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• Thalassophobia achievement

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John Wick Heists

Thalassophobia achievement in PAYDAY 2: Crimewave Edition

Yacht Heist - Finish the heist within 6 minutes on OVK or above.

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The Yacht Heist

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The Yacht Heist  is a stealth-only one-day heist for  PAYDAY 2  released with the  John Wick Heists Pack  in  Update #131 .

• 1 Objectives
• 2 Walkthrough
• 4 Variations
• 5 The FBI Files

Objectives [ ]

• Hack the laptop.
• Secure money bundles.
• Hack the server room open.
• Gain access to the server room.
• Overheat the servers.
• Use override switches.
• Steal the hard drive.
• Secure additional loot or escape.

Walkthrough [ ]

The crew starts below deck right next to the server room, which cannot be accessed until near the end of the heist. Players must make their way around the yacht to find an indicated laptop located in a few specific spots on either decks. Hacking the laptop will yield the colored tag marking where the money is stashed (though this clue will also be seen next to the laptop) and the four locations where the money is stashed.

The stashes can be located in any of the four levels of the yacht, which the laptop will specify which deck and what location they are stashed in including food carts, lifeboat storage, private rooms, cigar/wine collections, aquariums or book shelves. At this point, it is recommended that the crew split up to search each deck individually to speed up the process. Caution should be taken as each deck can have multiple guards patrolling the same area, however their patrol routes are fixed and thus easily maneuvered. Civilians may also be present in certain locations prompting players to either avoid passing through or to tie/kill them. There are also artifacts and paintings to be secured should players wish to earn a little extra pay. Loot and body bags can be thrown out the windows off the yacht to be secured or to be disposed.

Once all stashes all secured, Bain will prompt the crew to return to hack the laptop to grant them access to the server room (20 seconds) located below deck to steal the hard drive. The server room can be entered either from the starting point or near the kitchen. Once inside, the crew needs to shut off four machines which feed the servers coolant. The path needed to reach the coolant pumps is randomized and sometimes requires maneuvering a maze of lasers. Shutting all four coolant pumps, the crew will then need to press four manual override switches in order to open the hard drive storage. Each override switch has a delay before needing to press the next, during which players should avoid the guards patrolling the room as their paths navigate around the switches. On lower difficulties there is only one guard patrolling this area and on even the highest difficulty, there will only be two. The crawlspaces will have active lasers, thus players must be careful and time when they can move through them.

Upon pressing all four override switches, the players can then take the hard drive stored in a glass case near the switches and escape through the doors leading back to the spawn point.

Strategy [ ]

• Loot is secured by throwing it anywhere into the ocean. On some decks, there are windows that can be opened for loot to be thrown out of. The same applies for body bags that need to be disposed of.
• The guards will not change their patrol routes when you open up doors.
• Take note that ECMs will prevent the override switches from being used, hence the final sequence cannot be ECM rushed.
• Unlike the other stealth heists, there are no hostile security cameras present regardless of difficulty. Therefore, the only threats are the numerous patrolling guards around the yacht.

Variations [ ]

• The laptop the crew needs to hack can be located on any of the four levels, with some being harder to reach than others due to the number of guards needed to bypass.
• The openings underneath the catwalks where the server cooling towers are may vary, which in some cases may split the valves into several separate areas and/or forcing the player(s) to maneuver past several alarm lasers. At other times the openings will just sit open and be accessible from the stair landing without the player having to sneak their way past any laser at all.

The FBI Files [ ]

Attendees at a fundraiser party for Washington mayor McKendrick aboard a yacht in New York Harbor reported a suspicious-looking smaller boat approaching the yacht for a few moments and then leaving.

My Notes:  Probably nothing. But keeping an eye on this one given the Washington connection and the Payday Gang's recent antics in New York.

A player experiencing lag or other desync issues interacting with one of the searchable locations can cause it to glitch and not activate, thus rendering the loot inside irretrievable and the mission unable to be completed by failing to meet the quota.

