Flying Zombie fists/spears guide

Hi, I'm Sobek. This is a quick and dirty guide about the flying Zombie fister build, which in my opinion is a great start for new players.

This guide is WIP, please page or mail me ingame if you found any errors or have ideas.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Zombie is very strong, yet low maintenance - you revive after most deaths, have great soaks+HP, don't have to worry about drowning or toxins and don't need to worry about trauma kits or food.
• Your Fists tohit and Wrestle skill will be very high - easily 47 tohit with Jawbreakers and 38 Wrestle unbuffed. You will quickly reach your maximum strength and be able to smash half the game by yourself.
• Flight allows you to travel (and explore) at your leisure. You don't have to worry about crashing planes or walking for ages. With Stench and Yeti Fur, neither the cold nor Chupacabras will mess with you.
• Stench lets you walk past 90% of all enemies that would otherwise attack you.
• Zombies can move through the Necropolis unhindered and are able to do the lucrative jobs both FCEF and Abom Nation offer.

Cons

• While this build is strong, you'll get your ass slapped in PvP by experienced players, since zombies no longer have feint immunity.
• You're dumb as a sack of bricks. You won't be able to craft/repair or revive players properly without a set of implants and/or heavy skill investment.
• Your attack speed is a bit slow. This also makes you vulnerable to interruptions by stuns and grabs.
• You won't be able to reach the high Focus and Dodge of Freak fisters.
• You can't get healed by nanites or mediguns, making HP recovery pretty slow.

Character creation

Tags

• Fists. Duh
• Wrestle. Grab bootleggers, ants, security turrets, anything you can get your arms around, and smash it. Dangerous against players with high dodge.
• Free skill. I tagged Medic so I'd be able to revive teammates and suture them.
• Free skill. I tagged Scavenge so I can start cutting heads right away. Not neccessary, as Scavenge is extremely cheap and easy to increase.

Stats

• 14 Brawn. Max this out first.
• 10 Endurance. Max out second.
• 14 Reflexes. After Brw/End are maxed, bring it to 17.

Mutations

Mandatory:

• Zombie: Duhh
• Stench: Stops most enemies from attacking you. Extremely useful while flying, as Chupacabras destroy new players.
• Leapfrog: Prerequisite to Flight.
• Flight: Never worry about getting places again. Board the planes of other players mid-air. Fly to the Skydock and molest sky raiders.
• Brute Strength: With +3 Brawn and +1 Wrestle, this is an obvious choice.

Great choices:

• Yeti Skin: With this, you won't have to worry about freezing to death while using Flight. You could also skip it and just wear warm clothes (parkas, fursuits) while in the air; it's a convenience mutation.
• Billygoat: Much needed +End and the ability to munch heads within seconds.
• Iron Liver: Being drunk with this gets rid of the very annoying revival sickness after you revive. Also, +Brawn and passive destress.
• Fibrocartilage: Makes endocrine boosters more likely to succeed and raises your max. possible HP to a whopping 70.
• Twitchy Nerves: +Ref helps with your awful attack speed.
• Hooligan: +Wrestle. Headbutt can absolutely smash low Brawn enemies, but is unreliable against anything with decent dodge (mostly PvP).
• Ripper: This is bit of a controversial choice - you will have +1 to Fists/tohit, but among other skills your Craft/Repair/Medic will tank and you can't fap or grope other players properly. Only pick this for hardcore minmaxing - Zombie fisters already have high tohit.
• Writhing Smoke, Screech, Carrie: Screech and burn your enemy - minus 10/15 tohit is nothing to laugh at.

Getting started

Oh god how do I stop dying

• Zombie basics: Unless healing, always aim to be at full hunger (or you'll lose the stat buffs and reviving will take AGES). Cut a ton of heads from orphans and stash them in your apartment's freezer.
• For fighting, your basic buffs are these: Max horny, max hunger, stimutacs or alcohol with Iron Liver, musking with Stench.
• Don't grind skills, but learn them from players/NPCs. All grinding does is waste time and keep you weak for longer. With this build, you will have plenty of spare XP that you can invest in things like Medic.
• Aim to get your Fists and Wrestle to 15 as soon as possible.

What equipment do I use?

• Rule of thumb: Carry only what you need, and the cheapest you can get away with. Hell is full of bullies who will kill you for your gear and mosters that straight up eat it.
• Your basic armor: 3x leather jacket+pants, 3x rusted pot, gas mask+2x hockey mask, combat boots, 2x heavy gloves or 2x lacrosse gloves (PYN in Freedom City).
• Alternatively: Tire armor. Amazing soaks, the dodge penalty won't matter at the start and you'll have enough brawn to wear it.
• You can wear these two all the way until you start killing ants.
• Weapons: Modded knuckle busters (force enhancer+gyro) and jawbreakers (gyro). While patas and edisons are great, they're just too expensive for new players. About anything in the game that's not another zombie will die from eating a jawbreaker to the face.

What do I kill?

• I'll write more about this later. For now, here are things zombies kill easily:
• Karnivore punks, treemen and bootleggers: These respectively deal bullet, beat and bullet/wasting damage. Put on tire armor, and anything short of a headshot will only tickle you.
• Ants: Grab them and beat them to death with your jawbreaker. Another ant walks in? Just shove it into a different tile. Make sure to bring firemen/leech armor for the burning hemolyph and scrimshaws or THC to destress. Having Firewalker makes this easier, but is not a must.