#STATE OF DECAY LIFELINE HOM3 BASES HOW TO#

When all criteria have been met, press to call Lily over the radio and choose Set up outpost. Once you've found a suitable building, see below for more info on securing the building. You should ideally set up a perimeter with outposts around your base to prevent hordes from coming at you from any angle.

completely searched and secured a building.

completed the medicine run mission for Lily.

Outposts protect your home base from hordes and provides you with resources. Setting up outposts/Securing your home base Learning or upgrading any skill with any character will give you 'Trust me, I'm an expert'. Get two zombies in line in front of you and press + to use it. It's a good enough skill (though a bit tricky to pull off) so you might as well choose it for Marcus. IMPORTANT! In order to get 'Double dead' you HAVE to learn and use the 'double kill' defensive skill with either Marcus or any other character that has the 'Powerhouse' trait. Different characters can learn different skills by upgrading different stats, so remember to check their character screens from time to time for which skills they can learn. Some characters have special abilities that can be unlocked when they reach a certain level. Press to bring up your character screen, for their skills and to scroll through their available upgrades. They gain more stamina by running and fighting a lot, and get better at fighting and shooting. Your characters level up their skills the more they use them. Once a weapon has broken it's gone for good. If it's about to break and you have a workshop in your home base, you can leave it in your locker for an in-game day and it will be fixed automatically. You can check the condition of your weapon in the inventory screen. You should switch to another weapon soon to avoid it breaking mid-battle. When your weapon is about to break it shows up onscreen as a yellow icon. For example, a building site might be a good place for materials, a restaurant should have food and a police station probably has guns. If you're looking for something specific, think about what might contain the resources you need. Finding weapons and suppliesįor tips on searching buildings see the topic 'Setting up outposts' below. If you were surrounded by zombies when switching you might have gotten that character killed, so do it when you're relatively safe. Any rucksacks you were carrying will be left in the place they travelled from it will be marked on your map though if you want to retrieve it later. Switch to another available character and then back to the one you were playing as and you should start out at the home base. While there's no actual fast travel in the game, there is a trick to getting your character home quickly. The four-seat truck is the best zombie-killing vehicle in the game since it's sturdy and handles a lot better than the two-seat. Cars have different properties small cars handle better and can jump higher, trucks are sturdier and can withstand more damage. There's a limited amount of cars, and using them to run over zombies will break them eventually so sometimes just avoiding them is better. To prevent ruining your engine hit them with the door by holding. Running down zombies will damage the car. The easiest, fastest and safest way to handle big groups of zombies. If you gain enough shooting experience there's a 'slow-motion' special skill which will make headshots easier. If you can't get a clear shot, shooting them in the body first will slow them down making the headshot easier. Always carry two melee weapons in case one starts to break and fix them when you can.Īs in all zombie movies, aim for the head. The blunt weapons kill slower and the heavy weapons possibly knocks over more zombies but are slooooooow to use. The best melee weapons in the game are the edged weapons. For example: specializing in the 'edged weapon' skill tree will earn you a fighting move that beheads a zombie, a one-hit-kill which takes a little time to perform but is extremely useful.

Leveling up your fighting skill with a particular type of weapon will give you the chance to specialize in that weapon. Until you get silencers, they cause more problems than they solve. At least in the beginning of the game, I don't find myself using them much. TWO melee weapons of your choice in case one starts breaking.So recognizing when to just leave it be and run away from a fight is essential for survival. There's no use trying to eradicate all the zombies from the entire map, new ones will always spawn.

#STATE OF DECAY LIFELINE HOM3 BASES HOW TO#

Learn to fight, dodge and how to use the killing moves early on.Always carry medicine with you and try not to let your health get below 50%. Eat some snacks or try finding a safe spot to regain stamina. When your stamina's depleted you will fight and run MUCH slower.

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