They'll all get knocked down then you can dash around finishing them off one by one with your quick ground finishers. This means if you get chased by a big mob or horde of zombies, you can grab one then throw it at the others. When powerhouse is maxed out you can grab zombies from the front. Not a big deal against one zombie but when you're mobbed it's annoying when your survivor does a slow ground finisher which leaves you exposed to zombie attacks.Īnyway my favorite skills are close combat AND powerhouse. The maxed bladed instakill attack is good but it also has several different animations, some of which are faster than others. Doing ground finishers with blunt or bladed weapons is always a gamble, sometimes the animation is quick and sometimes it's slow. What I love about all of these moves is that they always have the same animation. This may seem lame at first, but I find that if I do two normal melee attacks with close combat then do a shove, it always pushes the zombie onto the ground and I can do the quick ground finisher.Īnd that's about it. With zombies nearby, players learn the game’s core mechanics like scavenging and combat, before linking up with the outpost’s last remaining humans. +28 Max Health Execute standing enemies with a knife-50 Melee Stamina Cost. If a zombie is on the ground, you do a quick finisher where you stab them in the head which is much faster than using blunt or blade weapons. Close Combat: Improved fighting and reduced Stamina use with an empty melee weapon slot. If you grapple a zombie, you just do a quick head stab instead of wrestling them to the ground. If you dont have close combat maxed out, then you cant do that move.

It drags a zombie to the ground and you kill it instantly with a head stomp. On a gamepad you hold down the right trigger and press the normal melee button. Here are moves that you can do at any level of close combat: When close combat is maxed out, you can do an instant kill attack. If you don't have close combat maxed out, then you can't do that move. When close combat is maxed out, you can do an instant kill attack.

State of decay 2 close combat