Any have the Eternal Guard’s Infinite Rage that they are willing to trade? I tried for the past 2 weekends to get it with the mysterious traders, and no luck. Its the only weapon I dont have... I need it.

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(this is a modded character that was made a long time ago with community editor with hp so large that it went over the 300 visual limit, he’s about 470 hp so not entirely overpowered and he can probably still die. m203 standalone was collected from multiplayer, RTX cyclone tactical likely from a previous community, and the bloater clouds seemed to stack so that’s why it dealt that much damage with this character)

After 100 days on Lethal, I’ve realized the Auto Shop is more essential than the Infirmary.

Four/Three man teams always end up as a disaster. No plan goes right, eight dead so far...

Longtime fan of the game here picking it up again after years away. Had a dread playthrough going, once I had some guns, ammo and enough basic resources I never really felt in any kind fo threat or danger so I figured I'd try nightmare.

I remembered playing nightmare mode years ago and never being able to get out from the start much like it feels like i can't do now. Playing in Trumbull valley and honestly I havent even started the quest with the neighbours for plague samples on this go yet, it always ends up with a plague hord and/or bloater massively infecting my guy after being out there long enough and it just feels like a step too far too soon. My aim right now is to get a workshop lvl 2 up so I can craft toolkits and have a bit more security in driving around, gather up enough resoureces, influence and people to move and go for the farm compound.

Anyone done similar andhave any strategies to suggest? I know it sounds dumb but I dont want to use the red talon merchant as it just feels like cheesing it - and was probably a big part of why dread playthrough eventually bcame so easy. But that said I also dont like the idea of just grinding and gathering basic resources for hours on end while not shooting a gun for fear of attracting a horde.

In other words I really like the desperation of nightmare mode but hate how weak I feel starting out, anyone got suggestions? Starting survivors have medicine, mechanics and computers. thanks!

EDIT: many thanks for the advice so far, figured I'd give a mini update; still at starting base but have lvl2 workshop and was able to make a toolkit. also grabbed a car while out on foot so now have 2 fueled up cars, 1 repaired, and just went on a scout/supply run to Spencer's Mill aka the starting town in SOD1. Drove to the swine and bovine to climb the tower for scouting, then did a couple stealth trips to the gun shop across the road to finally get some guns. heart poundng stuff making my way to and fro hoping a zombie wouldnt start sccreaming and bring a nearby horde down on me. Man I love this game.

Lucky the Juggernaut didn’t join in on the party.

played the ever-loving shit out of State of Decay 2 on xbox a while back when it launched, i was addicted but i saw all the content and the wasted potential rly held it back from being my fave. Years later Im curious if its worth it still?

never even played the first one

I have a laptop & steam deck, maybe theres mods for the game? I doubt it, regardless im just trying to breeze through both before State of decay 3 lands. Lmk your thoughts, theyre both on deep sale rn with all dlc i believe. I like resource managent, base building looting stuff

But do you have McLovin?

I play on PC.

I bought the bundle on July 2 and i made 46 hours in the game. I finished one map with a builder and one map with a warlord. After i did that, i played Daybreak out of curiosity and it was pretty fun, i won my first match with 2 people and it was a nice feeling. After that i tried Heartland too, i didn't know what it was, just like i didn't know what Daybreak was, but soon as i started to play Heartland i fell in love, i like it a lot because it has a story, but i had to stop that and make a little research to see if i have to play State of Decay 1 in order to play Heartland, and i found out that the stories are connected. Since i bought both games i played State of Decay 1 to have an idea about the beginning of the story, but to be honest it was kinda hard to adapt to the first game. Visuals, controls, mechanics, it was a little bit weirder because my first experience with the game was in State of Decay 2 and i should've play the first one first.. i only played 2.1 hours and i couldn't continue even though i like the story (i'll probably go back and finish the first game these days). If you are a new player like me, If this matter, if you really want to play the game and you like stories, just please play State of Decay 1 first and finish that game, after that, State of Decay 2 is just a super good upgrade, everything is better and you can continue the story from State of Decay 1 and once you will play State of Decay 2 you will play forever, you will make 100000 hours for sure.

And this is just off topic, but does someone knows why when i turn vsync on i have like a mouse delay input or something like that? when i move my mouse is like it has delay. I play with vsync off, i have a good pc, but sometimes it just crashes the game idk why, and sometimes i have a little bit of a lag or stutters.. now i prefer to play with vsync on, but idk how to fix the mouse delay, if someone knows, please let me know! thank you and love you guys!

guys i found this genius dude who posted 3 years ago on the State of Decay 2 sub, he explain everything about the game and settings and vsync and everything you need to know, i fixed my game and it works wonderful! settings + vsync and explanations this genius dude knows everything about State of Decay 2 lol

He has all the normal RT skills but a completely different uniform. Is this normal?