Turrets and mines.

[Trevor Drakenor]

No idea what the story behind these ones, they seemed to be placed with the idea of containing whatever it is that infested the facility but they ended up only focusing on company workers instead. Think they should be able to target thing indiscrimnately at least?

Unless of course, there is corporate war going on and there are actually mercs from each side raiding there and here before it all hits the fan. Otherwise, I could not picture how there is automated weapon and mines for dealing with mostly unarmed workers trying to perhaps, salvage materials from the abandoned facility under the same company?

[Jessie]

I like to think it's just an old or even archaic security system set up by whatever group or people or person dwelled in the locations you loot.

[Trevor Drakenor]

Probably, if its motion sensored which I assume archaic security system would be based on. Though if that is the case, doesnt seem to make sense that it does not get triggered on monster moving around them.

[Reaptor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRTbVYSQ5rc

[ᔑᓭ∴ᔑリ⊣]

i assumed the people in the facility were attacked by other people and set them up as defence against said attackers, hence why monsters don't trigger them

maybe there was a war or something and that's why the facilities are abandoned, they couldn't keep hold of them and fight off monsters/people/whatever at the same time, so the facilities lost funding and support and over time the people who couldn't escape got more desperate, setting up some flimsy defences before they finally left or got removed or the monsters overran them from one direction or other

i doubt this is the real reason, doesn't feel cool enough for the theme of the game lol but interesting to think about anyway. actually i think there was some tidbit in coilhead bestiary about how it might have been a biological weapon, so the theory isn't too weird i guess

i don't want to read the logs as i haven't found them all myself yet and don't want spoilers lol

[Trevor Drakenor]

oh yeah, there are logs in the game. I haven't got the time to read them due to... how extremely aggressive the local wild life is, if they even are one. More focused on getting things done before 5. Perhaps I should use the off time people messing around in the shop area to read through that.