You start this map coming out of a truck, and right off the bat cops are shooting at you. You have to move the coke to a safe place (notice the bottom right corner says i'm carrying some). When you're carrying anything - cash, jewels, drugs, you move much slower.




Here I'm picking some locks to get to a roof. This is a possible spawn spot of our escape vehicle and it's best to get it out of the way FAST rather than needing to do it while cops are on you. In the second one, in the uppe rright corner you see that the police assault started which means that we're going to be surrounded very soon



Very start of the assault, this is when the weak cops are sent in. You can see some small blurs behind the cop cars in the distance, those are the cops. Might need to zoom in on the picture. The red crosshairs indicate I shot one.



The vehicle for the coke arrived and we have to go throw it into the truck. The briefcase surrounded in a square is where we have to drop it off, completely opposite in the direction of what I assumed with the lock picks.



We reach the truck and begin to throw the coke into, getting 9 bags in there even though only 4 are required (if you go over the mission minimum, your reward is higher and you get more exp/personal cash - more on that later)



Now that we got the coke into the truck, we have to reach the escape vehicle. Again, in the complete opposite direction of where we currently were and nowhere near where I lockpicked (this was a spawnpoint I havent seen before, the maps arent "random", I've seen a lot of repeats, but there's a lot of spawn points for everything)



We can't make it to the escape in time, another police assault has started, and going out into the open during one is guaranteed suicide. The more assaults you go through, the more special units spawn and the more beefy the regular spawns are.



Cops on the roof across of where I'm standing. By this point I'm trying to conserve my ammo because ammo in this game is a very hard thing to come by. If you kill a mob they will drop some, but it's never enough, plus mobs typically die in the open and going out into there is, again, suicide.



More cops on the road. My teammate gets downed, which means someone has to go help them up. If you get downed 3 times, on the third time you go into custody which means you're out of the game for 4 minutes, which can be reduced with the talent tree. 4 minutes is a lot in this game. In between assaults, this guy (bane) will try to do a trade - your teammate for a hostage. If he does, you have to go free the civilian, but when you take hostages they're in the open a lot too, and we've discussed being in the open in this game. Even in between assaults there are plenty of cops which makes it dangerous.



One of the special units - you cant damage him from the front thanks to the shield, which means one member of your team has to be behind him to kill him, which is harder than it sounds in a lot of situations.

Notice how, compared to the previous picture, in the upper left corner it no longer says escape is available. Thats because we didn't reach the first escape in time, and the cops got ahold of that escape route and captured him.



We were able to take down the special unit but the guy who baited him to turn his back to us got knocked down, so I'm helping him up.



New escape route, this time it did spawn after those 2 doors I lock picked, so it did come to use after all. The assault is still on, but we don't have to go into the open too much so we decide to head for it.



Made it the escape successfully.



However, that was only the first half of the mission. Now we have to do the second half - securing the drugs.



Here we move the drugs to a safe location (police can take your loot by the way - in heists, in drug busts) Orange outlines are the bags of drugs.



Another example of things cops can do - they can throw smoke grenades (it's clearing up in that picture, normally when they throw it you can't see any cops until they're right in your face.



Here we are securing the dock for which the boat will arrive in. We know which one it is because bane told us which one it will be a minute prior.



We meet the 4 bag requirement, and an escape helicopter arrives. However, there's still another 4 bags to go, and if we want, we can wait until the boat comes back again and get more rewards from the mission.

I didn't take pictures from here on out because it got very intense, but basically here's what happened.

We decided to stick around and see if we can get the extra 4 bags loaded, because the rewards are good. However, the cops began swarming us and we began to lose ground. I tried to help secure the bags but on a trip to the truck I get shot down by cops and taken out of the game. By this point they're swarming the building we're in, and so my team decides that they're just going to leave on the helicopter rather than risk a mission loss.

We have to break into a safe at a nightclub and steal the money. This is a mission that is possible to do completely stealthy. You start the mission in casing mode, which means while people aren't scared, you can still get caught by police/cameras if you stick around long enough.



First things first, we have to get into the nightclub. You have to sneak past the bouncer. Some missions he lets you in... this one he didnt.



We decide to screw stealth and just go all out assault. I put on my mask and everyone suddenly loses their minds. Right now I'm telling people to get on the ground so I can take some hostages.



Here there's two things going on - one is I'm taking a hostage in case we might need one later, and in a fairly secluded area so if needed we can trade. At the same time, my teammate finds a keycard which means we can enter the owner's room right away, rather than needing to drill into it which takes 4+ minutes.



We use the key to instantly enter the room.



We're in the room and have to dirll into his safe. He has some mobsters in his room and they hit like trucks. My teammate is almost instantly down and I hide around a corner.



I try to run to safety from the mobsters but cna't do it in time, needing to helped up



The room is finally cleared of mobsters and now we can begin drilling into the safe, directly in front of me.



I have to place the drill onto the safe first.



my teammate was downed far away from our team, and going out to save him would have killed us all, so we chose to let him go into custody (out of the game for 4 mins)



The police assault starts, so I hunker down and prepare for the inevitable swarm.




Looks like bane negotiated a deal, a guy who's about to kill 30+ cops for a hostage. Fair trade, and the hostage is nearby so it's definitely worth the risk.



Now we have all 4, and we all begin to hunker down in the room.



3 minutes left, and it's only 1/4 of the way done.



And our drill failed, which means we have to manually get it going again, further increasing the time it'll take.



The police have snipers too - indicated by the red line in the room.



The entire room is covered in gas.




It might be a little hard to make out, but from the top of the room the cops are coming in in the first picture. They also come in from the side window...



They also come in from a door at the bottom of the stairs, which I'm guarding now.




Safe is finally open, so we have to start bagging the cash.



Each tech tree can carry something with him. The ghost carries an ECM jammer which stops alarms/cameras for a while, in this case I'm taking advantage of an enforcer on my team, who carries an ammo bag (ammo in this game is very hard to come by)



We head towards a possible escape route, the closest to the office.



Except the escape van arrives at the very opposite of the map.



Another assault just started but we're directly across from the escape van, so we start making our way there



cops are beginning to pile up



However we're able to sprint across to the escape van



Almost got a $1mil heist which in reality doesnt mean all the much, but it's still awesome when you do.



I did get a new mask out of it though.