PAYDAY 2

PAYDAY 2

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[PATCHED] Solo Stealthing like a boss (No Dead Civs)
By CommanderCH
Check out this new guide: http://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232861394

This guide basicly teaches you how to solo stealth almost every heist in Payday 2 without the need of killing a single civilian.
Sadly almost everything shown here became patched after patch #24.
   
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Changelog
28.02.2014
-Guide became patched. Guide closed.

26.02.2014
-Added new Four Stores video (getting every loot)

24.02.2014
-Added new Mallcrasher video
-Added Mallcrasher description

10.02.2014
-Last required heist being added (video), video still uploading, being added later. (Mallcrasher)
-Confirmation that every heist is possible to being completed without the need of killing a single civilian.
-Video uploaded

01.02.2014
-Added new Pacifist Framing Frame video. (still uploading)

19.01.2014
-Updated "[DLC] Train Heist" section as it's no longer possible to see the vaults when looking through below the train gates.

15.01.2014
-Updated "Your Skills" section

14.01.2014
-Added Four Stores description
-Added Four Stores video

11.01.2014
-Added CAR-4 Rifle and Mosconi comparison at the "Your Weapons" section

07.01.2014
-Changed description for the tier bonus in "Your Skills"

02.01.2014
-Bank Heist description added.
-GO Bank Job, added Steam video

24.12.2013
-Fixed the "Your Weapons" section (screenshots were mixed up)
-Added "Gage Weapon Pack DLC" exceptions to the "Your Weapons" section (in case you do not own the DLC, I described what can be used)
-Yes I even work at christmas ._., Marry Chistmas guys.

19.12.2013
-Added more description to the GO Bank Job. Video on its way.

18.12.2013
-Added GO Bank job (not completed yet)

07.12.2013
-Changed "Your Skills" selection for exacter description of the tier bonus.
-Fixed link to my skillsetup in the Your Skills area

17.11.2013
-Added Train Heist Video

16.11.2013
-Added Train Heist (no video yet)

13.10.2013
-Added Framing Frame description

07.10.2013
-Added new section "Rats (Day 2)"
-Added Rats video
-Added new Firestarter video

06.10.2013
-Added new Bank Heist video
-Added new Diamond Store video

05.10.2013
-Added new Big Oil stealth video

03.10.2013
-Added new Ukrainian Job video

02.10.2013
-ALL VIDEOS WILL BE REMADE DUE TO PATCH #13 (check the notes)
-Added weapons description including screenshots
-Updated "Your Skills" section due to high inportance of high concealement
-Updated "Your Weapons" from Bernetti 9 Pistol to Deagle Pistol

28.09.2013
-Uploaded new Nightclub video

27.09.2013
-Updated Nightclub

26.09.2013
-Changed "Your Inventory" to "Your Skills"
-Added section "Your Weapons"
-Edited "Your Weapons" section
-Added new example skill tree on "Your Skills"
-Started describing Nightclub, got like 1/4 of it done or so...

24.09.2013
-Updated my version of the skilltree

22.09.2013
-Added Ukrainian Job description
-Changed "Bank Heist" title

21.09.2013
-Updated "Joker" skill on "Your Inventory" section
-Added Ukrainian Job solo stealth video without killing any civilian and getting every small loot
-Added Jewelry Store description (two ways to stealth it)

19.09.2013
-"Your Inventory" section created, including images and description why you should use it (it can still get improoved alot)

18.09.2013
-Guide created
Intro
Stealthing like a boss, keep them all alive!

You're up into stealthing and your friends are either busy or already playing with other people? Well, than it's time to work on something, what you basicly can do to train yourself and get experience of what you can do in stealth, and what you can't.
In this guide, you'll be taught of how to stealth almost every of the heists alone without losing your money on killing civilians, so as a normal guy would do out there, to rob a bank.
General
Is it possible to complete EVERY heist without killing a single civilian?
Yes. Watch the videos below and read through the descriptions if avaiable.

General information about stealthing.

