Welcome to the Full Picture Missions, the road map to getting the new ending, the "Complete Ending". This is where a lot of backstory is given to support characters, certain locations and events.

Playing these missions along with the Strike Force Missions will also give you special rewards and the option to change most of the original 1980s weapons into 2025 Variants of them. Which do not change the original stats but give the old weapon models newer ones and/or just slight enhancements which allow access to the 2025 attachments.

Examples:

Colt M16A1 or Colt M16A5

AKS-74U or PP-19 Vityaz

M1911 or Springfield 1911 - Reflex Sight, Laser Sight, Tactical Knife

SPAS-12 or SPAS-12 - Millimeter Scanner, Laser Sight, Long Barrel

M60 or M60E6

Dragunov or Dragunov - Dual Band, Ballistics CPU, Laser Sight

Skipping the Full Picture Missions and/or failing certain objectives will result in the loss of information and importance to characters, and the incomplete collection of the special rewards and 2025 Variants until you restart the game the complete them. And will result in simply taking the route to the original four endings (Bad, Alternate, Canon, Good), depending on the player's actions.

If players choose to pursue this special conclusion, then this is the first mission.

Hostile Competition [2025]

Mission Details:

Rogue Russian GRU Agent Lieutenant Colonel Maxim Novikov joins forces with the Worldwide Civil Order Private Military Contractors to take out a corporate rival and long-time personal enemy for his cause and the company's best paying customer.

09:01:19, after getting all the needed information in the meantime, Trident Team leaves The Vault and returns to base to receive their combat tour's mission and get shipped off to the USS Barack Obama, a Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier which has become a mobile command and control center for U.S. Navy and Marine special operations at sea. Seeing the F.B.I. leave as well, Crosby asks Section a harmless question.

Crosby: Section, sir, have you advised the F.B.I. in providing covert surveillance for Woods?

Section: No. Why should I?

Crosby: Well, because he's a POI (Person of Interest) with links and intel toward Menendez. You think we should give him additional security before Menendez or his followers show up to shut him up?

Section: No. Just leave it at that.

Crosby: But, sir—

Harper: Crosby, that's enough.

Crosby: Roger, LT. *quietly* For now.

Section: Besides, nothing chaotic really happens with him. When was the last time Cordis Die went active?

King: Nine days ago.

Section: What?

Shade: You did— Oh, right. You weren't there for the debrief. Well, since we got time, let us share what we got from following them.

April 10th, 2025 - 04:00:05, in the Menendez Hacienda sitting on the outskirts of Managua, Nicaragua, Novikov and his handler meet up with Raul Menendez before getting to work. As the Latino terrorist hires the highly trained, heavily armed Worldwide Civil Order Private Military Contractors, a mercenary corporation consisting of former members of outlawed, dissolved Cuban militias and former South African police and military.

Novikov: (Russian) It's been a long time coming. How do you feel, ma'am?

Mother Wolf: (Russian) I'm good, Lieutenant Colonel. Thanks for the support.

Novikov: (Russian) Hey, that's what I'm here for, boss.

Mother Wolf: (Russian) *smiles* Okay, this is it. (English) Menendez, nearly four years of hiding after sealing that one trillion and the Chinese already think us "outside forces" never existed. We should be ready to go by now.

Menendez: Agreed. I want Novikov to lead them in Myanmar.

Mother Wolf: Are you saying you do not trust the WCO or your U.N. mole?

Menendez: Their trust has to be earned. And right now, I trust the two of you. Which makes Novikov insurance.

Mother Wolf: I see. Alright, no problem. I suppose you want to wire their five billion the moment they fulfill their end of the deal.

Menendez: Yes, my friend. *clears throat* If you please, go on now and have your revenge. Make it satisfying.

08:30:50, Novikov and the WCO PMC are ten seconds out from arriving at their AO in their VTOLs. Which is a weapons research facility sitting on top of the Hkakabo Razi mountains.

