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Walkthrough for Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, PC version

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon is copywright 2001 by UbiSoft

Written/ copywright wisher21(Ben Racine). All rights reserved.

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Format

1. Tips/ General Strategy
2. Main walkthrough/plot summary by mission
3. Cheat codes
4. References
5. Contact info


To patch or not to patch? I feel sorry for those of you on dialup who
either bought this game right when it came out, or picked up an old copy at a
store. The patch weighs in at over 40 meg, and will take you an eternity to
download. I personally didn't patch the game, and the only trouble I had was
a cross indexing issue if you have a large number of saved games. If you can
deal with that, then don't patch. It's just not worth the effort. Of course,
if you have cable/dsl go ahead. You can find the patch at
www.ghostrecon.com/patch.php




Tips/ General Strategy




This isn't Doom. This is a tactial first person covert-ops game, and as such
has a few conventions

Save often. Make multiple saves. I rarely mention saving in the Walkthrough,
but you should remember to save after completing objectives, or at any
critical point. I think a few people are confused about saving/ loading so
I'll just mention that briefly. To save at any point, bring up the menu by
pressing (esc), and press the save button. To load a saved position, bring up
the menu, press quit, then from the main menu press campaign, resume campaign,
then select load saved game and choose your save. You can only quick load/
quick save without exiting the mission.

Don't waste ammo. I can't stress this enough. Don't waste ammo. Especially
with your snipers and demolitions specialists, you can't afford to miss many
shots. If that enemy at 300 yards you thought you had pegged with your M24
sniper rifle is still alive after you've fired a whole clip past his head,
consider reloading a save and perfecting your aim. Same goes for demolition
charges, and other weapons to a lesser degree.

Manual control. Even with the latest patch, you'll need to switch to manual
if you want your teams to make it through tough spots. Under AI control your
teams will entertain you with many acts of extreme stupidity, including (but
not limited to) walking into the path of enemy fire, walking in front of
friendly fire, or continuing to advance under fire.

Snipe enemies. Take them out from a long distance, and shoot carefully.
Before the enemy notices you, you have all the time you want to take that
perfect shot. If you miss, they start running/ taking cover and shooting
back, so make that first shot count.

Look around. One of the main reasons I like snipers so much is for
reconnaisance. By pressing R, you can zoom in and sight enemies you otherwise
couldn't see well enough to draw a bead on. Also good for scanning ahead.
Press R again to unzoom.

Get the drop on your enemy. If your enemy hasn't seen you yet, and you have
the opportunity to put a bullet in the brain, take it. Just don't miss- one
shot is usually enough to kill you.

Press x to go from standing to crouch (press x twice to crawl, c to stand back
up in stages). By walking in a crouching stance, you sacrifice a little
speed, but are much harder to hit. Also, by having your teams in recon mode
(press 7), your teams walk in a crouch. Recommended.

Check your map often. By pressing Left Shift and bringing up your map, you'll
often be able to see enemies earlier than any other way. As soon as you're
close enough to see the enemy, they'll show up as red diamonds on the map.

Strafe around corners (A and D)

Nightvision. Even if it's not night, when you turn on your nightvision (press
v), your enemies will be highlighted. Much easier to spot them.

Any time you hear 'enemy spotted' or something similar, immediately press 4
(hold position) and then switch to that team. Save your game in a new slot,
and take out the enemy.

Some weapons sight differently than others. Depending on the character/
weapon you're using, you may need to stop moving to take a shot. The rectiles
will slowly move towards the centre of the screen- when they are all the way
at the centre of the crosshairs, you have the most accurate shot. You can
take shots without waiting for an exact centre, but with less accuracy. Some
weapons don't require you to hold your position to take a shot. The weapons
which do are the M136, and many of the heavy 'specialist' weapons on the
unlocked heroes.




Walkthrough/ Strategy guide




Each mission will have a set of clearly defined mission objectives and an 'X'
or e(X)tra objective. By completing the X objective, you will unlock new
specialists for your team, with good stats and a special weapon. When you
load up a new mission, listen to the briefing, and pay attention to the
objectives. When you're in the briefing, also switch over to the command map
by clicking on it, and take note of your insertion point as well as where
your mission objectives are located. Movement is fairly slow in this game,
and wasting time traveling from point to point will get you or your allies
killed.

This walkthrough is written for recruit difficulty. The main difference as
you increase the difficulty levels will be more enemies. That's about it.
You may want to change your strategies from those listed here depending on
your particular playing style.

You'll notice there is much more detail on enemy placement in the first few
missions. This is intentional- I'm hoping that as you progress through the
game you'll need less and less help. All critical points are mentioned,
nothing is left out. The number of enemies and where they're at will change
at different difficulty levels, so adjust accordingly.

Commands are mentioned once, and from then on I assume you know how to execute
that command.

