Now that we have our own zombie server I find we should have a tips and tricks section. Although humans get a lot of help on our servers most of these tips are useful (with the exception of the standing on heads bit). Credit Where Credit is Due: Smallsasaurus's Post from Steam Gamers
Top Ten Tips and Tricks
1. Teamwork.
People say it all the time, but if you don’t do it, you really just don’t have a chance. It doesn’t take much; hold doors, communicate, don’t leave on a boat before everyone is there, just simple decent human things to do. Sure, you can screw people over, but if one person is, then somebody else decides they will be too, and before you know it nobody is willing to hold boats for anyone, and the game is an epic fail. Also, screw over enough people and the zombies start killing everyone, chances are you aren’t going to win anyway. Being a good teammate is contagious too, if other players see you holding doors and vehicles and waiting until 5-10 seconds are left before running to an escape vehicle, they be more likely to do the same. Everyone wins in that situation. Overall philosophy, try and put yourself in the same situation as the people behind you and if you would be pissed off if the person in front of you did that to you, then don’t do it to them..
2. Think Backward.
This area is the one I’m probably the worst at. Most people who play the game just start running straight ahead at the beginning of every round and never look back. I’ve lost plenty of rounds where I was just caught up in trying to get to the end as fast as possible and in hindsight if I had gone back to help others I would of had a much better chance of surviving the round. Falling back a little to shoot a zombie off a bridge or dock so other humans can catch up to you can save everyone’s life. Instead of that zombie getting ahead of the other humans, killing them, and 10 zombies now chasing you down, falling back to holding off that one gives you 10 extra humans to help you get to the end of the map. Just try to think ahead to what the end game situation is likely to be and whether or not you might be better off going back to help others out.
3. Zombie Escape Specific Scripts
If you are having trouble crouch jumping or find yourself wondering how some players seem to buy everything so quickly, it might be because they are using scripts. To sum up scripts quickly, CS lets you assign certain in-game actions to different buttons. That’s a script. Just search Google and you’re bound to come upon a tutorial or two hundred on how to do this yourself. You can also download a script program, which simplifies the process by adding suggested scripts to your keyboard layout in-game, so you can assign the buttons as you see fit.
Scripts I recommend and have used are:
Crouch jump – Space bar or V
Quick switch to grenade – Q
Buy shotgun, grenade, sidearm, Kevlar, and ammo – N
Say “!ztele” – G
You can customize the buttons anyway you want to fit your playing style, these one just happen to work for me and are my favorites.
4. Choose appropriate weapons.
I probably don’t do this enough, but the map you are on should affect your decision on what weapon you buy. If it’s an open map with long fields, maybe a sniper rifle or famas is good choice. Playing a level that you know humans have to hold off zombies trying to get over a box? Opt for either a shotgun or machine gun. A sniper rifle probably won’t do you much good in that situation.
5. BOOM HEADSHOOT!
People should probably just assume this, but I’m going to say it anyway, if you aren’t going for headshots, you are probably going to lose a lot of close rounds. The difference in how far the zombies flies backward is huge from a nice clean headshot compared to random shots to the chest. A clean pump shotgun to the face will knock a zombie back 30-40 feet, where the same shot to the chest might only get you 10 feet. This won’t make a huge difference if it’s 10 guys holding off 10 zombies, but if it’s just 2-3 humans holding back 10 zombies, you got to make every shot count. To summarize in 4 words, make headshots a habit.
6. Moving Around
One of the toughest things for me to adjust to as a relatively newer person to Zombie Escape is the tricky jumps often needed. The one I still struggle with from time to time is the corner/turn jump. Unlike in reality, where once you jump you’re going to just keep going straight, in CS if done properly you can jump outward and then turn back inward to get around edges and other tricky spots. How to do this is to get a bit of a running start, jump, and then depending on the severity of the turn you need to flick your wrist appropriately to face where you want to land. This can be frustrating at first, but given a little practice, this can help you avoid some obstacles and survive some levels.
Another jumping trick I learned at my time here at Zombie Murder is if you hold down the jump button, you can skip along the top of the water. This is important, because in some maps anything beneath the very top layer of water is deadly. This can also come in handy if you jump forward off of a boat and can skip along faster then the boat for a few seconds. Anything to buy yourself a few seconds.
7. Don't stand near edges:
I can't tell you how many games were lost because one human got knifed by standing on the edge of a ledge, hole etc. Stay back and stay alive. If you see one of your teammates acting dumb let him know over the mic. If he doesn't move I would keep my weapon aimed on him so you can shoot him off when he gets zombied.
8. The tip here doesn't apply because we have no clip on.
9. Avoid Fail Nades
You’ll see it happen time and time again, the fail nade. Somebody throws a grenade that is completely unnecessary and it launches a zombie into a pack of humans. All I can say for this is don’t be stupid and save your grenades for relevant times in a map. As much fun as it might be to see a group of 10 zombies all in flames, if you have a group of 15 humans all shooting at them, you probably don’t need to throw it. Just be smart about it and at the very least always throw in front of the lead zombie.
10. Running
First and probably the most obvious one, always run with your pistol/knife/grenade. You'll hear it said over and over again, but if you don't do this you are just plain dumb. The whole point of escape servers is to move as quickly as a unit as possible.
