GTA V
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Mission 83 of 83Story missionOne of three endings: C
Franklin refuses the choice and calls everybody instead. The three protagonists set an ambush at a foundry, break the forces sent against them, and then work through the four people who have been running them all game.
The longest and most demanding ending, and the only one that keeps all three protagonists alive. Its Gold Medal has five criteria — a twenty-one-minute clock, twenty headshots, seventy per cent accuracy, and two specific kills by specific methods.
The ambush is the longest firefight in the game and where most of the twenty headshots should be banked. Switch between the three protagonists deliberately rather than staying with one — each holds a different angle on the floor, and the accuracy criterion is measured across the mission rather than per character.
Two of the four are scored on method. Cheng must be killed with a sticky bomb and Haines with a headshot, and both are easy to lose by killing them incidentally during the surrounding fight. Deal with the escorts first, then apply the required method deliberately.
The third target is scored on a melee kill, which means closing the distance through a gunfight. Clear the Ballas around him before approaching rather than trying to reach him under fire.
Twenty-one and a half minutes sounds generous and is not, because this ending carries long drives between each target. Skip cutscenes, take the direct route between objectives, and do not restart checkpoints to improve accuracy — the clock is the criterion an otherwise clean run still has to satisfy.
6 criteria, all of which have to be met in a single run. Failing one does not fail the mission — it costs the medal.
Time
Complete within 21:30.
Headshots
Kill 20 enemies with a headshot.
Accuracy
Finish with a shooting accuracy of at least 70%.
Stick, Tick... Boom!
Kill Cheng with a sticky bomb.
Clear his escort first, then apply the method deliberately.
Lead Lobotomy
Kill Steve Haines with a headshot.
Stretched Out
Kill Stretch with a melee attack.
Who this mission brings together, and the ground it covers.
Playable
A retired bank robber living in Rockford Hills under a name a federal deal gave him after a job in North Yankton went wrong. Nine years of a pool, a therapist and a family who cannot stand him end the moment an old life finds him again.
61 of 83 missions · 7 as giver
Playable
A repossession man for a Vinewood car dealership with more ability than his street has use for. Michael gives him the way out of Strawberry and, eventually, the reasons to regret taking it.
47 of 83 missions · 3 as giver
Playable
A former bush pilot running guns, meth and grievances out of Sandy Shores. Violently unpredictable, oddly loyal, and the only one of the three who never pretended he had retired from anything.
45 of 83 missions · 12 as giver
Gives the job
Heist planner
The planner behind the crew's largest scores. Physically frail and technically formidable, he is the reason a job that should be impossible turns out to have a route through it.
29 of 83 missions · 24 as giver
