Story mission · Underground
Operation Shopping Hacks
Updated
Hack Lieutenant Jang-ui's encampment, crack the mall security door, feed four robot-dog battery cores into the lab door, keep five computers alive, then balloon out from the roof.
Bring
- 2-Plate Armor Vest
- Medkit
- Night Vision Goggles (a pair is usually in a tent outside the mall)
Walkthrough
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1Approach the encampment
You spawn on the tram. Clear the enemies around the encampment before touching anything, because the next step locks you in place.
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2Hack the encampment laptop
Hold interact on the laptop by the window. While Overlord analyses the data, enemies push the room, so hold your angles until it finishes.
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3Use the code on mall security
Your objective text shows a four-digit code. Enter it at the Mall Security door. The code changes every run, so ignore any code you see posted online and read the one in your own tracker.
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4Explore the security annex
The annex is dark. Turn on the generator first, then decrypt the note on the laptop at the workbench.
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5Power the lab door with four robot cores
The K9 Core Terminal needs four Rare K9 Battery Core items (it shows 0/4). Robot dogs spawn from machines around the mall, and the atrium is the most reliable spot. Kill a K9 and loot its core straight away. If the dog explodes first, the core becomes a Common "Destroyed K9 Battery Core", which the terminal won't accept.
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6Hack five lab computers and keep them running
Once all five are hacked a breach timer starts, but it only counts down while every computer is up. Laptops crash to an ERROR DETECTED screen. Hold interact on them to reboot. Give one player the job of rebooting while the others hold off K9s and soldiers. With all five running the timer takes about 90 seconds.
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7Loot the lab vault
When the timer ends the lab goes dark and a "Scrambled" banner appears. The vault is inside a lit tent. There is also a laptop with a Project K9 research log. Pick your exfil route as a squad before you leave the vault.
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8Escape to the rooftop exfil
Climb to the roof and attach yourself to one of the extraction balloons. A plane snags the balloons and the mission completes.
Tips & pitfalls
- Carry a spare K9 core or two in case one gets wasted.
- Running out the 30-minute radiation timer doesn't fail the mission. You can still finish it, but you will take radiation damage.
- A Deathstalker drone has been seen spawning at the mall right after Mission Complete. Leave quickly.
Rewards
- 25,000 DMZ Cash
- Night Vision Goggles
- Coin Mining Den Key
Check your Bank after the run. Some players see a smaller payout on the after-action screen.