SOCOM 3 Walkthrough Guide

4:IN THE BALANCE - WALKTHROUGH

Walkthrough
Note: The Crosstalk objective for this level is to avoid any positions being overrun. Just keep the terrorists back and kill them all, and you should be able to get this easily.

This is a great mission to get rid of any stress, it's basically a case of shooting everything that moves to help defend check points!

IMPORTANT: Pay attention to your radar at all times. The red dots are terrorists, use the radar to find their location/direction.

Set fireteam to 'fire at will' and then head to CHARLIE.

Ignore the explosions in front of you, as far as I am aware they never hit you! Hop on the left gun turret (NOTE: As your team is following you, sometimes they walk in front of the turret, check your fire before you shoot. If you kill one, it's mission over).

Get ready! Here goes (basically shoot them all).

Note: If at any time you seem to be waiting around for nothing, there is probably a terrorist alive somewhere. Usually this happens on the left, so check around there if your waiting around and nothings happening. Once you kill him, it should continue.

[a] A Terrorist will run from in front of you in the distance, to come around on the right
[b] Two terrorists will come in front of you in the distance, to come around on the left.
[c] Other terrorists will have made it up to you now, get off the turret and shoot any close by.
[d] A group of 2-3 terrorists will come and shoot from the left

[e] (READ ALTERNATIVE TOO FIRST) A massive swarm (including a vehicle) will come from the NORTH EAST (in front of the gun turrets) - so get on one, and shoot at the vehicle until it blows up, and kills the rest of the terrorists! If you fail to shoot the vehicle, your going to have a fast moving turret shooting at you (not good!)

ALTERNATIVE: I had a suggestion (from credit#8) that you could instead just shoot the turret man, the car will go past, and the driver will get out - and you can simply shoot him, then use the car and turret yourself to shoot and defend the positions without using much of your own ammo or getting killed!

[f] More terrorists will come from the left
[g] You will be told there are lots of terrorists coming from the east. Switch to your airburst, go east and wait at the top. Look exactly east and down, the rock on the right is what you're looking out for. About 6 terrorists will run out of there AND some will come from the far right and far left. Airburst the 6 coming from the rock . Shoot the rest when you're all out of airbursts.

Note: I ran out of ammo around now, but I wanted to keep the gun for the airburst later on. It's really up to you. If you want to keep it, get out your handgun and tell your fireteam to 'cover target' by aiming down at the area with all the terrorists, press circle > fireteam> cover target. They should shoot most of them! I'd suggest picking up a gun if you have low life, as you may need to defend yourself.

[h] More coming from the north in front of the gun turrets. Another vehicle will come too, so get on a turret.
[g] More and more! From in front of you, and some from the left too. You'll need to get the designator out to take out a tank, so tell your team to cover target in front of you to give you some protective fire. Hold down the designator for a while, until the clocks finished. Carry on shooting anyone that is left. *Checkpoint saved* (And now if you kept the gun you've got some more useful airbursts!)

**Secondary Objective complete: Defend north position**

If it hasn't said objective complete, you'll need to find the last terrorists (search left, and the rocks on the right).

Onward to DELTA (run back the way you came, not to the left of the rocks). Once you get there, no time to setup, it's a go!

[a] Left, middle, center. Kill! Use the turret on the right (as someone will be on the other). Also, you may wish to fire a few airbursts just to get it over with and give yourself chance to setup position.

[b] About.. well I didn't count, 10 - 15 terrorists will come from the gap in the fortress in front of you (where the road goes). An airburst sorts these out well, or you can tell your team to cover target, and start scoping them as they come out.

[c] More will come out of the same place AND a vehicle . So using the turret here is advised. If you allow the vehicle to get past, you'll have 2 - 3 terrorists behind you.

[d] More terrorists on the left.
*Checkpoint saved* (More airbursts for some!)

**Secondary Objective complete: Defend center position**
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If it hasn't said this, check the middle (scope it to save running, sometimes there are one or two terrorist proning to kill) also check the area on the LEFT as one may still be here.

Run to ECHO! Make sure your team is following, and not still covering a target. As tempting as it may be to get in a near by vehicle, don't. This is very close quarter combat, and if you take one you'll likely end up having a vehicle explode behind you which will either kill you, or severely injure yourself and your team!

Note: Sometimes, you'll end up having [a]&[b] occuring when you get there, in this case just shoot the guys on the left as you run to ECHO and continue forward and shoot some people further forward near the turrets (watch out for allies - wearing socom2 VIP costumes)

[a] No time to setup again, get to ECHO and then pay attention to the RIGHT, a handful of terrorists will run over to here and begin shooting you.
[b] Now check the LEFT and help clear up here.
[c] Get on the left turret, a terrorist will run over the dunes on the left.

[d] Two vehicles will now come towards you, so tell your team to cover target in front of the turrets, and you yourself get on the RIGHT turret to shoot at the vehicles. Shoot the RIGHT vehicle first, as the left one will stop, but the right one will try to get behind you. Try and take out the people on the turrets rather than the driver, as you can take them out later. If one gets by on the right, get out and shoot the turret guy. Generally, just shoot at the vehicle from the turret as they don't take too many bullets before they blow up. Finish off any terrorists that are left.

[e] Another guy on the left, where C was.

Note: Set your designator to quick fire, press R2, go to the designator (highlight it) and press L1 so that a circle appears by it.

[f] One terrorist in front of you, two on the right. (Use the right turret)
[g] Get the designator out, scope the tank, and wait (quite a while) for the air strike to come.
Tip: prone for protection.

[h] If there's a terrorist in front of you, take him out.
[h] Look to the LEFT, kill the 2-3 terrorists remaining here.

**Secondary Objective complete: Defend south position**
**Primary Objective complete: Defend CHA positions**
**Bonus objective complete: No positions overrun** [CT]
**Crosstalk Objective Complete: For [CT] objective**
**SOCOM FIRETEAM BRAVO BONUS UNLOCKED**
Make sure your team are following and then run to INDIA.
**Primary Objective complete: Move to rendezvous**

Objective: Guide a vehicle through this fortress, you'll need to go into the fortress and shoot all the terrorists.

[a] Terrorist on the left on the platform (jump up)
[b] Go back, terrorist on the right platform (may need to jump up)
[c] Go up the far right platform, go forward to the next section and then turn left and another terrorist will be in front of you.
[d] Another in front of you on the bridge (past the fire)
[e] Continue moving forward on the right, a terrorist in the left area where the bridge joins the platform.
[f] Continue right, another terrorist is in this open area.
[g] Walk over the bridge, jump down on the right, a terrorist on the platform.
[h] Continue left another terrorist in the opening
[i] Continue left, another terrorist (with RPG) in front of you, kill quickly.
[j] Another terrorist, further up from [i], take him out!

In front of the vehicle is an opening in the fortress, tell your team to cover this area. Get out your designator and aim and hold for 4 seconds at the tank to call in an air strike.

Tell your team to follow you, and get back from the tank!

NOTE: Sometimes you need to designate twice, I'd advise you to do so just incase, hide behind your own vehicle and do it by looking out on the right.

[k] Shoot at terrorists behind the rank (left and right of it) a grenade or grenade launcher is good here. Also good to fire them at the tank to damage it a bit if you have any left.

**MISSION COMPLETE**
Note: If you don't get this message, walk out of the fortress and shoot any terrorists outside (usually one on the left or right corner outside).

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