Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Intel Gathering Western Precinct South

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From the Fallen Ghosts DLC

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct 2

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From the Fallen Ghosts DLC. Find the extranjeros mole
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Northern Precinct
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Eastern Precinct 
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct

This one is a little tricky, the area to search is pretty big compared to the first one.
But, easiest way. Talk to the headhunter, take a bike from him and drive up the hill to the bouchon house. See red circle on map below:

There is a huge party with lots and lots of people at the house so holster your weapon so that you don't spook them and make your way to the second floor balcony.

There you will find the guy with a hat, cross necklace and white shirt under a red decorated jacket. Take him out of play and complete the mission.

Just to make things hard, there are a lot of people wearing the same type of clothes, the key is in the details so don't shoot anyone kinda matching the description. Make sure that he has all the items in the picture.

Hope this helps!

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct

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From the Fallen Ghosts DLC. Find the extranjeros mole
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Northern Precinct
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Eastern Precinct 
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct 2
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Headhunter Western Precinct

This new rebel ops mission type was a blast.
A rebel supporter gives you a file containing photographic clues of a mole that you need to eliminate before the timer reaches zero.

In the Western Precinct, the clues are the following

• Someone wearing sandals
• On a bridge or a wharf with spice-buckets
• RCO-IRIS on the side of the bridge with tyre hanging from a rope

Looking at the map, there are quite a few bridges within the mission area. Take out your drone and do a fly-by to locate the one with a guy wearing sandals and lots of spices. See red circle on the map below.

That's the guy. Now go eliminate him to complete the mission. Be aware of the Unidad troops in the area.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Operation Fallen Lord

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From the Fallen Ghosts DLC.

The first mission of the Fallen Ghosts DLC. I kind of skipped the Narco Road as it didn't feel like the same game at all (monster truck racing etc.)

Mission plot summary: You start at the crash site after the Fallen Ghosts intro is completed, try to rescue an agent from a shack on the mountain but he's not there so you continue with a rescue operation into an enemy base. Fly him to a rebel base and the mission is completed.

First off snipe the enemy soldiers that are closing in on your location.
After that locate the radio equipment from the wreckage. It is in one of the burning helicopter parts.
After the radio, listen to the help signal from the agent.

When closing in on the shack, look at it from a distance to see the two camouflaged enemy soldiers (Covert Ops) patrolling in front of it. You cannot use sync-shoot on them and they don't "stick" to your minimap. So snipe them from a distance once you have visual contact.

The agent is not there.

Continue up the mountain to the enemy base at the top. (Video starts here)

Be sure to eliminate the enemy sniper on the hill overlooking the entrance to the base, the snipers in the DLC are lethal.

Slowly eliminate the enemies from the gate until you are ready to free the agent from the big hangar. Use flash-bangs (don't fail as I did) to blind the heavily armored troops inside. These can only be eliminated by head-shots.
Talk to the agent, escort him to the helicopter and fly to the rebel base.


Hope this helps!

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - El Muro

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Plot summary: Get into the base, extract El Muro and deliver him to the rebel hideout.

Take your trusty helicopter and fly to the area, park it a bit away so that there could be a chance to use it later if needed.

I approached from the west, when closer you will get teammates talking about small arms fire, Santa Blanca and Unidad are already fighting in the area. Take out the hostiles that are around the APC outside of the gates and commandeer the APC.

Drive to where El Muro is (the flight tower), and just grab him. The area is a bit chaotic so try to make this quick and be careful, use the APC as cover when needed. Once El Muro is stowed in the APC, leave the area, try to just drive straight out from the base and continue towards your helicopter. With some luck the Unidad patrol level will be lost and you can re-stow El Muro in the helicopter and fly him to the rebel base.

This is Media Luna, so make sure you do not try to fly in a straight line to the base, fly towards the big lake in the south west and from there to the base to avoid SAM sites.

Hope this helps.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Mole

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This mission is locked up after completion of The Black Site.

Main plot of the mission is to locate the Unidad captain and follow him to the meet with the Mole, and finally to take down the Mole.

Fly to the base where the Captain is rumored to be, land outside the base and do a quick flyby with the drone to locate him, use rebel ops Spotting if you have a hard time finding him.

Fly behind the captain as he drives to the lodge in the mountains, You must be within 300 meters or the clock will start ticking down from 20 seconds. If it reaches 0 you will fail the mission.


