GTA:O Breakdown- San Andreas Mercenaries

[CaliMeatWagon]

The San Andreas Mercenaries update adds in some new money making activities.

So, let's figure out all of the new payouts and how the new money making activities work. 

Same questions as before, what are the requirements, what are the activities, what are the pays. 

 

• Charlie will call to start the "Los Santos Angels"
  • The Operations Terminal needs to be purchased for the Avenger from Warstock ($1,450,000)
  • The Operations Terminal can launch:
    • Project Overthrow (6 main story missions)
      • Played in a mission lobby
      • 1-4 players
      • Can be played Easy (100% pay), Normal (125% pay), Hard (150% pay)
        • Reporting for Duty- Investigate Merryweather's activities at Davis Quartz (~$24,000 Hard)
        • Falling In- Beat Merryweather to the punch and salvage the spoils of war (~$24,000 Hard)
        • On Parade- Perform Flight Tests on the latest generation of fighter jets (~$24,000 Hard)
        • Breaking Ranks- Intercept Merryweather's relocation of valuable tech (~$24,000 Hard)
        • Unconventional Warfare- Rescue a hostage from Merryweather's clutches (~$24,000 Hard) 
        • Shock & Awe-- End Merryweather's stranglehold on San Andreas (~$24,000 Hard) 
    • LSA Operations (extra side missions)
      • Direct Action- Conduct a raid on Merryweather's maritime operations
        • Professional- $46,000-$54,000
        • Specialist- $60,500-$70,000
        • Bonus Objective: +$ - Placing trackers on Merryweather shipping crates aboard the carrier
      • Surgical Strike- Track down and destroy key Merryweather field base.
        • Professional-$47,500-$54,500
        • Specialist- $60,500-$69,500 
        • Bonus Objective: +$15,000 - Steal Merryweather Outfit
      • Whistleblower- Expose Merryweather's off-the-books government contracts
        • Professional- $45,500-$52,000
        • Specialist- $61,000-$69,500
        • Bonus Objective: +$15,000 - Plant virus on IAA mainframe

 

• Ron will call to start "Free Trade" from the Hanger
  • Rooster will now hangout in your Hanger and source Hanger crates for you, like Lupe does.
  • Costs $25,000 per run. 
  • 1-2 random crates of any type available to the Hanger
    • 25% chance for 2 crates
  • 48 minute cooldown/delivery time

 

• Call Ron to start Air-Freight Cargo, land based Hanger crate missions. 
  • 1-4 crates, 1 per player in mission. 

 

• From the Hanger computer the option to source and sell by land is available. Click on the appropriate action for the option to do so.

 

• Acid Product can have its name changed, effecting it's sell price. 
  • Costs $5,000 to change name
  • Names:
    • Acid, 0% increase, Stock Name
    • Stank Breath,  5% increase, 10 Resupply Missions
    • Squatch Bait,  % increase, 10 Sell Missions
    • Chair Shot,  % increase, 5 Production Speed Boosts
    • TroupeThink,  5% increase,
    • Big Zankudos,  5% increase,
    • Foolz Gold,  5% increase,
    • Mutt's Nutz,  5% increase,
    • Fck Your Sleep,  % increase, Sell $1,000,000
    • BaZonkaZonk,  % increase, Complete all challenges

 

For reference, here are some of the other breakdowns you Peoples have helped me create:

 

Edited June 25, 2023 by CaliMeatWagon

[CaliMeatWagon]

Update is 12GB on Xbox.

[Spider-Vice]

Sorry, just saw this, pinned as usual.  

[mr_j]

You can ask Rooster in Hangar to source air cargo for 25k.

[CaliMeatWagon]

27 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Sorry, just saw this, pinned as usual.  

 

Thank you, and no worries. 

I'll finish working on this later this afternoon when I get off work. 

[CaliMeatWagon]

19 minutes ago, mr_j said:

You can ask Rooster in Hangar to source air cargo for 25k.

 

Question now is, how many crates does he get, and how long does it take him. 

[Jammsbro]

25k for a crate? Warehouse is 7500!

[mr_j]

2 hours ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

 

Question now is, how many crates does he get, and how long does it take him. 

Tried to count the time, left the game for a few minutes for IRL stuff and got kicked for inactivity. Rooster was back in hangar with 0 more crates. Buyer beware.

 

1 hour ago, Jammsbro said:

25k for a crate? Warehouse is 7500!

Don't we sell more per crate from the hangar (and depending on the cargo type)?

