Mission 7 (No Turning Back #1) | Main missions - Act IV Watch Dogs Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Reach the Merlaut hotel

This mission starts in the Eastern district of the Mad Mile. After you start the mission, head towards the hotel that you can see in the distance, where you receive more detailed objectives.

Eavesdrop on Quinn's reception

Head towards the van of the local broadcast television, parked near the hotel and hack into the access point behind it. You will get the view from one of the cameras on the hotel's rooftop, where the Mayor is holding a reception. You may watch the speech from the default camera, or you can start switching to the other ones.

Listen to the private conversation between Quinn and the Mayor

After you receive a new mission objective, you need to switch, QUICKLY, to one of the cameras located to the left of the spot, in which the Mayor has given his speech a moment ago. Your task is to locate the router shown in the above screenshot. Eavesdrop on the private conversation (if you want to, you can also hack into the smartphone and learn already that Clara's life is in danger).

Disable the hotels' security systems

Switch over to the camera on the wall and pan it to the right. Hack, then, another camera. Turn your attention to the audiolog here (Lucky Quinn 07) and hack into the nearby router. Of course, you will have to solve a hacking minigame here, but you should not have any problems with it.

After you complete the hacking minigame, you will get the view from the camera in the security room. Examine the laptop (optionally) and load the view from the camera of the guard in front of the monitors. Finally, hold down the hacking key/button to hack into the hotel's security system.

Infiltrate the hotel

There are three different entrances into the hotel. The Western and the Northern doors are being guarded by single guards.

You can deal with the abovementioned guards, predominantly, by distracting them. You can, e.g. activate the alarms in the cars parked nearby although, you can also try using the Lure or sabotage the communication device of the given mercenary. If you do not want to get tricky here, you can attack the guard in melee or shoot him (best if you used a suppressed weapon for that), although this type of action may be noticed by civilians or the other enemies.

The third possible entrance is the one shown in the above screenshot and it is the Southern door. It is locked but, thanks to hacking, you can easily open it. I recommend the you take this particular entrance, because it is not guarded and it is the easiest way to get to the next mission target, without being detected.

Reach Quinn's office

If you have taken the Western entrance, you will walk into the lobby and, if you have taken the Northern, or the Southern one, you will first get into one of the side corridors. Regardless of the entrance that you have taken, try to hide behind the nearest cover, as quickly as possible and use the nearby cameras to take a look at the surroundings. Mark the enemies and take a look around for the hackable objects.

Note - in the lobby, there is an audiolog (Malcolm Deodato 07).

Since Quinn's office is located at one of the higher floors of the hotel, your first task is to reach the elevator. It is in one of the corridors that neighbors the other big room past the lobby. Of course, you can get into the elevator by killing more enemies and by conducting the aggressive game, but you can just as well, do that by operating from shadows.

If you want to cross the entire ground floor without being spotted, start at the Southern entrance that I recommended earlier. After you approach the corridor, position the camera in the position that ensures you with remaining undetected by any of the guards (an example of the appropriate positioning of the camera in the above screenshot).

Hide behind the wall, or behind the vending machine. After the patrolman in the Southern corridors comes here, try to distract him with the Lure and quickly walk around him or neutralize him in melee. Note - do not attempt to hack into the vending machine because, instead of the guard from the Southern corridors, someone else may come.

Regardless of what you decided to do, about the first guard, go towards the lobby. It is necessary that you hide behind one of the walls near the main hall of the hotel and start observing the enemies in both of the abovementioned halls (it is a good thing to have them marked, thanks to the hacked cameras in the area). Leave your cover only after they turn away and/or walk away.

Start running (you may use the skill that muffles Aiden's sprint) and turn right twice, first to enter the hall behind the lobby and then, to run into the side corridor towards the elevator.

The corridor to the elevator is being patrolled by a single man but, if you have timed everything well, you can enter the elevator before he walks back towards Aiden. Of course, you can neutralize him but, you should do that in such a spot, so as to make sure that nobody spots the body after a while (e.g. after the guard stops in the nearby security room). regardless of what you did, summon the elevator and reach the upper floor.

Right after you reach the upper floor, you will watch a longer cutscene. Be prepared to press the melee key/button at the right moment.

After you have neutralized the two guards, who have been holding Aiden captive, use the fact that time has slowed down (Focus) and shoot at the opponents that you can see in the distance.

