OK, some basics; Enough to smooth it out without spoiling it I hope... Hope you enjoy the game after all this! It has some big flaws/problems, but there's a lot of good stuff in there!
Remember this isn't a big full blown title, just a small budget development from a small independent (I believe).
Time
Time passes while you are playing (1hr day / 1hr night I think?) and also when you are not. Leave the game for a few days, and time will have passed!
Characters
You can play as any character you're friends with. To become friends you basically just need to earn their trust. To change character press TAB, select the character and press Q (if you're allowed).
You can view a character's skills by pressing the star symbol on the menu tab. You can then drill down in their skills further if you wish. Note: The scrolling up/down is a bit painful I find!
Cooks are important. Mechanics are important.
Make sure you arm your characters. eg: Weapons, a bit of ammo, and some pills if you can. Make sure you are characters you don't even play (melee/gun) as they will go out on their own, or you might be asking them to help you!
As characters progress they'll improve in areas (eg: fighting). At certain levels you can specialise in areas. Keep an eye on these by clicking on a category (eg: combat) and see if you can choose a specialisation. As a hint, to build an epic combat character, ensure they have the Powerhouse skill with the survivor, and then:-
Heavy Weapons Speciality.
Pro Wrest Defensive Skill
Rage Special Skill
Shove Utilitiy Skill
Spin or Sweep special Technique
Have Heavy Weapon (eg: sledge hammer)
Try to use 3-4 different characters regularly to build them all up. Temptation is to stick to 2, but this is risky if you lose 1 of them!
Try to equip them with large rucksacks instead of small ones.
Combat controls can be seen against skill etc. As your character(s) progress they'll get new moves (eg: SHIFT left mouse button, or SHIFT C).
Ctrl to roll is your friend!
C (stealth) is your friend (early on at least)!
Later, I've purposefully killed a couple of characters. Their skills weren't good and I had too many mouths to feed. So I put all their stuff back in the locker and ran off to get them killed. Hey! It's a tough world!
Weapons
Weapons wear out. If they turn yellow in your inventory, swap them out before they break. If you home has a workshop, damaged weapons will get repaired.
Using items in your inventory
If you have molotovs, pills or other such things in your inventory, you can use them by selecting them with your middle mouse button and then pressing F. eg: Your health is damaged, select pills and press F.
Homes
You can look at your resources (food, medicine, ammo, materials, gas). Under them are some figures, these show how much you have, your storage limit and then below that your daily gain/loss (usage). If you over stock something it will go red and you'll lose some everyday simply because you are overstocked. eg: If you have 80/60 medicine you will lose some medicine everyday simply because your storage limit is 60.
You can upgrade your homes if they have free slots, or upgrade "rooms" there. To upgrade you'll need the appropriate resources (eg: X influence and Y materials). eg: Upgrade a bedroom have more beds.
You can ask the radio room to find certain resources.
If you have a workshop it can be upgraded to a motor workshop so cars left in parking spaces will be completely repaired overnight! This is VERY important. You will most likely need a mechanic for this.
Workshops can produce silencers, molotovs and crackers. Not very useful unless you find you're short of them.
Homes can have a number of outposts (eg: more with bigger homes). You can get a regular income of resources from these. eg: Find a house with food, call in on the radio (ALT) and request an outpost. Assuming you have enough influence the house will be made into an outpost and you'll get a small amount of food daily from it. You can also set traps on outposts which will kill "hordes". This is useful later as you can make outposts around your home's area and these will kill hordes and provide protection. I believe outposts never run out, even if you later go in and take everything from them. Note: Your storage locker is shared between your home and all outposts.
You can work out which outpost is which by noting the outpost number mentioned on the map, and it will be in that slot number in your home diagram (slots under it) - Sometimes you want to get rid of a specific outpost in preference to another!
You can move to bigger homes. Find an alternative place to live, and as long as you have the appropriate resources/no. people you can radio in (ALT) to move home.
Missions/tasks
All active/available missions are shown on your map. Just click on it and you'll see a green or blue arrow on your minimap to show you the direction.
Clear out infestations in your local area/town. These are annoying at first, but later when you're surrounded by outposts, these infestations will reduce/stop.
If you get a "mission" someone is unhappy etc, just go and talk to them to initiate the mission.
Scavenging
When searching in houses, your mini map will show you where places are to search (press E) in the property (small blue dots). You can SHIFT E to search quick, but this risks making noise!
If you find a major resouces (eg: food/ammo) you can either setup an outpost to get a regular income. Take it back yourself (you can only carry one), break it up into smaller individual parts, or call in a scavenger on the radio (ALT) to get it. I'd never break it up if I were you, as it's wasteful!
Remember you can ask your radio operator to find specific resources.
Misc
When going out you can ask fellow survivors at home to come with you to cover you, as long as they are available and you have enough influence to "pay". Handy for more risky missions.
Cars are useful. Cars are dangerous - If they get too damaged they will blow up!
Death is permanent! You'll reappear as another of your survivors, but the dead character is gone for good!
You can climb faster by using SHIFT.
Resources
Loads of stuff on youtube.
http://stateofdecay.wikia.com/wiki/State_of_Decay_Wiki
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
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