wrong game hahahahaha
Where's your GODDAMN FAITH ARTHUR!!!
I love that movie it was pretty much my childhood
AlexTheTitan What movie was it?
If you have a lot of stuff at your base to sell, go enlist a follower from a friendly enclave(preferably one that costs 0 influence). Just bring them home and sell directly to them. Helps save trips filling up car trunks.
Or, fill up the car, sell everything elsewhere, and pick up the friendly enclave person on your way home to continue selling without making another trip. When you’re done, just dismiss them.
Don't forget if you find a survivor with a bartending skill, it makes brewing at any still have an extra higher tier luxury item along with the beer.
I've never used that one before.
yeah didnt think of that ty
how much is that extra item worth? 9 character limit makes it hard to justify a precious slot for a bartender if the extra item isn't worth much.
@@wilmer007 Not only has it been quite awhile since I've played, I uninstalled the game too, so I can't check :(. Regardless, if you wanted to get a bit more out of the stilling process, there it is! But to answer your question, I'd say not worth compared to a useful 5th skill.
wilmer007 it makes 1 growler of barley wine which can be sold for 102 influence which really extends that profit margin
with the right facility mod pill press - turn food into (2)Ethanol + (1)med(skill Pathology) produce highest painkiller(6) - 6 sell at 204 influence don't take much to reach max influence
That's a pretty good one. I tried to avoid tradeskill based combinations to make it more accessible to any player, but there is definitely room for improvement which I think is a good thing. SoD2 is all about putting your own personal touch to things.
Pharmacology is the skill you need not pathology.
Me: " I know influence, I hit 10k over and over. I dont need to watch"
As always another great vid. Things I over looked you talked about. More ways to make influence that I missed, fuel bombs.
Straight forward vid man. You nailed it.
I watch a lot of videos that I know the information of. I watch Warframe resource farming videos even though I've heard them 5 times. Sometimes I just like to hear the game being talked about.
@@GitGudFox you are a chump!! it's ok scrambled brain bitch
Ryan Lothar lol? You commenting on all of his old videos?
For a second there I felt like I got way more info than I needed and was disappointed that I didn't allow myself to naturally come up with these really in depth ideas. Thank you
I'm actually the same way. I don't look up very many guides myself as I enjoy the discovery process. It means I tend to learn slower, but I also tend to have different ideas since I'm less influenced by others.
It's interesting to watch this after the juggernaut edition release. With the automatic revealing of the plague hearts, going from map to map on the easier difficulties is more efficient!
I attacked a plague heart during a warlord mission where u gotta help the survivor you told to leave your turf. She was in range of my grenades and got pissed off and turned hostile. Had to shoot her in the face and abandon the mission lol
I know exactly the mission you're talking about. She's a bitch anyways.
😂😂omg
Serves her right. Your characters even alone ALWAYS yell something along the lines of "frag out" even alone. So bitch had NO excuse to not GTF outta the way
With this recent update at my base “ Whitney Field” in meager valley on Nightmare mode. I can just keep summoning zombies with the announcer box. 1 minute sieges get me 200 influence. It used to be an every couple hours thing. But now you can do it as many times as you want.
Yup, and the more you do it the easier it gets since it only draws in those nearby. First will be nasty, but after 2-3 its easy farm mode.
I'm at that base I have 3 hydroponics with compost bins and 3 food outposts 2 med outposts and 1 ammo outposts a trader leader to trade my beer and buy any thing I need and a barracks for beds my Red talons give materials I don't lose anything
Edit: Isn’t crafting Strong Painkillers just completely broken? 6 per med with pill press means 204 influence per med. For 2 med rucksacks you can make 1600 influence versus 500 for plague cure. And you produce the needed ethanol at base versus killing zombies for samples. Plus let’s you save the samples for BioChem crafting.
If the numbers haven’t changed much, seems like Fuel bombs are on par with Bulk Plague Cure for money per “rucksack”.
