Vantage outposts | Activities Mad Max Guide

It is always a good idea to use the Vantage outpost whenever you are driving near a balloon.

Excluding the first location (Chumbucket's Territory), each newly visited region has one Vantage outpost. Those places are used for uncovering the map and as a quick travel point. After driving into a new terrain, the location of the outpost is added to the map. When you visit it, the quick travel point becomes active. It is wise to unlock new points quickly, this will let you save time spent on travels and searching for points of interest.

Only the spotted places will be marked on the map (all "circles" are points of interest).

Your objective in each Vantage outpost is reaching the balloon, flying high enough and marking all the visible points (Max will automatically equip the binoculars).

Sometimes you must add fuel, sometimes shoot the lock - nothing hard.

Each vantage outpost is constructed differently. However, they all have some things in common:

- a basket attached to the balloon: sometimes it might lack fuel, in that case you must bring a canister and refill the tank,

- generator: the generator (yellow chest) might lack fuel as well,

- a lever bringing the balloon down: sometimes it might happen that when you visit the outpost, the balloon is in the air. To get it down you must pull the lever on the yellow panel, usually located close to the balloon. If the lever remains inactive, you must first replenish the gas in the generator.

- retaining chains - sometimes it will be impossible to get in the air due to the hitches that hold the ropes. Shoot all three and the balloon will rise.

In almost every outpost you will have to replenish the fuel, get the balloon down or shoot the ropes. Snipers and other enemies protecting the outpost might be an additional difficulty.

Make sure that the balloon has enough fuel - otherwise it might run out of gas before reaching the required altitude.

While in the air, don't forget to mark all the visible places (turn the binocular in their direction), otherwise they won't be marked on the map. Minefields and Scavenging locations cannot be marked, all other locations can be spotted from the balloon.