Overview
A lot of people are having a hard time trying to make it to Canada. They get themselves in a pickle, their poor decisions get punished, and they cry “DANG IT!”Death Road to Canada is a unique game that is tricky to figure out (WHEEZE), but I can help you out with that. As someone who enjoys Death Road to Canada enough to pour hundreds of hours into it and learn its secrets, I will share you those secrets… the secrets to surviving the death road.
Chainsaws aren’t that good.
So everyone is saying that chainsaws are the best weapons in the game, so it must be true… right?
I would say no. You can beat the most difficult modes without using one, and I honestly only pick them up just to sell them. They’re worth good amounts of food and if you already have a strong group with guns and ammo, you’re never gonna need to use a chainsaw.
Sure they’re powerful, but they consume gas, a resource you need to make it to Canada and a resource that keeps you from encountering walking events. Players always tell me that chainsaws are pretty much mandatory yet they also always tell me that they keep taking a ton of hits or dying when they run out of gas or lose their car.
You know what cars don’t need? Ammo. Use them. You can survive a morale siege in Marathon mode using only the most common guns in the game. I sure as hell have. You really only need to use weapons like chainsaws and guns for actual emergencies, most of your problems can be handled with melee. But if you already have guns, then why use a chainsaw?
Also unlike chainsaws, you don’t need to rev up guns. You pull them out, they shoot. You can equip your entire group with guns and have them all shoot by changing their fighting style in the menu at any time. Unless if you’re solo-running a character in a difficult run and you don’t have any good guns and you find yourself in a difficult siege or cornered, then maybe that would be a good time to use a chainsaw? That or Quick Death mode. Of course there are more ways to survive a siege than by just pulling out a certain weapon, but we’ll get to that part later.
To be blunt, you don’t really ever need to use a chainsaw and you should just sell them, especially if you’re already doing fine in the emergency weapons department. Everyone is already complaining about not finding enough food so hey… you’re welcome. It’s easy to get a large group and guns and ammo aren’t that rare. You can find chainsaws in cabins and hardware stores.
In short, use chainsaw money to buy better guns lol.
The best locations.
Now let us go over all the best locations for what they give and what you need.
Lets start with the best starting location: Rest Stop. They give you food, gas, weapons of all kinds. Rest Stop is awesome, always go Rest Stop for the first location. If the option to go there isn’t available, Yall-mart will be the next best thing.
With that out of the way, lets go over all of the other locations you should be covering in your journey.
Food:
Grocery Store.
Grocery Rescue.
Big Grocery Store.
Packed Grocery Store.
Untouched Grocery Store.
Restaurant.
Convenience Mart.
Concrete Bunker.
Hunting Lodge.
Fishing Cabins.
Gothic Farm.
Hazardous Materials.
Gas:
Hardware Store.
Gas Station [Siege].
Gas Station rescue [Siege].
City Row with car.
Cabin with car.
Junkyard with car.
Rest Stop with car.
Arcade. (High mechanical required)
Dead Arcade. (High mechanical required)
Swarmed Arcade. (High mechanical required)
Medical Supplies:
Pharmacy.
Medical Clinic.
Hospital Raid.
Hazardous Materials.
Ammo:
no. ammo is easy to find and you almost never have to use guns even in the more difficult modes.
Special locations:
Most of them are good so I’m only gonna list the ones that I don’t think are worth going to.
Kung Fu master.
Mystery Factory.
Museum. (It’s bugged.)
Hybrid loot:
Yall-Mart.
Crowded Yall-Mart.
Deadly Yall-Mart.
Cabin.
Cabin rescue.
Stash in the woods.
Rest Stop.
Swarmed Rest Stop.
Roadside Rescue [Siege].
Commercial row.
Training:
Arcade.
Dead Arcade.
Swarmed Arcade.
Strength & Fitness Gym.
Swarmed Gym.
Gym apartment.
Hermit’s Cabin.
Hunting Lodge.
Fishing Cabins.
Gothic Farm.
Danger Rangers.
Junkyard Pals.
Frozen Friend.
Spooky Graveyard.
Hazardous Materials.
Weapons:
Police Headquarters.
Dark Mansion.
Haunted Mansion.
Rest Stop.
Swarmed Rest Stop.
Roadside Rescue [Siege].
Concrete Bunker.
So I think that is all of the best locations, but I have one final tip for you when it comes to looting: Loot. Every. Building. And. Room.
Don’t be a coward, just be quick before more zombies arrive.
Bandits can always be dealt with.
There are more solutions to your bandit problems than there are bandit problems. You can always find enough food to pay off bandits, a single food-focused location alone can give you over 20 food. Med supplies are also not too hard to come by, you typically find them in bathrooms and a med-focused location is enough to keep you stocked for a good while as long as you’re not one to always get bit. With enough med supplies, you can survive a bandit shoot-out.
There are also a lot of different personality trait combos that can handle bandits for you. Civilized is already an OP support trait that gives you a high boost in Medical AND has a personality trait combo that that can help you in most if not every bandit situation. So if you really hate bandits that much, just start your party with a Civilized in the group.
You can make more familiar characters and hope that you pick up a Paranoid or Oblivious character in your run. But remember, if you have lots of food AND lots of med supplies and you run into a regular bandit text event, pay the food. Med supplies are emergency resources, they can save your party later in the run from something just as dangerous if not even more dangerous, so only use them when nothing else can save you.
Sieges shmieges.
I’m only gonna go over some of the more dangerous/important sieges as the regular ones are easier to survive and much more obvious. If you follow the other sections in this guide, then you’ll be able to survive the more basic sieges with guns. Otherwise, just kite or sacrifice someone useless.
Gas station siege:
This is a siege that you’re gonna have to go to when you’re low on gas, and trust me: You always need gas.
So when you start off in the siege, look for the propane tanks and avoid them. Get inside the building as soon as you can, kill any zombie that is in your way. Once you’re inside, throw both of the propane tanks out. If you can’t throw them out, throw them on the left or right side and run to the side opposite of where the propane tanks are. Wait until they blow up and just kill every zombie that comes through. Hide behind a horizontal wall if you have to, it’ll make the siege easier. After the siege is done, kill the rest of the zombies in the building and collect all the loot.
Mall siege:
hide behind horizontal wall. easy.
No I’m dead serious, as soon as I learned that horizontal walls were your best friends in the mall siege, I never died to them ever again. Zombies will try to go through them instead of trying to go around them, and you can pick off one zombie at a time that are on the outside going towards you.
Morale siege:
Honestly, they’re just harder version of normal sieges. You can survive them with regular strategies and maybe you can use vertical walls to your advantage a bit. But let’s be real here, if you were already good at morale management, you would never run into these sieges. That’s a fact.
Final siege:
I think the best way to survive this is to get a large group with overall good melee power, run into a building as fast as you can, and just stay there and pick off every zombie that comes through the door or drops down. You’re not gonna find any zombies that were already in the building so the only zombies you have to deal with are zombies that are going through the door, you can easily pick them off as they are in a tight spot, and all the zombies that drop through the ceiling are gonna be knocked out so they are also easy to pick off. Once the siege is done, just leave. This strategy works even in the more difficult modes.
If you don’t have a large group, then another way you can survive the siege is by just doing the world’s slowest kiting. Have the horde slowly walk behind you and don’t go too far unless if you have to or until the siege is over. Don’t waste your ammo, again, use them when you really need to.
Cool, you made it through this guide. Now can you make it to Canada?
Hope this helps.
Good luck on the death road.