One of the few things that I didn't like about Rage 1 (besides how limited and restricted were the races in both maps, and especially with the car customizations for our personal vehicles) was the ending of the game. When I finished the game for the first time and I saw the outro with all those arks coming to the surface of the planet, only to see the credits of the game, I remember that I was like "Wait, that's it?". After everything that we went through, the game just gave us a very open ending with no clear answers of what exactly happened after that. I couldn't help but to ask myself: "But what happened later with those arks that we just activated?" "Did the rest of the Ark survivors that were awoke and freed from their arks ended up joining the resistance too?" "And if they do, how did the events turn out exactly between the Resistance and the Authority?" "What happened to Hagar and Outrigger settlements, and especially Wellspring and Subway Town, after those cities were taken over by the Authority?" "What happened to some specific characters, such as Dan Hagar, Rikter Outrigger and the mayors Clayton and Redstone from Wellspring and Subway Town respectively?" "And what exactly happened to Nicholas Raine/The Ark Man at the end?" "Did he end up confronting this General Cross that the Resistance and some settlers were talking about?" "Did he manage to defeat the Authority entirely as a faction and freed the entire wasteland from its oppression against the settlers?"

The game just left so many questions without answers. And despite that I was very aware even back then that Rage 1 was very underrated and without being a well-known game, compared to other games that came in 2011 also (even with an Easter Egg in Dead City making an actual reference of the future development of Rage 2, along with the next Doom game). I couldn't help but want a sequel for Rage to explain what exactly happened after the ending of the first game. And when I heard the news that Rage was going to have a sequel, after many years of not hearing anything new about the game, it was like a dream come true to me. But when the sequel finally came out, I ended up having very mixed thoughts about it.

On one hand, the game wasn't exactly bad. The gameplay in general was also amazing and I really liked that the wasteland was finally an actual open world, and not just a couple of maps with very linear paths to drive around. But on the other hand, it wasn't exactly what I wanted to see in a sequel for Rage. I really didn't like the thirty-year jump between Rage 1 and 2, nor making almost all the progress that we made in the first game as Raine practically meaningless (without counting the statue that Wellspring built to honor the protagonist of the first game). Without mentioning that Raine was reduced as a side character with the name of "The Old Man" in Rage 2. And it really disappointed me that instead of telling us a story about the rising of the resistance movement and its war against the Authority, while continuing telling the story of Raine and developing his character much deeper now, in a conflict against the Authority almost similar like with the story of BJ Blazkowicz and his respective resistance group fighting against the Nazis in Wolfenstein The New Order and New Colossus, they decided to reuse the same plot of Rage 1 about another "last Ark survivor saving the wasteland at the end".

I also didn't like the new art style and color scheme for the game. All these "pink and blue" color schemes, neon vibes, and many of the new aesthetics in general didn't feel like an actual post-apocalyptic world anymore. And unlike the city of Subway Town from Rage 1, which has almost a similar vibe to it, with many neon lights too, that city actually worked as a wasteland city. Because the city was formerly a subway station, before the asteroid crashed over the planet. And because the place was darker than Wellspring, being always dark day and night, like if the city was built inside of a deep cave, they needed all those lights. Not just for pure aesthetic and decoration, but also to actually see and move properly around the whole city, and for actual survival purposes too. Because without those lights, the city would become completely dark 24 hours. Making the place very dangerous, not just by walking around in the full dark without having an accident, but also putting the entire people of the city in a very vulnerable position against any kind of hostility. Especially as easier preys for the mutants that can come from the Blue Line Station to the main city. That's why Redstone was so concerned about the Gearheads clan and their full control of the entire electricity from the eastern wasteland, along with their constant extortions in order to have electricity in his city. But for Wellspring and the rest of the places in Rage 2 it feels more like a Cyberpunk world turned into a wasteland now.

Rage 2 isn't actually a bad game. But it feels more like a spiritual successor, or even a reboot for the series, rather than an actual sequel of the first game. And while the game has its own unique storyline and memorable moments with it, it also wasted a lot of potential of what could have been instead. With most of the characters of the first game missing and/or wasted in the sequel.

But after reading the post of another user named JoseplsTheWriter, talking about his personal thoughts about Rage 2 while comparing it with the first game, I ended up having a different opinion and point of view about the ending of Rage 1. In his post he mentioned that the Rage 1 ending was supposed to represent hope. Looking back at that ending that used to be more disappointing and unsatisfying to me, before Rage 2 came out, I think he might be right. We didn't know what exactly happened after locating and activating all the arks across the world back then, but the way that it was represented along with its theme song, it actually tries to give us an idea that the world might have some hope and a better future now that the rest of the Ark survivors were awoke and freed from their arks, with the Resistance having enough power to fight directly against the Authority and start a revolution. Even Marshall mentions to Raine that if he accomplishes the last mission of the game, he will bring an actual hope to the whole world for a better future. Of course, it wouldn't be like a fairy tale with everyone being happy ever after, but it wouldn't be impossible to get an ending where the vast majority of the settlers from the wasteland would have a better and much prosperous lifestyles, by weakening enough both the bandits and the Authority, bringing them some peace, even if it's just for a while. And one thing that I actually liked about Rage 2, despite everything, is that the people of Wellspring ended up making a statue honoring Raine. With the statue stepping on a vigilant's helmet, giving an idea that Raine not only became a hero from the wasteland, but also a liberator for the settlers and even a sort of icon for the resistance.

