stealth is a bunch of hopping around like frogs playing leapfrogs, itch-in-your-balls action as you watch a guard calmly walk away from you at 98% detection at best.

at worst you keep getting caught & the host dcs like a ♥♥♥♥♥.

it's ok lemme teach you a few tricks first trick is crouch jumping

• steap one run and jump
  
• step 2 crouch
  
• step c congrats you're now crouch jumping like an eagle piloting a japanese bomber

♥♥♥♥ you killed someone you ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ goof what the hell


too real amirite

here's the thing though - you dun murdered some individual what needed no unaliving

here is when you should:

• there's no cover and you're cornered
  
• bastard won't move
  
• it's him or the guard lol
  
• gimme keycard ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
  
• DAMMIT JIMMY YOU LET A CAMERA SPOT YOUR 13 DEAD BODIES AGAIN *enters options to kick*
  
• i need someone to not let me get caught whilst i sweettalk the operator's tits off ok ty ballast

here is when you shouldn't:

• literally every other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time

also bodies are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ stupid so if you tie up a civ so long as their head isn't visible they're basically not there but dead bodies completely count so throw them in a dumpster or somewhere outside of a patrol sightline

literally just check them into water or off cliffs if you have to hide them ok there's no ai for floating

stelath isn't a real thing like other games like payday 2. payday makes people actually have to look at you rather than in a 360-5 degree cone around them and they have to see your face in order to recognize you are a threat. here's an example:



notice how wolf isn't sticking his neck out like that guy who gets offed in skyrim's opening and is behind the guard. you won't alway be like this so here's another picture to show how to avoid detection:



literally just stick something between what you see and his head and he can never see you. gg no re go rob the benevolent bank.

also desync was patched out but whatever you see in your side as a client means ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ since only host side matters so the body you see probably isn't there spooky ♥♥♥♥ ik

this is why you murder selectively

abuse tf out of preplanning to get keycards and sneaky entrances/exits and shorter waiting times

use the beretta pistol i don't remember the name of and mod exclusively for concealment with a surprseesor

for primary take highest concealment weapon you can early on dualies work but later mod a car 4 or something you won't regret it

i run around with a galant because lol it works

also abuse the hell out of skills in ghost and technician


technician gives you silent quick drills you can whack to repair once and also two deployables

14 mines
1 ekem or bebby

useful
ghost makes you quick and also gives you better ekems and tools for stealing like better lockpicking and making a camera reconsider its life choices for 20 seconds

finally take the burglar perk deck


then taje crew chief you dingus at least you'll get more running time

that or go buy clover pack for it

for more details on everything except the perk decks, scroll down a bit

no good

go practice patience on bank heists, starting and moving on four stores then come speak to me or something

ok go rage at some nerds bye

here's sommit useful cant

primary weapons i've dicovered can be stealthed with:

car 4
galante
probably any dualies tbh
bootleg rifle
valkyrie <3
m1014
that's so raven shotgun
beegee's shotgun
bum cavity 9mm smg

secondaries:
barreta mMurder
the lord's sanctified pistol of choice, the gruber kurz
or a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ revolver that uses shotgun shells
also probably the loco


because so long as your stealth is like 10 or lower you're basically gucci for most anything
20 is like meh, depending on ur levuls lul
anything higher and people won't go into heists


ok lemme learn u something

never type skills in caps to my face again

and here are your skills you should build for.

trainspotter basic because you can move stuff faster by throwing it further
jack of all trades in order to get both ecms/mines/bags
drill skills if you really want to on technician (pretty first three right hand skills tbh)
literally everything in shinobi
first two layers of dodger for SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
optical illusions aced is nice if you want to be more sneak
that's it now go build your skills

what about melee and throwables

anything that's sneaky like 30 concealment is fine for melee because melee don't even matter
use the cards

oh and armour should be the suit unless you're a T R A I N E D P R O F E S S I O N A L