Introduction

Vampires are the apex predator of All Out Hell, but you'll be hunted with malice by the other races. How good are you at hide and seek?

How to get started

Make a vampire account - for starting class I'd suggest Predator (Sharpened Senses) but it doesn't matter much - you will want all the vampire skills in the end
On the mini-map, click on the buildings to move to adjacent locations - you can also enter inside buildings at your current location if the barricades are removed and the door is open
Stay in a part of the city with plenty of vampire NPCs that can re-vamp you when you're revived or zombified, such as around Fort Barnes or the Zoo which has vampire birds and a vampire wolf
Focus on XP gain by killing NPCs and players you encounter - killing your own race will give zero XP

You can't hide until you have the Rafter Hang skill, and your senses won't be good at finding hidden players yet, so a sensible playstyle on your first couple of days will be to fight human or zombie NPCs when a vampire, and fight vampire NPCs (for the purpose of them killing you back to vampire) when you're converted against your will to another race. Preferred NPCs to fight at low levels include small animals, homeless men, punks and anything else that doesn’t hit back too hard.

You're easy meat for other players at this stage so you can try to end your AP cycle somewhere a decent walk from busy areas of the game, perhaps in a ruined building, sewer or quiet suburb, but you could equally accept the regular deaths and use all your AP for fighting. Don't spend more AP on finding hiding places than it would cost to just be killed and stand back up again (10ap).

First-day tips

You gain 6 AP every 15 minutes, so getting full AP takes 2.5 hours for a 60ap vampire
Tap the building name to enter it, if it is unbarricaded and doors are open (open the door first if it's closed)
Don't bother attacking barricades until your claw hit % on cades is 40%+
Buy claw skills and searching skills when you level up, be aware the price of new skills becomes more expensive every time you buy one
Don't worry too much about healing items, but if you happen to get into a hospital without much work, search them for blood bags which will cure zombie infections
Joining a group is a good way to learn the ropes and get into a good community who will give you freebies, recommend hunting grounds and teach you how to play
If you join a group, you will see players in ally groups as green and enemy groups as orange
Try putting "Do Not Revive" in your vampire/zombie profile text - some players will respect your wishes

Regarding death: you're undead, so be chill about it

Expect to die half the time you solo a NPC and every time you log out, don't worry about it, it's part of the game and doesn't stop you from gaining XP
If you are killed and find yourself human or zombie against your will, you need to get reinfected by a vampire, so go lose a fight to a vampire NPC
The Cursed Blood skill will prevent revives from forcing you into human state, which means only zombies can infect you
It costs 10ap to stand as a vampire or 15ap if someone used revive serum on you and your cursed blood let you ignore it. If you don’t have 10-15 AP, you can’t stand until you do
To cure zombie infections, keep a personal supply of blood bags which you can obtain from Hospitals and Blood Banks, or if you don't have any, just die, rise as a zombie, and go fight vampire NPCs
Keep an eye out for gag weapons that do no damage but have very high accuracy, e.g. pillow, toy gun. They're good when you're zombie and seeking a murder from a vampire NPC. High accuracy means they will kill you faster, saving you some AP.
To get killed a bit less, buy the hiding skill (Rafter Hang) and finish your last AP by hiding in a building (unlike zombies, you cannot hide in the street)

First-week tips

Once you get Supernatural Senses and a decent hit % against barricades, you can switch to hunting humans if you like. Humans tend to hide in barricaded buildings, clicking "Sense Presences" outside a building reveals with 100% certainty if there are players inside. This works as long as the barricades are "heavily" or lower, not EHB or IHB. If you know there's someone inside, but searches don't reveal them, try turning the lights on. If you are inside a building, you can use Sense Presences to smell with 100% certainty if there are any attackable players outside the building on the street, which will reveal hiding zombies.

