Dead Island 2 Wish I Knew Sooner - ESSENTIAL Tips Tricks & Secrets (Legendaries, Fast XP, OP Builds) — Transcript

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1. 0:00I've already sunk 30 plus hours into
2. 0:02Dead Island 2, so here's a list of 35
3. 0:04tips and tricks I wish I knew before I
4. 0:07started. They'll save you hours of
5. 0:08frustration, make your character level
6. 0:10up faster by getting you more XP more
7. 0:12quickly, get you loads of money earlier
8. 0:14in the game, and even explain some
9. 0:16features the game doesn't even tell you
10. 0:18about. And we'll be talking legendary
11. 0:20weapons, too. All without giving any
12. 0:22story spoilers, so you don't need to
13. 0:24worry about that. We're also sponsored
14. 0:25by Zotac today, and I'll talk more about
15. 0:27that later. Let's begin. keys, locks,
16. 0:29and secret areas. If you find a key and
17. 0:31have no idea what it unlocks, don't
18. 0:33spend ages searching randomly hoping you
19. 0:35stumble on it. Because sometimes the
20. 0:37thing you need to unlock is actually
21. 0:39pretty far away from where you are.
22. 0:40Instead, when you pick the key up, pause
23. 0:43your game, go into your inventory, and
24. 0:45look at the description of the key
25. 0:46because it's going to give you a little
26. 0:47bit more precise info as to what you're
27. 0:50actually looking for. There's a similar
28. 0:51trick you can use for safes. When you
29. 0:53find a safe in the world, but you don't
30. 0:54have the key for it, don't worry because
31. 0:56the game marks the safe on your map from
32. 0:59that point. So, you can really easily
33. 1:00get back to it later. Then, when you
34. 1:02find a key in future and the description
35. 1:04in the inventory matches the location
36. 1:06that you have marked on your map, you
37. 1:08know that you can put the two together
38. 1:09and get what's inside. In some cases,
39. 1:11the right key can only be found by
40. 1:13killing a certain zombie as well. So, if
41. 1:15you are looking for a key, don't just
42. 1:16run around an area, but leave the
43. 1:18zombies alive while you do so, because
44. 1:19it might be that the zombies themselves
45. 1:21are key to you finding the key. God,
46. 1:23that was awful. I'm so sorry. Sometimes
47. 1:25you can get around the keys and the
48. 1:27locks completely. A lot of us are used
49. 1:29to locked areas only being accessible
50. 1:30one way in games, but in this, there are
51. 1:32occasionally alternative ways to break
52. 1:34in. They do often have a small downside,
53. 1:36like setting off an alarm, but if it
54. 1:38stops you having to fap about with a key
55. 1:39and a lock, then it's worth doing. The
56. 1:41flip side to this is some areas look
57. 1:43like they should be able to be gotten
58. 1:45into or they look like they're going to
59. 1:46have a key somewhere and so you get
60. 1:48tempted to search for the key so you can
61. 1:50get in, but these are actually quest
62. 1:52locked areas. You might just need to
63. 1:54progress the main quest a tiny bit or it
64. 1:56might be that you just go there for a
65. 1:57side quest. So don't make the mistake
66. 1:59I've made of looking for keys for stuff
67. 2:00that the game literally gives you during
68. 2:02a quest later on. If you missed the
69. 2:04tutorial hint for these fuse boxes, you
70. 2:06might think that you need to search the
71. 2:08area to find a fuse and then bring it
72. 2:10back to the box to open the door. But
73. 2:12actually, it's vendors that sell fuses,
74. 2:14but you can only carry three at a time.
