Story Mission: Clinical Study

• Prerequisites: Complete Story Mission: Doctor’s Orders
• Rewards: Bait Upgrade (Item), Medium Resistance (Henbane River)
• Details: Test the bait for Dr. Charles Lindsey.

PICK UP the Test Bait

REACH the Farm

Speak to Doctor Charles Lindsey in his Hope County Jail office. He’s pleased to announce the bait has been made! Grab it from the dish on the side desk inside his office, and head into the hills west of the jail, to the Pepper Residence. Use the hilltop rock trail to get there, as it allows you to survey the small Bliss-producing farm and strangle a sniper patrolling the rock cliff above.

KILL Only the Cultists

PLACE the Bait on the Table

After dispatching the sniper in silence, tag the enemies from the cliff rock vantage point. Start a crouching descent toward the farm shack. There are four cultists and four Angels, and you mustn’t disturb the Angels or this mission fails. Therefore, it’s best to take out the nearest cult member at the bottom of the cliff with a melee strangulation.

Creep around the edge of the farm shack, watching patrol paths. Creep up to crack the neck of the three remaining cultists when they are facing away from you and each other. Then quickly place the bait on the table, retreat to the ladder, and get onto the shack roof.

WATCH the Field Test

KILL All Angels and Cultists

The trial isn’t as successful as you’d hoped for. Skunks are attracted to the meat, the Angels start bludgeoning the animals, and a couple cult enemies head in from the Bliss field to the northwest to see what the noise is about. Aborting this test requires you to dispatch everything. Lob a grenade from the shack roof. This takes care of the five Angels if you’re lucky; if not, mop them up with small-arms fire. Then snipe the two remaining enemies near the field. Any skunks should feel your wrath too.

GET Bliss Oil (1)

GET 3 Grizzly Bear Skins (3)

GET 2 Skunk Skins (3)

It seems the bait requires perfecting, and that involves skinning the hides of five more animals. The skunks are easy to find; you just killed a pack of them down at the table, so don’t leave here without grabbing two hides.

Now for the three grizzlies. These obviously take some time to find and hunt, so scour the world map for available locations. Travel there and wait. If no bears are around, leave and return. Start wandering the nearby trails, as bears are attracted to cult activity. The bear we hunted in the adjacent picture was found nibbling on a cult victim at Snowshoe Lake, which isn’t a specific hunting spot. But for the best chances of finding a bear, go to the indicated locations on your in-game world map.

RETURN to Dr. Charles Lindsey

With all five hides, head back to Hope County Jail and meet up with the doctor again. He’s thrilled you managed to gather the correct ingredients and mixes up a batch of bait that now works on corralling Angels. The mission concludes. Use this bait as part of your projectiles.