First off, it is possible to stealth every heist except for Watchdogs and Rats (Day 2 excluded). And all of them are being stealthable on a solo run. Most of them are even stealthable, without needing to kill any civilian, so you can save your money there ;).
Your Skills
So here I'll list up all the skills you basicly need and which of these are obtional but helpful aswell.

Here[www.pd2skills.info]'s an example tree for good stealth runs (it's my current).

To first start off, what you must keep in mind is, that when you're going without two basic skills needed, you can only kill two guards on any day. Any further dead of a guard will immediatly blow up your stealth. Though there's some skills you can use, to kill more guards.
Are these skills needed to stealth?
I say NO because you can still stealth a few heists such as Jewelry Store, Framing Frame and Ukrainian without the need of any of these skills.

Smooth Talker
This is one of the basic skills you need (Ace not needed) to answer 4 pagers max. instead of just 2. Please don't forget! When you kill one guard, make note that no-one else will be able to see him the next 20 seconds, since answering the pager and bagging him away (see Cleaner skill below) takes some time. You can find it in the Mastermind tree, tier 3 to the left.




Dominator
This is also a highly recommended skill you need. With Dominator you can cuff one guard, so you would actually be able to stop 5 guards in total from blowing up your stealth, when you have the Smooth Talker skill already. Also this skill can be found in the Mastermind tree, tier 3 to the right.




Joker
With this skill you can convert one cuffed guard to your teammember so he'll fight for you. I recommend to use it like this: When killed 4 guards and bagged them away, go for the 5th guard and cuff him anywhere (not close to a cam of course). If you see there's a 6th guard annoying you, convert your cuffed to your teammate and go cuff the 6th guard and you're all clean. So with this skill you can take out 6 guards in the end. You can find this skill on the Mastermind tree, tier 4 to the right.


Cable Guy
With the cable guy you can simply cuff civilians faster, when acing it you can cuff 6 instead of 2 civilians. Pretty helpful on most of the heists. You can find this skill in the Mastermind tree, tier 1 to the left.




Cleaner
You'll most likely need this skill to be able to move the dead bodies away. You can also bag and corpse civilians, but that's not the point here for this guide, it's just used for guards and other guys being able to kill you. You can find this skill on the Ghost tree, tier 2 to the right.




Lockpicking Expert
This skill is actually one of my favourites, since you can picklock much faster with it and you can picklock regular safes. Sometimes there's useful stuff in the safes needed and you want it to be "fast" (45 seconds) and invisible instead of drilling a long time and hoping that no-one sees the drill. You can find this skill in the Ghost tree, tier 5 to the left.



ECM Overdrive
Opening security doors will be easy with this skill, if you have two jammers, even better. I highly suggest to get this skill so you can forget the keycard and speed up certaing things alot. With the jammer itself you can already do lots of stuff making your stealth life easier. You can find this skill also in the Ghost tree, tier 5 middle.



Ghost Tier 4 Bonus
As you get +5 concealement with this bonus, it's on high importance to unlock that tier for the best stealthing possible. You'll need it for your weapon selection. Even a small change to the concealement has a high affect to your detection risk level. Just use as many skillpoints as aquired on any skill in that skilltree to unlock the tier and its bonus. In this case, you need to spend 20 skill points on the Ghost tree. You can see the +5 skill at you armory (not the weapons).
Your Weapons
I prefer using the below two weapons, CAR-4 Rifle and Deagle Pistol, for stealthing due to high damage, lowest detection risk and best defense if your stealth part is over. Only use your secondary weapon, so your pistol, to stealth as it only has a silencer on!
I took the deagle pistol for stealthing due to lowest detection risk, high damage and good accuracy. You can really use a high damage pistol so you musn't always aim for the head to kill them with one shot. You'll like it when stealthing on like Firestarter or Big Oil. Below are what I used as mods and here comes the Ghost Tier 4 Bonus handy.

Why do I take the CAR-4 Rifle instead of the Mosconi?

When looking at the above screenshots, the CAR-4 Rifle already has 2 more concealement, meaning that you can put two more - concealements to the Deagle Pistol. The above screenshots are made with the highest avaiable concealement possible. Also, the Mosconi is way worse compared to the CAR-4 Rifle. NOTE: The CAR-4 Rifle equips the Gage Weapon Pack DLC only avaiable Grip, this is why it has two more concealement. Otherwise it has the same as the Mosconi.