I use a lone sniper on team C in almost every mission. Why? because with a
sniper, you can peg enemies from 300 yards out or more. I spend about 80% of
my time in a mission using my sniper under manual control, picking off enemies
(often groups of four or more at a time) and recon. This makes most of the
missions (on recruit difficulty esp.) extremely easy imo. If you're looking
for more of a challenge, either don't use snipers under manual control, or
bump the difficulty a notch.

One last note about the missions- Many of the missions have a 'return to
insertion point' objective. Often, simply killing all enemies and completing
all other objectives will end the mission as well, and you won't have to make
that dangerous trip back to the insertion point. It pays to be thorough and
kill all the enemies.



Mission 1- Iron Dragon


South Ossetian Autonomous Region

Plot summary:

At the request of the republic of Georgia, your team has been deployed
to deal with rebels on the Russian border. The mission will be taking place
in remote wilderness and small enclaves in the 'South Ossetian Autonomous
region.' Your job is basically to stop the revolution before it begins,
heading off a full scale military conflict. You will do this by raiding the
rebel base in the Caucusus Mountains, killing all of Papashvili's troops, and
then taking Papashvili into custody (if you can).

Objectives- 1. Neutralize Tent Camp Troops
2. Secure the Caves
3. Return to Insertion Zone
X - Capture Papashvili (unlock Will Jacobs- rifleman)

Recommended team- Not too critical. I highly recommend at least one
sniper; this level is wide open and easy to pick off enemies at a distance.
For most missions, I personally use two snipers, one in team B with two other
support members (either support, demolition, or rifleman) and one in team C
alone. Team A varies depending on the mission. But at recruit level, team
selection isn't going to be too critical. The default party usually works
fine.

You begin this mission at the Insertion Point, in the lower righthand
corner of the map. Switch between your three teams by pressing 1, 2, or 3
for teams A, B, or C respectively. Switch to team 3 (your lone sniper).
Head North a little bit and West with your sniper (crouch by pressing x). You
want to move to a point just East of an enemy outpost. You'll see a lone
soldier walking around behind a barricade The barricade will show up to the
left and down of a little mark on your map (Left Shift button, or Tab). Zoom
in (R) and take out the enemy. There will be another two hostiles in this
area, take them out with your sniper as well. Move your sniper just North
of the three enemies you just took out, slowly. Look up, and notice the
outpost on the hill. Zoom in and take out the lone enemy there with a shot.
Press 7 to switch teams A and B to recon mode. Be ready to switch to teams A,
and B (using 1 or 2) when they spot the enemy, take them out, and then switch
back to your sniper
Send A, B teams around the southern edge of the map to about 1/3 up the map
and 1/3 from the west edge of the map (roughly where your sniper is currently
at).
While they're walking to where your sniper was, move your sniper West
towards the edge of the map. Be careful here- you'll see one enemy outpost.
Kill the enemy from a distance, but be careful - two more enemies will
approach from the North, walking down the hill. Walk straight North with your
lone sniper, towards the caves. Slowly crouch to the East, towards the
entrance. There will be a lone soldier here hiding behind a boulder. Take
him out, turn on your nightvision (v), switch to your M9 (press ` ) and enter
the caves. This will accomplish two objectives- Securing the caves, and the
X objective capturing Papashvili. There's no real easy way to do this, but
it's not really that hard either. Just requires a little luck. Take out the
two guards wandering around the caves. There's one guard at the right
entrance to the caves. Then you'll see a room in the back, and an enemy
with a beard staring right at you. That's Papashvili. He'll try to kill you,
but you're not supposed to shoot him (if you want to complete the X
objective). You need to take out his last guard, who is to the left of
Papashvili. The trick is to advance far enough so that you can see the enemy
to the left and shoot him without getting killed by Papashvili. Just reload a
few times and you'll get it. After you kill all of his guards, Papashvili
will stop attacking. Run into him to take him prisoner. Two objectives
down, two to go.
Send your lone sniper who's been doing all this work back the way he
came, back to the insertion point. I would control this manually. You'll
encounter a few more guards as you exit the caves. Don't just go running out
of the cave. Wait a bit at the entrance to see if any enemies are near. If
there are, take them out. Since you've killed all the guards along the way,
he'll most likely be safe on his way back. Now advance your teams A and B to
the enemy camp. Use your other sniper on team B, kill what guards you can
from a distance, and take the rest out. Head back to the insertion point, and
you're done. If you want, you can attack the Camp while your sniper is
working on the Caves. Be careful on your way back to the insertion point;
you may encounter a few enemies. If you're on the easiest difficulty level,
you'll probably not even need to assault the camps- your sniper will complete
the objective just by killing the guards as he leaves the caves. I finished
this mission using one sniper almost entirely.


Mission 2 - Eagle Smoke

South Ossetian Autonomous Region

Plot Summary:

The Navy has been flying aerial missions against rebel outposts from
its aircraft carriers in the Black Sea. An F-18 has been shot down, and the
pilot/ weapons officer have been captured. They're being held for
interrogation at a farm near the crash site. Your mission is to retrieve the
flight crew, and if possible destroy the plane.

Mission Objectives - 1. Rescue Pilot
2. Resue W. Officer