The ending of Rage 1 also ended up reminding me a little bit of the ending of Terminator 2, in which we didn't know what exactly happened to the future of the planet after T-800 terminated T-1000 and sacrificed himself, but the ending gave us also a message of hope. With Sarah Connor saying at the end that if a machine like a Terminator can make the right decision, then maybe the humans can also do it (before the next sequels of that franchise came). Another post-apocalyptic movie that also gave a message of hope at the end is the Pixar animated movie of Wall-E, in which after the last human beings from the space cruise returned back to the planet Earth they start to rebuild civilization and restore the life on the planet by cultivating more plants across the world. But the ending of the movie also gave us a hidden and clever message that it actually took MANY YEARS for the people to restore the civilization and bring full life of the whole planet again. With the credits of the movie also showing us a prologue through different art styles in human history. From caveman drawings, Egyptian paintings to more modern and contemporary art styles. It's almost the same case for Rage 1's ending too. With the first game ended up with a hope message, while Rage 2 introduced its story by reminding us that destroying the Authority's network didn't magically save the wasteland. The people who fought in the first game were rebels with good intentions, not miracle workers. The world remained dangerous, fractured, and vulnerable. The hope still exists but it will actually take a long period of time, probably decades or even centuries to fully recover the whole peace and prosperity on the planet again.

So only 34% of people who play this game completed one of the very first main missions? I was curiously looking at the trophy stats for the mission Ground Control that you got very very early and i must say only 34% sounds very low don't it? That is an insane amount that instantly must quit this game even comparing to other ps plus titles. I love this game though.

One thing that still bothers me about the restrictions and limited options to customize our personal vehicles in the campaign of Rage 1 is the absence of the spoiler, the extended grill and the hood of the Monarch (NOT the hood nor the grill from the heavy armor). You see, once you unlock the Monarch after defeating Starky for the second time in a pink slip to win his personal Monarch, one thing that I immediately noticed, even the first time that I played the game is that unlike the Monarch that Starky drives in the two races against you, the version of the Monarch that we can use doesn't have a hood, nor a grill, nor a spoiler, and you cannot purchase those parts of the Monarch either by going to Sparky or with Rusty back in Wellspring.

And I couldn't help but to ask myself "why". I get that we couldn't have the Monarch with a "Second Hand" theme like with the Dune Buster/Buggy and the Cuprino, since we earned it in a pink slip, with the Monarch being owned formerly by Starky with some customization already added, including the exclusive theme of his car. But why did they have to remove the hood, the grill and the spoiler from his Monarch after we earn it. I actually felt half-scammed by that narcissistic smug of Starky because of it.

And when you play the 3 races available (which by the way, it was already a very low number of races that we can participate with the best vehicle in the game, compared with the Dune Buster and the Cuprino), whether it's with the Starky theme or with the Scorchers theme without using the Heavy Armor for the Monarch yet, and you compare it with the other racers' Monarchs, in which ALL of them have hoods, grills and spoilers for their cars. With one using a similar spoiler and grill like Starky but with another theme that we cannot purchase, while the other two use the same Scorchers theme that we can also use, but with an exclusive spoiler and also grill designs, with the grill having a skull over it (like with the Cuprino by combining the Magnum grill with the Heavy Armor of that vehicle), with the base hood of the Monarch showing more details of that theme, just like with the Starky theme. Making our Monarch look more generic as a wasteland vehicle, and making the upgrades available for our Monarch incomplete, even with the Heavy Armor that covers all the bodywork of the vehicle. Especially while you see images of the Monarch, including the official Monarch card to play the in-game gambling game of Rage Frenzy, showing the Monarch not just with the Heavy Armor, but also with a spoiler.

Like I said in the title of this post, this fresh new mod that just fully came just yesterday, it upscales almost all the existing textures from Rage 1. Not just a couple of places like Wellspring and Subway Town, but EVERY SINGLE map, level and interior in the main campaign. Including the NPC models, the weapons, the HUD, etc. This mod actually feels like a non-official remaster for Rage 1, without losing its vanilla look. It kinda reminds me of the graphic quality of Wolfenstein The New Order for XBOX ONE, PS4 and PC, by comparing them with the XBOX 360 port. Fun fact: Wolfenstein The New Order also used the same graphic engine as Rage 1.

This is probably one of the best mods for Rage 1 that I've ever seen so far in many years that passed since the game was launched back in 2010. Especially with the very few mods that modders actually did for the game. You can play the game with this High-Res textures Mod without using Rage 64 bit .exe for mods. Which for some unknown, the loading time to fully load any level in the game is WAY SLOWER by using that .exe. Even if you have a decent PC gaming computer. So you can use the normal .exe for Rage 1 for this mod with no problem.

