11 comments on “State of Decay: Breakdown DLC (Tips & Strategies)

  1. Ray Santos – indispensable. use vehicle delivery every time it pops up, even if you don’t need one right away.
    p.s. – destroy the greade launcher rather than leave it in your stash. i had one of my peons take it up the watch tower and start shooting zombies with it. Worst day ever. He attracted probably 100 zombies and blew up all my trucks.

  2. One thing I’ve noticed that is seldom mentioned is when you earn one of the achievements that unlocks a character you can recruit them right away with an “escort” mission. I missed this at first. I do not know if you can do this in subsequent playthroughs by unlocking them a second time, but you can build a group of “hero” survivors on at least one playthrough. Of course, you can only take five with you to the next level…

    • Hi Mark,

      Good point! Once a hero is unlocked by satisfying an acheivement, you can indeed recruit them immediately. You won’t be able to unlock them again in the same way in future playthroughs, but they do show up randomly as neighbors if you have them unlocked. If you can recruit those neighbors through missions, they’ll become part of your group (like regular neighbors can).

  3. Another good tip is to disperse high influence equipment before starting over again. Gives you a nice cushion to use what you need right off the start.

  4. I restarted Breakdown a few days ago after I realized I could bring more than one character with me to the next level. My current strategy is stripping the level 1 map of all useful items and building up my characters while the challenge is low (Already maxed out 1 random character and building up 2 heroes). Has anyone else used this as their strategy? Does it make sense? I would hate to get to a later level and realized that I wasted my time and energies.

    • No worries, you make perfect sense! That’s actually a very good strategy, that is…build up your supplies and stats on the earlier levels while supplies are plentiful and the difficulty easier. The downside is the time it takes to do so…you’ll be spending a lot of time play SoD that way, but if you’re patient, it pays off.

  5. I am in the first level with 5 heroes (I think) and 23 people residing in Snyder Trucking. My goal is to loot the entire map the first level, for whatever reason. A couple of questions if you’ll indulge me:

    A. Is it possible to ‘thin’ my population of NPC’s without just sending them into an infestation with a 2×4? That really wrecks morale and is time consuming.

    B. Will Heroes ever go missing? I’ve checked in with them a number of times, but with the in-frequency with which I get to play, I’d hate for one to go all Jules and ‘walk the earth’.

    Any advice is appreciated, thanks!

  6. I’m wondering whether inventory left with survivors that are left behind carry over to your supply locker or if you have to manually strip all leftover survivors before going to the next level. I’m assuming the latter because I left one survivor behind after specifically checking for a particular weapon and noticing it’s conspicuous absence in my supply locker at the next level. Can someone please confirm? Thanks

  7. @Ryan Lau, yeah, you have to take items from anybody you’re going to leave behind. Only items the people you take with you have in their inventory carry over.

  8. actually you can take all 25 or so survivors check in with them and talk to them tell them to go to the rv and theyll get on even though its full

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