That would make sense as I saw them on the hour of video that Angry Joe had up... I mostly remember the small army they encounter across one of the elevated walkways.
I think more randomness would help the game immensely...  I'll be honest I really enjoy the single play stuff.  Though, unless I start a new character the only thing left to do is reenact Sudden Death (aka the only story mission included...  I don''t count establish the base as a mission as much as a prologue but if you did its the other story mission.)  Hell, I even did it on hard difficulty alone.
 
My character is blue geared across the board minus handgun (never use) and some attachments... 
Oh, I got more than just green gear out of the DZ...  I think I had two blue drops while we were together but it might have been just one...  I got one off a guy who had gone rogue.  (I suspect he was highly pissed when that happened.)
By myself later I got two more...  I was already had my blue gear by then and it was off some PvE named guy.  (I was really there just to see what the gear was being sold at the checkpoints, each one has different gear for sale, but that extraction was crazy nerve wrecking.  Just me, alone, and a buck thirty on the timer.)
Anyhow, leveling to level 8 was a mistake as it ended up making me enter a different DZ, which makes sense... but at the same time I wish there was a warning about the group splitting up instead of finding out after the fact.  (and having to move around the DZ to get to the exit.)
As for the fakeybroing...  Looking at Gameplanet UK...  25% off
normal or 30% off
gold.
