The Last Stand 2 is the sequel to the hit game, that's right, The Last Stand. It takes place where the first left off, your character has boarded the helicopter untill there is an accident on board and you become the sole survivor of it's crash.
Movement and actions are pretty simple. Use either the W,A,S,D or Arrow keys to move your character. The 'R' Key reloads your current weapon. Last, but not least, the Space bar switches between your main and off-hand weapon. Use your mouse to aim and shoot those wicked Zombies.
Your only goal is to make it to Union city in fourty days to catch the last trip out of this hell-hole. Spend daytime searching stores for supplies and weapons, and night fending off the zombies behind your barricade.
Lets get familiar with our enemies now: Zombie: Your average unlucky citizen, not to much trouble, aim for the head for a quick take down.
Runner: A zombie that charges at your barricade, try for these suckers first, then pick off any remaining ones. Shooting their legs may make them lose their balance.
Zombie Dog: These guys will charge at you the fastest, lucky for you they have almost no health and can be taken down with just a few shots from even the weakest guns.
Army/Swat Zombies: These are the worst there is, they have bullet-proof vests and protective helmets, weaker guns wont even phase these guys. Go for the legs if your using an automatic and they should go down fairly easy. A high powered gun may be able to pierce their armor but your best bet is always their legs.
Good, now since we met our new "friends" we can get down to bussiness. As stated before, your day time hours, a total of about 12, should be spent searching stores and houses for guns and supplies, you might pick up a survivor when doing this too. Gun shops, police stations, and some households will be where you will want to search first, as these have the highest chance of yielding one of those ever so pretty toys. Other stores and most houses will give you supplies, which you need to travel between towns, and the occasional trap.
Before I lose you too much let's learn alittle more about guns, traps, and survivors:
Guns: These are your primary source of damage and one of the few ways to kill those pesky zombies. Searching police stations and gun stores will almost always reward you with a new one of these.
Traps: Traps come in three shapes, bear traps, exploding traps, and land mines. The bear trap will catch any zombie that walks over it and gives you a nice chance to score a easy head shot. The Exploding barrels will trigger if you shoot them with a ranged weapon, taking out anything standing too close, carefull this may trigger other barells accidentally. The last, the land-mine, is one of the best. This spells immediate doom for any zombie and close friends of his that get too close, but these arnt found usually till a little later.
Survivors: Ahhh, company at last. Much better than survivors in the first game, these guys you can equip with any weapon you have that you currently arn't usuing. Equip your survivors on the screen where you choose the weapons you'll carry the upcomming night. Just click-and-drag the weapon you want them to have to the bottom right and drop it in one of the nice red-outlined boxes, Note: You have to have a suvivor to equip one, duhh..
Now since you know your enemies, toys, and friends, lets get to know the towns!
Glendale: The starting town, searching the local buildings will get you these goodies; Revolver: Good damage, and six shots. Fairly slow reload time. Very accurate and good for the first few towns. Chainsaw: Your best friend and off-hand for the rest of the game, this guy may have a slow refilling time but will hack any zombie banging on your barricade.
Whistler's Grove: The next town. Search for these weapons; Compound bow: Fast reload time and fairly good damage. A player favorite so far, but wont get you far in the game. Shotgun: One of my favorites early on, great damage and its shot spread through multiple adjacent enemies. Good gun till you find some in later towns, great to equip a survivor with.
Claysburg: Search the gun stores/police department for these great guns; Uzi: Good clip of 50 bullets and great damage. Rate of fire is superb, this should be your primary for a while. Ump 45: Submachine gun, recommended to pass it to a survivor for best results.
Aspenwood: Now your in the middle of nowhere, not too many shops so it shouldnt be hard to find; Sawn-off: Not nearly as good as the version in the first one, this is gonna be discarded very easily, not even recommended for a survivor. Hunting rifle: One of my favorites, one shot kill with only moderate aiming skills, the fact it only has one bullet before it needs a reload is a bummer though...
Jonestown: Were closing in on Union City now guys. This city is pretty damn big, lots of places to search, but we just want to find the goodies here. A security company and police station are ripe for the taking, this years harvest includes; M4A1: Not a bad gun, but not the best reload time. A survivor will appreciate this. Ak-47: Seems to have better damage than your Uzi, but the reload time in compairson is just too slow. Suvivors will adore you for this though. Grenades: Although I havn't gotten them myself in game, they should do some good damage, and damages clusters of zombies. Would be a usefull secondary arm, if your willing to give up your Chainsaw that is...
Fort Tran: Your right before Union city and this is the last level, if you made it this far you should have no problem beating the game. Just dont stick around too long. This city hides the best weapon in the game; M429 Minime: This thing is massive! It holds 200 bullets per clip, and the reload time is actually not too shabby for the clip size it has. The damage is superb. Best Gun in the game and not too hard to find. RPG: If you need to take out a group clustered together, look no further. Upsides: High splash damage, Downside: Slow reload time and can only fire once at a time. Might be fun to see a survivor use if possible.
Congratulations, You've most likely made it to Union City with all this help in the fourty days you have! If not, well... now you know not to waste your time and you can certainly make it on your second attempt.
Some extra tips/recapped information: Fat zombies have alot of health and your more likely to hit their shoulders than their heads, shoot for the legs to take these guys down quick.
When choosing your primary arm, remember: Fast reload and fairly decent clip size/damage are the most important.
