As the ancestor would say "overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer",I just lost a 30 day character cuz I thought that I could take care of a bigger horde than I normally do haha
Well, don't feel too bad. In my last stream I died to 2 zombies (there were more behind those 2, but they don't count) I guess I got whiff punished or some other Melee tech. Ended up running across town, getting a horde around me, losing my ability to escape, and :^) y'know
Feels. I just lost my 5 month character and I dont save scum so... RIP old friend. You fought well. Worst part? It was one zombie that did it. One bite to the gloves and I was a goner. All cuz I forgot my car window was down
@@decha1799 it took me forever to survive this long lol. I have over 300hrs of playtime. I'd suggest doing a practice run with a lowered zombie count, dont be afraid to cheat at first to get the hang of the mechanics
For the helicopter event I recommend just picking a house with a second story, closing the doors, closing the courtains and reading some fine literature. Helicopter can only lock onto you while youre making a lot of noise/are outside, and has quite generous timing before it actually finds you
I'd recommend this as well, but open the doors and windows on the first floor. Unless you feel like repairing all your entrances and exits after they pass through
as I said in my comment, you can get the exact timing by getting the frequency of the Automated Emergency Station, it will say Air Activity Detected when the Heli is coming to town allowing you to have a longer prep time for it.
Just so you know, if you stay inside for the entire duration of the helicopter event, no zombies will come because the helicopter won't be flying "over" you even if you can hear it. If it spots you outside, though, even if you run inside afterward, it will still fly over and attract tons of zombies. Otherwise, it will just make zombies across the map shuffle around a bit, like the "gunshots" and "scream" events. So, if you want, you can stock up on enough food to survive 3 days, and just not go outside from July 15th through July 17th. Don't even need the radio that way. Even your main base. It won't attract zombies at all if it doesn't spot you. Or if you find the radio that tells you when it is going to happen, check it every morning and only go outside if it doesn't say "air activity". Even if you set the event to occur randomly, if you have the magic radio that tells you when the event is happening, you can just stay inside every day that it says "air activity."
Unfortunately this is not always the case. I thought of the same tactic when I encountered my first helicopter event yesterday. I shut off everything and just waited on my bedroom floor on the second floor. After a while zombies started banging on my doors. Maybe I made a noise somehow or maybe when the zombies get attracted by the chopper they can go through buildings instead of around them. Anyways on my second and current character I just opened up the first floor doors and windows, barricaded the second floor and waited it out. Zombies passed without making a fuss. (or maybe I got lucky)
@@Grimsonite no, no, you reminded me. Zombies don't path around buildings, but try to path through. So they will latch onto doors and windows and break through them. If you open up the first floor of your base you're most likely gonna be fine!
ive had radio failures on several runs; it tells me that there wont be any air activity, and then *boom* , helicopter while im trying to break down a vehicle.
oddly enough the first time I encountered the heli was when i was b40 (this was the default version and you had to know to opt into steam betas to play b41, movement system and combat were way different) and checking out rosewood for the first time. I was looting the medical room in the firehouse when i heard the heli, followed by loud moans, so i just shut the door and hid in the corner with the lights off till the moaning stopped, area was completely deserted when I emerged, so i headed back down the street to my little one floor spawn house and shortly after getting inside i heard the chopper come back for another pass. went to bed thinking I'd be fine and if i had to run id better to not have the sleepy moodle, but I soon woke up again in a panic to the sound of several loud bangs on my bedroom door. thankfully i had barricaded the only window from the inside with two planks, and i happened to have a hammer on me (no hotbars back then so spare weapons had to be in a bag for weight/encumberance reduction, meaning you had a good reason to store it elsewhere in a container when not actively needed), made it out just as the door started cracking and ran for my life, ended up moving into one of the secluded villas till i found a nice police dash bulldriver and moved out of town to the farm house w/well near the pony roam-o.
The helicopter event is a great way to clear a large space of many zombies. If you have a campfire or a molotov, you and your helicopter friend can roast all the zombies in your zip code. Give the pilot a friendly wave of gratitude when he flies off after helping you depopulate the local area.
I actually slept through the Helicopter event in one run. Went to sleep mid morning exhausted, woke up late to the sound of the helicopter. It lasted maybe a full 30 minutes in-game then was gone and over...attracted no zombies to my base at all. It took a good while for me to process what just happened as I'm usually mad dashing through the streets during it.
This game was actually really surreal since I have relatives in Muldraugh that I visit and looking for their houses or places I've been was so wild to me. Really cool game
@@Mattsi I think so, it's so hard to tell though because of the way they have to lay it out BUT I found the neighborhood my cousins live in which was 👌👌
Keen hearing can be a life saver. It increases your perception radius allowing you to see zombies coming from behind a lot sooner. Zombies that get you from behind are almost always a run ender.
@@Mattsi you mad lad. Good luck! 👍 I usually get boned by the heli event if I pick deaf. I try to keep moving after day six but sometimes I get caught cooking or waking up late the day it comes and you get no warning with deaf
@@Iceman7711 cant the helicoper arrive between day 6 and 9 ? in my run i was watching everything from live and living and at the last show at day 9 it was comming
One thing I have learned i to never rush a kill, even if it's only 1 single zombie. I have often gotten so used to easily killing any zombie I came across that I eventually started to run up at them to kill them as fast as possible until I missed the swing and got bitten. That's how quick Iost my 194 day long character. Whether you are fighting a large horde or a single zombie, NEVER rush.
I find in Project Zomboid, your biggest enemy is yourself. Balancing all your needs and requirement. Sleep, hunger, thirst, boredom, happiness, illness, exhaustion, smoking, alcohol. Trying to juggle all these needs is a full-time job in itself, then you add a zombie apocolypse into the mix and that little niggling upset you have will quickly snowball into a whole list of negative noodles in the middle of a loot run, which allows the horde to overrun you. The second biggest enemy is surprise toilet zombies.
Man, that last line got me good. I wasn't ready for toilet zombies. Maybe I'll try and survive Zomboid without zombies soon, we'll see if I can actually manage that :')
For the beginning I personally only eat perishables/frozen foods like ice cream and store cans in one of two places because once power goes out and you've been eating cans, those perishables will indeed perish the moment you need em
Fanny bags are great in game: use one for a small First Aid kit to carry with 3 bandages, 1 alcohol wipe, 1 suture needle, 1 tweezer and 1 painkiller for emergencies. You can wear a second fanny bag for ammunition, if you have good aiming skill having 24 rounds for the revolver can save your life when the other weapons run out of are damaged.
i don't disagree but the game isn't quite set up right for rogue-lite gameplay. if you want to do anything fun you're gonna need skills which take a frankly obscene amount of time to grind, time which can go to waste from a single scratch. the game is an RPG, how would you feel about skyrim wiping all your progress at random after 30 hours of play? it just don't make sense, this is why i play with vanilla infection off and use the susceptible mod instead which is arguably harder but more manageable because there is no random element to it. i love punishing difficulty, but dark souls doesn't wipe 100% of your character progress whenever you make a single mistake, ftl is just as punishing, but there you waste an hour or two at most from failure, not dozens. sure if you have infinite time to play it might not be a problem but after my 45 hour work week i don't feel like literally wasting my time with vanilla infection mechanics, they're just badly designed IMO.
Yeah, that's the fun part, don't screw up the game lets you know to be careful and to not F up. I get it the game isn't for everyone I personally enjoy it and if you read the tutorial, "This isn't how you survived, this is how you died." the aim is to survive as long as possible. Now if you don't like it refund it
I wonder if (with the right trait build) you could essentially just keep strafing around a horde and take them all on by yourself??... I feel this is an experiment worth trying!
