Dead Battery and Death From Above: DDoS, decoys and drones

Bring the DDoS field upgrade and Decoy Grenades before hunting drones. Dead Battery needs a print and hostile-target disables. Death From Above needs the decoy interaction, drone kills and a named mission-item pickup. Check each task instead of counting every explosion as progress.

Prepare both recipes at the FOB

Equipment	Current listed bill per print
DDoS	30 Electronics and three Detonators
Decoy Grenade	Ten Synthetics and ten Chemicals

Their reported recipe unlock comes from completing the page with Eye in the Sky, Watch for Bumps and Triangulation. Check the whole page reward if a recipe is locked. A DDoS found as loot does not satisfy a task that specifically asks you to print it.

Equip the printed field upgrade and carry the Decoy Grenades. This chapter uses a Decoy Grenade; the later Grid Order uses an Inflatable Decoy. They are different items and interactions.

Disable hostile targets for Dead Battery

Find an enemy vehicle or drone and approach from cover. Read the DDoS display for a target in range before activating it. Being close to scenery, a friendly vehicle or a target outside the field is not enough.

Activate the upgrade and check the disable counter. The task asks for three enemy vehicles or drones. Continue from the remaining count rather than assuming one activation or one cluster completes it. If nothing moves, recheck target ownership, range and the exact active objective before spending more equipment.

Trick a drone and collect the Motherboard

Use a Decoy Grenade where a drone can react to it. Check that task separately from the destruction count, then defeat the three required drones. Keep cover and ammunition for the fight; carrying the grenade without using it is not the interaction.

After the kills, inspect the wreck loot for Drone Motherboard and collect the named item. Ordinary Electronics, Electronic Sensors and Comms Modules do not replace that mission pickup.

Check both the kill and pickup objectives before leaving. If the kill task is complete but the item task is not, search the defeated targets rather than immediately starting another unrelated drone fight.

Finish the correct chapter

Operation Shopping Hacks has its own Story Mission route. Once the equipment objectives are complete, follow the Shopping Hacks walkthrough. For the later drone page, use The Grid guide; do not substitute its target counts or Inflatable Decoy requirement for this chapter.