Hello everyone,
Exciting news for all gamers seeking to elevate their gameplay! I’ve just released a meticulously crafted game guide, designed to be adaptable across various roles and backgrounds within the game. Approved by JIMD, this guide is your spoiler-free pathway to mastering the game’s intricacies and achieving a perfect playthrough.
This isn’t just a static document; it’s a living, breathing guide designed for community enrichment. You’re welcome to contribute directly! If you make any modifications, please just add a quick note in the change log at the bottom with the date, your initials, a summary of the change, and a brief explanation. This collaborative spirit is what makes this guide truly special.
I’m particularly keen to see this guide expand. I encourage you to develop supplementary pages detailing your experiences with different character builds, backgrounds, or even romance paths, and how they interact with the core decisions outlined in the guide. If your contribution is substantial, I’ll transform it into its own dedicated guide (a separate Google document) and link it at the top, creating a library of diverse gameplay strategies. Think about adapting scenarios – perhaps a guide from the perspective of a teenage con artist, or even an “evil” playthrough – always aiming to harmonize your chosen background and story with the guide’s framework to unlock the maximum potential.
The current guide is built around a character archetype I call the “honorable, humane, mostly honest, mostly calculated, strong leader.” While it utilizes ranged skills, feel free to swap this for melee or hand-to-hand combat styles. You might need to adjust the attribute distribution slightly to perfectly match your preferred combat style, but the core principles remain highly effective.
This guide prioritizes gathering a strong and loyal team, maximizing the opinion, morale, and allegiance of your companions. It also focuses on efficiently accumulating essential resources – supplies, equipment, and crucial information – all while deeply engaging with the game’s narrative. To further assist you in character optimization, I’ve also created skill and attribute calculators, sample character builds, and comprehensive information on survivor stats. Alongside detailed lists of weapons and clothing and their in-game effects, these tools, combined with stat checks derived directly from the game code, will streamline character creation, making it less of a trial-and-error process.
It’s important to note that while I’ve been a beta tester for part 3 of the game, this guide is built upon the existing game content and doesn’t knowingly incorporate or anticipate any specific Part 3 elements. Adaptations for future releases may be needed, but for now, this guide represents a robust and effective strategy for the current game.
Please do share your thoughts, questions, and feedback here, or feel free to PM me directly! Also, don’t forget to check out Jim’s Facebook group for ZESH. It’s a vibrant community hub, often buzzing with quick and insightful posts and comments, including direct engagement from the author and development team!
ZESH Community Links:
Google Sheet Calculator (Updated for Editing)
To those who utilize this guide, I’d appreciate your input on the following to help further refine it:
- Have you experienced the beta chapters 8 and 9? (Your experience informs helpful suggestions)
- Are you a Patreon supporter of Jim’s work? (Your support provides valuable context)
- What aspects of the guide would you like to see modified?
- Do you concur that the guide’s decision-making is generally optimal?
- Are you comfortable using the Google Sheets calculators for character planning and analysis?
- What additions or removals would enhance the guide’s utility?
- How willing are you to contribute to the guide’s future iterations?
Your feedback is invaluable in making this guide the best resource possible for our gaming community. Let’s collaborate and make this guide even better!
