Only accurate to build 41.56. At first I was planning to only explain the basic traits, but this turned into a bit of a guide + rant. ko-fi.com/reta... / retanaru
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@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
With the new multiplayer patch out (b41.60) this video is no longer accurate unless you are playing on b41.56 which will not be available in the future.
@Felnier2 жыл бұрын
U.U
@bertsteinich2 жыл бұрын
Waiting for some new info for .60
@blame71212 жыл бұрын
Why's that? Did traits change in .60?
@Dietrich_Kaufmann2 жыл бұрын
It’s 41.61 now 😂
@caiohdkr2 жыл бұрын
waiting for update! :)
@melixrism2 жыл бұрын
the most chad level you can get is if you choose your traits based on yourself, including negative parts
@TronG33k2 жыл бұрын
They don't have that level of depression it would be to broken and a waste of every point.
@melixrism2 жыл бұрын
@@TronG33k damn
@HereticDuo2 жыл бұрын
yeah but then i'd need to mod the game to give me 100 more points to spend.
@im_Dafox2 жыл бұрын
100% the reason why I never played anything besides unemployed 👌🏼
@MediHusky2 жыл бұрын
Better yet, play as your ideal self and watch as he still dies to a biter who learned about facestabbing from spys.
@Luperoi2 жыл бұрын
i can't play without wakeful - Char wake up at 9am and need to sleep at 3pm it's horrible, wakeful makes things a lot closer to reality - wake up at 6 am and goes trough the day doing stuff and get tired around 10 pm - but you can keep pushing it until 3am - (it's the fckng apocalypse, can't you stay awake a little???)
@cr4yv3n2 жыл бұрын
Yeah the internal clock of the characters is that of a 80 year old ffs
@oboll60642 жыл бұрын
It's the apocalypse, and we should stay awake a little? If I could never worry about having to schedule my sleeping not a single bit (assuming I actually have a safe, comfortable, un-noisy and dim place to sleep,) because there's no work, school, or store-opening and closing hours to worry about, I would definitely take it.
@murilomoreno112 жыл бұрын
I understand what you are saying and it makes a lot of sense. But we must consider the conditions in which your characters has to live - No proper meal, walking and running all day, fighting for their lives, dealing with constant stress and fear. All that will naturally drain a person energy.
@cr4yv3n2 жыл бұрын
@@murilomoreno11 what u mean no proper meal? Fish with brocolli, vegetable rabbit soup and berries for dessert are "not a proper meal" to you?
@murilomoreno112 жыл бұрын
@@cr4yv3n it is... absolutely. But that's assuming you are already established. I meant when you must roam the map in search of any food, only to find dead animals, rotten food etc. Its basically the early game with the settings a usually play. You guys might be right, maybe the devs made that way because of balance? idk
@Mekose2 жыл бұрын
I think skill experience multipliers are severely under-rated. I used to think that slow learner was a good trait because I could just survive for x months and gain skills over time. What I didn't realize (until your videos) is that skill gain becomes so far between skills that it's nearly impossible without multipliers.
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
I think everyone goes through a phase of trying to make the most grueling experience possible, even if they don't realize what they are doing.
@TeachMeToBeHappy2 жыл бұрын
@@Retanaru well im playing with 0.2 xp gain and -44 trait points and without fast learner and this is the only way i found leveling up skills interesting And thats only leveling up section settings
@quinnlee-miller97922 жыл бұрын
I think if you are in Riverside, you can ignore carpentry, as you can build om the river, and use campfires to boil water for consumption. Want to farm? Get to the river, infinite space and water. Want to build? Right next to the forest is the river. Want to forage? River baby.
@Shedovv2 жыл бұрын
@@quinnlee-miller9792 You can do all that in the middle of nowhere. The so called infinite Farming Space requires you to build out which means - wood. If youre literally building on the river. Otherwise you can do that anywhere with a source of water until you can Build a Rain-collector. But with the most recent update even that is faster, since you can just get the first two carpentry books and the VHS tapes and level it up without doing any carpentry at first. So by the time you have some semblance of a shack built for you to live in and if you want to live by the river you'd have to make one anyway ( unless you go to the few spots that have some houses close to it) you are bound to hit Carpentry 4, at which point the river is useless because again - Raincollector. Same goes for the Foraging, you can forage anywhere and the River has nothing to do with it. I literally just walked outside my temporary base in the Mauldraugh in the Gated Community just South of Cortman Medical. And was in Deep Forest, which gives the highest Foraging buff.
@AtrociousAK472 жыл бұрын
that was me with the tailoring skill, thought i didnt need it since i already had fast learner, but boy the difference it makes. same goes for every one of my friends that picked lillerate on their first character.
@redshoehart2 жыл бұрын
With Claustrophobic there's an easy exploit with sleeping. Be outside the bedroom (it's usually a bigger room where panic level drops), right-click bed when panic moodle disappears, step inside bedroom, click sleep. You'll go to sleep even with the highest panic level. You can also use beta blockers or sleeping pills.
@1killer9112 жыл бұрын
The levels you get in carpentry from carpenter don't matter at all. What matters is that you started at +2 so get a 100% boost to gains for carpentry. Halfing the xp you need to get up to t2 rain collectors and stairs matters. Especially since it stacks with books and works on life and living carpentry gains. Using it as my profession and the trait together stacked with fast learner I've hit 10 carpentry before power went out before. Yes I found all the carpentry books, but still.
@Saktoth2 жыл бұрын
Carpentry is by far the easiest skill to level, you can get to level 7 just off the TV shows if you have the books, and I often skip the tv shows these days because it only takes disassembling a few large beds or park benches to gain a point, you'll spend more time reading books than grinding skill. A single motel or school cafeteria will give you every skill point in carpentry you will need. XP mults in the very hard to grind nimble, lightfooted, sneaking, maintenance or weapon skill can save your run.
@MsHojat2 жыл бұрын
It's not a 100% boost, it's like a 400-500% boost. The game explains things completely wrong.
@viking69032 жыл бұрын
As someone who likes to play on "winter is coming", it can be pretty damn useful.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
@DXPOHIHIHI Agreed, not a priority at all
@unbekannt28982 жыл бұрын
Make a guide..
@Prich319 Жыл бұрын
Outdoorsman is a pretty good trait. being effectively immune to sickness due to weather is pretty useful, especially if you make your permanent base out in the wilderness.
@bitterzombie Жыл бұрын
Outdoorsman is great because it overrides prone to illness, so I would always recommend pairing the two. That way you only really need to worry about illness from corpse sickness or bad food
@stevenmiklasinski37052 жыл бұрын
i do like organized as positive trait, where every container has 30% more capacity. it counts for backpacks, car trunks, or crates. so you can store more stuff in your base and transfer more items on your loot runs.
@Drie_Kleuren Жыл бұрын
Yeah I love organized having a big bag with 35 space is very nice. Better if you find a militairy one but 35 or 36 is really huge compared to 27 or 28...