8 meds + 20 plague samples = Bulk Plague Cure (63 influence / med)
2 fuel + 40 parts (1.3 Materials) = 12 fuel bombs for 204 influence (62 influence / fuel & material)
*Also needs Filling Machine and CNC Mill mods, as well as Chemistry 5th skill
0:30 rip voice
This actually shit out of me when I clicked the time stamp. I was thinking "wtf? I didn't put the sweep animation into this video!"
🤣🤣🤣
Actually 0:29
Snappity definitely
How do you only have 674 subs?!! You put so much effort into your vids and i really think you deserve much more subs!!
Everyone has to start somewhere. I mean. I guess some people jump through hoops and do sub-for-sub things, but the subs you get aren't interested in your content. They're not organic subscribers. When I started TH-cam, I had no illusion that it would fast or easy. It took months to learn the software and get the hang of it enough where I wasn't constantly making mistakes. The first video I made is like a few minutes long, but the recording session took me 6 hours because of how many mistakes I made during it.
In the end, the subs will come as long as the content is both good and relevant to people's interests. It is just a matter of time.
@@GitGudFox One year later and you are at 13.3k subs. Your quality content is what did the trick.
I just started playing this game like 3 days ago and am trying to move into a bigger base, so mans got to hunt for influence, Your videos are fk helpful so well done mate.
Yes, this base is the best for making money. I think that's also what makes it so fun to use. It is more interactive than most bases.
Stumbled across your video for influence points. Pre-ordered the game and then life happened and I'm just now able to pour serious hours into the game due to England being in total lockdown from Covid-19. But had to post you a comment because wow!! Absolutely brilliant bruv! 💯 Hands down one of the best and easiest to understand TH-cam game guide type videos I've ever watched. Thank you for taking time to share information with the rest of the state of decay community. Keep doing what you're doing mate because you are killing it! Cheers bruv. 👌✌️
With my Pathologist it only costs 12 plague samples to create a bundle of plague cure.
Almost half the price.
I think I just exiled mine big oof
Eli Sama lol
Yeah YT recommended this video, my 1st from you. Hope your channel grows, great voice, great info. L&S
I guess something in my SEO is agreeing with the Google algorithm. How long have you been playing SOD2?
My main survivor has unbreakable, funny, went to yardsales, and learned surgery. She also has +30%influence gained for a hero bonus. I also had a survivor with her on my first nightmare run that had +15% for a total of +45% influence gained between the two. Needless to say, I never needed to farm influence.
I guess it could also depend on how much you buy. I buy a TON of stuff. When the mysterious trader arrives, I'm usually dropping beyond the 9999 influence capacity to buy all the stuff I want.
Great guide as always but with the setup I’ve got at Whitney field, I just spam the “lure zeds” option over and over which yields me 220 influence every min
Even better than that is selling strong painkillers with a pill press added into the infirmary.
I've got a infinite influence money making system this will however work on meghear valley first your gonna want to buy the Whitney field base and number 2 go to base and look for a speaker like marker on the base go on it and press start seige or something it will you guessed it cause a seige and If you survive hopefully you will get about 200 ish influence there is no cool down to it and keep doing it on resources will be spent I think and you can do it whenever you like
Co-op shares all influence I believe.
My friends and I keep 1 community out of the 3 as a farming community after we kill the hearts we delete it and start a new community to farm again.
Yeah, you can gain the same influence bonuses from completing objectives and killing enemies together.
Great vid. I'm maxed out 9999!
Are you future proofed with some items to sell at the ready?
Git Gud Fox Oh, yeah! The traders show up sometimes with items I just need to have.
Taking over for the 9999 lol
I would only add reserving an outpost placement for quick deposit of anything other than rucksacks while looting, and it also helps to drop an outpost next to someone you're trading with without creating a pack mule caravan. Finally, enlisting an ally for 100 and then simply selling junk to them as you loot it.
Yeah, I used to call them recon outposts or disposable outposts. I hadn't thought of enlisting a following to sell to. That's a new idea.
I think looting everything you find definitely helps with this. Dumping off trash weapons you have loads of to the graveyard of backpacks you've accumulated from ignoring enclaves the influence adds up extremely fast.
