Overview
This is a guide that i been working on gathering information and ways to help / improve the lives of gamers. (i usally make guides for myself this is my first public guide)
Introduction
Hello there fellow Survivalist players this is a quick guide for easy understanding of game and helpfull suggestions
(please note I am sorry for any misspell words as I have a hard time trying to figure out the word on how to spell it and usally try to attempt around 10-15 spelling of the word in a dictionary and also note that most of information you see in walkthoughs or help guide are basic common knowledge / idea knowledge)
*note i will edit this guide from time to time if i found any more great tips on how to play*
Working on your community
First: You should forcus you attention towards securing / farming before getting any new members for a while even if you have a farm started you should invite / force people to join until you corps are fully grown and have a supply already up as it takes days to farm corn. (note it okay to recuite 2 new members to you community *suggestion* Sarah Slaughter from Fort Kohai and Jacob from Sarah Looter killing mission *he the one wearing a greyish tshirt infront of the cabin holding a pistol also note he will run off around 1/4 or 2/4 of hp is lost he my by zombies or blood lost* so bring brandges for both of them)
Second: After you have surround youself with a wood fence it ideal to go grab chicken wire to build a wire fence to stop most looters who have guns and moltives from breaking into you base *Note you dont have to build a base near the bunker entrace there other better locations out in the world see Suggestion bases*
Third: After acquiring Land and complately safe from hordes of zombies and looters / raiders *note I call looter raiders sometimes* it will be ideal to start farming at this point going off and buying or stealing corps from near by Towns or small village
Forth and possiable Finally stage: Once you have accumated enogh food and resouce that outside the recommended community at the time *example corps need for 4 people 24 you planeted 100 housing 24 recommened your housing 50* it time to go to the looters / Raiders camp sites and recuite possiable all or one the time *note do not use joe to force recuite or Force people into things as people will hate Joe and can stop / delay some quest example the end game for love instead use someone like Lawrence Bradshaw or *Sally Short it may be someone else but there a female who has bully to see traits of npc grab the brain scaner which is called nerual implanting it location is near tom and butch community down the road with red stains zombies*
Gaining you first few community member
The gaining of community members is a long process but with this you can gain 4 new members within couple minutes depands if you process though they stroy.
Fort Kohai
Sarah Slaugher And Jacob *Looter*: during her missing there a bandit wearing a grey jacket which will run away when 1/4 / 2/4 hp is lost quickly deal with the other two and then force jacob to join hand in the mission then ask Sarah to join.
Ed: Ed wants you to deliver a classic book to Connie Reed if you have jacob you most likely get ed to join after this mission.
Nat Powlers *last name is werid but if you ask anyone to join and then do you do you know they will say his name* and you will get him after ed mission.
*please note it may vary if you have done anything towards them*
Looters camp sites help
it not always ideal to go guns blazing you can try other methods like “try it” or just give them 1 gold to gain accress to there camp base and then either look around for weakness in layout then killiing them off or Sparing with them and gain gold + respect then recruit them into your community
*please note it is ideal to save just before you encounter the looter camp sire just in cause plans dont go how they should have been*
Methods of gaining gold easy
First method: Sparring with Npcs in towns *save and spar* if win countine if lose load last save.
Second Method: after being looters / raiders raid you camp and once you obtain their loot sell it off to npc fractions for gold.
Third Method: Bullying / mugging NPCs with the option to do so *note it easyier to see where you are standing in the rating once you acquire the brain scaner*
Fouth Method: Missions can be easy income for gold knowing how long the mission will last example Sarah Slaugher mission for killing looters pretty simple and easy
Finally Method: for the most extreme cases just Kill all NPCs they will not be needing any if their are dead –_– *note it will become hard to recruit mass numbers if you killed*
Gaining insulin
6 in Isham’s Sienna Pharmacy *Started*
20 sold by Clay Parker in Fort Kohai *about 2k wroth in gold*
2 given by Johnny Casey in return for stealing crops from Fat Neils
5 in Johnny Casey’s house *key given by Jonny Casey in return for burning down Fat Neils watchtower*
2 given by Josephine Jackson in return for stealing crops from McCoys
5 in Buckeye Hospital *key given by Josephine Jackson in return for burning down McCoys barn*
5 in Monkey Wrench Gulch Pharmacy *key given by Juanita Baca for rescuing her from Los Ceros*
5 in Red Sands Hospital *key given by Bud Anderson during the mission alliance*
2 given by Sam Deetz of Santa Maddalena for free.
