Rico and the Rose

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Rico and the Rose
Mission in Just Cause 3
Type	Storyline
Previous	Tangled Up In Blue
Next	Derailed Extraction
Starting location	Grotta Contrabandero airfield
Reward	None

Rico and the Rose is the sixteenth storyline mission in Just Cause 3.

Introduction

Mission briefing on the map: "With Di Ravello weakened by his battle against the rebellion, the beloved leader Rosa Manuela has decided to return to Medici by flying straight into Citate Di Ravello. Rico deems this unwise, so travels to meet her and safeguard her return."

Walkthrough

Mario, Annika and Teo are excited to meet Rosa Manuela, but Rico reminds them that "nobody will meet no one" if her plane gets shot down.

You'll be provided with a CS7 Thunderhawk jet. Get in and take off. Rosa's Urga U17 Akrobat will approach from the approximate west (your approximate 10 o'clock direction). A cut-scene plays where Rico reveals his intention to provide escort. Several Medici Military CS7 Thunderhawk fighters show up and fly past you. Pointing your aiming cross at them will put a red [ + ] over them to lock your missiles on target. Finish them quickly, then try to stay behind Rosa's plane and avoid overtaking it.

It has been reported that if the missile auto-aim doesn't work, make sure that the "precision aim" gear mod is turned off. It is possible to shoot them down with unguided missiles, but depending on the player's skill, that could take too long, by then which Rosa's plane would have been destroyed.

At some point the pilot will be killed, and you will have to take control of the plane. This can be achieved by getting into the stunt position when you're close enough and grappling yourself to it and then get on board. If it continues onwards, the plane would crash into some lake near Citate Di Ravello.

Rosa wants to arrive at Citate Di Ravello on time to meet "rebel leaders", but Rico explains that Di Ravello has his men waiting there and offers to take her somewhere safe. There will be a map marker for Refugio Umbra (the next rebel base, which Rico confusingly calls the Cove), so land there. It shouldn't be too difficult if you decelerate in time for the touchdown.

Mario is first to greet her and to tell her he loves her. She meets several random rebels and Dimah, who calls her president. Rosa corrects her that a president is an elected leader and that at this point she's only a citizen.

Suddenly Rosa spots Zeno Antithikara who's trying to sneak past her. She immediately demands to know why he's here and insists that he's a traitor. Zeno argues that he defected, but Rosa asks everyone to not trust him, because he was the one who helped to forge documents that ended her presidency. Mario quickly points a shotgun at Zeno's head and nearly kills him, but Rosa insists that he'd be given a fair trial and that it's time to rebuild a fair Medici.

Trivia

• The mission briefing on the map seems to have a word missing.
• During Zeno's arrest, it is strongly implied (by referencing previous missions) that despite Rico's suspicions about Tom Sheldon in Abandon Ship, Tom was not necessarily guilty of leaking intel to Di Ravello, since Zero appears to actually work for the general.
• When Rico had to pull out Rosa's pilot, that marks the first time in the Just Cause Game Series that a friendly person might be killed. However, the pilot does mention getting shot when enemy jets approach the aircraft and is not heard from afterwards. Since the plane then begins descending, he likely died before Rico could do anything, forcing him to take control.
• This is only the second mission in the Just Cause game series which involves flying a fighter jet, the first being the last mission of Just Cause, Taking Out The Garbage.
• As a possible minor developer oversight, Rico mentions landing at "the Cove", which normally refers to Grotta Contrabandero, but in this case refers to Refugio Umbra.
• All NPC aircraft featured during this mission are significantly faster than the provided CS7 Thunderhawk, leaving very little window for destroying enemy jets.
• This is the only mission / battle in the Medici Civil War without ground elements.
• Initially for an unknown amount of time, the game put a red [ * ] on the enemy planes, but apparently, this has been changed to a red [ + ] as of some patch.

Glitch

Main article: Just Cause 3 Bugs and glitches.  PC   There is a known glitch in the PC edition of the game where the homing missiles on the CS7 Thunderhawk refuse to acquire a target, making the jets much more difficult to kill.

Possible solutions:

• To fix this, simply open Steam in "Big Picture Mode" and launch Just Cause 3 from there.
• If that doesn't work, exit the mission and restart the game. That will definitely fix it.
• It's also possible that the "Precision aim" gear mod has something to do with this, so try disabling that before doing the mission.

Gallery

Shoot down military planes.

Land at the rebel base.

Mario meets Rosa.

Mario about to kill Zeno.