75. 2:16So, every time you go back to a vendor,
76. 2:17always stock up on the max number of
77. 2:19fuses you can afford, so you've always
78. 2:21got a spare handy in case there's a door
79. 2:22that you really want to open while
80. 2:24you're exploring. Sometimes vendors run
81. 2:26out of fuses, and this just means that
82. 2:28you need to go to a vendor in a
83. 2:29different world location that still has
84. 2:31lots of fuse boxes ready to be fixed,
85. 2:33and they should have a couple of fuses
86. 2:34that you can buy. Progression, side
87. 2:36quests, and exploration. You don't
88. 2:38actually need to look at things to loot
89. 2:41them. And I wish I knew this before I
90. 2:43finished the game, but I learned it
91. 2:44afterwards. You actually just need to
92. 2:46stand near to items, and as long as
93. 2:48you're near enough to them, you can be
94. 2:49looking the opposite direction, but the
95. 2:51pickup button will still actually be on
96. 2:53your screen. and it'll just be in the
97. 2:54corner or something. So, you don't need
98. 2:56to sling your head around like a cat
99. 2:57following a laser pointer trying to pick
100. 2:59up all the scrap off a shelf. Instead,
101. 3:01just wedge yourself against the shelf.
102. 3:02Spam that pickup button and you'll slurp
103. 3:04up all that loot. Your flashlight never
104. 3:06actually runs out of battery. It just
105. 3:08turns itself off every now and then when
106. 3:10you go in a really bright area. So,
107. 3:12anytime you go back into the dark, just
108. 3:13remember to turn it back on. It makes
109. 3:15life a lot easier. Blueprints are used
110. 3:17to craft specific mods and upgrades for
111. 3:19your weapons in the game, and they are
112. 3:20very often found next to workbenches.
113. 3:23These workbenches can actually have
114. 3:25multiple blueprints that they will host
115. 3:27throughout the game. So, in Emma's
116. 3:29Mansion, for example, you'll go back
117. 3:30there several times, and it's worth
118. 3:32checking the workbench each time to see
119. 3:34if there's a new blueprint that has
120. 3:36spawned on it for you to pick up.
121. 3:37Vendors also sell different blueprints,
122. 3:40so I recommend always buying all of a
123. 3:42vendor's blueprints in case they restock
124. 3:44with others in the future. And different
125. 3:46vendors have different supplies, so
126. 3:47always check every vendor you find in
127. 3:49case they've got new blueprints for you.
128. 3:51This side quest in Beverly Hills is
129. 3:54super easy. You'll be able to get
130. 3:56progress on it as you progress through
131. 3:58the game. And it's going to give you a
132. 3:59bunch of XP and you'll unlock a new
133. 4:01vendor with exclusive blueprints. So,
134. 4:04even if you're just focusing on the main
135. 4:05quest, I think as soon as this quest
136. 4:07becomes available, you should head on
137. 4:08over and get it started. At workbenches,
138. 4:11you can track parts that you need for
139. 4:13certain blueprints that you can't
140. 4:15currently afford because you just don't
141. 4:16have the resources. And then while
142. 4:18you're exploring the world, those
143. 4:19resources will be on screen at all
144. 4:21times, so you can see how many you have.
145. 4:23You have a live counter. The flip side
146. 4:25to this is that that counter actually
147. 4:26gets kind of annoying kind of fast in my
148. 4:28opinion, and you are going to have to go
149. 4:30back to the workbench in order to
150. 4:31unttrack it. So just keep that in mind
151. 4:33before you start tracking everything in
152. 4:35sight. I'm going to completely avoid
153. 4:36spoilers here, but I just want to point
154. 4:38something out so that you don't miss it
155. 4:39in the game, cuz it only happens once.
156. 4:42There's going to come a point in the
157. 4:43game where Jimmy Montana tells you he
158. 4:45spent nine seasons on the badge. He's
159. 4:47then going to storm out of the room and
160. 4:49you're going to jump onto a
161. 4:50walkie-talkie. When that finishes, keep
162. 4:52listening to the electronics in the room
163. 4:55because there's a really funny radio
164. 4:57over from another one of the houses in
165. 4:59the area. And I think it's worth
166. 5:00listening to, and I don't want you guys
167. 5:02to rush out of the room and miss it.