10 in Pequeno Canyon Pharmacy *key given by Amelia Murphy*
Total = 62
*note if you decieded to burn down the watch tower and barn you will not be able to talk them to stop fighting each other but if you do burn down the building bring a level 5 gun skill person and rifle to the final quest flag mission to complate achivments you love it and It’s Crispalicious! these achivments are recuiting all members of one fraction*
Possiable Base locations and map (Opioion of Lyucifer)
Possiable base locations and map layouts are shown
Red Line are primary gates/walls (made either from wood or wire)
Blue Line are secondary gate/walls (should be made from wire)
Black Lines are Optional gate/walls
in any case you could have wood gate for the outa layout and wire inside *note it easiry to defend and keep land if wire gates are secondary*
^Above image is near the Dillinger homestead near Devil canyon *note Devil canyon is has a mission from chris i think that his name but Base 2 i have no idea what type of npcs are there but it a easy base to defend against looters only 1 entrace that I have found.
^Above image is near Jim also note you dont really need to claim around the town but since you are basing around there it will be a good idea to lets say trap *note i do not know if zombies can break though wooden or wire frence / gates
^Above Image is located near Los fraction *fraction who kidnapped Lou*
^Above Image is one of my favourites simple and easy to denfend because you dont have to denfend a whole area but to pathways
^Above Image the layour of the base I have built my community around
New bases
^Above Image just Left above from corpse vally is a location that is partly ideal base up north of the game
Depanding on how you want to build in denfence wise (towers and pill box) change layout on how you want to build it. I tend to build a wall from the end of the pill box *entrance* and just go across ( wall = – and pill box [] so —-[]—G—[]—- G = Gate)
Editors Note: I usally like building base with 1 or 2 entrace ways into your base and let natural eviorment stop incoming raids from zombies / looters and it easy to cover 2 entrance then mutiable
Update on base building tips date 24.03.2015
people are having trouble with building bases and I would like you to understand on how to go about building base.
At first you base should be small dont do anything big yet just enclose you self with wooden fences see example below.
After you secure you self and having a group gathing supplies you should forcus on chicken wire there are plenty of it down below from the bunker but the hardest is that it weight is so high at this point you could build a wire fence around you base 5-10 spaces from wooden fence stopping looters with mollies to break down wooden walls but not stopping people with rocket lauchers to break down the wall but to conter this you need a skill level of 5 in conestion to builld concrate watchtowers and place level 5 firearms snipers in these towers and have a couple AR in pill boxes. but it gets harder when you expand and make a bigger bases which means less people in one spot to cover the area so the best locations are ones that are already large and also surround by natural fortaction example of these are shown in the last base tips which is idea because it use less suppies so that you can put those supplies into better use example Base A: took about 70-100 wooden planks to secure it so basicly 70-100 wood planks lost to fencing Base A while Base B took 10-20 Wooden fence to secure it so basicaly we are looking 3/4 half of wooden to build Base A which we could put into building towers to housing / outhouse for the community. another way is instead of building a fence gate first you could build a wire fence first but the con is that it works both ways you can shoot though it and looters can shoot though it too
Example of front gates are shown below. (some scale are not good so pretend that the edges are walls.)
Below the Double Guard Towers and pills (this is affection guard layout which the two towers will pick off the people from the distance and the pill box will kill the reminding troops
Looters take protiesty over certain things like buildings with this in mind you could build a outhouse outside your gates just within the range of a sniper while they are attacking the outhouse you can easyier pick them off (Suggestion made by veryinky)
Dealing with Tower Enemies:
Enemey in towers can be and will be the hardest thing to deal with here are some tips on dealing with them.
tip 1: you could easy wear body armour and rush towards the tower once you reach the tower start kicking him until he dies (I found this the best one for me *note use hight fitness level to rush easyier without having no stamian left)
tip 2: you could equipe a person with a pistol and shoot his legs (this works best and higher firearms skill)
tip 3: you can rush the tower and fire bomb it buring it to the ground *note consume medical supplies for banages*
tip 4: you could build another tower outside his range and shoot him *note consume resouce to build and not really recomonded*
tip 5-6: dont deal with the tower guy first but go for his buddies which could lead into a new community member after killing his buddies or *note this is a the start of the econter* you could walk towards the tower so that the npc will leave the tower and give him gold to look around his camp or threanten him to back down if the Threanten didnt work you could reload from privouarys save and try a buddie of his if you want to recuite NPCs into you community *note this is really easy to gain members from looter camps* (this one is really two in one it basic mean the same thing but differnt ways to go around it)
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full map below *belive to just click on the spoiler bar I hiding it because some people will have a ruin experince of having a map already shown to you then parts*
Names of towns and looters *still working on in some areas*
Gaining a free rocket laucher *update 18.06.2015*
There two ways to gain a rocket laucher.