Gage Weapon Pack DLC advantage:
In case you own the Gage Weapon Pack DLC, you can modify your weapons a little bit. I used the Firebreather to increase the damage of my CAR-4 Fifle to also make it a better use in failed stealth attempts that lead you to fight.
If you do not own that DLC, don't use the Firebreather and use the Ergo Grip instead of the Straight Grip.

CAR-4 Rifle:


NOTE: Do not use the Firebreather if you do not use the Straight Grip from the Gage Weapon Pack DLC!




NOTE: Use the Ergo Grip if you do not own the Gage Weapon Pack DLC!






Deagle Pistol:






Four Stores
I suggest starting the heist in the chinese store. Always move to the back and wait for the two civilians to come back there and tie them down. Wait behind the door for them. It's a female with a red skirt and a male with a pink shirt. If they are not in the chinese store, you won't have any civilians moving back there. Also don't forget to take out the camera in that room. ;)
Now the first things is to take the guard out. You can either wait for him to move inside the room (could take a while) or simply take him out in front of the room. But when you do this, make sure no civilian is coming in to screw your stealth up. :)
When you're done, bag him away in the room. Now keep on looking around for more civilians and tie them down at good spots (hard to explain in words). Or bypass them and go for the safes and cashiers near the windows (close to the backdoor). Make sure to get everything there. Crack it, don't drill it. Civilians in the coffee shop may see the drill.
If you're done, you can also take out the camera which is behind the chinese store (ontop of the backdoor outside).
Congratulations, you completed the first store!
Now I suggest to check if the ATM is there outside of the chinese store, if so, you have to get it open at the right time, simply check around for civilians on the street. When being done, cross the streets at the right side of the pear store and walk around the two stores to open the closed door. So you don't have to do that anymore when you're in troubles and the van arrives there. When done, watch out for the cams inside the pear store (there's one inside the pear store and one inside the room). Take them out first and cuff the guard as quick as possible. Then down the civilians and place the drill if necessary (there might be 3 safes max, 2 inside the pear store, 1 inside the room). Also there might be two cashiers next to the two small safes. Be quick to get the civs downed in the store next to the pear store (always forget its name) because they might see the civilians through the window inside the pear store. Keep running between the two stores and make sure you don't forget the ATM in that stupid named store. There might be two safes in that stupid named store. A big one inside the room and a small one in the main store. Also there may be two cashiers and always two cams.
Once you're done with all that, keep on going to the coffee shop (make sure the cams do not see any suspicous stuff). There's several cashiers around in there aswell as there might be two safes. However, once you have to down civilians, it's always a running around. Just make sure you remember where the civilians are downed and keep fixing the drills ONE BY ONE. I once tried to fix two drills, alarm went off. So always fix one drill, run around and down everybody again. Fix the next drill.
Sometimes you have a lucky setup of the heist (like I had in my run) and then it's way easier to complete the heist.

Jewelry Store
Stealthing Jewelry Store is actually one of the easiest. And there are also different ways on how you want to stealth it.

Smash and Grab:
If you want to make it quick and clean, I suggest you to take an ECM Jammer or even better, two of them. Your aim is it to secure 8 bags as quick as possible. Just hang on the mask and rush in, if there's a guard inside, or cops on the street, place the jammer and quickly just go for the bags. Throw them on the street and quickly secure them as fast as possible. If you have no guard and no cops outside, you don't even need to place the jammer. You can simply run it, take one bag after another and keep downing the civs all inside the Jewelry Store. If you want an example on this, scroll down and watch the video. It's a speedrun of mine completing it in 1:02.

