"Severed Ties" is the sixteenth campaign mission of Call of Duty: Ghosts. It involves commanding an M1A2 Abrams tank in order to destroy a Federation Satellite Array, which will allow friendly astronauts to engage enemy forces in space to over take the LOKI Space Station.
Characters
- Badger-Two (playable) (tank)
- Logan Walker (playable)
- David "Hesh" Walker
- Thomas A. Merrick (heard only)
- Command (voice only)
Plot
The player assumes the role of Badger-Two, the callsign of an M1A2 Abrams tank. Within the cargo bay of a C-17 Globemaster III, another tank is getting prepped. Suddenly, flak causes several crew members to be injured and for the other tank to catch fire. At the same time, their plane becomes damaged. The Globemaster releases Badger-Two, and it lands with other tanks, but their transport crashes. Badger-Two and the other tanks battle X08 Selva Tigres, T-90s and Mi-24 Hinds. A-10s provide air support. Their objective then is to destroy mobile rocket-launchers so Ghosts can land and launch a kinetic rod missile which will turn then around and destroy the Satellite Array. Badger-Two and several other tanks destroy each of the mobile rocket launchers.
The player takes control of Logan Walker. He and his brother Hesh are approaching the control center. After clearing it out, Hesh activates the kinetic rod and coordinates it to strike the ground array. Logan launches the weapon. Radio transmission from a dead enemy soldier confirms that Rorke is boarding a train that is preparing to leave launch control. Hesh and Logan pursue and board the train.
The player's perspective goes back to Badger-Two's. Its objective is to destroy the V75 Mantis Turrets that act as an air-protection mechanism. Badger-Two destroys each of the relays but gets heavily damaged in the process. The remaining commander boards Badger-One and becomes its gunner. Badger-One then leaves the area as the kinetic missile decimates the ground array.
Weapon Loadout
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Achievements/Trophies
- Severed Ties (20
/ Bronze Trophy ): Destroy the Federation's satellite array. (Complete "Severed Ties" on any difficulty. - Fly-by-Wire (20/ Bronze Trophy ): Take out 3 out of 3 helicopters with the remote missile.
Gallery
Video Walkthrough
Trivia
- It is possible to pick up Akimbo MP-443 Grach pistols from dead enemy soldiers. However, due to a bug, the left MP-443 Grach does not have an ammo counter in the HUD.
- Furthermore, a single MP-443 and akimbo ones share the same weapon entity; therefore, both versions cannot be simultaneously equipped.
- This is the first mission since Call of Duty: World at War's "Blood and Iron" where the player controls a tank, and this is the first mission a player controls an Abrams tank in the series.
- The two soldiers inside Badger Two's tank change positions between the start of the mission and the tank's destruction near the mission's end.
- This mission greatly resemble "Operation Thunder Run" from Battlefield 3.
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