Story Mission: Serve and Protect

• Prerequisites: Complete Story Mission: Salvation
• Rewards: Medium Resistance (Henbane River)
• Details: Faith’s people are taking hostages. Rescue any that you see in the Henbane River region before they are tortured or turned into angels.

MISSION Commencement

At the conclusion of the previous mission, the sheriff radios in a message of grateful encouragement. He’s received reports that Faith’s folk are executing citizens, or worse: You need to find and free the people of Henbane River from the cult’s stranglehold. This mission now begins (you do not need to return to Hope County Jail).

SAVE Hostages (7)

This mission now takes on a more “freeform” plan and involves you exploring the length and breadth of Henbane River. You need to travel to smaller primary locations and some secondary locations, where you’ll stumble across possible cult hostage situations as part of your general exploration.

Generally, you should remove the cult threats quickly (as they may be about to execute a hostage), watch for environmental hazards (e.g., don’t shoot a foe near an explosive barrel that can kill a hostage), study the area before wading in (so you don’t miss a foe that may kill a hostage without you realizing it), and remain within Henbane River (stepping into a different region doesn’t help the hostages here).

Consult the Atlas to pinpoint the many secondary locations, some of which may have a hostage situation playing out.

As a hostage situation usually occurs at random, with one or more cult members, this mission can’t be specifically tracked. But there are some main types of hostage situations to look for, as you begin your good deeds.

Primary Location Hostages: Look for hostage activity inside the primary locations across Henbane River. In this example, a book-waving lunatic is about to execute a citizen at the Mastodon Geothermal Park (along with a VIP, flamethrower foe, and other enemies). Just be aware that finding hostages isn’t guaranteed, and more populated locations and cult outposts aren’t usually a good source of hostages.

Secondary Location Hostages: Only shown in this guide’s Atlas, there are numerous secondary and tertiary locations across this region. Any one of them may have a hostage to rescue. Checking these locations allows you to find hostages more quickly. Of particular note are the Cult Totem Sites (dotted along foot trails); look for the skull-adorned posts and deliver innocents from evil.

Random Location Hostages: We found this hostage, about to be executed by a Chosen hunter and a cultist, on a dirt road on the region’s eastern side, below Faith’s Gate. Keep your eyes peeled for hostages you can see in the distance, so you can access dangers before executing foes, instead of mowing everyone down and hoping the hostage survives.

Sheriff Whitehorse congratulates you on your fine deed. You’ve saved your final hostage, and the mission concludes. There can be accidental hostage deaths during this mission without it failing. Head back to Hope County Jail if you haven’t completed Tracey’s or Virgil’s missions.