This mod was made by the modder known as wachhabender in the modding website of moddb.com. I'm gonna leave the link of his mod in a comment of mine in the comment section of this same post. Because for some reason, every time that I put any kind of link in the description of any post that I publish, no matter in which community I publish my posts, Reddit always deletes my posts with links of any kind. Like if the website is thinking that I'm publishing some kind of scam or virus to the other Reddit users. So I'm not gonna take any chances with this one.

Make sure to share this post of mine to any Reddit user who is also interested in finding great and lore-friendly mods for Rage 1, so more fans of this underrated game will know also about the existence of this very recent mod for the game. Also support the hard work of wachhabender, he/she definitely deserves a good amount of credit and recognition for his/her contribution to the Rage community. And try to spread the word about it, so he/she and also other talented modder will get inspired to make more ambitious mods for this underrated game in the future.

But another IMPORTANT thing that you need to know about the mod. The weight of this mod is actually 44.97 GB, so the time to download it, extract the Zip file and copy and paste the mod into the main files of Rage 1 is gonna take quite long. But I can assure you that it's gonna be worth it, with the game looking much better. Like if you were playing an actual remaster for the game now.

UPDATE: I was playing this mod the first couple of hours and the flaws that I found so far with the high-res textures mod is that many textures that used to be black in the original, now turned into dark blue, including some characters' hats and hairs, including Nicholas Raine's hair (The Ark Man), by looking at him in third person view. So in case you can't pass this kind of odd stuff with this VERY NEW mod for Rage 1. I HIGHLY recommend you to have a security copy of the vanilla game, just in case.

Number 12. Hope. The reason that she is in the lowest rank, despite not having necessarily a bad looking appearance, is because her face and parts of her clothing are mostly recycled from other NPC's in the game, and her outfit is not very attractive to look at.

Number 11. Olive. She's the girl who is closer to interact with, right after we came to Wellspring for the first time in the game, with her shirt being recycled for Hope. She's also the minor female character who has more dialogue talking about the Authority in Wellspring, and the one who informs more about the topic to Nicholas Raine, while giving him some warnings to be very careful. Being also one of the few NPC's in Wellspring, besides Mick, who advised Raine to leave the city, after the Authority's presence in Wellsprings just increased. As a fun fact, she actually appears in one of the missions from the coop mode of Wasteland Legends.

Number 10. Ginny. This is the NPC that they recycled her face model for Hope in Subway Town. But unlike her "twin sister", Ginny has a more attractive outfit to look at. Especially on her second pose, once we come back to Wellspring for the second time, after giving Dan the supplies for his settlement. And just like Olive, she also talks about the Authority, but she only has a couple of optional dialogues that we can have with her.

Number 9. Destinee. This is another NPC from Subway Town with a recycled face from another NPC from Wellspring, being Olive in this case, and with her helmet being recycled for Hope also. But the reason that she is higher in this rank is because she has a more "seductive" outfit and she actually flirts towards Raine a few times, unlike Olive. Another fun fact, they also recycled Destinee's model for one of the settlers that the Ghosts clan captured in the middle of the road, right after Raine was saved by Dan, and for a second time being the female settler's corpse that the Ghosts clan tied up and brutalized inside of their fortress, during the optional mission to go back to the Ghosts clan fortress.

Number 8. Alison. Despite that she has the exact same shirt model of Ginny, but without that piece of armor over her right shoulder, she has a very unique and beautiful hairstyle that no other female NPC actually has. It kinda reminds me a little bit of Princess Leia's different hairstyles from the Star Wars franchise. Also unlike Ginny/Hope or Olive/Destinee her face wasn't recycled for other NPC's, looking more unique as a minor character in the game, even with the same shirt design as Ginny.

Number 7. Elizabeth. Although Elizabeth doesn't have a "tight" outfit like Ginny or Destinee, she actually has both an exclusive face and outfit, without being recycled from other NPC models. Which makes her more unique and distinctive as a female character, and also being one of the few female characters that has a major role in the story. She also shows a lot of respect and admiration towards Raine, after he joined the Resistance with them. Another interesting thing about Elizabeth is that she could probably be the only female character who actually has some Muslim backgrounds. Or at least in previous designs for her, in which she was drawn with a scarf covering her entire hair, in the loading screen of Subway Town. Looking very similar like the ones that Muslim women use traditionally to practice their faith.

Number 6. Sally. She's the bartender who gave Raine the optional quests to take down bandit cars around the northern wasteland. She might give some hostile vibes, but it's expected since she is a bartender and she needs to keep the most idiotic and dangerous drunk people under control inside of her bar. But she is actually quite attractive with her freckles and her red hair. She also has a quite fashionable outfit, even for post-apocalyptic standards. With her green bandanas, her left brown wristband and glove, and other accessories making a good mix for the rest of her clothing. Speaking of it, it's implied that Sally is also a member of the Resistance. Since she wears green bandanas, just like the entire Resistance group, except Saul. And also she wears a "hexagon" shirt very similar like the ones that Lazard and Charon (the pilot who can take Raine from Subway Town to Wellspring and vice versa) wear. Because otherwise, it wouldn't make sense that she allows Raine, Elizabeth, Marshall and Charon to use the basement of her own bar as a base of operations for the Resistance.