A week's worth of backpacks is usually a couple thousand influence if you keep everyone you come across and feed the occasion enclave or stranger to a homemade horde.
Definitely gonna start selling my standard toolkits since my auto mechanic can make the upgraded ones. (Definitely didn't import him from my legacy pool)
I tend to try to automate as much as I can towards the end game so I don't have to spend much time looting.
Some people always complain about the sheriff legacy bonus, but personally, they give pretty good stuff, They'll occasionally stash uzis or 870 shotguns to your locker. And strong painkillers/stimulants. So 100% worth it in my opinion. Much better than the warlord or trader legacy starts. I use builder and sheriff. Amenities and charity they're called. Seriously helpful if you keep plague hearts around. Since every day is a free deposit and you get Base wise power and water with no noise/threat cost or fuel cost daily.
You videos are awesome! PS: I don't understand 100% of the english i hear, but the video cut's is great explanatory to understand. Ty
That's good. It tells me the visuals are effective.
How does changing maps work? Got a video on it? Watching your videos has made me a guru among my brother and friends.
I do. th-cam.com/video/N8rjnFMOJ18/w-d-xo.html
I usually sell bulks of strong painkillers since they usually go for like 204 and are cheap to make once you have a pill press and a steady supply of ethanol and medical supplies in my case I usually use online mode to get ethanol while scavenging or trade while I rely on my herb farm to produce meds
Where is this status page please you refer to at 2:15 ?
6:15 start
Edit: for decent players
No, skipping the basics is like skipping arithmetic directly into algebra.
1:58 laughed my ass off at that spanking you gave the feral
It's one of the perks of close combat. You can stunlock ferals with repeated attacks. It doesn't always work though. Sometimes they can escape it.
@@GitGudFox wOW COOL. i'M GONNA TRY AND GET THAT. (Caps lock off)
Just be careful when leveling it up. It's pretty awful before you get it to 7-star where you can automatically execute zombies with the judo stomp.
10 k = z nation rip
He never died
Yea
7:06 wow thats a lot of friendly enclaves. i always have so much trouble trying to keep them in my game. just yesterday i completely focused on one of them and completed about 4 or 5 missions for them. but then they asked for ammo that i couldn't spare and they left after 1 failed mission.
Oerwout10 also stupid that you can save a group from blood plague or an infestation attack and they will not even consider being allies
PandaKing550 lmao I know ! That’s why I let the zombies kill them and just keep the items plus they have good stuff in their dead inventories
Your videos are brilliant honestly
I don't know if I'd go that far, but I am satisfied as long as they help people.
@@GitGudFox They do indeed
We need updated videos.
Watch UltraCash. That's still up to date.
For those that don't know; All stills can now make Craft Beer.
A very minor tip is to constantly show movies and watch TV in the lounge.
If you have the manpower to spare and don’t mind the noise bump, they both net you decent Influence while costing you absolutely nothing.
Only problem is, they do take a while. But every little bit helps...
That's true. I have never used that ability too much, so I forgot about it.
@@GitGudFox OK I have a riddle for ya. I hope you have some tactics you can share.
I got an Eviction quest. Easy… just send my Gunslinger to headpop them. So I thought. As soon as I arrived, one of them starts throwing Bloater Gas Grenades. With flawless accuracy, of course. And every three seconds he throws another.
My character gets stun-locked with every hit, and I can do nothing about this, and I barely fled with my life.
So I sent another Gunslinger with stealth. Sure enough, as soon as I’m close. SPAM SPAM SPAM those gas grenades. I tried a car… no, they hurt you in the car, too. I tried Zombie Bait, but he starts spamming the second I come anywhere near.
I am completely at wits end on how to take this f**ker out. I really see no way to do it. Any ideas?
for the record, Zombie Bait only works in the house, I see. If you throw it on their doorstop, the zombies will just mill around until you come into range and then they attack you.
