Assault Brayko's Mansion is a mission from Operation Blood Feud set in Moscow.
Summary[]
Infiltrate Brayko's mansion, reach Brayko, and find out what he knows about Halbech and the missiles.
Available Intel[]
| Intel Type | Source | Price | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spiked Cocaine | Steven Heck | $12,000 | Being on Heck's good side is occasionally helpful. Like when you need someone to deliver a giant supply of spiked cocaine to the fortified mansion of a paranoid mobster. |
| Brayko Dossier | Grigori | $3,000 | Dossier information on Brayko. Purchasing this Intel will expand your dossier on the criminal kingpin Konstantin Brayko. |
| Russian Mob Dossier | Grigori | $4,800 | Dossier information on the Russian Mob. Purchasing this intel will expand your dossier on the ruthless thugs that work for Brayko. |
| Security Information | Anonymous | $1,300 | Mission map for the Deal with Brayko mission. For a small fee a surveillance company will provide with a detailed of Brayko's mansion. |
- Spiked Cocaine is only available if you have already met Steven Heck in Taipei and his reputation is above -6. During the boss fight, Brayko will use the tainted cocaine instead of the normal one (which makes him invincible) and it will slowly drain his health instead. This makes the fight much easier, and also enables some exploits.
- Brayko Dossier is only available if you were not violent with Grigori during Contact Grigori the Informant.
Objectives and Walkthrough[]
Depending on who you chose as a handler during Intercept Surkov at US Embassy, the opening here will be different.
- SIE will crash through the front gate in Stryker with you as the gunner; you will then have to fight the guards in the garden.
- Albatross will place you on a ledge overlooking the main garden area with a sniper rifle nearby, without alerting the enemies.
- In the starting area, careful planning of your shots can net you most of the guards without any of them becoming aware. To do this, watch the guards' patrol patterns and take out people behind them and out of their line of sight.
Infiltrate Mansion[]
Deal with the guards in the gardens, or ignore them as they will all disappear once you leave the area, and walk through the indicated door. After you enter the mansion, Mina will tap into to the surveillance system and ask you to decide what to look for:
- Mina Tang
- Brayko
- Halbech
- Both - Only with Tech Specialist agent history
This choice does not seem to do anything, as you will get another chance to decide later if you want to go after Halbech data or your ally, or both, and Brayko will not go anywhere.
At the end of the hall to your right there is a locked door that contains a safe with dossier intel on Sergei Surkov inside. There are three of Brayko's men in this hall, and the room to the left has three more, with a $5,000 safe and two ammo pickups.
- Dossier: Sergei Surkov - Safe behind a locked door.
- Money: $5,000 - Safe inside the room to the right.
Brayko's computer that you need to hack is in his bedroom, down the hall and past the arcade. The arcade turns into an ambush, so be prepared to quickly deal with a couple of shotgun wielders rushing you.
Escape Ambush[]
Shortly after entering the arcade you get locked in, so you might want to take the time to kill some of the enemies from the entrance of the arcade, or use Shadow Operative to sneak past all of them, since killing them is not required to proceed.
- Weapon Mod - On a sofa near the piano.
- Halbech Data - In Brayko's bedroom.
- Money: $3,000 - In Brayko's bedroom.
- Armor Mod - In Brayko's bedroom.
Hack Brayko's Computer[]
Hack the computer to open the secret passage to the casino.
- Money: $6,000
- XP: +400
- Money: $4,000 - In a safe after Brayko's bedroom.
There are multiple cash pickups in the casino, plus some mods:
- Money: $5,500 (Total)
- Armor Mod
- Weapon Mod - On the ground floor, below the casino.
Rescue Ally or Get Halbech Data[]
After you leave the casino and return to the gardens, Mina will call you to say that Brayko caught your ally, and you only have enough time to either save them from certain death or get the data.
- Mina Tang
- Ruthless - Same as Data option. Mina -1
- Albatross/SIE - Rescue the ally, but lose the data.
- Data - Get the data, but leave the ally to die. Mina -1
- *Special* - Get the data and rescue the ally. Multiple variants:
- Veteran - Veteran agent history.
- Technician - Tech Specialist agent history.
- Infiltrate - At least 8 ranks in Technical Aptitude skill, without either agent history.
Decide what you want to do. Then, once you completed your objective (one of the two, or both of them), go fight Brayko.
Get Halbech Data[]
Getting Halbech Data doesn't seem to have any consequences, since you would be able to successfully interrogate Brayko without it. In theory, it should allow you to ask Brayko about Surkov's involvement with Halbech if you didn't hear it from him during Contact Surkov at Moscow Office, but it doesn't work as intended. So, if you can't do both, it's best to skip it and save the ally.
Enter the mansion door on the left. Go straight and bypass the keypad on the door, go downstairs, shoot the automated turret on the ceiling, hack the first computer for a dossier on Championchik and $4,000, then hack the computer in the middle to open the vault. Unlock the safe with the Halbech Data inside the vault. Expect four guards to rush downstairs: neutralize them or sneak past them with Shadow Operative and return outside.
