I am wondering if I am the only one who still misses the Rioters - primarily because they always made me laugh my arse off when fighting them. Their death howl (two variations that sound like he's puking) still crack me up enough that they've been my email notification on my personal PC for years.
A close second: the Hyenas have started to grow on me, particularly with some of the hilarious comments like "I never liked him anyway" when you kill one of their teammates, or when there's only one left from a group and they hide behind something and say "what the hell am I supposed to do now?"
IMHO a good sense of humor is always critical for devs. After all, it's just a game, right?
Tough choice - I'd probably have to say the Cleaners.
Between the Cleaners and the Outcasts, they both capture the madness and insanity unleashed by the collapse of organised society, and are looking for simple solutions to a world out of control.
I would guess that the Rioters were too loosely organised and not resourceful enough to survive. Perhaps they were absorbed by the Hyenas.
Depends really.
Rioters, born out of desperation, the way the goverment treated every day citizens. (so i kinda get where they came from) and as a faction they are fun to fight.
My absolute Favourite (Lore/Story wise)
Aaron Keener and the First Wave (Rogue's and non rogues)
Mainly because again (the way the goverment treated the First Wave) and especially Keener himself.
Now don't get me wrong i do not agree with what he did but i can understand why and as a faction they appeared.
And as an added bonus, do you ever get tired of hearing them die like this? clyp.it/1gvdcqtf or this clyp.it/jn4arvi1?Originally Posted by Cadillac-Jack Go to original post
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Cleaners.
A very easy choice for me to make as they are pretty well-grounded in human reactions to pandemics in European history, albeit whilst being a wee bit darker from a narrative's perspective. During London's plague of 1665-1666 people killed cats and dogs, fearing that they were spreading the sickness. This left the rat population unchecked, giving fleas carrying yersinia pestis lots of public transport to their next victim(s).* People used to believe they could burn away sicknesses, as it was widely held that such illnesses were airborne in a miasma. Therefore, if you burnt the air clean with, say, a burning brazier, you would purify it.** This goes hand-in-hand with ideas of burning away impurities.***
Combine that routing out the perceived cause for the infection spreading (infected people and their homes) with the idea of cleansing with fire, and you have terrified and undoubtedly grief-stricken sanitation workers in NYC resorting to burning away the Dollar 'Flu to save the city; what else could they do? Sit around and do nothing?
*They also travelled on clothing, wares, other animals, anything they could hop on really. A lot of the spread of yersinia pestis across European countries during the 'Black Death' of 1346-53 were from people carrying fleas on their person, goods and animals as they fled plague-riddled cities, towns and villages.
**This was still the dominant medical view during the cholera outbreaks in London during the 19th century, until one Dr John Snow finally made his fellow medical practioners take note.
***A good example of this can be seen in how witches were executed in mainland Europe and in Scotland, burning away the impure taint of their sorcery, more or less.