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During the game-play and gaining much experience, I saved much of the experience points for most important parts of the game; but that's just me. Many people have placed there skill points in useful places and I agree with most; this gives me the reason not to tip you on where to place your skill points and instead, just let you know what my skill points looked like when I beat the game:
Custom made:

Strength: 12
Endurance: 12
Precision: 11
Intellect: 8
Luck: 7

Strength Skills
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Blunt: 53
Blades: 34

Precision Skills
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Pistols: 58
Long Guns: 37
Automatics: 59
Special Weapons: 20

Intellect Skills
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Smarts: 45
Security: 47
Searching: 40
First Aid: 50

Endurance Skills
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Fitness: 52
Survival: 46

Hopefully, this helps.
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Tips:

Searching is very important. Whether you get junk or not, that 'junk' can be very useful further in the game. When I speak 'searching' I also mean to search houses, other areas, etc, up and down. You may find something really important that you may need at the moment and that can keep you from getting killed. :P

If you were looking for action/searching advice then..
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Try looking for the colored, bearded man around the large, second section of the map. He'll ask you for materials so that he can construct weapons for you to use. (That's where the 'searching for "junk"' comes into play.)

I hope, altogether, this helps a lot!

there is no key to the herc cell so if any of u say u got all of it done u r BS

The key to herc is one the table on the right of the area. your talking about the cell to your wife right?

Ooooo you don,t need 100% achievements to get the third reward! Apparently you get it at 75% This weapon is so awesome that you just look a group of Zs and they die(unless you miss ).The only hint I'll give is that it's a real blast from the past,lol.

In case no one has said it yet one of the final weapons you can find is at the ARMY base in a Humvee inside one of the buildings.Make sure to search the Humvee doors.

I saw that someone posted that the "take 15 bottles of pain pills" achievement seems to be buged because you can't find that many bottles,but I have been killing endless waves of Zs and have seen them drop a few pain pills.Thus it would seem that if you just keep killing Zs you may be able ti finish that achievement. I hope this will be of some help.

Turtelman1234: There are just some places you can not get to right now,but I hear that may change if the maker of this game comes out with a patch.

richard is in the subway at the far end

broha, the key to the herc cell is to the right of the door.

I've gotten to like the regular katana better than the battle axe. It's almost always one hit one kill (except with the fatties) and I seem to get more critical hits with it. If you level up your blade skill you'll get 50+ dmg with each slice.

BIG TIP for those looking for pain pills: I've gotten up to level 27 by walking up and down Stanton St. killing zombies and the only two times any zombies dropped pain pills was when my health was very low. If you're looking for pain pills, get your health very low and then keep fighting until a zombie drops pain pills. The first time I thought it was a coincidence, but I tried it purposefully a second time and it worked perfectly.

where do you find the boat i have looked everywhere now

jd4life: The boat is on the island at the very end of the map.

My best combat strategy is to focus on bladed melee. The advantages stack up - no reloading, no running out of ammunition, high damage, 100% accuracy.

The sharpened katana, sharpened fire axe, battle axe, and katana, in that order, are the best bladed melee weapons. A cleaver or sharpened cleaver are what you want to pick up as soon as you can, and a hatchet or sharpened hatchet will carry you through just fine. And yes, it is always good to keep getting better melee so you can 1-shot more and more of the higher health zombies.

Starting with a high luck skill will help you find a cleaver early. Leveling your searching and luck early on makes the entire game better. I started as a Con Artist on my 4th run through, and in the first hospital I picked up an undefined, which made my entire run much more fun as I could simply hoard what I found.

An smarts of 35 makes books +5 to each skill, which is nice. I wonder what what it would be like to level intelligence as much as possible and what that would do to a run.

The M24 is a great gun with an excellent economy of ammunition, and is actually very close to the M82, which you will not find very much ammo for.

Full riot gear police (with the face shield) are a problem for run with blades, switching to a high powered rifle, such as the excellent M24, will finish them. You get a scoped M24 at the military base, which is the most accurate sniper rifle in the game.

Rentsy, actually armored police/military are easiest to kill with a katana or battle axe. Aim at the legs and swing and you'll get a one hit one kill.

to get forgetful dont use points the first time u level up u will get the achievement wen u level up the second time

give your companion the rpg/grenade launcher as soon as you get it, and watch all the zombies get blown to pieces

for large hordes i used a ump45 spec ops and i used a battle axe for melee