• The Yacht Heist is the fourth stealth-only heist in the game after  Shadow Raid ,  Car Shop , and  Murky Station , or fifth, should one count  Flash Drive . It is also the first DLC stealth-only heist.
• The tags on the openable containers you find have a QR Code on them. When scanned, it translates to "Shazan Box Enterprise" and the number next to the ID is a hexidecimal which when decoded comes out to spell out "Fishy business".
• All the tags say 'subrosa' on them. This is probably derived from the Latin phrase meaning 'under the rose' and used to denote secrecy.
• Rather curiously, several internal files referencing the heist had existed since the game launched, and similar strings could be found by unpacking the asset packages for  PAYDAY: The Heist  as well. This hints at the possibility of a similar heist being cut from the first game, before having its assets recycled into this final iteration.
• 1 The High Table
• 2 John Wick
• 3 Winston Scott

• Stealth Heists
• City of Gold Campaign
• Heists contracted by Vlad
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The Black Cat heist is a PAYDAY 2 heist released on October 13, 2021, offered by Vlad while Locke provides the mission voiceovers. Vlad requests the crew to get revenge against the Golden Dagger Triad for torturing him in The Ukrainian Prisoner heist. It involves the crew hitting a triad-owned casino ship for a vault full of money in either stealth or in loud, with some help from Jiu Feng .

• 1 Objectives
• 2 Preplanning
• 3.1 Kang's Safe
• 4.1 Maximise experience
• 5 Variations
• 6 Mayhem+ changes
• 7 Achievements & Trophies

Objectives [ ]

Route taken if the alarm is never raised.

• Speak to the informant (only if civilian entrance is chosen)
• Aquire your gear/inside information from the bathroom.

The next two tasks can be done in any order. Li Deng

• Enter the spa area to find Li Deng
• Search the side rooms for his safe
• Drill the safe open, or use Li Deng's keys
• Memorize the code inside the safe
• Enter the casino to find Xun Kang
• Enter the storage closet and plant the bug
• Find Kang's cabin and acquire the business card
• Wait for Vlad to lure Kang out
• Kill or tie Kang and grab his hand

Once both tasks are completed, the route becomes the same.

• Enter the casino and find the vault
• Enter the control room and hack the slot machines.
• Disable the vault lasers
• Enter the vault code and scan Kang's hand
• Secure the required amount of cash
• Either secure the remaining cash or set off an ink bomb
• Lower a lifeboat

Route taken if the alarm is raised at any point.

• Enter the spa area
• Search the side rooms for Deng's safe
• Drill the safe open
• Shoot the meeting room glass
• Acquire thermite from the lower deck storage (can be done at any point)
• Burn the cable hanging the chandelier
• Begin a hack on the vault security
• Disable the firewall
• Finish the hack
• Either secure the remaining cash or burn it with a can of diesel
• Reach the front of the boat and signal the escape (requires diesel canister)
• Wait for the escape to arrive

Route taken if the C4 is detonated at any point before the vault is opened.

• Acquire the c4 from the lower deck storage
• Plant four blocks of c4 on the back wall of the vault
• Set saws on the vault supports
• Assemble the winch in the courtyard once it is delivered
• Pull the vault out into the courtyard
• Destroy the marked snipers & turrets
• Wait for the helicopter to arrive
• Secure the magnet to the vault
• Lower the ladder and wait for the escape to arrive

Preplanning [ ]

Players are given a total of 10 favors to work with in this heist. Most of the preplanning assets are conveniences to heisters, as the spiked drink which will help when dealing with Li Deng and unlocked doors which can make map traversal easier. The entry plan drastically changes how the heist is played, with the stealth entries tasking you with taking on those who wronged Vlad and stealing or destroying the contents of the vault. The loud entry plays out similarly to Panic Room , tasking you with blowing up the walls surrounding the vault, sawing the support beams, and airlifting the vault out of the yacht.

