New York City - Hidden Airfield (pt. 2)

Next comes two security bots. There are so many ways of dealing with them I won't try to cover them all. Some suggestions are LAMs, GEP gun, Thermoptic Camo, or good timing using the cracks in the wall. In the room beyond them, on your left, search around before passing through the double steel doors. Look behind the large crate for a medkit. Move past the steel doors and open the double doors beyond. Before you move ahead look above for the camera. Time your move to avoid detection.

Secondary Objective:

• Locate the three missing barrels of Ambrosia. UNATCO will send a team to recover them.

The helibase divides into three sections, a west, an east, and the main area beyond the Ambrosia canister where the helipad is located. Begin by heading left into the office area. Explore both offices for goodies, only one guard to deal with. Next sneak up to the second floor. One guard here and two locked doors. Go to the first floor, and proceed to the west side of the helibase. Turn left and enter the men's room. Take the guard down and search is body for the nano key then do likewise with the one upstairs in the recroom. Return to the second floor on the east side where you found the two locked doors. Open the second locked door using your key ring and sneak up to the stationary guard and do what feels right. On your right is a security terminal. I hope you have some hacking skills by now since they make life so much easier. Hack the terminal and use it to disable all cameras and to open the door associated with camera one. Look towards the southwest corner of the room for a button behind a plant. Push it to open a secret storage area containing an augmentation upgrade canister among other goods. Enter and load up.

Head back to the recroom where you will find a bookcase swung aside to reveal a secret room. If you couldn't hack the security terminal use the pinball machine to open the hidden area. How you handle the main part of the helibase is up to you. Of the two exits, the sewer system is the easiest but you will suffer if you don't have swimming skills. Taking the elevator to the east is difficult requiring you to get past several guards and a security turret if you couldn't hack the security terminal to shut it down.

My approach may seem pathetic but it works and its simple. Head back to the west side of the helibase and climb up to the second floor. Open the first locked door on your left using your key ring. Climb the ladder, open the hatch, and run to the northwest corner while dropping down. Open the manhole and dive in. Swim to the large pool area. Climb the ladder. Push the crate until it falls into the water then jump across to the open passage. For those who need to use the east elevator I'll point out that the west side of the helibase is guarded by a guy with a flamethrower on the ground floor, and patrolling a the catwalk near the roof is a sniper. Conveniently placed around the helipad area are explosive barrels.

If didn't take the sewer route to the airfield keep reading until I can fill you in. Before swimming through the rest of the pipe, look inside one of the pipes to your right for a weaponmod: reload. When you emerge from the sewer pipe you'll be near some docks on your right patrolled by one guard carrying a flamethrower. Headquarters will issue some new orders.

Primary Objective:

• Assassinate Juan Ivanovich Lebedev.

From the water take down the one NSF guard. The nice thing about swimming is that he won't know how to attack you. When he's disposed climb onto the docks and grab everything you can find. Pay particular attention to the ambrosia canister, and the nano key and datacube sitting atop a crate near it.

Secondary Objective:

• Gain access to the 747 hangar and locate the final barrel.

Leave the boat house, nab the one guard that patrols in front of it, then turn left and pick open the trailers. If you used the elevator to reach the airfield you'll wind up near the helipad. Just head southwest to reach the boat house and everything I've described. Handling the guards that watch the route leading to the barracks is simple enough however one of the patrolling bots can be a problem. Eliminate the bot using some explosive barrels. Take the shot from inside the boat house facing southeast out one of the southeast windows. Look at the screenshot below for a better idea of where.

After the bot is destroyed head in the direction of the explosion staying clear of the cameras on your right. Proceed southeast and take out the two stationary guards followed by the one patrolling further east in front of the East Gate. Use the nano key nabbed from the guard to open the gate control box. Push the button to open the gate and move on. A total of four guards are in this area, two on the opposite side of the barracks and two more inside the barracks. Relieve them of their duties then enter the barracks and start looting the obvious stuff.

The not-so-obvious stuff includes the darts on the dart board, and a secret armory. The armory can be found by looking behind the staircase. Look down and to the right for a secret brick to open it. Grab what you want just be sure you have the nano key from this room before climbing up to the second floor. Use your key ring to open the second door on your left. The unlocked foot locker contains the code needed to access the hanger. Don't waste lockpicks on these lockers if you have a LAM. One LAM will shatter all footlockers, and you'll pleased to hear that one footlocker even has a replacement LAM. Clean up then use the code on the keypad to access the hanger.

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