Once at the lodge, land and sneak up to the meet and snipe the Mole.

Hope this helps : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Trail of the General

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This mission is locked up after completion of The Black Site.

Main mission plot is to break into the jail inside of an Unidad base and have a little chat with one of the inmates, no need to rescue him, just get there and talk to him and the mission is completed.

My point of entry was from the south. 

• Take a car and drive through the outer perimeter. This should not raise any kind of alarm or suspicion.
• After clearing out the snipers in the towers overlooking the wall, get close find the part with no barbed-wire and some boxes. Se picture below:

• Make sure you time the wall climbing with the help of your drone and well placed sync-shoots to eliminate patrols
• Eliminate enemies on the roof of the jail before entering. Especially the mortar team. Eliminate as many as you can of the patrols that have the roof top on their route. Take your time.

• Climb over the wall and head right towards the door in the fence towards the jail. Ignore the fact that I tried to use a vehicle to get over the wall at some other part in the video, Not going to work (at least in this version).
• Make sure that eventual patrols on are neutralized before you push the button that opens the door in the fence.

• Inside the building there are a number of jail cells. The lieutenant is located on the bottom floor on the northern wing of the house. See mini-map below.

• Talk to the guy. 
• Done

After you've talked with the guy, you complete the mission. But to leave the area in a safe way (no teleportation from an area of combat right? ; )) locate the helicopter on the roof of the jail, call in mortar on the SAM-site and take off.

Hope this was helpful. : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Black Site

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The Black Site mission is about gaining access to a highly secured computer terminal inside one of the larger Unidad bases. The mission is a little bit sneaky as the mission area moves a little once you arrive at the original location. I guess you could find the entrance inside the main base but I managed to start the big alarm there and had to retreat. Luckily I looked at the map again at this point and noticed that the mission area had moved and took my chances with a smaller outpost to the north of the main base. 

Eliminate all troops at the outpost without raising the alarm and then move down the staircase to the underground base. Watch out for patrol cars in the tunnels.

The laptop is located on a balcony above the area where one heavy and two normal Unidad soldiers hang out. Just climb the stair and start the hacking attempt.

Once started, you'll have to guard the area for 2 minutes. Just stay on the balcony and take out the approaching troops.

Once completed, climb the stairs again and steal an Unidad vehicle and just drive out the main gates.

This mission unlocks the The Mole and The Trail of the General missions.

Hope this helps  : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Sandoval's Remains

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A lot of flying in the beginning of this video, to jump straight into the action you can go to 4:16.

The mission is pretty much straight forward, go to the outpost and locate Sandoval's Remains and call back home with the location.

I don't know if the remains are always at the same location but I found them in a cargo container close to the main gate.

Hope this helps someone out there : )

First Impressions - Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition

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We bought a new game yesterday. Found it in the used section of gamestop and googled a little on the phone. The impression I got was that it was some kind of Diablo clone and we both loved Diablo 3 on the Xbox 360. Said and done, we bought it.

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is NOT Diablo. Not even close! Had I known that the battle was turn based I would have left it in the store... Luckily I didn't.

Character creation

We spent a total of 15 minutes here the first time. Mostly because of a phone call, but also thanks to all the available options. .

Start of the game

The game starts and we are lost! What do we do now? Going through the controls and trying to figure out stuff. After some wandering we encounter our first enemy and it turns out that the game is turn based! What?

We both feel a little lost in with the combat system, when the encounter is over one of our hand controls dies and we restart the game a couple of times before we fingure out how to start split screen again, Evidently its the '' button. Bad design is that the characters are moved around to the player that has a working controller, and before we find the menu where to assign characters to players again a lot of time passes.

After that we find the entrance to the 'Tutorial Dungeon'.

Moving through the dungeon things start to make sense and the controls are hammered into our fingers. A lot of the game mechanics are described in a neat and time compact way. So there, a little bit of new gear and experience, but most of all a playable game.

First impressions

Divinity: Original Sin - Enhanced Edition is not a Diablo clone, more like an arcade version of Baldurs Gate. The coming few weeks will kind of give the ultimate review in the form 'if we play it again'.

Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - El Yayo

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OK, this is a longer mission with 2 distinct parts where the first part centers around grabbing El Yayo from his house arrest and the second part is about doing him a favor to get him talking.