@masterloard2 жыл бұрын
Minor correction on the Pacifist/Fast Learner combo; It's multiplicative, not additive. so we'll say 1 is the base, 0.75 = -25%, and 1.3 = +30% 1*0.75=0.75*1.3=.975 or 97.5%. So with the combo, you do earn 2.5% less weapon exp, but but you get +30 exp in everything else which seems hella worth it to me
@joaofrancisco57812 жыл бұрын
And it reduces weapons condition faster
@natwood189 Жыл бұрын
@@joaofrancisco5781spears, problem sorted
@mainaccount45856 ай бұрын
i would argue not taking pacifist unless you want faster levelling, only for crafting and survivalist. vanilla pz has no books for weapon skills, forcing the player to take traits with weapon skill xp multipliers
@willdigforfood50652 жыл бұрын
"The rest of the positive traits are uninteresting." Excuse me, sir. I will NEVER make a character without Organized, unless I'm doing some memey challenge playthrough where I deliberately gimp myself. Organized (that +30% storage capacity is incredible), Wakeful/Dextrous (because you're getting so much out of a 2-point trait from each of them) and Fast Learner (because the game is a mindless, tedious slog without it) are hands down the four best traits in the game.
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
Organized isn't interesting. It's just outright better.
@Clumrat2 жыл бұрын
I always crank up the XP Multiplier to 2x-5x because grinding isn't that fun.
@connorbranscombe68192 жыл бұрын
@@Clumrat Same, I wish there was a better way because you do blow through the early levels, but it actually makes the mid tier level grind bearable, I hope they make the skill grind a bit less crazy, mainly by just cutting down how much XP you need at higher levels to stop that brick wall feeling.
@Clumrat2 жыл бұрын
@@connorbranscombe6819 The point of the game isn't really to get level 10 skills as doing so takes several months to get one skill to level 10. Imo the best way to play is to just play. The marginal benefits of high skills aren't worth spending hours not having fun. You can also easily change the amount of xp needed per level in a document somewhere to tailor the game to your liking.
@connorbranscombe68192 жыл бұрын
@@Clumrat I mean I doubt its easy, I have no idea how I would begin to start doing that, I have no modding experience. And its a grind and a half to hit level 3-4 let alone level 10 without multiplying the XP gain.
@dzarko552 жыл бұрын
What I feel the game doesn't communicate well, is that base skill gain is 25%. Which means that the skill points 75% skill gain is *huge*. It triples or quadruples (depending on who you ask, I haven't read the code carefully) xp gain.
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
Like all the other tooltips the exp multipliers make no sense and 75% does indeed take a skill from gaining 0.25 exp to 1 exp. At the very least for nimble which I was messing with yesterday.
@Mrjackcool22 жыл бұрын
wait... what?? I read this on the wiki and i interpret it as "+25%" exp, so i thought 125% experience was default, and +75% would mean you get 175% exp total This shit is more convoluted that Dark Souls!
@dzarko552 жыл бұрын
@@Mrjackcool2 Nope! normal is 25%, starting level 1 gives 75%. level 2 gives 100%, and level 3 gives 125%.
@LordTrashcanRulez2 жыл бұрын
You know, I was always wondering, why does no one choose the police officer? If what you said is true (and it is.) doesn't that make the police officer more powerful and cheaper than, say, the veteran?
@Mrjackcool22 жыл бұрын
@@LordTrashcanRulez going from 25% to 75% is 3x the xp But going from 75 to 100% is only about 1.5x the xp. This technically means its more efficient get 1 point in everything. As stacking it in one will give a less dramatic increase(but still notable). Also I run police officer because I take alot of negative panic traits for points and I like that mechanic. The reason people take veteran is because of the desensitized trait so they dont get panic debuff
@mitzuriki2 жыл бұрын
You forgot Construction Worker. Outright starts with +3 Short blunt. Combine that with Strong traits,and find a lead pipe. You'll be mowing down zombies with it
@Laireso2 жыл бұрын
I like Repairman more as I get that Maintenance which offers me to transition into spears and with addition of Brawler you can make him into Jack of All Trades as you get exp multiplier into almost every weapon category, which is inefficient as you can survive off of just short blunt forever even on Insane population (and even if you couldn't there are spears which benefit greatly from the Maintenance already), but it's just too much fun to be able to main Axes with very high Maintenance. It's a meme build, but on a strong occupation so it's still completely viable and I'd say preferable on +6.0 population runs because durability of the weapon/s you main is of utmost importance and using just spears or short blunt all the time gets boring after couple months.
@flickkflix2 жыл бұрын
@@Laireso Mhm I see, a Don't starve and Project zomboid player, the perfect masochist
@The_Custos2 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is so strong if you use the metal bars with reach.
@Rayven_420 Жыл бұрын
Axe man, stout/strong. Nuff said
@oboll60642 жыл бұрын
Woah woah woah. Wakeful increases stamina regen? That could most definitely make a difference.
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
Fatigue reduces stamina regen, and wakeful reduces natural fatigue buildup.
@clem-hk2di2 жыл бұрын
high thrist is free point too, it's way too easy to get water hearty appetite is also pretty much free points because you gonna have to eat more than what your character needs anyway to get enough calories to not go underweight. i also take sleepyhead because nights are dangerous so I spend them by sleeping which means I don't need cat eyes and obviously not wakeful
@Mrjackcool22 жыл бұрын
I literally take opposite of your traits and playstyle im up day and night basically killing zombies because I don't even need to carry water or food until i head out of town allowing me to pack lightly. The night is as clear as day thanks to night eye & barely need sleep despite tiring myself from all the running and fighting thanks to wakefull. Fair play all I say, its cool to see the differences in preference
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
@@Mrjackcool2 I need to try wakeful but I find cats eye doesn't make it bright enough for me to justify from what I seen in comparisons unless the devs made it brighter recently.
@_skud Жыл бұрын
@@Saskidan i only take wakeful if i take cat eyes. i was skeptical cat eyes would do much but i've found that even at 10:00pm i can see very clearly. Works well with wakeful because you can make your way back to base through the cleared areas and organize yourself for the next day which takes me about 1-2in game hours. I go to sleep at midnight and wakeup about 6 where it isnt too dark but with cat eyes its even better.
@mioszwerner7907 Жыл бұрын
with hearty appetite there is a downside - calorie intake, if you do not watch out for what you eat, you can more easily get the negative modificators from too much weight
@clem-hk2di Жыл бұрын
@@mioszwerner7907 I wish, most of my time I spent it to get enough calories to not lose weight
@Kongjie572 жыл бұрын
simple, direct and to the point - just how I like a guide. No bullshtting around, cheers mate
@MTKRAILROAD2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I like when they skip the exposition and meaningless story before they start. Give me the information I'm looking for quickly and I'll check out your channel
@arcanumelite48532 жыл бұрын
I love cats eye and keen hearing and basically will never make a survivor who doesn't have those traits... they are just amazing so you dont need to have a flashlight to go out at night and can "see" zombies even if they are behind you giving you time to react.
