How to Do The Financier

In - Game Summary
We traced payments from Jackdaw's new operations back to one of his investors. He almost never leaves his New York penthouse, so that's where we're hitting him. The man's name is Ryan Ross He's rich, reclusive, paranoid; and for a good reason. Hacylcon is coming for you, Mr. Ross.

Things to Know Before Starting

 * 1) If you don't mind to kill, you can throw bags off the building by going to the helipad and throw a bag at the edge of it. Effective at hiding them... but you lose your no kills bonus.


 * 1) To get in, you have to disable power boxes, which is extremely time-consuming.
 * 2) You can only knock/kill a certain amount of guards before people get suspicious. After this quota is gotten, you have 30 seconds to complete the mission before you have to go loud. Dun dun dun!
 * 3) Ryan Ross has a built-in panic room. If he gets in there you will have to spend a long time breaking it open. More dun dun dun.
 * 4) All windows and doors are alarmed before you disable the power boxes.
 * 5) They WILL start searching for Ryan if you KO him. Another dun dun dun?! 30 seconds after he is dealt with, guards will search everywhere for him. If 1 minute passes after Ryan is missing, the alarm is sounded. Try to open the safe before you get Ryan.
 * 6) There is a significant reward for not killing Ryan.
 * 7) Many level 40+ mess this up, but exposed guns don't matter. Hostile zone and Armed are almost identical, and large Sawblades don't even ruin your disguise.

Tools

 * Lock picks
 * Any concealed and suppressed weapon (UP9 suggested
 * Optional: Micro cams (to watch stuff)

Process

 * 1) Optional: Take a disguise
 * 2) How to do it:
 * 3) Knock out a guard
 * 4) Take his clothes
 * 5) Bag and hide him
 * 6) Why do it: This will make your job significantly easier since you can actually get in without being detected.
 * 7) Optional: Loop the cameras. This requires the Interference perk. This is the only way since you can't take out a camera operator (there isn't one).
 * 8) How to do it:
 * 9) Find a camera. Be sure there aren't any other guards around
 * 10) Loop it.
 * 11) Why to do it: Some cameras will be watching power boxes. Don't want to get caught, do you?
 * 12) Find and disable the alarms. There should be power boxes for that. Rewire them all.
 * 13) Lock pick and enter the penthouse.
 * 14) Optional: Slap a tracker on Ryan. This saves the trouble of having to find him after you open the safe
 * 15) Optional: Identify the location of safe and its code. There are three ways to do this:
 * 16) Hack the laptop. Requires Prodigy perk
 * 17) Interrogate guards
 * 18) interrogate Ryan
 * 19) Remove the painting hiding the safe. If you have retrieved its code, you don't have to drill or crack the safe. Cracking needs the Art of Steal perk and drilling the safe will break stealth. Take the hard drive.
 * 20) Wait until you get Ryan somewhere away from guards. Knock him out, then bag him up. Or you could shoot him on the spot and do number 9, though you lose money for doing so.
 * 21) Get back to your spawn location.
 * 22) Run to the spawn location and don't look back.

Tools

 * A good weapon (F57,CH-A, etc
 * Optional: Another weapon (if you run out of ammo)
 * Optional: One of the following:
 * Key card scrambler
 * Blowtorch
 * Thumper (don't let Rose touch it)
 * Optional: Med packs (Stayin alive, stayin alive)
 * Optional: Grenades (Die SWAT)
 * Optional: C4 (to make things go boom including panic room door also don't let rose touch it)
 * Optional: Proximity Mines (to aid guarding the helicopter)

Process

 * Shoot open the door. Then get in.
 * Optional: If you happen to run into Ryan, complete your objective run then and there: knock him out. If not possible, you can kill
 * Open up the door. You can do this by:
 * Scramble the key card reader. There will be a time lock. Requires Prodigy perk.
 * Blowtorch the door. Requires the Firebug perk.
 * Shoot the door with the Thumper.
 * Drill the door.
 * BLOW IT UP WITH 3 C4 STICKS! DIE DIE DIE!!! -Rose (not actually)
 * Shoot him firm in the head or KO him (if you're into pascifisting, only thing extra is money.) Ryan Ross. Be careful of his Raven.
 * See "Stealth Process" step 5 - 6. After a while game will spot it for you.
 * Start up the helicopter. SWAT can stop it, so guard it. Wait for it.

Escape on the helicopter. Whee.


 * laugh at rose when you get back (cuz she was jealous that you got to steal a heli

Tips

 * Try throwing Ryan off the side of the building after body bagging him if you don't mind killing. There is something quite hilarious that Rose says afterward.
 * Hide bodies behind the helicopter or in the chests and cabinets inside. Spawn works too.
 * Find the hard drive before killing/knocking Ryan out.
 * On legend difficulty loud, shoot the windows to get in instead of shooting the door.
 * Slap a tracker on Ryan. This saves the trouble of having to find him after you open the safe