Part 1

1. Locate the house and land in the fields outside.
2. Take out the two patrols on the back side of the house, don't take too long between them as they will alert the rest of the gang that will execute El Yayo. I.e. remain hidden.
3. Drone locate the remaining forces, use spotting if you have it.
4. There should be 4 more outside, just time it correctly and you can take out the one on the balcony and the two in the yard. The one guarding the door into the house can be sniped.
5. Take out the guy on the bottom floor of the house
6. Grab El Yayo and escort him to the helicopter and fly to the safe house

Part 2

Here you have to rescue El Yayos family from a village with a lot of cartel members. I kind of failed and had to do a full on assault with the help of the rebels. Take them out, find the jail cell where the targets are held and escort them to the helicopter and fly back to the hideout.

Hope this helps somone : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Nidia Flores

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This mission opens after completion of the El Boquita mission.

After killing El Boquita and destroying the convoy, it is time to air lift Nidia Flores from the grips of the cartel.

Depending on your strategy, this can be done pretty quick.
My strategy was to perform a quick grab and go, so if you are still close to El Boquita, steal the gunship that is located in that village and fly over to Nidias mansion.

Just approach the building slowly, order your team to assault and hope that they gun down some of the welcome party.
Land the helicopter next to the landing zone on the roof (see picture below)

If you manage to crash the helicopter as I did, at least you have a replacement close by.

Request a spotting from the rebels and rush to grab Nidia Flores, her kid will follow you and enter the helicopter after you stow her.

If the cartel is overpowered at any point, just request for a diversion and gun-team to even the odds a little.

Then just fly to the rebel hideout that is targeted.

Hope this helps someone out there.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - El Boquita

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Another mission in Koani. This time Nidia Flores right hand man, El Boquita.

The mission is pretty much a stalking game followed by a show of force. Once you find out the location of El Boquita by talking to the rebel at the mine, get a helicopter and fly to the wind carved rock formation to the north of the outpost where the target is rumored to be.

This is a good time to use the Rebel Support skill Spotting. Once you have a confirmed location, get back into your helicopter. A countdown of 20 seconds will start (as you are too far away from the target), so fly a bit closer and try to hold a distance of 150 meters to the target.

Once he drives into the base with a lot of red trucks on the mini-map and a hovering helicopter, fly past it and prepare for a ground assault. I tried to time a mortar strike but failed. 

Once the convoy approaches, make sure you destroy the truck first as that is part of the mission. If it gets away, you fail.

Clear the area of helicopters and ground vehicles once the truck is out of play. If all goes well, you should lose the engaged and hunted status once all enemies are out of play.

Next part of the mission is to find and retire El Boquita himself. He is holed up in the little village beside your previous combat zone. Just sneak in, or engage with rebels (up to you). Just make sure that he doesn't walk away. When I did the mission, he was on the top floor trying to shot from the balcony.

After completion of this mission, the Nidia Flores mission becomes available. If you plan on doing it directly afterwards be sure to grab the gunship helicopter from this village.

Hope this helps : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Convoy

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This mission follows by the intel that was gathered from the Truck Depot.

This is a standard ambush the convoy mission camouflaged as a Story Mission. I kind of miss judged the location of the convoy and they pretty much ambushed me instead.
Nothing fancy to be said here, the path that they follow seems to be going over the salt desert, see the reddish highlighted path on the map below.

Hope this helps  : )

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Truck Depot

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The Truck Depot in Koani is a tricky mission. Main plot is, 

• Sneak into the truck depot
• Locate the documents and photograph them
• Sneak out of the truck depot

All without getting detected. 

It took some attempts with various tactics. The parachute one could have worked, but not with the AI team as they got detected. 

In the end what worked was to:

1. Locate the truck on the south side of the depot, on the side of the road. (this is hinted in the dialogue between the AI team), neutralize the driver and drive it to the front gate.
2. Steadily drive through the gate and through the second gate as well, try not to hit anything as you will be suspected directly.
3. Park the truck at the Intel Cache and tell your team to HOLD, otherwise they will wander into people.
4. Take out the heavy gunner that patrols the south-west perimeter. Also take out the gunner in the bunker at that wall. Sneak back to your car.
5. One by one take out the patrols between the depot and the inner gate, use sync shoot where needed.
6. Take out the guards inside the depot
7. Photograph the documents, they are in the innermost room to the north side of the building
8. Sneak out over the ramp that goes over the wall in the western corner of the base.
9. Leave the area, watch out for helicopter patrols

This mission opens up the The Convoy mission.