 

Ron called, mentioned the freaks and some land based operations. From the patch notes, it seems we can do source/sell land based missions

https://support.rockstargames.com/articles/17500669660563/GTAV-Title-Update-1-67-Notes-PS5-PS4-Xbox-Series-X-S-Xbox-One-PC

[mr_j]

3 hours ago, CaliMeatWagon said:

 

Question now is, how many crates does he get, and how long does it take him. 

It seems the cooldown is around ~48min, similar to Lupe. Got 1 crate per source so far.

[mr_j]

Project Overthrow has a first time bonus of 250k, upon completion.

 

LS Operation Mission "Direct Action" paid 47k + optional bonus 15k for marking some crates. And you can also unlock the infiltration suit.

[mr_j]

1 hour ago, mr_j said:

Project Overthrow has a first time bonus of 250k, upon completion.

 

LS Operation Mission "Direct Action" paid 47k + optional bonus 15k for marking some crates. And you can also unlock the infiltration suit.

The prices for operations can vary, Direct Action showing 54k.

[meterano7]

you unlock 1 outfit per LSA mission upon completing them for the first time. I dont know if these unlocks are tied to the optional stuff in the missions

[mr_j]

Surgical Strike has an interesting bonus, and you can unlock the Merryweather outfit.

[mr_j]

Whistleblower, unlocked the shade outfit.

All operations have some extra activity for a bonus, which are either lore filler or easter egg (depends how you look at it).

[mr_j]

1 hour ago, meterano7 said:

you unlock 1 outfit per LSA mission upon completing them for the first time. I dont know if these unlocks are tied to the optional stuff in the missions

The Merryweather outfit could be optional since you have to enter the nightshark from the other minibase to equip it (the other 2 outfits are mostly forced by the mission).

 

Just like the dock worker and the lost mc during some Autoshop contracts, which you have the option to use as disguise (and later are unlocked as well).

[Tex2]

Rooster takes 48 minutes to deliver Hangar Cargo. It's much like Lupe's crew. You can exit the game and come back to receive Rooster's message afterwards.

[CaliMeatWagon]

1 hour ago, Tez2 said:

Rooster takes 48 minutes to deliver Hangar Cargo. It's much like Lupe's crew. You can exit the game and come back to receive Rooster's message afterwards.

 

Thank you. Do you know if the amounts are random, and if so, what the range is? 

[EkaSwede]

2 out of 3 of the unlocked outfits are from the Casino Heist. So if you areday bought those outfits you're really getting nothing.

[ST0b]

Hey @WildBrick142, were you able to get data for the new cars, I mean the weekly vehicle data but for the news cars?

[UTKR]

15 hours ago, mr_j said:

Whistleblower, unlocked the shade outfit.

All operations have some extra activity for a bonus, which are either lore filler or easter egg (depends how you look at it).

I played that mission and got notification abiut unlocking the shade outfit but can't find it anywhere. The other 2 missions gave outfits which show up in Outfits->Special

[EkaSwede]

33 minutes ago, UTKR said:

I played that mission and got notification abiut unlocking the shade outfit but can't find it anywhere. The other 2 missions gave outfits which show up in Outfits->Special

Shade Outfit is in Diamond Casino Heist outfits or something like that. Infiltration or something.

 

Another question. Roosters crate source, are they random types of crates? If so, then it's kinda counter productive as you get bonuses for crates of same type.

[mr_j]

1 hour ago, EkaSwede said:

Another question. Roosters crate source, are they random types of crates? If so, then it's kinda counter productive as you get bonuses for crates of same type.

At least you can accrue the crates without the risk of being raided. And  you can sell as many as you gathered and feel comfortable. Would have been a bit easy to gather per type via Rooster.

 

I haven't done yet the source/sell by land, I wonder how many crates we can carry in one go.

[Crateman]

1 hour ago, mr_j said:

 

 

I haven't done yet the source/sell by land, I wonder how many crates we can carry in one go.

Sadly still 1 crate, i did a land source mission...You get a truck with a full trailer but still 1 crate, the mission was Nice but 1 crate still Bad for solo players.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Crateman

[Spider-Vice]

1 hour ago, Crateman said:

Sadly still 1 crate, i did a land source mission...You get a truck with a full trailer but still 1 crate, the mission was Nice but 1 crate still Bad for solo players.

Yeah I'm assuming it works just like the regular air cargo missions, it scales with the amount of players.  4 players gets 4 crates, etc.

[mr_j]

Tried some hangar land source missions. So far got 3 variations:

- steal a trailer from an exchange;

- steal from a barge;

- steal from some gang.

 

Some have variations.

 

The missions provide you with a vehicle at the entrance, so you have some wheels to go from your Hangar, in case you don't have a PV nearby ( since there is some distance to the "nearest" available road).

