_ctOS CONTROL CENTER / MAD MILE

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Location / MAD MILE // ctos Control Center

1. POUNDING THE PAVEMENT

Location / Mad Mile // ctOS Control Center

Overview

Completion Points: Data hack from patrolling guard, then hack into ctOS control center

Dangers: Eight guards (Veteran x4, Elite x4), armed with shotguns, machine guns, and sniper rifles, and four hidden cameras,. One guard has data to hack. Three Shot-Callers. Reinforcements usually called after defeating three guards.

Reinforcements (up to four vehicles with one or two foes—Gunman or Veteran—per vehicle). Some reinforcements may appear on foot.

Insertion Points

This is a confined area at the east end of the Navy Pier building, between the two structures with the curved roofs (this area is uncovered). For such a compact area, there are several ways to get in, some more cunning than others. Just watch for the guards with excellent vision on the upper planter area in the center.

Southwest Scissor Lift

This is a great way to infiltrate, as the low roof is a good spot to reach when sniping or dropping down to the pavement below. It’s easy to start sneaking or quickly reaching the router office, as long as you watch for guards noting your location.

South Gate

This is the usual method of gaining entry. Simply open the gate, walk up, and melee-strike the guard. Then start a similar route plan to the scissor lift insertion point.

Southeast Pedestrian Gate

You’re a little more exposed here, as the foes on the central planters and east perimeter can spot you, and there’s fewer cover opportunities. But if you’ve decided to go nuts and bring a bike to this party, this is the place to drive it in! Otherwise, seek cover behind either arbor wall and don’t forget the guard by the south gate.

Northeast Security Door

Simply hack the lock linked to the door on the adjacent wall, and creep through the partition area. Watch for the patrolling guard (the one you hack) who moves about on the other side of here. Smashing the glass is wise only if you’re bringing firepower to bear. Otherwise, drop down and move from planter to planter. You might want to neutralize the north gate guard next.

North Gate

There’s a guard here to remove, but this gate is in its own separate entrance area, making it easier to take down the foe without being seen. You’re closest to the router at this point, so heading in from here makes sense if you want as few combat interruptions as possible.

Interior

This area is relatively straightforward, with a glass partition to the north; a central stepped planter area in the middle, where most foes usually spot you; a raised area to the south with arbors and steps; and the ctOS entrance offices to the east, where the router box can be found, along with a crafting item and Attract phone.

Progression Plans

There are fewer places to hide, and foes on the central planter can easily spot you, making grenades and automatic gunfire the choice if you prefer quick access to the router. But with patience, you can hack the guard and router without bloodshed.

Remote Plans to Reach the Node

Difficulty:

There’s a way to remain away from combat completely: Use the southwest scissor lift to reach the vantage point overlooking the courtyard, and attempt the following swiftly: Hack the nearby wall camera, then the foe on the stepped planter area with the camera. He’s looking at the camera above the south gate; hack that, then the camera guard again so he sets off on a patrol. Wait until he walks around the corner and hack the camera guard by the shutters. Immediately look for a second guard on the stepped planter area, hacking his camera, so he walks down the steps to the guard with the access code.

Hack the code, then wait for the camera guard to look towards the security blinds switch that activates the shutters. This alerts the guard by shutters (who you hacked previously) to investigate. Hack the wall camera in the northwest corner, turning it right so it overlooks the exposed office now the shutters are raised. Focus your camera on the attract phone behind the glass, and hack it. When the shutter guard comes to investigate the phone’s sounds, hack his camera, allowing a view of the security router: And you’re in!

Passive // Smart: Shadowy Flight to Hack the Code

Difficulty:

This plan relies on quick hacking and swift maneuvers, along with an optional lure. Unlock the northeast security door, creep inside, and mark guards using the cameras if you wish. Hack the guard patrolling from east to west, close to the planters, then scurry around to the western planter close to the shuttered office.

Open the office shutters to see a phone on the desk inside the room you need to reach. Use it, or lob a lure to coax the guard away from your stealthy route. Then hurry around, watching for foes spotting you on the central planter area; use another lure if you need to or create a distraction by exploding the eastern junction box. Drop the shutters on the way and enter the office without being seen; if the foe is in the office due to the smartphone noises, melee-strike him. Then hack the router with few (or zero) casualties before escaping.

Another option is to stay outside the restricted area entirely, hacking one of the security cameras and opening the shutters and hacking into the camera of the guard who approaches the area. If you can, keep the shutters going up and down until more guards start to mill about in the area, then flip to one wearing a camera that moves into the office with the ctOS server box to hack. Or hack the phone in there to attract a guard with a camera, and attempt to intrude when the guard looks at the box. Be patient and lucky, and this is possible.

You can also raise the shutters, smash the glass and flee north, or skulk around avoiding patrols.

Aggressive // Smart: All Foes Defeated, No Need to Reload

Difficulty:

If you want to defeat all guards without resorting to guns, there are many routes to take. Try this optimal path: Start at the south gate and tackle the foe by simply opening the gate and strangling him. Then exit, run around to the north gate, and do the same before finding the northeast security door, unlocking it, and heading in to hide behind the first pillar after the planters. The guard with the data to hack is patrolling just behind the pillar; tackle him as he passes.

Watch for the foe with the camera on the upper planters area, and move to the lower planters, heading left and checking around the corner for the eastern patrol routes. When the guard moves near the junction box, detonate it. This puts guards on alert, but they shouldn’t have spotted you yet. Now creep up the adjacent steps to the right and bag the guard up here who was startled by the explosion. Help your progress by disrupting comms and distracting guards so you can quickly drop them, even when approaching from the front.

Creep around to the guard standing outside the ctOS entrance where the router box is. He has a camera; move from behind the outer planters to the wall behind him before you strike. This should leave you with only two remaining guards at the facility’s south end. Head onto the central planters to locate them, before striking one at a time.

Aggressive // Violence: Automatic Weapons You’re Keen to Unload

Difficulty:

Feel the need to remove all threats as violently as possible? Then try the following plans if everything turns nasty:

The southwest low roof (accessed by the scissor lift) is great for lobbing grenades down and sniping; remember to back up so the foes can’t hit you.

Stay at the arbors and peek out, blasting as you go. Don’t head too far into the middle of the area unless you know you’re not going to be outflanked. Grenades are good to lob into the central planter area.

The glass windows are great to fire through, and you can hit foes through them just as easily as normal.

The shuttered office is a great place to commandeer too: raise the shutters, shoot through the glass to reach the router office, and close the shutters again. Then hold up in either office, retreating from any thrown grenades and blasting enemies that encroach.

Set up traps with your IEDs at the office entrance near the router; there’s only one corridor in to reach you, so fill it with danger!

Take cover behind the pillars along the eastern wall; you aren’t as easily outflanked, you have great protection, and you can view most of the combat zone.

Driving // Offensive: Driving a Bike Like You’re Still on the Road

Difficulty:

If you’re planning on a quick death, then ride your bike to the north entrance, hack the cameras to download the guard’s data, ram into the guard, weave into the grounds, and skid around to the (shuttered) office area. Use the bike to block the entrance, forcing foes to come to you. Stay here, using it as a panic room and blasting foes until none are left, or you want to hunt them down. Then hack the router.

Gaining Control

Once you either avoid or destroy everyone, move to the router box (physically or remotely) and hack. After solving the hotspot, there are three Video Logs to hack and watch, and you can hack the ctOS server (via a quick camera change).

Solution: Hotspot

Once the data is yours, you can shoot the glass to escape, sprint to any of the gates, and flee via a nearby vehicle or boat, if your heat level is up.