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HOSTILE COMPETITION

HKAKABO RAZI, MYANMAR

LT. COL. MAXIM NOVIKOV

INNER CIRCLE, WCO PMC

JUNE 10TH, 2025 - 08:30:50

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Upon landing, the joint Inner Circle WCO PMC assault force punches through its enemies with ease as they are backed by a couple of VTOL Warships. In the midst of the chaos, Novikov takes the most pleasure in the killing as he has been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

A closer look at the insignias on the fallen insurgents' uniforms and equipment reveal that the enemy is the Russian Loyalist Private Military Corporation. The mercenary firm led by Codename: Nikolai which is the first to receive the good graces of The Tacitus Corporation.

As they invested in them well before their victory in The Drone Race, and in return were given the latest in drone and mil spec (military specification) technology. It seems little did the good Russians know that their efforts to develop with Western innovations have painted a target on their backs for one aggressive competitor, with discreet links to their worst enemy.

Despite the technological enhancements, Novikov successfully counters the RL PMC forces as his "equalizers" to the machines such as the A.G.R.s (Automated Ground Robot) and C.L.A.W.s (Cognitive Land Assault Weapon) are EMP Grenades and C4. After clearing the ancient ruins, which acts as an RL PMC installation and front on the surface, the joint terrorist force hacks the door to the weapons research facility itself.

WCO Team Leader: Hope you still have some of your equalizers, friend.

Novikov: Do not worry, I still do. Just keep fighting like that and you will make it home rich.

WCO Team Leader: Ha ha! I like the sound of that! You hear that, amigos?

WCO Operators: Whooooo!

With the security protocols of the place being breached, Nikolai plans to hide his associate from Tacitus and prepare for war. As the walls close in, the RL PMC leader chooses an A.G.R. crate to protect his VIP.

Nikolai: Get in here.

Erik: What's going on, Nik?

Nikolai: Something I feared. I knew I should have hunted them before they hunted most of us.

Erik: Wait, most of us?!

Nikolai: Shh. *sighs* Listen to me, my friend. Whatever happens, you CANNOT let them in that safe. You know what will happen if you do. So just sit there and stay quiet. I've already sent a distress signal to some trusted Americans. When they get here, comply with them. So that they will know who you are, what is going on, and not shoot you on sight. If non-Americans found you and they ask about the safe, you might not want to be taken alive. Do you understand?

Erik: *stammering* Yes, I understand.

Nikolai: Are you going to give the men outside what they want?

Erik: No, of course not.

Nikolai: Good. And thank you. It has been a pleasure doing business with you, Erik Breighner. God Bless.

After sealing away Erik Breighner, one of Tacitus' experts in magnetometry and a special envoy to the RL PMC, he readies his SCAR-H (Fast Mags, M203 Launcher, Millimeter Scanner) and heads out to his last stand. Upon moving to the safe, Novikov orders WCO PMC to secure the rest of the facility while he and his 15-man Inner Circle team move up to subdue Nikolai.

Once engaged, Nikolai kills all of Novikov's men with a combination of medium range combat and CQB with his rifle, B23R, and combat knife. The moment the last Inner Circle operator fell, Novikov shoots Nikolai in the limbs and captures him.

As the last Russian Loyalist is being dragged outside, he is forced by the WCO mercs to watch his life's work, men and equipment, being taken away from him. Now laying hurt on the base's helipad, a VTOL lands and Mother Wolf and Menendez, accompanied by more of her Inner Circle operators, come out of it.

Nikolai: So you two are the ones who were killing my men and destroying my company.

Menendez: We gave you a chance to join us. One company to another.

Nikolai: After all the chaos you brought onto me? You really are crazy. Besides, we don't work with PMCs paid off by terrorists and corrupt leaders.

Menendez: Hmm. WCO's chief executive officer was wrong to have high hopes for you. Oh, well. He is all yours.

Nikolai: Da? What about you? Who are you supposed to be?

Mother Wolf: Nice try, American slave.