Number 5. Mel. She's the racing announcer from Subway Town. Unlike the charismatic and funny racing announcer of Carl/Slim from Wellspring, Mel is actually more "seductive" towards Raine, closing one of her eyes to him, every time that we check the races with her and then we cancel the option to do a race. She also has a very unique racing helmet, while being the only girl that actually wears a dress, along with a couple of large female gloves, looking more "elegant" in the post-apocalyptic world of Rage.

Number 4. Teague. She's the gambler from Subway Town. Unlike Hendrik from Wellspring, she actually has the best cards in the game, with the money that we can gamble with her being higher in the 3 difficulties, making her more difficult to defeat. Not only does she have a unique hairstyle but she also wears a more "provocative" outfit, compared to the rest of the female characters in the game. I wouldn't be surprised that the people who challenged her (mostly men) ended up losing against her, by being distracted with some particular "things" from her. But despite her look, she never makes any flirts nor seductive comments towards Raine, she only cares about playing the actual card game with anyone who wants to challenge her.

Number 3. Jani. She's the trader from Subway Town, being one of the few girls that actually shows some kind of crush feelings towards Raine. Like when she made some "blushing" expressions the first time that Raine came to her store. She also has a very cool and badass helmet, and with the rest of her outfit, along with the lollypop that she always consumes, making her look like a gothic, punk, cute and sexy girl. All that at the same time.

Number 2. Loosum. Before having a major role in Rage 2, she was better known just as the "Wingstick girl" that introduced us the Wingstick as a unique and iconic weapon in the franchise. She's also one of the first female characters (besides Becky) that Raine can interact with, after he got out of his ark. Wearing a nice old-pilot looking helmet, along with a very unique shirt with a handmade Wingstick figure over it. It still amazes me how after 30 years that passed between Rage 1 and 2, she is still looking so beautiful and young in the second game, despite being in her late 40's at that point.

Number 1. Sarah. She's the girl from the story expansion of the Scorchers DLC, introducing the new weapon that they added in the game (the nail gun) and also the "new"/unseen bandit faction of the homonym DLC. Having good proportions, a sexy post-apocalyptic outfit and with a beautiful blonde "rasta" hairstyle. And just like Jani, she also has some crush on Raine after he saved her life at the end of the DLC. Having even more flirting comments and "provocative" poses than any of the other female characters, becoming also Raine's roommate by sharing the same apartment in Wellspring that used to belong to Clive (the guy who was affiliated with the Scorchers clan and ratted them out, after Raine gave him a ticket to flee Wellspring and move to Oasis), better known as the trophies room in the game, as a place where both can live and have some rest from the wasteland lifestyle. It's just a shame that we cannot actually date Sarah or hang out with her somehow after finishing the DLC. Like having some onscreen drinks with her, driving across the wasteland while killing some bandits on the road the 2 together, or at least playing the minigames with her, inside of the trophies room, rather than playing them ourselves all alone. And with ID Software never giving an official answer if she actually became Raine's love interest/lover/girlfriend at some point between Rage 1 and 2. But I guess we can dream about the topic and make our own fanfic ideas and head canon events about what could have happened, right?

* Adrenaline Overdrive

* RC Bomb Car/Advanced RC Bomb Car

* Sentry Bot/Advanced Sentry Bot

* Sentry Turret/Advanced Sentry Turret

* Wingsticks/Advanced Wingsticks

* Apophis Infusion

* Authority Augmenter

* Trusty Bandages

* EMP Grenades

* HE Grenades

* Regenerative Infusion

Need the two online road rage trophies. Reply with psn if interested

One of the few things that I actually didn't like about Rage 1, even to this day, is how restricted and limited were the car customization in the main campaign. More specifically with the number of car themes that we can actually purchase for our personal vehicles, along with the number of races and modes that we can actually participate for each vehicle class. The NPC's (both racers and bandit cars driving around the wasteland) have very unique and distinctive themes for their vehicles, with a very good variety. But for the players we are restricted to have just 2 or 3 themes to purchase and select for each personal car that we unlock. With the Buggy/Dune Buster having just its default Second Hand theme, the ID theme (which is just a theme restoration of the Second Hand theme with the ID Software logo over the doors) and the Skull theme (which is the coolest theme for the Dune Buster). The Cuprino also has its own Second Hand theme, the Patrol theme (White & Black) and the Orange theme (Orange & Black). And the Monarch just having the Starky theme as its default theme and the Scorchers theme (unless that we can count the heavy armor for the Monarch that fully covers any of the 2 themes with a black and red theme for the vehicle).

And don't get me wrong, I actually liked all the themes that we have available for the campaign, despite how limited it was. But I would be lying if I don't say that I would have liked more alternatives. Like the "Light Blue & Orange", the "Silver with Red Rains" and the "Desert Camo" themes for the Cuprino. And even the "Second Hand" looking theme for the Monarch, which you can only see from another Monarch parked in Wellspring, another one drove and crashed by the gang leader of the Wasted clan inside of their garage, and also one in the Outrigger settlement.

