[quote=“sgtCrookyGrin;204053”]@Terminal_6
Holy @$!# terminal I think we’re onto something! I’m kidding maybe there’s more to these 2 year old maps than it seems? We need to check the small details in the maps to understand what’s going on, especially the new ones coming out.
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In case you were wondering, there’s still remnants of maps prior to the current build of DB hidden in the game files:
C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\DirtyBomb\ShooterGame\Localization\INT\dialogue
I was poking through the INT folder a while ago while editing the badge text (yes, you can do that!), and inside the “dialogue” folder, there’s some juicy lore tidbits. I have them organized by map.
Underground
“There’s something fishy going on in the bowels of Canary Wharf station. Never mind what. You’ve been hired to clean it up. Permanently.”
“There’s a secret archive hidden in the lower levels of Canary Wharf station containing the bodies from the original Dirty Bomb attack. We need to know what happened. Someone’s trying to stop us by destroying the evidence. You have to stop them.”
"A lot of people died in the Dirty Bomb attacks. Some of their bodies are kept here, a morgue in the lower levels of this Underground station, surrounded by preservative gas. Someone’s trying to destroy the bodies. Our client says we stop them. We’re near the Thames here, it takes constant pumping to keep this place un-flooded.
Bridge
“Gentlemen, Ladies, it’s a beautiful day, and once again our mission is a Data Extraction, with shooting. Objective is the GH Research Centre. There’s Data in them servers. Two Data cores in particular. Our Client wants them. Someone else will kill to keep them where they are. You know the drill.”
"Our client is developing an improved anti-radiation drug in the old GH Medical building. Corrupt oligarchs want it all for themselves, and have sent a squad of Mercs to steal the only drug samples.
“OK, chaps. We have a rival team of mercs inbound to London Bridge. They want to steal intel. Our client really doesn’t want that to happen. The enemy is going to activate an Extraction Vehicle, an ““EV””, escort it to the GH Research Centre, blow it open and nick two Data Cores. Stop them at all costs. You’re cleared to use anything up to and including drone strikes. And so are they, so watch yourselves.”
Trainyard
"Someone’s moving an Armoured Train full of…stuff. Our client has hired us to destroy it. The only way to break the Armoured Train open is to drive it at full speed off an unfinished bridge. Trouble is the rail tracks need to be switched, AND there’s a blocker carriage in the way. "
"After years of decontamination effort, cleanup and filtering the CDA have removed the very worst of the dirty radioactive waste and are moving it for safe reprocessing in a secure carriage by rail. Our client’s just told us that a team of Mercs are trying to crash the train off an unfinished bridge, break open the secure carriage and recontaminate London with the radioactive waste.
Terminal
"Our client tells us a gang of thieves have stolen two whole containers’ worth of people’s personal stuff from the contaminated zone: treasured possessions, pre-biometric passports, birth certificates, that sort of thing. They’re going to use the passports to forge fake identities, drain bank accounts, it’s identity theft on a colossal scale. You HAVE to stop them.
"Our Client has two containers full of archived evidence they need to extract by rail. Their enemy’s hired a team of Mercs to destroy the containers.
"Our client has recovered some important assets, they’re moving them out of the Hot Zone by rail through Waterloo station in two big rail Containers. Someone else wants those assets to stay lost.
Chapel
"Our Client has some data that badly needs deleting. It’s held on air-gapped servers so they can’t virus it. Which is where we come in.
Etc.
“Do not bring anything out of the contaminated zone. If anyone asks you to bring items out of the contaminated zone, report them to the police at once.”
“You are in a restricted area. Leave immediately. Looters will be shot on sight.”
“London lies empty, irradiated. The only ones still venturing into the Exclusion Zone are teams of Mercs fighting over valuable data left behind.”
“London, 2020: a radioactive Dirty Bomb has left the inner city uninhabitable, but groups of mercenaries still venture into the contaminated zone to extract vital data - or prevent its theft.”
