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Honestly I like to help people, so I'd stick with the JTF. Cleaners have a skewed sense of accomplishment, LMB are borderline facists, are Rikers are convicts who probably just kill/rape/pillage and would turn on each other in a heartbeat. Rioters seem to get a bad reputation imo, I'm sure they're not all trying to kill innocents, but we just blindly fire on anyone in a hoodie. So I'd have to stick with the JTF, afterall I do like to see people live happy, danger-free lives, and if killing violent factions (other than my own) can give them that, well then that's fine by me.
-Division... obvious plot, deal with the contamination and restoring order by any means necessary (even if it means causing "chaos" to achieve said order (weird concept right?!))
-JTF... the typical "expendable" force, they are there to reinforce the place but they generally suck at doing the simplest of tasks; still, focused on saving lives and keeping the peace.
-Rikers... the typical "got screwed by the government so now we get to laugh at them" type of guys. They may be criminals yes, but political and financial parties went down the moment the virus hit the city; and now those that suffered under their crushing weight get to roam the streets murdering and stealing as they so please. Not the type of guys I'd side up with but they do have just cause, in a sense.
-Cleaners... another weird bunch. At first glimpse they seem to be no different from the Rikers, just a bunch of morons that enjoy killing and torching things... not really, they do/did it to contain the virus; to help save what was left. If you had to kill 5 people to save 100 would you do it? That's the kind of dilema these guys insert themselves in. Again, not perfect but they have a just cause behind what they do. (nevermind that dude that was mistaken as being infected when all he had was asthma in an Echo (dat spoiler))
-LMB... the hardest to understand. So they are a private military contract army/company sent in to protect the assets from big banks/bankers, wallstreet and whatnot... but at some point they seem to have changed their goals and they are now like the mirrored faction from the JTF; or JTF's evil twin brother, something like that. Their goal seems to be saving people by keeping a very strict code of conduct, even reinforcing curfews upon civies. I'm really not sure about these guys, their objective isn't clear and at this point I still look at them as pure idiots doing it because having power over others is like drugs to them. Maybe someone can help clarify.
-First Wave Rogues... in my opinion the most interesting and controversial pick of all factions. So these guys abandoned the Division because they thought they went in, to what is now the Dark Zone, with the sole intent of saving people, to help keep the peace. Instead they got orders to bail and leave everything behind as the zone was being walled off and people left to fend for themselves. They felt used. Rightfully so, they took it upon themselves to try and do what was necessary to help the city; Aaron even mentions his deal with LMB as profitable since they were the only ones thinking about the near future of the city and not just the "now" mentality everyone else had. Not all rogues followed that honorable way of course; being "rogue" does not just stand for murderer and looter and whatever like the Rikers though.
That said, I don't think Keener can be classified as pure evil. Yes, he stole samples of the virus to use anywhere at any time in case needed, but throughout the Holotapes and records he seems to be like the only agent that trully ever cared about saving what's left of the city and not have a personal agenda behind it meanwhile. Just pure altruism, no selfishness. He did questionable things but everyone did aswell, impossible not to in that environment. I really hope Keener's story gets expanded in the near future (if not in quantity then at least in quality). I really think a movie about this agent's story would be jaw breaking if done right.
TLDR: I'd pick Division anytime, I like being the good guy and actually helping stuff get done. First Wave Rogue would be an interesting pick though.
LMB: PMC gone nuts. I guess this might happen but I really can't believe bliss would have followers so dedicated unless he is really paying them well. How is it that ex military will murder civilians in cold blood so easily?
Cleaners: ex city workers (lol) going on a crusade against a disease that was once already beaten. This makes the least sense to me b/c I can't believe guys like that would act so extreme. If this was a more scary disease threat, maybe it would work. Idk. I mean if bodies turned into zombies....oh def burn it all.
Rioters: non-combat trained dudes in my mind would not be much of a threat. I have no idea why they are rioting, most the people are DEAD. Hey, lets riot against nothing! That's the ticket! /facepalm
JTF: America, the great military industrial complex sending in a handful of under geared and green troops to deal with a national issue. Ok? Where is the army. Where is the national guard. Where is the navy. Where is the massive US response that would inevitably happen if this was truly current time? Weak.
The Division; I have no idea what we stand for. If judging by game play, I think it's just about killing and looting peoples stuff for personal gain. Hmm.
Rogue Agents; what exactly do they stand for, it's not like they can make a lot of money/actually get away with this.
Long story short, I really do wish this game did not have tom clancy name attached to it, just means the story sucks and there is no way there will be any sort of creative surprises. :|
The Rikers are criminals and dangerous psychos hellbent on revenge to "uniforms" (and probably anyone else) because they decided to be pieces of ♥♥♥♥ and want to pass the blame on the guy who contributed to society by putting them away.Not really a fit for me.
The Rioters do what, spraypaint on building and generally act like pieces of ♥♥♥♥. I never really got their mission except for the poor choice of bringing hoodies to a gun fight. Not really a fit for me.
The Cleaners - I actually sympathize with them. Their leader's wife was one of the first victims of the outbreak. I honestly could see myself losing touch with reality in such a situation, and seeing everyone as potentially infected and eliminating the threat is, well, idk. I mean there are protocolls in place with most governments that rationalize murder if it "saves even more civilians" .. it's not an unheard of moral dillema. I can sympathize with the cleaners mentality. But, because I'd like to believe I would rise against that, not my cup of tea either.
