Testing the new commune code, which requires me to bring a friendly NPC to the commune, and teleporting with followers doesn’t work, so ROAD TRIP!
Everything was going pretty well, I was successfully weaving through cars and groups of zombies on my way through towns, but then I hit an extra-dense clump of zombies that slowed me down a bit more than usual, which for some reason prompted my passenger to start firing a flamethrower out the passenger window at the zombies. Great, now I get to dodge fireballs in addition to the other cars and zombies. Continued on for a little while, then my engine suddenly gave out in the middle of a town. I jumped out of the now-useless car and ran to another one nearby, and started it up. I was hoping my friend would take the hint and switch cars, nope, he just started shooting his flamethrower everywhere. I took out a few zombies with a pistol hoping he’d change his mind, but no such luck. I noticed his car was on fire and decided to give up on him, punched it in reverse, which is good because right afterwards this happened…
After witnessing my companion’s literal blaze of glory, I peeled out and got out of town. Not far out of town mind you, the explosion caught the car engine in the blast and it didn’t last much longer than it took to get out of range of the immediate horde.