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In Days Gone Remastered, players are dropped into a hard-science post-apocalyptic Oregon where the management of resources, clever combat strategy, and efficient exploration are all crucial to staying alive. These key strategies involve prioritizing crafting and looting, using stealth to save ammo, repairing and upgrading your motorcycle for long-distance travel, and learning how to use NERO checkpoints and Focus Mode to tip encounters in your direction.

Advanced strategies, such as utilizing environmental dangers against Freakers, completing early-game missions for permanent stat boosts, and selecting the right progression skills, all keep making your experience smoother, with every ride and shootout truly feeling more manageable.

Survival Essentials

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1. Loot Everything & Craft Often
  • Scavenge All Enemy and Container Areas: Look around buildings, police cars, NERO camps, and defeated opponents for resources. Everything that’s scrap can come in handy in crafting items like Molotovs, health packs, and traps!
  • Master the Survival Wheel: The wheel (on PC, press and hold Q) can be opened and cycled through categories to craft spur-of-the-moment items, such as bandages, stamina cocktails, and even proximity bombs upon unlocking.
  • Clear Ambush Camps for Blueprints: Not only do you receive supplies, but you also get new recipes to create advanced bombs and throwable distractions.
2. Prioritize Stealth Over Combat
  • Silenced Weapons & Sneak Kills: Upgrade silencers and utilize suppressed weapons to silently eliminate Freakers or human enemies without alerting hordes. The best way to win a fight is not to start one at all!
  • Prioritize Headshots in Focus Mode: Use your Focus boost (activated by scroll wheel on PC) to slow down time, staging headshots that save precious ammo and dispatch enemies effectively.
3. Utilize NERO Checkpoints Strategically
  • Kill Speakers First: Kill all speakers first before activating power at NERO injectors to prevent surrounding Freakers.
  • Invest in Stamina & Focus Upgrades Sooner: When looting injectors, focus on stamina and focus upgrades; they allow you to travel longer and slow time more often, which is critical during initial game fights.

Combat Tactics

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4. Kill High-Priority Freakers
  • Screamers First: Their ear-shattering screams immobilize you and summon Swarmers. Eliminate them quickly with firearms or explosive traps.
  • Use Molotovs on Breakers: These tank-like Freakers can eat headshots like it’s nothing; set them on fire at range to wear them down, then kill with ranged attacks. Fewer Freakers will make your life easier in Days Gone Remastered!
5. Use Environmental Hazards
  • Herder Hordes into Traps: Use flares and attractors to herd groups into barbed wire or explosive proximity mines, thinning out a few before you attack directly.
  • Keep Moving: When attacking both individual Freakers and hordes, strafe and backpedal, don’t stand still or you’re an easy target!

Resource & Crafting Management

6. Stock Up Without Spending All Your Money
  • Loot Police Vehicles: They have plenty of ammo, so purchasing them from the mechanic in early and mid-game can be avoided.
  • Balance Money for Motor Upgrades: Don’t splurge all your money on bullets; first, improve the engine and fuel tank, and then spend the remaining money on bullets. Days Gone Remastered isn’t known for being forgiving with cash, so be careful!
7. Complete Weekly Challenges Early
  • Boost Core Stats by 10–20%: Challenges provide permanent stat increases (health regen, focus time, melee endurance). Do them before story missions so that the game is much easier thereafter.

Bike & Travel Management

Image from Days Gone Remastered. Courtesy of Bend Studio.
8. Improve & Maintain Your Motorcycle
  • Engine, Fuel Tank, and Handling: Upgrade engine first, then fuel capacity, and finally durability for survival on dangerous terrain and fewer stops to refuel.
  • Coast Downhill & Modulate Throttle: Half-gas to conserve fuel, and gravity will bring you down hills. This stunt can contribute so much range when travelling in Days Gone Remastered!
9. Strategic Fast Travel
  • Clear Infestation Nests: Clear all the nests between two camps to facilitate fast travel, but remember that not exploring has a cost, that being loot.
  • Use Camps as Supply Hubs: Camps in Days Gone Remastered should be used without hesitation! When you’ve got one secured, return there to refuel, repair your bike, and craft in peace.

More Advanced Techniques

10. Optimize Skill Tree Selections
  • Field Fixes & Melee Endurance: Fix your club in the heat of battle and increase damage, essential to conserving ammo!
  • Focused Fire & Juice Up: Enhance ranged critical hit chance and extend Focus Mode duration, where every shot matters during slow motion.
  • Don’t Be Afraid to Research/Experiment: There are a lot of skills, most of which are graciously explained. Still, there’s always the option of looking at a good and simple list of them all. Or feel free to try out what sounds cool!
11. Use Survival Vision to the Fullest
  • Mark Loot & Enemies: Invest points in Survival Vision upgrades to spot resources nearby, hidden doors, and enemy clusters in advance, avoiding surprise attacks.

Final Thoughts

By integrating these Days Gone Remastered tips, like prioritizing crafting, using stealth, smartly managing your motorcycle, and mastering NERO checkpoints, you’ll transform a perilous journey through Oregon into a streamlined, adrenaline-fueled ride.

Early investment in core upgrades, environmental tactics, and high-level skill choices will make every encounter, from lone Freakers to massive hordes, go your way. Stay resourceful, stay mobile, and above all, stay alive!

This article first appeared on Total Apex Gaming and was syndicated with permission.

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