Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel Guide Walkthrough Mission 4: Outside Contact

Chapter 14: Local Heroes 

You exit the radar station through the back door, initiating a door breach sequence. There are four thugs to take out in order to earn a Flawless Breach bonus. You hear the crack of a sniper rifle in a nearby tower, and Fiona asks you to help her comrades who are located further inside the nearby junk yard.

Decision Point: Protect Contacts or Advance to Contacts

In this sequence, Alpha must decide who advances toward the contacts and who stays behind. Whoever stays behind must eliminate the nearby sniper and provide cover for both the contacts and the man advancing toward them.

Protect Contacts

If you stay behind to protect the contacts from afar, you will be boosted over the designated wall so that you can climb into the tower to take out the sniper. If you don’t have a sniper rifle, there are several helpfully provided. This small room will be your post for the next minute or two.

Next, you need to find a way to get your partner down to the junkyard so that he can directly support the contacts. A waypoint will mark a nearby crane that is holding up a piece of a ruined passenger jet. You can shoot the hook to cause the fuselage to fall to the ground and create a bridge for your partner. You will be under pressure by thugs attacking from underneath the fuselage before it falls, so work fast to drop it on them.

With your buddy making his way toward the contacts, you’re given a number of HUD markings that call out the most immediate threats to the contacts in the junkyard far below. As you snipe these hostiles, the enemy quickly wisens up to your long-range shenanigans and sends their own counter-snipers to deal with you. Do not play around with these guys; take them out as soon as possible before you go back to work on the thugs shooting at the contacts.

Directly in front of the contacts themselves is a large aircraft fuselage with the initial targets starting off close to it. Cartel reinforcements show up on the raised road behind the aircraft, charging down either the left or right paths towards the contacts. When the snipers come out to play, they tend to stay farther up the hill.

Despite your best efforts, you will see an RPG shot fly at the contacts’ vehicle from a position you have no shooting angles on, ending their resistance. As disappointed as your merc might sound, this is also your cue to get moving, because the RPG gunners will now be turning their attention to you. Those RPGs have good range and the shooters are quite accurate. They can and will put a rocket into your post if you wait around too long. If Alpha or Bravo go down at any point during this sequence, you’ll be restarting all the way back at the door breach scene.

On an interesting note, if you manage to avoid getting fragged by RPG fire at the sniper post, Stabbers will make their way into the tower itself to try and dislodge you from that position.

You’ll have to exit the tower and take a side path that will lead you directly to the car the two contacts were holed up by. It’s pretty much a straight shot, but you’ll still want to be alert for cartel soldiers and Stabbers that will be running up the path to get you. Once you reach the contacts’ burning vehicle , you’ll have effectively rejoined your partner.

Advance to Contacts

After boosting your partner over the wall to take out the sniper, you’ll have to wait for them to use a sniper rifle to destroy the hook holding up a piece of aircraft fuselage while fending off the enemies that are streaming into the area directly under it. Once the fuselage has fallen into place, you will use it as a bridge.

Arguably, the narrow and winding route down to the contacts is the hardest part of the mission. You can’t rely on sniper support from your partner because they are too busy trying to cover the contacts, and they don’t have very many decent angles on most of the threats you face. Ranges are short, meaning that thugs with shotguns and Stabbers are very serious threats. The path itself is narrow, so you have little room to maneuver to avoid grenades, other than charging forward or running back up the path. There is a lot of cover you can use during the advance downhill, however, which can keep you safe from gunfire.

Generally, you do not want to run through this section very quickly unless you’re willing to burn Overkill. Just keep a steady forward pace and whenever you come to a blind corner, keep your weapon trained on the corner as you make your turns in order to react quicker to thugs waiting on the other side.

Unfortunately, no matter how fast you and your partner work to protect the contacts, an RPG will end their lives shortly before you arrive at their side. Once the bad news is announced on the radio, prepare to eliminate hostiles in the clearing surrounding the burning vehicle while waiting for your partner to regroup with you.

Once you regroup with your partner by the burning vehicle, you have to eliminate the incoming cartel troops. The first wave comes down the path to the left of the wrecked aircraft . Once they are dealt with, the second wave approaches from the path to the right of the aircraft .

After both waves are taken down, you need to regroup by the dead contacts. Alpha and Bravo discover a secured case full of C4 explosives, and take what they can with them. They’ve got the means for payback; now they just need to find a proper target.

Your goal now is to cut your way through another cartel assault to reach a sewer drain that will hopefully take you out of the area. While you’re fighting your way forward, pay attention to the wing of the shattered aircraft fuselage passing over the dirt path. An RPG-wielding thug will try to run out onto the wing in an attempt to blindside you. As you close in on the drain, be careful about one last wave of cartel members dropping down from a ledge above the entrance. If you’ve moved very quickly through the rest of the hostiles, you might find them jumping down almost on top of you.

Once in the sewer, head to the right until you get back outside. Use a Co-op Action to pull Alpha and Bravo out of the drain and finish the chapter.