Can someone help me with mission 28? (SPOILERS)

[P_Town_Hero]

I believe it's mission 28. Where you need to extract code talker. I killed all the skulls in the forest before the mansion and now when I try to leave with him I get shot up very very quickly. I try to call the helicopter in but he always gets shot down. Any tips or pointers? Do I need to just kill everyone in the area because sneaking seems out of the question right now.

[No_Quarter]

ummm you can sneak out with code talker, or you can run next to skulls, go straight to mansion, grab code talker and there will be a lot of puppets - easier to deal with

[P_Town_Hero]

Since I already killed the skulls everyone is on alert. So there are a lot of people around the exits and inside the mansion. There is also a helicopter and a tank outside?

[No_Quarter]

go up north, take the path close to the river, bring Quiet to cover you and you can sneak along, tank won't spot you if you cross the river all the way to the cliff

[P_Town_Hero]

I'll give it a shot, thanks!

[Panfilo]

Here's a tip about that mission:

When you get to the point that you can defeat the skulls, take out 3 but leave the 4th one alive. When you rescue Code talker, all the guards will be puppet soldiers (zombies). Go back and take out the 4th skull, and all the guards in the entire level will get knocked out.

You're now free to fulton them all at your leisure. Fultoning puppet soldiers automatically gives them medals, boosting their stats. You can easily farm 100 high rank staff each run through this way.

[Frag Maniac]

There should only be puppets lurking around the mansion, out back toward the stone bridge (DON'T go that way), and in the forest here and there past the foot bridges. Plus a couple Skull snipers near the stone bridge, one FAR to the left of the foot bridges, and one high on a cliff to the right taking the foot bridge/forest route.

This is the case even if you sneak past the Skull snipers on the way in, and stealth extract, kill or hide all soldiers around the mansion.

I just made it through Extreme Code Talker, and this how I escaped unnoticed. With Code Talker on your shoulder, toss a smoke grenade just in front of the inside of the back door of the mansion. Go through it and to the right around the mansion once the smoke plumes.

You should have a clear path all the way down to the footbridge, but stop behind the rock at the start of the 2nd one. Call in D-Walker if you don't have him and have him enter scout mode. He will detect all the puppets in the forest, and the Skull sniper to the far left.

Move crouched along the 2nd footbridge and stay far right after it, behind the rocks there. Keep moving forward hugging the base of the cliff to the right. After a little ways, have D-Walker do another scout from behind a rock. Note that the sniper on the left is too far away and obscured from seeing you if you crouch and stay right behind the rocks after the bridge.

You will then see the Skull sniper up on the cliff to your right. It is imperative you hug that cliff so she does not see you. Once past her you can sneak all the way near the chopper LZ, but stay hugging the cliff. As soon as it's on station, toss a smoke grenade where it lands, and head to it when it plumes.

You don't really NEED D-Walker to scout if you stick to this route, and you may not even need the smoke grenades. If you don't have smoke, you can put Code Talker down after taking the stairs up from the cellar, and lure the puppets in the back foyer and take them out with stealth before exiting the back door.

I never tried killing the Skull snipers on the Normal mode version of this mission, but on the Extreme one, the first sniper I saw on the way in I snuck behind. Since CQC doesn't seem to be an option with Skulls, I planted 4 C4 right behind her. They barely made a dent in her and she relocated immediately, so I didn't even bother trying taking them on.

I may go back and do this mission again just to get some high ranking soldiers and boost some of my platform levels so I can develop more stuff, but I'm not sure what tactics to use on those Skull snipers. The puppets are easy to deal with though, and there's a fair number you can get before you're even visible by the snipers.