Hope this helps.

Until next time: Another reminder of mortality

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Libertad Adventures

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Doing a number of side missions and gear acquisitions in Libertad, especially getting the ak forty seven rifle and getting the 12-Gauge magazine for shotguns.
After that, spent some time on intimidating the Sicario Leader followed by ambushing the Medication Convoy.

In Depth Review - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

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The original game with season pass

I've played The Division but no Ghost Recon games before this one. When my co-worked showed me the trailer I got quite excited. But, with The Division still in fresh mind I was not really expecting anything out of the ordinary. I was hoping for a little better game play, more Tom Clancy realism instead of MMO tanking of bosses, and from that aspect I was not disappointed.
Everyone can be killed with 1 shot. And that includes you, really like it. Even if you can upgrade your health a little bit and make your team withstand a little more beating when you gain upgrades it still feels 'realistic'.. Still a game, but not that I shot 400 bullets into that guy and he still killed me kind of gaming.

So, I have the season pass but I haven't played the addons (2 so far), just the missions that are integrated into the original world.

AI Players

The AI players that accompany you are quite smooth to interact with by the order wheel. They are also great at reviving you when you get shot.. And you will get shot in this game.
AI players work, it is rare that they do stuff that breaks the illusion.

Multiplayer Coop

When I first bought the game I tried to join the public match making system.. Was not that great experience so not done it after that. Other then that I played one night with a friend and it was quite fun. Each player has their own rebel ops but the AI players are removed. But that doesn't matter that much.

Split screen, couch coop

None.. and that is quite sad I both me and my better half would like to play together.. Instead she acts as an spotter and we can discuss the tactics but really.. Why can't they just include a split screen option? Kill the graphics and give us a living room multiplayer experience!

The Drone

Ah the drone, this game would not be this game if it wasn't for the drone. Sneak up to an enemy camp, take up your drone and do a fly-by, spot enemies, call for rebel help like mortar or diversions. Everything from an eagle eye view. In the end game when the battery has infinite power, you can just watch for the best move as you watch guard movements etc.
All well and good, as long as the base isn't equipped with a jammer.

Side missions

The purpose of the side missions is to either collect resources or to upgrade your rebel abilities in the order wheel.

Supply Raids

Steal the helicopter

Often a quite smooth mission, find the helicopter, steal it and fly it to a rebel base.
Things that can go bad are:

• You are not quick enough and they fly away with the helicopter before you are able to take down the enemy force guarding it. This is a really annoying thing as you probably landed your own helicopter a bit away so you are in no position to pursue the target. At least I have not been able to do it, yet.. : )
• You get shot down by surface to air missiles... The supply helicopters are slower and less agile then the normal helicopter you can request from the rebels so chances are, if the missile locks on you it will hit you. So the key is to plot the exit route before going in for the grab. Find the canyons, destroy the SAMs etc.

Steal the plane
Not a favorite as I'm a really bad pilot. The idea is pretty much the same as for the helicopter mission. Go to the location of the plane, take down the enemy forces guarding it and fly it to a rebel airstrip.

Stop the convoy

Stop it and tag the supply truck.. Should be easy enough...
Usually a supply truck guarded by 2 other vehicles. Depending on the area and the worth of the supplies the escort vehicles vary from basic jeeps to armored trucks, and sometimes they have a gunship as extra support.
My favorite tactic is to make an ambush. Stop the traffic on a road that you know the convoy will pass, find a spot where you can position yourself as a sniper and when the convoy arrives... Just pop the driver of the supply truck...

Rebel ops

Hack Antenna - Diversion

Pretty basic mission, activate two antennas that are guarded by the cartel after each other within the time limit. Helicopter recommended!

Intimidate Sicaro - Guns for Hire

Sneak into a cartel base and intimidate the leader. If the alarm goes, he will take off and you'll have to chase him down.

Defend Radio - Mortar Strike

Hard one, turn on the radio and defend it for the duration of the transmission. The cartel will attack you, and passing unidad forces will join the slaughter if they see it.

Parachute Drop - Spotting

Just land near the location with a helicopter and tag the supplies. Quite easy once you know the location.

Breach Comm Center - Vehicle drop off

Close quarters fighting, shotgun recommended. Breach the door and make your way to the terminal that you need to hack within a time limit. This can be a little tricky, use of flash-bangs is recommended... 