@Laireso2 жыл бұрын
For long-term survival I take Athletic and Feeble combination. 9 fitness is incredible and 3 strength while being noticeable downside early on, after you find dumbbell or barbell you can exercise for a week and you end up with the default 5 strength and if you have enough food you can even get up to strength 7 in another few weeks. Thanks to having that high fitness you have higher endurance and you can exercise longer = more experience points. Good to combine this with reading skill books and/or farming. Also use up your painkillers on this if you raided your local pharmacy. From agony level of pain you need to consume painkiller 2-3 times to lower the pain in order to continue exercising. This is the only activity in the game that allows you to use them in large quantities so don't consider it a waste. Keep in mind you will need a lot of food and a good bed in a safe location as you will get tired and hungry much faster from all the exercising and you'll be near useless in combat so before you begin, make sure you won't need to leave the safehouse for the next week.
@Laireso2 жыл бұрын
and while I don't mind starting out overweight or underweight, for this build you don't want to take either, overweight you can't because of Athletic and underweight you don't want to take because they lower your fitness and it is very difficult getting that fitness from lvl 7 to lvl 8 to lvl 9 so I just don't take negative weight trait entirely. Having perfect weight also helps with combat early on to make up for the 3 strength.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
@@Laireso Someone was saying you incur a permanent -2 fitness handicap from Obese and very underweight. Is that true?
@vytisagafonovas38872 жыл бұрын
@@Saskidan i think you cant gain fitness XP past lvl 5 if your obese or overweight (hence why you cant pick fitnes traits when you have them), if you get rid of the trait by starvation you will be able to pass lvl 5 fitness
@Naccarat2 жыл бұрын
I would add 8 points to the cost of all occupations since Unemployed starts with 8 points. So mechanics doesn't cost 4 points, it costs 12 points. Otherwise, this is pretty spot on, good job
@chrisserna26882 жыл бұрын
was thinking the same exact thing lol
@dashofbloodx68342 жыл бұрын
You could also say that unemployed just straight up gives you 8 points. No other occupations give you bonus starting points anyway.
@Naccarat2 жыл бұрын
@@dashofbloodx6834 Burger Flipper does. 2 points. Farmer too I think.
@Corner5tone2 жыл бұрын
My guess is that Naccarat is an economist. :) #OpportunityCost
@Letham3162 жыл бұрын
Let's be clear, unemployed doesn't give you points. You start with 8 points, and you have the option to spend them on a prepackaged set of traits, i.e. professions. Choosing unemployed simply means you didn't buy one, leaving you with your 8 starting points.
@amel888 Жыл бұрын
Short sighted is also one I love, because you can completely negate it with glasses. So its really only an issue if you trip and lose the glasses but zombies wearing glasses are pretty plentiful
@TheKueiJin Жыл бұрын
Also, if you trip and they fall off, you can re-trace your steps in foraging mode and find them
@doverben3192 Жыл бұрын
@@TheKueiJinOr have an extra pair in hand.
@Drie_Kleuren Жыл бұрын
I always have a pair of extra. But you can also find ones very easy from zombies. But you have to keep track of the glasses and you might not know it you are walking around 3 days without glasses hahaha
@amel888 Жыл бұрын
@@Drie_Kleuren EXACTLY! I've had way too many cases where I get attacked by a zombie, and my hat falls off, so I pick up the hat and I go about my day until I realize I dropped my glasses as well
@Drie_Kleuren Жыл бұрын
@@amel888 yeah you really have to hoard glasses because they just disappear hahaha
@dichebach2 жыл бұрын
I have been playing with the Better/More/Dynamic Occupations and Traits mods so I'm a little rusty specifically on vanilla traits at this point. However as I've become more proficient with the game, I've reached a new sort of meta on traits/skills occupations. The best positive traits are ones which you effectively cannot replicate through game play. For example gymnast, which is +1 Nimble and +1 Lightfooted, simply allows you to skip over the grinding you'd need to do go get those two skills upped by +1 each. Keen hearing on the other hand, or Cat's eyes: give you character abilities which you cannot gain through game play. With this in mind my favored lists are: Dextrous, Organized, Wakeful, Fast Learner, Keen Hearing, etc.
@XoXSeba2 жыл бұрын
Gymnast also gives you an experience gain bonus in both skills, for me keen hearing is not necessary if you already have a little experience and you have decent audio, and organized it's only useful if you intend to live in a small base as it does not affect the size of the backpack
@_skud Жыл бұрын
i see a lot of recommendations for keen hearing but i don't understand why as I have never been injured from behind. i always hear them coming or check my 6 when dealing with other zombies that could mask the sound. does it amplify noises as well? i noticed with hard of hearing i couldn't hear zombies shuffling around or groaning behind doors. might be useful if i could pick up zombie noises from super far away
@xensonar9652 Жыл бұрын
Most fun I had was starting with an unemployed, out of shape, alcoholic smoker with no life skills, but starts with a small car, no fuel, an empty gas can and a suitcase of clothes in the boot, stranded by the roadside in the middle of nowhere. Also a mod that turns zombies into sprinters at night.
@neverrelax57542 жыл бұрын
Keen hearing lets you see zombies immediately behind you, it's essential
@MegaMacX2 жыл бұрын
It is still weird for me to pick my traits in the beginning, because yeah, i can handle most of them, but for the most part there is no way to remove the trait in longer sessions. At least for what i know a smoker can never become a not smoker, even when i spend time and nervs to not smoke for a while. Some Traits can be removed, quite easily to the point that i dont think they should be worth any points. There is also no way to gain traits later in the game. A Lumberjack with the AxeMan trait will always be better than every other job with the axe, even on max level. So i think there should be ways to remove or gain traits as you play, like you can with your weight-traits. Like chop down 1000 tress to gain AxeMan, kill 100.000 zombies to become a veteran and so on... and only give a lot of points for traits that cannot be removed, like shortsighted and way less for traits that can be manipulated.
@albusjustalbus79882 жыл бұрын
Those manipulations takes months of in-game time. Usually by that time your characters are either dead or overpowered even without any traits, just because of all the skills and collected stuff. On the side note: while yes, you can't obtain Veteran after you created a character, you also don't need to. All characters get used to panic more and more as the time passes on, getting faster recovery speed from it - that's why even if you have claustrophobic and/or agoraphobic traits you will eventually stop panicking at all. It's not a full nullifier, but it's really close to it.
@theisgood02 жыл бұрын
Yeah there should be nicotine patches in the game to get rid of the smoker trait but if you smoke too much you get the trait again.
@thelegalmexican98602 жыл бұрын
@@albusjustalbus7988 Underweight can be removed by just eating a lot, then even if I am overweight I wont get the trait
@albusjustalbus79882 жыл бұрын
@@thelegalmexican9860 dude, my comment was written 8 months ago. Things had changed. Also - yes, and this always was the truth, but I don't really get why you wrote that to me.
