Gig: An Inconvenient Killer (bugged or just very difficult to stealth?)

[Gwyllim]

I'm having an issue with the Gig 'An Inconvenient Killer' (Spoiler Alert, don't bother reading if you haven't attempted this yet, though I don't think I'm giving much away) - the one where you have to neutralise Jack Mauser, a former merc who now runs a nightclub. He can be found in the VIP suite in his club.

There is an optional objective for, 'Do not enter combat while inside the club', so therefore I should be able to neutralise Jack Mauser stealthily. He has several Animal bouncers scattered around the club, while there is a Merc with him in the VIP suite. To achieve this objective then, you will have to take him out silently, without the Merc noticing.

I don't have any quickhacks that can 'one-shot' him, so can't comment if that's the way to do it but you would need either two quickhacks (one for him and one for the merc) to one-shot them both simultaneously and enough RAM to do both.

Can't use a gun to one-shot him, because I can't take both him and the merc out simultaneously and therefore if I shoot one, the other notices, combat is triggered and the stealth objective is failed.

However, other ways of going about this mission which I feel should work, don't. Mauser is actually stood with his back to the Merc, at the window on the side of the room watching the dancefloor below. The Merc is sat on a sofa, facing into the room. There is nobody else in the room, none of his bouncers can see into the VIP suite; there is a camera in the room but obviously I've disabled it already, the door into the room is to the right of the Merc and Mauser has his back to it. Neither of them can see the door.

Since Mauser can't see the Merc, if I take the Merc out silently he shouldn't notice, but he does and immediately enters combat, objective failed. I've tried this using the Overwatch silenced sniper rifle, other silenced weapons or by using quickhacks.

It's not possible to enter the room without triggering Mauser to enter combat. Even though neither of them can see the door, it seems like some sort of scripted response from him. He shouts about how you got in here and attacks, objective failed.

The one thing I hoped would work was combining the reset optics and sonic shock quickhacks on both of them. Going off the descriptions of these quickhacks, this should render them both temporarily blind, deaf and dumb. Key to this is that I'm using the rare sonic shock hack which prevents its target from alerting their allies. I tried doing this and then entering the room, but as soon as I do, Mauser snaps out of his quickhack effects and enters combat.

So I'm stuck. Seems like I should be able to sneak into the room, take them both out silently and make my getaway without entering combat, but entering the room triggers combat regardless.

[Tirear]

Have you tried combining the quickhacks with sniping him from outside the room? That seems like the obvious way to avoid tripping the scripted encounter while still remaining stealthy.

The room has multiple entrances, have you tried coming from a different angle? When I did that Mauser wasn't in the room anymore for some reason, which made it easy to take him out without any combatants noticing. Well, I did this mission during a period of time where my game was glitching heavily, so who knows if that is normal.

[Potentate777]

Try using whistle.

[Deadline DK]

I may have found a work around for the bug.

You need following things.
1. System collapse quickhack
2. distract the enemy quickhack
3. You ned minimum 30 ram


1. Take the elevator or the go the main door.

1.1 if you choose the main entrens follow step 2.

1.2 if you choose the elevator you need to take out the worker when you get down with the elevator in the hall. Now follow the path to the small break room where there is a pc.
Now use the quickhack callt distract the enemy on the smoke machine so you won't being seen by the bouncer at the bar. Now follow step 2.

2. Go to the second floor and enter the open door where it shows security and take out the worker with out alerting the bouncer. Move the body and close the doore.

3. Jump up to the crowl space and follow the path on top of stage and enter the other crowl space on the opposite site. Now jump down to the restroom/wc roomm/ toilet room and open both Doors to the VIP room. (DO NOT ENTER THE VIP ROOM BEFORE YOU HAVE DONE STEP 4)

4. Now turn off the cctv/surveillance camera and take controll of the camera and use the quickhack callt system collapse on the target.

5. Now pick up the body and go down below using the stairs. Take the first entrens to your right and go to the maine entrens where there are 2 bouncers outside and use the quickhack system collaps on both bouncers at the main entrens and walk out to the car and put the body in the trunk/boot.

You have now complete the gig with out tricker combat.

Sorry for any spelling mistake. English is not my first language.

[Phynrae]

There's a much easier way to complete this gig (with the bonus), and that's to simply talk Mauser down.

All you need is a cyberdeck. Any cyberdeck. There's a beefy Animal chick guarding the door the leads up to his office, but there's also a vending machine right next to her. Cast the "distract" quickhack on that vending machine (which should be doable even if you've invested little to nothing into INT, and only have a basic cyberdeck installed) and she'll go investigate. You can then easilly sneak past her and head up the stairs to Mauser's office.

Now simply approach him and talk to him. Neither he nor the other guy in the room will innitiate combat aslong as you don't have a weapon drawn, so you can just walk up to him and have a chat.

Convince him that you're doing him a courtesy by talking to him instead of putting a bullet in him, and that his troubles won't magically go away even if he does shoot you, and that it would be smart of him to skip town for a while, untill the heat dies down. Easy as paella.

He'll agree to skip town for a while, and you can just waltz out of there like nothing happened.


Dino even has special dialog for this, and will be both very happy and impressed that you managed to resolve the issue this way. Bonus given.

[sniperarena]

Video recorded with v1.6x
https://youtu.be/WfitItj2130

All the Enemies are lvl 36 in v1.6x.

[Dynamic_Madman]

Alr I figured out the the silent way, when u enter the club there’s a door that needs technical ability to open, when u do u can use the cameras to see Mauser and for me I just used two common overheat quick hacks and then once he died I ran out the club before they could track me, it was quick since that room is right at the entrance pretty much, was frustrating to figure out tho

[Tokenn]

You can sneak into Mauser's office/lounge by going to the security office, jumping up to the platform/catwalk over to his office. You will jump down into the bathroom adjoining the lounge. The hustle on the couch is lost in a braindance, and you can talk to Mauser and avoid having to zero him

have a good look around the club...there's some preem loot there.

[Nachtflügel]

I didn't know about the talking-down approach, very interesting.

It is important to know that the merc in Mauser's lounge is of no relevance because he can't see, wearing a BD. So a stealthy approach via the catwalk is fairly easy. And most of the guards will move away when you neutralise Mauser. The guards outside are the biggest problem, but maybe you neutralise them at the start or take the elevator.

[Phynrae]

Originally posted by Nachtflügel:

I didn't know about the talking-down approach, very interesting.

It works like a charm, and Dino's reaction to you completing the quest this way is quite ammusing aswell.

Also, it doesen't exclude you from getting any of the loot inside the club. As long as you don't get detected, you can sneak around and steal all you want before you go and talk to Mauser (but emphasis on "don't get detected", obviously).