Mafia Contracts

Contract: Gimme My Money

This is another inter-faction mission, in which the Mafia will ask you to take out a Chinese officer and retrieve a stockpile of cash that the Chinese have taken from them. To this end, they'll supply you with a attack helicopter that has a winch attachment beneath it; you can use this to both kill the Chinese officer (for the bonus cash) and grab the crate of money (for the main mission completion).

This North Korean chopper might be your very first helicopter kill, but there'll be plenty more where that came from.

Begin by taking the helicopter up and flying over to the point marked on your map. If you spot any North Korean helicopters in the air, feel free to shoot them down for a little extra cash. When you reach the Chinese building, you'll find that it's surrounded by soldiers, as well as the officer, who'll be marked in turquoise. Since you won't be able to kill him without the soldiers spotting you, you'll almost certainly lose a bit of faction points with the Chinese, but so long as you kill only the officer, this penalty shouldn't be too devastating.

When you're ready to grab the cash, lower your winch by pressing the D-Pad downwards and hover on top of the cash to pick it up. The soldiers below will, of course, take exception to your actions and will attempt to blast you from the sky, but they only wield machine guns, and so shouldn't be able to do too much damage to you if you manage to get the crate and get back up in the air quickly. If you find yourself about to get shot down, though, you may want to either start shooting up the soldiers and take the Chinese faction hit that comes along with that course of action, or landing the helicopter and calling in a Vehicle Repair Drop before trying again.

When you have the cash firmly attached to your winch, take to the skies and head back to the point marked on your map. You'll need to drop the cash inside the circle by tapping your d-pad downward, then return the helicopter to the landing pad you originally took off from to complete the mission. In order to return to street level, use the door in the small hut elsewhere on the rooftop.

Contract: Bait and Switch

The Mafia offers to lead you to the Jack of Clubs in thanks for your previous help. If possible, he wants you to capture a FROG-7 missile truck from the Jack of Clubs' little base, but this just a bonus option. Your primary priority is to enter the base and nab the Jack.

To that end, you'll be provided with the NK troop transport you stole earlier, along with a bunch of Mafia thugs. This will let you get near the base where the Jack is holed up, so head that way. Before you hop out of your truck to start taking out the enemies, though, drive past his marker and up the hill to the green car icon on your minimap. If you get out of the truck near the FROG-7 missile launcher, marked in turquoise, one of the Mafia soldiers will get in. In order to get it out past the Jack, though, you'll need to destroy three heavily armored vehicles on the road down the hill.

Killing off the vehicles along the road will let the FROG-7 proceed down the path and back to Sergei, getting you your bonus money.

The easiest way to do this is to approach the vehicles from the rear, meaning the south. If you scout around on the southern side of the train station where the Jack is, you'll find another APC of the cannon-equipped kind; if you just run up to it and hijack it, you should be able to nab it before either it or the soldiers nearby know what the heck is going on. With it at your disposal, you'll be able to sweep north, firing away at the three armored vehicles and destroying them, which will allow the FROG-7 truck to get down the road and out to the highway, where Sergei can presumably use it for his own nefarious ends. Be sure not to aim the cannon near the Jack, though, unless you actually want to kill him.

To take the Jack alive, you'll want to use the APC to destroy any opposition that's suitably distant from him, then dismount from your ride and start killing off the nearest soldiers up close before subduing the Jack and extracting him. Note that if you chose not to do the optional FROG-7 extraction, you'll still want to take out the anti-aircraft vehicle (the one with the pair of smaller cannons in the front), or it'll likely shoot down the chopper that comes to pick up the Jack.