Full Stealth, getting everything
If you want to stealth it by getting every single loot and bag, you have to act much different. What I suggest you to do is, go behind to the backalley and take all the guards out there first (NOTE: Not in front of the windows!). When done that, get inside by picking one of the windows and take cuff the civilians in there (if there are any). Get every small loot now in the two rooms in the back of the store before you go to the front and get the other stuff. After getting everything in the rooms in the back of the building, you have two different ways to get everything else. Either you get on the street to shot the cops and cuff the civs on the street, or you go inside the store, down everyone in there (don't cuff!) and try to secure as many bags as possible and get the stuff in the end. Don't forget, there could be a guard in the lobby! If that's the fact, kill him and get every civ on the ground first before answering the pager. If you can, you can also cuff him (much better). Sometimes you're lucky and don't get detected by any civilian on the street. Below you can find a video of mine, fully stealthing it with cops on the street.

Mallcrasher
Target #1: Take down the guards
There's either only one guard (lucky you, you just have the best stealth setup), 5 or 6 guards walking around. With 6 guards you'll have to keep 1 of them alive as it's barely impossible to cuff one and convert another and then move around with him and hold everyone in tact (most likely Control Freak used).
So. Once you have a 5 guard setup, you'll have to cuff one of them. But which one is the best spot? The best spot definetly is back there in that small room with the ATM machine at the very back of the Mall. Once you cuffed him there, there's only one spot where the guard can see the cuffed guard and even if he see's him there's still a high enough chance to kill that guard answer his pager and bag him away. You can wait below the staircase for the other guards to show up. Always take note of the civilians moving in aswell as these guys sometimes move together with the guard to a very bad spot where you probably will be done with stealthing already. Simply take your time and wait for the civs to move away enough first. Best spots to take out guards downstairs are: Below the staircase, when waiting at the staircase, to the right corner (near the bank where civilians sometimes sit down) and to the left side of it, behind those doors (rarely a guard goes there). There's either 2 or 3 guards moving around downstairs. When a guard is moving downstairs through the staircase you're waiting below, then that guard will move upstairs at the other staircase again. You won't be able to take him out downstairs.
Once you killed those 2-3 guards, move your way accross the Mall to the very beginning of where you went up the staircase the first time (Move ahead at the very right side of the walls). Once over there, use the back-staircase to get up. Wait up there for guards to come through. The glasses are walls, so the civilians won't see them through the glasses (not the store glasses though!). You can wait for the other guards to come across there to take them out. Sometimes also civilians come across there, so better don't cuff the guard there.

Target #2: Time for the cops
Once you're done with the guards, move downstairs and go all the way around the Mall. Move around the van like shown in the video and take those cops out as shown in the video. It's the best possibility that no-one see's them.

Target #3: Let's clear the Jewelry Store!
Alright, you got all trouble guys out of your way. Now get up again and tie down the jewelry store manager, once there's no civilian close to him (he might be a little bit buggy). Once he's downed, go for the jewelry bags at first and move them all down (if there's a safe, crack it open but always look for civilians coming in!). Once moving with the last bag, also take all the small loot. Secure all the stuff by moving around the Mall once again.

Target #4: Done with the loot, time to smash the ♥♥♥♥
Right, now you got your stuff. Go for the safes if you want them to, however there's only one money bag. Anyways, head for the car store first and destroy it be shoting 15 deagle shots at it and destroy all 4 glasses from the car aswell as the mirrors from it. This should give you 10k. Also go for the wine store and cuff the civilian there. When destroying everything it should give you around 25k. Next I suggest you to move the way across upstairs and clear the store with the bags. These bags should give you the rest of the money you need. You can also destroy all the signs and stuff what I did in my video to get some more small extra loot. That's basicly all you need to complete it. :) Good luck with that hard heist!

Nightclub
IMPORTANT: Nightclub becomes new escape paths because of patch #13!

Nightclub is one of the thoughest heists to complete on stealth without needing to kill any civilians since there are so many random spawns of the guards which easily blow up your stealth and also some of the civilians sometimes have eyes in the back of their head...

So I recommend you here to NOT go for every single loot as it took me a few tries.

Also it is not necessary to escape through the backalley or over a balcony.

Get to work now!

