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(click here to learn more)| Death from Above | |
|---|---|
 "That's one expensive bonfire." | |
| Faction Mission | |
| Faction | Reapers |
| Prerequisite Stronghold | Chemical Compound |
| Faction Influence Level | 5 |
| Required Chaos | 240'000 |
| Location | Tanah Lebar airbase, Panau Tengah Bay (X:16060; Y:23420) |
| Rewards | |
| Chaos | 5,000 |
| Cash | 10,000 |
| Weapon Parts | 1 |
| Vehicle Parts | 1 |
Death from Above is a Reapers side-mission in Just Cause 2.
Introduction[]
The description from the PDA map states:
- "The Reaper outposts in the Panau Tengah Bay area have been hit hard by aerial patrols from Tanah Lebar airbase. Bolo Santosi is now asking for someone to assist in destroying the fighter jets of this base.
- The Reapers will provide insertion via helicopter and wants all of the stationed fighter jets destroyed."
You will be provided with a Grenade Launcher. Bolo Santosi sends over a Mullen Skeeter Eagle to take you to the Tanah Lebar military base, which is 570 meters away. When you arrive, Bolo comes onto the radio and tells you that the jet fighters stationed at the base pose the biggest threat to the Reapers and their operations. She tells you to destroy all four G9 Eclipses that station inside the base.
It will be easier to do this mission if you've killed Colonel Lee Yu Wehn, who is stationed at the base and if you've upgraded the grenade launcher at the Black Market.
Walkthrough[]
Grab the Grenade Launcher (unless you already have one before hand) and grapple to the bottom of the helicopter. You will be flown to the base. Once there, the helicopter will be slowly circling the base. You have to shoot at the planes with the grenade launcher.
Those planes are relatively well armored, so try to launch the grenades as close to the planes as possible.
Unfortunately, or fortunately for some people, Colonel Lee Yu Wehn is stationed at the base, so you will have to kill him to be able to fully concentrate on your mission.
It's easier to complete the mission from the ground, as you will not be shot at so much. If you board the Eclipse jets, the Panau Military will help you destroy them by continuing to shoot you. Just remember to get out before the explosion.
Trivia[]
- Completing Tanah Lebar to 100% will not prevent the mission, but rather make it easier even, since the colonel will be dead. In fact there will be no military presence at all.
- The base is abandoned after its 100% completion, so if you've completed it before the mission, there will be no military presence before and after the end of the mission. If you destroy one of the jets, the pre-heat designator flashes briefly, but no heat is obtained. If the Reapers helicopter has not been shot down during the mission, it'll continue to hover above the base forever, until it eventually lands after circling around to the fourth jet.
- The base is also used in the mission Helicopter Hangaround.
- The title might reference a Canadian punk rock duo of the same name, but this mission has nothing to do with music. Link to Wikipedia.
- There is a grammar mistake in this map description. "Wants" should be "want."
- There are a couple things exclusive to this side-mission.
- This is the only time a Reaper is seen operating a helicopter that is not a H-62 Quapaw. Can I get a Witness and Reaper stronghold takeovers feature the Quapaw, but this one is a Mullen Skeeter Eagle.
- This is the only time a Grenade Launcher is provided at the start of a mission.
- The Mullen Skeeter Eagle cannot be entered. If the helicopter lands at the end of the mission, there isn't an action to enter. On that note, the pilot uses the same character model as a grunt or elite, albeit unarmed.
- This mission is the only instance in which the G9 Eclipse spawns at this airport. In this case, four are parked at the two runways.
- There are also several inconsistencies with this mission.
- The 4 G9 Eclipse jets do not spawn there outside of this mission, with Si-47 Leopards taking off normally. For four to appear during this mission makes it seem as though they were hidden in some part of the base, or they are so regularly on patrol that they almost never have time to return to base.
- The runways are also significantly too short for the G9 Eclipse to take off on. This means they would have to rely on some kind of VTOL system to fly away from base, or these can take off much quicker than the regular ones.
- Even if the jets are apparently "on patrol," Panau Military jets are never seen engaging Rico or the factions in combat.
- The map description states several "Reaper outposts," but the only Reaper settlements in Panau Tengah Bay are the Reapers HQ and Pemainan Racun, both of which are never seen being attacked. This means either there are several unseen Reaper outposts throughout the Panau Tengah Bay that Rico cannot find, or development meant to add several more Reaper staffed locations in this region.
Glitches[]
Main article: Just Cause 2 Bugs and glitches.
- Destroying the jets by taking off in them and then crashing them is not advised because exiting them in flight can trigger a bug that makes the jet in question disappear, but its marker will be frozen mid air and make it impossible to complete the mission, forcing the player to reload an earlier save game. Some (if not all) missions also have an area limit and if the player leaves the area, there will be a warning on screen that gives the player a limited number of seconds to return. If the other wouldn't be there then this would still be something to consider.
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