Redlight, Greenlight
After dealing with Volkov, the team makes their way to Ukraine, where the mission ‘Redlight, Greenlight’ takes place. On February 27, 1981, Bell and Woods team up to infiltrate a Secret Spetsnaz Training Facility to learn more about Perseus and his plans.
They both walk through a forest to reach a small cliff overlooking the Spetsnaz Facility, where Woods asks Bell to take a picture of the base. He then instructs Bell to infiltrate the base while he covers from a distance. Both Woods and Bell take out the guards at the entrance, and Bell sneaks into the base. As Bell approaches the guardhouse, he can snap a photo as the first piece of map intel out of six.
As Bell is lockpicking a door to enter the base, a guard opens up the door and tries to fight Bell. This is when Woods shows up and saves Bell.
The two then continue to fight their way in and come across a replica of a typical USA neighborhood where the soviets practice their drills.
After heavy fighting, the two finally reach the central computer terminal where Bell uses his skills to crack the password to get intel on Perseus. Once done, Bell prints the Operation Greenlight files.
Wood reads the files and finds out that Hudson knew about the nukes being compromised by the Russians all along and gets upset.
Printing the files causes an alarm to go off, alerting the whole base to Woods and Bell’s presence. They both start fighting their way out and eventually reach a heavily armored APC.
They use the APC to make their way out of the base. Bell takes control of the turret while Woods drives out of the base, and the mission ends once they escape.
After the operation, Woods, Adler, and Mason confront Hudson about Operation Greenlight nuclear weapons program.
Echoes of a Cold War
Echoes of a Cold War is a nostalgic one as it takes Woods and Mason back to the Russian bunker at Mount Yamantau, located in the Ural Mountains of the USSR. On March 3, 1981, Woods and Mason are dropped on Mount Yamantau, by Russian insider Dimitri Belikov, to infiltrate the base and prevent the Soviets from getting the intel from the old Russian Facility.
As the duo proceeds, they silently pick off the Soviet soldiers using a silenced Sniper Rifle while making their way to the facility. Players can also find a piece of evidence in the control room with several computers and terminals. As Mason tries to use one final zipline into the facility, it doesn’t go as planned, and he falls to the side of the base entrance, with his weapons falling off as well.
Mason is now left with nothing but a combat knife as he sneaks into the facility. Mason makes his way inside while taking out enemy soldiers one by one silently. He also comes across a locked weapon cabinet that can be opened by finding a key. It is based on players’ choice whether they want to complete this optional objective or not. Finding the key and unlocking it will reveal a picture of Friedrich Steiner and trigger the ascension numbers flashback for Mason. Steiner was a third antagonist in Black Ops who developed the Nova 6 gas.
Mason continues forward and climbs up a set of ladders to finally reunite with Woods. They both then continue to search for the dig site using a scope. Once the crane and the mainframe are located, they fight their way to the location.
Once they reach the mainframe, Belikov arrives in a helicopter and lowers the winch. Mason and Woods attach the winch to the mainframe, after which Belikov starts pulling them up. As Belikov pulls them up, they clear the building floor by floor around them until they finally reach the top and escape.
Lubyanka Briefing
After learning what had happened at Mount Yamantau, on March 7, 1981, Adler decides to take Bell into the Lubyanka building to acquire the sleeper agents’ identities, albeit with Hudson opposing the decision. Hudson wanted Mason and Woods to return before going on such a risky mission infiltrating the KGB headquarters. Denying Hudson, Adler, and Bell proceed with the mission. This takes us to the next mission, ‘Desperate Measures.’
Desperate Measures
On March 9, 1981, the mission starts in Moscow’s KGB headquarters, with you assuming control of Dimitri Belikov, who helped Mason and Woods escape from Mount Yamantau. Adler calls Belikov to gain access to the KGB headquarters to get to the underground nuclear bunker where the names of the sleeper agents are stored. Belikov informs Adler that the security has been tightened as they suspect a KGB mole. As a result, everyone’s bunker access key has been revoked except General Charkov, as instructed by Imran Zakhaev.
Belikov leaves no stones unturned to get access to the bunker key. The players can acquire a bunker keycard in many different ways, such as by poisoning Charkov, stabbing Charkov, reprograming a key, framing Charkov, or persuading a prisoner to kill Charkov. It is up to the players to choose what they prefer.
After acquiring the key, Belikov makes his way to the furnace room in the basement where Adler and Bell are waiting for him. Belikov calls two soldiers to come and investigate an open door. Little did they know, Adler and Bell are waiting for them. They both take out the soldiers and use their uniforms as a disguise.
They both use the disguises to make their way to the elevator to the bunker where they meet Zakhaev. He asks about the two and whom they report to, where they can answer based on their conversation with Belikov earlier. Regardless of how the interaction goes, the players take off the disguise and change into their normal clothing and equip their weapons from the bag that they brought with them.
Adler and Bell fight their way to the bunker, where Bell copies the list of names of all the sleeper agents in the USA.
After acquiring the names, they both fight their way out of the KGB headquarters. As they fight their way out, they come across a Russian soldier holding Belikov at gunpoint, realizing he was the mole. Adler asks Bell to activate the gas, which they planted earlier as a secondary plan.
As the gas starts to seep in, Adler and Bell wear gas masks and quickly rush to Belikov’s aid providing him one mask as well.
The three rush to the armory to gear up before finally escaping the KGB headquarters in a getaway vehicle.