@thelegalmexican98602 жыл бұрын
@@albusjustalbus7988 tbh I didn’t know how old the video or the comments where, I thought that it was recent
@mrzipper05092 жыл бұрын
Personally, i usually go with wakefull and restles sleeper. I have noticed that with these traits your character takes longer to get sleepy but also sleeps longer. Idk if restles sleeper has other drawbacks but so far it has been working (unless you play with sleep events, i tried it once and it wasnt pleasant). Since restless sleeper is +6 and wakefull is - 2, you will have 4 extra points wich you can use on anything you like.
@chrisserna26882 жыл бұрын
i tried restless sleeper a couple times my character kept waking up before he could get any real sleep ill probably never use it again
@Laireso2 жыл бұрын
Restless sleeper is a trap. I wouldn't pick it even if it gave 30 points. Tired moodle is one of the few that very noticeably impacts combat and no easy way to get rid of it outside looted vitamins/coffee/tea bags. These things on default setting are not plentiful enough to be used every 1-2 days (at least on higher population where clearing areas takes longer). The reason Wakeful is so good is that you sleep for 4-6 hours and then you can be awake from morning to dawn without worrying about the Drowsy moodle even popping up. Restless Sleeper just ruins that as well as many other things. If there was renewable way in vanilla to reduce tiredness like home-made tea I would at least consider picking this trait. As of now it's definitely on my top 5 worst negative traits in the game for as long as Tiredness is not easily dealt with like Stress with cigarettes.
@JeffGranja272 жыл бұрын
Your video on Wakeful is pretty much what made me try it and I definitely love it, my guy never gets tired and I go scavenge and fight a lot on my first week. And I'm kinda surprised to not see High Thirst and Lucky mentioned here, most builds I see usually have them, any reason? Maybe you change my mind and the first is too crippling and the second is too useless
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
Lucky increases the loot you get and loot isn't rare unless you customize it yourself. I completely forgot about high thirst, but I wouldn't use it in the bread and butter, just the meta build.
@Luperoi2 жыл бұрын
@@Retanaru water is pretty much infinite so i don't see why not to use it
@MerkaRaukea2 жыл бұрын
@@Retanaru Love the work you've done, just gotta say though that I think High Thirst is pretty standard now as far as "meta" is concerned. Carrying a decent water bottle (which could honestly be its own video: bourbon bottles ftw) or two basically makes high thirst an inconvenience at 'worst' even if you're stranded in the middle of nowhere or somehow stuck in town with no more random water supplies. Bathtubs hold 100 water after shutoff, easily 4-5 days alone right there. Only downside is that it'll be about 1.4 weight you're carrying at all times in your base inventory. Much like smoker, high thirst really just becomes a minor management and you need to manage it anyway unlike smoker which you end up *having* to manage (easily).
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
@@MerkaRaukea You can actually drink water straight from the river/ponds as long as you don't put it in a container so high thirst is even less of a problem, but when I said "I" I mean me personally. I don't even use smoker because its kinda annoying. Pseudonymous Ed has a video on it.
@nerfherder42842 жыл бұрын
@@Retanaru I wonder about drinking from the source when you are really thirsty and are going to consume more than 10 units of water.
@MeryKeit2 жыл бұрын
people are literally out there writing a whole ass dissertation on a video game mechanics. Love it.
@gameby41542 жыл бұрын
Burglar with these traits, gymnest, graciful, and inconspicous is a great choice for sneaking around and not wanting zombies finding you.
@steveweast475 Жыл бұрын
Too bad stealth sucks ass in this game
@Dylly2482 жыл бұрын
I've been using inconspicuous+Graceful for positive traits, and I don't know if it's a false positive or not but I find that I do tend to go unnoticed, which paves the way to better lightfooted and sneaking to only further improve my odds. I don't know the percentages, and given they're % chance traits for stealth checks I don't know if you can test them, but if it turns out they're not as good that'll free up points.
@UnknownSquid2 жыл бұрын
Graceful is fairly good, but Inconspicuous is quite a bit less useful. Reason being the way stealth works. Graceful decreases the total distance that your footstep sounds travel to a relevant degree, meaning that you can get closer to zombies and move around near them without them turning to see you. The distance is always 100% consistent, so it's something you can rely on. It applies to all movement speeds, which means those panic moments where you need to make a quick run for it, will also pull less zombies. With Gracefull and a high enough Lightfooted skill, you can actually reach the point where zombies flat out cannot hear you when sneaking. For Inconspicuous, it reduces "the chance a zombie will see you", not the distance. Every "tick" that passes in the game, it runs a calculation to see if any eligible zombies spot you. Inconspicuous halves this chance, which sounds big, but due to the check being made multiple times a second, doesn't actually result in much. In the open zombies will at very best get a second or two of delay in spotting you. It's best utility, is that when crossing small gaps or passing windows, it can prevent a zombie from seeing you. Even with max sneaking, there's never a point where it will grant you any exceptional ability that can actively and reliably be taken advantage of. Personally this doesn't seem that worthwhile, unless really going full on with the idea of total stealth for a heavily themed playthrough.
@turkler17192 жыл бұрын
Hey, I wanted to ask since you seem to know about this stuff. Can you rate a build of mine? I wanted to get Athletic and Strong in a single build so I stretched pretty thin, but I think I did good. The occupancy I picked was unemployed. The negative traits I picked are: -Thin-skinned (You'll see why in the positives.) -High thirst (Simple enough, even after three months in-game thirst was never an issue with this trait for me.) -Slow healer (I don't know how much of an effect this has because I simply never get sick.) -Underweight (Just eating as much as I can for the first few days easily gets rid of this.) -Hearty Appetite (This actually helps me maintain my weight since it lets me eat more. -Prone to Illness (Again, never got sick so I can't say.) -Weak Stomach (You can swallow kilos of lemon grass to negate this.) -Slow reader (I speed up time when reading books anyway, so doesn't feel like much of a debuff.) And the positives are: -Speed Demon (Has 1 point left so might as well. Noticeably helps with first gear acceleration.) -Dextrous (Like you said, really helps. I'm sure it saved me a hour in real time in total during my very long runs due to how much I move things around.) -Wakeful (Like you've said, the difference is massive.) -Graceful (I play with very high population so more stealth helps a fair bit.) -Eagle Eyed (This, along with Keen Hearing, is what justifies Thin-skinned for me.) -Keen hearing. (This actually makes you see 3-4 tiles behind you and I've yet to be surprised from behind using this.) -Organized (I like to loot. Strong also adds some inventor capacity so you can really haul quite a lot.) -Athletic -Strong (Self-explanatory. I want to avoid the athletic grind.)
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
Seems fine, I'd maybe drop eagle eye for cat eyes, but its all up to you. Just have fun.
@turkler17192 жыл бұрын
@@Retanaru thanks a lot man!
@tylerm50592 жыл бұрын
Does wakeful not exist in multiplayer?
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
You get sick much outside when it rains? I picked a similar build but chose outdoorsman and resilient.
@turkler17192 жыл бұрын
@@Saskidan I actually just use an umbrella whenever I can.
