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25% chance for 2 Bulldozers in the plane, else 1. Green/Black/Skull on N+H/VH+OVK/DW.
Fighting slowly through the plane is a waste of time, because the enemy soldiers deal only moderate damage and they all despawn when you jump out of the plane. Instead, someone should run through and kill only enemies standing in the way. The others should draw some attention however.
When getting ready to jump out of the plane, due to desync, double check that you are actually carrying a parachute and it was not stolen by a teammate who had picked it up a moment earlier.
Once a player hits the ground, spawn 17 civs (4 of which are in the diner), and 6 street cops.
The doctor bag asset will always spawn on the ground, whereas the ammo bag and grenade case assets will always spawn on a roof.
The diner has a keycard for the roof access corridor, which will spawn even if no pallet land on the diner. While the door behind the counter seems like a good idea, the door near the back entrance is the better option because you are not exposed to the street. Not having to climb over the counter also saves some time. This small hallway is also an excellent chokepoint that is easily defensible even with only 1 player.
The 3 pallets are distributed over 5 locations: The 4 buildings in each corner of the map, and the street. There is a ~68% chance that a given building has a pallet. Similarly, there is a ~29% chance that the street has a pallet. Beware, these chances assume that you have not investigated the map yet; they show the chance if you were to repeatedly restart the map and observe a single location. As a counterexample, if you have already found all 3 locations, then, due to this prior knowledge, you can assume that the other locations have no pallets.
Once a pallet has been activated by approaching it, the remaining pallets can no longer be activated until the active pallet has been secured in the helicopter. In particular, money bags thrown onto the scattered pallet are not secured if the pallet is not active, and may be stolen by enemies.
When a pallet is activated, the enemies are scripted to congregate around the area. The helicopter will arrive about 60 seconds after lighting the flare, and each pallet hook takes 5 seconds to attach.
There are several considerations for the pallet order:
- During the first assault wave, there are no snipers and the diff is lower.
- When the helicopter arrives to pick up the last pallet, 2 SWAT turrets will spawn on VH/OVK/DW, 1 on each side of the street. If the pallet is not located at a secure place, they will start shooting while you are trying to attach the hooks.
- The car shop is very hard to defend because it has no useful cover, regardless of the precise pallet location.
- The gas station is extremely close to a spawn point which rapidly respawns killed enemies. Its rooftop locations are also very exposed to snipers and SWAT turrets.
- The diner has a hallway that is easy to defend, and its rooftop also has some cover.
- The hardware store has some trouble with snipers if the pallet was dropped on the roof. If the pallet smashed through, it is arguably the easiest location to defend, and provides full protection from snipers and SWAT turrets.
- The street has some small walls as cover, and is far from enemy spawn points. The greatest threat is being overrun by enemies, because there is nowhere to fall back to.
- The difficulty of the locations roughly goes as follows: car shop > gas station > street > hardware store roof > diner > hardware store interior
While one can literally parachute into the pallets at the closest locations, this leaves the hard locations for later. A better approach is to handle the car shop and gas station while there is the least resistance.
Chance that a pallet, if it was set to spawn at a location, spawns on the roof:
- Car shop: 24%
- Gas station: 50%
- Diner: 33%
- Hardware store: 39%
Once the last pallet is in the air, the interaction with a manhole to escape is enabled. There are 4 possible manhole locations, each roughly in one corner of the map.
In the sewers, one of the following two groups of special enemies will spawn either before or after the first gate.
- 1/2/3/3/3 Bulldozers on N/H/-. Skulldozer on DW, else green.
- 3 shields, and 0/1 Bulldozers on N/-. Skulldozer on DW, else green.
The boat can only be driven once all players are in.
6/8/10 stationary enemies will spawn on N/H+VH/OVK+DW once you exit the tunnel. It is not necessary to take the boat up to the escape zone, so depending on the health status of the crew it may be wise to exit the boat, shoot the enemies and walk to the escape.

