This is a universe with faster than light travel and near infinite resources. There's a homeless shelter in one of the major cities. I helped them out. Why the fuck is there a homeless shelter in a universe with FTL and near infinite resources?
I'm starting to think Fallout under Bethesda isn't a satire and their writers are just incapable of imagining anything beyond capitalism.
I was rewarded and celebrated by one of the factions for executing a capitalist who was exploiting people for profit.
The FC questline? It's an entertaining one, but also part of the incongruity: that guy was the corporate dictator of a planet and one of the rulers of the FC, and the player is a low level trainee cop in a law enforcement agency with no real legal authority, and the dude decides to fight to the death instead of assuming the other cops would murk you for daring to disrespect him and then release him with a formal apology for inconveniencing him.
That's why he used his governor power to "revoke" your authority and sent his security guards to kill you. That's far easier than asserting power over a small enforcement agency with little resources of it's own. I guess the fantasy is that he thought he could easily sweep you under the rug and you get to prove them wrong.
I hate that the factions are dumb neoliberal American brained stuff but most of the quests I've done so far have been good.
It's kind of like the expanse in that the major factions suck. If they had an OPA group to join I would have been extremely happy. I'm just going to pretend the crimson fleet are the beginning of the OPA until there's a mod or an official expansion. I'm genuinely enjoying the game a lot and I think I might love it.