I clung to the exterior of the AV as it banked hard, the hot night air screaming past my claws. The heat hadn't died with the sun, just traded its searing intensity for a suffocating humid blanket that pressed against my body. My eyes cut through the darkness like it was mid-afternoon, picking out every detail of the wasteland rushing up to meet us.Tier 1 Achievement: Reach +150 Adaptive EnduranceUnlocked: AP ConsumptionYou recover stamina and heal proportionally to the amount of AP gained.+50 % Progress to Endurance StatThe achievement popped up and was minimized as I kept my focus below as Long-Run mode kept pushing my endurance higher.The badlands stretched out below in a patchwork of craters and rubble. What might've been buildings once upon a time were just skeletal frames now, blasted down to their foundations and then blasted again for good measure. Decades of fighting had churned the ground into a mix of pulverized concrete and sand, all of it baked into a crust by daytime temperatures that could cook meat. To my right, the shore cut a jagged line against the almost-black ocean, dotted with half-submerged ruins that stuck up like broken teeth. Salt and rust cut through the air, mixing with the rot-sweet stench of dead monsters.Movement caught my attention below. Scattered shapes lumbering in the direction we were coming from, maybe two dozen of them spread (...)