Groups of survivors set up ambushes and sniper traps, building camps for themselves around underground bunkers you can claim for yourself with a bit of work. Red infection zones where freakers build nests, dirty hovels made of a mix of mud, feces and sticks appear and block your ability to fast travel. Throughout this time, we’re slowly introduced to the Oregon they live in, a beautiful land populated by a load of ugly things. Getting him to their safe house, a forest ranger tower surrounded by a helpful barb wire fence, Deek forces Boozer to rest while he goes out on the settlement runs by himself. They have a real problem with tattoos, and they apply a copious amount of fire to Boozer’s arm to try and remove one of his. Sara is presumed dead, as Deacon was never able to find her body in the camp the helicopter landed in, and while looking for parts for Deek’s busted drifter bike, Boozer gets attacked by a cult of freaker-worshipping self-mutilators called Rippers (Rest in Peace-ers). Per the pause screen, which from the moment you gain control of Deacon, displays a counter of “days gone,” our story starts nearly 730 days later. With room for only two, and Boozer refusing to climb aboard, Deacon sends his wife for the medical attention she desperately needs, opting to stay and help Boozer survive, while promising Sara to find her at the nearest government camp. Deacon’s wife, Sara, has been stabbed in the stomach, Boozer has been slashed in the leg and is having trouble walking, and Deacon is having more than a little trouble convincing the NERO clipboard toter that they need to be included on the helicopter’s roster.
We first meet Deacon and Boozer at the start of the outbreak, on the roof of a building where a NERO (this world’s CDC equivalent) helicopter has just finished grabbing a load of people. Along with his biker brother Boozer, Deacon is a drifter, floating between camps of survivors, doing runs out into “the shit” in search of food and supplies, or acting the part of bounty hunters, either bringing back those who have wronged survivor camps for “justice” or outright killing them where they stand. Deek, as he’s often refered to by those who know him, is, sadly, your stereotypical biker dude. He’s voiced and motion captured by Sam Witwer, whom you might remember as Starkiller from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed or more recently as Ben Lockwood/Agent of Liberty from the current season of The CW’s Supergirl. Our protagonist through this beautiful wasteland is an ex-soldier turned biker Deacon St.
A horde in motion is an incredible sight for the small amount of time you can spend admiring them before taking off in a dead sprint of your own.
Making things worse, your standard freaker, local parlance for the infected, tends to get drawn into packs with like-minded freakers, forming a horde that when agitated, flows over the landscape like a roaring tidal wave of rotted flesh and biting teeth.
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