Should i frame taggart

I saw cameras will have repercussions later on, such as maybe Sandoval knowing I'm coming? If you publicly confront Taggart or you don't, but you make it all the way to Sandoval without raising anyone to "alarmed" , then when you reach Sandoval, Taggart will be calling him a terrorist on the TV and you will have a social battle in an attempt to talk him out of suicide. Here you can either kill him or subdue him. As you approach the Convention Center door, you may notice a metal security roll-up barrier to the left of the bathrooms.

The door behind the barrier leads to a back stairwell which heads up to the backstage area where Taggart's dressing room is located. The barrier will open once you use the door from the other side, providing an alternate escape route. Since you received a V. Pass Card from Sarif at the beginning of the mission you can enter the convention center unhindered, so if you're going for the "Ghost" bonus, you only have to sneak past the bodyguards and not the police.

Make your way upstairs by either turning left and going up the broken escalator taking you through the Meeting Hall or going to the right, through the Main Hall. Having made it upstairs you have a choice to make. Either turn right and confront Taggart directly by going to the room where he is giving his talk Room , or sneak backstage, go to his dressing room and just hack his computer for the information.

The quickest way to sneak in is by going to the bathroom with a conveniently placed air vent. Crawl through the vent keeping to the right and head directly to his dressing room. Be sure to check your map before dropping down, since there are three vent exits, one of which drop you directly in front of some body guards. If you sneak in quietly and hack his computer you will have a brief dialogue with Sarif.

He will ask you to frame Taggart by uploading the recording of Sandoval onto his computer. In order to sneak back out through the vent, you will need the Lift Heavy Objects augmentation.

Move the tall crate underneath the vent, climb back up and head out the way you came in. Note that there's a breakable wall just to the right of the crate, but the bodyguards will sound the alarm if it is broken even with a silenced weapon.

If you can't move the crate, you will have to sneak out through the adjacent room where three bodyguards are watching TV. Two can be knocked out silently and the third can be sedated or stunned. Moving into the hallway, there will be another three bodyguards, including a rotating security camera can be disabled via the level 4 security hub in Taggard's room.

Two of the guards will be stationary, while the third patrols the area to the right. Unless equipped with the Cloaking System you will have to take care of the stationary guard near the camera. Wait for the patrolling guard to leave the hallway and the camera not to turn away , knock him out and drag him into the TV room without being noticed.

At the end of the hallway there's a vent access in the ceiling leading to the vent used to sneak in and sneak back out the way you came in. Otherwise, turning right at the camera leads through a door and into the backstage stairwell. Head down to level 2 where two guards are talking and hide against the wall to the left.

Wait for the guards to leave and climb into the vent nearby. Make your way through and leave via the alternate escape route previously covered by a security roll-up barrier mentioned at the beginning of the mission. Alternatively, you can go straight to the press conference and confront Taggart directly.

Completing this encounter correctly will grant you a private audience with Taggart in his dressing room where he will reveal the location of Sandoval.

You will also be granted complete access to all guarded areas. Going this route will get you XP to start with an additional XP excluding a possible "Smooth Operator" bonus of XP after the encounter in the dressing room. I just replayed through the game again and I now know the exact facts: If you publicly confront Taggart or you don't, but you make it all the way to Sandoval without raising anyone to "alarmed" , then when you reach Sandoval, Taggart will be calling him a terrorist on the TV and you will have a social battle in an attempt to talk him out of suicide.

Improve this answer. Mr Smooth Mr Smooth Well, if Sandoval is depressed and feels betrayed by Taggart, you have a conversation-battle. If Sandoval is surprised to see you, you have a real one. And Pacifist runs will have to knock him out somehow. Darien ah ha! Now that's a actual difference between the options, and not just speculation.

Presumably the way to end up in the combat only situation is to not speak to Taggart and not frame him? You might want to form that up in to an answer with all the potential outcomes given. DMA Oh I know what it is. One guy spotted one of my bodies before I could take him down, so that probably alerted Sandoval. I'll update my post to reflect this. Ah, makes sense. Think this now has everything covered. I'll give you the tick as well, thanks for the effort. I think it all hinges on whether he sees something on the news about Taggart betraying him.

Show 3 more comments. I'm dieing to know the difference! As yet I'm still not sure. When I reached Sandoval he ranted at the TV about how Taggart has sold him out - this could even be the same TV clip Mr Smooth mentioned as this was pre-rendered video. Nothing major else that I can see If you frame Taggart you get to talk to Sandoval. If you don't frame Taggart Sandoval will attack you after the cutscene.

I did not talk to Taggart at any point. Hyb Hyb 21 1 1 bronze badge. As mentioned in another answer, either a getting silver tongue when confronting Taggart, or b being completely stealthy no suspicious, alarmed, hostile in the process of getting to hack Taggart's computer, and placing the wrong info if you decline to, fire fight as Taggart won't denounce Sandoval on TV The fire fight scene starts with Sandoval remarking "I heard gunshots!

Note that when going through the door of the apartment complex you should be crouching already, or you will see 'alarmed' which may or may not endanger seeing the suicide scene If you follow the above, and get a shoot-out cut scene, you're bugged. Sandoval is an omega, so choose those dialogue options This is more addressing the question of how to get the "Last Straw" achievement which I had originally posted a question about because I was dealing with the bug, as it turns out.