168. 5:03While you explore, you're going to start
169. 5:04finding these scope things that say
170. 5:07server offline. Don't make the mistake I
171. 5:09made of thinking that means you need to
172. 5:11reboot the server yourself somehow and
173. 5:13then waste a load of time trying to do
174. 5:14that because actually these are just
175. 5:16tied to a quest and it's pretty late in
176. 5:18the game. So when you first start out
177. 5:20just ignore these so you can interact
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204. 6:24resources. There is a limit to how much
205. 6:26of each item you can carry. I'm not
206. 6:28talking weapons here. I'm talking things
207. 6:30like fabric, metal parts, zombie parts,
208. 6:33all those kinds of scrap. But if you
209. 6:35continuously sell the ones you don't
210. 6:36need, you'll get loads of money and
211. 6:38you'll be able to continuously pick them
212. 6:40up in the world, so you don't feel like
213. 6:41you're just wasting opportunities to get
214. 6:43more stuff. In the early game, if you go
215. 6:45into your inventory and take a look, any
216. 6:47gray item you have more than about 25
217. 6:49of, you can sell the rest of, and it's
218. 6:52something like 30 to 50 bucks per part.
219. 6:54So, you go through your items as you
220. 6:56progress through the game and keep on
221. 6:57selling those down to just what you
222. 6:59actually need, and you'll find that
223. 7:00you're earning thousands and thousands
224. 7:02of dollars from this. Another early game
225. 7:04tip here is to actually buy some stuff
226. 7:05back from those vendors as well.
227. 7:07Specifically, the blue items, synthetic
228. 7:10fibers, alloys, stuff like that are
229. 7:12going to be in shorter supply when
230. 7:14you're in the early game, but they get
231. 7:15really common later. Now, to really
232. 7:17start building your wealth in the early
233. 7:18to mid game section, you need to start
234. 7:20selling your weapons. Do not keep on
235. 7:23scrapping them. At the beginning,
236. 7:24scrapping them is totally fine. You do
237. 7:26need those resources, but as soon as
238. 7:27you've got a loadout that's kind of
239. 7:29working for you and you have a little
240. 7:31bit of float to work with in terms of
241. 7:32resources in your inventory, you're
242. 7:34going to want to jump straight into
243. 7:35selling all those weapons. This is going
244. 7:37to earn you so much goddamn money to the
245. 7:40point that towards later stages of the
246. 7:42game, one single item you find just from
247. 7:44a random zombie kill could be worth 5,
248. 7:466, or $7,000. Extra special ones might
249. 7:48even be worth more than that. And your
250. 7:50upgrades are going to become more
251. 7:51expensive as the game progresses, too.
252. 7:52So, you need to stay on top of things by
253. 7:55selling stuff that you don't need.
254. 7:56However, as the game mentions in the
255. 7:58early stages of the tutorial, if you
256. 8:00scrap a weapon with upgrades on it, then
257. 8:02you'll get the resources back from that.
258. 8:04And so, there's a little bit of a choice
259. 8:06that you need to make here. Do you sell
260. 8:08the weapon and get money, or do you just
261. 8:10scrap it and get all your hardinvested
262. 8:12resources back? And the answer to this
263. 8:14doesn't have to be one or the other. You
264. 8:16can go to the workbench individually,
265. 8:18remove certain upgrades, get the
266. 8:21resources back from those specific
267. 8:22upgrades, and then still sell the
268. 8:24weapon, and still get loads of money for
269. 8:26it. You will earn less, so a fully
270. 8:28decked out weapon might be worth twice
271. 8:30as much as a weapon with zero upgrades.
272. 8:32But if it means that you get to keep
273. 8:33some really valuable resources that are
274. 8:35hard to come by, then it's worth doing.