So let's go for it. As it's almost a tutorial, get inside and move to the back where you have access to the old office and the fightroom (leading downstairs). Look around if there are any cameras around (there are either 4 or 0). If there are cams, two are in the kitchen, one in the small hallway looking towards the DJ and the last one in the room where you have access to the backalley and to two offices. When you now put on your mask, first take out the camera and then kill the guard(s), you'll most likely only be able to kill one of the guards if there are several, just wait for some of them move away or find a spot, where the other guards will not see the one you're about to knock out first.

When cleaned the room, I hope you brought your jammers with ECM Overdrive to speed this up. :) Otherwise, go for the drill leading up to the old office and wait for the guards coming in and immediatly kill them (usually the civs in the kitchen won't see them). Bag him away somewhere save. Go for the next 2 cameras you can see if there are any (one in the small hallway right above when entering and one in the kitchen right above when entering).

You can set up the 2nd drill when the first drill is done because most likely you'll then have knocked all the guards out already moving around. Go up the old office and hope that there are no guards up there otherwise you can most likely forget your stealth run. :) You sometimes have the situation only having one guard up there, even then it's hard to stealth because civilians see the dead body inside the dance room on the upper floor. Sometimes you also have 1 or 2 civilians there. You should be able to tie them. Drill the safe and also hope that no-one see's it on the upper floor (or picklock it of course). Whenever a safe has the money, wait for the van and don't care about other stuff than that. Escape paths will be explained below.

After you're done with the office above and we are now thinking that you don't have the money bags yet, go down to the fighters room after your drill is done or you opened the door with a jammer. I suggest to use the keycard at the 3rd door, leading upstairs to the new office. Sometimes it's not there. Anyways, if you should still not have the money bags now, go through the backalley and tie down the Nightclub manager if he's there, he'll always give you a keycard. Sometimes he's chilling in the kitchen. Well, now go inside the other way and take care of the poker table. If there's no guard inside, check if the civs will stand up in front of the door of the kitchen so a civ or guard could see them, you'll have to take the guard there out first (risky) OR quickly open the door leading up to the office and go inside with your keycard. Note that there could be a cam right above that door. Also not that there will always be two civs moving around inside the kitchen or the bar right in front of the kitchen (leading to the disco). These are most likely the biggest pain and making you ♥♥♥♥ up the stealth run because other guys spot them or whatever. If I were you, avoid them and just go up to office to get your money.

Escape

Van at the streets

Due to patch #13 it is no longer possible to crouch behind the DJ or go through the dancefloor since the detection bar grows too fast. So, if you do not have the additional office leading to floor 2 directly, giveup, when the van is not at the backalley. Otherwise, you have two different ways to escape (maybe). Depending on the civs being up there... Anyways. You can either escape through the balcony(s) IF you have no civ up there or go through the main-entrance, where you just have to take note about the civs at the cashiers not spotting you and any incoming civ or guard coming from the dancefloor. Remember! If any civ sees you right in front of them, they really see you, as in real-life.

Van at the backalley

I don't think I need to explain that.

Ukrainian Job
Handled like Jewelry Store...
Ukrainian Job actually almost works the same as Jewelry Store, just that it won't work to stealth by smash and grab alone. ;) Basicly use the same way as the regular stealth on Jewelry Store, go behind to the backalley and take the guards there out first, NOTE: There could be a civilian looking down from the window above! So really take care where you take them out! After the backalley is clear, get inside by the camera room (meaning there, where the guard is chilling at the camera feed). After picking the window, quickly kill the guard (I suggest shoting) because he'll see the opened window and be immediatly detected. Answer the pager and grab him away from the hallway. When done that, pick or drill the first safe there, you can either wait and hope for the Tiara to be in there and escape right after, or already clear the other side and get that safe open there aswell. If you're going there, take the cam out to the right first, and look if there's a guard inside and kill him aswell (or cuff), after that down the civs and answer the pager (if you killed him) and get the stuff. When being done with that one aswell, get into the hallway and look above you, there should be a cam, take it out. In the lobby itself, there are two cams, to the front left and back right, you need to be quick since one cam detects the other. Take these cams out first and then down the civs there again and go for the guard if there's one in the lobby. When having done that you should be clean to get all loot. Just watch out for civs on the street you might have to stop from escaping. And don't forgot the lovely hotdog-stand with the police...
Example video below.

