Walkthrough, Level 3: Military Airbase
I do not guarantee that this walkthrough is
complete. The route described below is the one I have found be the easiest. I
know and you probably know as well that there are plenty of different ways to
finish the level.
The map to this level is quite instructive. Open the map in an
own window by clicking here.
You start close to the radar dome. There are two guards and nothing else
there, but you'll need their AK47s, so take them out. The first guard is
patrolling clockwise around the dome. Use your computer map so that you can come
up behind him. The other one is patrolling clockwise inside the dome.
When finished with the dome people continue down to the base. Make your way
down so that you end up unseen behind the corner of the wall close to the main
gate (see screenshot). When you've arrived to the corner use your
computer map again. Follow the guard patrolling in front of the main gate. Run
up behind him and shoot when he has turned around and started patrolling away
from you. When the guard is dead immediately back off to the corner. One or two
guards can have been alerted and then started to run towards you. If
you're too close to the gate they will run out and start firing at you. If you
have gone back to the corner they stop inside the gate behind the fence. Read here
how you should take them out without taking damage.
If the guard in front of the small garage didn't come screaming, walk up to
the fence and shoot him from outside the fence. Then run back to the corner
again, since the guard behind the truck probably will be alerted (if he's still
alive). Go back and shoot him as described above.
Now it's time to storm the checkpoint. Shoot the guard throught the window
before he sees you. I've found that it doesn't pay to try to sneak up on him.
Either he sees you or the sniper in the water tower does (not necessarily, but
as I said before, there are plenty of ways to solve each level).
When the checkpoint is secured, walk in and open the gate (in this
walkthrough you really don't need to open the gate, but if you get spotted and
need to run out quickly it doesn't make any harm to have an open gate and you
want the AK47-ammo from the guard anyway). Note that the buttons which activate
things like opening gates, etc. are square while alarm buttons are round. Don't
ever press an alarm button unless you want to trigger the alarm or if you want
to reset an alarm which already has gone off.
The next step I've found is really the key to the level. There are three snipers
in this level. One of them is in the watertower and the two other are at the two
balconies of the Guard HQ. The snipers are really annoying and I've found it
much easier to finish the level if they are killed as soon as possible.
Go out through the main gate and back around the corner. Stand close to the
tree. Use binoculars and look at the watertower. The guard can see you but if
you go closer to the wall so that you can see him through the barbed wire (see
screenshot) he can not see you (strange, I agree). Then "AK47-snipe" (see how to
do that here)
the sniper in the watertower.
Run around to the south side of the compound. Run over the runway and
continue to the west until you are aligned with the path the guard at the HQ
balcony is walking (check map to see where you shall
stand), then every shot will hit the target. Use binoculars and AK47 to take him
down. You should stand at about 100 meters distance or else the guard will spot
you. If he does, run backwards until he stops firing, don't try to shoot
back. You're bound to loose a shoot-out against a Dragunov.
When the guard at the HQ is down return to the compound through the main
gate. Open the door to the ammo deposit by pushing the button on the wall next
to the entrance. Go in through the door. Two guards are waiting, one just behind
the front of the first truck, the other one close to the door at the other end
of the room. Jump up at the ramp behind the trucks and take them out from there.
(If you go around the trucks both guards will spot you at the same time).
Go out through the door, into the next room. Climb the ladder and walk up to
the door. Use your computer map to see when the guard patrolling outside the
door has his back to you, then exit and shoot him. The next guard might get
alerted. Take him out when he comes yelling. If he isn't alerted, check your map
to see when he has started walk away from you. Run and shoot in the back. Enter
watertower. It's sniping time!
Take out guard patrolling between barracks and bunker and guard in watchtower
(right screenshot). Then take out the two guards in front of the gate to the
security building. Take out the camera at the security building before the guard
patrolling in front of the house (left screenshot). If you want you can snipe
the guard patrolling around the small warehouse situated west of the guard's HQ
as well. Climb down from watertower, go to the corner of the house.
Check map and shoot guard patrolling around the small warehouse in the back (if
you didn't snipe him). The next sniper is on the other balcony of the guard's
HQ. He's not facing your way, so you can take your time and take him out with
the Dragunov.
Enter the guard's HQ (no guards left there...), take the elevator. Pick up
medikit on table walk out to both balconies and collect Dragunov ammo. Take the
elevator down again. Now it's time to enter the security building.
You have to either crouch and walk past the barracks or (easier) go around
the barracks, since the guards in the barracks can see you if you walk straight
up to the security building.
Two guards are waiting in the security building. Take them out and continue
through the door to the left down in the cellar. Behind the door in the cellar
another guard is waiting. Take him out. Check the cells for Josef Priboi. Read
the messages from Anya. Enter the infirmary and pick up medikit. Then exit the
compound the same way you entered.
Before you go to the next compound walk up to the hangar. From beside the hangar
you can snipe a guard in the control tower (see screenshot). Go to
the control tower compound. Use the Dragunov to take out cameras and guards near
the checkpoint (see screenshot map). Camera 1 surveys camera 2, so begin with
camera 1. Climb watchtower and take out the two guards close to the control
tower. Enter checkpoint to open gate and pick up medical syringe. Walk into
office building. Behind the front door is a guard waiting for you. Go through
the office building and enter the control tower. Use elevator. A guard is
waiting when the elevator door opens. Walk up the stairs and use computer with
blue screen.
Exit the same way you came and go to hangars. Walk up to the rightmost plane
(the one without ladder or car beside it). Voila! Mission complete.
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