- Dossier Secret Fact: Championchik.
- Money: $4,000 - Along with the dossier.
- Money: $3,000 - Inside the vault.
- Money: $1,500 - Inside the vault.
- Weapon mod - Inside the vault.
- XP: +100 - For Access Vault objective.
Rescue Ally[]
Move to the guest house on the right side of the garden, kill or non-lethally take down 4 guards. Then choose what to do with the ally — freeing them is the obvious best choice. Leaving them makes them escape themselves as soon as you reach Brayko, and they would even thank you for the help, but you won't get any XP. Killing them doesn't lead to any interesting consequences other than reducing your options in other missions.
- Albatross or SIE
- Albatross or SIE / If you freed the ally
- Aggressive
- Suave
- Professional
- XP: +1000
There are also 4 ammo crates in the room along with Brayko's 3rd dossier.
- Dossier: Konstantin Brayko.
Find Brayko[]
Continue through the mansion to locate Brayko. Before entering Brayko's ballroom, check for his 4th Dossier in a corner of the room with the three tables turned over. This should be his final dossier, so by the time you fight him you should have 100% intel on him which would earn you the Know Your Enemy perk for +5% damage vs Brayko.
- Dossier: Konstantin Brayko.
- XP: +100
As you enter Brayko's ballroom, you'll exchange a few words with him, and he will start a fight.
- Konstantin Brayko
- Intimidate - Brayko -1 / -1 with Albatross only
- Mocking
- Arrest - Brayko -1
- Attack
Boss Fight: Konstantin Brayko[]
Brayko is almost certainly the hardest boss fight in the game. If you get stuck on him you can always reload the earlier save, go back to the Safehouse and complete missions in other hubs to level up.
Phase 1: Brayko will be on the stage, shooting at you with his Golden SMGs. Shoot him back with your favorite weapon or engage him in melee if your build allows it. The key is being aggressive to make sure he doesn't recharge his endurance. This phase doesn't have a time limit, so you can place some mines by the left and right doors, if you want to quickly eliminate the guards which Brayko summons later.
Phase 2: After you get him down to 80% of total health, he will snort cocaine and draw his knives. In this state he gains increased speed and damage resistance. Do not let him cut you with his knives because they hurt more than his bullets. The first slash of his knives will cause you to lose all endurance and get staggered, so he can get several attacks in quickly.
Since he is nearly invulnerable in this phase, even if you have purchased the spiked cocaine from Heck (which will make Brayko slowly lose health), the best strategy is to run circles around the area. Mike's running is faster than Brayko's, especially when running around obstacles, so you can avoid damage altogether. You can use the drop down point on the center stage to slow down Brayko, as you can jump down and then run back to the stage, then repeat the same move a few times while he chases you. Eventually Brayko will fall to his knees to take a breath, which indicates the coke is wearing off. Use this opportunity to shoot him until he recovers.
Phase 3: There will be a flash of light, Brayko will disappear and move up to the balcony. He will start shooting again with his SMGs, and call for some reinforcements. After about 30 seconds, he should come back down from the balcony. You can take the guards out as quickly as you can in the meantime (gadgets, special ammo, whatever it takes) by stating below the balcony; or ignore the guards and focus on Brayko. This works best if you have abilities that let you do a lot of ranged damage in a short period of time (Chain Shot with Steel Core Rounds, Bullet Storm, Focus Aim, Room Sweep, etc.). If you take long enough time, he will draw his knives again and start phase 2 again.
There seems to be a limit on the guards that Brayko can call in. Once all these are killed or once he gets below 10% health, he will stay on the ground and fight without popping off his pyrotechnics and hiding on the balcony, until you beat him.
Strategies:
- Flashbangs: A flashbang in Phase 1 will get him stuck in place for a few seconds, so that you can shoot him freely with critical headshots or focused aim. If you damage him enough to get him to Phase 2, the cutscene will play where he snorts the cocaine, but he will remain stunned once it ends. For best results, damage him slightly first, throw a flashbang just before his health reaches 80%, then damage him enough to trigger the cutscene while he is stunned, run up to the stage and start shooting at his head point blank. With a flashbang Mk3 + Overclock you will have enough time to kill him before he recovers from the stun.
- Stealth: If you activate Shadow Operative as soon as Phase 2 starts (just mash the ability button after the cutscene), Brayko will immediately quit Phase 2 and go back to Phase 1. In addition, if you have purchased spiked cocaine form Heck, his health will go down to about 25%. You will then be able to kill Brayko without him running up to the balcony or calling in the guards.
- Melee: This fight is doable using with a Martial Arts build and appropriate armor with melee mods (any of the Arm Guards that increase strike damage) — especially, if you go to Moscow last and have the intel spiking the cocaine. Use jump attacks or heavy attacks to disrupting his attacks and blocks, then follow them up with melee combos. Having Fury and Epinephrine Spike active at the same time will stop him from blocking your melee attacks.
After defeating Brayko you will have to decide what to do with him.