@@pikertheunclean3219 Adrenaline Junkie + Strong + Stout + Agoraphobic + Claustrophobic + Smoker (not sure if you'd need more negative traits, though) Adrenaline Junkie significantly increases your movement speed according to how anxious your character is, hence why having Agoraphobic, Claustrophobic and Smoker would be helpful; you'll ALWAYS be anxious. Strong and Stout increases your character's Strength, thus dealing more damage and having increased knockback. If you pick any profession that includes a buff with a specific kind of weaponry and you're a one-man army. (Adrenaline Junkie + Claustro/Agoraphobic combo wasn't my idea, found it in Nurse's video)
@@devictor9486 nice! Love nurse's videos too! Also Im pretty sure now you cant have opposing traits like agoraphobic and claustrophobic active at the same time. As soon as you choose one the other gets cancelled out (it does for me anyway, but Ive only been playing solo sandbox so far). Either way you just have agoraphobic and that would work and mess around with the other negative traits to even it adequately. Hemophobic could work quite well though too if you get some basic injuries and need to keep tending to them!
Note, if you manage to survive to the mid game when you are building stuffs and carry lots of planks, be extremely careful when having extremely heavy, you will die if you somehow fall from the second floor
I'm not sure if others do this but I recommend taking a few seconds to transfer any fresh food you find in a fridge into the freezer. Yes power does run out and it won't help a lot but it could prevent a few foods from going stale. It's a small thing but I do it out of habit now
That's what I did, until I realized that I either had to put the food in a oven/microwave or wait till it unfreezes. Now I put SOME perishables in the fridge while the rest in the freezer, just for the quick snack.
@@fajdek7032 if your stocks go slowly down in the fridge your can put stuff from the freezer into the fridge takes a long time to unfreeze but at the point where you eat the old stuff the new should be ready to go
When you first spawn in press Q it makes your charater more inconspicuous and muffles your footsteps but youll walk 5% slower def the best tip out there!
1:16 I would recommend NOT taking slow reader in Multiplayer at the current time. The only reason (at least that I think) people actually recommend this trait is because they've been playing singleplayer so long that they really don't realize how detrimental it can be when you can't fast forward while Life and Living is on in front of you.
A little later I mention what to take instead of Wakeful on multiplayer and it's Fast Reader! Around 1:50 or 1:55, I think. Taking Slow Reader on MP servers is definitely a symptom of masochism
If you lag a lot in multiplayer, avoid combat if possible. You can see your fps by pressing "k" in the world, and it will show it in the top left. Just remember, you will not be where others will see you if your have lags a lot, and zombies will not be in the same spot as others will see.
Dude, just for being straight to the point from the beginning without lengthy annoying intros, sponsors, begging for likes and subscribes, you earn a sub from me.
Word of advice to anyone new, something that isn't talked about in this is corpse disposal. If you're fighting a lot of zombies near your base or a general area that you pass by a lot, make sure to clean up the bodies before they rot. I lost a 7 day character to getting instantly sick and zombified from the corpses near my base and having the negative trait that makes you more prone to illness doesn't help either.
Can definitely confirm that dying happens the moment you feel safe. I just started playing. Finally got a character who lasted awhile. She took out more than two hundred undead and looted countless buildings. When she got tired of the piles of corpses in the yard, she found a fiery demise while trying to dispose of them.
I think that one thing to keep in mind is that you're gonna die in this game a lot, especially on Apocalypse or Survivor difficulty, or any of the other difficulties in Sandbox. However, not all is lost when you die because you can play a new character.
This I didn’t know until I watched this tutorial video. I bought PZ a few days ago and have been nuking my saves every time I’m bitten because I thought I would have to make a new save soon as I died. Didn’t realize it wouldnt “end the game” I thought Dying was game over, your done. Course I’m dying usually within the first 2 days, and usually due to my character turning it’s back on a zombie or zombies and swinging the wrong way lol and that’s WITH the highlight for all weapons on.
For more recent players, know that if in your base during the helicopter base, don’t leave. As long as the helicopter doesn’t spot you, it will leave after a couple hours. I have played countless runs, and I’ve only gotten spotted by the helicopter once and that was the first one I played.
What a very informative, and well put together video, great editing. I will be sure to go through the rest of your content. Excited to see how the game has grown since its initial release on steam!
Mattsi Thank you, I was wondering if you would take a look at this build I made and let me know what you think ive only ever used this, Veteran Occupation, Traits: Very Underweight, Slow healer, Prone to illness, weak stomach, Desensitized (Vet Trait) Speed demon, Cat’s eyes, dextrous, wakeful, inconspicuous, stout.
Fitness >>> Strength and whatever you do, either play Gymnast trait or Burglar occupation for whatever build you are taking. Nimble is the best combat skill ingame.
PSA if you take Sunday driver as a negative trait it also severely decreases your acceleration so if your car is surrounded by zombies lure them away from it before trying to get away or you will get stuck and you will get blood all over those nice leather seats 😂
Yup yup I don't seriously recommend ever taking Sunday Driver, especially since they fixed up how cruise control works! However, if anyone does take it, do this ^^^^
I've met so few people that agree to use vehicles as weapons. I typically use the step-van; fast, heavy, and maneuverable. I've made a couple of videos driving it and using it on drive-bys with my shotgun. Using vehicles as weapons also increases my mechanics quite fast, breaking down metal objects to create sheets to weld onto the vehicles, primarily the hood and trunk. Also, I hit at about 15mph so the tires are typically last to go. I also keep them inflated properly. I typically have to fix the gas tank before the tires. A neat trick I also learned is if you play with NPCs it is loud enough to draw zombies to you without drawing the attention of the NPC, unlike if you're using firearms. I use the step van to dramatically cull the hordes I encounter around an NPC.
"nothing is better than a spoon" - Mattsi Awesome, i found a spoon on day one, so i guess i lucked out and got the best weapon in the game already... the fk i just died!
"With a good weapon, you could probably take on 5 or 6." Me, with a few spears: "This is what I call a pro gamer move." Horde: Gone Really nice video though! Certainly contains most of the things I had to learn myself when I first got Zomboid, very useful, sometimes these videos even teach me a few new things I never thought of.
@@Mattsi Isn't it just? Lol. I didn't know how powerful it was until I finally managed to get into them. I recently started playing it again, when the recent change to foraging happened, so I found it /so/ hard to find the materials to make a spear. But when I got the hang of the new foraging system, and found the materials... By god. Is it destructive. It had been a while since I'd played, because of work, managed to finally get around to it during the holidays.
Just got this game today and haven't got a chance to play it yet. It's good to know something about what I'm getting into. I think I'm gonna love this game.
It is easily one of my favorite games right now and I'm deeply excited for what's to come in future updates. I hope you enjoy it as much if not more than you expect to!
Never take slow reader. You can fast forward time, however it doesn't change the fact that time still passes. That first month of the game is super important and reading slower really inhibits you during that month.
