Merryweather Heist. Walkthrough of the game Grand Theft Auto V Cargo ship or sea adventure
The Merryweather robbery is the longest ongoing case. It consists of two main missions - "port reconnaissance" and "mini-submarine". So, in order.
A little background
The Merryweather Heist begins after completing the mission "Shame and Glory". Having solved all the psychological problems of Michael's daughter, Trevor goes to meet his old friend and, part-time, roommate, Wade. He has accumulated quite a lot of claims and complaints against our hero regarding his behavior. I wonder what else they expected from a man living in a trailer on the edge of the desert? Luckily, Trevor doesn't care at all about what others think, so he subtly hints to Wade about his sexual problems and changes the subject to something more interesting.
Wade's cousin, as it turns out, works at the seaport, where valuable cargo is likely to be found. After lengthy discussion, the team agrees to inspect the port and discovers a suspicious Merryweather Company vessel.
Pre-robbery reconnaissance
Once in place, Floyd and I will have to do some simple work so as not to arouse suspicion among the military. You need to move several containers using a cargo crane. At first it will be difficult to handle the controls, but later you will get used to it.
Then a break will be announced on the ship, during which Trevor will have to take several photographs for the future plan. There is also a specific algorithm for this task: first the stern of the ship, then its front part and the security system (alarm, security, etc.). There should be a total of three photos that we will send to Ron. After this, all that remains is to get to the Merryweather warehouse and pick up the suitcase with the loot.
Cargo ship
The point of this plan is to blow up the ship and steal the necessary thing. First, Franklin kills all the guards with a thermal imager. This part is more designed for stealth passage, so it’s worth attacking everyone separately. By the way, it would be nice to have a silencer with you so that no one raises the alarm ahead of time.
The next step should be the installation of bombs. Michael, who already has enough explosives with him, will help us with this. We install bombs on the bow and stern of the ship, and immediately switch control to Franklin so that he can cover his friend’s back. When you are spotted, a heavy firefight will begin and a helicopter will appear. Michael must have time to attach the last bomb and leave the ship.
Sea adventure
Briefly about the plan: the guys must swim up to the Merriweather ship in a submarine and steal the cargo unnoticed. To begin, Michael and Franklin deliver the mini-sub by helicopter. At this stage you need to be careful not to miss her on the road. It's better, of course, to go through flight school before this mission. With the help of a submarine and a special application, we find the desired device underwater and try to escape unnoticed from the guards.
Unfortunately, the guys will still have to shoot back during the retreat. It's better to use Franklin for this, because... he has a better understanding of weapons.
How to collect all rewards in the Merryweather Heist
If you chose the "Cargo Ship" option:
- Remove 12 guards;
- Required accuracy in handling small arms: 80%;
- Eliminate 12 people in stealth mode;
- Spend no more than 1 minute searching for the cargo.
If you chose the “Sea Adventure” option:
- Detect the cargo no later than 2 minutes;
- Kill all the guards on the ship;
- Escape the police within 4 minutes;
- Complete the heist in 14 and a half minutes.
Access to this task will become available after completing the By the Book task. To receive 100% for this mission, you must fulfill the following conditions:
Do not put a single scratch on the containers;
- take three photographs of the ship as indicated in the instructions;
- perform the entire operation without being noticed;
- complete the mission in 20 minutes
Watch the video, which will show that Floyd, who works at the port, does not get along with girls. After finishing watching, go there to understand the situation.
Drive through the gate and get out of the car. Look around and approach the foreman. He will give you a task to load containers. Complete it and receive another, but more responsible task - operating a cargo crane. Complete it, and then finish off the foreman. Try to choose a good angle to photograph the bow of the ship, the stern and the guards walking around there.
Then, in the GTA 5 walkthrough, run into the truck and move to the point marked on the map. There you will be met by guards. But Trevor will distract them by taking the briefcase and fleeing the crime scene. Start drawing up a robbery plan, which may have several options:
1) Cargo ship
Here Michael will need to plant bombs in the port, and Franklin will cover him, while Trevor will take the necessary thing.
2) Sea adventure
In this task, Trevor will have to climb out of a small boat, which Michael and Franklin will lift by helicopter. After Trevor finds what he wants, the chase of mercenaries on boats and helicopters will begin. If you want to choose this option, then first complete flight school while flying Michael. This is the only way he can improve his skills in flying a helicopter. It is worth noting that no matter which option you choose, in any case, the further passage of the GTA 5 game will begin with a mission called Minisub.