- XP: +1000
- Konstantin Brayko - 1st dialogue
- Irritated
- Mocking
- Methodical - Brayko -1
- Execute - Kill Brayko. Will not unlock Prevent Surkov's Escape mission.
- Konstantin Brayko - 2nd dialogue
- Aggressive
- Casual
- Information
- Dossier - Go to 4th dialogue. Enabled with at least 75% of Brayko's dossier. Unlocks Prevent Surkov's Escape mission, but only if you've completed Contact Surkov at Moscow Office and heard Surkov confess to working with Halbech.
- All choices here go to 4th dialogue if you crippled Surkov and didn't do Contact Surkov at Moscow Office. You will not unlock Prevent Surkov's Escape mission in that case.
- If you completed Contact Surkov at Moscow Office and heard Surkov confess to working with Halbech, then Aggressive/Casual/Information options lead to 3rd dialogue.
- Konstantin Brayko - 3rd dialogue
- Missiles - Unlocks Prevent Surkov's Escape mission.
- Contact - Unlocks Prevent Surkov's Escape mission.
- Halbech - Unlocks Prevent Surkov's Escape mission.
- Execute - Kill Brayko. Will not unlock Prevent Surkov's Escape mission.
- Konstantin Brayko - 4th dialogue
- Aggressive
- Casual
- Mission
- Execute - Kill Brayko.
- Konstantin Brayko - 5th dialogue
- No thanks - Go to 6th dialogue.
- Agree - Let Brayko live. Ends conversation. Results in following:
- Gives $75,000.
- Adds Brayko's stereo for the Moscow safehouse.
- Enables the option to let Brayko execute Surkov during Prevent Surkov's Escape.
- Konstantin Brayko - 6th dialogue
- Execute - Kill Brayko.
- Spare - Let Brayko live without accepting his bribe.
- If you chose "Arrest" in the 1st dialogue before the fight, sparing him should count for the New Sheriff in Town perk (arrest Nasri, Shaheed, Surkov and Brayko). Although you will not actually arrest him: he would still become your ally (as stated on the mission results screen at the end) and could be called in to execute Surkov in Prevent Surkov's Escape.
- Executing Brayko gives you his unique SMGs that can be sold for $25,000.
Conversation with Henry Leland[]
Cutscene with Henry Leland follows after dealing with Brayko:
- Henry Leland - 1st dialogue
- Stolen/Challenging
- Did I?
- The Fifth
- 2nd dialogue will depend on your choice of ally:
- Henry Leland - SIE dialogue
- Blameless
- Guilty
- The Fifth
- Henry Leland - Albatross dialogue
- Adversarial
- Flippant
- The Fifth
- Leland +1
- Henry Leland - 3rd dialogue
- Denial
- Bluff
- Honest
- Henry Leland - 4th dialogue
- Denial
- Dodge
- Honest
- Henry Leland - 5th dialogue / Only if you rescued the ally
- Resolute - Leland +1
- Insulting - Leland -1
- Honest
Conversation with Mina Tang will occur after Leland only if Prevent Surkov's Escape was unlocked.
- Mina Tang
- Mina +1 from the start
- Dossier: Surkov's Guards.
- Let's do this
- Praising - Mina +1
- Mission
Choices and Consequences[]
Consequences of Previous Missions[]
- You usually go to this mission from Contact Surkov at Moscow Office. However, if you crippled Surkov by shooting him in the leg, you will go here from Intercept Surkov at US Embassy. In that case, Prevent Surkov's Escape will not unlock no matter what you choose with Brayko.
- To enable the option to unlock the Prevent Surkov's Escape mission, you must have heard Surkov confess that he previously worked with Halbech during Contact Surkov at Moscow Office.
- The ally and the faction assisting you in this mission is determined by your choice of the handler in Intercept Surkov at US Embassy.
- If you met with Steven Heck in Taipei and kept his reputation above -6, you can buy his intel that will taint Brayko's drugs, making for a significantly easier boss fight.
Consequences in Following Missions[]
- Successfully interrogating Brayko about the identity of the real Halbech's contact unlocks Prevent Surkov's Escape.
- If you execute Brayko during one of the first three dialogues, then Prevent Surkov's Escape will not unlock.
- If you let Brayko live, then during Prevent Surkov's Escape:
- If Surkov is hostile to Michael: you can call in Brayko to kill Surkov and Championchik.
- If Surkov is friendly with Michael: you can call in Brayko to kill Surkov on the helipad, but you have to decline Surkov's offer first and defeat Championchik yourself.
Notes[]
- When retrieving the Halbech data, the computer that opens the vault will have the same email and Clearinghouse display as your own PCs.
- There is a bug where restarting a checkpoint on this level sometimes causes the small icons above items you can pick up to disappear (set items only, enemy drops not affected). Also restarting boss fight may sometimes negate the effect of Steven Heck's cocaine.
- If you extort money from Brayko for sparing his life, he gives you $75,000 and his stereo, which you can use in your safehouse in Moscow. It plays Turn Up the Radio by Autograph, the same song you heard while fighting him.