@Saktoth2 жыл бұрын
Thin Skinned is also a good pick. It provides a tiny debuff, and you should be relying on clothes armour and good judgement, not on bare skin. Restless Sleeper is a bit annoying, but you just have to make sure you keep going back to sleep until it says 'not tired' rather than 'can't get back t osleep'. Also worth noting Hemophobic is not really viable anymore too so these are good pickups. And high thirst is obviously an essential, the weight of the extra water on long trips is the only real downside but take more strength with the points if it really bothers you.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
Why is Hemophobic not viable anymore?
@GregHali2 жыл бұрын
@@Saskidan because having bloody clothes makes your character stressed.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
@@GregHali I kinda like that it reminds me to wash my clothes. The problem is you get bloody too quickly and it's really annoying.
@crusanosicus562 Жыл бұрын
@@GregHali but if you pair it with smoker it cancels it out
@loveluclins2 жыл бұрын
I can't believe you didn't mention construction worker for that incredible short blunt bonus. Because it does make every hammer a viable weapon and they last forever.
@theenduriangamer55092 жыл бұрын
Good to know some perks I can take to better make a character based on me. Been floating a couple negatives, even with running Severely Underweight (IRL 6'02 and 52 kilo) and slow reader (Dyslexia).
@wagnerbispo37762 жыл бұрын
Oh boy, this is a really informative video, thank you dude!
@alvaroelmanco438 ай бұрын
For me the "best" negative traits are: -Conspicuous(+4), by the way the zombies spot you it doesn't make really a big difference and I usually play with guns so zombies are going to spot me anyway. -High Thirst(+6) I just keep 1 extra bottle. -Pacifist(+4) if you combine it with fast learner you learn so much quicker everything and your xp gained for guns will be 97.5% (almost 100%) -Prone to Illness(+4) I don't usually play enough to get in to the winter but you can easyly contrarest it by just wearing enough clothes. -Short Sighted(+2) Just affects the search radius, if you are gonna search wear glasses. -Slow Healer(+6) I never die form wounds, only for zombification and a broken leg is always a dead game. -Slow Reader (+2) I always play in servers with friends the reading speed is really high so I don't care loosing an extra 10s reading every book. Weak Stomach(+3) just don't eat rotten food. Smoker(+4) once yo get cigarettes its actually op to be able to reduce all stress by just smoking. Thats +35 points easy
@maximnikolaev66272 жыл бұрын
2:47 "it gives you the same ability as reading a magazine" Me, who went through and stripped through 3 different cities to find the damn thing, and still no dice - yeah... Real easy to find
@nerfherder42842 жыл бұрын
Underweight is better than overweight for the points. High thirst is good too, just carry two bottles. I always take the one's you first mentioned. Engineer is my fav profession, because you can build traps that there are no mags for, and eventually (with some elec. grinding lvl6) make battery connectors to make battery powered lamps. Pipe and fire bombs are awesome too! Have been trying hemophobic since I usually clean myself regularly, can cause some probs tho. Now I skip it and never clean 🤘🏻
@PhuongLe-hb9ig2 жыл бұрын
For normal loot setting, I recommended very underweight traits
@PhuongLe-hb9ig2 жыл бұрын
Food are very easy to find in the early game so you would gain weight pretty fast
@xyzxxxc53652 жыл бұрын
If i can sugest biger hunger and thirst are free skill points in long term. Shure it can be a pain in ass first 3 days, but soon as you secure sorce of food and water you are set. The same slowl reader, difrence with slowl reader and with out it is minimal for me.
@kylenewhart67492 жыл бұрын
hunter trait is slept on. 4 skill bonuses of some really good skills like aiming plus knowing the trapping recipes ahead of time. if i want to play a character that will use guns eventually at all i always pick hunter so i get to the good aiming lvls faster
@The_Custos2 жыл бұрын
It is great, and some don't seem to notice. Also a very strong addition to the burger flipper, giving one more in short blade.
@Cody_Ramer2 жыл бұрын
Because the park ranger gets double XP for foraging with the master foraging book read it is a 32x experience gain. I leveled up from the start of level 9 all the way to level 10 in about 5-6 minutes of foraging in the woods.
@cibrig8719 Жыл бұрын
God park ranger with the new foraging bonuses (not sure if it was out at the time of the comment) is so good
@walnzell93282 жыл бұрын
Lucky unlocks an entirely unique item pool that players without said trait will never have access to.
@AlcatonicАй бұрын
Another good one to take is outdoorsman, it cancels out prone to illness and makes it way easier to do things outside. Short sighted is good to and so it Conspicuous, Short sighted can be canceled out with glasses and Conspicuous doesn't really do anything since zombies can already see you pretty easily. Its better to get very underweight if you eat a lot since there is a lot of food and then with those points you can just choose a job like fitness Instructor or Security Guard to get your fitness back up
@PlasticLovePlasticKat2 жыл бұрын
i personally refuse to step outside without inconspicuous
@fahrradmittelfranken82072 жыл бұрын
I've played with hemophobic once, it was a nightmare. Every now and then I missed a spot of blood on my clothes, go to sleep and as a result I wake up a nervous wreck. Just flat out washing your entire gear after every outing costs so much time.
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
It's a great in game trait, and a horrible IRL time waster.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
@smelly paws That's what I do :D I enjoy having a smoke after a long day
@Drie_Kleuren Жыл бұрын
Organized is very underrated. I love the extra storage. A big bag from 27 to 35 is really huge and and the militairy bag from 28 to 36. Also a trait I never hear people about is unlucky. Its 10% less loot and but its not noticable. I have found sledge hammers in random houses. I have spawned in houses that had like a fire axe in it. The unlucky trait is just free points. Loot is everywhere and if you know roughly where to look you will find everything you want very easy with this trait. Also smoker is my go to. Just make sure you smoke in down time. Also take a smoke before fight or right after eating. The smoking takes some time but its not that big of a deal if you manage it. Sigarettes are everywhere I have found like 700 in a month, and you only need like 2-3 a day so its easy+ lighters and maches are everywhere and you just have to make sure you always have some on you.
@AImpatientMan2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact:underweight removes one fitness and gives 6 points, and fit cost 6 points while giving 2 fitness. Underweight is the only weight trait that doesn't limit fitness/strength traits Also lumberjack gang
@knap7742 Жыл бұрын
high thirst in must-have
@whoknows82237 ай бұрын
Yep plus whiskey bottles for water because they hold more water (14) than normal water bottles (10) and have the best water to weight ratio
@feero96802 жыл бұрын
for me shortsighted isnt really that bad. you still can see zombies distance away that you can still avoid
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
I've never noticed an issue myself. I always pick it for sure.
@stainlesssteelruler143 Жыл бұрын
Short sighted actually doesn't reduce vision of zombies, it only increases zombie fade and foraging radius, which makes it free points.
@BurritooMafia2 жыл бұрын
This looks very close to what I run all the time. Good Job!
@generalshrooms2 жыл бұрын
Last build I used Graceful and Inconspicuous. I couldn't notice a difference
@ARTEMISXIX2 жыл бұрын
He's made vids about these two. Graceful is useful while Inconspicuous/Conspicuous are damn near the same in practice
@robertcampbell30192 жыл бұрын
I can't play without organized and fast learner anymore.
