PAYDAY 2

PAYDAY 2

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How to Stealth the Big Bank (with videos)
By [GT]Apocalipse and 1 collaborators
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Before watching
Hey everybody!

I want to mention that the guide tells more than in what's in the videos, so you might want to read the guide!

What's better than a guide that actually shows how the tactics work? ;)

I have stealthed the bank a couple of times, so I will tell whatever I believe is the best!

We hope you will enjoy it and that it will help you out! Feel free to leave your suggestions or comments!

Don't forget to rate if you find it helpful, so it is easier for the others to find it!
Video on how to stealth it
This is just a video of the general Big Bank Stealth.

Want more? Deathwish? Check at the end.

Preplanning
During preplanning, if playing on a lower difficulty, it is good to buy 2 body bags, you never know how many things you kill! ;)

On higher difficulties such as Deathwish, I recommend getting an elevator escape and a poisoned pie that you will place in the vault hallway. The cake is good because if you don't get it, the vault hallway is basically a mess.

I usually place the body bags in the canteen and where the ground vault hallway entrance is.

As an escape, choose the elevator escape! It is the closest that does not alert the enemy!

Try to make your loadout very light. It is important to have low visibility (3). 2 maxed ECMs are very important. You can use one to open the security room at the beginning and one just in case you will need it.
Casing
Start walking around the bank, checking where the security, vault, civilians, and cameras are!

Take advantage of the fact that you can't be spotted very easily!
Time to put your mask on
Once you put your mask on, the real deal begins!

Put your mask on in front of the security room or close to a keycard if you see it.

Keycards can be located:

1. On a table (different locations);
2. On the manager;
3. In the manager's office (hit the painting and open the safe).

Keycards can be used for 2 things:

1. Open security rooms;
2. Disable the lasers at the vault hallway entrance (you will need 2).

Once you remotely accessed the computer in the security room, you can do two things:
1. Go get those damn civilians down;
2. Wait a little and check if you can get any guards or civilians that are walking by themselves.

It is best to wait a little because guards can get alerted when noticing that the server room is open.
How many guards and civilians walking upstairs can be?
There can be up to three guards in this first section (when played on Deathwish). The first two at the beginning and one from the elevators (after you start the timelock). Usually less on lower difficulties.

There are usually 4 civilians walking around the bank. After you start the timelock, there will be another one spawning from the elevators.

Once you have dealt with all this stuff moving in the bank, you can go get the next objective!
Hack the right computer
Once you are ready for the next step, if you are solo, it is a good idea to try the computers in the offices downstairs because you can grab them through the desks without getting seen.

If the right computer is not in the offices downstairs, try to grab some computers on the upper floor without getting seen.

If you are not able to get the right computer without alerting many civilians, then check for cameras and when no civilians are walking around the offices, get everybody down. I recommend doing this only after you took 2 guards.

Once you get the situation calm, hack the computers.

If you have a friend with you, he can ping the computer from the server room. You are able to understand where the computer is by listening where the error sound comes from.
Start the timelock
After you hacked the right computer and everything is calm, you will have to start the timelock at the vault hallway entrance. Once you have done that, there will be a phone call in the office of the manager (first floor), answer it.

Civilians and a guard will spawn during this time. Make sure you cover the areas where you destroyed cameras or left dead bodies/tied hostages.

Before the timelock is done, make sure you destroyed any cameras looking towards the door!
Once the timelock is done, the door opens. If a guard looks at the open door, it will get alerted, so be cautious. You might want to wait a little just to make sure no guard is passing by it.

On deathwish make sure you killed 3 guards before going to the hallway.
Passing the lasers
Usually at this point you have found 2 keycards. You will have most likely tied down or killed the bank manager, checked many desks, and checked the safe behind the painting in his office.

In case you did not grab the keycard, this is how to pass the lasers.

Lasers can switch very fast! There are usually patters of 3 or 6.
This is my method:

1. Get a specific pattern you know you can pass through and mark it as 1;
2. Start counting the patterns;
3. Let it go once or twice to make sure you got it right;
4. After the last pattern, pass (when number 1 comes).

Note that there can be desync issues with the host, so it is best to let the host pass the lasers.
Vault hallway
The vault hallway is what marks the real difference in the difficulty.

The higher the difficulty, the higher will be the chance of the ugliest position of the vault.

On higher difficulties there will be more guards (from 2 to 4) in the vault hallway, so be careful.

On lower difficulties, you can go around the guards very easily. There are many ways to go around. On deathwish, if you did not purchase the poisoned pie asset, you will suffer a lot.

You will need to reach the vault and put that beautiful thumb on the vault's scanner.
Once you have done that, you will have to push two buttons in the rooms on the right and left of the vault hallway.

Take your time, watch your corners. You shouldn't have problems.
Going back to the manager's office
This is very easy most of the times; however, if the vault is downstairs and there are civilians in the canteen, it can get hard. In this situation, if I really cannot go through the canteen, then I usually go up by the stairs of the main lobby...it is very dangerous, so you need to check the situation before moving.
If you have taken the offices as hostage, you can just go that way.

Once you got the code on the mananger's computer, you will have to go back to the vault.
Let's open that ♥♥♥♥!
Time to open the vault! Be careful when moving towards the vault. Make sure no guards are facing it.

The guards do not get alarmed when the vault is open, but be careful, avoid placing drills that face the entrance to the vault.
Escape
If you bought the elevator escape, it is not hard to escape. Just take one bag at the time to the escape.

This is when other players can help you a lot. You could reduce the number of trips by a lot.
Big Bank Stealth Solo Deathwish
Overkill is not enough for you? Want to go all in? Check this out, it might help!

Additional videos that could help (E3 version)
Vault hallway entrance ground floor:


Vault hallway entrance top floor:


(Almost) Stealth Overkill:

Thanks for checking this guide!!
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19 Comments
erik 23 Jun, 2014 @ 7:30am 
Very cool guide guys, would love to see this kind of content on the Train Heist after the recent update that affected it.

BTW, this guide helped me understand the Big Bank much more! Keep it up,
Morales 22 Jun, 2014 @ 3:44am 
Good
RedCobra1246  [author] 18 Jun, 2014 @ 7:06pm 
@Hobo, I am uploading a Deathwish Solo Stealth video just for you. :)
Hobo 18 Jun, 2014 @ 1:14pm 
Why should i belive this guide? The maker doesnt even have beated it on deathwish..
RedCobra1246  [author] 18 Jun, 2014 @ 12:39pm 
Thanks for giving info :)
GreenSofa 18 Jun, 2014 @ 11:08am 
There 'might' be an extra keycard inside it. Often it's just a piece of toast
Lokir of Rorikstead 18 Jun, 2014 @ 10:13am 
If you melee the painting in the manager's office, it will fall off the wall revealing a normal small safe (might be titan on DW), if you drill or pick it, there will be an extra keycard inside it
RedCobra1246  [author] 18 Jun, 2014 @ 6:27am 
@mrpornmanager, thank you for your information!
RedCobra1246  [author] 18 Jun, 2014 @ 6:26am 
@ᴉsdəd, when the computer is on the ground floor, you can just take the ground floor out! The ground floor is even easier because it's just only a few civilians. You can even hack the computer through the desk, without having to alarm any civilian.
ksyusha sobchak 18 Jun, 2014 @ 3:14am 
There are 3 guards in the main hall (1 is going from elevator) on Death Wish. There are different amount of guards in the vault section (3-4 patrolling +1 of them is watching cameras.