You don't actually have to walk there to retrieve his bike. You can just ride and then swap bikes there. Your bike will be back at Lost Lake after the mission. It's a little unrealistic, but it beats walking all that way.
I didn't know Addy sends someone else if you wait long enough.
Really? I didn't even think it would do that, teleport your bike back I mean.
I've advanced quite a bit further into my playthrough. I've collected almost everything that's collectible in the Lost Lake area also, killed most of the hordes (have 2-3 left, I think; the same in each of the other areas). And I think the story is about to move to the next area.
All this second playthrough has managed to do for me is settle even further the fact that this is a fantastic game. The story is also very nice, with some wonderful moments that have heart. But the main course has to be the world, the mechanics and gameplay. It's fantastic in its ability to create emergent gameplay.
The hordes in particular are a fantastic element. I just wrapped for the night, and also had one of the best scenarios with one of the hordes. This was a horde (that hibernates in Sherman's Camp in Lost Lake) that I kept returning to since I could never get the exact moment in order to catch it hibernating. So I tried that for a couple of times, and gave up, thinking that either it may be bugged or something is not triggering its spawning.
Then, after some time, I returned to that general area due to a different quest, and said, let's just see if it's there now. It was also a bit on the late side of the day. So I park my bike near the gas station, got a refill knowing that I'll need to kite the horde with my bike to have a chance. And just when I step into the actual town, about to head towards the building where I knew they hibernate, the weather does a complete 180 and turns to a frikkin blizzard where I could barely make out what was happening a couple of meters in front of me.
So I keep walking towards the building, trying to make out their silhouettes in the blizzard, but I couldn't see anything. I just assumed they're probably not there. And all of a sudden the music swells, and the horde crescendo music kicks in. And I knew I was in trouble. A firefight breaks out, I take out some but have to run away towards the bike to get the hell of out there and maybe have a chance to lure them in smaller chunks.
So I make it to the bike, take off, stop a couple dozen meters from there, thinking that I'll just do the old shoot as they come, and then run away. But I'm not sure what had happened, had they merged with some other horde, but all of sudden there were a lot more of then than I expected (I think I read before hand that that particular horde only had around 100 or some freakers). This horde felt a lot larger. Or maybe it was just my panic.
So I run away with the bike, and it's really weird what happens next. Basically I ran away toward the farms on the othe side of the river and I could swear I saw clumps of new freakers coming out from those farms. And these were not the small groups you usually encounter. They were considerable groups, and as agressive as the ones from the main horde.
It basically felt like either the game started spawning biggers groups all around me, or maybe parts of the horde that was chasing me originally got respawned by the game? But I had never seen that happen before. Anyway, all of it felt absolutely perfect. The sudden change of weather that I swear I suspect the game triggered on me knowing I was about to encounter that horde. I know, I sound paranoid. I could be. Then as I ran away from the flood of freakers, them also appearing from the farms where I thought I was surely safe (at least for how much it would take the horde to get there).
It was intense as hell. This game constantly does this sort of thing. And it's fantastic in these moments. But man is it also annoying when it keeps spawning ambush parties on you with the freakin wire they keep clothes-lining me. Or the randomly spawned sniper in some tree that takes me off my bike with pin-point accuracy. Or the freaking infected wolves that are constantly on my arse as I ride my bike. One time I was trying to get up to the Metolius cave horde, and it took me 3-4 tries to get up there. The game would keep spawning either marauders up there, waking the horde before I could get there, and then I'd have the horde on me in seconds.; or it would spawn wolves up there; or one time, both wolves and marauders. It was insane how many reloads I had to do there. But it's also intense as hell.