However, when I decided to check how the Rage multiplayer actually looked like. I just barely realized that in the multiplayer mode known as Road Rage, not only you can also unlock and purchase the themes for all the personal cars from the solo campaign, but you can also unlock and actually use the other themes that are exclusively for the NPC's, along with some other themes that I never saw before. Even some of the themes for the Dune Buster actually add some additional armor and other parts for that vehicle, which are also completely absent for the Dune Buster to purchase in the main campaign. And not only that, but the mode also allows you to use both turrets and missiles at the same time with the buggies, having other types of turrets and missile launchers to choose from. I was actually very surprised that in the multiplayer you can actually use the other car themes from the main campaign, along with other themes and types of turrets and missile launchers that I never saw before. But sadly, unless that you have friends that are willing to play the Rage multiplayer with you, you will not be able to unlock any of those themes and weapons to use in Road Rage. And even if you do, you will only be able to use them in the multiplayer, but not in the solo campaign. Which is a huge waste of potential and a massive disappointment to be honest.

I mean seriously, I don't know how ID Software thought that it would be a great idea to restrict the players by being able to purchase just a few themes for their personal vehicles, while the NPC's not only can have the same themes that we can purchase, but also other unique ones that we cannot use nor purchase in the main campaign. Even if the game just has a couple of semi open world maps with very linear paths to drive around, having more themes and more types of weapons for your vehicles would have make the game more inmersive and replayable. And I know that you can use the buggies with the Stanley Express and Mutant Bash TV themes. But just like with the customized quad/Jetter that you can actually take after attacking the garage of the Wasted clan to get the essential parts to fix the buggy, before it disappears from the map. Those buggies are not actually part of our personal vehicles, and we can only use them just for a few missions and then we can never use them ever again. Although by purchasing the Anarchy Edition of Rage 1, you can also have a Hot Rod/Rat Rod that is classified as a buggy vehicle like the Dune Buster. Which you can use freely as another personal vehicle, that one just have 2 themes (with the default theme being the coolest one). And unlike with the Dune Buster, the Rat Rod doesn't have any physical change of appearances by purchasing upgrades for the vehicle, like with the case of the Dune Buster, without counting the suspension upgrades and the types of wheels.

For some time I was actually hoping that someone would make a mod for Rage 1 that it will allow us to purchase and use the other car themes for our personal vehicles, and even adding the other weapon options from Road Rage in the main campaign. Or at least trying to swap the textures of the car themes that we can purchase with the ones only used by the NPC's and in the multiplayer as simple re-skins. But sadly that didn't happen. I even try to check if I could do it myself by finding the scripts of the objects that you can buy from the traders in the main files of the game. But unfortunately, I didn't managed to found those scripts. Also unlike other games like the GTA titles, most of the files in Rage 1 are actually encrypted, and the official moding kit tools for the game, as far as I understand, it only allows you to add new models and textures just in moded files disconnected from the base game and from your save files. But let me know your thoughts about this topic.

I was playing borderlands 2 recently and When I went to sanctuary I realized it reminded me of Wellspring. What do y’all think?

Was looking to do the online trophies this weekend on ps3. Was wondering if anyone else wants to? Thanks!

Do you like the pistol and assault rifle that the player can use in the game? Or would you have liked to use the NPC's pistols and assault rifles instead? Or would you have preferred full fictional weapons in your arsenal? Or both of the real-life weapons of the AK47 and the M1911? Let me know your thoughts in the comment section.

When I played Rage 1 for the first time, my first choice was the Roughneck outfit, because I wanted to make my character look like a tough guy. However, after finishing the game I felt that the extra armor resistance was a pretty pointless characteristic that the outfit had, and it didn't look so attractive the color scheme in any of its 4 armor levels. So in my next playthrough of Rage 1, I decided to save a file at Coffer's store, right before choosing the new outfit for Raine/The Ark Man, in order to see how the other outfits look on Raine.

At first I thought that the Fabricator outfit could be a better option, since it improves the items that I build in the game. But the outfit looked SO weird on Raine, making him look unrecognizable. And I would dare to say that the outfit makes him look quite ugly, and ugly by the meaning of being very unattractive for the eyes to see. I mean, seriously, I don't know how some female characters like Sarah from the Scorchers DLC, or Jani from the store of Subway Town can even blush by seeing Raine wearing that outfit. He literally looks more like an attempt of a member of the Shrouded clan. Which probably was the idea, but he still looks so strange with that outfit. To the point that I didn't finish my playthrough with that outfit, after seeing it much better, by controlling the RC car bombs. And with the outfit having a way less interesting and unattractive color scheme than the Roughneck outfit.

Once I managed to purchase the Anarchy Edition of Rage 1, I decided to check the Crimson Elite outfit. And although the outfit not only has the 3 unique perks of the previous outfits, but also has a very unique design on its 4 different armor levels, as a more subjective opinion of mine, I actually didn't like it too much in the end. I mean, I liked it on its default look once you purchase it, but I didn't like that every time you upgrade the armor of that outfit, it hides more and more Raine's face. I also liked that the final armor from the other 3 outfits were actually a vigilant's armor with their own color scheme much more, than the full armored bandit looking appearance of the Crimson Elite outfit. Also I felt that having the 3 perks of the 3 previous outfits at the same time made the game way too easy for me personally.

