Supplies

There are three major types of supplies your group of survivors should watch out for: ammo, first aid kits, and pills. These supplies are vital to surviving your journeys through infected territory.

Ammo

Without ammo the primary weapons are little more than crude bludgeons. Therefore, it’s extremely important to conserve and stock up on ammo to keep these weapons firing. To retrieve ammo, simply stand next to a stockpile and interact with it.

Always reload before interacting with an ammo pile to ensure you’re retrieving the maximum amount. Ammo piles can always be found in safe houses as well as in other static locations across each level.

Unlike with some supplies and pickups, the location of ammo is not determined by the director. So each time you play through a level, ammo will be located in exactly the same spot each time.

Study the provided maps in the following chapters to locate all the ammo sites, and make sure to stop at each while advancing through each level.

First Aid Kit

These small red bags contain bandages and other first aid supplies vital to restoring health. To use a first aid kit on yourself, equip it and then press and hold the fire button.

Healing takes a few seconds, so make sure a teammate is covering you—the white progress bar in the center of the screen indicates how long the process takes.

Avoid healing out in the open where attacks can come from anywhere. Instead, look for small rooms, preferably with few entry points. You can also heal teammates. Equip a first aid kit, approach a wounded teammate, and then press and hold the melee button.

The teammate can continue rotating and firing while being healed but must remain standing in the same spot; otherwise, the healing process must start over.

Once the healing process is complete 60 hit points are recovered.

First Aid Kit Achievements

Name: Dead Giveaway

Description: Heal a fellow survivor when your own health is below 10.

Gamerpoints: 10

Tips: Don’t make a habit of doing this, but it’s worth trying it one time to earn this achievement. Before using your first aid kit on someone else, make sure somebody else has a first aid kit ready to heal you .

Name: Field Medic

Description: Heal 25 survivors with a first aid kit.

Gamerpoints: 20

Tips: This will take some time to achieve and means putting the health of your teammates first. But don’t be foolish. If your health bar is in the orange or red zone, always heal yourself. You won’t do your teammates any good if you’re dead. To speed up the process, offer to pick up all first aid kits and heal teammates on the spot.

This works well in safe houses before starting a level—you can perform as many as three heals in a few seconds.

Pills

These pain reliever pills are another way to restore health. But pills are only a temporary fix, holding you over until you can find and use a first aid kit.

Consuming pills restores your health by 60 hit points but does not completely heal serious injuries.

So if your health bar is in the orange or red zone, it will remain the same color even after you down a bottle of pills. As a result, any mobility penalties associated with low health are still applied, causing your character to limp and lag behind teammates with health in the green zone.

Anyone who’s healed with pills has a health bar filled with dashed vertical lines instead of a solid bar.

So take notice of your teammates’ health bars and provide support as needed—it may mean slowing down to prevent leaving someone behind.

If you have a teammate in need of health, you can hand over a bottle of pills by equipping it, standing next to the teammate, and pressing the melee button. This simply transfers the pills from one inventory to another—your teammate must then consume the pills.

Pills Achievement

Name: Pharm-assist

Description: Give pain pills to 10 Survivors.

Gamerpoints: 20

Tips: Simply hand over 10 bottles of pills to your teammates.