Template:Infobox mission Bug Al-Samad Airfield is one of the missions in the Saudi Arabia hub.
Summary
Reports indicate Shaheed may be using an airfield east of Jizan. Infiltrate the airfield, download the flight logs, and get out without being spotted.
Available intel
| Intel Type | Source | Cost |
Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Al-Samad Dossier |
|
$5,000 | Dossier information on Al-Samad. Purchasing this Intel will expand your dossier on the Al-Samad terrorist organization. | |
| Sniper Rifle Dead Drop | Anonymous | $800 | Sniper Rifle Dead Drop. Darcy's contact will, for a price, leave a precision rifle in a pre-arranged location in Al-Samad's airfield, for use in your mission. | |
| Security Information | Anonymous | $500 | Mission map for Bug Tower mission. For a small fee, a surveillance company will provide you with a detailed map of Al-Samad's airfield. |
Objectives and Walkthrough
The mission will start with a briefing by Mina. During the conversation you will have the opportunity to influence your reputation with her.
There are 5 major lines you can pick from
- Shaheed - Unlocked Dossier Shaheed
- Airfield
- Alpha Protocol - Nothing
- Why Me? - Unlocked Dossier Sean Darcy
- Dossier - Unlocked Dossier Mina Tang
- Disconnect - (ends conversation)
Mandatory objectives
Infiltrate airfield
Find a way to gain access to the airfield.
First building straight has $500 Funds, Special Ammo, wall first aid kit, and a computer.
Hacking this computer gives you +25 XP and opens the gate to the next location.
Building across is locked by bypass keypad. Inside you will find Ammo and access to the roof. From the room you can zip line to the next area.
Completion: +100 XP
Warehouse on the right has Duffle Bag $500 Funds and Ammo. You will find a computer, and hacking it will disable some of the cameras and +25 XP. This is also the computer related to "Disable Security Quest"
Disable Security
Hack computer in the past the first gate in the right warehouse.
Completion:
- +25 XP for successful hack
- +100 XP
- (+1) reputation with Mina Tang
Defeat Shaheed's Elite
Take care of two elite (has red masks) mercenaries located in the warehouse on the left.
Completion:
- +100 XP
- (+1) reputation with Mina Tang
In the warehouse you will find: wall first aid kit, Armor Mode, Ammo X2. Climb up the ladder and on the second floor get Duffle Bag with $500 Funds.
Bypass checkpoint
Bypass the security checkpoint and get to the rest of the airfield.
Completion: +100 XP
Destroy Weapons Cache
Plant the bomb (just press action button) in the warehouse marked on your map.
Completion:
- +100 XP
- (+1) reputation with Mina Tang
If you exit the warehouse to the side, there is Ammo. Inside the warehouse you will find Duffle Bag $500 Cash, Ammo, and wall first aid kit. There is another Ammo at the base of a guard's tower.
Inside the control tower you will find plenty of stuff. There is a locked door on the side of building +25 XP for unlocking. In the room with computer, there is Briefcase $2,500 Funds, wall first aid kit, and safe $5,000 Funds +25 XP for cracking the safe
Gather Intel
Hack a computer on the ground floor of the control tower
Completion:
- +25 XP for successful hacking
- +50 XP
Obtain flight records
Obtain records of Shaheed's flight plan from the airfield computer system.
They are on a computer in the basement of the tower.
Completion:
- +25 XP for successful hacking
- +50 XP
- (+1) reputation with Mina Tang
XP: 50
In the basement, you will find Briefcase $2,500 Funds and Ammo.
Bug Tower
Bug the control tower to monitor data on incoming flights.
Briefcase $2,500 Funds and wallet $5,000 Funds are in the control room of the tower.
Completion:
- +25 XP for successful hacking
- +500 XP
(+1) reputation with Mina Tang if no alarms were set off during the mission
If you set off the alarm there is no penalty.
- Suave - Nothing
- Aggressive - Nothing
- Professional - Nothing
- Suave - Nothing
- Aggressive - Nothing
- Professional - Nothing
- Detention Camp
- Sympathize - (+1) reputation with Mina Tang
- Dismissive - Nothing
- Practical - picking it 10 times gives a perk
- Disconnect - Nothing (ends conversation)
Choices and consequences
Consequences of previous missions
If you have already done Intercept Nasri the Arms Dealer and arrested Nasri, Mina will express her approval during the briefing (+1 rep).
Consequences in following missions
Killing Shaheed's elite personal guard will result in weakened opposition when finally confronting Shaheed.
During the Investigate Jizan Weapon Stockpile mission there won't be elite guards near the satellite dish.
During the briefing, Mina gives you a dossier entry about Darcy. If you then do Investigate Jizan Weapon Stockpile and pick the Dossier option during that briefing, you will get Darcy's secret dossier entry about Senator Darcy. Opens up more dossier intel at the end of the game, if he hates you.
Notes
This mission sometimes bugs, removing virtually all of the guards from the airfield and resulting in a very easy, though dull, mission.
Having played-around with this mission I can say that it is utterly bugged (no pun intended). Restarting from first checkpoint led to Thorton spawning in the line of sight of the first "enemy". Restarting from any checkpoint other than the one triggering upon accessing the last building led to most of the enemies that are supposed to spawn between the reloaded check point and next checkpoint not spawning (they don't count as evaded either so that's lost EXP). And reloading from checkpoint that precedes the last checkpoint made the level impassible by blocking the only access to the last part of the level. Also, There's a computer on the ground level in the last building that when hacked sometimes results in +75 exp (aside from the usual exp from hacking) and a completed optional objective "Gather Intel". However it doesn't seem to do it most of the time. Seems like it depends on how you accessed the last building and if you reloaded during the mission.