@tomsonlarrson33182 жыл бұрын
Since fitness and strength are the hardest things to level, you can honestly forget about any other perks besides maintenance. The other levels will come eventually, which usually leads to me going burger flipper for the cheap maintenance point and then str + athletic, and no underweight/overweight. The loss of that fitness point just is not worth it. Sure it might be nice to have graceful for leveling those traits, but I have had no issues avoiding zeds even with full conspic and clumsy when I chose those for dump stats. If anything, it saves having to press Q to lead zombies into another block or some trees. Ive recently started to not take hemophobic and started to take hard of hearing instead simply because I was tired of the loss of damage/xp gain from melee when my character got super anxious about the deluge of blood covering me at all times and did not want to waste the water on constantly cleaning myself. If you get run up on by a zombie and need a larger perception radius to save you, you are not being vigilant enough. Back attacks are death and you should always be aware of your surroundings. Same concept for damage/xp loss goes for claustrophobic or the other one, but I am well aware that the issues with that go away after the first few months and you can always pop some beta blockers if you need to fight in the location you are weak in. I simply like getting into the meatgrinder and not having to worry about my character imploding from either going outside or walking into a room. Fast learner is pretty much a must and pacifist is an easy 4 points since you can always spend more time bashing a zombie down with the bonus for maintenance keeping the weapons in good condition. I usually start my run with metal pipes or bars due to the durability and before ive even broken two or three i usually am well on my way into maintenance 3. I understand that this combo means something like 93% xp for weapons, but that is a small price to pay when you are already getting full xp values for the only really important weapon skill and the 2 point cost equivalent is amazing considering the bonus you get to the other skills. My next run I am probably going to take wakeful instead of outdoorsman since I consider that a must and want to try other options, but I honestly like the bonus of not having to care about the weather all too much. Speed demon is a trap however. You really do not need the speed unless you are planning on running over hordes and will most likely result in you smacking into a roadblock you only had a few seconds to comprehend was there. I have never tried smoker, and it could honestly be a simple way to get 4 points, but you might as well take high thirst for an option that will automatically take care of itself rather than a trait that requires you to go into your inventory to mess around with a tar stick and a lighter. Clean water is not hard to come across and provided you find literally any metal water container, you can drink water from anywhere. There are lakes or rivers near most towns now. (After reading other comments I have seen organized get mentioned over and over. Build more boxes. Get another freezer. I can see this trait being useful if you plan to live out of your car, but for carrying supplies simply get another bag into your secondary. Half of my loot runs in my current life, I am coming back with a pipe in one hand and a duffel bag in the other. 6 points is a lot for such a miniscule gain. Id rather take lucky and cats eyes for those points. Although, I have not looked up the lucky perk since I started playing way back when and I don't know if its the end all be all it used to be anymore, but it just makes me feel... Lucky)
@alvin_row2 жыл бұрын
Mechanic doesn't cost 4 points, it costs 12 points and the inability to pick another occupation, since you start out with 8 points.
@bmatus982 жыл бұрын
Burger flipper is another notable profession imo, even if only for the bonus maintenance xp gain, with little cost
@The_Custos2 жыл бұрын
pairs great with hunter
@rimanpele2 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised that u didn't mentioned lucky. It's so cheap and useful. Also I like using the +10 underweight thing with the -6 athletic one. Since they both cancel it other it's just +4 points (I personally prefer being slim at the beginning since it's much easier to become more fat than the other way around).
@justjazz7842 жыл бұрын
i feel like a lot of zed encounters that could go wrong dont because i've got lucky on. so many instances of minor scratches and lacerations where my mates got bites.
@The_Custos2 жыл бұрын
@@justjazz784 that might be thin skinned for them. Lucky is more finding a fire ute with three axes in the back.
@justjazz7842 жыл бұрын
@@The_Custos yea it was me taking a hefty amount of copium because i didnt know what Lucky actually did hahahaha i had just started playing PZ when I typed that up.
@EmeraldPangolin Жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure all Lucky does is show you the second hidden inventory in loot containers. It doesn't have anything to do with any other metric and the game. That coupled with the fact they removed it from multiplayer pretty much nerfed it.
@Itrali Жыл бұрын
@@EmeraldPangolin the lucky trait just makes it more likely to spawn better rare loot like saws and machetes when you open containers it doesn't show any "second hidden inventory". the stashes in the floorboards of some houses can be opened without the lucky trait if that's what you mean, you just need to look at the list of icons of shelves and stuff in the looting menu on the right and notice when the stash icon shows up and click it open or look for tampered looking floorboards manually
@rlocks7253 Жыл бұрын
Even though this contradicts the video, I find herbalist useful, since it's complete rng if you find the magazine, and i think it's one of the rarer ones. Also it let's you begin foraging for, and identifying, berries day one, without risk. Which can be knowledge preserved for the rest of the run if you don't just do a fresh save when you die.
@xiaodai1252 жыл бұрын
i still remember old time, getting Cowardly + Claustrophobic + Agoraphobic as debuff. and Adrenaline Junkie with lot of fitness... it really make the character run insane fast= = on some server u dont require sleep so this build was broken
@fishyfinthing8854 Жыл бұрын
Short Sighted may also be a good trait. You will likely to know when a zombie is near by just hearing. And even if you can't see so far, you see far enough to spot zombie.
@whoknows82237 ай бұрын
You can deny it totally be picking up glasses from a Zed an wear them
@ihateyankees365511 ай бұрын
I like herbalist for certain runs just because I've had terrible luck trying to find the magazine, or because I'm going to need foraging before I'll even get a chance to look for it.
@ravenclawtom2 жыл бұрын
my current character who has slow learner, homephobic, high appetite, and high thrist (among others) ive made... questionable choices
@user-ff4pi9dc3g2 жыл бұрын
i can agree that smoker is easy to manage with few drawbacks but damn smoker is such an annoying trait to deal with
@Retanaru2 жыл бұрын
I only started taking claustrophobic because I was looking for a trait to replace smoker.
@Keragom2 жыл бұрын
@@maxwellhere1430 you don't really run out of lighters either if you are a good fighter and especially not if you use the powerful lucky trait.
@maxwellhere14302 жыл бұрын
@@Keragom How is lucky actually helpful in terms of finding lighters? It only unlocks a hidden loot table and 10% increase in finding rare loot. Lighters are not rare loot.
@Keragom2 жыл бұрын
@@maxwellhere1430 In that case, you don't run out of lighters in any way if you are a good fighter. I am not 100% sure how it's coded. But technically lighters are indeed rare loot on zombie bodies so I thought it worked that way. Having unlimited lighters is just my personal game experience. Living casually for 1year+ on apocalypse + insane population settings and lighters are never a problem to get by and so are cigarettes.
