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Mission 10: Presidential Palace
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10.1 Recover the Ark Interrogation File
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Double
up to the first ledge in front of you. Go to the end of it and
fall down so you grab onto the edge. Fall down two more times to the ground.
Move to the other side of the ground where another level is,
up to the
grass level and go into the corner against the wall. While facing the wall
with the pipe, double
up to the pipe and climb up. While holding the move
right button, and facing the wall you are climbing,
off the pipe. You
will grab onto the ledge, and then pull yourself up. Jump up to the next
horizontal pipe and shimmy across. Once you get to the end, drop down and you
will land on another ledge. Jump up to another horizontal pipe and shimmy
across, once you get to the end, drop down. Then shimmy across to the right
around the corner. Once you get to the end, drop down while holding the move
right button and you will grab onto the ledge. Pull yourself up and stand up,
do a running
to the other ledge. Then run and
to another grass ledge
with a little bush. Slowly move opposite the main wall until you fall off and
grab onto the ledge. Shimmy across to the right and pull yourself up next to a
pipe.
Go all the way to the top of the pipe but don't climb up yet. Now this part is
very random where the guards start in their positions, there are two guards,
each has their own dog, one patrols in a square around the field, and another
goes back and forth along the wall where the railing is. You might have to
wait a while for this to work. Wait for the guard right in front of you going
along the railing to pass to the left, and his dog passes you. Then wait for
the spotlight to pass by to the left around the same time. Climb up the pipe,
over the railing and hide behind the big rectangle stone statue in front
of you, so the spotlight doesn't see you. You have to also time the guard
going in a square around the field, you have to make sure he is out of the way
when you go to the statue. The ideal spot for him is to be farthest away from
you by the grass hedges going to the left, at the same time as the guard in
front of you going to the left. While hiding behind the statue, wait for the
spotlight to pass by, then move down the middle in the shadows towards the
grass hedges and into the grass opening on the right. Once inside the opening,
go to the first left opening and go to the right then do a U-turn until you
come to a guard between two lamp posts. Grab him and take him to the corner
behind you, then knock him out for a key code. Wait there for the guard on the
other side of the gate to turn his back to you and start moving in the opposite
direction. When he does, go towards the gate and enter the code to go into the
gate. Go to the end of the street to the left, the opposite side the guard is
walking. Then slide open the little opening on the building and
inside.
Once inside, go up the stairs and to the right through the doorway out into the
main room. Stand up and run past the last column on the right to trigger the
guards coming out of the double doors. Then turn around and run back in
between the four columns where the double doors are located, before going in
between the columns, make sure the lasers are gone. Hide right next to the
double doors the guards come out of on the left side. Four guards come out,
when the last one does, move inside the door behind the guard before it closes.
Go to the right to the bottom of the stairs, and
on top of the radiator,
then
above it to hang. Shimmy to the left until you fall off onto the
stairs, move up the stairs right before the three lasers and
over the
railing towards the door you need to get to.
Go inside the door, and sneak across the room against the left wall into the
corner, opposite the door you came out of. Half way there, put your back
against the double doors so the two guards down stairs don't see you. Once to
the corner, keep following along the railing, against the wall, behind the
soldier on the mid level. Hide in the corner waiting until he passes you.
When he does, quickly go up the stairs and the other guard will be walking
towards the keypad door. Stay against the right wall and sneak up on the
keypad guard... you have to do it fast or the mid level guard will see you when
you grab him. Right away after grabbing him, knock him out, and just leave the
body there. Enter the keypad number and use the optic cable underneath the
door. If you did it fast enough, two soldiers will be coming down the hallway,
once they stop and turn around, open the door.
Pick up the body and drop him in the darkness straight ahead. Two soldiers
move up and down the main hallway, and two guards move up and down separate
hallways facing each other right in front of you under the lamp. Wait till
the two guards have their back to the main hallway, then go down the hallway.
Once you pass the two guards, start crouching at full speed down the hallway,
you will see one soldier stop in front of the left hallway you need to go into,
and the other on the right keeps going down the hallway. When the soldier on
the left starts moving again, go into the left hallway where the armored camera
is located. Stay in the shadow, the two armored cameras in the level are a
joke by the way. Make sure no soldiers are looking down the hallway when you
move across into the light. When the camera looks to the right or left, move
down the opposite side of the hallway it's looking and to the door at the end.
