Penny's Guide to Escaping 2.0

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Penny enjoyer here to help you survive and escape. I'll go through some tips for the early/mid/late game without going too much into spoilers. I've updated the guide as well to make it easier to find certain info, accommodate those who are just looking for the quick top 10 tips, spoiler free, while leaving in-depth explanations for those that want them. Leave comments below for any feedback or corrections. I will be updating this guide regularly as more info comes out and things are discovered. Last Update: 4/19/2025 Quick tips to get you started fast; spoiler free 1. Pick Daphne and Penny Daphne give extra food+medkit crafts; Penny is extra stealthy which makes stealth executions and hiding easier. 2. Prioritize Telescopes in Areas Prioritizing unlocking new locations in case you need to bail out of an area. 3. Scout, Clear, Haul Scout - Send your Penny/Survivors to move around, explore as much as possible, and if able, kill as many zombies as possible. Clear - For bigger areas, you might need to send a second survivor to bring lockpicks/boltcutters to access locked areas, as well as louder weapons when stealth isn't enough to gain access to a room. Haul - Bring your big backpack survivors to grab all the remaining loot. 4. Find a 2nd Shelter ASAP Zombie attacks intensify every other night, moving to a new location will reset this intensity back to 1. Keep moving around to save on planks from barricades. 5. Loot Priority Dismantle items are top priority once you start dismantling as they are worth multiple inventory space than the single space they occupy. Coffee, alcohol, and chips will keep your survivors topped up early game while you're still upgrading your stations. 6. Upgrade Priority Workbench as needed Dismantling Bench 2 Cooking Area 3 Communal Area Lvl 1 (Lvl 2 if you have 5 or more survivors) Portable Beds Lvl 1 (Lvl 2 if you have 5 or more survivors) Barricade 1 (If you need, but can be easily skipped till later) Weapons Bench 3 Medical Area 3 ...max the rest 7. Number of Survivors 4 early game to juggle scavenging with crafting, 5 late game to have multiple scavenges per phase. 8. Best Early Survivors Joe - Found in Texway Gas Hart St: Extra dismantle bonus and +2 backpack space. Frank - Found in Fire Station No.8: Extra food when cooking and bonus to blunt weapon damage. 9. Zombie Shuffling Use connected rooms with doors & hiding spots to move zombies from unexplored rooms to explored ones. You can also use bottles or intentionally waking up zombies to move them but be prepared to lose a door or two before they go back to patrol mode. This is a good way to conserve on weapons early. 10. Use HP and Medkits as a Resource You can proactively use loud melee weapons, or your fists to take down zombies and conserve stealth weapons if you have excess medkits lying around. Save those shivs and screwdrivers for when you really need to go for a stealth kill. [BONUS] 11. Use bottles You can throw bottles behind zombies to make them face away from you so that you can go in for a stealth kill. Great for those rooms where a zombie is at the opposite end of the room, facing the door you're coming in from. A more detailed breakdown of each tip below: If you're starting off and are having trouble getting going, consider running Daphne and Penny as their skills will carry you throughout the game. Daphne's Good Cook skill will help you get more food per craft in the early game and carry well into the late game. Her First Aid Training also increases the first aid kits you get per craft, helpful in the late game when you start finding yourself doing more zombie brawling. Penny's Sneaky skill reduces the range of the sounds she makes and takes longer to get detected by patrolling zombies when using hiding spots. When entering an area, prioritize climbing up and reaching the telescope to unlock more areas to visit. This expands your zone options to loot, and unlocks new and better shelters. It's good to get these out of the way early in case you need to bail out and may need to come back at a later time, better prepared. At the very least, you have new areas to choose from when scavenging. Telescopes can be found on locations that have the tag "New Locations Discoverable" in the map This is my go-to method for dealing with each location: Scouting Enter new areas with stealth-focused characters, weapons, lockpicks and bolt cutters, aiming to explore as much as possible. Open any lockpicks, bolted areas, shortcuts, and activate telescopes. Stealthily take down as many zombies as you can. Prioritize bringing back weapons and whatever materials you're lacking. You will need the weapons on the second run. Clearing Bring your beefy guys on the next run. The game isn't clear on this but some characters can tank more damage over others even without listing it as a trait (Penny vs Joe for example, Joe can take more hits)*. Bring a few stealth weapons and some harder hitting, high durability ones and focus on clearing a path on the loot spots. Try to use louder melee weapons if you can and conserve stealth weapons. Tip: If you're in an enclosed room with only one zombie, swap to your loud weapon and make sure doors are closed before you go for a stealth kill. It will one shot them regardless so you can save your quieter weapons for later. Keep the noise range mechanic in mind when doing this, but you're safe for the most part. Hauling If you have characters with bigger inventory slots, bring them here and grab any materials you may have missed. If you've cleared the zone of all active zombies, then you can come in without bringing any items for more space to bring materials back with. Depending on the area, you might be able to combine this with the Clearing run. You'll get better at estimating this as you play. The longer you stay in a shelter, the more the zombie attacks will ramp up starting from 1 to 3 damage on your barricades eventually. Switch to a different shelter (new or old) will reset this back to 1 damage per attack. Repeat this as needed. Remember that moving into a newly-cleared shelter will automatically add any loot left behind to your base stockpile. Keep in mind: Before you leave a shelter, make sure it has at least 2 barricades left. That way, if you come back to it during night time, you will survive the zombie attack with 1 barricade left, giving you two phases to create more. Shelters will need re-clearing if you leave them alone for too long. Dismantle Items These are top priority as they usually provide multiple slots worth of resources for the single slot they occupy. You can lower this in the priority list over weapons if it will help you better clear areas on your next runs, or if you don't have dismantling station unlocked yet, but definitely come back for these at some point. Stealth/Medium Weapons These will help you clear more areas = more loot accessible, you can never have too much of these. Having a nice supply of these means you can save time and effort for some of the rooms that require stealthier approach. Try to keep a few loud weapons and a gun+ammo stocked up for those clearing runs when you need to go toe to toe with some zombies. Coffee/Snacks/Alcohol These are a great way to get your survivors through early game as you build up your other upgrades. Don't be stingy with them as once you have your facilities maxed, these will just be collecting dust. Use them at every point possible to keep your survivors topped and get more out of your ingredients and phases when you have those lvl 3 upgrades. Metal You will need metal for everything, make sure you bring back each of these you find. Water Water is needed to grow veggies and cook food later in the game. Grab as much of these as you can as you'll need it to grow veggies and cook. Once you unlock a shelter with water filtering, your water issue will be solved, so grab as much as you can till then. Workbench as needed Dismantling Bench 2 Cooking Area 3 Com