And never mind, a horde of zombies wiped them out while I was away. He had an Echo Wraith Gas Grenade Launcher.
Refreshing to see karma sometimes affects people even in video games
I didn't notice your comments until now. TH-cam is really bad for continuing conversations. I don't get notifications for replies only for brand new comments, so it's very easy to lose conversations.
Trade EVERYTHING you dont want.
Nice advice compilation!
I'm glad it was helpful. It should still work in the new Nightmare and Dread difficulties, too.
Stimulants and energy drinks are also great to sell
I've got 1534 Ferals Outwitted, half of that is from daybreak at least I imagine. But there's something else that's important to note...
There is a SOD2 mod you can download on your PC and just give yourself influence, resources, and even prestige. You can even fully customize your community in a more detailed but complex way than how it's set up in-game. After 486 hours of loving this game, suddenly I have fallen into a State of Depression if you will, with State of Decay that is. The sense of feeling like going on a resource run was an accomplishment faded. All 71 of my daybreak victories now feel useless.
I'm just waiting for a new map, or maps from what I've heard. Although I don't feel I should have to pay for them because I pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of the game back in May.
I'll just look at it as a way of supporting Undead Labs I guess, which I do.
That's definitely burnout. It's also why I don't play SoD2 day in and day out. I experienced that with Daybreak shortly after completing the collection.
I really like producing strong painkillers. Sell for a lot, give them to your friends, or use them yourself.
I've heard some people say that it's actually better to use the farms to grow meds, and the stills to brew ethanol, and sell Strong Painkillers, instead of selling craft beer.
What's your thoughts on this? Either way, you're buying food and using the stills for the same period of time, so it's not any faster.
Both will result in plenty of influence. People argue about which is better all the time. I've never sat down and crunched the numbers because there are a lot of variable like having the "bar tending" skill which makes bonus alcohol items.
The important thing is that both of these are perfectly good ideas.
So does this beat the brewery thing?
You can do them all at the same time while also using the brewery.
Gotcha
I like to join someone’s game to make influence. But it only really works if they actually want to take out plague hearts.
It's a good idea since it can cut down on the time it takes to find them.
u deserve more subs
In time, I just have to keep proving myself.
selling Strong Painkillers served me well on my first playthru
The most god tier economy strategy now is UltraCash. It is as close as it gets to using cheatcodes without actually cheating.
You have to say the influence numbers that you gave for the freaks is only for green zone. A screamer in even dread mode is 20 not five should also depends on the level at what you're playing at nightmares even higher and to kill a feral even on dread is 50 in Florence jugs get even higher especially if they're plugged heart jugs
Lol little bro, that's because they were added in a patch. SoD2 launched with only a single difficulty zone. The other difficulties were added in updates later. This video was made before a "green zone" or a "dread zone" even existed.
if you gather the right survivers you can create strong painkiller dirt cheap and they sell really high. combined with my totally broken main char that can carry 8 of them in 1 stack, its just a joke xD ps. opening up the meds menu over and over again gets anoying tho.
I don't know why they don't let us stay on the menu. It's the same with everything that you craft. SoD2 has a lot of stupid things with its UI.
@@GitGudFox yup, but there is still time for improvement
if you just short resource like med you can use radio to spawn even in already loot container
You can with diminishing effectiveness with difficulty. On Lethal Zone, you can only do each resource once per 45 minutes.
some nice refinements here, I will probably use most of them on a smaller scale cuz I try not to work too hard. if I spread the burden of gaining influence over a few resources I wont end up scrambling because too many bad things happened at once.
Yeah, you don't have to use them all. There's immense room for customizing and tailoring the strategy to your own tastes.
@@GitGudFox your RNG mileage may vary. which is why this tightly packed 12 minutes is so useful as a whole.
@@mikeemmons1079 Whenever I record, I'm always concerned that I am saying more than is necessary or that I am rambling on. I write a script for every episode to keep myself on track, and sometimes a voice over is thrown out altogether if I hate it the next day. So, for me, it's funny to hear it described as tightly packed while I'm simultaneously worried about being too drawn out.
