Capitol City

Mr. Crypto Goes To Capital City

Goals

• Investigate the White House

Now that you're in the big city, it's time to find out why Armquist is meeting with the president. You'll have to make it to the White House without getting up to an Army alert level; the easiest way to do this is to just holobob yourself and try to avoid any Majestic foes you see. You'll probably first come to the White House on its rear side, so walk around the fence until you spot the three scientists coming out. After mindscanning them, one of them will start running, so follow him. If you keep mindscanning him, you'll eventually learn his password, "Blue Rider."

At this point, head for the military installation that Pox orients you toward. You may need to be disguised as a scientist in order to get in, but in any case, walk up to the soldier near the main gates and use the Blue Rider password in conversation to open them up. When inside, walk towards the helicopter to trigger a cutscene between Armquist and Silhouette; after it ends, you'll have three minutes to get back to your shuttle before it's stolen! You won't have to remain in disguise anymore, though, so get back across the bridge leading towards the White House and follow the path back to your saucer! When you reach it, you'll need to clear out the Majestic agents surrounding it before you can lift off and complete the mission. Pox will have an Ion Detonator upgrade for you.

The Lone Gunman

Goals

• Find the President
• Kill the President

Destroying all of the soldiers here will let you move on to the President.

Your goal here is apparently to kill the President, although at first you'll just have to follow his car around town. Doing so is probably easier if you holobob yourself, although there are Majestic agents scattered around the parade route, so you'll need to steer well clear of them or PK them into the water.

Eventually, though, the motorcade will roll up to an army truck, and it'll all be revealed as an ambush set especially for you. You'll need to kill off all of the Majestic agents and soldiers that are marked out for you. Robot enemies are going to show up shortly after the ambush begins, however, and will make it difficult for you to survive amidst all the chaos, so you may want to hide inside the nearby Lincoln Memorialesque building and use it as cover against the various troops outside, at least until your shields recharge.

Video Walk-through

You'll have to stay off the streets if you want to get back to your saucer without getting pounded.

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When everyone's dead, you'll have a minute and thirty seconds to get back to the real press conference and kill off the President. He's entrenched in front of the White House, surrounded by tanks and robots, making it difficult to reach him. Keep in mind that he only takes a couple shots to kill, so don't feel pressured to rush in when you still have 45 seconds left; you can hide out and get rid of the tanks and robots (the quickest way is to just PK them and push them quickly away; you don't have to worry about collateral damage, after all) before tracking the President down and offing him. It's still going to be tough to get out of the area, as numerous foes are going to start popping up when the Pres goes down, so you may want to try hopping on top of the White House if possible to avoid their fire.

Regardless, your objective now is to return to your ship before the meatbags destroy it. You have a good amount of time to reach the ship, but there will be tanks on the streets between you and it, so you'd be well advised to try and stay off them and behind buildings as often as possible. When you do finally get back to the ship, though, it's a simple matter of killing off a few bad guys before you can hop back into the saucer and take off to complete the mission. Your reward? An unlocked upgrade to your Zap-O-Matic.