Memorable moments from the streets of DC
Even from just four days playing the beta, it's clear that there are little moments in the game that just play into the absolute mess that the Dollar Flu made of what used to be a civilised world. I think we should have a thread to compile these little vignettes - related in- or out-of-character, at the player’s discretion.
BASIC FAILURE OF LOGIC
In my first skirmish with the Outcasts, I got lucky and tagged one of their rushers right in the chest-light, setting off his S-vest short of me and, of course, blowing him to jam.
Whereupon one of his buddies cried out, in all honest horror, “You killed him!”
And I’m like, ‘uh, bro, he was gonna blow himself up in another three seconds anyway. What part of “suicide-bomber” did you miss?’
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Y’know how there’s a little alleyway just north-east of the Navy Plaza control-point, leading up into someone’s brick-clad garden/orchard, a food supply point? Well, when I first took the Navy Plaza, I went poking around in there, checking it out and picking up the food for Sawyer’s people, y’know, nomming on a fresh-picked apple and all that **** because there’s only so ******* many ratburgers and MREs and kudzu-cakes a man can stomach — when suddenly I hear voices and four ******* Hyenas come out of a side-door just below me. On a food-collection assignment, according to ISAC, but I’m a little busy ducking behind a brick planter-box and thinking ‘oh ****!’ to notice. After a second, I pop up and hose them down with my AKM — dropped three before they could react, switched to the SIG716 to finish the last guy with three to the chest.
It was only after the last body hit the ground that I stopped and realised how ****ed-up a thing I’d just done. I mean, okay, Hyenas, so they would’ve murdered and skull****ed me without hesitation if they’d pinged me, but on the other hand, Jesus Christ I just gunned down four people who were picking fruit, for ****’s sake.
****ing Gordon Amherst, man. Whichever part of hell he’s in, I hope he’s ****ing proud of his handiwork.