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.
1. Alternate you consumables as often as you can. Painkiller then Medicine, Painkiller then Medicine. It extends the timer for both If done correctly you can easlly push your Survival time past 2 hours.
2. In the beginning start by going safehouse to safehouse farming as you go. This allows you to learn the best loot locations, so you can learn which spots to head for. It also allows you to heal so you don't have to burn food and med-kits.
3. There is a difference between PvE and PvP, and how you play each. PvE is a footrace, players have a tendency to rush to the DZ just can get all of the best loot and DTech and get out as fast as they can. Find your pace and don't rush. You don't have to have the best and still be able to complete Survival.
4. PvP is more about the hunt. The goal changes to taking out the other player, unless you get lucky and find a more popular server. Chopper crash sites are good, only if you can hit fast and be gone. LMs, are all bad, when you takedown a landmark, everyone will know where you are and if they are their to hunt they will come for you.
5. Pulse doesn't always work. Sometimes a NPC hasn't spawned in, cause you haven't triggered them yet. PCs are suppose to show up, but there are times they don't unless they start shooting you. Which is too late for you. So keep checking your 360 degrees, all the time.
6. If you are in a group, separate to farm and get together to take out LMs. If you are in a group and are scared to separate, then share what you can. For materials let the lead take materials. You can't share fabric, weapon parts, tools. You can craft and then share, but usually you take a loss overall. If you let a lead guy take it. He can craft what each player needs.
7. In the LZ, craft Extended Mags, Air Filters, the Med-kit bag. Optional, is 2 skills that you need to survive. Otherwise loot and learn how to use what you find. Materials become more valuable in the DZ when you need to craft HE stuff.
8. This is just my own personal choice, PvE only take the DTech that you absolutely need. There is no reason to take everything, just to stick it to other players. I know, I know, it's about survival. I just ask why order a 7 course meal, if all you need is the appetizer. In PvP, different instance. all DTech they you take, means that others might not be able to craft HE guns or Flare Gun. Give you a huge advantage, remember you are hunting in PvP, so it is better to hunt with a rocket launcher then a b.b. gun.
9. I also believe that some of the LMs higher up in the DZ are actually easier then then the lower ones.
Thanks! I hope this helps those who may need a few tips to help them surivive.Originally Posted by UbiFrostX Go to original post
I like to share threads like this to other social sites to help new players.Originally Posted by YodaMan 3D Go to original post
Did you put this in there to test if anyone read your post from end to end?Originally Posted by rosch15 Go to original post
Originally Posted by Sangersss Go to original postOver the weekend, ran with randoms and I explained that you alternate your medicine and painkillers. We get to the DZ, 1st I asked how much time do you have and 2nd where is your anti-virals. I had 50 to 55 mins, the second had about the same, and the third guy had 20 mins. I was asking if he had medicine and or painkillers. He said yeah, I got 3 of each. Why haven't you been taken them as I suggested. He then said he was saving them in case I needed them for later. So we grabbed his stuff and got him extracted. I was really laughing too hard to do anything less. I did ask him to drop the painkillers and Medicine so I could keep playing. He did save them for me and all. I just thought it would be wasteful at that time. He also dropped all the gear that he had collected as well. Apparently, he thought I would need that too and didn't want to break it down and craft anything for himself, except his filters.Originally Posted by rosch15 Go to original post
Something I've found really helpful;
Get underground. I stick to PVE personally, but even then, helicopter crashes and the easy to find or obvious above ground locations get looted, and looted quick. As well as this, you're constantly on the brink of freezing until you're suitably dressed.
If you can find a manhole leading to a sewer, they always have decent loot in them, and importantly, they're warm - You can wander through the tunnels (most of the sections contain at least a couple of different looting locations) without having to worry about temperature. By the time you're climbing back up the ladder, you're almost always fairly well armed and well dressed, which makes continuing on an awful lot easier.