HOW TO BEAT CEPH MASTERMIND: when he uses his little floaty guys, hide behind a concrete wall, when they shoot, then use stealth to run around the field behind the mastermind to shoot his exposed upper back, repeat a couple times. Then when the drop pods come in, kill all of the super charged ceph with the maximum armor thing, when the mastermind starts to resurrect them again, run behind with cloak and shoot his back, repeat. The repeat the step with the floaty guys. Explosives do work best on his back but ammo works just as well...