JasonBlaze wrote:still stuck on level 3, keep getting own on the steps , not sure what to do there, so many zombies.
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My best advice is to face north when you take the steps. Then just keep back, use the delete key until you hear a zombie is ahead, then kill with the dagger. You should find 3 zombies ahead of you. There are also other zombies on the right, but don't worry about them. If you move north so that your y coordinate is 3, those zombies on the right end up in a fire pit.
To explain, let's say there are two hallways running parallel to each other, and you're in one hallway and the enemy is in the other. As you move up and down your hallway (which changes your y coordinate), the enemies in the other hallway will move also. So if you know where the traps in those other hallways are, you can lure enemies into them by matching your y coordinate to the trap you want the enemy to fall into. This only works on lower levels though; on higher levels enemies will refuse to go into traps.
The only way to get an enemy to leave the hallway they started in is to find an intersection and wait for them to come out. I think higher level enemies might be smarter and can find intersections on their own? Not sure though. Lower level enemies will dumbly stay in the same hall they started in unless you bate them out. So try not to be aligned with intersections when you're in the middle of a hoard. Enemies from connecting hallways can and will gang up on you that way.
And another tip, you should have a couple restorer items by this point. I think there's one in level 1 and another in level 2. If you didn't collect all the items, I'd start over and revisit those levels.
I hate to say it but later on in the game hoards get much, much worse. For me, it basically comes down to trying different strategies, surviving by the skin of my teeth somehow, then analyzing the layout of the grid when I'm safe and trying to devise a safer/more effective way for next time. It's not easy!
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. Luyi has a recording of it in post 9. I'm about to go out with family so I can't check it this minute, but I'll revisit it and post about it tonight.