As for secondary arms I suggest: Chainsaw, Grenades, RPG
very useful, but I can't come past the Aspenwood part without breaking a sweat. This game is an inspiration for a concept me and two pals are throwing together.
aspen wood also has a compound bow and its really good if you know how to use it also its hard to get to union creek going to every possible place so pick the shortest rought
I can't get to fort tran. I got stuck in Jonestown and there's only enough supplies for getting to union city. I'm afraid that I can't get any supplies.(I tried it)
I have tried this game three times and keep running out of ammo. I have my primary weapon and back up weapon but in all three attempts they simply stop reloading and shooting. I can do everything else and my fellow survivors keep shooting, I just can't. Is this normal? Do we have to ration our shots?
Also how do you equip your survivors with weapons?
I realized how to provide weapons to my survivors (duh) but I still have that frustrating issue of running out of ammo popping up from time to time forcing me to restart. Arggg
Anyway I have made it to Union city twice now. The first time with two days left and the second with four. Both times I saw the city being bombed and it said I was too late. Is that the end? Can you never make it in time to be rescued?
hey, just to point out, you got one thing a little wrong regarding soldier and swat zombies - while soldiers do have protective headgear, SWAT members only have a balclava and take normal head damage. Furthermoe, if you have very good aim, you can get a head shot on the soldiers by aiming at the small portion of their face that is visible. If they are next to the barrir, it is very easy to attack this section of the head with the chainsaw.
After many tries and observation, here's my proposed weapons list for your survivors:
1) Upper slot: Shooting Rifle 2) 2nd slot from top: Shotgun 3) 3rd slot from top: Sawn off shotgun 4) last slot: .357 revolver
With this setting, my survivors are doing the best damage. I hardly need to save them even at the last town.
The automatic rifles are not well used by the survivors.
Good weapons for yourself:
1) Ak-47: The clip isn't large, but it has the best firepower. If you have a good aim, it's better than the UZI.
2) Shotgun: You can even finish the game with it, especially using the chainsaw cheat to get 50 bullets. Even without, shoot and reload. Don't wait to empty the gun. Shoot only at runners, let the survivors kill the rest. If a runner is coming while shooting, press fire, he will quit reloading and fire the rounds he has. Very good for people with bad aim.
3) UZI. Great clip, but damage is poor. I have found myself unloading my clip on fat female zombie's head with machete and not killing it in time to prevent the death of a fellow survivor.
4) M4. Damage a bit larger than the UZI. However the clip capacity is medium and damage is inferior than the AK-47. Good for people with good aim that can shoot in short bursts to save ammunition.
5) UMP.: At the hands of a sharp shootet, it can be even better than the UZI, for the fact that is very accurate and with slightly faster reload time.
6) The Compound Bow. You can go all the way to the end with this, if you have good aim. The only problem is finger pain from too much clicking. 2 shots on the head (or leg shots to SWAT and army zombies) will take down any zombie.
7) The Chainsaw. Never liked it. Too strong in close quarters.
8) The Minigun and RPG: Overkill.
9) The Sawn-off Shotgun: Probably the most useless weapon in the game for you, because of the ridiculously low reload time.
10) Hunting Rifle: Good for sharp Shooters with excellent aim, but in the last city where zombies attack in waves of runners, it's too slow to reload.
Note: All automatic weapons are "wasted" in the hands of fellow survivors. They tend to shoot sparingly and with bodyshots too, at 5 rounds at a time, insufficient to kill a fat zombie.
Traps: Prefer to place traps on your 1st top and last bottom slots, since it's there that most armed zombies usually run to kill your fellow survivors. This way you save traps for next battles. Don't lay any traps at your last battle before you leave a city, as the unused ones will be lost.
I tend to put the bear traps or mines, at the last square before my barricade. In this way, they usually catch a zombie that made it all the way to the barricade and aren't wasted on zombies that can be killed from safe distance.
Explosive traps: I put 1 per battle on the 3rd square from the barricade, right in the middle of the road. Usually it's on the path of the first rush towards you and you can kill many with one blast.
Shotgun tips: Try to shoot zombies from a diagonal position. Some pellets may spray to kill nearby zombies. Don't bother aiming the crosshairs on their hands. Keep the crosshairs close to your barricade, aim towards the charging zombie direction, the bullets will spread much and do their collateral damage.
General tips: For some reason, i find that the accuracy is improved, when i shoot from a position slightly above or below the zombies head. When perfectly alligned, oddly enough, some bullets miss. This is especially true for the revolver.
Aspenwood: The 2 Aspenwood guns, are positioned ALWAYS, on the 3 lower left houses. Just take them and leave Aspenwood (provided you have supplies).
So, you are reloading your shotgun, you are at 2 shots and running zombies get to you. Click fire, so that he ll stop reloading, change to the UZI and spray the zombies that by then will be on your barricade. Continue with the UZI until you can change clip, if you find relative peace, switch back to shotgun and reload.
I realized how to provide weapons to my survivors (duh) but I still have that frustrating issue of running out of ammo popping up from time to time forcing me to restart. Arggg
Don't waste your bullets on walking zombies, unless they arrive too close. Let your survivors kill them. Your job is to kill runners and protect your survivors from getting killed by armed zombies. So, only shoot runners, EMPTY your clip quickly when it's low on bullets and reload to be ready for the next runner wave.
Anyway I have made it to Union city twice now. The first time with two days left and the second with four. Both times I saw the city being bombed and it said I was too late. Is that the end? Can you never make it in time to be rescued?
You need 6 days to go from the last city to Union city. The ending isn't all that great though, you don't lose anything...
Oh, i forgot. If you are one of those that don't have good aim and want to have easier headshots, try the fullscreen version of the game. The target is much bigger, headshots are easier. ))
Apart kidding, it's a very interesting experience and your accuracy does improve very much.