But judging from what Mother Wolf and her men looked like, Nikolai took an insulting guess.

Nikolai: Ah. So, is this the future of the Ultranationalist Party? Puppets and whores to Latin narco terrorists?

Mother Wolf: Oh, you're about to find out.

bang*

Mother Wolf pulls out her Glock 19 and executes Nikolai straight in the forehead.

Mother Wolf: (Russian) A new era is coming. And you, the United States and the United Kingdom are not in it. *spits* (English) I'm done here. Novikov?

Novikov: WCO are trustworthy. Never had a doubt back there. Unlike some... of our own. No one will be questioning your authority now, General.

Mother Wolf: Thank you, Lieutenant Colonel. See you in Pakistan, Menendez. (Russian) Come on.

Before Menendez takes a tour of the base with his mercenaries, he texts the CEO of WCO PMC. Who only goes by "U.N." on his phone.

Menendez: (Spanish) It is done. Your soldiers have proven to be loyal. Well done.

U.N.: See, when will you realise I'm acting on Cordis Die's utmost behalf?

Menendez: (Spanish) I already have. See you soon, my friend. And treat your men well. They have earned it.

U.N.: Thank you for letting me know. See you soon.

As Menendez leaves, it turns out King and Shade saw the whole thing from the peaks overlooking the base. But even though they received Nikolai's distress signal and got to Myanmar in time, the U.S. State Department scrapped the rescue mission in the last second and turned it into a reconnaissance mission.

09:15:57, back in the present day, Trident Team then asked why they were called off.

King: Some clueless Jezebel from the State Department said the Bosworth Administration didn't trust RL PMC because they haven't talked to the U.S. government in a while. But we, as in the U.S. Military, kept in touch with them while the admin was busy with their own dinners and parties and shit. Didn't bother to know about the allies we made after World War 3. Is this dumb bitch gonna keep making us do her and her cronies' jobs?

Crosby: Oh, that's bullshit. I'm so sorry, Nikolai. We'll get 'em for you.

Shade: Hope so, man. Especially after reading about Task Force 141's history with them. Fucking had the two of us jet wing into the target area while the Marines were sitting around with their dicks in their hands. Bosworth Admin clowns.

Crosby: So what kept you from disobeying orders and taking out Menendez?

King: Good question. I contemplated on ordering Shade to open fire. But something nagged at me... of course, I just remembered. Years of literature and media have taught me that with the influence of our countrymen, let alone the world, on his side and pointed against us, killing him then and there will only turn him into a martyr. It won't undo all of his work and his death will be all the ammo his followers need to go after our country in violent outbursts. And soon, our families. Everyone we know and love will be 20 times more fucked than we already are.

Section: Capturing him is a bad idea too. Who knows if the prison guards holding aren't some of his followers? He'll start killing again.

King: I know, we're in a rock and a hard place, thanks to complacency. Let me think. There's got to be a way to work in our needs to our options.

Career Record:

Novikov succeeds in seizing RL PMC's weapons research facility.

Rewards:

AK-74 UUK

Makarov (2025 Variant)

Novikov Black Ops Uniform

Hostile Competition Intel

As Section, with the press of a button in the main menu, you can disable the main menu HUD (heads-up display) and roam around the USS Barack Obama's Team Room. There, you can do things like view and browse the outfits of your recently played characters and take them in every story mission, which will carry over to Section and whatever character you are going to control next until you change to another outfit or pick the Set Default option (which will change back to the characters' default outfits depending on the mission).

As well as go through a holographic computer and see the intel collected from the story missions and Full Picture Missions. The Full Picture intel is earned after completing those missions, as there is no intel that can be collected during gameplay, and some of them are more like cutscenes.

The Hostile Competition intel shows information about RL PMC and Nikolai after all these years, and their installation and underground weapons research facility in Hkakabo Razi, Myanmar. As well as the activity of Menendez, Mother Wolf, Novikov, WCO PMC and the Inner Circle before the events of the game.