I'm slowly breaking down everything I talked about in the video, brother, but I agree. It is a LOT to get into! You can hop into a sandbox mode and change things around to help you learn the game bit by bit :D
If you plan to fight a lot, change the time settings. A game day can be 1 to 6 playing hours. You still need to eat a few times each game day, still get tired roughly at the same time, yet you get five hours extra to fight zombies, haul supplies and build stuff. I kill between 100 and 250 zombies each game day, clearing entire blocks, while only eating a few cans of food. Turn off the ingame music and put your volume up a bit: zombies can be heard, even when they are behind a door, on a different floor, or a few feet behind you Some good weapons can be repaired: axes of all kinds do well with wood glue. Regular glue, regilar tape and duck tape work too, but less effective, and repeated repairs cost more resources and restore less durability Once you clear larger areas, use shouts to make sure an area is cleared, like small patches of forest, or woods next to a road. Shouting into a house can lure some zombies out, but beware of those 'trapped' by a door or window: when you get close they suddenly release themselves to hug you Drowsy or exhausted? Stop fighting and retreat to your base. Your damage goes down at least 50% while your weapon durability only counts the number of hits, bot the damage, so you kill less zombies with more damage to your weapon When trying weapons, start with the shotgun and preferably a town that is almost cleared. Go to the edge of the cleared area, and fire at a group of zombies when the outlines become green. Don't crouch, that makes you too slow. Understand that a gunshot is the dinner bell so make sure you either know a good escape route, or you have enough ammo to kill 200 zombies, or several good melee weapons to end them quietly. When you have half a town cleared, the zombies will mostly only come from the other side, so you get overwhelmed less. Reload while walking, and remember that when you turn around to run, you are at your most vulnerable. Never let them get too close, start walking sooner
Pro tip, riverside is by no means the easiest, it may have low zombie numbers but there is also very little loot instantly available, essentially making it a death sentence if you’re spotted at all. Rosewood is much easier due to the sheer amount of spawn locations for the wood axe and normal axe; Also, smoker absolutely sucks, completely luck based on whether or not you’ll be a nervous wreck
I gotta disagree with pretty much all of this. Riverside has been ezpz for me to find loot and the lower zombie count makes finding it even easier. I've never had issues with smoker, and I've never heard anyone else having issues with smoker. Especially in terms of finding cigarettes, I always end up with at least 400 in the first month.
@@Mattsi Eh; probably just a me problem. But I’ve always struggled in riverside, reason being because I couldn’t find a reliable weapon and the sparse buildings made stealth difficult, but to be fair that was around my first ten play throughs of the game, and the main reason I think smoker is bad is because of the constant panic of you don’t have cigarettes, I for one didn’t find any until about ten days in; and at that point I survived using the panic moodle to determine whether or not a horde was too big to fight
@@jackofastora8962 I'm betting if you go back now you'll have some better luck! :D I get that, the panic is nuts and it is a bit rng, but I just can't imagine running out of cigarettes. Maybe it's a playstyle difference? I know the game is intended to be low and slow, but I typically play it pretty fast and loose for videos
Heya Mattsi, great vid! Just one thing, though, TIS saw how easy it was to hoard water dispensers and changed their weight from 5 to 30 kg. No longer an easy grab, sadly
Yo! There is also a mod that allows you to separately relocate the top and bottom of the dispensers, so all you have to do is carry to jug and keep one dispenser at your base! ;)
Gonna have to disagree with you on Sunday Driver not hurting. There have been so many occasions where I'll get stuck in the middle of a horde in my car because I can't build of the momentum to get out. Sunday Driver kills not only your top speed, but your acceleration as well.
True, but in the very specific case where you can't stop running into things at top speed it's probably gonna help you more than hurt you. And that line is partially an inside joke, I'm the one who kept killing my friends by running into things at top speed 😀
Just bought this game cuz some guy named ambiguousamphibian played it. My first mistake was naming my first character after myself. Haha Thanks for the tips! I’m looking for all the tips. Been through around 3 more characters until I managed to get things down. I’ve survived for a couple of days and now it’s midnight.
I'm a masochist, so when I saw "thin skinned" I thought "Hmm, if I don't get hurt, I can't get killed, so this negative trait benefits me for free points" I said this hour 1 into playing. I then spent 4 hours wondering why I had many bite marks. I'm now wondering why I never just wore the bloody vest and moved on. Awesome vid btw, this helps me moving forward ♥
This game is all about moving forward! learn from your mistakes and don't do that again. I'm still learning from mine, like don't listen to people who tell you to play the game Deaf and Blind 🥲
This is waaaay to much information for beginners, man! :o I'm trying to understand the game better and came across your video but, damn! there's so many things to be concerned, my head hurts lol
Hey, serious tip. If you have a small street you've been clearing/checking in each day to keep safe, USE IT FOR THE HELICOPTER EVENT The street outside my home was a regular visit for me, and I got the event In a house I finished looting, on a street I've kept clean for in-game-weeks, so 2 whole zombies tried to wipe their faces on a window. Easy peasy with a two-hander
I've enabled the outline for melee weapons, but I've found that I can judge the range well enough to strike before the outline comes up. Now, if I could stop backing up right onto another zombie while I fight the one in front, that'd be great.
I thought of an interesting strategy for killing zombies that are trying to break in to your base. I mean if you wait for them to break in or even let them in and try to kill them you just lost some protection from your base plus you're vulnerable in your home. So here's what to do instead: It's called A.O.A.K.I. which stands for Away Out Around Kill In. For example say a zombie is trying to break in from a front entrance window. Well the thing to do would be to go away from that window and find an alternate way out of the home like a side or back door or window (or even an alternative front entrance). Then exit out that alternative entrance. Next around to the zombie. Then finally, kill the zombie or zombies. Finally, go back in your base. I got to the kill part but couldn't kill the zombies and they killed me instead so bring a good weapon. Not a perfect strategy but it seems to be a good start.
damnit i've been starting literally all my characters in Muldraugh, no wonder i've been almost constantly swarmed by zombos. at least it taught me a valuable lesson in horde management, i guess? haven't been able to find any of the cool buildings like gas stations, offices or warehouses though, it's just suburban hellscape all around me
Hello Im pretty much really new to the game and i really learned really quick that you WILL need some starting weapon My first 5 attemps were just running around on circles like headless chicken and die because i didnt know what could serve as starting weapon from starting house Foods and water are plentiful what i noticed right away and canned food can help later when you eventually come back to pick them up Ripping rags were life saving tip for me when i learned that you can bloil them to make them sterile Im still learning when ever i can so i can survive one more day till eventually months at time
Note on perks: you can run extremely underweight/overweight with Fit which instantly negates the negative fitness points and brings you up to 6 fitness while having free 4 perk points. Get a radio and find earbuds or headphones and check radios for the Automated Emergency Station. This is important since it will always remind you of the weather and temp every hour and the earbuds allows you to keep your radio from being heard while you are holding the radio in your secondary. The most important thing about this is when you hear AIR ACTIVITY DETECTED, this is the part when you hop into a car and run or sheet up your house and wait for the horde to abate, anyway this is the Helicopter Event and this will be reported 1-2 days in the emergency radio.
I didn't ever know about the radio and headphones thing. There's so much of this game I still don't know, and that's very exciting to me :D Thanks for the perks tip! I'll have to try that out sometime 🤔
if dying and learning is apart of the game then i guess im basically ready for it and so are other dark souls/bloodborne or any soulsbourne players like me
Riverside is the best one to Spawn on The longest i stayed alived in westpoint is 22 days And make Sure to Horde them Red Books They are worth in the weight of gold in order to fight off boredoom
my name is jake and when you said "you're not in any peril just because you don't have a pair of scissors on the first day jake" and i was like O__O hahahaha
"With a good weapon, you could probably take on 5 or 6" Me, killing 662 zombies in 9 days ingame with favourite weapon Bare Hands, taking +4 zombies at a time: Hmm... Yeah...
It takes a truly refined survivor, hardened by the countless hours of intense physical training, to take on a horde with nothing more than Bare Hands ✋
@@Mattsi Strong + Martial Artist (More Traits mod) + Bouncer (More Traits mod) = 2 Hit KO, it got way too boring and unfun to the point I just deleted my save.
Once, I got my base in a farm house on day 1 and immidietly after that, the helicopter event spawned, perfect time for the game to bite me in the ass cuz 5 minutes later, I see a horde swarming my farm. I thought the event spawned in day 8
@@Mattsi yeah dumpsters and trash cans have a “delete” option on the top of their inventory, helpful with clearing zombies but I usually just let them despawn because I’m lazy
I am curious why you didn't mention the thing that usually happens around 14 days and completely caught me off guard (although I had thought about it I didn't _actually_ expect it to happen :D) No spoilers.
