The Cargo Ship Robbery: Planning Work Missions Guide

When you get inside, you first need to make your way to the computer at the far end of the office and hack it.

After accessing the computer, click 'My Computer' and 'External Device (J:).'

You will get a mini-game where you must freeze each column when the highlighted letter is within the horizontal blue strip.

Once you've completed the hack, it will wipe all digital records of the La'oub Princess, the cargo ship you will rob.

Next, you need to plant three explosives on the marked areas inside the office.

Finally, you need to go to the metal shelf to look for the Coast Guard outfit. You're looking for a yellow duffle bag. It will be highlighted for you once you get close enough.

Once you've acquired the Coast Guard outfit, exit the LSPA office. Get inside your vehicle and get to a safe distance.

After blowing up the explosives, deliver the outfits to the Salvage Yard to complete this mission.

Planning Work 2: Skylift

This planning work can get a bit difficult, especially if you're not prepared enough.

First, you need to go to a marked location to steal a Skylift. The location you get is completely random. So far, we've gotten Sandy Shores Airfield and Fort Zancudo.

In this guide, we got Sandy Shores Airfield. However, regardless of the location, the mission structure is exactly the same for both (or all) locations.

When you get to the location, take cover by any nearby options (sand-filled boxes or containers) and take out as many soldiers as possible.

Once you've eliminated enough soldiers, enemy attack choppers will spawn.

You must take out the choppers before you can steal the Skylift. You will get 2-3 enemy choppers. For some reason, we only got one in this playthrough.

We're assuming that is because we started firing at the chopper from a fair distance as soon as the first one spawned.

After eliminating the enemy choppers, get into the Skylift and lose the cops.

After losing the cops, deliver the Skylift to the marked location.

Planning Work 3: Disrupt Air Support (Optional)

This is an optional mission, but we highly recommend doing this as it will reduce enemy air support during the robbery.

It will also make it easier for you to get the bonus challenge that requires the Skylift's health to be above 80%. If there is a lack of enemy air support, the Skylift won't receive a lot of damage.

Just like any other disruption mission, this one is also timed. So, we recommend either using an Oppressor Mark II or a Buzzard for this mission. You will have 10 minutes to complete it.

You will be directed to go to the pilot's house. He will also have his own chopper parked outside of his house. Feel free to destroy it for fun.

Head inside the pilot's house and eliminate him.

After that, interact with his computer to locate the other air supports.

Once located, you must fly to three different locations and destroy the enemy Mavericks.

After you've destroyed the third one, your disruption mission will be complete.

With all planning work complete, you are now fully prepared for The Cargo Ship Robbery finale.