Conflicting Interests

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Conflicting Interests
Tom and Crashie. The small black object is the "Bavarium scanner".
Mission in Just Cause 3
Type	Storyline
Previous	Friends Like These...
Next	Turncoat The Secret of Vis Electra
To unlock	Complete Friends Like These... and Mario's Rebel Drops
Starting location	Small dock near Vigilator Nord.
Reward	None

Conflicting Interests is the sixth storyline mission in Just Cause 3.

Introduction

This mission immediately follows Friends Like These..., but won't unlock if you haven't also done Mario's Rebel Drops yet. Liberating Vigilator Nord before the mission makes the mission much easier, but isn't necessary.

Mission briefing on the map: "Fearing the advancement of Di Ravello's Bavarium weapons program, Dimah enlists Rico's help to recover her Bavarium scanner stored beneath the military listening station Vigilator Nord. Rico goes to meet her contact, a rebel named Looch."

Walkthrough

Rico arrives at a dock and meets Looch, the contact, to discuss entering and searching the base. According to Looch, it will be "one hell of a needle in one hell of a haystack."

Looch leaves his Pescespada SS speedboat behind and you'll have to get to the nearby Vigilator Nord.

Once at the base, you'll have to open some containers at marked locations and search them. Open them by dual tethering the container doors to the ground. Rico is looking for Dimah's "Bavarium scanner". The correct container is near the base road entrance.

Once in possession of the scanner, Dimah will tell you to take it to Cima Leon, where it should expose traces of refined Bavarium. During the journey it is revealed that the scanner is unstable and will eventually explode. This places a time limit on the trip to Cima Leon. The Medici Military will try to stop Rico by sending multiple CS Navajo and Urga Postolka attack helicopters.

Tom Sheldon will call Rico while he's on his way and ask for the scanner to him. With it, he says, he "might just be able to convince The Agency to give more help to the rebels".

Once at Cima Leon: Silo, place the scanner on the marked vent (at a lower level down the cliff-side from the base itself). The scanner will explode and fly across the valley to the road below, indicating that not only is there refined bavarium present, but that the amount far exceeds what the scanner could handle.

Rico will then call Tom to give him the scanner. Tom proposes to meet at Café Francesco in Fortalessa (which is said to produce "one mean panelle con pollo"). You must lose your Heat before getting there. Kill any pursuers, or escape them.

Tom will thank Rico for the obviously broken looking scanner, but when Rico walks off, Tom is so pissed off that he knocks his drink off the table.

Trivia

• When Dimah said "Cima Leon", she is specifically referring to Cima Leon: Silo.
• Regardless of what heat level you have, when the CS Navajos and Urga Postolkas show up, your heat level defaults to level 3.
• A SAM spawns outside Cima Leon: Silo that does not appear there normally.
• If one were to take a good look at Sheldon, but not get so close to him to trigger the cut-scene, they would notice that he is holding a CS44 Peacebringer.
• It's not known why Crashie is with Sheldon at this location. He's still wearing the headgear, so in-universe they probably arrived by helicopter. The helicopter is out of sight, so it would be reasonable to assume that they parked out of town.
• This is the second time that Tom has had a mission cut-scene at a diner. The first time was in the mission Streets of Fire in Just Cause. Tom eats or cooks something in every other mission where he's present.
• There is a bug when you lose heat in Fortalessa. Instead of the cut-scene triggering, the camera could zoom in on the cafe, if there is fighting going on there. The only known fix for this is to restart the mission and try to lose heat before getting to the town. See also: Just Cause 3 Bugs and glitches.
  • It is also possible to complete this location during this mission itself, but that would mean retaining heat (if Rico has any) after the town is liberated, and no heat music at all during that time.
• The DLC mission Stowaway is unlocked after this mission, but story-wise it doesn't make much sense to do it directly after.

Bug/Glitch

 PC   If Rico uses a helicopter to get to Cima Leon: Silo, the attacking CS Navajo(s) might not spawn.

Gallery

Rico and Mr Looch.

Looch's Pescespada SS. It is not a unique paint scheme, though somewhat rare.

Videos

The mission is somewhere past the half-way point of this video:

Another video dedicated for the mission: