Terror of the Airfield

One of the first areas I got to and audibly said, "oh fuck".

All you need is the .50 and a lot of AP.

After 32 hours, this was still my favorite moment and screenshot.

I went back through there the other day. A spat of hunters and a dozen and a half runners whatever, but the 1x FNIX harvester, 1x military harvester, 2x military tanks, 1x FNIX tank all on the tarmac all at once made for an interesting fight.

It actually worked well for me - I picked off the runners and scouts on the East end with pistol just to use up some blue 9mm and went to the hangars that has the like... 12 propane tanks and set them all up in the middle of the runway. Remote hacked the FNIX tank (took like five tries), he managed to kill one of the military tanks (I helped😁). The hunters and runners were charging me and a well timed shot in to the propane field killed all but like two runners. A half an AG4 mag and they were done. Once the commotion settled I wasn't aggro'd from the tanks or harvesters (still at really long range), so I snuck up from the south bank and chunked an EMP under the tank that had the most health left. Charged him and while he was spinning down dropped the two land mines and a fuel tank I had picked up along the way. That was enough to seriously cripple him so the one mag from the Kpist to the neck finished him off (gotta love overdrive, 43rds in three seconds!). The other tank was shooting at me but was on the other side of the wreckage so he wasn't getting a lot of clear shots. I dumped an AG4 mag in to him and a few grenades while distracting him with a firecracker since I was out of EMPs. Another mag in the side of his head followed up by five 12ga slugs and he turned to sparkles, so I was nearly done. The harvesters were busy being dumb and for some reason only shot rocket salvos at me once all the tanks were down. A new wave of runners had shown up but did that weird vanishing thing once I killed one, so I hid behind an out building just to get a bearing on ammo. I switched to buckshot in the Sjokvist and put AP in to the Kpist. I played peekaboo with them, emptying the shotgun and hiding behind the wall when the rockets launched, which worked for a while. I realized I had collected a lot of rockets, so I used a few of those and finished them off.

While I was looting the harvesters, the battle music stopped and I heard light stomping. Looking at the NW gate entrance there were five FNIX hunters just inside the baracade. Shit. I tried my luck at remote hacking since I wasn't aggro'd yet and it took on the first try! Once they started grunting at each other I put a few rounds in to the cop cars they were huddled around and the resultant explosion killed all but the one I had hacked (he was the only one not like RIGHT on the cars). He stood there and smiled while I dumped a Kpist mag in to his face, and right as the hack wore off, I was emptying the buckshot in to his shoulder and he popped.

I think I picked up like 8000xp in ten minutes. Quite a bit of fun.

Edit: for clarity - I fast travelled in to the safehouse on the SE side and worked me way NW.

My heart rate sped up looking at this.