Eliminate the Renegade Threat | Side Ops and Extra Ops MGS V: Ground Zeroes Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
The mission starts in the place to which you escort the prisoners. You can escort them at any time during the mission, but this task is only optional. The main objective is to eliminate two agents. If you raise the alarm, they will start escaping from the base, so you have to act quietly. First, take down a guard on the cliff and then head towards the base.
Lying in the grass, wait until a vehicle with some troops passes. Then, eliminate a patrolling guard and by crossing the road, make your way between the tents.
The first target, accompanied by two bodyguards, will be heading towards the refugee camp. If you can shoot both quickly and accurately, you can eliminate (or tranquilize) all three of them. To do that, you need to sneak to them from behind when they are between the tents, so that other guards can't see them. Remember that the main target has to be killed, so if you don't have a lethal weapon, you need to use a knife after tranquilizing him.
East of the steel tower, there is a warehouse with red door, where you will find a Cassette Tape.
Now, you should head towards the main base, where you will have to get inside through the red door or the ventilation shaft. You can also use the armoured vehicle, but you have to drive carefully to stay unnoticed.
Inside the base, you can disable the cameras one more time by sabotaging the power. Your targets are constantly moving around the base, but the second one can be found in the administration tower most of the time. Observing the top of the ladder by the wall and the courtyard, climb up the ladder and eliminate the guards.
Your target is a black man wearing glasses. After killing him, you can easily escape the base using the road or the helicopter. The fastest way is to use a vehicle and head to the western gate. You risk raising the alarm, but the time that you save this way is more valuable than the few points that you lose. You can choose the order in which you eliminate the targets, but when doing it in the order described above, it is easier not to raise the alarm and to avoid soldiers searching for the agents.
Before completing the mission, you can rescue the prisoners to gain additional points. Their cells are located near the shoreline, in the western part of the map, in a prison with barbed wire around it. They are usually watched by one, sometimes by two guards (only if you haven't raised the alarm). You can quickly carry them to a place where the helicopter will be able to land.
Alternative way - kidnap the targets
By completing the mission this way you unlock the "Depth" achievement. Despite the objectives of the mission, you want to kidnap both the targets, instead of killing them. Quietly make your way near the first target. After knocking him out, carry him to the landing zone. You can also go the western edge of the map, but you will have to eliminate the guard on the steel tower first.
After you've called the helicopter, place your target inside it. Now you have to kidnap the second agent. You should find him in the tower or walking around the courtyard.
You will find a car parked inside the base, near the generators. You can seat the unconscious target on one of the passenger's seat and leave the base through the main gate (use a switch to the left to open it). Then, head to the eastern gate. Try to drive fast and avoid the enemies and you should escape the base without any trouble. Doing it fast will enable you to obtain the S rank.