Lock pick the door and go inside, the camera can't see you.
Go to the right and crouch under the lasers when they go out, then
over
the others when they go out. Go to the left and hide behind the bookcases
opposite the computer. Let the guard turn on the light and stop in his
position, once he stops, go to the right of the desk at s3 the whole way. Very
closely hug the desk all the way to the computer, then use the computer.
10.2 Use Nikoladze to open the retinal safe
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Turn around and hug the desk back the same way you came over to the lasers.
Jump over the first set then crouch under the next when they are off. Open the
door and go outside the room. Once outside the door, make sure the armored
camera is looking to the right or left again and no soldiers are looking down
the hallway, then pass the armored camera and wait in the dark at the end of
the hallway. If the soldiers are coming from the left, wait for them to pass,
otherwise just make sure they don't see you. Follow the left wall and wait
for the guard to come out of the double doors. When he does, he will go down
the right side of the hallway, so just go inside the double doors before they
close coming from the left side. Stay to the left of this hallway passing the
armored camera and into the double doors on the left.
Go straight ahead and enter the keypad door, go through the door hugging the
left side, move to the end of the hall, at almost max stealth. Shoot the light
in front of the elevator, then go inside and go down.
At the bottom of the elevator, the doors open, four soldiers will come running
in after you. Facing the elevator doors, right away once they open, stand up
and run at full speed the whole time. Go out the elevator, turn right to do a
U-turn, and pass the bench towards the stairs, stay on the right side of the
book cases, but as close as possible to them, and run all the way to the wall
where the new hallway is that you need to go into on the left side of the room.
Once to the wall go to the left, and right around the soldier. He will try to
shoot you, but you will be gone down the hallway into the basement by then.
Just keep going all the way down, then down the next ramp hallway, and all the
way to Nikoladze, grab him as he's running away and take him to the retinal
scanner. Once he uses it, a Cristavi's Elite Forces will come and take
Nikoladze away.
10.3 Kill Kombayn Nikoladze
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Lambert will tell you the lights will go out in five seconds, when the soldier
in front of you is counting down and gets to "Two". The lights will go out and
you need to run straight ahead to the left of the curtain and to the left of
the big crates. Do not run into anything. Right after the last set of crates
where the soldier is, perfectly do a diagonal run towards the doorway hugging
the doorway on the left wall with minimal turning, if you do it correctly, you
won't get shot at. Now this needs to be perfect...well there is also a trick
to it. When standing still, the guy in front of you tells you not to move, but
actually you can move. There is a rectangular box all around you that if you
pass, it triggers them to shoot you. You can only move a little forward from
where you start though, but you have lots of room to the left. You always have
to move to the left front corner as much as possible to get to the doorway in
time. Keep running up the hallway on the right, and to the left of the
bookcases, watch a cut scene, and out of the double doors on the left.
Sneak over to the beginning of the water fountain and wait there until all four
soldiers around you, pass by you, then crouch full speed across the water to
the other end and climb up the pipe, opposite the double doors you came out of.
Jump off the pipe to the left and hold up so you grab the ledge, and pull
yourself up. Watch another cut scene with Nikoladze in his office, then snipe
him.
10.4 Reach Extraction
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Move behind the door the guard comes out of, to the right of it, hiding behind
it when it swings open. Then after the guard leaves, go inside before the door
closes.
Go down the first part of the stairs and there will be three huge windows going
into the dining room,
up into the last one on the right side and hide
against the right side crouched. The guard outside will come back in and down
the stairs, two other guards will come towards you from the dining room, once
those two guards pass under you,
down silently, start slowly and then
crouch full speed to the end of the dining room following along the right side,
then go around the table to the left where the cabinet is. Jump up onto it and
pull yourself up. Turn around, then run and
to the balcony, and pull
yourself up. Go inside the double doors on the balcony. Stay against the
left wall on the mid level all the way around to the other side opposite the
double doors you came out of at s3. Then
down off the railing between the
two lights, and silently drop down. Then enter out the double doors behind the
four guards.