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GTA Master

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The Big Score

Sidetracked

Protagonist
Any available character
Location
Triggered by the Obvious approach
Gold objectives
2

Requires Planning the Big Score (Obvious)

Gold medal objectives

Use a Skylift helicopter to steal the train cars you need for the Obvious approach.

Objectives

  1. Knock out the guards at the railroad.
  2. Switch the train tracks.
  3. Wait for the train.
  4. Steal the freight engine.
  5. Take the freight engine to Trevor’s airfield.
  6. Put the freight engine in the back of the truck.
  7. Steal a flatbed carriage.
  8. Take the flatbed carriage to Trevor’s airfield.
  9. Put the flatbed carriage in the back of the truck.

Mission walkthrough

Diverting the train

Go to Davis Quartz. Knock out the two guards in stealth, or shoot them with a silenced weapon, then walk to the cabin and switch the tracks. Wait for the train to arrive.

A man in a maroon shirt walks along a rail platform toward a signal box past a pallet jack.
Trevor at the signal box control panel, with a subtitle saying the guards are done and the track is about to be flipped.
Trevor at the signal box levers, with a subtitle saying the track has been flipped.

The Skylift

Whoever is on the ground then calls Trevor. Switch to him in the Skylift. Fly directly above the freight engine, in line with it, and press the magnet button when you’re close. Fly it to the Sandy Shores Airfield and lower it on to the truck. Go back for a flatbed carriage and do the same. Try not to fly too far from the area.

A Skylift hovers over a freight engine in the quarry, with the prompt to activate the electromagnet on screen.
The Skylift carries the freight engine over a desert road, with the prompt to deactivate the electromagnet on screen.
A Skylift flies low over a foggy desert with a load hanging beneath it.
The Skylift hovers above a road with a truck below, with the prompt to deactivate the electromagnet on screen.

What fails this mission

Besides dying or being arrested, the mission ends if any of these happen:

  • The cops were alerted.
  • Lose the train.
  • Skylift is destroyed.
  • The truck was destroyed.
  • Exceed mission vicinity.
  • One of the crew was killed.

Gold Medal requirements

Use a suppressed or melee approach so no one raises the alarm. Use a sniper rifle on the guards and a vehicle to cross the quarry quickly. Fly low with the Skylift to stay inside 04:30.

A guard lies on the platform beside the rail tracks.
The Skylift flies over a desert highway in fog.

Part of Heist setupThe Big Score in the story walkthrough.