275. 8:37You might also be able to find some
276. 8:38extra stuff that you can sell in your
277. 8:40lost and found locker. This will fill up
278. 8:41with weapons that you forgot to pick up
279. 8:43or didn't have space for on your travels
280. 8:45through the world. And it's really
281. 8:46worthwhile checking back on it every
282. 8:48couple of missions just in case there's
283. 8:50some stuff in there that you can either
284. 8:51scrap, sell, or use. Weapons,
285. 8:53characters, and combat secrets. I got
286. 8:55through the entire campaign before
287. 8:57realizing that if a weapon drops onto
288. 8:59the floor, you can hold down the pickup
289. 9:02button and instead of going into your
290. 9:03inventory, it will equip straight into
291. 9:05your hand, swapping out with your
292. 9:07currently equipped weapon. You can
293. 9:08cancel a heavy attack which you've
294. 9:10charged up by pressing your reload
295. 9:12button. So on PS5, that's square. You
296. 9:15can also end your fury early by pressing
297. 9:17the same buttons you used to activate
298. 9:18it. This will save some fury meter so
299. 9:21you can get back into it sooner next
300. 9:22time. Also, energy drinks boost your
301. 9:25fury meter. And med packs instantly
302. 9:27remove any status effects that you're
303. 9:29suffering from. So if you've just been
304. 9:31set on fire and you're worried that it's
305. 9:32going to burn through loads of your
306. 9:33health, the sooner you activate the med
307. 9:35pack, the better because you'll
308. 9:37obviously get your health back. But
309. 9:38you'll also stop yourself from burning
310. 9:40in the first place. Med packs will not
311. 9:41save you from fall damage, though, and
312. 9:43this game does have full damage, and it
313. 9:45will pretty much insta-kill you if you
314. 9:47fall from too great a height. Another
315. 9:49thing that will insta- kill you is if
316. 9:50you throw a battery at a zombie and then
317. 9:52pick the battery up while it's sparking.
318. 9:55It looks like something you could just
319. 9:56throw back at them again, but no, it
320. 9:58instantly shocks you to death. This is
321. 10:00also a reminder to remember that
322. 10:02environmental hazards are almost always
323. 10:04present in the game. If you're on an
324. 10:06especially difficult boss fight or
325. 10:08something like that, you might find that
326. 10:09you just need to take your tunnel vision
327. 10:12off the boss for a second and you might
328. 10:13be able to find something that you can
329. 10:15activate to turn on a flamethrower to
330. 10:17attack the boss for you or things along
331. 10:19those lines. If you're having trouble
332. 10:21with a certain boss or just a certain
333. 10:23enemy in general, really, there's a
334. 10:25really easy way to get information
335. 10:27instantly on how best to take it down.
336. 10:29For some reason, this is hidden in the
337. 10:31collectibles menu, but you then want to
338. 10:33go into Zedia and find the enemy type
339. 10:36that you're having difficulty with. As
340. 10:37you rack up your kill count on this type
341. 10:39of enemy, you'll get more tips about how
342. 10:41to be more efficient. And some of these
343. 10:43are really obvious, but some might
344. 10:44surprise you. For example, loud noises
345. 10:47trigger the transformations of mutators
346. 10:49early, and you can harvest extra zombie
347. 10:51parts if you maim Crusher's arms before
348. 10:54killing them, which they're also weak to
349. 10:56by the way, and which will stop them
350. 10:58from doing their overhead smash and
351. 11:00flail attacks. Things like this you'll
352. 11:02pick up during gameplay, but certain
353. 11:04more specific tips like blunt damage
354. 11:07being super effective on screeches is
355. 11:09something that might be a little bit
356. 11:11less obvious. Runners are weak to sharp
357. 11:14and bleed damage and spiky zombies are
358. 11:16weak to explosive damage. Now, a tip I
359. 11:19massively recommend you do throughout
360. 11:21your game is to actually check what
361. 11:23damage type your weapon is and to check
362. 11:26its hidden trait. For example, if we
363. 11:28open the details for these crescent
364. 11:29blades, you can see that it's got sharp
365. 11:31as its base damage and has frenzy as its
366. 11:34damage profile. Here's another example.