Helicopter event happened to me on day four, luckily I had a car stocked up with a bug out bag ready. Funniest part was right when I found the emergency frequency the helicopter shows up to ring the dinner bell
Try out Riverside! It's not that dinky tbh, just gotta get into town to find specific loot :') I'm working on a couple other guides that'll be more specific and hopefully more helpful!
Somehow it find it hard not to take burglerer in singleplayer (can hotwire cars from the start) with getting a car being one of the most important stages in the game.
@@Mattsi I guess but I mean I did spawn with a car that is actually very good and a dead zombie with a gun. Sadly cant use the gun since im not a policeman nor a veteran and im in a constant panic that one zombie WILL just sneak up on me and end me just like that
true with the guns... tho i like using anything but a gun since its quieter and wont attract the zombies nearby since shooting the guns seems to do that. i like giving my character as many traits, negative and positive ones, that i have to see if i could even survive. at least mostly that if not just clicking random for everything before joining the game for fun.
Funny thing is, yesterday my friend and i encountered our first heli event and we were at the military base, we saw 0 zombies, during and after the event
I've been looking into the game's history for an upcoming video and it's incredible how far the game has come since it started. I hope I'm doing justice to a game you grew up on, brother!
@@Mattsi your doing more for the community then I ever had . Love to see u guys support it , the Community is only getting better with more players more Mods More everything Keep doing what your doing its Great
This game somehow reminds me of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead but with better graphics, i hope it also goes as deep as cdda gonna pick it up and start after watching this guide :P
I'm glad you're picking it up! It is a pretty deep game, but I'm not very familiar with CDDA. All I'm aware of is Zomboid has a mode that's a reference to it and it's arguably one of the hardest starts in the game!
other than some superficial similarities, PZ isn't really anything like CDDA, and thank fuck for that. it used to be fun but it's turned into a tedious micromanagement simulator.
Helicopter event? Oh so that's why I woke up with zombies everywhere around me not even two days after I started. It was my first game as well, I didn't understand why there was SO MANY zombies everywhere lol. I managed to run away and sleep in a burned & unprotected house (risky bet yes) only to die outside of it xD
@@Mattsi second game had 4 zombies right outside the beginning house and no weapon. Survived less than a minute. Third game? Riding a car and surviving a month. We make progress...!
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As the ancestor would say "overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer",I just lost a 30 day character cuz I thought that I could take care of a bigger horde than I normally do haha
Well, don't feel too bad. In my last stream I died to 2 zombies (there were more behind those 2, but they don't count)
I guess I got whiff punished or some other Melee tech. Ended up running across town, getting a horde around me, losing my ability to escape, and :^) y'know
Feels. I just lost my 5 month character and I dont save scum so... RIP old friend. You fought well. Worst part? It was one zombie that did it. One bite to the gloves and I was a goner. All cuz I forgot my car window was down
@@decha1799 it took me forever to survive this long lol. I have over 300hrs of playtime. I'd suggest doing a practice run with a lowered zombie count, dont be afraid to cheat at first to get the hang of the mechanics
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@@zephasysgaming Damn... just lost my 3 month charecter 5 mins ago... ughhhh
For the helicopter event I recommend just picking a house with a second story, closing the doors, closing the courtains and reading some fine literature. Helicopter can only lock onto you while youre making a lot of noise/are outside, and has quite generous timing before it actually finds you
I'd recommend this as well, but open the doors and windows on the first floor. Unless you feel like repairing all your entrances and exits after they pass through
Hey thats a good tactic. Thanks!
as I said in my comment, you can get the exact timing by getting the frequency of the Automated Emergency Station, it will say Air Activity Detected when the Heli is coming to town allowing you to have a longer prep time for it.
This is how I died....
@@johnnyarm3181 Win some, lose some. That's Zomboid! 🤣
Just so you know, if you stay inside for the entire duration of the helicopter event, no zombies will come because the helicopter won't be flying "over" you even if you can hear it. If it spots you outside, though, even if you run inside afterward, it will still fly over and attract tons of zombies. Otherwise, it will just make zombies across the map shuffle around a bit, like the "gunshots" and "scream" events.
So, if you want, you can stock up on enough food to survive 3 days, and just not go outside from July 15th through July 17th. Don't even need the radio that way. Even your main base. It won't attract zombies at all if it doesn't spot you. Or if you find the radio that tells you when it is going to happen, check it every morning and only go outside if it doesn't say "air activity".
Even if you set the event to occur randomly, if you have the magic radio that tells you when the event is happening, you can just stay inside every day that it says "air activity."
Good point!
I usually just like the mini adventure and panic, maybe I'm odd tho
Unfortunately this is not always the case. I thought of the same tactic when I encountered my first helicopter event yesterday. I shut off everything and just waited on my bedroom floor on the second floor. After a while zombies started banging on my doors. Maybe I made a noise somehow or maybe when the zombies get attracted by the chopper they can go through buildings instead of around them. Anyways on my second and current character I just opened up the first floor doors and windows, barricaded the second floor and waited it out. Zombies passed without making a fuss. (or maybe I got lucky)
@@Grimsonite no, no, you reminded me. Zombies don't path around buildings, but try to path through. So they will latch onto doors and windows and break through them. If you open up the first floor of your base you're most likely gonna be fine!
ive had radio failures on several runs; it tells me that there wont be any air activity, and then *boom* , helicopter while im trying to break down a vehicle.
oddly enough the first time I encountered the heli was when i was b40 (this was the default version and you had to know to opt into steam betas to play b41, movement system and combat were way different) and checking out rosewood for the first time. I was looting the medical room in the firehouse when i heard the heli, followed by loud moans, so i just shut the door and hid in the corner with the lights off till the moaning stopped, area was completely deserted when I emerged, so i headed back down the street to my little one floor spawn house and shortly after getting inside i heard the chopper come back for another pass. went to bed thinking I'd be fine and if i had to run id better to not have the sleepy moodle, but I soon woke up again in a panic to the sound of several loud bangs on my bedroom door. thankfully i had barricaded the only window from the inside with two planks, and i happened to have a hammer on me (no hotbars back then so spare weapons had to be in a bag for weight/encumberance reduction, meaning you had a good reason to store it elsewhere in a container when not actively needed), made it out just as the door started cracking and ran for my life, ended up moving into one of the secluded villas till i found a nice police dash bulldriver and moved out of town to the farm house w/well near the pony roam-o.
The helicopter event is a great way to clear a large space of many zombies. If you have a campfire or a molotov, you and your helicopter friend can roast all the zombies in your zip code. Give the pilot a friendly wave of gratitude when he flies off after helping you depopulate the local area.
Yo, wait a minute. I might steal this and make a video :^)
@@Mattsi
Please do, I love seeing project zomboid pyromania.
@@daviddavidson505 it's on the list!
@@Mattsi I'd like to add that I'd love to see you make a video on this molotov idea lol
I actually slept through the Helicopter event in one run. Went to sleep mid morning exhausted, woke up late to the sound of the helicopter. It lasted maybe a full 30 minutes in-game then was gone and over...attracted no zombies to my base at all. It took a good while for me to process what just happened as I'm usually mad dashing through the streets during it.
I'd call that a great success
This game was actually really surreal since I have relatives in Muldraugh that I visit and looking for their houses or places I've been was so wild to me. Really cool game
Did you ever find anything familiar? :0
@@Mattsi I think so, it's so hard to tell though because of the way they have to lay it out BUT I found the neighborhood my cousins live in which was 👌👌
Keen hearing can be a life saver. It increases your perception radius allowing you to see zombies coming from behind a lot sooner. Zombies that get you from behind are almost always a run ender.
Oooh, I'll have to look into taking that more often!
