El Sueño is the final mission in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands and takes place mostly in Pucara and is available after two Santa Blanca Cartel heads have been taken down. Completing the mission when all of the heads have been taken down will give the game an alternative ending.
Overview[]
After Pac Katari calls Nomad about a sighting of El Sueño, the Ghosts go to meet the rebel who saw him.
We've recieved word from Pac Katari that one of his rebels might have discovered El Sueño's location. Talk to the rebel and find out what he knows.
--Karen Bowman giving mission debriefing to Nomad
Head to an ancient Inca site at Montyoc. You will discover Amaru's body laying against one of the pillars. Nomad attempts to contact Bowman, but the radio call is cut off. The Ghosts become suspicious and head to her location, where numerous rebels are already situated. Enter the building the mission is pointing at.
A cutscene plays where Bowman has been knocked out and tied up. Nomad frees her and Bowman tells Nomad that Pac Katari and the rebels have betrayed the Ghosts and are attempting to take down El Sueño, who has been sighted at his mausoleum. Nomad notes that the rebels are no longer their allies.
Upon exiting the cutscene, any nearby rebel instantly turns hostile to you with numerous other rebel vehicles closing on your position, along with several cartel vehicles. At least a few cartel rocket helicopters will close in your position shortly if you remain at the same location too long.
You have 10 minutes to get to the mausoleum. Either drive to the destination via a marked path that goes through the dam, couple of villages and finally to the mausoleum, or you can also fly a helicopter there. Note that the incoming cartel rocket helicopters will still fire at you even if they are far away, though will miss fairly easily. Be sure to look back and spot where the rockets are headed. Also the mausoleum is heavily defended by anti-air placements.
If you are driving, Pac Katari contacts Nomad and tells him/her that Katari is going to execute Sueño to show Bolivia that the cartel isn't feared anymore and that the Americans are no longer welcome, as inefficent they are. Nomad warns Katari going against Sueño, but he closes the radio call. Note that this conversation will not play if you decide to fly to the mausoleum.
After making your way to the entrance of the mausoleum, head through the door and one of two final cut scenes will play.
Option A:
The cutscene picks off right after the intro cutscene that plays in the main menu of the game. The Ghosts barge into the building and catch up to El Sueño, who is revealed to have killed Pac Katari and decapitated him, holding his head with a sickle pierced through his eye socket. El Sueño throws the head at the Ghosts, with Bowman catching up to them and commanding Sueño to get on his knees.
Sueño preemptively will suggest to Bowman to answer a phone call coming to her just after finishing. Bowman talks to her superiors for a moment and looks shocked after the call is over and throws the phone at the floor. Nomad asks what is happening and Bowman reveals that Sueño has made a deal with the US Department of Justice to offer the leadership of his rival cartels and 3 terrorist organizations trafficking heroin in exchange for full immunity against any serious reprecutions made against him.
El Sueño mocks Bowman and tells her that yesterday they may have been adversaries, but as of this moment, she is nothing but a chauffeur to Sueño. Sueño demands for Bowman to take him to her superiors. As El Sueño is walking towards the large doors of his masoleum, Bowman tells the Ghosts that she is sorry with a clear sad tone in her voice and shoots Sueño once in the back with her pistol, with Sueño collapsing on the ground. Bowman then walks up to him and executes him with a few final shots before collapsing on her knees saddened.
A final report by Bowman says that she has been kicked out of the CIA, presumably with numerous charges on her back, with officials saying that she went crazy, but Bowman disagrees, saying she knew exactly what she was doing and killed Sueño out of spite to avenge his partners and the suffering the cartel boss has caused to the citizens of Bolivia. Bowman makes a final remark on the future of the rebels, La Unidad and the cartel and quotes the first Emperor of the Roman Empire Augustus: "Have I played the part well? Then applaud as I exit." The end credits roll.
Note: This ending is presumably not canon considering Bowman appears in Operation Motherland of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint still part of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Option B:
The same very events happen, except Bowman tells the Ghosts that she is sorry in a regretful tone and she merely escorts Sueño out.
After action report this time has Bowman reporting that the cartel is dismantled, La Unidad is severely weakened and the Kataris 26 are in disarray after Pac Katari's death. She notes that though DEA Agent Sandoval's murder investigation is on going, she is confident that his murderers have been eliminated. El Sueño is now called "Confidential Informant #38726B and has provided a number of leads against numerous other organized crime leaders, though Bowman notes they are just Sueño's rivals and not his allies, with Sueño enjoying a rather luxurious life at a witness protection safe house in Pinecrest, Florida. Bowman makes a mark how after Sueño runs out of targets, the US will extradite him to Mexico for a prison sentence, though after a week mysteriously disappears and either retires somewhere in Eastern Europe or starts a new, even bigger drug cartel and branches out with even more variety of drugs at his disposal. Though, whatever happens next, Bowman is confident she and the Ghost are ready for what happens next. The end credits roll.
Note: This ending is presumably considered canon due to Bowman's appearance in Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, as previously stated.
Post-credits:
After the credits have passed, you are prompted with congratulations for completing the game, with your destabilization progress shown as well. If you have finished the story in Ghost mode, you get a special thank you message from the Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot for taking your time playing the Ghost mode, as well as you will unlock the last piece of the standard exo-suit.
You can head back to the game in free-roam. Note that if you didn't clear out the cartel camp surrounding the mausoleum (which you most likely didn't due to the limited time you have to get to the objective), an alarm will have sounded with everyone heading towards you, along with a cartel helicopter circling around the hill top. There very likely will be sicarios positioned around the pillars to the entrance of the mausoleum, so be extra careful in Ghost mode.
Mission Description[]
We've received word from Pac Katari that one of his rebels might have a location on El Sueño. Talk to the rebel and find out what he knows.
When complete:
Katari played us. He wanted to take care of Sueño himself, and it cost him his life. We tracked El Sueño to the grand mausoleum he built, and justice, for whatever it's worth, was done. El Sueño is finished. Operation: Kingslayer is complete.
Trivia[]
- Even if you have destabilized the cartel completely and then gone after El Sueño, the game reminds you that you have "only" finished 100% of the regions and recommends you to complete all of them.
- The rebels will have the same green icons on the minimap after they have turned hostile. They will also have green "reinforcements" flash.
- Killing any rebels after they turn hostile does not fail the mission, unlike at any other point of the game.
- After finishing this mission, if you kill any rebels, you will get a warning saying you cannot shoot at allies, though your A.I companions will congratulate for kills made against the rebels in similar fashion as against La Unidad or the cartel due to how the dialogue still treats them as hostiles.
- Katari's body is nowhere to be seen.
- The second CGI video that plays when one starts up the game for the first time is taking place only moments before Nomad enters the mausoleum to apprehend Sueño.
- Katari's head can be slightly seen during this cutscene.