367. 11:36This bat has the bulldozer damage
368. 11:37profile, and that means that heavy
369. 11:39attacks are always crits. I've put perks
370. 11:41on to boost critical hit damage because
371. 11:43I know that they're going to be
372. 11:45happening. And with skilled, every kill
373. 11:47I get means that my heavy attacks get
374. 11:49even faster and even more powerful,
375. 11:51which makes this a pretty deadly
376. 11:53combination. You learn all of this just
377. 11:54from looking at the details page. This
378. 11:56is also where you'll learn exactly how
379. 11:59legendary weapons apply their special
380. 12:01characteristics. But don't make the
381. 12:03mistake I made of looking really hard
382. 12:05for legendary weapons earlier in your
383. 12:07game when in fact you're going to get
384. 12:08your first one at the end of the
385. 12:10campaign. Also, activities that are
386. 12:12going to grant you extra high tier loot,
387. 12:14such as, for example, those fuse boxes,
388. 12:16should be spread out through your
389. 12:17playthrough so that you don't lose all
390. 12:19of your opportunities to get high tier
391. 12:21loot from a crate or a safe later in
392. 12:23your game when you're a much higher
393. 12:24level. You ideally want a pretty even
394. 12:26distribution across everything. On the
395. 12:28whole, trying to level up as fast as you
396. 12:30can is a good idea. And one of the ways
397. 12:32that you can incrementally add to the XP
398. 12:34that you're getting is by successfully
399. 12:36completing dodge counter combos.
400. 12:39Normally, you get about 15 to 20 XP per
401. 12:42kill, but if you complete a successful
402. 12:43dodge counter combo and the zombie dies,
403. 12:46you can walk away with 35 XP or so. If
404. 12:49you do want to level up faster, I also
405. 12:50really recommend you do those side
406. 12:52quests that I mentioned in that one
407. 12:54Beverly Hills house because there's
408. 12:56multiple quests that that woman can give
409. 12:58you. You can also permanently make your
410. 12:59character stronger by going to the
411. 13:01challenges menu. If you go to the bottom
412. 13:03to the zombie challenges section, you'll
413. 13:05see that these are across all your
414. 13:07accounts. They're not just tied to one
415. 13:09individual character. And progress on
416. 13:11these will give you boosts to all the
417. 13:13stats that are available to you really
418. 13:15in the game. And because all of these
419. 13:16challenges exist, not just the ones in
420. 13:18the zombie challenges section, but all
421. 13:20of them overall, I highly recommend
422. 13:22varying your play style through your
423. 13:24game just so that you're doing new
424. 13:26things and unlocking new challenges by
425. 13:28virtue of playing. Found yourself
426. 13:30relying on a certain weapon type, a
427. 13:32certain elemental damage, switch it up.
428. 13:34By doing so, you'll progress much faster
429. 13:36on these challenges, and they're fun to
430. 13:38do as well, cuz it really motivates you
431. 13:40to play in different ways. Now, no
432. 13:42matter how much you do change your play
433. 13:44style, there's one thing you can't
434. 13:45change Midame, and that's your
435. 13:46character. I strongly recommend testing
436. 13:49out a couple of characters on different
437. 13:51save files just to see what their voice
438. 13:53is like and how it feels to play them
439. 13:55before committing to playing the entire
440. 13:57rest of the game as them. because to be
441. 13:59quite honest, some of them have kind of
442. 14:01annoying personalities and you want to
443. 14:03make sure that you gel before you
444. 14:05proceed. During character select, you'll
445. 14:06also notice the attributes table. And
446. 14:08I've done a bit of actual scientific
447. 14:10testing on this and found out that a lot
448. 14:13of it you can actually ignore. Some of
449. 14:14it's important, but agility, for
450. 14:16example, sounds like it's going to
451. 14:17affect all of your character movement,
452. 14:19but in a test I did, it only affects
453. 14:21walk speed, not sprint speed. And seeing
454. 14:24as you're always sprinting in this sort
455. 14:25of game, it really doesn't make sense to
456. 14:27care at all about agility. So take the
457. 14:29attributes with a pinch of salt and
458. 14:31focus more on the innate skills on that
459. 14:33character select screen. If you want a
460. 14:34more in-depth look at the different
461. 14:36characters and you need a bit more help
462. 14:37choosing which is best for you, I've got
463. 14:39a complete non-nonsense breakdown which
464. 14:41is linked on the screen right now so you
465. 14:43can click on through.