Diamond Store
Description coming up, stay put...

Bank Heist (/Cash/Deposit/Gold)
I guess many of you have already succefully completed this heist in stealth without any problems. However, the basic idea is to take out the guards first before you run in there. The problem is that the two civs behind the desk and the civs in the office at the back are able to push the instant alarm-button making the stealth failed really fast.
Most of the times you already start the heist with a guard being somewhere outside or being on his way of going outside of the bank. Either he's behind the bank at the parking or on the roof. Sometimes he leaves the bank at the front and takes the long way all around the bank over the street to get to the parking.
Note that there can be cameras outside the bank. One of them near the backdoor close to the big fence and one of them on the roof. Use those two cams to get guards outside and kill them without any problems.
One of the bigger problems might also be the bank manager. You'll have to cuff him if he's outside already or otherwise try to cuff him inside the little room with the printer. If you get the keycard from the bank manager, use it to open the camera room and take the guard there out as soon as possible. Cameras are a problem on almost every heist.
There are only 3 moving guards so maybe you're able to get them out inside the bank too. There's only few spots where you can take them out inside.
Inside the room with the printers, at the bank managers office (though watch out for the 3 civs inbetween the alarm button and the bank manager's office, use crouch-jump to get past them without them seeing you), at the spawn of the vault at the office (doesn't work when the one civ is sitting there near the bank manager's office) and behind the desk when he's moving behind it.
Don't forget the civilian outside of the bank on the sitting-bank. Civilians on the streets shouldn't be able to see anything at all. So you'll only have to go for the civs at the desk first to prevent them pushing the alarm button (might be buggy sometimes) and right after go for the office. Once you have them on the ground, keep running for the office to down those guys there and then the lobby. You'll have easy time to place the drill while doing that and fix it every now and then. Also there's enough time to secure the bags inside the bank or crack one deposit box before needing to down them again.
NOTE: This doesn't have to be done when the vault is at the office. When the vault is at the office, simply take out the guards as written above already and then only take care about the civs at the office and not the lobby. You can go for the lobby civs at the end of the heist.

Rats (Day 2)
Description coming up...

Framing Frame
Day 1:

To start off, I suggest you to immediatly enter the bathroom and if a guard is opening the door for you, you already can get one of them down. :) There are usually 4 guards moving around, one always staying in the lobby and one in the camera room summing up to 6 guards in total.
You can take all the moving guards out inside the bathroom if you really want a 100% safe stealth, but it will take some time until they all moved there once. :) You'll have to check both sides from the bathroom door, the lobby and Hall E to check for guards coming in, and when you see the coming to the door, you can stand below the dryers to make them move in. Time it, so you don't get detected and the guard really moves in. I suggest you to practise shortly on a non pro-job. When the guard is moving in, go inside the toilet. If you wait behind the wall right around the corner, he'll immediatly detect you and when you kill him, he could drop back to where the door is open, so other guards could detect him. I suggest you not taking all guards out in there. When you're done with 2, I suggest you to take out the cam in Hall E and let the guard come there. Cuff him, so you can kill the 2nd guard, if he's close to him aswell. Take note that the cam on Hall D could be in a bad position, making your stealth blow up when the 2nd guard will see your cuffed one. Just quickly take it out after you cuffed the one guard. If you have lasers at Hall E-D, find a solution that fits best, not making a guard being in detected-status in Hall D. :)
When we're talking about lasers. Don't run through them. There's a small gap where you can throw the paintings like right above the top laser (I don't mean the very small windows underneath the roof), but don't think of going through it. However, guards may move through it when being converted, you'll still be all good. Right, when taken out the moving guards, head over to the one in the lobby and check for the camera in the lobby. There's always one and two of them will see the guard when you kill/cuff him. After that, you can just take out every cam. You could also open the security room with an ECM jammer and kill/cuff the guard in there to turn off the cams, just make sure you can convert one guard because then you'll have to take care of 6 guards.
If you want to do a pacifist run there, I suggest you training on throwing the paintings through these small gaps underneath the roof. It's very helpful in many cases. If you throw badly, it can get stuck up there so the guards can see it. It happened to me often enough already.

