Part 16: Outgunned

Part 16: Outgunned

Removing Leo's Machine Gun from the Equation

This has a rather lengthy load screen, but eventually you get a nice CS in which you are placed at the start of the mission and memory, and you are charged with the task of destroying Leo's Machine Gun.  This thing has to be destroyed, it is way too deadly for the period.  Leo is just too smart!

To get 100% Sync you must avoid killing anyone until AFTER you destroy the blueprints, right?

Check your map and stealth your way to the marker, staying far enough away from any solders so that they cannot recognize you.  You can NOT run, and you can not be SEEN climbing.  Other than that, it is pretty much a standard stealth ninja mission!

Explaining this mission is rather complicated -- in a nutshell you need to get to the blueprints and burn them, then kill the guards who are in your way without ever being detected.  At all.  You have that?  Now there are probably a number of ways that you can do this, but after a half-dozen different approaches I only found ONE that works every time, without fail. 

I have filmed the entire approach all the way up to where you head for the wagon in full without skipping any steps at all, so you know what to do.  Just watch the video! For those of you who do not want to watch the video, where are the steps to take:

(1) Move forward and drop down the cliff, take shelter in the hay pile below.

(2) Stealth along the outside edge of the outer compound sticking to the walls so you do not get sighted by the guards on the roofs.  The civilians will ignore you. 

(3) When you reach the far corner near the building climb the building and, on the roof, use a smoke bomb and quickly drop down, run straight ahead and then left and hide in the hay pile!

(4) Once the outer guard has completed his patrol and turned around, climb out and follow the wall, stop and wait for the inner guard to turn around and head towards the back of the area, then follow him.  When he turns right, move to the blueprints and burn them.  At this point you can now kill but you still must NOT be detected.  Kill the guard here, and then climb the building to the roof. 

(5) Stick to the cliff-side of the roof, work your way to the center, then kill the guards below from hiding.  Once they are dead or most of them are, drop down the far side.

(6) Go inside the shed and light the barrels of gunpowder, then follow the checkpoints as prompted to escape.

(7) Once you are on the horse, RIDE!  You do not need to worry about attacking, getting into position to attack, any of that.  All that you need to do is ride.  Get past the blocks they trigger and eventually you will get close enough to trigger the CS in which you commandeer the wagon.

(8) Drive the wagon through the area ahead, using it to knock the chasers off of their horses.  When you knock the required number off you will move to the machine gun and begin a shooting sequence.  Just shoot EVERYTHING.  Eventually you will kill enough and have traveled far enough so that a new CS begins in which you unhitch the wagon and blow it up with your gun.

Grats mate!  You just completed one of the tougher missions in the game -- tough from a 100% Sync POV anyway!  Good on ya!

After the mission is over check the map for Leo's marker and go there -- sit on the flashing bench and purchase one of the two gadgets that you have yet to buy from him.  I chose the Leap Glove because I do a lot more climbing than shooting people with darts, but either choice is valid!

After Leo goes to his workshop to construct the item he returns and gives it to you.  Sadly that bench is no longer a valif summon point for him so we cannot buy the remaining item right now.  Sigh.

You cannot reach the nearby View Point Perch because you have to repair the aqueduct first, and you cannot do that because of the Borgia Tower here that is protected by a white wall of death, so this will have to wait.