Dead Rising 3 Upgrade Guide

Upgrade Guide











Attributes





Life

• +1 Life Cube (1 AP required)
• +1 Life Cube (1 AP required)
• +1 Life Cube, Increased Survivor Life (2 AP required)
• +1 Life Cube, Increased food effect/duration (3 AP required)
• +1 Life Cube, Health regeneration (3 AP required)
• +1 Life Cube, Survivor Recovery (4 AP required)
• +2 Life Cubes, Full health regeneration (4 AP required)

Inventory

• +1 Inventory Slot (2 AP required)
• +1 Inventory Slot (3 AP required)
• +1 Inventory Slot (4 AP required)
• +1 Inventory Slot (5 AP required)
• Mobile Locker Blueprint (5 AP required)

Melee

• New Skill Move, Increased Melee weapon durability (1 AP required)
• New Skill Move, Increased Melee damage (2 AP required)
• New Skill Move, Increased Melee weapon durability (3 AP required)
• New Skill Move, Increased Melee damage resistance (4 AP required)
• New Skill Move, Reduced chance of enemy grapple (4 AP required)
• Increased Melee weapon durability, increased melee damage (4 AP required)

Ranged

• Increased ranged weapon ammo (2 AP required)
• Increased firearm damage resistance, increased fire/explosive damage resistance (3 AP required)
• Increased ranged weapon damage (4 AP required)
• Armor piercing bullets (5 AP required)
• Increased ranged weapon ammo, increased ranged weapon damage (5 AP required)

Mechanic

• Increased crafting speed (1 AP required)
• Vehicle push (2 AP required)
• +2 Maximum posse size, increased male survivor damage (3 AP required)
• Increased vehicle damage resistance (4 AP required)
• Increased crafting speed (4 AP required)
• Indestructible vehicles (4 AP required)

Agility

• Increased sprint duration (1 AP required)
• New Skill move, no fall damage (1 AP required)
• Increased spring recharge rate, increased sprint duration (2 AP required)
• Increased Knockdown recovery time, increased dodge recovery time (3 AP required)
• Increased sprint maneuverability (3 AP required)
• Zombie crowd swim (4 AP required)
• Infinite Sprint (4 AP required)

Smarts

• Increased PP Gain, Increased detection radius (1 AP required)
• Beer Hat blueprint, Buffet Cart blueprint (1 AP required)
• +2 Maximum posse size, increased female survivor damage (2 AP required)
• Increased PP Gain, Less kills to enable skill moves (3 AP required)
• Increased effects from books (3 AP required)
• Increased PP Gain, Increased kill streak timer (4 AP required)
• Equip all books simultaneously (4 AP required)

Books



Books provide players with useful passive bonuses. Only one can be equipped at a time. Two books, Outbreak Survivor and Mechanical Trends, are part of Day One DLC.

 

Title	Effect	Location
Lone Blade	Increase melee weapon durability	Ingleton (Safe Zone)
Stunt Devil	Increased damage with unarmed attacks	Ingleton (Safe Zone)
Thrifty Trader	Increase amount of PP earned	Central City (Safe Zone)
Leadership for Losers	Increases the damage inflicted by survivors	Central City (Safe Zone)
Top 10 Drink Mixes	Increase the duration of combo food effects	Almuda
Eater's World	Increases Life recovered by food	Almuda (Safe Zone)
Four Wheel Fun	Increase vehicle durability	Almuda (Safe Zone)
Undead Solutions	Reduces zombies' detection radius	Sunset Hills (Safe Zone)
Fortune Fighter	Increases firearm damage	Sunset Hills (Safe Zone)