Day 2:

All you need to know is, that you'll have to cuff 3 repairmen on the street near the escape van. That's it.

Day 3:

This is in my opinion the hardest part. You can take off the lamps at the walls, so you'll see the guards with their flashlights more easy (very helpful if you try to pacifist-stealth). I always suggest you to check out the office first. There could be a cam looking at the door, though at the correct position you can still pick the door (or shot it if it takes too long for you). There could be a harddrive right there at the window (and a keycard on the table). I don't suggest you to take out that camera. It's too risky that the guards on the roof will blow your stealth. Also don't kill the camera downstairs in the office. That's even worse. Sneak through it and make sure there's on guard in the office (when moving down the stairs, check at the right side and left side of the pillar. The one on the left side is most likely at the best spot so you can't see him right away). There could be a harddrive below the camera's position, and some other stuff like a laptop, tablet-pc or mobile-phone on the table with the keyboard. I always suggest you to take out the guards either on the roof at the very back or in the bedroom. They're the most safety spots to take them out. Don't search for the vault yet, as guards could move in the pre-vault room and blow your stealth. Just search the whole place and think of spots being safe to take out guards. Remember, 5 guards. Kill 4 and cuff one. Take note of the 3 cameras all over the map. There are always 3. When you search for the items, look around right in the big living room to the office, at both sides where couches are: At the bookshelfs, at the tv, at the table, at the cupboards, on the couches, and on that cupboard near the couch. Check the bedroom for both small tables and the chair. Check the cupboard between bedroom and kitchen for stuff. Also check the kitchen itself for stuff. And search again near the couches in the big living room (I call it gallery or lobby). There could be stuff on it, or near the small tables around. There are two more tables, one being close to a pillar, having a laptop, and on the other table is a vase, there could be the tablet-pc. The tablet-pc could also be on that sort of balcony up there, on one of the cupboards. It should be all easy to go, when having knocked out all guards and cams. Just after being done, search a good way to transport the coke into the vault. You can destroy one of the windows on the roof to maybe speed it up a little bit. When going for the gold, Just get to the keyboard, answer it and run as fast as possible to the vault. You should be able to ALWAYS get one gold out when you have the fast pick up skill. When you can run faster, you should be able to get out 2 or 3, depending on where the vault actually is and what ways you're running.

This video is a how to get every loot and bag. I tried a pacifist run, but failed at Day 3:

Here's a full pacifist run without killing anyone or cuffing any guard. Of course taking every single gold and secure it.
Big Oil
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[DLC] Train Heist
I did this video here with a specific challenge (also being on my Hardcore Stealthing guide).

Stealthing:

Anyways, stealthing this heist alone could be stupid enough already because of having too many guards.
There's a random amount of 5-7 guards and also, they can be inside the train (0-2 of them). So basicly, you need luck having only 5-6 guard. If you're lucky you have the 7th guard in the train also making it possible for you to complete it if you open the only necessary doors and the guard being behind another door.

Simply find some spots (like downstairs and at the building with that tons of planks there) where you can easily kill the guards and no other guards seeing that one. When you got your 4 guards killed, simply cuff the next one and convert him right away, run for the next guard and cuff that one aswell (if there's even 6 guards moving around out there). After that, search the 4-5 civs and cuff them aswell. Two of them have a keycard. I suggest you to open the 3 necessary doors from the one side being closer to the boat's arrival.

IMPORTANT:

If you're going for the 40 bags achievement, you may not throw the yellow shell bags too far or they will explode! There are exactly 40 shell bags, not more, not less. Also transport them down to the boat's arrival place first, before your secure the turret. When you secure the turret, you only have 15mins left on Normal, to get the bags into the boat and 5mins left on Overkill. The first boat arriving will only take the turret parts, the second one only the shell bags. So you have to secure the turret first before you're able to secure the shell bags.

I'll also tell everything in the video again if you're interested to listen to it.

How to get to the Train Heist?

