Highlights

  • State of Decay 2 is a survival game that challenges players to navigate an open-world filled with zombies and explore new tools, outposts, and survivors.
  • Outposts are essential for survival, providing characters with a steady stream of resources and even bonuses. Different outposts offer different benefits and strategies.
  • Landmark outposts like the Leeds Concrete Silo, Red Talon Watch Tower, Echo Labs Research Station, Sasser Regional Hospital, and New Hope Church provide unique advantages and supplies to help players and their communities survive.

What's more authentically raw and gritty than scavenging for survival? From the zany brains at Undead Labs and Xbox Game Studio, State of Decay 2 tests the survival skills and wit of players. Through the eyes of randomly generated characters, the game pushes players to embrace the open-world layout and explore new tools, outposts, and other survivors against the growing variety of zombie types like the daunting juggernauts or the animalistic ferals.

Using new scavenging skills and learning new methods to allocate resources, outposts are essential to give characters a fighting chance to survive against the Blood Plague-afflicted monsters. Thankfully, the world supplies players with numerous locations to set up camp or build a strong fortitude against their apocalyptic reality, including outposts. These locations provide a steady stream of tools, weapons, and other supplies for one's character and their group/community. In some cases, they even provide bonuses.

5 Leeds Concrete Silo

Leeds State of Decay 2-1

Among the sparse and hilly Leeds Quarry region of Cascade Hills, the Leeds Concrete Silo is a landmark outpost that requires characters to know about construction. Once cleared, the silo offers players strategies for spending labor, parts, or influence. Free materials upkeep comes with this landmark outpost, allowing players to spend their influence passively.

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The zombies in this area appear ever-flowing. However, once the site is cleared and the nearby plague heart is claimed, the Silo doesn't require many building materials. Passive maintenance increases morale as the focus can be directed toward security and defense. Additional resources such as cars, building materials, pipe bombs, grenades, and other tools are easily found at the Silo. This outpost is fruitful for any beginner player. It's one of the easiest setups for building an outpost to protect a community in State of Decay 2 landmark maps.

4 Red Talon Watch Tower (Red Talon Daybreak FOB)

Red Talon Watchtower - State of Decay

When it comes to prioritizing finding the best essentials when scavenging and building, the Red Talon Daybreak FOB outpost is a prime water supply for communities. Living up to the game's name, the rotting former military base has decayed since the zombie outbreak. It delivers on creepiness too, as the base is built around fairgrounds. Since its decay began, the Red Talon Watch Tower appears eerily empty. However, it provides characters with executive weaponry, security against zombie threats and sieges, daily maintenance, and CLEO (Computerized Logistics for Executive Operations) support for radio transmitters and drone strikes.

The Red Talon Watchtower is a treasure trove for tech pieces to aid in construction and rebuilds. Such an outpost requires one labor and one ultrasonic range finder to upgrade. With the help of central character Chavez, players can rebuild the tower with communication access to reach CLEO. This can help them remain knowledgeable of what's happening across the map.

3 Echo Labs Research Station

Breaking into the Research

Located in the resurfaced Trumbull Valley in the Juggernaut edition of the game, this outpost comes at a higher cost of 1000 influence. It's worth the hefty price, since it provides specialized strategy options for players. Specimen incubation, biochem crafting, and serum production are all included in the Echo Labs Research Station.

A survivor carrying supplies approaching a house in State of Decay 2
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This allows characters access to more plague consumables that mask human scent from zombies, extra med packs and health boosters, and the ability to make plague samples/consumables. These are all essentials for players on higher difficulty levels. Any playthrough becomes easier with serums, scent blocks, and weapons like bloater grenades used against zombies such as the Juggernauts and plague hearts.

2 Sasser Regional Hospital

Community Nurse searches for working car

A player's strategy for claiming outposts remains dependent on the character's and group's needs. But regardless of those factors, the Sasser Regional Hospital proves to be a worthy location. Found in Drucker County, this is the place for ample medical supplies in hygienic, urgent, and preventative care. This outpost provides infection resistance, aids in boosting community morale, and gives players maximum strength.

Securing this outpost means receiving daily supplies, while enhancing a character's medical and pathology skills. It doesn't hurt to stock up and secure an outpost with precious resources in one of the most picky landmark maps in the game.

1 New Hope Church

Choosing Strategy for New Hope Church Outpost

The prime strategies for this Providence Ridge outpost include stronghold, shelter, and sanctuary. These strategies offer versatile benefits depending on which is chosen to aid characters or their communities. At 100 influence, through any chosen strategy, players can either increase community morale with leisure activities, fortify defenses while reducing infestations with post guards, or provide extra beds for their community.

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As a place of plentiful benefits, this State of Decay 2 outpost stands out for a plethora of supplies players can obtain. Depending on one's threat level, the New Hope Church does well to serve the community's most urgent needs.