The LMB - that's a tough one. Join or die? Well my friend, I'll join! Their goal is one I can relate to as well though. Are they so different from the LMB? They are trying to rebuild from a catastrophic situation and the way they are going about it is just a little more strict and harsh. Which is arguably what that situation needs.
Rogues? I can't think of a motive that would make me want to turn on The Division and what it represents.
Yeah that's the vibe I got as well. Honestly they are the only group I know nothing about still lol. Everyone else has some reasoning that they feel strongly enough about to go out on the streets and kill for it.
But the looters/rioters? They're just out to loot stuff? To quote the guy on the radio, "who the ♥♥♥♥ needs a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ flat screen at a time like this"
Keener's whole shtick is that he fell down a very slippery slope to legitimately being evil, because he wanted to do the right thing. He wanted to save the DZ (particularly the civilians in that room he was in in Stuyvesant, before they were attacked by looters), but the Government said 'we're cutting our losses and sealing it off, it's doomed so triage says we save who we can', and he flipped his ♥♥♥♥ because he knew he was correct, because he always had all the right answers (it even says there in his file, he always thinks he's the smartest person in the room).
So, because he is obviously right, the government must be wrong, or corrupt, or insane, and in any of those cases the government needs to be overthrown. Everyone else will obviously think the same way, because he's a genius, and therefore he's right, and those who disagree with him must be insane or corrupt or evil, and so need to be eliminated.
But by this point, after killing a lot of his fellow agents, he doesn't care about civilians, about saving the DZ, and I don't think he ever really did, it's just what he told himself. What he cares about is Being Right, and the surest way he knows to be right is to seize power, because if you're in charge, you're automatically right.
But, ♥♥♥♥, he realizes, the government might come in - after all, who knows what's happening outside the city, maybe the Green Poison is relatively limited in its spread. So he thinks of a plan to ensure that he and the new empire he's building here in the empire state are safe - he's going to have the biggest, baddest WMD in the world ready for him to deploy if anyone ♥♥♥♥♥ with him. So he steals Tchernenko for his knowledge, and all Amherst's gear to use that knowledge.
Keener is the archetypal sociopath (I mean, chrissake, in his day job he's a stock trader on Wall Street), which makes him an efficient agent (the 'prototypical agent', his file says), but also a tremendous liability, which is one of the major failings of the Division - something Rick Velassi and Paul Rhodes rightly decry.
The real danger is that (Your Agent's Name Here) will go the same route, only because they were able to take down all of NYC's problems with far less support and after these problems had become catastrophic (eventually including Keener himself), they'll be a much greater danger. Because if you do that, you'll be utterly assured that you're right every step of the way - just like Aaron Keener.
... But I would probably be "That one guy questioning his motives for setting someone on fire" since... When you look at some of the ECHOs and some more about them, you might think to yourself "Why are they setting them on fire?" So.. Yeah not exactly a nice thing.
The Rioters are a bunch of street gangs and loose groups, fighting for the next day to survive and loot. If you can't contribute to the team, you are dead weight and therefor not needed. Have a free bullet if you try to stay. Yeah, no. Which makes me question the presence of snipers in the riot ranks more.
The Rikers are, as many posted already, the convicts, the psychopaths and other sorts, that are best held behind bars. Their HQ is the best proof for that. But instead of bringing in stuff and loot to survive, are they more focused to kill the uniformed and trying to get what they want with force. With so many crazy people around you, showing weakness or saying something wrong will be your doom, not death, what makes me want to stay away from them even more.
The Cleaners would be a group, i could find myself. Having lost the dearest ones, not desiring to go back to their families to fight for them. There is even the brother in arms vibe, they know eachother, they probaly know eachothers families too. Each one of them wants to save, what remains of their beloved ones. So they go and destroy, what could hurt and kill the rest of their families. And how do you kill a virus? With fire, like in the older times. Burn the city down to save the world, you don't need to be a pyromaniac, but it helps.
The LMB is the ex-army PMC, caged inside a city full of pest and death. The violence of the other groups is another part of their problems. They got send in to protect assets of the Wall Street giants. But as the crisis gets worse, is the LMB trying to pull out, but isn't allowed, because of the contract. Bliss gets pissed off and is now trying to gain control of the city to get order on the streets. The fascist and military violence came from the experience of the soldiers during the Iraq ♥♥♥♥, making them feel like a terrorist is around every corner once again. And we know, how the military handled the situations there. That faction is not for me, neither am i a soldier nor an idiot, who thinks this military dictatorship works.
The JTF is unlikely too, they have no experience or equipment to regain control of a pest infested city, that have fallen into anarchy. The JTF is to blame for the Darkzone and the incompetent handling of the infected and the worsening situation. Yeah, i totally (not) trust these guys to get back the city.
What is the goal of the First Wave Rogues (FWR)? I would join Keener too, just to survive longer and get an inside view of his plans. The virus and the different mutations alone are not cutting it for me, Keener is planning way more ahead.
And lastly, the Division. They surely have an uphill battle, but i would belong to the people, who are skeptic about the success of the Division Agents. So much can still go wrong, even more when Keener decides to release a new prototype virus to test it on the city.
In the end, only the Cleaners and FWR would be the factions, i join.