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Marauders
Marauders are independent bandit gangs that ambush riders on the main roads and hold many of the Ambush Camps. They look like ordinary survivors, so watch for snipers in trees and wires across the road before you ride into a trap.
- Threat
- Medium
- Type
- Human
Found in
- Ambush CampAmbush Camps are hostile survivor camps you clear for the Ambush Camp Hunter storyline. There are 14 across the map, each paying XP, Trust and credits to a nearby camp, and each bunker becomes a fast travel point.
- Bare Bay Ambush CampBare Bay Ambush Camp sits in the far south of Highway 97, south of the Chemult College NERO Checkpoint. Like Aspen Butte it pays 5,000 XP and 2,750 Diamond Lake Trust, so it is worth the long ride.
Good to know
- A gang usually has about a dozen members. The Bare Bay Ambush Camp holds about 20.
- Clotheslines across the road are their most common trap, followed by foot snares and snipers.
- Rarer ambushes use burning cars rolled downhill, proximity mines or a member playing dead in the road.
- A sniper in a tree is hard to see. Use Survival Vision and shoot while he is highlighted.
- A Marauder takes about 8 Boot Knife stabs on Normal.
- Northern gangs have little armor. Southern gangs wear vests and helmets and some carry LMGs.
- Flamethrower Marauders appear only in Crater Lake and Highway 97.
- They investigate rocks and distractors, so proximity bombs and bear traps work well on them.
- Some patrol the roads on bikes with pistols or SMP9s.
- Marauder Camp Hunter's final reward is the Rock Chuck.
How they fight
Small road gangs prefer melee, likely because gunfire draws Freakers. Bigger camp gangs bring rifles, snipers and sometimes LMGs. A sniper can kill you in two or three shots, and his first shot is usually the signal for the rest to attack.
How to beat them
Slow down near roadblocks, gas stations and stalled cars, and sweep with Survival Vision. A spotted ambush is half beaten. Creep between bushes, take out the sniper first, then thin the rest with stealth kills or silenced headshots. Armored southern gangs need headshots or extra rounds.
Ambush Camps
Clearing a camp pays XP, trust and credits to a nearby friendly camp. Most camps also hide an underground bunker with a map of the area, a bed and sometimes a crafting recipe. Ambush Camp Hunter hands out recipes as you go, starting with the Spiked Bat. The Smoke Bomb comes at three camps and the Proximity Bomb at seven.
Easy to miss
Snare ambushes fake a trail to lure you to a tree. If the path looks too inviting, check it with Survival Vision first. Clearing every Ambush Camp, Infestation and NERO Checkpoint in one region earns the Silver trophy Welcome to the Party, Pal.
Drifters on the MountainWith your bike gone from O'Leary Mountain, you set out on foot to get it back. The trail leads through a marauder camp near the safehouse and ends at Copeland's Camp.- Lots of Sick PeopleYou have found Lisa in Marion Forks, and now you need to get her somewhere safe. You ride with her to Tucker's Hot Springs camp, dealing with whatever gets in the way.
- Don't Give Me OrdersCaptain Kouri wants your help clearing a marauder camp tied to Vasquez, the AWOL Militia soldier you have been tracking. You storm the camp with him and free a hostage.
- A Bunch of CavemenA Bunch of Cavemen is a camp job for Diamond Lake in the Crater Lake region. Marauders have set up a camp in the south, and Diamond Lake wants it gone, so you ride out and clear it.
- You Couldn't Stop ShakingYou and Sarah are at Chemult Community College in Crater Lake and need to get out alive. Fight your way back to the bike with her, clear out the Marauders on campus and grab the centrifuge she needs for her lab.
- Didn't Want To Join Up?A hostage rescue job for the Diamond Lake camp. A young survivor named Ethan Ross has been grabbed by marauders, and you find their area and pull him out.
- How Do I Get Them?A marauder camp clearing job for Wizard Island. This group has dug in on the roof of a gas station with plenty of firepower, and you have to take them off the high ground.
- I Don't Wanna HangTaylor, a young Militia soldier, has run from Wizard Island, and you ride out to bring him back. The trail leads to a ski lodge held by marauders.
- Take Back What's MineA bounty job for Wizard Island. You track down Crystal Adkins, a drifter and ex-convict who is good with a knife, deal with the Marauders around her and bring back her jewelry as proof.
- That's His MistakeRight after you pull TNT out of the Lucky Lad Mine with Skizzo, Marauders hit you outside the entrance. You have to clear the area before you can head back toward Lost Lake.
- Ambush Camp HunterAmbush Camp Hunter is the open-world storyline for clearing the Marauder ambush camps set up along Oregon's main roads. The camps supply the snipers, tripwires and clothesline traps that hit you on the ride, so each one you burn out makes that route safer.
- Marauder Camp HunterMarauder Camp Hunter is the storyline for tracking ambushers back to their bases and wiping them out. The camps belong to Drifters, Rippers and Marauders, and they are spread from Belknap down to the south.
More humans
- Human
Anarchists
The Anarchists are a bandit crew who paint the anarchy A on their faces and carry better guns than most Marauders. They have no open-world camps, so you only fight them in certain jobs, and one of their hideouts sits above a sleeping Horde.
- Human
Deschutes County Militia
The Deschutes County Militia is Colonel Garret's army in the south and the best-trained human force you meet. For much of the second half you work for them at Diamond Lake and Wizard Island. Their soldiers are also the toughest humans in the game to kill.
- Human
NERO Soldier
NERO Soldiers guard the government research teams that reappear in the wilderness two years into the outbreak. In the story you shadow and spy on them rather than fight them, so their jobs are about staying out of sight.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationHumanRippers
The Rippers are a Freaker-worshipping cult that shaves, scars and drugs its members and hunts anyone who will not join. They hit the northern regions hardest, and with no body armor they go down fast if you hold a choke point.