Ending ? (Spoiler)

[wpmaura]

So a guy shows up and says a Nuclear Powerplant is about to melt down and I should escape. So I go the military base and they fly every one out. Is that it? It was very anticlimatic.

[jpcerutti]

Was there a bossfight? Not sure if you can bypass it by befriending the military but I think you can.

Try repairing a plane or building a bus for a little more interesting ending.

[Drunk Zombie]

As mentioned above there are mulltiple possible endings.

[Augmenti]

patrickmaura I'm guessing you had to give them Paul. Did you see him at the base, when you arrived or flown out?

[veryinky]

Endings:
Plane: have to defend small airliner until it's ready to take off. Requires a pilot.
Bus: Repair school bus, requires someone with enough mechanic skill to repair & upgrade bus.
Merc Helicopter: Capture helicopter on Austin rooftop, requires pilot, fighting through mercs.
Army Helicopter 1: Fight your way through army base, capture helicopter.
Army Helicopter 2: Be friendly with army to the point they'll transport you away for free.
Troy: Have high disposition with Troy, sneak out of shelter letting everyone else die.

[jpcerutti]

Originally posted by veryinky:

Endings:
Plane: have to defend small airliner until it's ready to take off. Requires a pilot.
Bus: Repair school bus, requires someone with enough mechanic skill to repair & upgrade bus.
Merc Helicopter: Capture helicopter on Austin rooftop, requires pilot, fighting through mercs.
Army Helicopter 1: Fight your way through army base, capture helicopter.
Army Helicopter 2: Be friendly with army to the point they'll transport you away for free.
Troy: Have high disposition with Troy, sneak out of shelter letting everyone else die.

Didn't know about the last one. What do you have to do to trigger it? Not pursue the other endings and just wait? Talk to Troy about it before you talk to Davis?

[veryinky]

Ah, sorry. It's the Lloyd ending (not Troy). Day 87, high Lloyd respect.

So yeah. 4 combat endings and 2 dialog endings.

Combat
-Bus through blockade (catch all, no requirement beyond having Davis fix bus)
-Defend Plane until Takeoff (need pilot)
-Capture Merc Helicopter (need pilot)
-Capture Army Helicopter (can capture army pilot, otherwise need pilot)
Dialog
-Army Evac (need to have given in to everything the Army ever asks)
-Lloyd (have high Lloyd respect)

The Bus ending is the most challenging battle in the game. Army Evac is easy to achieve but means your character becomes the lietennant of someone else in the epilogue.

[Stoibs]

I slaughtered all the enemies in the Bus ending without losing a single of my own members..
I then leisurely strolled up to the bus. So that's the 'toughest' ending then? Damn armour in this game is overpowered.

Where is the keycard for the Austin Hotel?
I noticed both the rooftop and some storage room a few floors down was keypad locked when I cleared that place out.

[veryinky]

Rooftop keycard is on the Lieutennant on the top hotel floor (6th). The Stash keycard (2nd floor, but need to double back using other stairwell on 4th) is on the merc boss.

[Stoibs]

Hmm I killed everyone and did indeed double back down to the other stairwell.
Oh well, so many bodies.. I suppose I must have missed it. Was certain I looted them all too.. =(

[veryinky]

There's two keycards, you didn't find either? On the rooftop there's a keycard that requires the "roof" or "helipad" (I forget right now), on the floor below there's the lieutennant with the keycard for the roof door.

[Edwardlloyd]

how do you trigger that merc helicopter ending? i cleared everyone there

[Liro Raériyo]

Id hazard a guess that you need to recieve the warning from walter first, and only after that you are able to make an escape.

[ZombieBisque]

Originally posted by Liro Raeriyo:

Id hazard a guess that you need to recieve the warning from walter first, and only after that you are able to make an escape.

This, but there is another criteria which is only 14 survivors can escape on the helicopter

[[e-mail]]

With the Army ending - does that get everyone out? And on giving them stuff does that mean you can't dicker & give them only half when they 1st turn up?

The school bus option where / how is that triggered?

Re the Plane option - where is that located?

[veryinky]

Everyone except you.
You can give them half, but have to give them what they want in future transactions.

School bus is last resort, always get it if no other options.

Plane requires finding Lloyd the mercenary, who's at an airfield on the right side of the map at around day 40 to 60.