My next build is going to be blind + deaf, I'll be streaming that on Tuesday 👌👀
@@Mattsi you mad lad. Good luck! 👍 I usually get boned by the heli event if I pick deaf. I try to keep moving after day six but sometimes I get caught cooking or waking up late the day it comes and you get no warning with deaf
@@Iceman7711 I've got a little strat I need to try out soon to make sure it works 🤔🤔
Yes
Normally I'm too busy looting
And this it's helpful to react quicker
@@Iceman7711 cant the helicoper arrive between day 6 and 9 ? in my run i was watching everything from live and living and at the last show at day 9 it was comming
One thing I have learned i to never rush a kill, even if it's only 1 single zombie. I have often gotten so used to easily killing any zombie I came across that I eventually started to run up at them to kill them as fast as possible until I missed the swing and got bitten. That's how quick Iost my 194 day long character. Whether you are fighting a large horde or a single zombie, NEVER rush.
Rushing is my biggest downfall, man :')
I find in Project Zomboid, your biggest enemy is yourself. Balancing all your needs and requirement. Sleep, hunger, thirst, boredom, happiness, illness, exhaustion, smoking, alcohol. Trying to juggle all these needs is a full-time job in itself, then you add a zombie apocolypse into the mix and that little niggling upset you have will quickly snowball into a whole list of negative noodles in the middle of a loot run, which allows the horde to overrun you. The second biggest enemy is surprise toilet zombies.
Man, that last line got me good. I wasn't ready for toilet zombies.
Maybe I'll try and survive Zomboid without zombies soon, we'll see if I can actually manage that :')
For the beginning I personally only eat perishables/frozen foods like ice cream and store cans in one of two places because once power goes out and you've been eating cans, those perishables will indeed perish the moment you need em
They go FAST FAST
Fanny bags are great in game: use one for a small First Aid kit to carry with 3 bandages, 1 alcohol wipe, 1 suture needle, 1 tweezer and 1 painkiller for emergencies.
You can wear a second fanny bag for ammunition, if you have good aiming skill having 24 rounds for the revolver can save your life when the other weapons run out of are damaged.
Im definitely gonna use the first aid kit in the fanny pack idea, thank you!
Also remember, this game isn’t about winning, it’s about surviving as long as you can, if you die it’s fine it’s just a part of the game
Hard disagree, you need to become the Zombie King or else you need to uninstall
(This is a joke, tone through text is rough)
he said that in the video, speedwatcher
@@KanonHara I honestly can't remember saying it, but frankly I just recorded the next video and I forgot a lot of what I said in that too :^)
i don't disagree but the game isn't quite set up right for rogue-lite gameplay. if you want to do anything fun you're gonna need skills which take a frankly obscene amount of time to grind, time which can go to waste from a single scratch. the game is an RPG, how would you feel about skyrim wiping all your progress at random after 30 hours of play? it just don't make sense, this is why i play with vanilla infection off and use the susceptible mod instead which is arguably harder but more manageable because there is no random element to it. i love punishing difficulty, but dark souls doesn't wipe 100% of your character progress whenever you make a single mistake, ftl is just as punishing, but there you waste an hour or two at most from failure, not dozens.
sure if you have infinite time to play it might not be a problem but after my 45 hour work week i don't feel like literally wasting my time with vanilla infection mechanics, they're just badly designed IMO.
Yeah, that's the fun part, don't screw up the game lets you know to be careful and to not F up. I get it the game isn't for everyone I personally enjoy it and if you read the tutorial, "This isn't how you survived, this is how you died." the aim is to survive as long as possible. Now if you don't like it refund it
I always recommend Retanaru's path finding video. Being comfortable kiting a large horde then losing them is a huge advantage.
Knowing I had this information in my brain I still fumbled the stream earlier today
I wonder if (with the right trait build) you could essentially just keep strafing around a horde and take them all on by yourself??... I feel this is an experiment worth trying!
@@pikertheunclean3219 it certainly is!
@@pikertheunclean3219 Adrenaline Junkie + Strong + Stout + Agoraphobic + Claustrophobic + Smoker (not sure if you'd need more negative traits, though)
Adrenaline Junkie significantly increases your movement speed according to how anxious your character is, hence why having Agoraphobic, Claustrophobic and Smoker would be helpful; you'll ALWAYS be anxious. Strong and Stout increases your character's Strength, thus dealing more damage and having increased knockback.
If you pick any profession that includes a buff with a specific kind of weaponry and you're a one-man army.
(Adrenaline Junkie + Claustro/Agoraphobic combo wasn't my idea, found it in Nurse's video)
@@devictor9486 nice! Love nurse's videos too! Also Im pretty sure now you cant have opposing traits like agoraphobic and claustrophobic active at the same time. As soon as you choose one the other gets cancelled out (it does for me anyway, but Ive only been playing solo sandbox so far).
Either way you just have agoraphobic and that would work and mess around with the other negative traits to even it adequately. Hemophobic could work quite well though too if you get some basic injuries and need to keep tending to them!
Note, if you manage to survive to the mid game when you are building stuffs and carry lots of planks, be extremely careful when having extremely heavy, you will die if you somehow fall from the second floor
microwaves can't be destroyed by zombies too so make sure to collect as many as you can to be safe from anything
"Somehow"
Watch out for the zombie programmed only to push :^)
Yes, microwaves are indestructible, but a little cheesy. I find myself between accepting cheese and trying to keep it realistic.
@@Mattsi realistic cheese imagine trying to push throughout stacks of microwave
@@foxy4851inactive precisely
I'm not sure if others do this but I recommend taking a few seconds to transfer any fresh food you find in a fridge into the freezer. Yes power does run out and it won't help a lot but it could prevent a few foods from going stale. It's a small thing but I do it out of habit now
I don't personally do this, but I think I can see the merits of doing it
That's what I did, until I realized that I either had to put the food in a oven/microwave or wait till it unfreezes. Now I put SOME perishables in the fridge while the rest in the freezer, just for the quick snack.
@@fajdek7032 if your stocks go slowly down in the fridge your can put stuff from the freezer into the fridge takes a long time to unfreeze but at the point where you eat the old stuff the new should be ready to go
When you first spawn in press Q it makes your charater more inconspicuous and muffles your footsteps but youll walk 5% slower def the best tip out there!
Frfr
But do it outside the more you do it outside the faster you'll be able to move while crouching because your character will get use to it after a while
Yes yes... Just like the tutorial
“When you spawn in. Press. C”
Me: Spawns in
The zombie friend circle I spawn in the middle of: “Welcome, TO HELL”
In that case press alt-f4 to crouch
Weird bit of coding for a weirdly specific situation, but it works!
1:16 I would recommend NOT taking slow reader in Multiplayer at the current time. The only reason (at least that I think) people actually recommend this trait is because they've been playing singleplayer so long that they really don't realize how detrimental it can be when you can't fast forward while Life and Living is on in front of you.
A little later I mention what to take instead of Wakeful on multiplayer and it's Fast Reader! Around 1:50 or 1:55, I think.
Taking Slow Reader on MP servers is definitely a symptom of masochism
Slow reader, all thumbs, slow learner. The big three of making you quit the server
@@kajnake5905 YUP
I take the skill where you cant read books given i just play the loot type lol
@@King_Of_Lolis reading is illegal anyway, it's fine
Just bought this game after eyeing it for years. Looks amazing just my kind of game. Finishing this video then gunna try it out.
I hope you enjoy it, brother!
@Scrandy and? whats has been your experience?
@@Ezio_999 not him but i just bought it yesterday and so far it is no doubt the best game i have played in a while
If you lag a lot in multiplayer, avoid combat if possible. You can see your fps by pressing "k" in the world, and it will show it in the top left. Just remember, you will not be where others will see you if your have lags a lot, and zombies will not be in the same spot as others will see.
I didn't know you could check fps with k :0
Dude, just for being straight to the point from the beginning without lengthy annoying intros, sponsors, begging for likes and subscribes, you earn a sub from me.
