Peacekeepers > Survivors

[OldFishPool]

Basically the whole game Peacekeepers are getting hated on by most characters, no one likes them. Even Lawan, the side kick of the game, gives you ♥♥♥♥ for siding with them.

Why would a game actively pit you against one of the TWO factions? Maybe if there was a few to pick from then yeah make an "evil" faction for fun, but if there is two of them you have to keep it balanced, both should have valid pros and cons.

The Peacekeeper ending is literally a "bad" ending. So much for factions having pros and cons when one of their endings is straight up better
https://youtu.be/OxI8s_kt-6w

[Connah]

Survivors should live everywhere and I much prefer how the survivors live, the majority of the new world should be a community like this. The peacekeepers are also necessary but do not need to rule every settlement and pollute the land with sheet metal structures. a few outposts and a HQ to operate from and protect the people suffices.

[Stubbs]

Yeah the faction backgrounds could have been fleshed out significantly more. It's there though. For example in old velldor, you can listen to Carl's logs and find out that he isn't exactly as good of a person as he plays out to be. And sounds just like the other leaders. Sophie is no better either with how she decides to solve the issue. On top of that crime flourishes under Survivor leadership and I wish this is a story vector they expanded upon more. In Old Velldor Aitor honestly seemed like the best leader in the entire zone and I sided with him. Then you get to the central loop and the only good leader seems to be Frank. So my playthrough is like a half and half. The PKs own most of the map and Matt has been removed from his leadership position for his abuse of power, I'm guessing Meyer has taken charge now, however the Nightrunners technically lead the city according to the ending.

But yeah as others have said, the show the PKs to be tyrants and facists, but the leaders of the survivors aren't that much better. Save for Frank. But to me the city will need something like the PK's army to survive the coming storms. Just a random bunch of survivors with no real chain of command, plans, or backup plans can't really survive the onslaught of the outlands.

[Stubbs]

Escrito originalmente por Kain:

Anyone found out what is Jack Matt sick with? He keeps coughing, but I never found out.

I think its something that they meant to expand upon but never did. Like the way some things play out, its almost as if there was meant to be a way to change who controlled the factions. Like Jack could have been replaced by Meyer or Aitor. Similar to the situation where you can decide if Juan or Frank lead the survivors side . Sadly though the only way to remove Jack from leading the peacekeepers is to side with Frank at the VNC tower and keep him alive through all the story choices + ambush. As doing this will show the Peacekeepers that Jack has gone mad with power

[Zaris]

Escrito originalmente por Kain:

Anyone found out what is Jack Matt sick with? He keeps coughing, but I never found out.

He has terminal cancer and dies "soon", he reveal that quite late if you always help him as a side question.

[HornedPanda]

Clown Lives Matter

[Hashley Hashbrowns]

Escrito originalmente por Kenz:

Peacekeeps are pure jerks. In old Villador, they were stealing the Bazzar's biggest windmill for literally nothing in return the favor, yet keep saying to protect the survivors. They do nothing to take back the water tower from Jack and Joe and still asking for food. In center loop, all Jack Matt wanna do is to kill the Butcher's Renegade. They are saying peacekeeper protecting civillian from the military after black massacre, and yet, they are another military. how irony. And then, if you get radio tower to Frank, Jack will assassinate Frank. If you give it to Jack Matt, Frank's people and himself still die from Renegade, which peacekeeper offer to protect. And then, Jack Matt does suicidal mission to end his own life either way to even out the Butcher's Renegade. Jack Matt is selfish. If you side with peacekeepers for both region, majority of civilian die bc all peacekeeper wanna do is to advance their own military with bitchass propaganda. Also, it's the hidden message from all the zombie game: where is the military when ♥♥♥♥ hit the fan. Thus, this justify the survivor is the only and best way to choose. ♥♥♥♥ PEACEKEEPERS.