First way: is a man name chris in Los that will give you a mission that he tags along but instead of doing the quest just dont and do other quest which in return gets you infinty rocket uses and if you dont really want for him to tag along always you can try to get him bitten by zombie or getting him killed by looters *doesnt start war confine by tre*
Second way: contantains spoiler for a major turing point in game YOU HAVE BEEN WARN. is the two brother and sister from the Los fraction during the quest for Mission for Fort Kohai, Once you coming to the end for their mission give the head to the brother which in result that he will die and his sister will come towards you to ask to join your community while holding a rocket laucher.
Third way is to use a bug / glitch that once you give mutiable items to NPC that exceed his or her carry weight he or she will die of thirst / hungry as he or she can’t pick up items or ask for items as there no room to carry *do this with someone with a rocket laucher* **Note as far as i can tell this isnt been patch yet*
Recuiting and saving people
Recuiting people
There are some people that are hard to recuite due to lack of missions or lack of items, here are some tips.
Tip 1: do as much as possiable missions from the community / camps as posiable to gain respect.
Tip 2: talk or use brain scanner to see what they like example of brain scanner is Ed *fort Kohai* likes alochalic which you give fine wine to improve on approval
Tip 3: Sparring with the NPCs is one of the most way to gain respect *after beating them* and also a easy way to gain gold. the most easy way to win is to start sparring with someone in a tower and kick and then punch before the Npc could get down in time to fight you *note once i finish recording some gameplay footage i will post a link*
Tip 4: Lure zombies towards the person you want to gain respect and kill the zombie either during or when they grab hold onto the NPC *Note you may also risk the life of the member*
Rescuing Prinsoners
there are some Prinsoners that you need to resuce and as well people with achivments
Bridget
With Bridget Cassidy
you could not get the knights of Pucifation to join as there are loyal to their own community so instead of attacking at start or buying her off them to complate the achivment bring a group of 10+ npcs with shotguns and AR with body armour and place them around the joint and first kill the guard just outside her cage and after the guard been killed you community and theirs will attack each other. *note after killing the guard at the gate open it and rush towards her and give her a spare body armour and a gun*
With Willard Williams
there is a much easy by recuiting all the members of the grand army into you base and killing their leader at the end *note either 5-6 npcs can join also not to do the achivment do not give them gifts but spar with them to gain respect and then force some into your community and ask to join your community once you gain enogh repscet from sparring
With Lou *cant remeber his last name location is at Los*
the easyest way to resure him is to obtain a rocket laucher and go though the gap in the mountains and go start to the head boss from los and make him join you. you get both partys Los crew *roughly goes around 40+ members* and helping Fort Kohai. *please note sometime it easy to send a small sucidal group at the front gates to drag the npcs from the inner circle out*.
Bugs / glitchs
BUGS and FIXES
Currently there is one bug that I know off and the Dev knows about and the overweighted bug which if you selling items to NPC bewarn on the weight of their carry weight because if there are overcombed and when they will try to get food / water they will die. (this is get fixed in the mean time do what you want with this bug / glitch take advantage or dont I just warning people if NPCs die for no reason is that their carry weight is over)
Charcters in game with traits
Note on going
the following contands spolliers in the game / relives traits of npcs *work in process*
Shorten Words meaning *note i done this because I got board of keep coming to the same person to see what the are and just started to make a list*
Cyn = Cynical, Bu = Bully, SubM, Submissive, Rel = Relginous, Comp = Compassionate,
Frdly = Friendly, Fi = Fickle, Sker = Smoker, Alcho = Alcholic, Dom = Dominant, Ideal = Idealistic,
SexA = Sex addit, Choc = chocolic, Enth = enthusiastic DeTed = Detached, Soc = Socialpathic
Int = Int
Meaning
Compassionate = feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others., Cynical = general distrust of others, Bully = Bully, Relginous = worship of a higher being, Friendly = Friendly towards strangers, Fickle = changes of ones loyalties, Smoker = smoker *note cause cancer give them smokes for them to smoke themselfs to death insert evil laugh*, Alcholic = likes to drink alcholic *Fine Wine*, Idaelistic = Pushing forwards one philosophy to others, Chocolic = loves chocolate, Sex addit = sex driven person, Loyal = stands one to the true leader, enthusiastic = showing intense and eager enjoyment
Detached = separated of disconnected
Los Ceros:
Dan Jackson: Ideal, Frdly, Loyal, Dom, Enth, Rel, Alcho, choc,
Kate Barlow: deTed, Frdly, Fi, SubM, Nevous, Soc, choc. sexA
Robert Fink: DeTed, Cyn, Int, SubM, Sker, Alcho
Connie Flores: comp, cyn, Fi, Joker, Choc,
Hiram Chacon: DeTed , Ideal, Thick, Dom, Nervous, Sker, Alcho
People who may join your community excluding the first two people Alice Ivers and Isham Seely and recomended recuites.
