The Black Dusk Legend Stealth guide is finally here.
I'd like to give a massive shoutout to Aidan9382 for recording all the footage for this video.
I'm going to start this off with a full run of what I consider to be the best method.
This method requires you to have the Prodigy, Firebug, and Precision Drilling perks.
If you don't have all of these perks, then stick to the end of the video and I'll cover
a few alternate methods.
The first thing you need to do is follow this red path into a room with a shooting range
and take the 480 MCS.
Now you just have to wait for the NPC from spawn to get here.
Take them out, get their disguise, and hide the body.
When you're in an open area, be careful not to make eye contact with anyone, or else they'll
detect you a lot faster.
You can hide the body you're carrying inside this chest.
Next, you need to go to the Workshop area to get a silent drill and a blowtorch.
There's a lot of NPCs and cameras in this area, so you may need to walk backward to
avoid eye contact and avoid sprinting when a lot of people can see you.
Notice how he avoids detection here by walking backward instead of forward.
Next, you have to go to the Operations area.
There are quite a few cameras along this path, so remember not to face any of them directly.
Go into this armory room, and take a suppressed UP9.
Next, you have to use your silent drill to drill this door.
If anyone comes in while you're drilling, then just take them out and carry their body,
which you can later drop in the operations server room.
You won't need your silent drill again, so you can just drop it here.
Next, you should drop your 480 MCS near the edge of the table and open the door.
You can peek a little bit, but remember that you're considered trespassing in this room.
The goal is to lure one of the elite operatives into the room using the 480 MCS, which allows
you to close the door and take them out without being seen.
If a second operative comes in, then take them out ASAP.
Next, you should hide the bodies and get an elite disguise, which allows you to use your
gun without getting the armed status.
Go into the other room and shoot all the remaining operatives.
This isn't a big deal since there isn't a no kills bonus for this mission.
Start the hack in this computer and grab the vault keycard.
If you have the Art of the Steal perk, then go ahead and grab a lockpick from the basement.
Otherwise, don't worry about it.
Next, you should go into the vent room, take your equipment bag, open the bomb crate, and
grab exactly 6 blocks of C4.
Go to the control center and disable the cameras.
This isn't necessary, but it definitely helps, especially toward the end of the mission.
If you're not a thief, then go back to the vent room and use your blowtorch on the metal
bars.
Otherwise, you can follow this path, which saves a bit of time.
Use your lockpick to open this door and go in.
This part is slow and boring, so I'm just gonna show a few memes.
And... we're back.
Use your blowtorch to open the vent into the server room.
Once you go in, hide behind the servers quickly so you don't get detected.
Plant the first bomb here.
Sometimes there will be a camera here.
If you haven't disabled the control center, then don't forget to loop the camera.
After you plant the second bomb, sprint until you're right behind this door, and then exit
quickly so the NPCs don't see you trespassing.
There are a lot of NPCs here, so, again, avoid making eye contact.
Now you can go back to the operations room, collect the intel from the hack, and plant
the explosives.
This is an example of a close call, which can happen in several places.
You can prevent this by taking it slow and avoiding sprinting, but if it happens, then
try to get behind cover until the suspicion meter disappears.
Next, you have to use the keypad to open the prototype vault.
You're considered suspicious when opening, so wait until you're out of sight before you
open.
Then, you can just plant the explosives inside the vault.
As you can see, the timer isn't really a big deal in this mission.
As long as you follow this guide, you should have at least a few minutes left over.
Anyway, it's time for the final step.
Grab the last 2 explosives, and head to the area between spawn and the control center.
The final explosives can be detected by NPCs and cameras, so you have to be careful.
If you're not a hacker, then you need to loop all the cameras nearby.
Before you plant this C4, check the surrounding area and make sure there aren't any NPCs in
sight.
Sprint to the other side as quickly as possible.
If there are any guards facing the C4 location, then wait for them to go away.
Plant the C4, and shoot the glass.
This moment is critical.
If there's a security guard here, then you have to shoot them right after you break the
glass.
This was a run where Aidan was spectating me while I showed him my preferred method,
but I totally forgot about the NPC at the bottom.
They saw me break the glass, and I ended up losing the no alarms bonus.
Anyway, after this step, just run to the elevator and that should be it.
This is an alternate method which doesn't require a silent drill.
You're considered trespassing in this room with a normal security disguise, so be careful
to stay out of sight.
You should always loop this camera.
Now, you just have to wait for an elite operative to arrive.
In this run, a normal base security came instead.
You should wait for them to go up the stairs and take them out just so the room remains
empty by the time an elite operative gets there.
You can safely hide the body in this spot.
Once an elite operative arrives, you should take them out, but don't let them get too
close to the window, or else someone could see the body from outside.
Hide the body here and take the elite disguise.
This will allow you to enter the operations room through the chip door, and you don't
even have to take anyone out to plant the explosives there.
It's recommended that you have a suppressed UP9 and an elite disguise for this step.
Find a tech nearby, get their suspicion meter to 2 bars, and hide behind the stairs before
they can get alerted.
Then, you want to lure them into the corner of the stairs.
Right as the suspicion meter is about to fill up, hostage them, and make them follow you
into the room.
Next, you should interrogate them.
If they dropped a keycard, then interrogation will give you the vault code and you can go
straight to the vault.
Otherwise, they'll tell you which techs do have a keycard, and you're going to have to
repeat this step.
If you select the Intel: Prototype Vault objective, then the techs with keycards should have markers.
Find one of them and lure them into the stairs using the same method.
Interrogate them, grab the vault keycard, and you should be good to go.
In order to identify the Lead Programmer, you have to check two different files.
These files are in random locations throughout the map, but they are limited to the Workshop
area, the Development area, and the room used in the previous step.
These are all the different locations, just for reference, but you don't need to memorize
all the locations.
Once you select Intel: Lead Programmer, there should be a marker over the lead programmer.
The Development area can be very crowded, so you have to wait until they get to an isolated
position.
This spot at the top is the overall the best.
Before you do anything, look around and make sure that there isn't anyone coming.
If there isn't, then knock out the programmer, bag their body, and take the keycard.
Remember that you do not need to interrogate them.
Once you hide the body, you can use the keycard to open the server room.
Overall, the Black Dusk is honestly not as hard as some people make it out to be.
The map is huge and there's a lot of steps, but once you get the hang of it, it's really
not that bad.
Anyway, I'll see you guys next time.