Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationNo screenshot of What Kept Me Going yet. This one shows Sarah Whitaker (Bend Studio / PlayStation).
What Kept Me Going
You and Sarah set out from Wizard Island to ride north over the Thielsen Pass. The goal is the old Cloverdale facility, where she can get the equipment she needs.
- Type
- Story
- Region
- Crater Lake
Storylines
Part 9 of 14 in An Officer And A Gentleman
Part 8 of 19 in I'm Never Giving Up
Part 13 of 14 in Law And Disorder
Found in
- Cloverdale Research Iron Butte FacilityThe Cloverdale Research Iron Butte Facility is a high-security private lab in Iron Butte, still powered two years after the outbreak. You only go here with Sarah for the story, so there is no open-world job to clear.
- Crater LakeCrater Lake is the far southern region built around the real lake and Wizard Island, the Militia's headquarters. It opens in the second half of the story and has the most encampment jobs and NERO research sites in the game.
Good to know
- It is mostly a ride with Sarah, from 6:00 AM to 8:30 AM.
- You lose control of the bike between the checkpoint and the tunnel, so do not worry when the stick stops responding.
- It sits in three storylines and closes out Law And Disorder.
What happensSpoilerShow
Kouri and the Colonel stop you at the gate, and for a moment it looks like they will keep Sarah on the island. The Colonel argues she is too valuable to risk, but Sarah will not hear it. On the ride, Deacon remembers crossing the pass alone when he did not know if she was alive.
Objectives
1. Ride to the Thielsen Pass with Sarah. 2. Continue north to Cloverdale.
- Derrick KouriCaptain Derrick Kouri commands the Militia's Diamond Lake outpost and is second in command to Colonel Garret. Deacon meets him after saving two of his soldiers, and Kouri brings him into the Militia. He is wearing the Mongrels ring Deacon gave Sarah.
- Matthew GarretColonel Matthew Garret leads the Deschutes County Militia from its base on Wizard Island in Crater Lake. His army aims to wipe out the Freakers and store humanity's knowledge in a cave he calls the Ark. Deacon works under him in the Law And Disorder storyline.
Sarah WhitakerSarah Whitaker is Deacon's wife, a botanist with two PhDs who studied rare plants at Cloverdale's Iron Butte lab. You get to know her through flashback missions in the I Remember storyline. Deacon believes she was lost in the first days of the outbreak.
Related missions
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A War We Can Win
A War We Can Win is the story mission where Deacon arrives at Wizard Island, the Deschutes County Militia's fortress in Crater Lake. Colonel Garret walks you through the base and explains what his Militia is fighting for.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStoryYou Alone I Have Seen
Captain Kouri wants Weaver's new Napalm Molotov tested on a real horde. You take on the Chemult horde of 300 Freakers, then report back to Kouri.
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Shadow Of Death
Deacon tries to get Sarah off Wizard Island. You take out the Militia's RPG, reach Sarah's lab in the Ark and lead her to the top of the volcanic cove.
Image: Bend Studio / PlayStationStoryI Don't Wanna Hang
Taylor, 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.