@@GitGudFox yeah, the fact that you agonise over video length is pretty clear. whatever your process is, it works.
Plague cures sell for 100 now, last I checked
Not the full packages though. Those should still be 500.
How do you go somewhere else? You mean beat the game? I've beat it 4 times and always start back out fresh with the stuff I have on my characters. I found out I could load up all my stuff on (rucksacks,guns and mods) go complete my legacy and start a new map with my 3 players. But I didn't know you could go to a different map?? How?
I love the intro lol
It's how I feel thematically in game. If we stop to think about it, I'm intentionally allowing the plague hearts of my region to exist specifically so I can sell bulk plague cures to other people, so it's like I'm purposefully making them live with life threatening blood plague so that there will always be demand for blood plague cure.
@@GitGudFox Stonks
You sound like man cow and now I love your videos
Isn't he that financial guy?
Skateborgsss?
WOW!! Thanks dude, very helpful. I'm reall yscratching my scalp on how to pile up influence. Also, my community is fucking nuts, disputes here and there.
You can resolve disputes by raising morale and possibly kicking troublemakers out.
@@GitGudFox But I would feel bad if I exile my community members. I think of them as a big family. Hahaha
@@ruckeebryebautista6259 Once you start getting them out, you get used to it, and you're going to feel even better when you replace them with people who don't argue all the time.
Nice video. Thanks for the info
Thanks for taking the time to watch!
@@GitGudFox anytime sir
that’s use alot of resources like med food, how to handle resources when city ran out of resources ?
Great question, you can change maps to reset things. If you want to stay in the region, you can just change maps twice. You can trade with neighbors for resources and also build some resources yourself such as ammo supply from a workshop.
@@GitGudFox Oh ok! I get it! I just knew items can be respawn when leave the town. Thank you very much bro love you content
Doesn't calling for resources always refresh it? Because I've had bags appear in already cleaned out locations, more often than not in the same building thrice-fold 😂
Looting guide ?,guns,mods,melee,etc if possible
Hmm, I'm not sure. A lot of the stuff comes from fairly logical places or is extremely random. Like, medical mods will come from clinics. Ammo presses will come from gun stores. Gun stores will have civilian weapons while a military camp or checkpoint will be more likely to have military grade guns, but the really rare stuff tends to be random. Even if you find a special loot location, it could be a gun or a melee weapon.
Very helpful thanks 👍
Still viable even in Nightmare Zone.
Throw a bloater gas grenade followed by a road flare and it’s a insta kill basically 😂 works except on lethal
Thanks for the tips!
I have been playing for a yr and did not know about the broadcast
Guys new glitch create a new community and have the warlord boost then head over to the marker then setup base then take all the ammo you can hold then return to the menu then delete the old community then create a new one with the warlord boost then you should have lots more ammo.
Why is it that when I want to buy item cost above 250 but when am selling everything is like under a 100.... sounds like a pretty shit deal to me
State of decay 3 soon!!
I am curious as to what I am to be using all my influence on, I am swimming in the stuff and I already have a max base and lack no resources. I am still new to the game so I am curious what does one in my position do with influence apart from radio calls?
Depends on what you want.
If you are trying to find better survivors to upgrade your existing survivors, you can spam the "find other survivors" command, on cooldown, to constantly generate allies.
You can start buying retraining manuals to optimize your character's skills because they let you unlock all 4 skills for the category of the book they read. The books are really expensive as well.
You can use the Trade Depot to begin collecting any mods you're missing because each merchant will bring mods with them.
You can buy Mysterious Wander Trader stuff, start collecting B50FGs for all your community members.
You can start buying bounty broker stuff which can be pretty optimal like the ice axe. Each one costs 850 influence, so it adds up quick.
Those are some examples.
@@GitGudFox Thank you , I had no idea I could even buy mods from the traders. I just happen to luck out and find my first +2 on my current dreadworld, I have gradually been building my survivors, they are now +3 heroes about to finish Dread and move on to nightmare, I have 12 with almost great traits I have gathered in the time it took to get here. I think I will shoot for maxing all their gear and inventories, just so I can start new games with them tweaked out, thank you for the advice ! :) Now I know what I am gonna do, engage!