If you have Sharpened Senses, you can hunt zombie players if you like. Whenever you see corpses on the ground, try searching, one might be a hiding zombie. Click search inside empty buildings for hiding humans - it's not a certain success so search more than once.
You know you have found an actual player if they have a color or the game says "a human", "a zombie" or "a vampire" rather than a custom name like "a starving vampire" or "Leviathan security grunt"
The gameplay advantage of killing players over NPCs (beside it simply feeling good) is that if they're offline they won't fight back, whereas NPCs will always fight back
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Get a helmet and armor, easiest options are searching inside Ye Olde Weapons Shop in Beachwood (511,508) or withdraw from group storage if you're in a group. When you get the crafting skill, you will be able to fashion better armor
Vampires can search and use some items; e.g., with lighters and gas cans you can start fires!
You can give each other items even as vampires if they're in your group or an allied group or if you friend them
Vampires and humans can craft certain items
You can hop on a train in the subway stations to fast travel between 'burbs
Backpacks and sacks allow you to carry more - click the pack/sack to open it up and put stuff in
Organ coolers let you carry extra vampire healing items
If you want to play partly as another race, in your game settings, check "Keep items that are unusable by your current race” to keep items that might be useful for the 2-3 races you want to use.

Suggested first skills to purchase

This depends on what kind of vampire you want to be. Nearly all vampire skills are useful, so these tiers are to suggest priority and ease your levelling journey with the most useful skills for your early game.

If you're going for a player hunter, like most vampires, here's the ordering I would suggest, based on a casual playstyle where you aren't desperate to avoid deaths, are keen to remain vampire whenever possible, are seeking to hunt other players ASAP, and want to get lots of XP quickly. As such, it prioritises the high-damage claw skills and searching skills which are easy to get by level 5.

Get-these-first tier

Supernatural Strength - 55% claw accuracy and 5-7 damage.
Precise Claws - Your claws do more damage and may cause bleeding.
Sharpened Senses - You can find others who are hidden quite easily.
Supernatural Senses - You are able to sense the number of beings inside or outside if barricades are below heavy.

A tier

Rafter Hang - You conceal yourself, becoming exceptionally hard to discover in darkness. However, you are very easy to find in light. You may move about the area once hidden and search for items.
Vampiric Infection - Those you kill with your fangs will become a vampire. Nothing special in itself but unlocks the path to buying Cursed Blood.
Cursed Blood - If revived you may choose to stand as a Human or Vampire. This means you can stay vampire whenever someone tries to revive you. The rise cost is raised slightly to 15ap but it's well worth it.

B tier

Inhuman Durability - You are able to shrug off 1 point of damage.
Defile - Using gore from nearby corpses, you destroy any graffiti for an XP bonus. Nothing special but unlocks Raze and Honed Claws.
Raze - Every time you successfully attack a barricade, you have a chance of damaging the building itself. Useful for keeping Grime City barricade free, which helps with hiding.
Honed Claws - Your claws now do double damage against barricades. This skill is the reason you bought the two above. You can now destroy barricades with ease which is perfect for hunting humans.

C tier

Unnatural Darkness - Lowers the chance of being found when the lights are on.
Energy Perception - You can sense information on the state of your prey. Fellow vampires read as "they seem like you". NPCs read as "less intelligent than most".
Discerning Palette [sic] - When using your Supernatural Senses you can tell if the beings are friend or foe, i.e., in an ally group or an enemy group or on your personal contacts as friend or enemy.
Night Vision - Allows you to see in the darkness as well as you can in the light.
Track Prey - You can sense the approximate direction of the last person you attacked/attacked you. Good in a live fight when your enemy flees.

D tier

Sudden Lunge - When dead you can attack a nearby victim while getting up.
Blood Letting - You do increased damage when striking the neck or chest.
Fanged Bite - 40% bite accuracy and 6 damage.
Powerful Jaws - After a successful bite, you latch on to your target and attacks receive a 10% bonus to hit.
Plasma Feeding - Successful bite attacks regain HP related to damage.
Bloodthirst - Increased attack power when on a killing spree, resets on death. Very good skill but you have to buy 3 skills above it first to unlock it, so I suggest leaving it for your late-game levelling.
Hooked Fangs - Receive a healing bonus when healing from bites while under 20HP.

E tier

Silent Whisper - You can communicate with vampires next to you without others hearing.

Useful items

Once you have got the hang of the game, you can go look for equipment that will help in a variety of ways.

Weapons

Claws are the best vampire weapons for attacking other players and barricades. Fangs can heal you (against humans and low-level zombies) but do less damage, and you risk infection if you use them on zombies.

