Hello All Survivors!

Everyone likes to have the best equipment that they can get so that they are well protected and most importantly, look freaking cool! This whole game is about fashion of course! (Those Louis Vuitton boots covered in Zombie brain are so in at the moment.) So I thought that I would cover the kit that you can get; the benefits, costs, bonuses and what are the best clothes to craft. I’ve covered a very small part of this in a previous post when I talked about Farming, but I thought that I would do a whole post about it to cover it in more detail. Sometimes I even amaze myself with the shit that I can waffle on about with this game. BEWARE – This will be a long post!

Most people will tend to stick with the basic cloth clothing (Shirt, Cargo Pants, Dad Hat and Sneakers) when doing basic bits and pieces, which is totally fine when in the Green Zones. You can even get away with just being in your pants here if you’re careful and have enough food/bandages. But when you want to take on the Orange or even Red Zones, you’ll probably want to go a bit more equipped to protect yourself. Most of the time I tend to stick with the “Tactical/Military” Clothes and hardly ever go with the “SWAT” stuff. Some people may think that the SWAT gear isn’t necessary, however when you’re in the Red Zone and sometimes in the Orange Zone, you may come across an AI Player that has a Glock Pistol and will wildly fire at you like that guy with the Minigun in Predator.

If you want to craft the equipment, this is what it’s going to cost you in total:

Tactical Gear: 37 Thick Fabric, 29 Leather, 2 Iron Bars & 5 Rope

SWAT Gear: 65 Thick Fabric, 40 Cloth, 13 Iron Bars & 5 Leather

As you can see, it takes a lot more Thick Fabric and several more Iron Bars to make SWAT. However, it does take more Leather to make the Tactical gear which can be slow to collect. Even though this is the case, I still think that the extra Leather is worth it because you also need to get the 40 Cloth for the SWAT gear.

BUT what’s the difference/benefit between the two sets I hear you cry! Well let’s take a look. As you can see by the screenshot on the left, i’ve got all of the Tactical Gear equipped. None of the clothes give you benefits to your attack speed or damage that you deal, it is all about defence and running speed. With the Tactical Boots you get a 43 running speed which should allow you to easily out run the Fast Biters and the Toxic Spitters. They’ll be smelling your farts as you run all day long. The next thing you’ll notice is that all the equipment gives you a 24 Defence bonus. What does this exactly mean? When you get attacked by your basic, bogstandard, Roaming Zombie without any clothes on, they deal 6 damager per swipe. But while you’re wearing your fancy camo Tactical Gear, it reduces it down to only 2 damage per attack! So naturally, when you could be taking 60 damage in 10 hits naked, you’ll only take 20 in the same amount of time! This is obviously a big benefit when taking on other enemies as well as it has reduced the Roaming Zombie by 33% (yes I had to use a calculator.)

Moving on to the SWAT gear next. I’ve also taken another screenshot of me now wearing my goth clothes (it’s not a phase Mom! It’s who I am! God.) aka the SWAT gear so that you guys and girls can see the difference. Starting off from the boots again, you can see that it changes your run speed to 44. So that gives you a +1 to your run speed. Will that make much of a difference? Not really no. Well not in my opinion anyway. If you’re able to run away from the fastest most frequent enemies in the game (so far) already, why would you bother? Next, if you look at the defence bonus the set gives you, you can see that it boosts it all the way up to 32! That’s a +8 bonus to your defence; pretty good right? Well, no, not really once again. “But that’s a whole 8 points extra defence!” you shout at your computer in preperation of writing a hate comment on my blog. Well I have tested the armour/defence to prove that it’s not worth it.

When I went up against a Roaming Zombie in the Tactical gear they did 2 points of damage each attack. So when I went up against them in the SWAT gear, guess what? Yup, 2 points of damage too. I also tested this on the Bloater that lurks around in the Orange Zone, because I’m good like that. When I wore the Tactical gear, the Bloater did 12 points of damage with his, what I like to call, “Thunderous Booty Slam.” (It’s almost as big as Kim Kardashians!) But when I wore the SWAT gear he managed to inflict 10 points of ass damage to me. As you can see, a reduction of 2 points for the sake of all those extra resources is really not worth it at all. If you’re going to take anything away from all the previous info, it should be: STICK TO TACTICAL GEAR.

I haven’t gotten around to testing the Dad Hat, Shirt, Cargo Pants and Sneakers yet but I have tried the Beanie, Thick Jacket, Denim Jeans and Work Boots though. As you can see by the zoomy zoomed screenshot to the right, the 2nd Tier clothing gives you a base defence of 16 and a run speed of 42. I’ve tested the Work Boots and they are still enough to be able to run away (at the same speed) from the Fast Biters! As for the defence the attacks from Zombies go up by +1, so you end up taking 3 damage per attack. Obviously this means that over 10 hits it will do 30 damage instead of 20 damage with the Tactical & SWAT. If we take a look back at Kim K’s twin brother and his butt attack, before it only did 10/12 damage respectively, but with the 2nd tier clothing it does 15 points of damage. So not a huge difference, but enough to give you those few bits of extra damage. You have to remember that the Bloater also does punch attacks too and take into account the Spitter’s vomit attack. Obviously I haven’t compared all enemies and all attacks, but if the Bloaters attack is 15 with the 2nd Tier clothing and 12 with the 3rd, it may be worth the upgrade when coming up against a wave of spitters or a small collection of Zombies.

I warned you it was going to be a long post! But I wanted to make sure that all avenues were covered and that you got a factual look at the differences. My suggestion would be is that you can get away with wearing the Thick Clothing but you may want the Tactical when you go to the Red Zones. I would also suggest that you only ever need the Work Boots for speed.

Side Note: Obviously when things update and they introduce PVP and new enemies to the game, this could all change. When fighting PVP, you’ll want the best that you can get to reduce as much damage from firearms and powerful weapons etc. Plus, you’ll want to show off to all your clan members how freaking awesome you look in SWAT gear!

TLDR: 1st tier clothes are good for Green Zones, 2nd tier are good for Orange, 3rd tier is (at the moment) the best and most cost effective set if you want the best defence and speed. Wear Work Boots instead of Tactical Boots.

Thanks for reading! The next blog post is going to be all based around weapons. Good Luck with Ray J pounding dat booty!

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