Gear missions

Kingslayer files, legends, weapon parts, medals and weapons.. Figure out where it is, and go grab it. Do it in any way you want (as with all other missions). The rewards are new stuff or background story.

Story missions

The story missions are generally well written. A lot of the areas that you visit start with intel gathering, trying to piece together the lay of the land in the area. In the end you disrupt the cartel and either kill or kidnap their boss. Nothing fancy, but keeps the story going. Not quite finished all the missions yet but so long it works.
Compared to the side missions, you usually have to work a little extra with these missions as they have scripted elements in them.

Loadout view and character customization

 A lot of options here. The world is littered with weapons and parts. In a new area, 2 intel caches or interrogations will yield all locations and then it is just to start collecting. By browsing in the load out view you can figure out what general area the weapons or part can be found, but you have to get on the ground and do the footwork to get the exact location.

Difficulty

As I understand the different levels only affect the number off bullets to kill the player, and the highest removes the enemy heat maps from the mini map. I've played on the second hardest level.
If you are a hardcore Tom Clancy fan who likes realism above all, the extreme setting should give you a nice experience. If you are a casual player like me, then the advanced level is hard enough.

Bugs

Overall not that many bugs. And the few that there are get fixed in patches. But others get introduced, between patch 3 and 4 it was hard as there was a real deal breaking bug that required total restart of the Xbox to reset it. Some of the Rebel timers got stuck and there was nothing that could be done.

Helicopters that are delivered by the rebels get parked in strange places, with rotor blades inside trees and houses, sometimes they appear inside enemy bases while you are outside. So kinda annoying but still playable bug.

Challenges

Honestly not done many of these yet in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands.
I did the El Yeti one, figured it would be cool... But after flying around in Inca Camina for some hours without any trace of any 'hints', I had to turn to Google and find a guide. And hell, it would have taken me years to complete this challenge without the guide. Not to mention that I did some other thing first, flying around the whole world map and collecting statuettes to the ceremonial altar on a mountaintop in Inca Camina. But when I finally found a Guide for the correct yeti, well... Still it would have taken me years.
The second challenge I tried was the first one for season 2. Killing 4 snipers while remaining stationary. After flying around the whole area of Espiritu Santo for a couple of hours without finding snipers in more then 1 location, I had to go to old trusty Google again. To find out I was in the correct location, but not the correct angle. Doing it the 'correct' way, I guess I would have accomplished that if I would have hit the snipers.. I did not and about there my patience started to fade... Some more attempts with the same results and I abandoned the task. I guess the challenges are for hard-core players.. I am evidently not one of those. I am a casual player from top to toe.
But in the end, I guess I will try out the challenges from time to time just to get some variation in the game play.

Conclusions

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands is overall a great game, I've recommended it to friends and they have liked it also. Only real drawback that comes to mind is the lack of couch-coop. In the end I've spent more hours then I want to think about with this game and it is still fun every time I login.

So there, thank you for reading. Hope this helps someone out there : )

Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Media Luna

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Adventures in Media Luna. Going after El Commandante in the following missions:

Media Luna Investigation

The Santa Blanca Prisoner

El Comandante

Also a lot of helicopter crashes etc due to the massive air defense grid in Media Luna.

Note that these missions are in the bonus pack The Unidad Conspiracy. So not available in the 'orignal game', need season pass.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Kingslayer files session

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Going after random kingslayer files.
Tank based assault on Santa Blanca base at night. Quite powerful tool.

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Full Load

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Session with the Montuyok mission, Full Load

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - The Instructors

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Random side missions session
Session ending with the Montuyok mission, The Instructors

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Side missions session

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Various weapons caches
Food convoy
Gasoline convoy

Random side missions session

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Inca Camina - La Cabra

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All missions in Inca Camina
Northerh Plane
Southerna Plane
The Drug Lord's Ride

Eastern plane
La Cabra

Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - El Cardenal

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A lot of attempts on El Cardelnal. Finally getting him.
Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands - Carl Bookhart and Challenge Season 2, week 1 challenge attempts

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Attempts on this weeks challenge, 4 snipers while remaining stationary.

Followed by taking down Montuyok boss, Carl Bookhart.
Ending the session with a first attempt on The Cardenal

Until next time: Work to Live, Don’t Live to Work