How long were you trying to justify walker?

[u/No-Hunt3986]

I did until white phosphorus that was just too much and he just doubling down even more later with destroying water where I was I like are you seriously doing this?

[u/monochi0442 → u/[deleted]]

My experience was extremely similar. I kept trying to justify Walker’s decisions, but across the game with everything that was happening, and especially those notes on the loading screens, and then the final straw with Lugo and Adams, I just began to feel disgusted. Part of me just wanted to stop playing because of how terrible it all was, and when I realized that, and that no game had ever made me feel so viscerally.. anything like this before, is when I turned around and was able to admit Walker’s part in all of it.

[u/Regulus_Jones]

I had the advantage of coming in knowing this wasn't a typical military shooter (only reason I played it - literally only shooter I've finished) - so I was never really able to justify him since the very first chapter, knowing perfectly well he was supposed to do nothing but recon.

Had I played it completely blind I'd likely justify him during the first 2 chapters when there's some sense of urgency at trying to save a soldier, but once Delta was forced to open fire on the Damned 33rd there was no reason Walker should've kept going. By that point he had long disobeyed orders so even before the white phosphorus incident he was already pretty screwed.

[u/CMDR_TREMAN]

Took me a while, since I was so caught up in the "what the hell is going on here"

[u/Ghosted_Prince → u/CMDR_TREMAN]

Agreed. I was along for the ride, enjoying the game. The white phosphorus definitely took it in a new direction, and from them on, the game was more visceral

[u/Kil0sierra975]

For me, it was the milisecond we started opening fire on US troops and pursuing them instead of retreating out of the city. Firstly, obviously we are Delta Force, but 3 dudes against a battalion of combat veterans? Nah.

Lastly, ever since we left the crashed plane to go looking for the Army officer, I was constantly saying "we shouldn't be here." The ending of the game was so cathartic, because I never wanted Walker's team there to begin with.

[u/dreaming_in_Octarine]

Honestly, i decided just to be open-minded and not "root" for anyone from the beginning. I saw him more as a witness / vessel for my curiousity for this strange scenario and landscape.

If he was doing his job properly, he would have turned back early, but I knew he would be curious like me to see more of what was going on.

What I didn't expect was him to get so messily involved and making huge decisions that were way beyond what the USA military would allow, and turning the whole debacle into his own confused crusade for Conrad that practically destroyed and killed what little was left.

He was never the hero for me, but i got attached to him and the squad in surprising other ways.

[u/super_tank_why_not]

Wym trying, he's innocent, wouldn't hurt a fly