Why this matters: Savior gates on BTR Driver standing ≥ 0.4. Completing The Price of Independence awards +0.5 BTR Driver rep in one shot, clearing the gate. Without it you're grinding rep passively via paid BTR rides (slow).

Prereq quest chain (do these first to unlock PoI):
1. Mechanic's A Helping Hand (gates BTR Driver access).
2. Prapor's Half-Empty → Stick in the Wheel chain.
3. BTR Driver: Battery Change → Protect the Sky → Discombobulate.
4. Discombobulate completion unlocks The Price of Independence (BTR Driver) AND simultaneously unlocks Skier's trap quest Choose Your Friends Wisely. Take BTR Driver's. Decline Skier's.

The PoI run itself is a single-life multi-transit raid. Bring 2 yellow flares. Path: Customs (grab letter, industrial plant 3F north building) → Reserve via Customs→Reserve transit (stash letter on Black Bishop 3F, broken crates west side) → Woods via Reserve→Woods transit (kill any 3 targets) → Lighthouse via Woods→Lighthouse transit (fire flares at train station warehouse + pier, kill 10 Scavs total across the run, extract from Lighthouse).

Critical rule: dying or extracting at any point before completing all objectives resets every objective except the letter pickup. Bring it once, do the whole run, extract from Lighthouse.

Reward: +85,400 EXP · +0.5 BTR Driver rep · 300,000 ₽ · unlocks Mechanic LL2 RSP-30 Blue barter and Mechanic LL3 Graphics card barter · All-Wheel Drive achievement.

Tick this step when the quest completes in-game and your BTR rep crosses 0.4.

BTR Quest (Price of Independence)

Complete The Price of Independence (BTR Driver)