Hey, brother, I'm glad to have you on board!
Word of advice to anyone new, something that isn't talked about in this is corpse disposal. If you're fighting a lot of zombies near your base or a general area that you pass by a lot, make sure to clean up the bodies before they rot. I lost a 7 day character to getting instantly sick and zombified from the corpses near my base and having the negative trait that makes you more prone to illness doesn't help either.
Can definitely confirm that dying happens the moment you feel safe. I just started playing. Finally got a character who lasted awhile. She took out more than two hundred undead and looted countless buildings. When she got tired of the piles of corpses in the yard, she found a fiery demise while trying to dispose of them.
I think that one thing to keep in mind is that you're gonna die in this game a lot, especially on Apocalypse or Survivor difficulty, or any of the other difficulties in Sandbox. However, not all is lost when you die because you can play a new character.
Yes! The game tells you you're going to die; the game is just "do your best to push that till later."
This I didn’t know until I watched this tutorial video. I bought PZ a few days ago and have been nuking my saves every time I’m bitten because I thought I would have to make a new save soon as I died. Didn’t realize it wouldnt “end the game” I thought Dying was game over, your done. Course I’m dying usually within the first 2 days, and usually due to my character turning it’s back on a zombie or zombies and swinging the wrong way lol and that’s WITH the highlight for all weapons on.
For more recent players, know that if in your base during the helicopter base, don’t leave. As long as the helicopter doesn’t spot you, it will leave after a couple hours. I have played countless runs, and I’ve only gotten spotted by the helicopter once and that was the first one I played.
What a very informative, and well put together video, great editing. I will be sure to go through the rest of your content. Excited to see how the game has grown since its initial release on steam!
Thank you so much, Gauge! I hope you enjoy the rest of my content 😀
One of my favorite negative traits is severely underweight its extremely easy to get rid of, pretty much a free 10 points
You live up to your name, Chaddo
Mattsi Thank you, I was wondering if you would take a look at this build I made and let me know what you think ive only ever used this, Veteran Occupation, Traits: Very Underweight, Slow healer, Prone to illness, weak stomach, Desensitized (Vet Trait) Speed demon, Cat’s eyes, dextrous, wakeful, inconspicuous, stout.
@@chaddo1809 As long as you're careful with wounds this sounds like a fine enough build on paper, friend
@@chaddo1809 i heard speed demon sucked because it makes cars louder
4:50 "or break your space bar" *breaks keyboard, leaving space bar entirely intact*
That's just how the cookie crumbles
Damn just the first tip is game changing. I always mess up judging distance
I did too for some time, hopefully we never do that again :D
Fitness >>> Strength and whatever you do, either play Gymnast trait or Burglar occupation for whatever build you are taking. Nimble is the best combat skill ingame.
Absolutely 👌
PSA if you take Sunday driver as a negative trait it also severely decreases your acceleration so if your car is surrounded by zombies lure them away from it before trying to get away or you will get stuck and you will get blood all over those nice leather seats 😂
Yup yup
I don't seriously recommend ever taking Sunday Driver, especially since they fixed up how cruise control works!
However, if anyone does take it, do this ^^^^
I've met so few people that agree to use vehicles as weapons. I typically use the step-van; fast, heavy, and maneuverable. I've made a couple of videos driving it and using it on drive-bys with my shotgun. Using vehicles as weapons also increases my mechanics quite fast, breaking down metal objects to create sheets to weld onto the vehicles, primarily the hood and trunk. Also, I hit at about 15mph so the tires are typically last to go. I also keep them inflated properly. I typically have to fix the gas tank before the tires. A neat trick I also learned is if you play with NPCs it is loud enough to draw zombies to you without drawing the attention of the NPC, unlike if you're using firearms. I use the step van to dramatically cull the hordes I encounter around an NPC.
I'm glad to see you're a fella of culture 👌
Keep revving those engines and running over undead
sunday driver also doubles your fuel consumption, so i've started avoiding it as a "freebie trait"
True, but do you want fuel or cool test dummy crashing montages?
"nothing is better than a spoon" - Mattsi
Awesome, i found a spoon on day one, so i guess i lucked out and got the best weapon in the game already... the fk i just died!
I meant using your hands is better than using a spoon :')
4:22 as someone named Jake this was alarming
Gotta keep you on your toes 👊
Just bought the game and I must say: Damn. It's hard. Thank you for your guides. Hopefully I'll learn something useful and put it to practice! :)
It's a rough learning curve, but the game is so much fun to dive into!
I hope you enjoy your time with it :D
"...paperweights. For a long... while." lol... I enjoyed watching this and it was extremely helpful. Using separate videos for "how to" is very nice.
I'm glad to hear I've helped you, man!
Hope you're having a good one 😊
I just got the game, and I have a good understanding, just wanted to watch in case I missed things, so I wanna say thanks, the video is really good
Love the content! I can't wait to see you make this your full time job! Keep up the good work!
I'm looking forward to it big time!
No rush though, I can't despise the days of new beginnings!
"With a good weapon, you could probably take on 5 or 6."
Me, with a few spears: "This is what I call a pro gamer move."
Horde: Gone
Really nice video though! Certainly contains most of the things I had to learn myself when I first got Zomboid, very useful, sometimes these videos even teach me a few new things I never thought of.
The spear is the best weapon, I will not back down from this hill.
Thank you!
@@Mattsi Isn't it just? Lol. I didn't know how powerful it was until I finally managed to get into them.
I recently started playing it again, when the recent change to foraging happened, so I found it /so/ hard to find the materials to make a spear.
But when I got the hang of the new foraging system, and found the materials... By god. Is it destructive.
It had been a while since I'd played, because of work, managed to finally get around to it during the holidays.
Hell yea! As long its not below lvl 5 carpentry and each of your few spears break after like five zeds ._.
its that range isnt it
@@kajnake5905 Just gotta make some backups for a while, but it's worth I promise
Just got this game today and haven't got a chance to play it yet. It's good to know something about what I'm getting into. I think I'm gonna love this game.
It is easily one of my favorite games right now and I'm deeply excited for what's to come in future updates.
I hope you enjoy it as much if not more than you expect to!
Great video thanks. Fun to watch too. Much better content than I expected from a smaller channel, keep up the good work
Thank you so much, Flightcoach
I'll do my best o7
Never take slow reader. You can fast forward time, however it doesn't change the fact that time still passes. That first month of the game is super important and reading slower really inhibits you during that month.
This is awesome. I just had this pop up in my recommended and now you got a subscriber and steam just got some more money. Thank you.
I'm glad to assist you, Steam, and my sub count ;D
Hope you enjoy the game!
This has helped me, this has helped my friends, and oddly enough this is now helping my dad learn how to play the game.
AYYY! That has me so hype, man
I hope you and your dad are vibing with the game!
Man this video kinda makes me overwhelmed. It looks like a fun game if i can figure out how to survive more than a day
I'm slowly breaking down everything I talked about in the video, brother, but I agree. It is a LOT to get into!
You can hop into a sandbox mode and change things around to help you learn the game bit by bit :D
If you plan to fight a lot, change the time settings. A game day can be 1 to 6 playing hours. You still need to eat a few times each game day, still get tired roughly at the same time, yet you get five hours extra to fight zombies, haul supplies and build stuff. I kill between 100 and 250 zombies each game day, clearing entire blocks, while only eating a few cans of food.
