By tracking the whereabouts of the black box that you recovered during the last mission, you have managed to find plenty of suspicious activity in the Niger Delta. The CIA has already placed an asset in the country to monitor a PMC called Watchgate who operates primarily in that area. Although they claim to be providing security for oil companies, there is clearly more that they aren’t telling you. They run ops into local villages and contribute to the destabilization of the area, and you and your squad will have to find out why they are doing this under the cover of being security agents. The CIA agent in the area, Daniel Sykes, has gone dark recently. You will have to find Sykes if he is even alive anymore, and figure out what Watchgate is up to.
This mission will begin in a swampy marsh, but will quickly take you and your squad deep into an enemy village where the Watchgate PMC will be terrorizing the populous. Your first course of action will be to deploy one of your new gadgets, the Drone. You won’t be able to move or do anything else until you follow the tutorial, so go ahead and hit the left bumper to deploy your Drone. You will now be in direct command of the unit. Hit the right trigger to raise the Drone into the air, and the left trigger to lower the Drone. Additionally, hitting the right bumper will still tag enemies for you. This can be really helpful, as it will allow you to target enemies from above without actually going through the trouble of getting a line of sight on them. Beware, though, as enemies can spot your Drone if you hover it over them for too long.
Pilot the UAV to the waypoint and hover it over the top of the building. Look through the hole in the rooftop to identiy and mark four hostiles inside of the building. Three of the enemies will be armed. The fourth will sit at a table unarmed. Note that you must kill the three armed men, but killing the fourth will give you a Game Over. You will have to interrogate him before you dispatch him. With this intel gathered, recall your Drone by holding down the left bumper and wade through the swamp to the shore ahead. Head up the shore. 30K and Ghost Lead will stack up on the nearest door. Head around the back of the shack to find a second door. Stack up here with Pepper and you will automatically enter the Magnetic view. Give the order to breach and the game will enter slow motion as your team attacks the enemy compound. Target the enemy to the left of the door. The rest of the hostiles should be down by the time you finish him off. Remember, don’t shoot the guy at the table.
When the room is cleared, you will grab the man at the table and interrogate him. As it turns out, Sykes is actually alive and being held at a nearby refinery inside of a shipping container. You will have to find him and rescue him, but first you must pass through a nearby village swarming with PMC. Although most times you will want to approach combat from a stealthy perspective, here it is entirely impossible, so get ready to gun down a few Watchgate soldiers. Enter the village ahead and toss out a Sensor grenade when you come to a large cluster of NPCs. Some of them will be enemies, while many of them will be civilians. The Sensor grenade will identify three enemies amongst the civilians. Mark them and execute them quickly. The gunfire will alert a few other enemies in the area. Have your team lead you through the village while you provide supporting fire and Sensor grenades from the rear. Light up and mark the rest of the enemies and bring down the remaining enemies.
You will now be near the exit point of the village. Before leaving the area, be sure to restock on ammo and Sensor grenades via the ammo crate to the side of the village’s exit. As you approach the refinery, HQ will send you a mission update containing valuable intel on the refinery where Sykes is being held. As of right now, the enemy mercenaries don’t seem to be expecting much trouble. They must not have heard about the scuffle in the village to the south. While HQ can’t get an exact pinpoint on the location of Sykes, they can point you in the right direction via the waypoints that will appear as you make your way into the area. Additionally, a few helicopters are headed in your direction. Keep your eyes to the sky as you infiltrate the base just in case the choppers get too close. If necessary, HQ can send in backup for you if things get too hot. Ideally, though, you will be able to make your way through here silently, as that will result in a much better mission outcome.
Shortly after the cutscene ends, Ghost Lead will call out hostiles ahead and the UAV will be automatically deployed. Pilot it ahead of your position and you will quickly see the enemies patrolling ahead. Mark all three of them and wait for your squad to line up clean shots on all of them before giving the kill order. You will now be able to move into the refinery. Call the UAV back to you and move towards the next waypoint. Stay crouched so that you will remain cloaked the whole time. As you near the bridge leading into the facility, you will be able to see several more enemies patrolling ahead. The view is still a little distant, though, so deploy your UAV once again and fly it over the facility to identify a whopping twelve enemies patrolling the area. Four of them will be playing soccer ahead, and others will be patrolling on top of buildings to the left and right. Unfortunately, you won’t be able to reach Sykes until every single enemy here is dead. That doesn’t mean that you can take out a few stealthily to improve your chances, though.
Leave the UAV hovering over the base. This way, it will constantly be feeding you updated enemy positions from its perch in the sky. Loot the weapon box on the left side of the bridge on the way into the facility. The weapon box will contain a VSS sniper rifle with an integrated suppressor, among other weapons. You may want to get this weapon out just to take out the enemies on the rooftops without the other enemies in the area noticing. Keep your Optical Camo running and drop off of the bridge to the left side of the ravine below. You will land in a crouched position. From here, you can sneak out of the water and creep up towards the left. The soccer players ahead won’t see you because of your Camo. One guard will patrol the left side of the refinery. You can shoot him with a suppressed weapon or sneak up behind him for a stealthy melee kill. Keep advancing up the left side. You will soon reach a raised platform ahead. Take cover here and peek over the wall, marking the targets as you do. Before executing the enemies on the ground, take out the enemies on the rooftops with the suppressed sniper rifle. Now mark a fourth target on the ground for yourself and take the shot.
This will get the attention of the rest of the enemies in the facility. Switch from your rifle to whatever other weapon you’ve decided to bring along, preferably something a little more automatic and deadly. With you at the back of the facility and your squad still holding position at the front, catch the enemies inside of the base in a crossfire and issue focus fire orders to make quick work of any particularly troublesome enemies. You should have the base cleared out in no time flat.
After the base has been cleared, head to the next waypoint and regroup with your team. You will be meeting up by the entrance of a suspicious shipping container. Open it up and sure enough you will find Sykes inside. Unfortunately, those helicopters mentioned earlier will choose now to make an appearance. Check out our next guide for tips and tricks on the best ways to avoid or take out the helicopters while keeping Sykes safe.
