GTA: San AndreasLos Santos
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Mission 17 of 105Story mission
A carriage of Vagos is leaving Los Santos by rail with a shipment on board, and Big Smoke's answer is a single dirt bike with Carl driving and himself on the pillion. The mission is a chase along the track out of Unity Station with Smoke shooting at the front carriage and Carl doing everything else.
It is the most notorious mission in San Andreas, and the reason is entirely mechanical: Smoke's accuracy depends on where Carl puts the bike, and nothing on screen says so. Get the position right and it is over in a minute.
Ride alongside the front carriage rather than behind the train, and stay off the track itself. That is the position the mission scores, and it is the difference between Smoke hitting his targets and emptying a magazine into the side of a train.
Too close is as bad as too far — crowding the carriage costs Smoke his accuracy. Hold a steady gap parallel to the train and let him work, and take the roadblock on the track into account before it arrives rather than after.
The mission does not end when the last Vago drops. Big Smoke still has to be taken home to Idlewood, and losing the bike on the way back after winning the chase is a real way to fail it.
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
The friendliest man on Grove Street and the one who sold it. His route from the set's elder statesman to the crack trade's chief beneficiary is the story's spine.
14 of 105 missions · 4 as giver