@Keragom2 жыл бұрын
@@maxwellhere1430 Killing every zombie you run into is pretty much the meta of the game right now. No matter the population settings. I kill around 3000 zombies per month on average and never struggle with either of these 2 loot items. Zombies indeed dont drop lighters ofte, but if you kill a thousand zombies in a week, you usually get 2 or 3 lighters and you definitely didnt use 1 lighter up in that week so you should end up net positive in the end.
@Ashiel872 жыл бұрын
Pacifist makes it impossible to level spears.
@Pie_Mastah2 жыл бұрын
The basic traits you take: whatever YOURS are.
@maxwellhere14302 жыл бұрын
Wakeful is just too good to be true. I almost never get tired even when doing tiring tasks.
@nerfherder42842 жыл бұрын
Gonna try that one next, getting tired is death in PZ.
@Itrali2 жыл бұрын
@@nerfherder4284 carry 2-4 tea bags at all times. they weigh barely anything and they can keep you fighting if the chopper overruns your base or something and you need to fight at night
@FumblsTheSniper2 жыл бұрын
With security guard it’s insane. You have to set an alarm or your character sleeps for hours past necessary.
@guavapaste8 ай бұрын
There is a glitch I accidently found that allows you to select All Thumbs twice (I'll explain how to I did later). I'm not sure if it sums the two traits or if the game counts them as one, but it does give you the double of points. To do the glitch, do as it follows: -Change the game language to Brazilian Portuguese -Create a new character You'll notice that the traits All Thumbs and Clumsy have both the same name (Desastrado) -Select Clumsy -Remove Clumsy Now the All Thumbs trait should appear. If that doesn't work, go to the personalization menu (with Clumsy selected) and then go back to the trait menu. Then, try again. (obs.: I'm not sure if it works anymore but it happened to me once) (obs.2: you can't select Clumsy with this glitch)
@cyber_robot8892 жыл бұрын
Shortsighted is free points too
@Kevin-dz1cg2 жыл бұрын
For anyone wanting to play build 41.60 here is my take on the traits. Negative traits for solo: Smoker and Hemophobic (grab a smoke after healing yourself and you're ok) Short sighted (make little to no difference as you can still see the zombies before they see you and the time before they disappear of your field of view doesn't change that much) Slow healer and Thin skinned (a bite is a 100% death and handling wounds isn't that difficult, just avoid crossing trough as many trees as posible to keep your clothes intact) Weak stomach (while being food intoxicated isn't good as long as you manage your food you'll be fine and as a + if you are desperate enough to eat raw or spoiled food you recover from food intoxication faster) Out of shape (only a -2 on fitness, you will get tired faster but if you're engaging hordes and constantly running as you just started you won't last long) For online multiplayer: Restless sleeper and sleepyhead (since sleep isn't available on most servers you get free points) Positive Perks: Brave (allows you to fight multiple zombies without panicking, based on experience without the perk I've been able to take down around 5-6 zombies but with the perk I've been able to take down groups of 10-12, this is because without high panic you maintain a good crit threshold allowing you to kill zombies consistently even if they are standing) Fast learner and fast reader (no time to waste plus extra exp from books coupled with fast learner increases your chances for survival exponentially) Lucky (better loot early on without much effort, chances of finding guns with attachments and in better condition) Organized (more space backpacks And cars = more carry weight) Strong (very good early paired with brave, lots of extra carry weight and lets you down zombies easily) And if you have some extra points: Wakeful (less sleep more work) Dextrous (Faster inventory management) Speed demon (the faster you drive the less zombies that catch up to your base + you can toe another car and have more inventory while not loosing that much speed) And my recommended profession: Burglar (good stealth starting bonus, allows you to have less of a chance to be spotted trough windows and allows for cars early on, very useful before power runs out as it allows you to stock on gas)
@grawham2 жыл бұрын
heads up, I'm pretty sure that all of the sleep-related traits are typically disabled for multiplayer (they definitely should be, at least)
@Illevas0012 жыл бұрын
@@grawham They are. If the server has sleep disabled the positive/negative traits related to it are not available to be picked. I wonder what would happen if you try to load a template with those traits on tho hmm....
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
I pick a lot of those as well. I'll have to try brave that sounds pretty good. I didn't pick burglar cause you can get lots of gas later by using a generator at the gas station
@jc6226 Жыл бұрын
Repairman is great for both solo and multiplayer. Maintenance, carpentry and short blunt are excellent. Short blunt easiest wep to find but gimped without proficiency, Life and Living shows need to be combined with Carpentry skill and/or book to be effective (plus limited window to do that before power goes out, and difficulty of being able to watch TV at exact times of day early game) and Maintenance is an under-appreciated skill that makes those rare weps and repairs last longer.
@user-xp4gn8ib7r Жыл бұрын
with claustrophobic all you need is 1/4 of any alcoholic drink to be able to sleep the night in any sized room. raid a bar or liquor store, take a bunch of bourbon and wine, pour it into a tumbler or wine glass, and drink 1/4 of your drink per night. sleeping pills and beta blockers also work
@JustShotsForMeh2 жыл бұрын
I though the Subscribe notification that popped up was an error when you went to sleep, tripped me out.
@TheColonialGamer131 Жыл бұрын
Claustrophobic is a really funny trait to have in multiplayer. My friends made a SMP & we have about 8 guys on a rural farm. They all have rooms in the farmhouse & I live in the barn. While they go out to towns on looting runs, I spend my time; Foraging, cooking, trapping, cutting trees down & upgrading carpentry. Highly recommended.
@123456732602 жыл бұрын
When I clicked on this vid I was expecting to hear some bs but I found myself agreeing with 95% of things you said. Well done.
@auklin70792 жыл бұрын
Really? No High Thirst? That always seemed like the easiest 6 points of my life.
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
💯
@catfoodbob125 күн бұрын
need a violent perk thats just "They kinda want to fight" kinda thing. .
@fumothfan9 Жыл бұрын
Basically glass canon traits since you're already a glass cannon. And faster learning / xp and time skills.
@Kyrious Жыл бұрын
Athletic, Organized, Stout, Gymnast, Faster Learner Veteran Weak Stomach, Thirsty, Smoker, Pacifist, Underweight, Hearty Appetite I think thats all thats needed but I’d have to check again I may have a more negative traits Lots of room for guns and ammo, still get a 2x boost on gun skills at the cost of melee levels. Never panicked, plenty of stamina, and two other manageable weak traits.
@NotLordAsshat2 жыл бұрын
No one seems to be mentioning this but you can drink some alcohol before bed to reduce your panic (not the best idea irl lol)
@donnikubbitz2146 Жыл бұрын
I take veteran and no zombies, wake up day 2 to panic and anxiety.
@Retanaru Жыл бұрын
Veteran only protects you from zombie panic. You can still be panicked by nightmares.
@TheGlenn8 Жыл бұрын
High thirst always. Water is a non-issue. I actually hate smokers simply because I don't like having to take time to smoke.
@steveweast475 Жыл бұрын
Bro you can walk around smoking while a horde is chasing you
@panmajin6895 Жыл бұрын
My favorite is COVID 2021 lockdown survivor: Obese, out od shape, agoraphobic, asthmatic, feeble.
