sure

@Carla If you dont mind, I took inspiration from your video to add a step by step of how to fight barehanded in my guide, i credited you as well!

yes thats what i talking about, thank you

@johnnysilver i found that Carla's method of dodging+walking back is more consistent. The problem is after the first 3 punches, Some zombies seem to get "tankier" for being in the combat stance for too long, so they don't stagger easily. There was this one zombie where I was practicing where it would hit back after every punch after the initial 3 punch which was a pain.

By walking back after every dodge, you let your dodge meter reset, and the zombies seem to "reset" since they have to go back to their walking animation. This usually let's me do 3 punch + dodge+walk+2 punch+dodge+walk+2 punch+execute.

Some notes:

Dodge meter resets the same amount of time as a 3 hit punch or a dodge+walkback+2 hit punch, so latter is safer.

Hope that helps.

yes excatly

To add on. We could learn Melee combat with bare hands.

It does help in game play once we know the mechanics.
I was forced to learn as my 2nd run had bad weapon drop rates. Basically make sure you unequipped any weapons.

Strictly 1 V 1 and ensure no other zombies are nearby.

Punch rapidly 3 times. Watch Zombie strike animation. then [Dodge]
Punch another 2 times. Anticipate Zombie strike animation. Dodge.

Repeat while anticipating zombie strike animation. Sometimes you can straight go for kill after 2nd dodge.

So, some zombies charge attack more than 2, so when you dodge you only got two dodge and have to wait for a recharge, so this tutorial will help you to avoid getting hit and also help you save some weapon, this mechanic also work with weapon

Mechanically, what did you do different?