Turn off the ingame music and put your volume up a bit: zombies can be heard, even when they are behind a door, on a different floor, or a few feet behind you
Some good weapons can be repaired: axes of all kinds do well with wood glue. Regular glue, regilar tape and duck tape work too, but less effective, and repeated repairs cost more resources and restore less durability
Once you clear larger areas, use shouts to make sure an area is cleared, like small patches of forest, or woods next to a road. Shouting into a house can lure some zombies out, but beware of those 'trapped' by a door or window: when you get close they suddenly release themselves to hug you
Drowsy or exhausted? Stop fighting and retreat to your base. Your damage goes down at least 50% while your weapon durability only counts the number of hits, bot the damage, so you kill less zombies with more damage to your weapon
When trying weapons, start with the shotgun and preferably a town that is almost cleared. Go to the edge of the cleared area, and fire at a group of zombies when the outlines become green. Don't crouch, that makes you too slow. Understand that a gunshot is the dinner bell so make sure you either know a good escape route, or you have enough ammo to kill 200 zombies, or several good melee weapons to end them quietly. When you have half a town cleared, the zombies will mostly only come from the other side, so you get overwhelmed less. Reload while walking, and remember that when you turn around to run, you are at your most vulnerable. Never let them get too close, start walking sooner
Pro tip, riverside is by no means the easiest, it may have low zombie numbers but there is also very little loot instantly available, essentially making it a death sentence if you’re spotted at all. Rosewood is much easier due to the sheer amount of spawn locations for the wood axe and normal axe; Also, smoker absolutely sucks, completely luck based on whether or not you’ll be a nervous wreck
I gotta disagree with pretty much all of this.
Riverside has been ezpz for me to find loot and the lower zombie count makes finding it even easier.
I've never had issues with smoker, and I've never heard anyone else having issues with smoker. Especially in terms of finding cigarettes, I always end up with at least 400 in the first month.
@@Mattsi Eh; probably just a me problem. But I’ve always struggled in riverside, reason being because I couldn’t find a reliable weapon and the sparse buildings made stealth difficult, but to be fair that was around my first ten play throughs of the game, and the main reason I think smoker is bad is because of the constant panic of you don’t have cigarettes, I for one didn’t find any until about ten days in; and at that point I survived using the panic moodle to determine whether or not a horde was too big to fight
@@jackofastora8962 I'm betting if you go back now you'll have some better luck! :D
I get that, the panic is nuts and it is a bit rng, but I just can't imagine running out of cigarettes. Maybe it's a playstyle difference? I know the game is intended to be low and slow, but I typically play it pretty fast and loose for videos
Yeah the new Carzone Ep1 VHS was a godsend. Thx for the vid.
I missed that episode :(
currently learning the ropes of this game, gave myself the best sandbox options and 100 free trait points. im still dying so many times 😂
Get used to the flow of combat and how their pathfinding works and you should be golden 👌
thanks bro! I gona come back here pretty often!
Hopefully it's still fairly current information 😂
@@MattsiI died several times but I`m getting better thanks to you!
@@Djheffeson Dying is part of the fun 🥲
Heya Mattsi, great vid! Just one thing, though, TIS saw how easy it was to hoard water dispensers and changed their weight from 5 to 30 kg. No longer an easy grab, sadly
Oh man :(
That's really smart of them though, I'm glad they did that!
Thank you for the update :D
Yo! There is also a mod that allows you to separately relocate the top and bottom of the dispensers, so all you have to do is carry to jug and keep one dispenser at your base! ;)
Gonna have to disagree with you on Sunday Driver not hurting.
There have been so many occasions where I'll get stuck in the middle of a horde in my car because I can't build of the momentum to get out. Sunday Driver kills not only your top speed, but your acceleration as well.
True, but in the very specific case where you can't stop running into things at top speed it's probably gonna help you more than hurt you.
And that line is partially an inside joke, I'm the one who kept killing my friends by running into things at top speed 😀
You also are going to have trouble towing. And good luck driving in the dirt with Sunday driver.
not ever 20 seconds into the video and I've already learned something very useful
I'm glad I could help you that quickly!
thanks for this i survived slightly longer this time about 1 and a half days instead of an hour
PROGRESS!!
I wanna see 3 days next, brother :D
Just bought this game cuz some guy named ambiguousamphibian played it. My first mistake was naming my first character after myself. Haha
Thanks for the tips! I’m looking for all the tips. Been through around 3 more characters until I managed to get things down. I’ve survived for a couple of days and now it’s midnight.
Good luck! I hope you're having fun learning the game :D
I still die to dumb mistakes a lot 😂
I'm a masochist, so when I saw "thin skinned" I thought "Hmm, if I don't get hurt, I can't get killed, so this negative trait benefits me for free points"
I said this hour 1 into playing.
I then spent 4 hours wondering why I had many bite marks.
I'm now wondering why I never just wore the bloody vest and moved on.
Awesome vid btw, this helps me moving forward ♥
This game is all about moving forward! learn from your mistakes and don't do that again.
I'm still learning from mine, like don't listen to people who tell you to play the game Deaf and Blind 🥲
This is waaaay to much information for beginners, man! :o
I'm trying to understand the game better and came across your video but, damn! there's so many things to be concerned, my head hurts lol
Ah, take it a section at a time. I just wanted all the information I had in one video 😂
great video, excellent guide, very helpful and to the point, very well done, presentation was primo, thank you very much for making this
Thank you, brother! I appreciate the kind words and I'm glad it helped you! c:
Guns are good if you use there disadvantages as advantages. You can shoot to attract Zs and burn them with a Molotov or a campfire
Hey, serious tip. If you have a small street you've been clearing/checking in each day to keep safe, USE IT FOR THE HELICOPTER EVENT
The street outside my home was a regular visit for me, and I got the event In a house I finished looting, on a street I've kept clean for in-game-weeks, so 2 whole zombies tried to wipe their faces on a window. Easy peasy with a two-hander
your videos are really good, thank you!
Thank you! I really appreciate that :D
4:22 = Savage! 😆
Hope your name isn't called next, bro 😳
This is the first time in a long time one of these "beginner pro tips" videos has applied to me lmao
I hope you got something out of it, homie!
This guide : Do not go crazy with food
Also me with a bag full of nothing but canned food and a can opener : what?
Fair, play the game how you want c:
I've enabled the outline for melee weapons, but I've found that I can judge the range well enough to strike before the outline comes up. Now, if I could stop backing up right onto another zombie while I fight the one in front, that'd be great.
Situational awareness is a curse, never stop backing into people
I thought of an interesting strategy for killing zombies that are trying to break in to your base. I mean if you wait for them to break in or even let them in and try to kill them you just lost some protection from your base plus you're vulnerable in your home.
So here's what to do instead: It's called A.O.A.K.I. which stands for Away Out Around Kill In.
For example say a zombie is trying to break in from a front entrance window. Well the thing to do would be to go away from that window and find an alternate way out of the home like a side or back door or window (or even an alternative front entrance). Then exit out that alternative entrance. Next around to the zombie. Then finally, kill the zombie or zombies. Finally, go back in your base.
I got to the kill part but couldn't kill the zombies and they killed me instead so bring a good weapon.
Not a perfect strategy but it seems to be a good start.
Sounds like a good enough start to me :D
you videos are excellent resources. were just getting into the game and its awesome
I'm so happy to hear that :D
Glad you're getting into it!
Awesome video for starters ! Thanks 😊
Thank you c:
damnit i've been starting literally all my characters in Muldraugh, no wonder i've been almost constantly swarmed by zombos. at least it taught me a valuable lesson in horde management, i guess? haven't been able to find any of the cool buildings like gas stations, offices or warehouses though, it's just suburban hellscape all around me
You'll get there, just pick a direction and walk :D
If you're in Muldraugh still I'd recommend going down and to the left.
Hello
Im pretty much really new to the game and i really learned really quick that you WILL need some starting weapon
My first 5 attemps were just running around on circles like headless chicken and die because i didnt know what could serve as starting weapon from starting house
Foods and water are plentiful what i noticed right away and canned food can help later when you eventually come back to pick them up
Ripping rags were life saving tip for me when i learned that you can bloil them to make them sterile
Im still learning when ever i can so i can survive one more day till eventually months at time
3:51 if you have something like backpack or other things in your hand you can dequip it into inventory and then use it again.
