Why not fly away to get help?

[Thunder Bagel]

My friend and I were wondering this while playing. You have access to airplanes pretty early in the game. They take the time to explain why you can't simply call for help (no service) but did they ever explain why you can't just fly to a different state and call in the National Guard?

[cancer]

Originally posted by Turquoise_Falcon:

My friend and I were wondering this while playing. You have access to airplanes pretty early in the game. They take the time to explain why you can't simply call for help (no service) but did they ever explain why you can't just fly to a different state and call in the National Guard?

your mission is to take the dude down and if you leave ur friend will die

[quasi]

Then the game wouldn't be fun

[Thunder Bagel]

Yeah, I have a great ability to suspend my disbelief but when they take the effort to explain why you can't call for help, but leave a humungous plot hole like aircraft, it just makes me scratch my head. I love the game regardless

[Valen Logan]

I would assume no one can just fly out because the cultists have helicopters and fighter planes that shoot down anything that tries to fly away.
There are notes and things you find in the world written by people who escaped the county before the cult cut off access. Surely they would have contacted authorities but it seems like no one on the outside cares about Hope County enough to get into a rush to help them.
My personal guess is that the National Guard would be the only entity with enough resources to get into Hope County (road access is blocked, only water and air remain) but the car radio has news talking about a bomb exploding in Moscow with "millions of casualties" and some kind of impending conflict with North Korea looming. With that in mind I think the National Guard is probably already mobilized and preparing to protect Missoula and neglecting Hope County out of a lack of manpower.

[Burninator]

The entire premise of the game requires absurd suspension of disbelief. The USA as it exists today is a soft police state / open air prison as it is.

If a cult with even 1% of the membership / firepower of Eden's Gate came into being the Feds would annihilate them w/ extreme prejudice. See: "Waco Compound"

So you are already working from a position of absurdity at the START of the game w/ its whole premise.

[Cpeerson2020]

Originally posted by Nad Darvis:

I would assume no one can just fly out because the cultists have helicopters and fighter planes that shoot down anything that tries to fly away.
There are notes and things you find in the world written by people who escaped the county before the cult cut off access. Surely they would have contacted authorities but it seems like no one on the outside cares about Hope County enough to get into a rush to help them.
My personal guess is that the National Guard would be the only entity with enough resources to get into Hope County (road access is blocked, only water and air remain) but the car radio has news talking about a bomb exploding in Moscow with "millions of casualties" and some kind of impending conflict with North Korea looming. With that in mind I think the National Guard is probably already mobilized and preparing to protect Missoula and neglecting Hope County out of a lack of manpower.

The Radio thing is kind of up for debate too. Cultist owned the radio station, whose to say that report is not falsified to help prove the Cult is right.....?

[Mana Burst]

There is a prepper stash you can find that is a crashed plane, it talks of intending to escape and he was of course shot down, so it's likely Chosen pilots that arent wasting time tracking you down are on high alert to mow down anyone trying to leave hope county.