The Truck Depot (Optional)

Objectives

• Enter the depot without being detected
• Locate the documents
• Photograph the documents
• Leave the depot undetected

LOCATIONS

• Truck Depot

REWARDS

• + 1,000 XP

Brief

Intel gathered in Koani has identified a truck depot as a hub of Santa Blanca’s overladen smuggling network in the province. Infiltrating the depot and copying its records will allow us to map the entire network from end to end.

Phantom Infiltrations

Just over two clicks southwest from Koani Delta, adjacent to the mining town of Huertas, a truck depot needs to be infiltrated. The cartel must not know you’ve photographed their plans, so access the base via stealthy means using a Santa Blanca truck, or go over the perimeter wall. Then it’s no small feat to find the documents, photograph them, and leave without a trace. Time to really earn your moniker, Ghost!

Truck Depot: Recon

TACMAP

Though this depot is mostly impervious to infiltration, a couple of areas along the wall (detailed below) can be breached, in addition to the option of driving into the base via the main gates. From there, drive through a second set of gates to a long unloading warehouse. An office in the far north corner of this warehouse holds the documents you need to photograph.

East: Main Entrance

Prior to infiltration, your team hints at using a Santa Blanca vehicle to enter this depot, and this is the location to drive it into. The gates open automatically, allowing you to head down the road into the base, through a second set of gates, and to the target warehouse (E). Park in front of the structure—or, better, behind it, so fewer foes see you. Then infiltrate through the small garage area close to the target office.

Or, if you’re determined to make this mission more difficult than it needs to be, you can enter via the checkpoint on foot, just to the right of the gates, heading northeast to the pill box on the east corner of the perimeter wall. Then turn and head northwest, along the inside of the wall, to the target. Expect four enemies between the entrance and the warehouse; all need to be maneuvered past in silence, or taken down without making any noise.

North: Rock Outcrop

Though the wall is mostly impenetrable around the rest of the depot, there’s an area where some rocks join the wall, which has no barbed wire to prevent you from dropping down from outside. (Note that you can’t use this route to get back out, as the container below the drop doesn’t allow you to reach up to the rocks). Drop down and skulk around the warehouse exterior, into the open container, and into the back entrance where the fewest enemies are. Leave using a truck, or the ramp at C.

West: Wall Ramp

If you’ve become split up from your team, or need a safe way to exit the depot without using a Santa Blanca vehicle, then after the documents have been photographed, head along the inside of the northern perimeter wall (so fewer foes have the opportunity to spot you), then enter the west yard and either take the truck parked here (driving it out of the main gates) or scamper up the metal ramp and out to the wilderness.

Southwest: Pill Box

This pill box can be used as an entrance or exit for the depot. There’s an enemy guarding it, so either distract him or sneak around and drop him silently, via a melee strike or suppressed fire. Then you can head northwest, removing the armored foe silently, and sneak across to the rear of the warehouse. This is also a possible exit, though the ramp at C is easier.

Target: Warehouse Office (Photographs) The office at the rear of the warehouse, adjacent to a corridor and small sleeping quarters and a number of front (southeast-facing) unloading garage doorways, is where the documents must be photographed. Be aware of patrolling guards, including a captain, in the vicinity. Either time your sneaking so the enemies are away from this area, or create a distraction so they leave, giving you enough time to photograph the documents on the office desk.

Truck Depot: Other Tactical Advice

Though the agreed solution is to drive through the main gates in a Santa Blanca vehicle (steal one from the single foe you can shoot at range, parked on the road to the southwest), there are other options. However, heading in using a truck enables you to reach the target warehouse with the least amount of hassle. Parking at the front unloading garages risks you being spotted by the foes in and around the warehouse. Instead, drive left and around the rear of the warehouse after you pass through the second gate, parking by a small garage by the generator. Then get out, sneak into the rear of the warehouse, and hide in the sleeping quarters by the target office. Wait until patrolling foes leave the area before you sneak in, photograph the documents, and leave the way you came, using the same vehicle.

Alternatively, leave via the ramp at C, on foot. Or leave via any other white Santa Blanca truck, using the gates or, if you’re feeling like a bit of a daredevil, the ramp at C.

You can also infiltrate on foot at either B or D, then maneuver to the area behind the target warehouse and enter via the doorway by the garage.

Ease your infiltration by utilizing the drone’s Noisemaker ability, attracting foes at the office away from this location. You can also use a Diversion Grenade in the same way. Quiet Running and Detection Skills are also improvements that help keep you undetected.

The Solo plans are particularly appropriate for this mission, as your entire team doesn’t need to be inside this depot; a single Ghost can complete the objective. Others may wish to create distractions or remove enemies other foes won’t discover, but nothing is better than having a single Ghost do all the work.