2. Minisub (Trevor)
In order to complete this task 100%, you must adhere to the following requirements:
Destroy all submarine cables from a distance;
- complete the mission in 8 minutes 30 seconds.
Completing this task in the GTA 5 game will become available after you complete the previous mission and decide on the robbery option. Now you need to direct your efforts to get on the ship and loosen the cables holding the submarine by using the control panel on them.
Of the obstacles, there will be only one guard, whom you can finish off or make sure that he does not notice you. When you see the cables, take out the sniper rifle and use it to loosen the fastenings. After you climb inside the lowered submarine, run to the helm and start moving towards the opposite part of the port.
Floyd is waiting there, who will take it out of the water using a crane and you can transport it to storage. At this point the task is considered completed.
Loud robbery
1. The Merryweather Heist - Freight (Michael, Trevor, Franklin)
You can complete this task by choosing one of two options: Cargo ship or Sea adventure
Cargo ship
To complete this mission 100% in GTA 5 you need to do the following:
Finish off 12 enemies with headshots;
- eliminate 12 mercenaries while in stealth mode;
- complete the mission with shooting accuracy of at least 80%;
- find the container with the device inside in 1 minute;
- sneak inside the ship unnoticed.
At the beginning of this task in GTA 5 you need to switch control to Franklin. Carefully move forward, simultaneously shooting the guards wandering around the ship. For these purposes, I advise you to use a thermal imager with a silencer.
Take down your opponents one at a time to avoid raising the alarm. As soon as he finishes everyone off, start controlling Michael, who needs to set up four bombs. It is worth noting that the first three are attached to the bow of the vessel and the mast. After all the bombs are in place, start controlling Franklin, who needs to cover Michael.
No matter how hard you try not to get involved in a firefight, you will still be discovered. On top of everything else, a helicopter will arrive. While Franklin makes sure that Michael is not killed, the latter needs to set the last charge, and then go to another part of the ship to jump into the water.
After Michael is safe in the passage of GTA 5, take out your phone and go to the “Contacts” menu, in which you should select the “Explosion” sub-item. After the explosion, start controlling Michael, who is underwater and swimming in scuba gear. Look at the sonar, where you can find a marker indicating the location of the cargo.
It is worth noting that the smaller the pulsating area on the radar, the closer you will get to the target. After you get the cargo, you need to switch to Trevor, who controls the submarine.
This robbery is entirely Trevor's initiative. The fact is that Wade's cousin Floyd works at the port. And just in this same port, the bad mercenaries from Merryweather have occupied an entire warehouse building and are heavily guarding something there. Trevor is an inquisitive person, especially when it could result in additional investments in Trevor Phillips Industries, so he decides to go there and find out everything.
Soon all of Trevor's guesses are confirmed. The mercenaries are holding some very valuable and top secret government cargo aboard one of the docked ships. Well, how could it not have occurred to him to steal this thing from the ship?
The plan is quite cunning, for Trevor, of course: the object must either be stolen during testing on the high seas, or swim up to the ship in a mini-submarine, blow up the bulkhead and steal the container with the goods. In both cases, the team will need the aforementioned mini-sub.
You can get this unit in the same port, just from another ship. It hangs on cables along the side of the ship, so it is not particularly difficult to steal it. There isn't even any standing security. If you chose the “noisy” option, then the preparatory missions are over for you, but if you decide to work quietly, you will also have to get the Cargobob military transport helicopter.
As you know, the initiator has the initiative, and the initiative has the initiator, so Trevor will have to hijack a helicopter from a military base alone. The required car is located at the well-guarded Zacundo military base.
When performing the “noisy” version of the passage, the team attacks a ship with goods under the cover of darkness, trying to remain unnoticed until the last moment, they plant bombs, blow up the ship, and Trevor takes the object in a submarine. Fast, bloody and effective.
Walkthrough of The Merryweather Heist
The next single-player heist in GTA 5 is organized by Trevor. Quite by accident, he learns that the cousin of his gang member Wade, Floyd, works in the port of Los Santos, and mercenaries from Merryweather have settled in this very port, of course, for a reason. Of course, this could not hide from Trevor and could not help but interest him, because the interests of Trevor Phillips Industries come first.Scouting the Port
Dressed as dock workers, Trevor, along with Wade and Floyd, goes to the port. Wade, immediately upon arrival, remains to carry out the important task of cleaning the clogged sewer, and Trevor and Floyd move on to find out what valuable things can be stolen from here.
