Lightning Breaks

Lightning Breaks
Type	Main Job
Giver	Panam Palmer
Region	Badlands
Location	Sunset Motel
Previous	Ghost Town
Next	Life During Wartime

Lightning Breaks is the main job in which V and Panam Palmer try to bring down the Kang Tao flying car carrying Anders Hellman. It follows Ghost Town and starts at the garage by the Sunset Motel in the Badlands at midnight. The plan uses an electromagnetic pulse from a power station in the desert.

Story

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Panam's Plan

Johnny likes Panam. In the journal he says she has nerve and clearly a plan, and he wonders whether it will be enough to catch Hellman. He never thought he would ride with the nomads again. Panam may have left the Aldecaldos, but the clan is in her blood, her bones and her heart, and he does not think she will let them down.

V wakes up at the motel to a note from Panam, asking to meet at midnight at the garage by the Sunset Motel. She is working on her truck. Her plan is to overload a power station so it fires an electromagnetic pulse, knock the Kang Tao flying car out of the sky, and pull Hellman out of the wreck.

The Turret

On the way, Panam stops so V can get used to the machine gun mounted on her truck. V jacks in and shoots at some wrecked cars to calibrate it. The pair wait a few hours for the right moment, then drive to the power station.

The Power Station

Security drones chase the truck at the station, and V shoots them down from the turret. Panam drives into the entrance of a control station, where V overcharges the terminals and rushes back to the truck. They race to a cliff overlooking the station, out of reach of the pulse.

Panam hands V the detonator. When the flying car appears over the desert from the direction of Pacifica, V presses it, but the pulse goes off too late to bring the car down. Panam jumps out and fires a missile at it herself. It does not destroy the car, but it forces it to lose height, and the chase goes straight on in Life During Wartime.

Lightning Breaks Map Location and Walkthrough

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Lightning Breaks map location:

The Garage

1. Read Panam's note after waking at the motel.
2. Meet Panam in the garage at the fuel station by the Sunset Motel at midnight.
3. Talk to Panam about the plan.
4. Take the passenger seat.

The Turret

1. Jack into the turret when Panam stops.
2. Shoot the targets ahead to calibrate it.

The Power Station

1. Ride to the high point to scout the power station, then into the station.
2. Take out the security drones from the turret. The Short Circuit quickhack helps if the turret is hard to use.
3. Go to the marked terminals inside the plant and overheat them.
4. Run back to the truck and take the passenger seat.
5. Use the detonator when prompted.

Map credit by Map Genie.

Choices

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The job is linear. The talk with Panam in the garage changes only the dialogue.

Tips

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The next job, Life During Wartime, begins the moment this one ends, so it is worth being ready for a fight before using the detonator.

Characters

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The characters who take part in Lightning Breaks are listed below.

Name	Image
Panam Palmer

Enemies

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V fights these enemies during Lightning Breaks.

Name
Drones

Notes

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• Panam brings the AV down with a Techtronika T40 Uragan rocket launcher, a story weapon that only she carries.

• The job is named after a song by the band Plasmatics.

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