"Take cover , man down! , man down, claptrap I've got your six" a behemoth of a man in a hoodie , torn jeans, and hockey goalie gloves, wielded a game controller in his left hand and a golden Frisbee in his right.
He let loose the Frisbee and it started to hover over the insectoid creatures ahead – the buzzards.
He controlled the Frisbee with the controller and aimed it at one such mechanic, it promptly exploded and short circuited the motherboard thereby destroying the rest of the hive.
With their aluminum biomechanical frame and brains in a jar in their chests, the buzzards were tough to kill at levels twenty-five to thirty-six. But thirty-two year old, former cage fighter, Hank Crenshaw was level fifty -seven, he was a beater- a beta tester and cheater who played this game solo, he had mini maxed his stats in strength, and dexterity, speed, endurance and luck, his charisma, intelligence, wisdom and special Deluxe inherent skill slots were all either set to zero or disabled.
He was a brawler , he had no need for meaningful abilities. He was one indestructible immovable force once he drank energy drink modifiers like g fuel and red bull.
Also he was a level 99999 hacker in game and brought his own gamedev equipment he stole from the hulking aliens from space via accidentally spilling a big gulp on one of their mother ships.
The ship's controller was fried, he managed to escape without a bomb strapped to his chest and had no access to the regular gear all level zero players got at the beginning so he made due with soldering equipment stolen from the comp Sci lab and a whole lot of energy drinks.
He made his own custom character ui changes and modifications of his character origins and the rest was history.
In reality Hank Crenshaw was an alter ego, a player character, an avatar, for Ryan Jackman, seventeen year old accelerated game dev dropout, anything was possible