Escort

Escort activities for Zimos require you to first drive to the client, pick the client up, fulfill their random requests as you drive to help fill the pleasure meter. Typically, just driving around fills the meter, but once a request comes up, the meter stops filling until the request is satisfied.

Requests include:

Causing a certain amount of damage to other vehicles with your own. You can side swipe numerous cars, but you can also complete this in one solid, high-speed impact against something large or expensive, like a cement trunk or a flashy sports car, if you see them.

Killing a specific person. Usually, you can just run over the target with your vehicle and call it a day; a good powerslide often sends the mark flying far and fast enough that they may die from the impact with the ground. You can also exit your car and deal with it personally—just be sure to get back in the car within five seconds, or you fail the activity!

Catching air for a certain amount of time. This can be somewhat challenging if you’re not near anything to launch your car off.

Fortunately, the hang time isn’t required to be done all at once, so if you fail to complete it on the first jump, you can loop back around and try it again. Don’t dally much on this, as the longer you stay in the same general area, the more likely it is the paparazzi will appear.

Making a certain number of near misses with other vehicles, and they must be done within a certain amount of time in one attempt. Simple enough to complete.

Powersliding for a set time.

Bringing the client and the working girl to a motel for some hourly action. Once the meter is filled, drop the client off at their requested stop. Simple, right? Lastly, the client can request that you stop the car for a moment.

Complicating matters are the paparazzi, who are trying to film the events within your vehicle, filling the footage meter. You’re introduced to their particular brand of annoyance in the first Escort activity Zimos provides over your cell phone, but on the harder difficulty activities, the news vans become far more aggressive, oftentimes coming at you head-on and powersliding to a halt directly in front of you in an attempt to slow you down for the other vans that are doubtlessly pursuing you.

They usually appear on the map in groups of four to six, typically far enough away that you’re given a chance to plot a new course. Sometimes, they will set up roadblocks with the vans, which you can plow through easily enough, but if the footage meter is already filled up high enough, this can cost you the mission, as the initial impact with one of the vans may slow you down enough that you stay in range of all the others while you accelerate back up to full speed.

Evading the vans is a matter of finding a good straightaway to speed down, and taking side streets and alleyways once you notice the vans setting up a roadblock on the minimap. Try to avoid tunnels, as that can lead you to getting boxed in. On the Hard difficulty, the footage meter builds up very quickly, so mistakes like this can cost you the mission.

Including the one Zimos offers, there are three escort activities of this nature.

Escort 1 (#1)

Location: Camano Place

Difficulty: Easy

Cash Earned: $2,000

Respect Earned: 200

Rewards: 2% Morningstar Gang District Control—$76 per hour

Escort 2 (#2)

Location: Camano Place

Difficulty: Medium

Cash Earned: $4,000

Respect Earned: 400

Rewards: 3% Morningstar Gang District Control—$101 per hour

Escort 3 (#3)

Location: Wesley Cutter International Airport

Difficulty: Hard

Cash Earned: $6,000

Respect Earned: 600

Rewards: 5% Morningstar Gang District Control—$61 per hour