Edited: The only reasonable to side with peacekeepers in old villador is to kill Barney, this much is what I agree

Jack is a narcissist as was mentioned.But yeah in villedor i felt good blowing their windwill up and chopping that ♥♥♥♥♥ anderson's head off

[Hashley Hashbrowns]

Escrito originalmente por Stubbs:

Escrito originalmente por Kain:

Anyone found out what is Jack Matt sick with? He keeps coughing, but I never found out.

I think its something that they meant to expand upon but never did. Like the way some things play out, its almost as if there was meant to be a way to change who controlled the factions. Like Jack could have been replaced by Meyer or Aitor. Similar to the situation where you can decide if Juan or Frank lead the survivors side . Sadly though the only way to remove Jack from leading the peacekeepers is to side with Frank at the VNC tower and keep him alive through all the story choices + ambush. As doing this will show the Peacekeepers that Jack has gone mad with power

How do you get this ending

[Juggernaut]

first off the survivors made it by the hair of their skin and the peacekeepers where formed to keep things like the march massacre from happening again and because of that the survivors hate them for that like it doesn't make sense sure they took over the windmill but i dont think the survivors-had much to do with that much energy the peacekeepers have a honorable goal just under the wrong leadership WHICH the game gives you a option to throw the corrupt leader away in a jail cell and due to that theres a chance there will be a better leader because of that the whole city has a better chance at wipeing out the infected for good the peacekeepers put the work in and fight for thier families while the survivors just waltz around complaining about simple things and when you dont side with them they talk bad ♥♥♥♥ about you if you sided with the survivors the peacekeepers are still polite and not huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about the whole situation the peacekeepers have a large military of trained civillians theier goal is to kill all of the infected then reform some sort of world with laws the peacekeepers overall are better more powerful and more civilized than other people like the peacekeepers when i was under attack by a survivor base they ran off like ahhh where are the peacekeepers knowing dammn well that i blew up thier windmill for them like they are nothing i did what i did on old villedor because i like herman vinchenzo and alberto theier a solid bunch the rest can burn too bad i honestly feel like i shount have done that for them but whats done is done i still wonder if i made the right decision in old villedor

[Kayde]

When does siding with damned authority or order ever come out good?

[Dimitri Rascalov]

Escrito originalmente por Kayde:

When does siding with damned authority or order ever come out good?

Lol pretty much every single time when it comes to creating a lasting society XD

[XLbuff]

Writing definitely suffered the most after Avellone situation, then lead writer quit, etc. It's a bit of a miracle that the game came out at all. It's a good thing they didn't abandon the game, but Dying Light 2 is just a pale shadow of what the game could have been.

Survivors are trying to hang you at the start, there are some absolutely unlikeable characters among them, literally bandits and those who are ready to stab you in the back. However, the game is clumsily trying to steer the player to their side as the "right" rebellious choice. Factions were supposed to be gray and the characters don't have enough depth to care about them.

[Dimitri Rascalov]

Escrito originalmente por XLbuff:

Writing definitely suffered the most after Avellone situation, then lead writer quit, etc. It's a bit of a miracle that the game came out at all. It's a good thing they didn't abandon the game, but Dying Light 2 is just a pale shadow of what the game could have been.

Survivors are trying to hang you at the start, there are some absolutely unlikeable characters among them, literally bandits and those who are ready to stab you in the back. However, the game is clumsily trying to steer the player to their side as the "right" rebellious choice. Factions were supposed to be gray and the characters don't have enough depth to care about them.

Yeah I think that's mainly why the story fell flat besides the fact at parts it doesn't even make sense, even without the open fact the devs try to steer you towards their preference, none of the characters are flushed out at all enough for you to even care. The colonel gets a 2 minute cut scene with a trust me bro moment but your choice there doesn't even matter as he tells you what you need to know no matter what and for being one of the most referenced and important characters in the game he gets zero screen time and is basically just a prop XD along with his faction.