Overview
I’ll explain how to beat the freeplay mission “The Deal” in a few steps to followHowever this guide will not help you for the hardest part, you’ll have to do it many times, learning the npsc spots and ways to not get killed (because the bots are insanely op)I made this guide because it took me a whole day to do the quest and it would be nice if not everyone had to do it in a dayI’ll also show you small tricks/glitches to beat it. One of those may get fixed if the guide gets known.
I. Spawning in, looting and preparing
When you spawn loot anything you can, take the best gun and the most amount of ammo you can, take as much food possible to heal yourself too
Make sure you take minimum damage and keep your legs not broken
Look for construction site in the forest and loot it, you’ll find a dark blue key that looks like a spoon but if you’re used to freeplay you’ll recognize it really fast since it doesn’t looks like anything else.
If the key didn’t spawned then it means there’s already a team of 2 players doing the quest, means you got ♥♥♥♥♥♥.
The best is a lmg and a shotgun, preferably semi and not pump. LMGs are op because you’ll encounter many enemies, pigs and npcs, and the shotgun will help you kill the enemies comming too close (like pigs rushing you)
BE SURE TO KEEP A SCRAP OR 2, you’ll need them for a trick
II. First Steps into Madness
Get in the locked door which is located in one of the 2 rooms of construction site.
To get in the locked room with your team mate you need to be both at the door, the one with the key starts to open it and the other will be able to get in (idk if it’s a glitch or not)
Behind it you’ll find 2 crates in a sort of small room, it’s like a checkpoint to get to the swamp.
In the swamp you’ll find pigs rushing at you once they see you.
Get in it, go up the stairs and you’ll see the first pig rushing at you. You can shoot some bullets in front of you to hit them and agro them.
You will probably hit npcs too
III. The quest for the battery !
Right after going up the stairs you’ll find your first pig, kill him, really easy.
Go to the right, make sure you don’t fall in the holes. You’ll encounter pigs here and there, sometimes they’ll attack in group. How they work is that once they see you or if you shoot them they’ll start to rush you, they do small damages, are easy to kill but a lot of them [g]that’s a lot of damage![/g]
You’ll find a tractor with a full battery in it, it weights around 10 kg and you’ll have it in your hands, means you can’t shoot if you have it BUT there is a glitch that makes you able to use your guns and other items while having it. To do it start by picking up the battery, go in your inventory and use one scrap on one of your guns, this way you’ll be automatically equiped with this gun and you’ll be able to shoot with it.
You can also leave it here and come back later if you’re too heavy.
Continue to your right, but after the tractor you’ll get shot at by a sniper, most of the time it’s equiped with a SKS but for some reasons it can be equiped with an AK. Just use binoculars to see where he is or with a sniper, if you have none then just randomly shoot at him, spray and pray to hit him.
There is no indication when you killed a bot so becareful
IV. “they are like zombies but with guns”
Once you killed the sniper continue to your right, you’ll find the first human structure, a sort of barricade, behind this barricade you’ll find a npc hiding, just shoot him and kill him.
I suggest you shoot a few times to your right to agro the bots (they react like the pigs: they attack if they see or are shot at) but becareful they are insane, they can snipe you at any time so once you shot a few times, hide behind something and wait until they get close
Continue to your right, you’ll find a small house with the car next to it, remove the destroyed parts of the car and get inside the house. You’ll find a bot at your left, just shoot here once you’re in because he’s really easy to kill. One of you should stay outside to watch for any bots comming/to start doing the trick to agro them.
In the house you have a chance to find:
-A supply bag
-A gascan (you can get one from tower but since there’s 100% chance one spawning somewhere in the swamp you shouldn’t need to bring one)
Sometimes none of the 2 items spawn here, that’s fine you’ll find them at the right but it makes things harder with the bots respawning.
Grenades can be really useful in this part of the quest
The bots drop their guns, take them and unload them using the unloading control (can be found in the settings) or you can just use the gun by itself if you need it or don’t have any guns using the same caliber
The bots respawn so at any time you can end up with a bot spawning in front of you, be extremely careful
V. Just f*cking run
After you placed the battery and the items found in the house if there was any, continue to your right.
You’ll probably encounter a few bots but you’ll then find a small shack, inside at your left again you’ll find a bot and a storage. Kill the bot and loot the storage, you’ll find one of the needed parts for the car (100% chance spawning). This time it will be held in your inventory and it weights nothing.
Continue to the right like always and you’ll get shot at by a second sniper, same thing as before, shoot him down and continue. You’ll find a stair, at the bottom is a bot watching right at the entrance of it, throw a grenade or shoot at this spot to take him down.
Continue and get inside, at the right is a bot, kill him and loot the storage for the missing items, you’ll find the things you didn’t find in the first house + a supply bag.
The supply bags work like the gascan and the battery, you’ll have it in your hands, you should not need the trick to equip the gun since you probably killed all of the bots but stay aware.
Go back to the car, put the supply bags in the back, the car parts in the engine and refill it with the gascan.
Start the car, like the tower mission with the generator. Now the player that needs to complete the quest will have to be the one to get in first (the second guy will be automatically put in the car).
Apparently the quest can now be completed by any of you getting in the car first but I suggest the one having the mission does it in case if it doesn’t work. I’m interested in more feedbacks on it if the second player does get a reward too and if both players have the quest it’s completed for both.
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