Talk:Attack the base and get the artifact/@comment-2601:602:9200:33E6:A050:6E6C:926F:A09F-20181011024259/@comment-10507735-20181011044611

Perfectly normal in all versions.

It won't affect your interaction with the Cordon-Garbage garrison.

It's similar to how wearing a Bandit jacket changed your standing with the Bandits and Monolith earlier in the game. Basically it's an artifice to make sure that if you revisit Army Warehouses you get shot at.

(So you do any looting BEFORE you stiff MadDog, get it safely off site and stased in a vehicle (no lootpiles in v1.4005 remember) and finally pop MD, loot him and GTFO)