I've added the latest mission scripts. That cage part makes sense; I think keeping both together avoids clutter. Regarding the sprinklers, you haven't mentioned that method in the notes. If that works reliably, keeping the debris XP separate makes sense. I'll add you as a contributor as soon as you accept the friend invite.

Reset Actions and Has Old Action (Coplogic)

I cannot speak about efficiency; keep in mind that extra sanity checks have a small cost but could prevent crashes. Maintainability, performance and stability are usually have demand different code. I think the new contour system was overdue because the name "gameplaycentralmanager" does not exactly suggest contours in it, after all. I can imagine that the new system was a byproduct of bugfixes.

Follower status was used only by groupaistatestreet.lua, which is not used by any map. Each map states which groupai to use in the world.world file, which says something like ai_settings.ai_settings.group_state = "besiege". I suppose even back then, no map used "street".

Update 21 actually used both allow_crouch/no_stand as well as allowed_poses. Totally redundant. But these things only affected Shields (crouch only) and Bulldozers (stand only). This in itself should not have had any effect on any other characters, unless I am missing something.

Goat Simulator Findings.

Very neat! The mission scripts are not actually Lua, but just serialized data that I have written a rather sophisticated converter for. Your XP values for the most part match the values that I had put in the guide already. Some debris on day 1 is bugged and awards 1500 XP on startup, no strings attached. I think the amount of debris etc. is constant, so these awards can be combined into a 10500 XP reward no matter what (as long as the player is there from the start). The plane on day 2 awards XP every time it picks up the cage, so the heist could be technically farmed for infinite XP (at a horrible rate to be sure). For some reason the guide mentions 1000 per plane pass, but the files indicate 500. I'm not sure if there's yet another bug at work or I messed up.

Gage package locations might go a bit too much into trivia territory which I'd leave to the wikia. I'm not sure either about civilian spawns, given that it is a loud map.

Anyway, I could either add you as a contributor and give you free reign over the heist and experience sections (technically you would have unrestricted access, but I'd like to stay in full control over the remaining sections for the time being). Alternatively, I could make a list of contributors on top and add your text to the guide myself.

Reset Actions and Has Old Action (Coplogic)

http://payday.wikia.com/wiki/PC_update_history_(Payday_2)
Made a fix for law enforcers and others that would sometime prematurely reset their actions and skip their animations
Made a fix for law enforcers and others that would turn in the wrong direction

The new version looks a bit sturdier to me, not to mention that reset_actions is absolutely hideous. The old version would call most things just once, on entering the logic, whereas the new version puts critical parts in the update function and seems to keeps calling them until the navlink is finally over. But the exact cause of those bugs eludes me. That's why they are bugs after all.

Map Coordinate Reference

Maps with preplanning have blueprints and the Lua defines the scale. I do have a Python script somewhere that draws icons on the blueprint depending on the mission file coordinates.

Maps without preplanning would be easier to understand with a proper editor. I usually just teleport to the location. Here are some scripts of mine (requires BLT): https://www.dropbox.com/s/zkcpfpr476vi8wg/debuggers.zip?dl=0

Included scripts:
boxes.lua: Draws the invisible trigger boxes used by the game and adds the editor name as a name tag.
doAttention.lua: Basically turns the player into a guard/camera; draws lines from the player's camera to all detection objects. The lines are green if there is line of sight, red if there is not, blue if there is not but the object is detected anyway because the object itself blocks the view to the detection point.
perks.lua: Various godmode things. Can turn people deaf and/or blind (need to edit the file), draws contours around everyone, increases movement speed, instant interactions and drills, among others.
warp2.lua: Teleport 5 m forwards.
warp.lua: Teleport to the locations given in the file. Need to edit the file obviously to add the locations. It features a pretty decent parser to retrieve the position vectors from entire chunks of mission files, so there's no need to manually strip off the unwanted parts from lines. It also shows the current location in the upper left corner.

Each script activates on button press, so you need to assign hotkeys first.

Multi-day experience payout

How does it work? XP is paid out after each day; but do all XP modifiers like Gage packages and stealth bonus and pro job apply?

Skins

Dallas skins only have team boosts (+3% XP and money), but no stat boosts.

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