@perteks76392 жыл бұрын
I forgot how dumb PZ is about information, I was pretty sure wakefull works only for sleeping endurance regain. I test tons of stuff myself, but didnt though about testing that one thing, or sprinting for sure you got urself new sub and I will let others know how good work you do with that. Now funfact from me, cars are broken, you swing faster in cars than outside, probably because it dont have animation and it let you swing without time for getting weapon back to you.
@sorean4532 Жыл бұрын
imo construction worker is the most overpowered profession, having 3 short blunt points in the start helps a lot since you find short blunt weapons pretty much everywhere (tool cabinets, garages, kitchens, sheds, etc.) (keep in mind you get the 125% XP bonus), combine this with fast learner and brave (panic reduces crit chance) you will be one hitting zombies constantly with hammers or pipes and it doesn't take much time to get short blunt lvl. 7 (thats when it starts to get really OP) + since the short blunt weapons are one handed you will have a free hand to carry screwdrivers (dismantle watches and other electronics) or carry a suitcase (best handheld bag in the game)
@kutairaisu4603 Жыл бұрын
Why is the suitcase the best handheld bag and not stuff like a other duffel bag or hicking bag or even military backpack?
@jacobely6826 Жыл бұрын
you can hold any bag in your hand, so the biggest bag in the game is the best hand held bag.
@chriss88252 жыл бұрын
I don't like the smoking trait. It means from the start of the game to the end you always need to worry about: Having cigarettes on you, having a lighting method, looting & storing those items, and having to smoke. And even though they are light, they still add some weight. That entire trait feels like a shore, a shore that I can never escape.
@Saktoth2 жыл бұрын
Take extra strength with the points you get from smoker, they weigh almost nothing and a fire starting method should be in your survival kit anyway. It is annoying though.
@NeosDany2 жыл бұрын
Yeah and because it is annoying and I hate cigarretes in real life, for me, smoker is by far, the worst trait in Project Zomboid.
@juanguillen39992 жыл бұрын
every time i take the smoker trait i can never find any smokes
@Saskidan2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy smoking in real life, I've always got an abundance of smokes in game and it brings me satisfaction to have a puff after a busy day killing zombies. Different strokes for different folks.
@nikhildebrandt20592 жыл бұрын
Since smoker is considered free points to many atm, I'd like to see it made more punishing. On the other hand, that'd hopefully include a withdrawal mechanic, so quitting could provide a difficult but worth it challenge for long-term survivors.
@huskote62812 жыл бұрын
just started to play and i was so tired of watching videos which explain stuff so slowly and vaguely. You my guy are the best there is: All skill explained, best build and what you could do in under 4 min.
@jixster15662 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Ive been taking herbalist not knowing you can just read a magazine for the same benefits
@heh3135 Жыл бұрын
I know this video is 1 year old but HOLY SHIT ur a god at zomboid minmaxing
@kitkami Жыл бұрын
I like outdoorsman cause i hate having to just stay inside when it rains. Other than that and wakeful i just try and get as much str and fitness as i can because i hate trying to level those. Every time i get to a point in a game where i try and really commit to leveling them i always get bored and stop playing.
@fishyfinthing8854 Жыл бұрын
My character don't get wet that fast. I guess the clothes she's wearing is quite water proof. Even so, another rain day is another reading day to me. Also, I hate leveling so I put exp gain x10.
@hrlarsen5742 жыл бұрын
Lucky, Thick Skinned and lumberjack is all i need.
@shineek2 жыл бұрын
Underweight is easier, you can literally mitgate it in around 24-48 hours.
@GhostlySheep2 жыл бұрын
Wish I could give this video like 100,000 more views. This is invaluable information that's right to the point.
@afropaintguy17582 жыл бұрын
With claustrophobic you can also sleep in cars to avoid being panicked.
@Parascuba Жыл бұрын
I'm deaf irl so deaf trait is bonus point for me
@Cribbo2 жыл бұрын
If you set most loot to ultra rare, and also avoid lucky, and also have a very difficult playthrough, Herbalist can be ok.
@luizrodrigues97062 жыл бұрын
Player made bases don't trigger claustrophobic trait (at least in the 40. Version)
@TheAntumbraa2 жыл бұрын
I started this game a few weeks ago and when i first made my character i said "naaaa" and made myself the borgar man with good eyes
@ForgetfulHatter2 жыл бұрын
i tend to always pick smoker and alcoholic with that better traits mod. they are both easily managed and i've never really had to ration the good/bad stuff. cat eyes and dexterious are my go to perks, but ever since you showed it off restful is gonna be my go to perk now. i once tried restless sleeper...what a nightmare.
@Saktoth2 жыл бұрын
Restless sleeper isn't so bad if you take wakeful. You just need to keep going back to sleep until it says 'Not tired' rather than 'can't get back to sleep right now'. You just need something to do at night while waiting, like read, prep food, excercise or organize your junk.
@grimace3983 Жыл бұрын
"it's about being the best and not the fun factor" gonna be honest, i can't agree. i don't enjoy min-maxing in games and prefer a balance between what i like and what's useful. in this case i wouldn't ever touch the phobia perks because i don't like dealing with panic and want to be able to fight zombies efficiently from the get-go. there were some good tips in here tho, like wakeful and cat's eyes being really good for their price
@Ramelousy19 күн бұрын
Slow healer makes you heal slower, very bad for fractures and if youre playing with infection off bite wounds will be super painful and take 2 weeks to heal.
@channelmachinebroke9638 Жыл бұрын
I always take Sunday driver because I don’t drive much in zomboid and it prevents me from crashing a lot
@semaht032 жыл бұрын
oh, my I almost take athlethe and underweight together. thank for your vid
@brotherzero2 жыл бұрын
A few other negative traits that most people consider to be "free points": High Thirst: You can find water everywhere Clumsy: Just use stealth Short sighted: All it does is reduce camera pan range, big deal Thin-skinned: Well worth the risk for 8 points Slow Reader: I personally don't like this but most veteran players seem to like it Personally, I also like to take Hard of Hearing (wear decent headphones and be keen of hearing in real life and you won't get caught off guard) and hearty appetite (food is pretty easy to come by as well) Also, Axe Man DOES NOT increase your axe damage! All it does is increase your tree chopping speed
@Keragom2 жыл бұрын
Axe man increases your axe attack speed along with the tree chopping speed mate. The damage buff comes from the 2 levels and XP boost in Axe skill. I personally prefer fire officer too though.
@brotherzero2 жыл бұрын
@@Keragom Hm, you're right, it is a bit faster, my bad... I guess I didn't notice the difference when I tried it As for the damage, he specifically said "...2 axe skill *and* the Axe Man trait *which* increases your damage with axes"
@Keragom2 жыл бұрын
@@brotherzero Yeah yeah, you are perfectly right with that criticism. He did falsely claim that the axe man trait increases damage with axes while it specifically only increases attack speed of them.
@Valchrist13132 жыл бұрын
Good hearing increases your detection radius, letting you 'see' behind you. I always take it.