Make it through the hotel rooftop

Take cover and wait for the first wave of opponents to arrive. Since there is an Enforcer among them, it is a good idea to have the grenade launcher prepared beforehand, or place some IEDs next to the only passage from the roof, Eliminate the enemies that come and, if necessary, (e.g. in the case in which a grenade is thrown your way) be prepared to dart towards another cover.

I recommend that, after things calm down a little, you hack into one of the cameras on the roof, still before you walk into this location. Switch from camera to another and mark the enemies staying on the roof and search for the ways to eliminate them, by means of hacking (blowing up the generators and fuse boxes, sabotaging of explosives attached to their outfits, etc.).

Sooner or later, you will have to go to the rooftop yourself and there are two serious handicaps that are connected with it. First of all, there is a chopper hovering above the rooftop, with the enemies onboard. Each time, slow down time (as long as you have unlocked that skill) and a good rifle, to eliminate the gunman from the chopper. Unfortunately, killing the gunman does not get the job done because, after several tens of seconds, the aircraft appears above the building again and you will be brought under fire once more. As a result, it is a good idea to cross the rooftop as quickly as possible and not risk having to fight more gunmen.

Another handicap is the fact that there is, at least, one hostile sniper on the rooftop of the hotel. If you want to, you can stun him, temporarily, by hacking into his communications device and exploiting the fact that he is defenseless, for several seconds. If that is not an option, use the sniper rifle yourself, or approach the enemy sniper thanks to covers.

As I have mentioned earlier, it would be a good thing to cross the entire rooftop quickly, thanks to which you will not have to avoid fire from the enemy chopper. Reach the next building entrance marked by the game, In this part of the hotel, you will not bump into any new enemies, fortunately.

Find Quinn

Start exploring the offices and find, among others, several computers with messages written down, as well as a new audiolog (Lucky Quinn 08). Walk into the big office on the left and locate the switch shown in the above screenshot, which has been hidden behind the big desk.

Thanks to hacking the abovementioned switch, you will load the view from the camera in the secret room, where Quinn is hiding. You can read one more message here. Finally, hack into the shutters, thanks to which Aiden will be able to have a conversation with Quinn.

Eliminate Quinn

Wait for the game to display a special piece information and use the Profiler (press the hacking key/button) on Quinn, thanks to which you will find out that he is using a pacemaker. You need to hold down the hacking key/button twice (right after you scan Quinn and towards the end of the conversation) to modify the functioning of the pacemaker. This will result in Quinn's death.

Download the video material

You need to hurry, because there will soon appear police forces here. Target the computer terminal and hold down the hacking key/button to download the video, which Quinn showed to Aiden before he died.

Escape the Merlaut hotel

Return to the main corridor and turn left. Go towards the door to the staircase and, after a while, reach a fragment of the rooftop. You only have one more police chase to deal with, here. It is not going to be an easy one, because it starts at level 4. The two recommended variants have been described below.

If you have Blackout available, I recommend that you use this gadget as soon as you approach the rooftop. This will not blind the enemies entirely, but will make it easier to lose the police. Find the elevator on the rooftop, but ignore it (it is inactive) and locate the spot in which you can jump down to a ledge below, safely.

After you make it over to the very bottom, head towards the bay to the South of the hotel and which has been shown in the above screenshot (it is a good idea to stick to the left wall of the building). Along your path, rely on sprint and keep a safe distance of the police officers. Try to steal one of the boats moored here, before the Blackout wears off. If you have performed all of the actions properly, the only thing that you now need to do is steer away from the hotel building and out of the search area.

If you do not have the Blackout available and you cannot craft this gadget, consider using a good rifle to shoot the policeman aboard the chopper. This will influence Aiden's notoriety a bit, but will make your escape easier, in turn. Head towards the elevator on the rooftop, jump inside and take it down (along the ride, it is a good idea to hide behind the metal covers of the elevator).

Quickly, check out the readings on the map and head towards the area that is not that well guarded by the police. Find a relatively good car parked in front of the hotel. Steal it and start a standard escape. As you drive, remember to hack often, in order to stop or destroy the police cars.

Regardless of your method, the mission ends at the moment at which you lose the police pursuit. Immediately, the last, eighth mission of this chapter will start.

Rewards for completing the mission: notoriety, 3000 experience points + experience points for losing the police pursuit.