GTA Online Write-Off Mission Walkthrough

Dax wants to hurt a pharmaceutical firm’s private security contractor. You hunt down three Merryweather convoys, then raid their depot and destroy everything marked as a target before the reinforcements wear you down.

Before you start

Take an aircraft. Dax points out an armed helicopter early on, and the convoys are spread across the map.

Bring a sniper rifle and explosive weapons. Grenade launchers and rocket launchers speed up the depot targets.

Armor and a full set of ammo help a lot during the reinforcement waves.

With a team, one of you can chase the convoys while the others head to the depot.

Objectives

Destroy the Merryweather transport.
Go to the Merryweather depot.
Eliminate the Merryweather operation.
Escape the reinforcements.

Write-Off walkthrough

Hunt the convoys

Five Merryweather targets show on your map and most of them keep moving, so you only need to destroy three. Dax texts that he has found an armed aircraft nearby, and it is by far the quickest way to cover the distance between them. Fly toward the nearest marker, line up on the vehicle and use the aircraft’s guns or missiles. A message appears each time a transport is destroyed.

Flying the armed helicopter over hills toward a convoy marker

Following a coastal road in the helicopter while chasing a target

Fly to the depot

After the third transport goes down, Dax marks the depot. Its position depends on where the convoys were, so you can head straight there if you worked it out earlier. Do not fly in. The depot has air defenses that shoot down any aircraft inside the area, so land well outside and walk in. Park beside the approach road and continue on foot.

Flying the helicopter toward the coast and the depot

Stepping out of the helicopter near a pier and crane

Destroy the depot targets

There are 13 targets of interest in the depot, including vehicles, generators and supplies, and the counter on screen shows how many remain. Use cover from containers and sheds, and explosive barrels and tanks nearby to take out groups at once. Once three are gone, Dax warns of reinforcements, and a 30 second countdown starts. If you finish the targets before it ends, nothing arrives.

Aiming a launcher at a target across the depot yard

Taking cover behind a shipping container as reinforcements are announced

Firing a rifle at an armored vehicle inside the warehouse

Shooting at enemy vehicles from behind a green container

Disable the air defenses and finish

Some targets are the anti-air defenses, and disabling them is marked by a message on screen. Keep moving between sheds, because the reinforcement vehicles drive in and hunt for you. Use your launcher on the heavier vehicles and your rifle on soldiers on foot. When the last target blows, the objective changes to Escape the reinforcements.

Running past burning wreckage between buildings in the depot

Aiming a weapon out of a warehouse bay at the last targets

Escape the reinforcements

Either destroy all three waves or survive until the five minutes run out. A tank car beside the tracks is a good spot to fight from, and the pier gives you open lines of sight along the docks. Heading away from the depot on foot and into an aircraft works too, as long as you leave the defended area on the ground first.