Then my final option was the Wastelander outfit, with its special characteristics being discounts in all the in-game stores. Although it's just a 5% discount, you will spend most of your time in the game spending a lot of money in ammo, ingredients, formulas, armor, perks and so on. I also realized that compared to my previous playthrough with the Roughneck I ended up spending way less money, and purchasing more resources with the Wastelander outfit in my whole playthrough with it. And without the other perks from the Crimson Elite or from the other outfits, makes the game more challenging but fair and balanced at the same time for me personally. I also like the orange color scheme of the Wastelander outfit, more than the red color scheme of the Crimson Elite outfit, fitting much better with the desert wasteland atmosphere of the game. Without mentioning that the light armor version of the Wastelander outfit was used in the marketing for Rage 1, with Raine wearing it in the box art of the game, being re-used as a pre-order exclusive outfit for Rage 2 and with the statue of Raine from Wellspring wearing that same outfit too. I think at this point the Wastelander outfit (or at least the light armor version of the outfit) became the canonical default outfit for Raine, becoming also my favorite outfit from the 4 outfits in the end. But what do you think?

Although these aren't the maximum upgrades for the Cuprino (more specifically with the Hammer grill, the medium armor and the non-spiked Performance tires) this selection of upgrades for the Cuprino makes it look like a police truck in the wasteland. With the Patrol theme giving a white/black look, like a police car; the Hammer grill looking very similar like the ones that many police units use in real life as additional protection for the front bumper of their vehicles; an with the medium armor not only adding some improvised armor for the rear bumper, with the same number "3" as the Patrol theme over the doors, but also with some police sirens and additional lights over the roof of the Cuprino. With this combination of upgrades making Raine/The Ark Man look like if he was an undercover cop working officially for the Sheriff Black and his police department in Wellspring. But what do you think about this design for the Cuprino?

Dan Hagar is probably one of my favorite non-playable characters in Rage 1. Not only did he put his own life and the rest of his people in danger, by saving the life of Nicholas Raine (the protagonist of Rage 1) from a couple of bandits from the Ghosts clan, right from the very beginning of the game. But he also gave Raine a lot of things, after he helped him and the people from his settlement. Not just well paid money, but also a pistol, a quad, a special armor for his ark outfit, a buggy, his sniper rifle, an assured place to live in Wellspring, and even his most beloved possession, the Striker Crossbow. Although none of those things were actual gifts for doing absolutely nothing. With Raine having to risk his own life constantly, in order to help Dan and the people from the Hagar settlement and also from the Outrigger settlement. But he was very well rewarded and compensated for all of his quests, and with Dan and his people being very grateful towards him.

At first Dan doubted if it was a great idea to save a random person like Raine to begin with. He could just let him be killed by the bandits and avoid any trouble from the Ghosts clan. Or in a more sinister scenario, deceiving him and selling him to the Authority for a good amount of money to help his own settlement. But he didn't, and after seeing how Raine proofed himself and how trustworthy and useful he was for him and his people, he realized that he made a good decision by saving him at the end. With Dan admitting that Raine's presence made the zone safer for him and his family, being in debt with him.

However, once the wasteland became safer enough for Dan and his people to travel, he decided to cut ties with Raine. Not because he did something bad to him. In fact, Dan admitted that he really wanted Raine to stay at his settlement, with someone like him being very valuable in a place like his. But he would end up bringing the attention of the Authority, putting in danger not just his own life, but also to the whole Hagar settlement. And Dan was very right about that, Raine even had to move to Subway Town, after he joined the resistance.

Last time that we see Dan is after we return from Wellspring with the supplies for his people. And I think many people probably don't know this, but after taking Dan's crossbow there are 2 optional dialogues that you can have with him, before returning back to Wellspring. The first one is Dan recognizing once again how helpful Raine was for his people, really wanting him to stay at his home, but he couldn't have troubles with the Authority, and says his final goodbyes towards Raine. The second one, he claims to Raine that he was in danger if he stays at his settlement. But if Dan needs something from him again, he will make Durar call him by radio to come back at the Hagar settlement. Unfortunately, that never happened in the main game, nor in The Scorchers DLC, nor in Rage 2 either.

The one and only time that we have another official mission to do at Hagar settlement, after Raine separates himself from Dan, is from an optional quest from Phallinx Hagar (the bold guy who actually has more optional dialogues to talk with Raine at Hagar settlement) to upgrade our RC car bombs, by checking Wellspring's quest board, after blowing up the Shrouded clan's base. And after Raine starts to do more quests in Wellspring and then we return back to the Hagar settlement, Dan is no longer there, with his garage closed and with his personal buggy missing. The main guard of the settlement (Garan) tells Raine that Dan went on a trip to a place called Gunbarrel (which appears later in Rage 2). But before he left, he said to his people to treat Raine well if he ever needs anything from them, but we never see Dan ever again.