In this mission you will have to faithfully play the role of a real port worker. To begin, get on the forklift and move two containers from one place to another. After this, climb onto the port crane, where you will have to load two more containers onto the truck. After this, you will finally be able to do the real thing, namely: photograph the cargo ship, carefully guarded by soldiers from Merryweather. When the photos are ready, send them to Tony. Then, go down, get into the truck and head to the Merryweather warehouse.
At the entrance you will be stopped by security guards, Trevor will have to act out a small scene, pretending that he does not know English. Floyd, to his misfortune, will intervene in the situation, and the mercenaries will enthusiastically begin to “knock the crap out of him.” At this moment, Trevor will grab the briefcase with invoices from the checkpoint booth. Feel free to leave Floyd to the mercy of fate - everything will be fine with him, get into the car and drive back.
Mini-submarine (Minisub)
The information obtained was enough to understand that it was not in vain that Merryweather was so concerned about safety. They definitely have something to profit from. But first you need to get the necessary “materials”, namely a mini-submarine located in the same port, only on a different ship.
Go to the port and follow the marker on the map. The submarine is suspended from a crane on the port side of the ship. There is almost no security - just one poor fellow, whom you will kill or stun on the way to the button that lowers the submarine into the water.
That is if you decide to board the ship. However, to receive the gold reward you cannot climb on board, so you need to shoot the fastenings holding the submarine in the air with a sniper rifle. In both cases, dive into the water, climb into the submarine and guide it to the place marked on the map. Floyd will be waiting for you there; he will lift the submarine with a crane and load it onto the truck platform. Get in it and carry the cargo to the marker on the map.
This robbery also has two options. More details on both below:
Cargobob
For this version of the passage, in addition to the mini-submarine, you will also need a Cargobob military cargo helicopter. You can get it at the Zacundo military base. You can enter it in many different ways, but be prepared for a warm welcome from an entire army of soldiers. Once you capture the helicopter, a military helicopter will give chase, just fly away from it at maximum speed, then deliver the Cargobob to the Sandy Shores airfield.
The team, represented by Trevor, Michael and Franklin, decides to steal the target during its sea trials. Michael and Franklin take seats in the helicopter while Trevor pilots the mini-sub. At the beginning of the mission, pick up the submersible with the helicopter's hook and transport it to the marker on the map, deep in the sea. Then throw him into the water and control will switch to Trevor. Using the echolocator on your phone, find a target deep at the bottom - a strange oblong container that looks suspiciously like a very powerful bomb. Attach it to the submersible and rise to the surface. Control will switch back to Michael. Hook up the submarine and fly with it towards Sandy Shores. At this moment, several Merryweather helicopters will appear, when control switches to Franklin, shoot them with a machine gun. After this, all that remains is to deliver the submarine with its cargo back to the Sandy Shores airfield.
This version of the passage will not require anything other than a mini-submarine. First, controlling Trevor, take Franklin to the sniper position, in the middle of the large bridge, near the port. Michael will climb onto the ship from the boat. Control will switch between them: Franklin will need to destroy Merriuser soldiers and cover Michael while he plants bombs on the ship. After all the bombs are set, Michael jumps off the ship and Franklin detonates the explosives using his phone. What follows is an epic scene of the destruction of a cargo ship, after which control will switch back to Michael. Swim using the sonar until you find your target. At this point, control will switch to Trevor, who controls the mini-sub. Pick up the container and swim to the marker on the map.
Awards
Gold Awards
If you want to complete GTA 5 100%, then you will, one way or another, have to get all the gold rewards for each mission in the game.Mini-submarine (Minisub)
- Capture a submarine without boarding the ship.
Cargobob
- Complete the mission in less than 5 minutes 30 seconds.
The Merryweather Heist – Freighter
- Kill 12 enemies with headshots.
- Finish the mission with 80% shooting accuracy.
- Stealth kill 12 enemies.
- Find a container underwater in less than 60 seconds.
- Get to the interior of a cargo ship without attracting attention.
The Merryweather Heist – Off-Shore
- Destroy all pursuers from Merryweather.
- Find a container in less than 2 minutes.
- Complete a mission in under 14 minutes 30 seconds.
- Get rid of persecution in less than 4 minutes.
Production
In the end, Trevor and the whole team are in for a not-so-pleasant surprise from Lester: it turns out that stealing a top-secret government experimental bomb is a very stupid idea. And selling it to the Chinese is real suicide. Alas, this time the team is left without any loot.Unlockable Content
Completing this mission opens access to the following tasks of the story campaign.The mission will fail if:
- Some of the players will be killed or arrested.