You can't use ranged weapons, and, as you level up, you'll find that melee weapons are not as good as working bare-handed.

Special-event weapons can bestow status effects that are good for fighting NPC bosses if you want to do that. See the full list of weapons in Weapons.

First-week armor

Vampires can wear most armor. Here's a few that are easy to get when you're new. They only block damage from the part of the body they're on so, for example, riot armor will protect the chest and groin but not the head or legs.

Name	Protects	Dmg reduction	Block%	Location
Neck Brace	Neck	1	15%	Hospitals
Medieval Helmet	Head	1-2	25%	Ye Olde Weapons Shop in Beachwood (511,508)
Medieval Plated Armour	Chest, Groin	2-4	35%	Ye Olde Weapons Shop in Beachwood (511,508)
Riot Helmet	Head	1	25%	Kill Leviathan Security Brute/Grunts or search PDs
Riot Armor	Chest, Groin	2-3	45%	Kill Leviathan Security Brute/Grunts or search PDs

I'd recommend going for the riot armor because you can improve that into Nightmare Armor later.

Serious armor

Here's some high-level armor for when you've been playing a while. Most involves beating tough NPCs and/or collecting the 22 tarot cards. You would have to collect multiple sets of the tarot cards for each piece of tarot armor.

Name	Protects	Dmg reduction	Block%	Location
Nightmare Helmet	Head	1	30%	Craft from a riot helmet, 1 skull from the crypt in Romero cemetery + 6 scrap metal
Nightmare Armor	Chest, Groin	3-4	36%	Craft from a riot armor, 2 skulls from the crypt in Romero cemetery + 10 scrap metal
Slime Armor	Chest, Groin	4-6	30%	Craft from a riot armor, 30 slimes from the sewer + 8 scrap metal
Cursed Amulet	Neck	2-3	35%	Rare drop from a cursed mummy (near an Egyptian Museum in north Elgin)
Supernatural Necklace	Neck	2	30%	Rare drop from The Mother under the Hell House
Strength Necklace	Neck	?	35%	Craft from mystical tarot deck and supernatural necklace
Empress Helmet	Head	3-4	30%	Mystical tarot deck + army helmet
Emperor Body Plate	Chest, Groin	3-8	40%	Mystical tarot deck + military armor

See the full list of Armor here.

Consumables

Searchable

Hospitals:

AB Negative Blood Bag: Energised

Bag of Blood: Lesser Fortify, cures Bleeding, Haemorrhaging & Infected

Human Heart: Lesser Fortify, cures Bleeding, Cell Corruption, Dazed & Haemorrhaging

Blood Bank:

AB Negative Blood Bag: Energised

Bag of Blood: Lesser Fortify, cures Bleeding, Haemorrhaging & Infected

Charcoal Bag of Blood: Lesser Keen Eyes, Lesser Fortify, cures Poisoned

Helix Buildings:

Maladictus Vial: Lesser Defence, Lesser Fortify & Lesser Rejuvenation, cures Cell Corruption, Infected & Poisoned

Elsewhere:

Extra-Bloody Bloody Mary: only heals, chance of inflicting Dazed

Rotten Sandwich: Lesser Rejuvenation

Rotting Burrito: Lesser Defence, Lesser Fortify

Boss drops

Undead Chocolate Egg: Energised & Rejuvenation

Undead Golden Chocolate Egg: Keen Eyes

Undead Insiderooms Juice: Energised and Rejuvenation

Crafted

Blood Cocktail (Blood Potions Kit, Bag of Blood, Orange, Maidproof Vodka): Greater Fortify, Defence, Lesser Keen Eyes

Bloody Concoction (Metal Mixing Bowl, Bag of Blood, Bottle of Strange Multivitamins, Sketchy Health Drink): Rejuvenation

Bottle of Blood Wine (3 Blood Bags, Bottle of Wine): Lesser Defence, Lesser Fortify, Lesser Intuition, Lesser Keen Eyes

Strength Blood Potion (Blood Potions Kit, Blood Bag, Plasma Bag): Greater Fortify & Keen Eyesight

See Healing items for more.