Hidden Controls and Features
This Guide is here to help you learn all the hidden controls / features.
Movement / Character Tips and Secrets
You can Control your crouch hight to make yourself less visable/vulnerable
By pressing Control + Mouse Scroll Wheel to move your character up and down between standing and crouching and anything in between!
You Keep Overdosing on Medicines and Don't Know Why?
Well the simple answer is you should simply make sure you are full/have eaten before you take any medicine or drugs will give you a overdose debuff (Is that even the proper way to refer to that in this situation?) because they can't metabolise properly without food in your system.
Oh No! I Ate Something Bad/Took To Much Medicine!
Oh, its alright Johnny just make like a bulimic cheerleader after Thanks Giving dinner! Hold Tab>Select The Toilet Icon>Click Vomit Picture.
Hidden Controls / Tips With Snipers
You Can Adjust Your Zeroing With Your Scope.
By pushing Shift + Mouse Wheel while aiming down sites/scope!
You Can Adjust Your Windage On Your Scope Aswell! (Not Sure if it's Needed yet But it's Pretty Spiffy to Play With!)
By Pushing Shift + Alt + Mouse Wheel you can adjust to compensate for the wind! (When it's added well I havent had to use it at all yet).
Finally, Range Finding AH! I hear You asking, Screaming and Pleading! Well, Whats The Point Of Zeroing or Setting The Windage if I Don't Know the Range of My Target or Which Way The Wind is Blowing!?
Well first I must tell you to calm down! By just ever so gently tapping the Ctrl button while aiming down sights will intitiate the range finding feature built in as a standard in all scopes in SCUM! Now you can know the Pressure, Tempature, Humidity, Wind, and Range in between you and your target!
You Can Hold Your Breath to Stabilize Your Aim! By holding the Ctrl button you can stabilize your aim to take those really long shots!
Basically whats shown here is my scope and where my shot will land if I pulled the trigger, the way I like to think of it is in percentiles the image shown shows the tree (kinda difficult to make an example of a puppet they kept de-spawning at long ranges so bear with me.) is 263 meters away, so basically each tick on the scope measures 100 meters apart so first is 100 meters **Since The Scope Is Zeroed at 100 Meters** that means the second tick is at 200 meters and the third is at 300 meters and so on. Back to what I was saying the tree is at 263 meters out, in order for the bullet to hit my target I need to aim 63% of the way between tick 200 and tick 300, which is a little over half-way down thus hitting the target where my 263 mark is at, this works with zeroing as long as its set to 100 if you zero at 200 the numbers get wonky. If i wanted to hit roughly in the same area I did there while zeroing I usually would round up and zero to 300m and aim a hair low. But you shouldn't have to worry to much about zeroing unless your going 500m+ out, if demanded enough I'll add in a long distance shooting guide and to zero without using the range finder.
Strategy Tips
Tip 1: Avoid the towns when you start. There will be a lot of empty cupboards to search and you'll also come across more zombies.
Tip 2: When that hand icon pops up on the screen to search for rocks, do it. A few rocks will allow you to craft a basic knife via your crafting menu.
Tip 3: Use your basic stone knife to cut down bushes and shrubs (read the next point).
Tip 4: You can usually search for rocks from the same place you cut down the shrubs/bushes etc. If you can, make sure you craft the basic spear. (Tip: if you chop down the shrubs/bushes and search for rocks in the same place, you can craft from whatever is on the floor, so you don't need to pick them up).
Tip 5: There are different branches and twigs, and the spear needs the longer variety. So get to know what comes from each kind of bush/shrub.
Tip 6: When you have that spear, hold down your left mouse button to aim and then release it to launch. When you release it it's gone for good, so make it count.
Tip 7: Find a lonely zombie in a field or forest and launch your newly crafted spear at its face.
Tip 8: Loot it. If the zombie is wearing combat pants, then those will be yours when you kill it. That means you'll have more pockets and you can pick up more loot. So take note of what it's wearing as it's usually a clue.
Tip 9: If you want to loot buildings, aim for police stations etc. You'll usually find weapons or combat gear within them.
Tip 10: The scroll wheel is your friend. The scroll wheel determines how fast you move. Even when you stop and then start again, it will remember and commence at that pace. When in combat, the scroll wheel also determines how fast you can back away from a zombie, so scroll it forward to move away faster, and when it's taking a brief rest, punch your fist through its face. Just keep and eye on your stamina.
