After a tense cutscene, Sabal asks you to climb a nearby bell tower and disable Min’s propaganda-filled radio broadcasts. You could take the ATV as you did before, but you might also consider walking and hunting your way there, to get more skins for crafting. Your call.
Once you arrive at the mission area (the yellow splotch on your mini-map) you’ll realize you can’t just walk up to the tower. Not unless you can scale sheer cliffs.
However, if you wander around the periphery, you’ll get a message to “investigate the accident site”, and you’ll discover the remains of a rock climbing excursion gone horribly wrong. On the bright side, you just got a free grappling hook.
Grab the hook and look up. You’ll see a tiny hook icon at the anchor point and you should get a prompt telling you how to throw your hook. Once that’s done, it’s just like climbing the rope you tackled earlier.
After scaling the cliff, you’ll come to a wide gap with a grapple point about halfway across. You now have two options. It is possible to swing across, Tarzan-style, but if you’re not at the right height on the rope, you’ll either slam into the cliffside or plummet to your death. A slightly safer, less thrilling option is to swing to the wooden walkway to your right and then leap from there to the other side.
There’s no shame in dropping onto the wooden walkway. It’s a long way down if you miss that rock ledge.
Once across, you can swap your handgun for the dead guard’s Mark IV.
You’ll then come to another grapple gap—this time a two-grapple sequence. Grapple the first anchor point, swing forward, then grapple the second one when the prompt appears mid-swing. Climb up the ledge to reach the tower. You’ll see several new gameplay elements here, including propaganda posters (see sidebar) and hives of killer bees that attack anyone nearby when their hive is disturbed. Say, by a few rounds from an AK47?
Once both guards and the poster are down, head inside the tower.
Pin-up Propaganda
Far Cry 4’s most common collectible item is the propaganda poster. In all, 150 of these admittedly stylish, yet utterly unwelcome wall hangings are spread throughout Kyrat, and the more of them you destroy, the more karma you’ll earn. (See the Collectibles Section for a complete rundown of every poster location.)
The Radio Tower
Radio towers are basically vertical puzzles. You want to hijack Min’s propaganda transmissions, but to do that, you need to figure out how to get to the top floor. For example:
1F: Take stairs up to 2F.
2F: Kick boxes, go up stairs to 3F and out onto the wooden roof that skirts the level.
3F: Go clockwise around walkway to find a climbable ledge (look for the blue ropes) to 4F.
Any time you see blue ropes draped over something, that means you can climb it.
4F: Walk across the narrow beam and climb stairs to 5F.
5F: Bash boards and take the outside walkway clockwise to the climbable ledge to 6F. However, pass under it first to reach the chest, then come back.
6F: Go clockwise on the walkway to the gap. Tightrope or jump across, then climb the ledge to 7F.
7F: Walk clockwise on the narrow walkway to reach the ledge to 8F.
8F: Hop counterclockwise to reach a breakable wall and plunder the chest. Then head back out and climb the ladder to 9F.
9F: Watch out for angry birds, loot two chests, then disable the radio.
Careful up here. This is black eagle territory and they don’t like feather-deficient visitors.
Liberating the radio tower will have several effects. First and most importantly, some of the fog on your map will clear, revealing the nearby roads, terrain, new quests and activities, and three new locations (in this case, Old Isha’s House, Kyra’s Refuge, and Prabhakar’s Farm). Second, it unlocks a new weapon at the trading post (your gun cabinet), which you can have for free. Finally, Min’s propaganda broadcasts will be replaced (in vehicles with radios) by DJ Rabi, a pirate radio host who rambles on about everything from Jean-Claude Van Damme’s physique to how crazy it would be if honey badgers could operate firearms.
That finishes this mission. Sabal will now call with instructions to go see someone named “Longinus.”
Now comes the best part: the zipline down.
Urgent Shmurgent
If you touch down near the little shack, you’ll hear Gopal begging for help over the radio. This is a Golden Path Supplies quest (covered in detail in the Quests and Activities section). You can do it now, but you definitely don’t have to. Despite Gopal’s insistence that it’s urgent, the quest won’t expire if you don’t do it immediately. In fact, it’ll still be here after you’ve finished the entire story campaign.