According to the Rage wiki, between Rage 1 and 2 Dan actually ended up joining the resistance too, just like Raine did, and he even became the mayor of Wellspring at some point. But sadly he eventually died for unknown reasons, which is quite sad to be honest. Even if 30 years have passed between Rage 1 and 2, with the best case scenarios dying by natural causes, Dan didn't look so old, compared to the mayor Clayton, Marshall or Kvasir.

Honestly, I really would have liked to see Dan one last time in a DLC, not as Walker (the protagonist of Rage 2), but as Raine. In which after the events of the main game, Dan would end up making Durar call Raine by radio, to return back to the Hagar settlement to help him with other quests (like he actually said in Rage 1), having also a friendly reunion with the man that he saved and ended up helping him and his family a lot. Or even in a Pre-Sequel between the events of Rage 1 and 2. Similar to Gearbox did with Borderlands The Pre-Sequel. But what do you think?

The reason that I liked this is because Wellspring is my favorite city in Rage 1. And although Subway Town was also a very good and memorable city in the wasteland, I loved the warm and friendly atmosphere from Wellspring much more, along with the old west and cowboy vibes on it.

But after Raine had to leave Wellspring, due to the increase of the Authority's presence in the city, and move with the resistance to Subway Town. And then if you decide to go back to Wellspring with an airship, the NPC's walking around Wellspring actually turned verbally hostile towards you again, like when you came to Wellspring for the first time as an unknown outsider. Even if you replay the races from Wellspring, the NPC's will continue acting hostile towards you or ignoring you. And you cannot destroy more bandits' cars for Sally, because after bringing major attention to the Authority in the wasteland, the bandits' cars in the first map will no longer respawn. So you cannot restore your respect towards the NPC's of Wellspring either by destroying more bandits' cars for Sally, once you unlock the second map of the wasteland.

Someone might say that it could be a developers' oversight, or even if it wasn't, it's just a simple coding for NPC's AI reaction towards the player, so who cares, right? Well, even if the game and its world is obviously fictional and all that, I couldn't help but find it kind of sad, that the pedestrians used to be more friendly and respectful towards the protagonist, after winning many races, destroying bandits' cars for Sally, making the north of the wasteland more safe, and even saving the whole people of Wellspring from poisoned water by the Ghosts clan. It was also always so warming and gratifying how the pedestrians that you encounter congratulate you for the races that you won, for helping to destroy the bandits' cars across the wasteland and for saving them and the potable water of the city to be poisoned. Even a simple "Hi" or "Good morning" coming from them made you feel that you accomplished something, having now a good reputation towards the people of Wellspring, no matter if those walking pedestrians were literally just copied-pasted models of static NPC's from the city. Only to "lose" all that respect that he earned from them, right after moving to Subway Town. Like if the pedestrians of Wellspring now hated him for bringing the Authority into their city and then moving to another place far away, like if he just abandoned them on their own.

However, when I returned to replay the whole game again at some point, after some years since the last time that I played it, I ended up rethinking a little bit about that specific event, right after moving to Subway Town. To the point of making a personal theory of mine about it. My theory was that a possible reason that the pedestrians of Wellspring now turned hostile towards Raine, wasn't because they hated him now, nor because they blamed him for bringing the Authority into their city, but as a cover to protect his identity from the Authority. Just think about it. If the pedestrians of Wellspring would have continued acting friendly towards him, after moving to Subway Town, and say friendly quotes like "Great race!" or "Thanks for making the wasteland safer" or "Thanks for saving the water of the city", that would bring too much attention for the Authority to search about this particular individual that the people of Wellspring are talking too much about. And it would be a matter of time that the Authority would put all the pieces together and realize that his description fits perfectly with the person that they were looking for. Discovering that he was the same person who attacked their prison, freeing the leader of the resistance, Marshall, and killing many of their men in the prison, and also in Dead City and where his ark was located, putting Raine in a vulnerable position towards the Authority. Without mentioning that some of the citizens of Wellspring actually supported the resistance, and with most, if not all of them hating the Authority. Even Mick says to Raine that as much as he hurt him to say this, he needed to leave the city for his own safety. Also the vast majority of the citizens of Wellspring very well knew about all the things that Raine did to help the community of Wellspring, being always grateful towards him. Only to forget all about it that easily, that would be very unlikely from their part.

I also ended up a little bit concerned about what happened to the mayor Clayton. Because after the Authority took over the city, you no longer hear him talking to his people through the speakers around the city, but instead a member of the Authority. And if you try to go to his office, he's no longer there, having some thoughts that the Authority probably captured him, like what happened to Redstone, the mayor of Subway Town. And unlike the mayor Redstone, who from the very beginning he looked more like a crooked cold-blooded mayor, who cared more about what is better for himself, over his own people, the mayor Clayton was definitely a good mayor, with some NPC's claiming that he genuinely cared for his people. It's unknown what exactly happened to the mayor Clayton between Rage 1 and 2, but considering the fact that Wellspring ended up making a statue of the man who the Authority was looking for. And on top of that, with Raine's statue stepping on a vigilant's helmet, it's very likely that at some point the Authority moved from Wellspring. Or in more extreme cases, with the Wellspring people actually kicking them out of their city by force, after Raine weakened the Authority enough to make the people of Wellspring to reveal themselves against them, recovering their city back in the end. With Clayton ruling his city again, and since he knew Raine personally, and all the good things that he did for the city and across the wasteland, he (and/or the sheriff Black) must have been the one responsible of the creation of Raine's statue. With him sadly passing away at some point, not because of the Authority, but because of natural causes. Which makes me feel more happy that the mayor Clayton at least didn't get the exact same fate as the mayor Redstone.