Another good way is by selling all 6 slot and 7 slot backpacks since we dont need them and they accumulate. Also sell any melee weapons that you arent using and most guns you will never use
If your weapons aren't worth much, you can also scrap them into parts and sell repair kits instead.
I like the Tom and Jerry movie
i tried to convince my friend that the still in meagher valley is really good but hes just not having it and wants to move out. poor fool
I subbed and liked
Do you only play on Standard? First tip is completely pointless on Nightmare.
This video was created before Nightmare Zone was invented.
Ironically, it actually applied even more when Nightmare Zone first came out. Ferals were worth double the influence when the "Choose Your Own Apocalypse" update first released, and since they could appear in a group of 3, you could score 150 influence + 20 influence bonus since the 3 ferals counted as a horde.
I've already beaten Lethal Zone the 4 times to get all the legacies, and I've done it from fresh starts without DLC and character deaths.
When Lethal Zone came out, though, Undead Labs adjusted the scaling of influence and reversed them. Before, the higher difficulties yielded more influence, but then they decided it should be lower difficulties that give more influence while higher difficulties give reduced influence.
@Git Gud Fox There was a time before Nightmare D: But yeah, it was just a small note since the rest of the video is still on point even now.
The game originally had no difficulty settings. It was just "State of Decay 2" with what we call "Standard Zone" being the default difficulty.
It's kind of like how Heartland is right now. There's only 1 difficulty for Heartland. That's how all of SoD2 was for nearly a year.
I have been getting, usually, around 100 to 200 influence for most missions
They increased it a few months back I think.
Sales associate trait helps me so much 👍🏼
I've never had someone with that before.
@@GitGudFox I got it on my first playthrough with one of the starter characters. Don't quite remember the exact bonus but gives better buy and sale prices
Having someone with business or law often helps (Plus 10% influence gained). Plus, if their hero trait is a certain one, I forget which, it can offer increased influence gain of I think 35%? I'd have to confirm. And occasionally, certain enclaves offer an ability called "Spread the word" which increase it further I believe. I think it adds another 35 influence gain daily. That's on average (With a trade depot) 300-400 daily gain just chillin, plus, Whitney field's announcer box in meagher valley can force zombie sieges, which is naturally 60 a time in 2 minute intervals, with percentage increase, it's likely over 100. I've had bonuses at times where I got 95 influence every juggernaut kill. I was slaughtering them for fun for the new update that just dropped. 😂😂😂
How do I start with new random character which leads to have a Sheriff Leader???
You can't. If your characters are random, then they will have random leader types as well. I think if you do the tutorial, each of the 4 starting characters will cover each leader type though. I can't remember for sure.
@@GitGudFox Hi there, I am a huge fan of your channel from Baghdad_Iraq.. Sorry for my question earlier, but I have finished the game with 3 different leaders and I wanna finish it with the last remaining one which is the Sheriff, I thought you have an insight on the matter, thank you for your reply
I never have a problem with influence and I keep luxury items like trading cards. Gotta catch em all
That tells me you aren't spending enough influence. Retraining manuals and rare skill books cost up to 1500 influence each.
You should ALWAYS have problems with influence; otherwise, that's an indicator you're wasting your influence by not spending it.
@@GitGudFox How many skillbooks do you really need though? I have mountains of them in my nightmare community and I don't even use them. I buy up resources and consumables from traders.
I made a new community for lethal mode and am sorta role-playing it where I deal with the cards I'm given when it comes to skills... That and you can't get too attached to anyone in lethal mode
That's part of the reason why you would want the skill books. When someone needs to be replaced, you can quickly reconfigure their skills into whatever setup you want.
I have 46 of plague samples and I still don’t use them
Sell some bulk plague cures! They're worth 500 influence.
