Gone Dark missions are a metagame found in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist. Many of the Gone Dark missions are references to the previous games; organizations, people and events. Sometimes, doing real-life research helps decrypt some of the clues.
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Gone Dark missions are done entirely on the SMI map and are marked with orange markers and is updated every day at 12:00. Tasks have an exact schedule and are not repeated for a month — 30 days for 30 missions. The SMI has identified an international security issue that has Gone Dark. Read the report and use your cursor to find the next location on the SMI. Reward: Increase Mission Earnings. The start of each missions give a short briefing containing a clue to the location of the next lead, which is found by scanning the map. At the end of each Gone Dark mission, the player is given two options, both of which cost a small sum of money to perform, usually a few ten thousand in-game currency. Choosing the right one results in a success and a permanent additional 0.5 score multiplier. In case of failure the mission may be replayed again after 30 days. The report IDs on the screen are randomly re-generated as the servers are turned on and active, but the switching of missions is always sequential. Gone Dark missions appear at a rate of one per day and have to be solved within 24 hours. During the launch of the servers on August 20 in 2013, the missions had this timetable below. During repeated missions, their report number increased by a hundred each month. The servers were re-enabled several times in 2023 and also go in the same timetable of all missions.
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- Malaysian Threat — Report ID 1.1-7
- Flip The Spy — Report ID 2.1-5
- JBA Terror Legacy — Report ID 3.1-5
- Sniper Hunt — Report ID 4.1-5
- Catching Big Fish — Report ID 5.1-6
- With Big Dogs — Report ID 6.1-5
- Ticking Time Bomb — Report ID 7.1-5
- Hunting a Monster — Report ID 8.1-5
- Finding Terrorists — Report ID 9.1-5
- Crude Methods — Report ID 10.1-5
- Jam Session — Report ID 11.1-6
- Dead Files — Report ID 12.1-6
- Monkey Doom — Report ID 13.1-6
- Double Agent — Report ID 14.1-6
- Power Source — Report ID 15.1-5
- Strictly Business — Report ID 16.1-5
- Sub Hack — Report ID 17.1-5
- Black Site — Report ID 18.1-5
- No Yellowcake — Report ID 19.1-6
- Brain Drain — Report ID 20.1-6
- False Flag — Report ID 21.1-6
- Birthday Party — Report ID 22.1-5
- Eye in The Sky — Report ID 23.1-7
- Blown Cover — Report ID 24.1-6
- Gun Runner — Report ID 25.1-5
- Blood Coltan — Report ID 26.1-6
- Border Dispute — Report ID 27.1-5
- Bright Water — Report ID 28.1-5
- Drone Down — Report ID 29.1-6
- Prison Break — Report ID 30.1-5
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