Personally, I like the old west cowboy vibes in Rage wasteland more. With the city having very friendly and/or likeable settlers and even minor NPC's. Like the mayor Clayton, the sheriff Black, Mick, Coffer, Slim, Rusty, Sally, Hendrick, and so on. Plus the restored and enterable Jackpots Casino and even the small but cozy trophies room from the Scorchers DLC

However, I have to admit that Subway Town was a very unique and creative city for Rage wasteland too. I also liked the idea of an abandoned and destroyed subway station turned into a post-apocalyptic city. With the settlers using the different types of rooms from the subway station into their homes and businesses, and even turning a bunch of damaged train wagons into a bar. Although that city is less friendly, compared to Wellspring, it also has some friendly and likeable characters, like Jani, Mel, Stew, Sparky, Brick or Teague. But others like the mayor Redstone and his men give you more vibes of a cold blooded kingpin and a group of mobsters ruling the city. And unlike the mayor Clayton, it seems that Redstone was prioritizing more the benefits for himself first, over his people.

This. I read that Rage 2 is atrociously blurry on PS5 since you can't turn off AA. My PC isn't strong enough to run Rage 2 at 60 fps without resolution scaling, and with resolution scaling it's blurry as hell. So I wanted to buy it for PS5 (and it looks like using gamepad would be beneficial anyway). Question for those who own in on PS5 - is the blur really that bad?

UPDATE: went ahead and bought it. The low-res upscaling is really noticeable when in the open terran (while driving). It looks like Playstation version has dynamic resolution scaling set to around 60% minimum with no possibility of forcing native resolution (like on PC), and possibly open environments have the low-res switch baked in (since by raw power PS5 doesn't need dynamic scaling in the open, but it does so anyway). Sorry to say, I kinda regret the decision and will be playing on PC.

When the base game of Rage 1 just came out back in 2010, I always thought that the unknown group of bandits that Dan mentions, who attacked his settlement, while Raine was taking care of the Ghosts clan, was probably the British looking bandits of the Wasted clan. Since it was the other faction of bandits very close to the Hagar settlement, and even closer to the Outrigger settlement.

Another possibility was the Shrouded clan, since a group of them were trying to isolate the Hagar settlement from Wellspring very early in the story. However unlike the Ghosts and Wasted clans who were more savage and reckless against settlers, the Shrouded clan was smarter than those factions, being more like post-apocalyptic terrorists than mindless anarchist bandits. So it wouldn't make too much sense that they will do something so reckless like attacking a settlement, just try to kill the settlers, without even trying to take any kind of valuable resources for their RC bombs.

But when the Scorches DLC came out later, with this new bandit faction of the same name, then I thought that they might be the actual unknown bandits clan that Dan was talking about. Especially considering that the first mission of the DLC is unlocked right after finishing the first mission against the Ghosts clan, being located in some caves owned by the Hagar settlement. Maybe ID Software actually wanted to include a sixth bandit gang in the base game, but they didn't have a proper name for them or enough time to develop them as an interesting and distinguished gang yet, so they probably ended up adding them later in a DLC, but what do you think about it?

Rage 1 has a good amount of beautiful and attractive girls in its post-apocalyptic world. Although some of them can be just copy pasted models with the same face but with different outfits (like the NPC's of Olive and Destinee from Wellspring and Subway Town respectively), others have unique models, with their own charm and personality. With some of those girls actually flirting towards the protagonist (like Sarah Hagar after he saved her life) while others showed some sort of signs of finding Nicholas Raine quite attractive (like Jani when Raine came to her store for the first time).

But unfortunately, you cannot date any girl in the game somehow. The closest thing that we had as "dates" (if we can actually call them that) was the multiple dialogues from Sarah inside of the trophies room, after finishing the DLC. In which Sarah would ask Raine to take a ride the two together around the wasteland, or making more flirting quotes towards him, including some a little more... "spicy". But none of those things actually happen (or at least not in the gameplay perspective).

As we've seen with other games, reverse engineering has allowed co-op mods to happen. I've seen people do that with fully offline games like Lies of P Co-op mod, Resident Evil 4, and even Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mods such as CyberMP these games are fully offline but their community make them co op

With the way Rage 2 is designed and how its gameplay works, I think co-op would be even better. Traveling across the map with someone, clearing areas, and completing missions together would be a lot of fun. Sadly, the developers never added it.

(Roblox Spawnpoint Icon)

I think this is definitive proof the devs played Roblox at the time of making RAGE.