So i recently picked the game back up again, doing my thing quietly. And i started noticing the Devastation in the game world. And wondered if it wasn't just a tad to much for the virus and the world it created. In both the Divisions and Warlord
Now, don't get me wrong. It works, and running around a sunny ingame day, around all of it is awesome. But it just niggles at me a little bit.
I mean, i realize a city that's not being take care of will go down hill fast, and while they had the luxury of trash people had to drop it somewhere, but in addition to thatthere's crashed cars, busses, helicopters. Derailed trains, there's tanker that was under power as it ran aground, (there was crew aboard) There are other wise pristine fire engines, military trucks even million dollar helicopters left parked where the drivers/pilots left them.
And it's not like there were Zombies chewing on their arms as things went down. Or proper enemy action, as in full scale invasion. The Early day proto factions, would have been an issue in places, off course.
Now all of it can be explained off course, imagine trying to get out of a city, kids whining in the back seat, your spouse half panicked arguing about what route to take as you try to follow the instructions on the matrix boards and from the traffic cops. The same thing happening in other cars, it's a crash waiting to happen.
The military probably relaxed the rules regarding maintenance, due to it being a crisis. And proto hyena's might have taken potshots as well, it would have taken a golden BB, but it could happen and send one of their choppers down. And then there's the weather, probably didn't help much.
And if you're trying to fight a fire and looters are approaching, i wouldn't blame you if you decided to walk off the job, leaving the truck where it is.
I get it, in places. But in others. it just feel off. What do you guys think?
I think that destruction and abandonment is justified, after all the virus (green poison) is highly lethal and we are not presented with numbers of how many people died, but seeing the abandonment of the city, there is a gigantic number of dead, those who are left may have some immunity against the virus, add these deaths plus the desperation of those left over, mainly from the authorities, who already do **** in common situations, imagine in these as the disastrous quarantine created by the government and made by the JTF and that later got even worse with the "patriot" Ridgeway who was nothing more than a scoundrel dictator wanting power, who killed almost everyone in quarantine, created his paramilitary group (True Sons) and was also responsible for the indirect creation of a terrorist group (Outcasts), which had Emeline seeking revenge for who made her daughter and for herself, but who in the end was just another bloodthirsty dictator, who tried to justify her actions by victimizing herself and finding it fair to kill innocent s
The vast majority of people are used to their comfort zone, when they are taken from them, **** happens, more or less what happens with a damn real virus that we have here in the real world, that if it were 20X more lethal than it is, no I doubt it would have places similar to the game.
The survival instinct leads many to do things that don't even happen in their worst nightmares ... so yes, the game's scenario is plausible.
If you're diligent about collecting audio logs, you'll discover that there was also a hurricane that hit the entire east coast that was more massive than anything they'd seen before.
It's one of the main reasons why there's as much recent destruction as there is. It's also why you often see so much flooding in various places around the map.
In my mind, Washington DC and New York (and perhaps areas in between) are 'hot zones' where the virus did the most damage and which are now isolated from the rest of civilisation.
Regular supply drops by planes and helicopters, the continuation of the electricity supply, and the high tech / high fuel consumption operations of Black Tusk suggest to me that a battered but largely functional civilisation is still out there outside the hot zones - people running power plants and maintaining power distribution networks, people running supply chains for coal and oil, people manufacturing and supplying helicopter parts using raw materials from around the world.
None of those things could happen in a barely subsisting survival economy that we see in New York and Washington DC - people there are wondering where the next can of beans can be looted from, not how do we manufacture and ship the next batch of hi-tech alloy helicopter rotor parts out to our best paying client - Black Tusk, or how much overtime to pay our engineers to make the deadline.
Like others said, once the last meal has gone and a few warlords have passed through, things can go downhill pretty fast.