I'm piecing together how counterfeit's stealth/loud transition works from the scripts, and I've come across an element I can't identify. Can someone with the tools to do so tell what the following line from the script does?

´---_2´ MissionScriptElement 101782

I see. So much for that theory; I'd love to be able to nail down a cause for these persistent performance issues.

I know that, like Golden Grin, detection meters on the heist have annoying "jumpiness" and delay going on, and that a factor is the single-threaded checking of meters in the heist. Is it possible that the cause on Yacht Heist is that the check is being performed for the NPCs on the top level of the boat, at McKendrick's rally?

If we could check for this, (or some other source of the latency issue), it would be great to resolve it so the heist is playable for more people.

Originally posted by revnant:

Also, if you manage to go loud in the red hall before opening the door to Sosa's office (like running out of pagers), the first wave of guards spawn right on top of you. They don't run in or drop from anywhere, just *poof* at various spots in the red hall. =(

That needs to be flagged as a bug. I think there had been guards spawning to cover other doors into the hall, but the function was removed in the same patch that removed the checkin guards function.

edit: I've reported the spawn issue from the stealth-loud transition.

Question for folks: when the red lobby opens, where have you seen a stationary guard blocking a door?

Originally posted by revnant:

Originally posted by Finale:

Yes, he can do that from any overlooking balcony, but for reasons that aren't clear, he doesn't always retreat properly, and he is mortal.

Wait, you can kill him early then?

It's actually a separately spawned enemy unit, so it's not as if you skip to opening the vault or anything.

Yes, he can do that from any overlooking balcony, but for reasons that aren't clear, he doesn't always retreat properly, and he is mortal.

Ernesto Sosa's got some harass behavior coded in; the details of how it's supposed to work aren't clear, but in practice it's quite bugged.

Thanks for the patrol details, they confirm what I'm seeing in the script. I need to pull out and write out the different difficulty permutations for them.

Originally posted by revnant:

Do you know what needed fixing for those stealth reinforcements which might have prompted them to remove it?

Guards in the reinforcement group would act as if they were in loud gameplay- running, with guns drawn, to each patrol location, then snapping into an idle animation, before running to the next location.

Thanks Unknown Knight. It does look like they were removed, rather than spend resources on fixing them. I didn't see any references to them in the script file either, though I'm really bad at reading it. The van for them still gets loaded in, I think.