since this is pinned, let me give some quick perk-specific tips. below tips are complex tips that'd really help, such as which perks go well together, good strats to use with them. I will update this from time to time when im bored, so expect a buncha more text and updates to it. Scroll around and see what helps you. fearless is a close to essential perk for decaying winter, especially if you're going late game, since in late game AK scavs and really any ranged scavs will be your doom, and the boss is ranged based. berserker is a simple but very, very skill based class. it's ability allows you to do more dmg, take less dmg, faster stamina regen, ignore broken bones in a short period of time, and if you get kills or land a parry, the ability will last longer, with the only debuff of it being less dmg for a certain period of time after the ability ends. berserker is a very bad perk to play with when you're with a team, since it's ability relies on getting more kills, so it's essentially a solo perk. An important tip is to parry, because if you successfully land a parry on an enemy, your ability timer will automatically get set back to max, allowing you to keep the ability going a whole night. you will have to learn to know the best time to use your ability, since if you use it too early you may not have enough time to keep the ability going for a second wave. my personal traits for it are: dependable, fearless, methodical My reasons for this are for overall less dmg from everything, and more melee dmg. with vagabond, each dogtag makes your ability recharge faster. if you have 7 dogtags your ability is practically instant recharge. your ability does 65 at 100%, keep in mind. ballistic dagger deals 16 dmg shove, no morale debuffs. if you can combine both, you can shove with ballistic dagger then use the ability, that way you can one-shot any scav that isn't a shotgun, rifle or ak scav. dogtags increase speed too, so if you can amass up to 17 dogtags you can reach the fastest possible limit ingame, all the while being able to practically 1 shot everything, at the cost of being the biggest glass cannon in the game. It's a really skill based class to play, especially for solos if you're planning to beat the game. my personal traits for it are: impatient, fearless, aggressive behavior my reasons for this is for faster speed, less dmg from gun people (its a glass cannon) and faster shoves for faster kills with ballistic dagger + ability. another tip is with sovereign. Sovereign shove does damage, and ballistic dagger also does damage, and both of them stack with each other. If you use ballistic dagger with sovereign, you can deal about 26 dmg each shove, practically the same as Bill hook light attack damage, all the while stunning the enemy. this also works perfectly due to the fact each shove you have with sovereign marks an enemy, and turns them into a ghost on death. a really good trait to put up with this is aggressive behavior, for the faster shoves. My personal traits for it are: impatient, fearless, aggressive behavior my reasons for this are because impatient will cancel out it's passive slow debuff, fearless for less damage from ranged, and faster shoves for better damage. 2 of the above strats are cheeses that let you not have to worry about using melees, and doesn't give any debuffs to guns, effectively making both perks really good solo perks, due to the fact you have already incredible melee abilities and no gun debuffs, allowing you to switch between both depending on the situation. another tip, immolator is actually more of a support class. it's too much of a glass cannon, due to how it's ability works. Immolators ability basically allows you to utilize a flame thrower (holding down f) or a self fire bomb (deals heavy dmg to enemies, sets them aflame and gives you and your allies in range an ability that makes all actions do more dmg and set enemies aflame, including guns) that doesn't harm yourself. Both of these increase a certain percentage of your ability, fire bomb being 50% and flamethrower being 1% every second. Once an immolator hits 100%, they would explode, setting aflame and dealing damage to nearby enemies, and die. Any damage done to an immolator also increases their ability percentage by a certain amount, depending on the amount of dmg done. A really good synergy (match up) is zealot and vagabond. With zealot, you can place down a turret that deals 24 dps every second, and with that it allows vagabond to use their ability on any damaged enemy, doing a 1 shot. another way, is to let the zealot tank hits and parry, while the vagabond comes in and out, using its ability on enemies. Tickspider is bad. Don't use it, ever. In solo its debuffs are a pain, and in teams it'll be the bigger threat to your allies than the enemies. The ability places down a tick spider that'll chase nearby enemies, and once in a certain radius will explode. It will do considerable damage, and stun the enemy. But it will also stun and damage your allies. Since the tickspider chases enemies, often times it'll end up blowing the enemies and yourself up. Really the only time it's useful is if you're an advanced player and know what you're doing. Prophet is a good, balanced perk for newer players, but usually after a while everyone will move on from it and start using a different perk, since usually other perks are higher risk higher reward. I generally don't use prophet too much, but from what I know, its more of a stepping stone really. If you are planning to use it, you'll be a more ranged type perk. You'll be scrapping a lot, and usually if you use this perk you'll be in a team, and youll be dropping your scrap to team mates to craft for you. In the end its more of a support-ranged perk that excels at loot days, but is outshined by most classes due to its lack of offense based buffs and abilities. My personal traits it are: impatient, fearless, reliable My reasons for this are for the even faster speed, less damage from ranged, and easier reloading.