Some people claim that you run even faster with a scout out, but I’ve never tried to confirm this and even if it was true I’m not willing to give up my pump shotgun to try it out. (Phase Edit: You do run faster but you might as well be running with a sandwich because you are going to be eaten by zombies)
Top Ten Tips and Tricks
1. Teamwork.
People say it all the time, but if you don’t do it, you really just don’t have a chance. It doesn’t take much; hold doors, communicate, don’t leave on a boat before everyone is there, just simple decent human things to do. Sure, you can screw people over, but if one person is, then somebody else decides they will be too, and before you know it nobody is willing to hold boats for anyone, and the game is an epic fail. Also, screw over enough people and the zombies start killing everyone, chances are you aren’t going to win anyway. Being a good teammate is contagious too, if other players see you holding doors and vehicles and waiting until 5-10 seconds are left before running to an escape vehicle, they be more likely to do the same. Everyone wins in that situation. Overall philosophy, try and put yourself in the same situation as the people behind you and if you would be pissed off if the person in front of you did that to you, then don’t do it to them..
2. Think Backward.
This area is the one I’m probably the worst at. Most people who play the game just start running straight ahead at the beginning of every round and never look back. I’ve lost plenty of rounds where I was just caught up in trying to get to the end as fast as possible and in hindsight if I had gone back to help others I would of had a much better chance of surviving the round. Falling back a little to shoot a zombie off a bridge or dock so other humans can catch up to you can save everyone’s life. Instead of that zombie getting ahead of the other humans, killing them, and 10 zombies now chasing you down, falling back to holding off that one gives you 10 extra humans to help you get to the end of the map. Just try to think ahead to what the end game situation is likely to be and whether or not you might be better off going back to help others out.
3. Zombie Escape Specific Scripts
If you are having trouble crouch jumping or find yourself wondering how some players seem to buy everything so quickly, it might be because they are using scripts. To sum up scripts quickly, CS lets you assign certain in-game actions to different buttons. That’s a script. Just search Google and you’re bound to come upon a tutorial or two hundred on how to do this yourself. You can also download a script program, which simplifies the process by adding suggested scripts to your keyboard layout in-game, so you can assign the buttons as you see fit.
Scripts I recommend and have used are:
Crouch jump – Space bar or V
Quick switch to grenade – Q
Buy shotgun, grenade, sidearm, Kevlar, and ammo – N
Say “!ztele” – G
You can customize the buttons anyway you want to fit your playing style, these one just happen to work for me and are my favorites.
4. Choose appropriate weapons.
I probably don’t do this enough, but the map you are on should affect your decision on what weapon you buy. If it’s an open map with long fields, maybe a sniper rifle or famas is good choice. Playing a level that you know humans have to hold off zombies trying to get over a box? Opt for either a shotgun or machine gun. A sniper rifle probably won’t do you much good in that situation.
5. BOOM HEADSHOOT!
People should probably just assume this, but I’m going to say it anyway, if you aren’t going for headshots, you are probably going to lose a lot of close rounds. The difference in how far the zombies flies backward is huge from a nice clean headshot compared to random shots to the chest. A clean pump shotgun to the face will knock a zombie back 30-40 feet, where the same shot to the chest might only get you 10 feet. This won’t make a huge difference if it’s 10 guys holding off 10 zombies, but if it’s just 2-3 humans holding back 10 zombies, you got to make every shot count. To summarize in 4 words, make headshots a habit.
6. Moving Around
One of the toughest things for me to adjust to as a relatively newer person to Zombie Escape is the tricky jumps often needed. The one I still struggle with from time to time is the corner/turn jump. Unlike in reality, where once you jump you’re going to just keep going straight, in CS if done properly you can jump outward and then turn back inward to get around edges and other tricky spots. How to do this is to get a bit of a running start, jump, and then depending on the severity of the turn you need to flick your wrist appropriately to face where you want to land. This can be frustrating at first, but given a little practice, this can help you avoid some obstacles and survive some levels.
Another jumping trick I learned at my time here at Zombie Murder is if you hold down the jump button, you can skip along the top of the water. This is important, because in some maps anything beneath the very top layer of water is deadly. This can also come in handy if you jump forward off of a boat and can skip along faster then the boat for a few seconds. Anything to buy yourself a few seconds.
7. Don't stand near edges:
I can't tell you how many games were lost because one human got knifed by standing on the edge of a ledge, hole etc. Stay back and stay alive. If you see one of your teammates acting dumb let him know over the mic. If he doesn't move I would keep my weapon aimed on him so you can shoot him off when he gets zombied.
8. The tip here doesn't apply because we have no clip on.
9. Avoid Fail Nades
You’ll see it happen time and time again, the fail nade. Somebody throws a grenade that is completely unnecessary and it launches a zombie into a pack of humans. All I can say for this is don’t be stupid and save your grenades for relevant times in a map. As much fun as it might be to see a group of 10 zombies all in flames, if you have a group of 15 humans all shooting at them, you probably don’t need to throw it. Just be smart about it and at the very least always throw in front of the lead zombie.
10. Running
First and probably the most obvious one, always run with your pistol/knife/grenade. You'll hear it said over and over again, but if you don't do this you are just plain dumb. The whole point of escape servers is to move as quickly as a unit as possible.
Some people claim that you run even faster with a scout out, but I’ve never tried to confirm this and even if it was true I’m not willing to give up my pump shotgun to try it out. (Phase Edit: You do run faster but you might as well be running with a sandwich because you are going to be eaten by zombies)
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Its not like I can't buy all of my weapons before the game starts: b21, b11-5,b62,b64 done 
