Absecon Lighthouse | Act I Omerta: CoG Guide
Last update: 11 May 2016
Mission rewards:
- Gang Member: Emmet "Doc" O'Connel
- Gang Member: Brigitte "Daredevil" Laval
- Gang Numbers +1
Start questing in the new district by building your own chain of Breweries and Speakeasies. Beforehand, hire the newly met Emmet "Doc" O'Connel. First, you're going to need to look around for an adequate location: look for a Premise, meaning a building with a home icon floating above it. Once you've found it, send one of your gang members to buy it.
Time to set up a Brewery. Select the newly purchased Premise (you can press Space on the main screen, or switch to a list of all owned locations) and chose the only option available. Select Beer and wait and until your character has performed their duties. After a while your warehouses will start stockpiling casks of Beer. Now you only need to upgrade the Brewery to increase its efficiency, and therefore the production time of Beer.
The next step involves establishing a Speakeasy in a Joint (the building with the tent icon). In order to find an adequate location, use an informant. Once you've got the right place, have one of your agents go there. Similarly to the Brewery, open the building menu and select a Speakeasy. From on it will secure you a steady flow of cash by selling your Beer.
Unfortunately, the game would be too easy if the above activities were enough to complete a mission. The current district has some Speakeasies that belong to your competition, which battles with you over clients. To get rid of the rival owner, you can do a raid (requires five pieces of Firearms - the Doc will get you what you need) or buy them out for $250. Given that the second option will guarantee an increase of your influence in the city, that's what I'd recommend to do. What's more, you can rent another premise and establish a second Brewery in it so that you could produce a surplus of Beer for trade through Jobs.
It's high time to show the citizens who's running the neighborhood - this is when you need to set up the infamous "The Don" Pizzeria. Before you do that, however, first you're going to need to upgrade your Hideout to level 2 (press the left mouse button on it and select the adequate option). This will allow you to use more advanced buildings and increase the capacity of your warehouse by 20 units. What's left now is to rent a Joint and establish the pizzeria. The business will serve not only as a cover for your activities: it will also increase the effectiveness of all your buildings and instill Fear among the citizens of the district.
Once the pizzeria starts running, another character should join you: Brigitte "Daredevil" Laval. In contrast to the other two, she's a hand-to-hand to fighter who uses knuckles to attack twice in a turn, but inflicts less damage.
A good mafia boss should care not only for the fear of the citizens, but for their affection as well. The easiest way to get the latter is to establish a Soup Kitchen which will give out free meals to the hungry. Once again, rent premises to establish the business. This will get your Liked rating go up.
Almost immediately, another problem will arise. The thugs from the previous mission owed some money to a local boss - Louie Castaneda. Since you were the one to take them out, their debt is now yours. Luckily, the Don won't demand cash - he'll want you to eliminate a few "pests". Begin the quest by visiting an informant. The gangsters you're looking for are hiding in the blue hotel (with the eye icon floating above it).
Fighting will start as soon as you get there - you're free to use your new characters. I suggest moving slowly and close to each other, and on encounter firing everything at once. Watch out when you're passing by windows, because enemies can use them to fire at you from inside the building. The quest gives you a good opportunity to train before proceeding to the more complicated fights.
Your problems won't end once you get rid of the enemies. It turns out the police has opened an investigation and will try to take your gang down. Save the game! If you're not able to mislead the investigators, you'll automatically lose the game. Press the Investigation button to open a list of available options, each of them with different consequences. I advise against destroying evidence in the beginning stages of the game - these quests will guarantee a confrontation with police forces, and federal agents make very challenging opponents. The easiest way to get the police off your neck is to bribe the investigators, since money is easily obtained.
Now for the last mission objective: to collect $4000. Using what you've learned so far, either from the last couple of minutes or during the previous visit to Maine Ave (trade from jobs, raids and robberies), you shouldn't have any problem with that. You can also pay a visit to the local Don and do a quest from him, for which you'll get some substantial payment. When you have the money, the mission will end and you'll have three locations to choose from. The order in which you want to go through them doesn't really matter, you'll visit all three of them either way; I suggest starting from the one where is the least police activity.
