Story Mission: Eco-Warriors

• Prerequisites: Liberate Drubman Marina, complete Story Mission: Friendly Skies
• Rewards: Tulip (Helicopter), Medium Resistance (Henbane River)
• Details: Xander has spotted boats delivering Bliss containers down the Henbane River. Find their destination and destroy all the Bliss containers there.

MISSION Commencement

REACH the Gas Station

Adelaide Drubman’s Californian boy toy Xander Flynn is practicing yoga inside the main warehouse in Drubman Marina. He’s, like, totally pissed that the cultists are, like, dumping Bliss into the environment and stuff. He’s uncovered a laptop at a nearby gas station with information about where Bliss is being stored.

HACK the Laptop

WAIT for the Hacking to Finish (01:30)

Take either a road vehicle or a boat from the marina. Stop about 80 meters away from Misty River Gas, so you have adequate distance to tag enemies with your binoculars. Your plan is to reach the laptop, hack into it, and then wait for the hack to finish (which usually takes around a minute and a half).

OPTIMAL Path

Scan the area as you approach from the woods to the north , assuming you don’t want to engage the enemy in a straight-up firefight from the road. Tag the nine or so foes, including the one on the garage roof at . Start to silently remove the closest threats. Use the garage and shop as cover and optionally bring enemies down with strangulation. Climb to the garage roof to remove the foe up here, using either the ladder in the shop or on the north exterior wall. You can shoot him from the ground, too, when he moves. With enemies in the forecourt contained, hack the laptop ().

Then spend the next minute and a half remaining inside the garage or on the roof, plugging away at reinforcements arriving via truck or across the road from the south hills. Focus first on the mounted guns in the back of pickups. Check the laptop; foes will attempt to reach it and stop the hack. Retreat after you complete the hack.

OTHER Paths

• Using a vehicle to ram foes from the road to the east works but is not particularly strategic.
• The garage roof is a better place to hole up than the roof above the pumps , as the former has items and a machine gun to utilize. You can then zip-line west, to the helicopter landing location once the objective updates. Just make sure you trap the ladders with proximity explosives or check them for enemies heading up to outflank you.
• Mooching about the mechanic’s outbuilding is reasonable and allows easy aiming at anything explosive (e.g., the propane tank, the pumps, two explosive barrels, and the equipment stashes). The low roof offers reasonable protection and elevation too.
• You can actually sneak to the laptop, hack it, and then sit as it downloads, without killing anyone until the last few seconds. However, the enemy attacks en masse when you utilize the helicopter next, so it’s not a great plan.

Summon Adelaide and request she lands her chopper (Tulip) just west of the gas station. Or, summon your own at the Helicopter Shop at the same location. Fly south down Henbane River. You learn that destroying enemy boats and trucks is both entertaining and easy, unless your chopper has no weaponry. Then pilot the chopper to the location of a boat convoy, landing away from the pair of water craft. Move to a small jetty midway between the Jones and Pepper Residences on the river’s south side, just west of Hope County Jail.

FOLLOW the Boat Convoy

The boat is carrying a container of Bliss. Follow the boat convoy west, until both enemy vessels dock just after a road bridge. Moor your boat close by, but not close enough to be spotted.

REACH the Stash of Bliss Containers

DESTROY the Bliss Containers (20)

Just north of the mooring point is an abandoned mine works. Ghost Cat Mine has around 10 foes and an enemy dog; two of the enemies are snipers (armed with RPGs) on the mine workings tower and a heavy. Then there are four foes disembarking at the boat (which you can neutralize early, though this risks the entire combat zone becoming hostile, as your actions are spotted). In addition, expect at least one pickup truck and possible foes who can call reinforcements. Make them priority targets if they appear.

Bliss containers are everywhere (and marked on the guide map). Note the large number of them inside the east warehouse, with the rest scattered about the entire mine works. Destroy Bliss containers with explosives or high-capacity gunfire. Single shots from weaponry won’t do the trick, but multiple rounds will.

If you require more ammunition, especially explosives, check the refuse container, the mine tower area, and the dirt road east of the warehouse, as indicated on the map: There’s ammo here for the taking.

OPTIMAL Path A

Follow the enemies from the boat dock up the trail. They cross into the mine grounds but you should peel off as you cross the dirt road heading south . Take up a surveying position atop the rock bluff on the western side of the combat zone . Scan the entirety of the zone to tag all foes (use a bow with insanely precise aim). From here, you can start (quietly) removing enemies, including the sniper atop the mine tower with the RPG. You have excellent views and can whittle down foes without them figuring out your exact location.

Simply stay up here, softening the heavy with lobbed grenades (or sneak down and strangle him). When additional foes arrive in a pickup from the road , tag them and locate any who can call reinforcements: Make them a priority target, and continue to remove foes. Then destroy all 20 containers at your leisure, when no more enemies appear.

OPTIMAL Path B

If you moored your boat or helicopter farther to the west (so you weren’t seen by the cult), take a route through the trees to the dirt road , watching for a foe at the mounted machine-gun nest. Creep to the rocks north of the warehouse , then either climb onto the warehouse roof on its north side or use the corner of the warehouse as cover . Clear enemies silently as you go. You can strangle about half of the foes using this route.

Sweep the rail yard , which is a great place to hide, both behind and inside the open rusting carriages. With only two or three foes left, you can place explosives on the warehouse Bliss containers, sneak around to the railyard, and detonate. Then begin destroying containers, while constantly checking for reinforcements.

OTHER Paths

While up on the rock outcrop at or after quietly crossing the road from , continue with the takedowns, moving to the concrete tube . Hide here and remove enemies in close proximity without blowing your cover. From here, you can enter the rickety mine structure at , then climb to the tower’s top , defeating your last remaining foes. When all is quiet, start destroying the containers.

Another option is to sneak in from the north road , then onto the rickety mine building. Climb to the sniper’s nest at the top , and bombard the enemies and Bliss containers. You have height, but you’re easily seen, so use the platform atop the mine tower as cover and the zip line to the warehouse roof as an escape route.

With an ally, feel free to approach and clear the enemies using both optimal paths.

Instead of focusing on the enemy, you can start demolishing Bliss containers. Flee the mine works after you destroy all 20 containers. This is trickier with foes to worry about too.

You can use an enemy reinforcement vehicle to smash into the Bliss containers. If you can’t find one, break off from the fighting and head to Lorna’s Truck Stop (cult outpost) to the north. Steal a truck, then return and ram all 20 of the Bliss containers. This is a good way to crush the heavy foe too. It’s also an easy way to die if the sniper shoots you with his RPG or if you run into an explosive barrel.

With the toxic freedom clouds spotted by Xander, once you destroy all 20 Bliss containers, regardless of enemy presence, the mission concludes.