Some provided vehicles are from the new content (Monstrociti, Walter 35).

Quite a nice touch, some recent updates have a similar feature (Glendale for Freakshop, Greenwood for ULP, Agency SUV for Dre Contract).

 

For the first mission type you can use a personal truck to go and steal the trailer, but be aware there is a bug with MOC/Bunker. Some people have their MOC reset, in this case leaving a car in the bunker has a risk of making it disappear completely. Related thread in the support section.

[CaliMeatWagon]

Sorry for being a bit slow on this. I don't stream full time anymore so I only get time before and after work. I'll be working on this some more today. 

And thank you everybody who's helped so far, and may do so in the future. 

[Lonely-Martin]

9 hours ago, Crateman said:

Sadly still 1 crate, i did a land source mission...You get a truck with a full trailer but still 1 crate, the mission was Nice but 1 crate still Bad for solo players.

 

It's an aspect of the DLC I'm really pleased to see to be fair though.

 

I've full respect for.the Helisexuals and other aircraft fans, but I'm just a lover of the drive out there. Anything I can do in a car, I will. Of course there's much I need a bird for, but I do those bits here and there with the focus always on a good cruise in one of my many babies. 

 

So for me, I love that I can now do this business as it is my only one I'm far from in profit on, which really itches my brain, lol (not as much as the arena rep, but that's another topic altogether). I do agree 1 at a time solo is long mind you, but I'm sure I can hook my lad in to help (he'll try to object but I'll remind him who made him GTA-rich ).

 

So at least this is one arrea of the game I haven't done so when it comes to these new pause menu career bits, I'm not doing things I once did. It's just like I need for the arena as we've mentioned, just a soloable time trial or two in there and I can plod away to my hearts content in my own time if I fancy trying for the top tier rewards etc. 

 

Freedom and choice, that's all I ask. This change and the ability to run businesses in invite, and many small additions over the years like tuning/delivering cars for the auto shop, payphone hits, etc. These all make it the GTA:O I argued with some strongly (too strongly admittedly) for those changes in freedom and choice. So I do have hope R* can address the arena one day.

 

Just a shame there's other big negatives with this update otherwise it'd be another good one for the freedom/choices aspects.

[Mr 80s]

4 hours ago, mr_j said:

Tried some hangar land source missions. So far got 3 variations:

- steal a trailer from an exchange;

- steal from a barge;

- steal from some gang.

 

Some have variations.

 

The missions provide you with a vehicle at the entrance, so you have some wheels to go from your Hangar, in case you don't have a PV nearby ( since there is some distance to the "nearest" available road).

Some provided vehicles are from the new content (Monstrociti, Walter 35).

Quite a nice touch, some recent updates have a similar feature (Glendale for Freakshop, Greenwood for ULP, Agency SUV for Dre Contract).

 

For the first mission type you can use a personal truck to go and steal the trailer, but be aware there is a bug with MOC/Bunker. Some people have their MOC reset, in this case leaving a car in the bunker has a risk of making it disappear completely. Related thread in the support section.

How do you do these new hangar land source missions? I'm unable to find them anywhere in my hangar or on my office computer in the hangar. I do have all the upgrades in my hangar. I don't know if that matters or not? I thought Ron called me when I 1st logged on yesterday after the update telling me they were on my computer in the hangar. I just don't see them anywhere. 

10 hours ago, Crateman said:

Sadly still 1 crate, i did a land source mission...You get a truck with a full trailer but still 1 crate, the mission was Nice but 1 crate still Bad for solo players.

And they still only sell for 30K each. So only making a 5k profit on them. Kind of a waste IMHO. 

[Jounar]

47 minutes ago, Night Machine said:

How do you do these new hangar land source missions? I'm unable to find them anywhere in my hangar or on my office computer in the hangar. I do have all the upgrades in my hangar. I don't know if that matters or not? I thought Ron called me when I 1st logged on yesterday after the update telling me they were on my computer in the hangar. I just don't see them anywhere. 

And they still only sell for 30K each. So only making a 5k profit on them. Kind of a waste IMHO. 

The computer in the hangars office, gives you a land or air option on both the source and sell pages. 

[Mr 80s]

6 minutes ago, Jounar said:

The computer in the hangars office, gives you a land or air option on both the source and sell pages. 

I didn't notice that on there but I will look again tomorrow. Is it after you choose something to source or sell when you get the option to pick land or air? I didn't pick anything to source or sell yet, just went n there to look at the changes and didn't notice anything new. 

Edited June 15, 2023 by Night Machine