damn

For tickspider.... the quick press f dont seek, holding f does tho

Why would you need other ppl to craft for you prophets increase crafting debuff is only for things made from materials and you dont rly need those except pavises

Last tip, only time you use ballistic daggers are on arbiter because hes the only class that can regularly deal dmg from long range and finish off most scavs with long shot plus Q. Throwing knives are a go to for all classes, but melee builds stand to gain the most from koldera.

Dang. I always knew the Heavy was holding out on us in his “Meet the Heavy” introduction. These tips are amazing! Thanks!

@@JoshJonya You're welcome!

I learned that ballistic dagger bleeds on shove the other day when I was fighting a hidden. Literally got it to low HP and died anyway (prophet scan op). Then night came and I realized it died in front of my corpse.

@@fattytan1377 no the hidden died because the waves of scavs started to spawn in. When the scav waves start all entities including loot and such get removed and this also applies after the scav waves. But the ballistic dagger does actually apply bleed but you have to shoot the dagger to do so.

@@christiankirby8092man dropped two cans of soda. So idk

that was the joke..?

and those guns are sniper rifles and the ssg guns or the ones with the dots (green/red)

with 6

he was talking about aiming down sights in decaying winter, they're more used to not ads in cs:go

You can also use the arbiter to move around slightly faster

There’s an auditory beep, you have to click as soon as it happens. Though it’s perfect

that is why fearless exists

you do not go above the storm

HEAVILY REDUCED HIPFIRE ACCURACY I CANT DO THAT WHEN I HAVE A FRACTURED HAND

i actually made a build with zealot where i tested every explosive in the game, tanked every single one except for dynamite. (and yes i was holding them when they exploded or standing on them, i even tanked an explosive barrel.)

Easiest way to get apostle

The suckler

That’s good to know! I’ll try to apply it. Thanks!

Use the equipment "Ballistic dagger" for extra damage (Shove now deals 22 damage)

I've played sovereign from lvl10-lvl95 and it is great for that matter but it's such a stamina drain and hp drain since you have to go in the crowd in order to do it, which is a pain solo or in a small team

Aggressive behaviour trait be like

arbiter's shellshock punch (alt. ability) is really gud for crowd control, but it is hard to master

Hol' up

As risk runner who loves pressing f, I agree we love shredding people with huge ass mini gun

I am from Last Stranded mode and i gotta say,even its lacks of ammo,its a real crowd control perk

I use this build aswell and broken arm literally kills the build. ;-;

@@christiankirby8092 yes.

Senator Zealot??

@@ssxqzl7462 senator Zealot!

I did feel like I missed out on a lot of information when I made it. Thanks for your input!

You just told the basics in a great way. Next up you could do a tutorial for these more comlex stuff.

And also the very wrong information about Artillerist

U can kill it with sovereign by pressing q

@@shaftestaki1352 if facing sickler or skinner you will need ballistic dagger. But that is a staple for playing sovereign so idk why I mention it.

Thank you! Also, I loved the story 😄

I think his max speed on 10 stacks, and when you get death damage you automaticaly redeem dogtags(not sure about it)

​@@ZharMeny yeah vagabond does that stuff. Actually pretty useful

Its an false information unless he is talking about the traits

@@faker6234 Arbiter + Melee Traits, non-false information

Thank you for the assistance!

Sovereign shove doesn't curse them, it Hexes them. Knife throw curses the scavs for the ghost allies.

@@lucky9293 dude it’s the same thing cursed hexed anyways I’m practically saying that

Pogshot

@@Fierywell Pogshot saves lives and cures infection

Ik that drifter isnt released yet here but my fav playstyle is assassinating so drifter is automaticly my favorite

Go ahead, pee

the only cons is the damn spike traps being invisible

@@Paunch No?

@@ZeroKyleit blends in outpost and mountain grounds if you dont look hard enough

@@Paunch Oh, having a keen eye is better, so either turn up brightness or have an eye on traps

She weighs 150 kg and fires $200, custom-tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute…

OooOo. Interesting

Yes! I just saw the update. Trying to scramble as fast as I can so be on the lookout!