Genaral tips for Survival beginners
Hey agents,
I spend the last days playing Survival - either to help friends with their Shield or just for fun with randoms. When playing with randoms, I noticed that there are many new players in the game who underestimated the NPCs considerably. The problem is that most players are used to have exotic weapons and classfied gear sets. Some of the post also showed that there are several agents having problems with this DLC. Maybe this will help you.
The main goal of Survival is to craft a virus filter to be able to enter DZ; then, in DZ, to collect the antivirals, craft a flare gun to call the chopper and extract.
If it is your very first Survival match, play PVE. In Survival, you start with a life expectation of 1 hour and 2 mins, but you can stretch it out by stopping the timer with pills and injections. After the spawn, read the two notes about surviving the desease and the cold. Then, collect the pill and the piece of fabric. Take the pill to stop the infection and craft a hat or scarf from your piece of fabric and equip it.
Before leaving the safehouse, open the map and check out where you are and where the DZ is. Make a waypoint, for example the next safehouse on the way to DZ. It helps to orient yourself.
After leaving the safehouse, try to find a weapon or weapon parts as well as clothes asap. Don't attack veterans and elites at the beginning. Never attack a when you are freezing! Don't clear a LM before you have a proper weapon, stamina and a turret or healing box as well as two medkits. Take pills and injections regularly. Use the food to restore you health bar and the drinks to see the loot. If you are thirsty, it is very difficult to see the loot.
The next things you need are fabrics and tools for crafting the virus filters - basic for entering DZ and advanced to be abel to go into contaminated areas - as well as electronics for a pulse. The third medkit pouch is also convenient. Don't forget to dismantle or share the loot you cannot equip. Always convert green in blue parts and, when in DZ, blue in yellow parts.
When you are equipped with blue or purple weapons and gear and have a cold resistance of at least minus 13°, you can enter DZ. I want to have at least 30 minutes life expectation when I go in DZ.
In DZ, avoid LMs at the beginning. Collect yellow tools, fabric, electronic and weapon parts to craft yellow gear. Collect as many Div Tec as possible, but at least two. You need the two DIv Tec to craft one yellow weapon (I like the G36 or a marksman rifle) and the flare gun. Above that, you can convert one Div Tec into a golden tool, fabric, electronic or weapon part. I always have a lack of yellow fabric that you need to craft yellow holster, vest etc and therefore, I convert most of my Div Tec in fabric.
I recommend not to go to the DZ landmarks or the hunter unless you have a cold resistance of at least 16° and a gear score of at least 120. You should have about 10 mins of life time for the hunter as a beginner. You will be surprised how strong this foe is when you don't have your classified gear sets and exotic weapons
The easiest extraction zone, in my view, is the one in the middle. You can call the chopper and run up to building and shoot from the balcony. Put up your turret, healing box etc and pulse the area. Don't let the hunter come too close to you. If the hunter hacks your turret or puts up a healing box or a turret himself, destroy it immediately.
I hope it will help. Good luck.