Walkthrough [ ]

Depending on the choice of infiltrating the yacht, the heist can begin in the following places:

• Guest cabin (hidden, without equipment)
• Helicopter entry (assault)
• Deck for personnel (covertly, with masks and equipment)
• Stealth Entries

After receiving information from the mole, either by having a personal meeting with him or from an abandoned case, you need to find Xun Kang or Li Deng. Xun Kang has a meeting with the triad leader and another member of the triad, while Li Deng spends time at a massage parlor. Xun Kang must be lured out by calling his phone, finding his number in one of the rooms, or melting one of the ropes of the chandelier to break the glass of the negotiation room, and open Li Deng's safe with a drill, or with the key that Li Deng has, however, when the alarm is raised the safe needs to be drilled. Once the prosthesis and vault code are known, the vault itself will have to be found. If the alarm has not been raised, then it is necessary to hack the slot machine system to distract the guards, and then find the shield and cut the wire to turn off the lasers. If there is an assault then you need to find and hack the storage security system, once the hacking stops and you have to turn off the firewall in the meeting room of Xun Kang. After taking away the required number of bags and taking away the rest, or burning it, an escape will become available.

When going loud with the heli entry, you need to find explosives on the personnel deck and blow up the wall behind the vault. Wait for the winch parts, install them, and pull the vault out. In order for Bile to be able to fly up, he will have to kill two snipers and destroy the helicopter turret , after attaching the room to the magnet, wait for Jiu Fong and escape.

Kang's Safe [ ]

In the closet of Kang's cabin is a Titan safe locked with a keypad. This safe can not be drilled open in the typical fashion, and requires a code only Kang knows. Once Kang has been lured out from the meeting room, the player must take him as a hostage. Once tied up, the crew must escort Kang back to his cabin, where his safe will unlock once he approaches it. This can be done in both stealth and loud. It can also be done on any difficulty, though the related achievement will not unlock unless playing on overkill difficulty.

Strategy [ ]

Stand on top of the metal lions to place the thermite

Maximise experience [ ]

With how the heist is set up, there are multiple different experience totals that the crew can end with. Experience totals can change not only depending on the route taken, but also depending on the order that separate tasks are completed in.

The civilian entrance will always grant an extra 1.5k experience more than both the stealth and loud entrances, despite the crew's intended route.

Players can also get extra experience in loud if they destroy a single money stack when emptying the vault. Each stack nets the crew 500 experience. This totals to 8k experience if every stack is secured. However, the game will award 2k experience if the diesel canister is used inside the vault, regardless of the total cash left in the vault. Therefore, players can gain an additional 1.5k experience if they burn a single stack of money when emptying the vault in loud. This does not apply in stealth.

This table shows the base amount of experience gained per route. This assumes the crew starts in civilian mode, secures all available bags*, and in *loud/C4 only; destroys one cash bundle in the vault.

With the given calculations, a crew will gain the most experience if they first start in civilian mode, do the entire loud route (finding Li Deng first grants an extra 500 exp), and then plant the c4 just before opening the vault. This nets the crew an additional 13k experience on completion. This does almost double the total time the heist takes, which may not be worth while in the long run.

Variations [ ]

• The location of Li Deng's safe will vary between two rooms.
• The vault code is always randomized.
• Kang's cabin will always be randomized.
• The smuggler's cabin will always be randomized.

Mayhem+ changes [ ]

• All cameras have been replaced with their Titan variant
• A civilian now spawns in one of the guest cabins for each side, as well as the massage room that doesn't contain the safe.
• The civilian in the casino control room is replaced with a triad.

Achievements & Trophies [ ]

• Permanent Achievements

The following teasers were added on September 22, 2021, and removed sometime later at an unknown date

• Land Lubber Pickpoket , First Mate of Thieving , Captain Heister and Master of the Poop Deck all reference pirates.
• Sink the Titanic obviously references the RMS Titanic , a massive cruise ship that was sunk by an iceberg on its maiden voyage.
• Second Star to the Right, then Straight On 'Til Morning are the directions to 'Neverland' that Peter Pan gives in the 1953 Peter Pan Movie .
• Finding Li Deng second does not trigger an XP reward of 4,000 like finding Xun Kang second does in stealth. Similarly the 500 XP reward in loud is also missing
• If the Civilian mode crew member is the only player remaining and all others have gone into custody, the heist will not fail, so if this happens it's best to wait until the police retreat.

Gallery [ ]

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• 1 Payday Gang
• 2 Perk Decks
• 3 Cloaker (Payday 2)