r/DeadAhead • u/LickYouUpAndDown • 13h ago
Question Best Faction?
Hi guys i kinda just got back into the game and irdk what i was doing when i started playing this as a kid, and now I decided to return to see what’s up. After researching about the mechanics that this game has, I noticed that factions were a thing in this game and there are 3 factions that Im currently having a hard time choosing: mechanic, rednecks, and police. Im in need of advice on whats the current meta and what characters should I build to construct a good team for the long run.
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u/SrCorvoAB7 13h ago
I'd say it depends on how you like to play, the strategy you use. For example, most people say the Rednecks are very good from location 8 onwards, but I prefer TMF because I know how to play with them and I've managed to win the missions most of the time
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u/Hallsight Flamethrower 4h ago
Mechanics if you want your bus repaired and if you struggle on keeping your bus undamaged during hard / nightmare / extreme campaign missions. Rednecks if you want a pseudo-courage generator without spending rage points on the actual generator. Police if you are reliant or spammy on ranged units (shotgunners, etc...) and want to give them extra ammunition or if you want to use the full team powers (5/5), deploy one police unit as cannon fodder then let them die so the other police units that are left alive get fury for 10 seconds (fury = basically max aggression + increased damage).
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u/Organic-Squirrel-678 4h ago
A video such as this illustrate why rednecks excel at campaign:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rVw9PJX1g-Y&ra=m
Spam spam spam, when spam units take damage or die, they generate courage, which fuels more spam! His redneck is not even zero cooldown which would enable even more spam. He also doesn’t have dino charm which would double his choppers. But this video illustrates the fundamentals of why this is so powerful.
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u/Eridium13FR Dr. Miller 2h ago
There is no absolute best faction in the game, each is good in its own way and all players have different preferences
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u/growkid Dr. Norman 13h ago
All three are viable choices for campaign with their own benefits!
Rednecks are overall the strongest team for campaign in my opinion with their unit spam, police are the most versatile out of the three, and mechanics are both the safest team to use thanks to their bus healing as well as the cheapest to build as you only need two skins!
What units to focus on does depend on what team you wanna go for, but Carlos, Diaz, Rogue, and Mechanic are overall very safe choices!