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vsp · 04-24-2003, 12:05 PM

The deal with the Hunter copter is that there are two ways to unlock it:

* finish Keep Your Friends Close (the last storyline mission)
* get all 100 hidden packages

If you do ONE of the above, the Hunter will appear all the way in the back of the AFB (the north side), behind a bunch of fences.
If you do BOTH of the above, the Hunter will appear in the AFB, and _also_ at the helipad in Ocean Beach (completely undefended).

The soldiers at the AFB are hostile to you even after you've completed both tasks... UNLESS you're wearing a certain outfit. If you're wearing the right outfit, they're friendly to you as long as you don't shoot or bludgeon any of them, and you can walk right up to the Hunter and take off. (For entertainment, get someone chasing you and lead them through the gate, and watch the soldiers blast your pursuer to kingdom come.)

I have gotten the Hunter out a few times without the outfit trick, but it's very hard. What I did was to fly a Maverick in at high speed from the north, and bail out right over the Hunter's pen. If you're lucky, the game will get confused and spawn airport personnel instead of soldiers in that area, and you can take off before anyone else shows up. If you're not, they'll shoot you to ribbons in the several seconds that the takeoff sequence requires. It might actually be easier to fetch the Rhino by this method (more armor), except that that doesn't appear until you've got 90 packages.

04-24-2003, 12:05 PM	#304
vsp Syndrome of a Down Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: West Chester Posts: 1,367	The deal with the Hunter copter is that there are two ways to unlock it: * finish Keep Your Friends Close (the last storyline mission) * get all 100 hidden packages If you do ONE of the above, the Hunter will appear all the way in the back of the AFB (the north side), behind a bunch of fences. If you do BOTH of the above, the Hunter will appear in the AFB, and _also_ at the helipad in Ocean Beach (completely undefended). The soldiers at the AFB are hostile to you even after you've completed both tasks... UNLESS you're wearing a certain outfit. If you're wearing the right outfit, they're friendly to you as long as you don't shoot or bludgeon any of them, and you can walk right up to the Hunter and take off. (For entertainment, get someone chasing you and lead them through the gate, and watch the soldiers blast your pursuer to kingdom come.) I have gotten the Hunter out a few times without the outfit trick, but it's very hard. What I did was to fly a Maverick in at high speed from the north, and bail out right over the Hunter's pen. If you're lucky, the game will get confused and spawn airport personnel instead of soldiers in that area, and you can take off before anyone else shows up. If you're not, they'll shoot you to ribbons in the several seconds that the takeoff sequence requires. It might actually be easier to fetch the Rhino by this method (more armor), except that that doesn't appear until you've got 90 packages.