Tips and resources for rolling fresh survivors- State of Decay 2 Update 33-35+

I hope this is useful for newer players as well as anyone coming off a break looking for a refresher. This video focuses on some of the fundamentals of rolling survivors for a fresh community. I'm trying to boil it down to the most meaningful elements as well as lay the groundwork for min-maxing with a couple web resources.

This is by no means comprehensive- I don't talk about every single trait or good combo- that would make for a much longer video. Attention spans these days... ;)

My personal likes for 5th skill (in no particular order)

Quirks
Hygiene (community plague resist/health)
Lichenology (garden/herb/ +2 meds)
Sewing (+1 stack size/+10 community health/Craftsmanship)

Actual skills- once you're up and running
Pathology-medicine spec (community plague resist)
Programming- computers spec (mainly for drone strikes and comps for CC outpost)

Also good
Recycling (+2 mats/+25 parts per day)
Automechanic- mechanic spec (car upgrades with auto shop- car stealth)

Early-mid game skills for energy drinks/fuel bombs
Chemistry+Cooking+kitchen+water for energy drinks
Chemistry also increases fuel bomb production
Pharmacology (chem spec) reduces chemicals needed to produce energy drinks
Chemistry removes the 2 fuel cost of traps
Munitions (chem spec) doubles duration of traps

Also I forgot to mention in the video that I always welcome feedback and suggestions. Whether it's something I missed or something you're interested in seeing more of, just let me know!

#stateofdecay2 #zombiesurvival #strategy #sod2

[awesomesenna]

It's truly disappointing to see how little your channel is because if this video is your average then its really amazing. It's easy to understand, helpful and the quality is just top notch! Amazing video it helped me a lot so thanks and keep going, your doing amazing!!

[lordjosephcharlton]

Im so happy you recgonise how good cooking is, such an underused skill! The energy drinks are insane and you can craft quite a lot for quite cheap with the right skills

[TheCybercoco]

If you're rolling for hero bonuses, using the legacy pool is very helpful. When you're community first enters the map, they begin as citizens. This gives you the opportunity to see what kind of hero bonus they will give you right away. But in order to guarantee you'll get all the hero bonuses you want, you can delete those newly rolled communities and put the survivors you want to keep into the legacy pool. Then once you have all three of the hero bonuses you're looking for, you can simply start a new community and just recruit those three survivors at the start from the pool. This is nice because bonuses like Hygiene Standards are huge and nice to get. You can even do this for more than three survivors if you want to spend the influence to get survivors with additional hero bonuses you're looking for (or to just add survivors for certain traits or 5th skills). The legacy pool is a huge help in creating the most ideal community.

[ivanr.]

As someone who did countless lethal zones I can assure you don't need cooking, you will find energy drinks just doing looting and you will have more then you need. Computers skill is important cause of limits of outposts, mechanic if you like to damage your car a lot. Hygiene and chemistry is also good for arming outposts and hygiene for plague resistance.

[skepticalbaby]

Great guide. I can't think of anything u missed. And ur recognition of materials as THE bottleneck resource is spot on.

[aceholepictures]

Great video! Will be watching more of your stuff. Love how much has been added to the game, it's better than it's ever been and people like you make the community better

[NgativeRFLUX]

Handy for someone coming back from a long hiatus. Nice work as well, thats a sub.

[wickeduploader]

This really helped me. You are really helpful and knowledgeable at SOD2. Thanks alot.

[tonyb]

I never though about looking for their hero bonuses when rolling characters before, very neat idea I’ll use that next time I play

[CasmirJeyss]

Good guide. Though I already knew the things its good to get my thoughts confirmed. Lately I got a character with the fishing trait (+2 food per day) which sounded not that good at the beginning. But I played on nightmare and his hero bonus was +1 Food per day on top. So just this character produced 3 food total plus the leader has meal plan too... Lets just say my community swims in food. All in all he's a perfect candidate for the Legacy Pool. 😄

[LeO-]

3 survivors with Unbreakable and blood plague survivor. already winning 😂

[frackinfamous]

Great coverage! Food consumption is figured by adding the effects to the base usage amount. So, your hungry survivors get a pass on lethal because everyone consumes 2 food!

[firestorm]

wow this is a great guide keep it up man great job😁👍

[USMCOIF]

Great guide. Thanks for putting together

[robertegloff]

Good video! Liked and subbed! Just what I was looking for! My son mentioned a new map in SoD2 and I hadn't played in quite a while. Doesn't take long to get absorbed into the game again. I love the new mechanics with the Plague Hearts and now some of these traits will even be more useful. I won't admit, the sick amount of time I spend on creating characters. I did 3 communities last night and still not happy with what I have. I think I'll off and on roll characters all day and send a few to legacy for my start up.

I'm curious - you mentioned 'time passing' while rolling characters - but that doesn't have any impact otherwise, correct?

[Loreweavver]

I just started playing this game. My tutorial duo had blood plague survivor on one of them and I thought nothing of it.

A hundred or so rolls later and I haven't seen it as a trait again.

[tidee]

I just look up SoD2 traits and look them up :3

[Nyaboron-yfgk]

Is possible to learn more skills in-game? More than the five they started? Thanks for the tips \o

[gfbade]

I miss the time we didn't need to complete 3 MITs to play a game about going around gathering materials.

[Dbf]

I just rolled a character with +30 health +30 stamina and +5 stamina hero bonus (community)