Assault on Precinct 31

"Assault on Precinct 31" is the tenth and penultimate mission of the Sons of Samedi story arc in Saints Row 2.
==Overview==
Playa and Shaundi discuss their plans on how to get to The General and finish off the Sons of Samedi. Shaundi recommends they tap into the traffic cameras at the Police Headquarters to find The General's Hounfor. Playa is again resistant to bring Shaundi along with them, but admits they do not know how to hack the cameras there, so Shaundi comes along.
After donning the disguise of repairmen, the two succeed in hacking the monitoring system, but must fight their way out of the station and back to the Saints Hideout. Once there, Playa has the 3rd Street Saints set up the camera system and tells their gang they want someone watching it until The General is located.
===Story===
==Gameplay==
In one of the hardest missions in the game, "Assault on Precinct 31" begins fairly easy.
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There is a three minute timer to get to Saint's Row and locate the NRG V8 repair van.
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There are three ways to hijack the repair van: killing the driver, causing enough damage that the driver flees, or simply entering it.
It is possible to skip this objective by shooting the van from a distance, immediately activating the next objective.
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If the van gets too far away, there is a 30 second timer to catch up.
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Drive to the Police Station.
;Checkpoint
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During this objective there is a hint to not show weapons in the Police Station, and the equipped weapon automatically changes to fists.
The objective is completed by entering the marker, not by entering the Police Station.
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This objective only appears if Notoriety is gained before completing the Enter the Police Station objective. The GPS shows the destination
If this objective is triggered, Notoriety is increased to level 4, and the next two objectives are skipped.
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There is a marker in front of the front desk that triggers a short cutscene.
This objective is completed either by entering the marker, entering any other door, drawing a weapon, or acquiring Notoriety.
Completing this objective by any means other than entering the marker triggers level 4 Notoriety.
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Idling at the front desk for too long causes the police to become hostile, triggering level 4 Notoriety.
After entering the marker in the doorway of the camera room, Shaundi begins hacking into the surveillance system. If the camera room is entered via a window, Shaundi isn't triggered.
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After a few seconds, level 4 Notoriety is added if it wasn't already.
Shaundi must be defended against a few waves of police officers. Unfortunately, Shaundi takes a long time to hack into the system, and there is not a constant stream of police, so there is a lot of waiting. A SWAT unit arrives on the heliport after a while and attack from behind if the roof door is open; they are just as easily killed, however.
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Shaundi mentions that there is a helicopter on the roof, but it is not a mission requirement to use it.
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After exiting the police station, the real challenge of this mission begins: reaching the Saints Hideout with four units of police Notoriety and a Tornado chasing closely behind.
The final checkpoint in the mission is just before Shaundi began the hack - there is no checkpoint when she finishes. Shaundi recommends taking the helicopter: doing it is difficult in the patched version of the game, as Tornados fire rockets, and the Oppressor is very weak to rockets and has no way of defending itself; if and when the Tornado fires a rocket, it can destroy the Oppressor very quickly.
Destroying the Tornado before getting into the Oppressor is a risky strategy. It takes a lot of damage, and another Tornado eventually spawns, so it is important to reach the Saints Hideout quickly after the Tornado has been destroyed. A McManus 2015 can shoot off the Tornado's rocket launchers to prevent them being used.
Another strategy is to ignore Shaundi and pay attention to the marker on the map instead. Go downstairs and exit the building, and grab a FBI or Bear instead. Quickly follow the GPS route towards the Saints Hideout but, on the way, be sure to use the Forgive and Forget confessional located on the left of the road. With luck and patience, this mission may prove no harder than any other.
;Success
The mission is successfully completed by landing on the Saints Hideout helipad, or entering the marker outside the Saints Hideout.
To begin the final mission of the Sons of Samedi story arc, "The Shopping Maul", all four Sons of Samedi Strongholds must be completed: "Elysian Fields Trailer Park", "Bavogian Plaza Drug Labs", "Stilwater University Student Union", and "Sunnyvale Gardens Fishing Dock".
;Failure
This mission can be failed by killing Shaundi, abandoned Shaundi, losing the van, or destroying the van.
==Rewards==
==Trivia==
* The name of this mission is both a reference to the 1976 movie and the "31 Theory" Easter Egg.
* Only Playa and Shaundi wear the repairman disguise; other Homies brought along for this mission wear their usual attire.
* The repairman uniforms Playa and Shaundi wear are purple, the color that represents the Row, even while undercover.
* Checking the wiretaps on the third floor during "Assault on Precinct 31", gives four units of Notoriety, but the police do not pursue Shaundi.
* It is possible to keep both the NRG V8 Repair van and Repair outfit, either the first time through the mission, or during a replay.
** To keep the Repair outfit, use the countdown method to exit the mission without a fail screen, then save reload before saving the outfit in the Wardrobe. This is the same method used to keep the Fuzz and Crowd Control outfits.
** To keep the Repair van, be inside the vehicle when using any glitch to exit the replay.
* This mission is one of three gang-arc missions in Saints Row 2 which do not unlock a neighborhood. The others are "Veteran Child" and "Waste Not Want Not". This may be due to this mission taking place in Ultor territory.
* The headline "Chief Bradshaw learns the meaning of 'irony'" is a reference to how he, as an undercover cop, infiltrated the Saints, and now, ironically, the Saints have infiltrated a police station.
* Four SWAT team members appear at the helipad since the start of the mission and can be killed before or after hijacking a repair van.
* The repair van cannot be hijacked if it hasn't been damaged.
* The van's driver doesn't react if Playa fires a weapon.
* This is the only time police uses the VICE 9.
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