*SPOILERS* "Act 5: Sometimes you still lose" Is this mission serious?

[Sirius]

So I started playing the mission "Sometimes You Still Lose" in Act 5 and I don't know how the ♥♥♥♥ this mission made it through testing. This is probably the worst designed mission I've ever played, and I can't beat it on the "realistic" difficulty. So you have to travel around the city and install virus' around the city while Damien literally hacks anything you drive past, which results in a lot of collisions at traffic lights. Then you literally cannot escape the police scans. Even if you use the thing that pauses the scan for a few seconds, the scans will literally spawn every second until the police start chasing you. Then the helicopters come in and they have sniper that LITERALLY never miss a single shot. You could be driving at 200 mph in the fastest car in the game and the sniper will hit you. Repeatedly. So now picture this, you have to hack three different areas in the city (which require you to stand near the area for about 20-30 seconds to upload the virus) while everything around is being hacked and 20 police cars with the deadeye helicopter sniper chasing you unceasingly. Does anyone have any tips for this mission?

[LowlyPatzer]

Swim in the water the cops can't see you there and there is nothing to hack hope I helped

[Sirius]

Originally posted by Akira:

Swim in the water the cops can't see you there and there is nothing to hack hope I helped

Alright I'll try that. It's a shame though that this is the only way to beat this mission.

[ΛCY|Ziz1243]

I made it, not on realistic difficulty though, I was playing normal. I was really getting annoyed by the constant "screen hacking blur/distortion/face/♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" I actually had a headache after that mission. But I think it is quite challenging to get away from the cops with 4 or 5 wanted level. The way I did was quite weird too, I hacked one then died and hacked another one and died after that too and for some reason the game put 1 and 1 together and I started at the police chase so I just needed to get rid of the cops. I think I got rid of the ground vehicles by driving over bridges because they won't follow you when the bridge is up and the two ways I usually get rid of the chopper is by either getting out of the car and disable it with the chopper disable skill and then get back in the car and drive off which can be quite hard since it is shooting and if you have police cars on you they will stop and shoot at you too, I actually had one instance where I got out of the car and instantly got run over by a cop car. The other way I usually do it is by getting in the water and also disabling the chopper when it gets to close, this is easier because you are already "on foot" so you can disable the chopper easier since it is quite hard to disable it while driving.

[Kaeline]

I just got to those points without trying to get away from cops because this seemed to be impossible. Then I just quickly ran to the router and was shooting at cops while uploading. Then quickly run away again :) This may work it the routers are inside the building, because otherwise I think you'll get killed by shiper.
Actually I'm glad that the final mission was challenging, overall the difficulty of the game is very nice and balanced, especially in this mission.

Originally posted by Zaegar:

the worst designed mission I've ever played, and I can't beat it on the "realistic" difficulty

Accoring to the plot you're trying to turn down the whole SATELLITE, why would you expect that to be easy? :D Anyway, I think you'd be more disappointed if this mission was too easy for the final one

[Kershmunkle]

I did

[Kershmunkle]

Originally posted by Zaegar:

I can't beat it on the "realistic"

I did

[alpenhornblazer]

As mentioned, concentrate on one location, make a suicide run for it. Use a lot of blackouts. Don`t know if the game lets you do the mission by day, bur by night its alot easier.

[ChillestBro]

This is what I thought too; the last missions was pretty much thrown together at the last moment, like "YEAH that makes it 'hard!'" But it's pretty wack that you can "run" from the cops, then just get back on the scans again... I just rode a boat from place to place because, honestly, Cops can't do much to you in a boat, just disable the heli asap and run from it, game set and match...

So many people LOVE this game, but it's the most mediocre game to come out in a while, so I think people are delirious...

[Xazur]

The way I did it was, simply get to the first spot as fast as possible, hide in the building as you are uploading. Die, Head to next point, and rinse and repeat.

[Kaeline]

Originally posted by Greddie Fibbs:

This is what I thought too; the last missions was pretty much thrown together at the last moment, like "YEAH that makes it 'hard!'" But it's pretty wack that you can "run" from the cops, then just get back on the scans again... I just rode a boat from place to place because, honestly, Cops can't do much to you in a boat, just disable the heli asap and run from it, game set and match...

Actually the fact that you can't hide from cops in the last mission is well explained by the fact that Damien points them to your direction. And riding a boat from place to place won't always help because most of the points are in the city centre (they are randomly chosen), so it might not work.

[Tie]

Originally posted by Greddie Fibbs:

So many people LOVE this game, but it's the most mediocre game to come out in a while, so I think people are delirious...

For all the hours I spent on it, it was damn fun. Would buy it again. I think theres a bandwagon of hate just as big as the hype train...

Now to beat the mission you can cheat a bit and finish one scan and die, once you die the game creates a checkpoint with no cops and you can get to the next upload spot. Might be harder on realistic though.

[ChillestBro]

Originally posted by kaeline:

Originally posted by Greddie Fibbs:

This is what I thought too; the last missions was pretty much thrown together at the last moment, like "YEAH that makes it 'hard!'" But it's pretty wack that you can "run" from the cops, then just get back on the scans again... I just rode a boat from place to place because, honestly, Cops can't do much to you in a boat, just disable the heli asap and run from it, game set and match...

Actually the fact that you can't hide from cops in the last mission is well explained by the fact that Damien points them to your direction. And riding a boat from place to place won't always help because most of the points are in the city centre (they are randomly chosen), so it might not work.

What?? I don't think they are random at all, might want to back that up with some proof...

[Kaeline]

Originally posted by Greddie Fibbs:

Originally posted by kaeline:

Actually the fact that you can't hide from cops in the last mission is well explained by the fact that Damien points them to your direction. And riding a boat from place to place won't always help because most of the points are in the city centre (they are randomly chosen), so it might not work.

What?? I don't think they are random at all, might want to back that up with some proof...

I don't have proof, but I once died when trying to get to the first router (it was near the water), and on replay I returned to that place and found out that it became a wrong point and the new objectives were in different places. I think it was something like this...

P.S. I finished this mission late at night so maybe this is my memory problem, but I was sure that the points changed :D

[ChillestBro]

Yeah, I don't think they changed for me, even after the first and only death I had, because I didn't try my easy-mode technique at first... so unless somebody can confirm the movement of the points after death, I can only assume you mistook an objective point as one of the decoy points.

[Sirius]

Originally posted by kaeline:

Accoring to the plot you're trying to turn down the whole SATELLITE, why would you expect that to be easy? :D Anyway, I think you'd be more disappointed if this mission was too easy for the final one

I mean it was difficult, but not to the point where it required skill to beat the mission. The game just kind of throws everything at you and you have to suicide run to the routers and hope you stay alive long enough to upload the virus.