I no longer need influence some random joined mehe was driving my car around and was going at Super speed so I knew something was up then I went to a strange broadcast and he picked the sent block up and dropped a 999 stack so I took him to my base and give him 1 bulk plague cure he dropped tons I have over 500
And like 7 stacks of 7.62 ammo
Some people use duplication glitches to get what they want. I've never made videos on how to dupe items because I think it is more likely to harm the user's experience.
I love to see zombie base in the sequel
We got to have money
Always!
As long as you have an online friend you can both get unlimited things
I don't use exploits on the channel.
Hey man so i hope someone sees this i came up with a fast way today i didnt mean to so what i did was i have the Whitney Field base in Meagher Vally so i got in the announcers box and started the seige when i was done it gave me 50 infulience points every time without a cool-down and there was hardly any zombies. it takes maybe 60 seconds to do each one and ive been griridng it for about 2 hours made about 3k but im sure you can do it way fater
Can never have too much money
What do you spend your money on? I buy retraining manuals and B50FGs.
@@GitGudFox mostly I spend money on extra items that is need medicine food etc if I can't find it otherwise I also like to get the BFGs as well
0:29 sorry
Oh my god
Why would you need to grind influence at all? Once you have enough to move to the base you want then you just focus on the story and finish the map...
That's how you play only in the beginning to unlock the legacies. People play endless playthroughs after beating the game.
Does it still work?
Sure, it should work for basically the entire game. Selling things is going to be a big part of SoD2 and probably SoD3.
I just discovered that 5 shots from a model 70 and a full mag from an mp5 on full auto will kill a plague heart (may empties in like 1 second due to the insane fire rate). FYI my partner hit it a few times with a shovel so that might come effect this if anyone tries it lol.
6 shots with a .50 cal
I don't need to do anything because I have 3 survivors that each have traits that give me influence every day for free
Finnaly
I actually dragged my heels on this video, procrastinating for about 4 days. You can tell because I believed it would be more difficult in the beginning of the voice over.
My way of farming influence:
got good guns on all 8 people even if there's no ammo for it
Find a site that have the ability to call zeds to dinner
Find a safe place
call the zombie in
200 influence a siega plus the freak you killed
when you get out to collect samples the game generates hordes juggs ferels , sometimes it's a set up ! staright bullshit if you ask me .lol
It can be especially bad on Nightmare Zone. I find one thing that helps is by traveling around the map a lot because it prevents the game from spawning lots of stuff in the game area. It spread the spawns out.
@@GitGudFox sneezing bullshit lol . after you destroy one hordes the game generates 3 or 4 more and that is complete bullshit !
I play in Nightmare Zone, so the entire game is a horde.
Oh I need to start spending influence. I think I'm about 8k.
Use your radio commands to make more enclaves and buy stuff from them.
Alright, new plan gang. We just need FAITH (influence). Money is not needed.
Well now freaks don't give as much , time for new methods? 😂Kidding , love your vids as always helpful
They still give out a lot on Green Zone and Standard Zone. It just means you skip that approach on Nightmare Zone and Lethal Zone.
@@GitGudFox yessir , my main strategy for lethal was to just follow what you did for all 4 legacies , worked like a charm 💯
Haven Device + Whitney Field = $$$
LoL, stabbin feral in the ass should get you Fitty influence 1:59 Lol looks like ferals enjoying it stick it to me LoL
I just make Squelones brewry and farm like 1000 beers and just have a bunch of allied enclaves
That technique is included!
I just now moved to drucker county. With 1500 beers .. Meagher valley squelone is always my fall back base
@@Username_8886 That's my favorite map. It was the first map I chose, too.
hard to keep the stills running ! LOL
@@charleskellam1675 how so ?
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Or just mod it?
You could, but a lot of people think that ruins the game experience especially in the survival genre.
@@GitGudFox alot of people suck tho
Tank,,
I love how the screen shows the correct math but his math doesn't add up haha good tips though
What part of the math didn't add up? Normally, an avalanche of people come out to point out errors in a video, but this is the first comment I can remember talking about math errors.