If you want to solo stealth it, you need some friends to help you out for the first day maybe as it is kind of hard on Overkill difficulty and not stealthable. There are 5 different heists where you can collect the blueprint in one of the vans to get the second bonus day, Train Heist. Afterwards they have to leave to make it a solo stealth for you, so most likely, people will be stealthing this with others anyways.

The below video was done before they patched the option to see the vaults when looking through below the train gates, this is why it was way easier for me to complete the stealth.

GO Bank Job
[NOTE]This is done with no dead civilians but not with every loot!

This heist is totally based on luck if you can complete it alone. There's so few spots where you can take out the guards inside and so many risks all over the map and also, there's so much random stuff appearing.

If you have luck, you have the vault open right away. I think in this case it's most likely possible to complete the heist and you should take as few risks as possible.

You can get the Gensec's right at the spawn which makes it barely impossible to complete or atleast extremly difficult. Bain's talking to hope that these guys are moving away soon. I don't know if they even do move away.

Not getting the Gensec's from the phone call with Hillary will be the best thing you can get, as you will then only have 4 guards killed, cuffed or converted. Just don't mess up with the lasers at that moment and hope to get a money bag as soon as possible.

Most likely you will have to run around on the street to get a few civs down. Was never able to get around that.

If you get lucky, you get the Gensec's and the additional guard very late, so you can already go and crack a few deposit boxes. If this is the case, don't care about the additional guys coming in and try to screw your run! You should have one more ECM Jammer in your inventory to make it free for you to run all over the map and escape, as soon as you got a bag.

You'll see in the video below, how to act best to get it done.

Author Info
=TM$= Commander (CH) is the owner of this guide and also the owner of all the solo stealth videos. Some of them have been recorded during a livestream causing a probable bad quality or inappropriate content in the video.

Some videos have not been done on stealth without killing any civilian because he's basicly running to get every single loot on the map aswell.

Videos of other players won't be uploaded nor will this guide being editable for other authors.

For corrections such as grammatical mistakes etc. leave a comment or PM =TM$= Commander (CH).
53 Comments
CommanderCH  [author] 28 Feb, 2014 @ 4:41am 
Guide now makred as [outdated]. New guide for exclusive Death Wish difficulty coming up: http://steamproxy-script.pipiskins.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=232861394
CommanderCH  [author] 27 Feb, 2014 @ 4:26pm 
I think I'll have to update this since there's now a Death Wish difficulty...
hirou 27 Feb, 2014 @ 10:29am 
I'm very, very impressed. I didn't even think some of these were possible to solo, especially Go Bank.
CommanderCH  [author] 26 Feb, 2014 @ 2:08pm 
New Four Stores video added (getting Every Loot and Bag this time...)
CommanderCH  [author] 24 Feb, 2014 @ 1:18pm 
Added new Mallcrasher video.
CommanderCH  [author] 23 Feb, 2014 @ 2:12pm 
I'm going to update the Mallcrasher video soon. I've done it with 5 guards now, so the common setup. I'll also update the description somewhen.
Meztihn 13 Feb, 2014 @ 12:19am 
Thanks for explain. I think the problem was that I was shooting by one patron.
CommanderCH  [author] 12 Feb, 2014 @ 11:48am 
The trick is it, that once you shot, everyone is alerted. However this doesn't mean that they go down immediatly. You'll have to shot for a while at the beginning to get them all downed (see example on Mallcrasher, I even had to cry at one of them to get her down). Also, I think it matters how loud your weapon is. The louder it is, the further the Control Freak is working. E.g. on the Go Bank, when you are at the very right side of the beginning, the civilians on the very left side won't hear it when you shot. Therefor you'll have to make sure that you Control the whole area by running around a little bit.
Meztihn 12 Feb, 2014 @ 8:44am 
Thanks for this awesome guide. Can you explain mechanic of shots for the crowd control? I've tried to get all down, then just shooting from time to time (every ~10 seconds), but one of civilians called the cops.
CommanderCH  [author] 10 Feb, 2014 @ 9:27am 
Mallcrasher completed without killing a single civilian on solo run, every loot and bag (even pacifist lol). Hope you like it. :) Video still uploading.