At gunpoint

**After the mission:**
.408 Chey Tac x20

After showing the completed Gauss pistol to Akill, he has some bad news for you. Phantom, the surviving member of his squad, has been taken captive by the Blackwater mercenaries. They're demanding a meeting at the Jupiter plant, but Akill wants you to make some preparations so he can back you up at the site:

1. Obtain night vision devices from cloaked Monolith stationed around Eastern Pripyat after midnight.
2. Grab a night vision attachment for a rifle scope from the sniper nest in the 9-floor apartment with vines.
3. His VSSK "Backwoods" needs to be sighted in with 20 kills on human targets at over 100m.

## Walkthrough

### Adjusting the rifle scope

Sighting in Akill's rifle is relatively straightforward. The sights will be noticeably off and the bullet will come out slightly up and right from where you are aiming, with the amount of error depending on magnification used.

The rifle is powerful enough to one-shot most targets to the body so it'll be easy to take out entire camps of zombified stalkers, Monolithians, or mercenaries regardless.

### Night vision devices

It is highly recommended to clear out all camps at the "Yubileyniy", the school, the KBO service center, and the cinema before night falls.

When midnight hits, you'll get a PDA notification after approaching the northern part of town, and four invisible Monolithians will spawn in each of the four locations listed above. The enemies are fully cloaked Monolith elites, only their gun are visible. Each of them is carrying a Standard NVD, which you should loot for the quest.

Additionally, there will be three turrets in this mission.

1. On top of the KBO service center (will likely fall to the ground)
2. On the cinema roof, on a corner
3. On the cinema roof, on a corner

### Night vision attachment

The night vision attachment can be found on the top floor of the 9-story apartment building north to the Vine anomaly. You have to climb the northern branch of the vine to the top; look for the sniper nest, rifle and some ammo near it.

Interact with the rifle to get the attachment (it's quirky, you can only do it at a very specific spot from the front). Interact again to get it.

### Back to the laundry

Bring everything you've found to Akill and he'll send you into the next step in Deal with mercenaries.

## Notes

* You can pick up additional .338 FMJ for Akill's rifle from Dimak, at 6000 RU per 10 shots.
* Looting the invisible bodies can be tricky, but the quest only requires 15 NVDs. Missing one body is allowed.
* After you have cleaned up all above mentioned locations you should leave East Pripyat and come back, to clean up all dead corpses on the minimap.
* You can shoot the floor to see if an invisible Monolith trooper is available, as they spill blood if you shoot their body.
* Technically, you can obtain 15 NVDs on your own.
* You can use the rangefinder (i.e., numbers under the sight) in the settings to see if you are 100m+ away from your target.
	+ However, this only works if you do not have a weapon.

## Bugs

* The invisible Monolith troopers tend to get bugged out on targeting things outside of their range very often. If this happens, they'll be stuck in one spot aiming at nothing in particular, making finding them annoying. You can save/load to reset them.