GTA: San AndreasThe Desert
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Mission 75 of 105Story mission
N.O.E. stands for nap-of-the-earth, and it is exactly what the mission asks: fly a loaded Rustler from Verdant Meadows out to Angel Pine and back without ever getting high enough to be seen on radar.
There is no combat in it at all. The difficulty is entirely altitude discipline over terrain that rises and falls the whole way, and it pays $15,000 for a round trip that ends with the aircraft stopped on the strip.
Climbing is what fails this mission, and the terrain between the strip and Angel Pine does not stay flat. Flying the contours — down into the valleys rather than over the ridges — is the whole technique.
The drop is triggered by flying through a marker rather than by any input, so the approach to it is an aiming problem at low level. Lining up early costs less than correcting late.
The mission is not finished in the air: the Rustler has to come back and stop on the strip. A landing that overruns or cartwheels at this point loses a mission that has otherwise been flown perfectly.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable
Home in Los Santos after five years in Liberty City for his mother's funeral, and stopped by the same two police officers who drove him out. Rebuilding the family's standing turns into rebuilding most of the state's.
All 105 missions · 7 as giver
Gives the job
A government operative who conscripts Carl into work nobody will ever admit happened, and is the only person in the state able to get Sweet out of prison.
14 of 105 missions · 9 as giver