with looterclan they sometime will or will not join you if you can try to go for the recomened (REC) people if you start a fight
LOOTER CLAN BELOW
Desert Raiders
Jacob de Vere *REC* (if you are doing the mission for sarah at fort kohai but for the rest of all looter clan you can recuite all of them)
Jesus Davis
Billy Taggart
Cynthia’s Gang
Cynthia Rogers
Tom Tubbs
Bob Doyle
Will Schieffelin
Devil’s Gulley Gang
Augustine Riddle
Lucretia Hicks
Mollie Anderson
Tom Fimbres
John Kinney’s Gang
Butch Bullion
John Kinney
Augustine Ruggles
Mahalia Winema
Dan Bassett
Sam Doherty
Highwaymen
Wyatt Holliday
Jesse Bradshaw
Lawrence Bradshaw *REC*
George O’Kelley
Vince’s Gang
Stockton
Pearl Silva
Vincente Sontag
Backpacks loctions
Backpack Sellers
Jacob and Eliza West in Fort Kohai
Eleanore Williams in Santa Maddalena
Felipe Hutchinson in McCoys
Lola Yantis in Fat Neils
Richard Flores and Mike Bullion in Los Ceros
*the cost will vary depanding on relationship with community starters are like 90 gold for large and 40-60 for blue bags*
There are couple bags laying in cars so check cars often and also housing. there should be a small backpack left of highway men in one of the cars near Santa Maddalena and close to bunker
War tips for Los Ceros
The Los Ceros is one of two hardest place to hit and destroy the following message will content spoilers and helpfull guide first some tips.
Tips 1: If you have been exploring the area in and out of los ceros you can start to notice some blind spots or less guarded areas like the farm land which is basic open land which you can snipe the income troops or the entrace from to the outa cicle is also open.
Tip 2: Building a small camp site using lots of chicken wire and concrate building just outside there gate and have 6-10 snipers picking them off and the rest with AR and shotguns with body armour to take down the ones that snipers miss or the runners *note rifles can hold 4 per mag and have a mediume fire rate and slow reloading speed this is what it seems to me as i be watching the the mag relaod seeing it like 5-10 seconds*
Tip 3: you can side with Bud and ask for Santa Maddalena to help during the combat with Los ceros *this will most likely have both fraction losing lots of members with fort kohai if you want to recuite them*
Tip 4: this tip is basic a tip to recuite members such as looters to fight for you instead of killing looters on the spot or kill the looters and leaving one alive to recuite if you give gold or found a weak looter and use try it *try it better option* you can then found the weakest member and force them to give you gold and then ask to join then recuite their looter community in no time you can gain 40+ people to fight *Note some looters will not join example grand army leader he will not join and those knights of purfication*.
Most important tip Bring lots of body armour and dont make your army all bunch off reminder kids rocket laucher are bad weapons to deal against.
Now some spoilers which can easly end the war do not read if you do not want to spoiler the game
there a small rock path that will lead you to the inner circle but you need to rocket laucher to blow up have a small elite group waiting there and a army at the fight gate to draw as much as possiable then blow up the gate and kill any guard but keep fillipe alive then walk to him and talk to surrended and you will get his entire army depanding on how much you have killed already some requiments may change like blowing up a few houses or so things to make fillipe fear you.
End of los ceros war spoilers
if you are planning to move your base into los ceros you need to rebuild damage and also build housing since there no take over house yet *dev was planning this at one stage* and also looters will go for weak points so defend the vally back into los ceros.
Conclusion
That you for reading this Guide and also any changes will be notice easier with a edit note like this *Edited date at time with a brief change log following it* enjoy the game play