Note on perks: you can run extremely underweight/overweight with Fit which instantly negates the negative fitness points and brings you up to 6 fitness while having free 4 perk points.
Get a radio and find earbuds or headphones and check radios for the Automated Emergency Station. This is important since it will always remind you of the weather and temp every hour and the earbuds allows you to keep your radio from being heard while you are holding the radio in your secondary. The most important thing about this is when you hear AIR ACTIVITY DETECTED, this is the part when you hop into a car and run or sheet up your house and wait for the horde to abate, anyway this is the Helicopter Event and this will be reported 1-2 days in the emergency radio.
I didn't ever know about the radio and headphones thing.
There's so much of this game I still don't know, and that's very exciting to me :D
Thanks for the perks tip! I'll have to try that out sometime 🤔
2:04 damn didn't expect a personal attack going into this video lmao, that's almost exactly the same loadout I use
Ope
I'll come for you again, watch out :^)
if dying and learning is apart of the game then i guess im basically ready for it and so are other dark souls/bloodborne or any soulsbourne players like me
100%, yep, yessir
I can't get into the souls games, I get mad too easily :')
No clue what's different with PZ
WOW I thought I was watching someone with like 200k subscribers judging by the video quality.. You definitely are gonna be big someday
Hey, thank you, man!
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the video :D
@@Mattsi Keep making amazing content ^^
Great video some really good tips. Thanks
I'm happy to help!
Way better beginner guides out there.
Riverside is the best one to Spawn on The longest i stayed alived in westpoint is 22 days And make Sure to Horde them Red Books They are worth in the weight of gold in order to fight off boredoom
my name is jake and when you said "you're not in any peril just because you don't have a pair of scissors on the first day jake" and i was like O__O hahahaha
I'm onto you, better quit running with scissors!
I didnt know that I can carry items on garbage bag! Thx its big help cuz i bought this game 5 days later
Most bags, purses, or anything that says container can be used in your secondary or on your back!
"With a good weapon, you could probably take on 5 or 6"
Me, killing 662 zombies in 9 days ingame with favourite weapon Bare Hands, taking +4 zombies at a time: Hmm... Yeah...
It takes a truly refined survivor, hardened by the countless hours of intense physical training, to take on a horde with nothing more than Bare Hands ✋
False
@@aaronsosa7736 True
@@Mattsi Strong + Martial Artist (More Traits mod) + Bouncer (More Traits mod) = 2 Hit KO, it got way too boring and unfun to the point I just deleted my save.
@@fajdek7032 do a large horde.
Once, I got my base in a farm house on day 1 and immidietly after that, the helicopter event spawned, perfect time for the game to bite me in the ass cuz 5 minutes later, I see a horde swarming my farm. I thought the event spawned in day 8
It's fairly random if I'm not mistaken. I've had it spawn day 1 before
Garbage bags are ideal bags because they are very quick to find. I like to take a couple with me, load one, throw it in my truck and fill the rest
AND you can turn them into rain collectors ;D
@@Mattsialso garbage cans are a must have nearby, since they let you delete items. Trash is very useful in the zombie apocalypse
@@fiend_gaming WAIT WHAT
@@Mattsi yeah dumpsters and trash cans have a “delete” option on the top of their inventory, helpful with clearing zombies but I usually just let them despawn because I’m lazy
@@fiend_gaming I feel that, man.
I've never seen the delete option though, thanks for pointing that out
I am curious why you didn't mention the thing that usually happens around 14 days and completely caught me off guard (although I had thought about it I didn't _actually_ expect it to happen :D) No spoilers.
What thing ;D
Helicopter event happened to me on day four, luckily I had a car stocked up with a bug out bag ready. Funniest part was right when I found the emergency frequency the helicopter shows up to ring the dinner bell
That's a lucky break, Nick!
As mean as it is, I hope those zombies starved :^)
@@Mattsi Oh they did, led most of them out of Rosewood, only downside is the main road is covered in undead from it lol
@@nickumstead Well, just remember the only thing they fear is you
Bro i just started PZ and have 11 hours, ive been spawning in westpoint every time😭 no wonder my longest survival is only 3 days
Try out Riverside! It's not that dinky tbh, just gotta get into town to find specific loot :')
I'm working on a couple other guides that'll be more specific and hopefully more helpful!
Just got this game today, I'm trying to make it to day 2 lol
"nothing is better than a spoon" can be taken in two very different ways
I... I don't... Sir?
@@Mattsi yes?
@@deforestyoudo I have to take your spoons away?
@@Mattsi as they say nothing is better than a spoon
maaann, just watchin this vid makes me wanna play again 🤧
You definitely should! This game is easily in my top 3 games of all time. OF ALL TIME!
Thanks for this. I was lost.
Glad I could help!
Somehow it find it hard not to take burglerer in singleplayer (can hotwire cars from the start) with getting a car being one of the most important stages in the game.
Absolutely, I tend to take it quite a bit nowadays :D
Your videos are so well made and such high quality that I thought you’d have 100k subs or more. Well you got one more. 😂
Thank you so much, Denver! I appreciate that a lot :D
"Rosewood is pretty safe"
Meanwhile me who always somehow spawn in the town : Ah yes _death_
Riverside is the best, riverside only
@@Mattsi I guess but I mean I did spawn with a car that is actually very good and a dead zombie with a gun. Sadly cant use the gun since im not a policeman nor a veteran and im in a constant panic that one zombie WILL just sneak up on me and end me just like that
@@napppann3486 Use the gun out the car window! :D
@@Mattsi One bad news though. I dont have gas
true with the guns... tho i like using anything but a gun since its quieter and wont attract the zombies nearby since shooting the guns seems to do that. i like giving my character as many traits, negative and positive ones, that i have to see if i could even survive. at least mostly that if not just clicking random for everything before joining the game for fun.
thanks got the game today!
Remember to accept the death of a character with anticipation for the next. Death is not the end in Zomboid. It's just a setback. :D
Funny thing is, yesterday my friend and i encountered our first heli event and we were at the military base, we saw 0 zombies, during and after the event
i grew up on this game i first played it in 2011 i was 11 lol it came along way sense
I've been looking into the game's history for an upcoming video and it's incredible how far the game has come since it started.
I hope I'm doing justice to a game you grew up on, brother!
@@Mattsi your doing more for the community then I ever had . Love to see u guys support it , the Community is only getting better with more players more Mods More everything Keep doing what your doing its Great
@@gregoryjones7712 thank you so much!
You're doing good for the community too, brother
This game somehow reminds me of Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead but with better graphics, i hope it also goes as deep as cdda gonna pick it up and start after watching this guide :P
I'm glad you're picking it up! It is a pretty deep game, but I'm not very familiar with CDDA. All I'm aware of is Zomboid has a mode that's a reference to it and it's arguably one of the hardest starts in the game!
I think that it is inspired by CDDA, even has a reference to the Really Bad Day Scenario.
other than some superficial similarities, PZ isn't really anything like CDDA, and thank fuck for that. it used to be fun but it's turned into a tedious micromanagement simulator.
Helicopter event? Oh so that's why I woke up with zombies everywhere around me not even two days after I started. It was my first game as well, I didn't understand why there was SO MANY zombies everywhere lol. I managed to run away and sleep in a burned & unprotected house (risky bet yes) only to die outside of it xD
WOOPS
There's always a death and there's always a lesson. Think the lesson here was don't go outside :D
@@Mattsi second game had 4 zombies right outside the beginning house and no weapon. Survived less than a minute. Third game? Riding a car and surviving a month. We make progress...!
@@ZYaruru WHOOOOOO!!!