”We tend to paint life with a limited pallet of black and white. Governments are good or evil. Leaders, wrong or right. In my fight against apartheid, I saw much that would make one think in those terms. But missions like ours - to the North Atlantic where we face evil, certainly in a man like Jandran - prove to me most things aren't so simple. Is it justified to take even a single innocent life to prevent a greater evil? During my mission to Chechnya, I had similarly difficult questions to answer.
—Lawrence Mujari, Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain
Samaschki, Chechnya: Ivankov's Home is the eleventh mission and third bonus mission in Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain. It depicts Lawrence Mujari investigating genocidal activities committed in Mikhas Ivankov's hometown. The mission is unlocked by completing Yemen 1, 2 and Minsk within solo par.
Characters
- Lawrence Mujari (playable)
- Nikolai Jandran (mentioned in cutscene)
- Uri Gregorav
- Mikhas Ivankov (mentioned in dialogue)
- Gabe Logan (mentioned in radio)
Briefing
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Walkthrough
The third bonus mission sees you play as Lawrence Mujari. Your weapons will all be non-lethal, meaning that they will only stun enemies rather than kill them, and using lethal force will restart the mission. In other words, you should:
- Aim for an enemy's body rather than their head using the air pistol
- Be careful not to set them aflame with the taser
1) Run ahead and crouch to the left of the pole. Equip the grenades and look ahead and to the right at a stairway going up.
2) Two guards are meeting to talk to each other, as one is also coming down the stairs. Toss a grenade at the bottom of the stairs, then another one at the 2 guards.
3) Turn left and taser the guard shoveling the mass grave. Photograph the mass grave.
4) Facing the grave, after taking the photo, head straight into the nearby building. There are 3 guards in the area head.
5) One guard patrols close to this building, one is stationary behind the corner of the wall, and the other patrols left to right.
6) Air pistol the guy behind the corner, then wait 'til the guard going left-right stops and air pistol him. (*) If you are fast enough to get here, you will be able to throw a DormaGen grenade at all 3 - the patrolling guards at 1 point both meet at the solitary stationary guard.
7) Finally, the guy that was headed your way will walk in front of the open area - use your air pistol on him (unless you can switch to taser fast enough)
8) Head for that large stairway you lobbed a grenade at earlier. Switch to taser, run left at the top, and roll off the end.
9) Taser the nearby guard with your auto-aim. Climb back up the place you rolled off and head forward. Equip the air pistol.
10) To the left is an open area...a guard walks by at the bottom, so manually aim down and to the right and hit him when he goes by.
11) Back near where you rolled off is an area to the left. At the end, near the power lines, is a wooden ramp. Get on it and shimmy across the bar.
12) Drop down on the top level of this building (this is apparently Ivankov's House, the house that was on the left when you began the mission)
13) On this floor is a scrap of paper (a hidden objective). It's a bit of a nuisance to grab the right spot with triangle button, but do it. > Objective Complete: Obtain the code from Ivakov's house
14) Back near the beam, roll off the ledge and head for the stairs (faster than shimmying across again).
15) Up the stairs, climb/roll of the ledge from where you shot at the guard with the air pistol. Turn right and run ahead to the school. > Objective Complete: Photograph the bombed school
16) Take the photo by the spinning thing. Run into the building that the last guard was patrolling. Go left and ahead a few rooms.
17) To the right, before you get near the guard you shocked, is an open area with a staircase. Head for the stairs. There's air pistol ammo in the crate.
18) To the right of the crate is an area where a wooden board connects to another building. After crossing the board, run left and snap the photo of Uri Gregorov at the appropriate spot. > Objective Complete: Photograph Uri Gregorav
19) Do a 180 and make a quick dash to a nearby opening on the left. Air pistol the guard patrolling on the bottom.
20) Go back to where you took a picture of Gregorov (looks like a uniformed officer). He should be preparing to leave in his helicopter. Let him. (It's mission failed if you try to stop him)
21) Look around with the scope view to feel out the nearby guards. There is a guard patrolling here who walks by the helicopter, and a stationary guard to the left.
22) A third guard is out of view, when the patrolling guard walks away he walks up and talks to Gregorov.
23) When the helicopter takes off (at about the 4:00 mark), snipe the guard who heads for the hostage - he kills him if you're not quick. Then take out the one stationary guard on the left.
24) Climb/fall down the building and aim for the guard off in the distance to take him out. Run a short way past the hostage and wait.
25) A 4th guard comes from a building on the right. Air Pistol / taser him before he sees any of the bodies.
26) Don't untie the hostage yet, even though he's technically safe. Collect the tissue sample to your right. > Objective Complete: Collect tissue sample from a villager's body
27) Head to the far end of this area, on the left (near where you took out the guard who was patrolling).
28) Taser the digger, run in and snap the photo of the 2nd grave. Head back to the building you dropped out of, and climb back up to it.
29) Stock up on air pistol ammo from the crate. Head to where you quickly took out the guard at the bottom floor after snapping a photo of Gregorov.
30) Drop down here and head right. There is a side alley on the left very soon. Take it and you'll come out by some swings. Left of the swings, look for a slanted roof-like overhang - climb it, then jump up in the building.
31) Climb over the broken wall and look for a hole in the floor. Lower yourself down here. Get the gas grenades ready - some guards are out here.
32) Watch the patrols and you can gas them all in one shot when they're close to each other. Photograph the hospital and backtrack. > Objective Complete: Photograph the bombed hospital
33) Continue down this alley. When you get near a lamppost at the corner of a building, a guard will spawn.
34) Sneak your way backwards down the alley quite a bit, as the guard patrols near here before turning to your left. Follow him when he does.
35) The guard you followed will talk to 2 other guards at the grave site - gas grenade the trio (aim for the 2 bunched together).
36) Run to the graves and snap a photo. Across from the grave site is where we went to get to the hospital. Turn left in the alley.
37) Follow for a short ways, and to your right is a side alley. There are 2 guards by the church. > Objective Complete: Photograph the 3 mass graves
38) Just sneak and be careful, gas them both and snap the photo. (*) Sometimes one of these guards will be on patrol (I'm not sure what triggers it). If so, just tread carefully, keeping distance, and be prepared to take him out as fast as possible if he sees you) > Objective Complete: Photograph the bombed church
39) Back in the main alley, there is a guard patrolling back and forth - snipe him with the air pistol. Near him is a guy guarding the prisoners. (*) If you're quick enough, he'll spot you but you can air pistol him before you lose your stealth. (*) Is also important to be quick 'cause he may see the body you just dropped a second ago.
40) Rescue the prisoners, staying fairly close to them (or else they STOP). > Objective Complete: Free Chechen prisoners
41) Follow everyone, eventually you pass by the hostage - rescue him now. > Objective Complete: Rescue the CDP hostage
42) Keep following all 3 to the beginning of the level. You're done! > Objective Complete: Get to the extraction point
Trivia
- Killing anybody will cause the parameter "Do not use lethal force" to fail and restart the mission. The only way to complete it, therefore, is to neutralise threats with non-lethal force. This means no headshots with the air pistol, and no setting victims aflame with the taser.
General strategies and tactics
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Map
