Casino Heist Hard Mode
You can get the Cayo Perico heist's hard mode if you set up the heist within 48 minutes (real-time) of Pavel sending you a message to start the heist again. LATEST GTA NEWS CLIPS If you wait for more than 48 minutes, the heist difficulty will switch to normal. The value of the primary target is increased by 10% in Hard Mode. Unlike previous heists difficulty cannot be changed in pre-game lobbies so, each finale difficulty is set to normal by default and by completing it, you're not allowed to hit the casino the same way as it gets locked. The completed approach before your last one, now has a skull icon on it indicating the difficulty is switched to Hard. The Diamond Casino Heist is the biggest ever to hit GTA Online, and requires drawing up meticulous setup plans to walk away with the maximum payout. Here’s a run-down of the setup board for the. Side note, in case you didn't know, you can play the heist on hard mode by paying to set up a heist very soon after finishing the previous heist. This appears to put a 1.1X multiplier on the. If you choose to do it, then the 'hard' mode actually pays out even more. Approach: Again, any preferred but for this guide, I'll be going with the Aggressive approach. With a certain entry point in the Aggressive approach, you can take a path directly to the Vault security area and with a decent enough crew, you can do this heist very easily.
Heist setup board
Casino Scoping
Start by identifying the access points and the important elements of the Casino.
During your scope, you'll take pictures for Lester.
Tip: On your first mission, Lester will let you know when all important access points / items have been spotted and stop the count.
Access Points to the Diamond Casino
- Main Door – located the front of the Casino
- Side Doors – take pictures each door keypad, there’s one on the back and one on the left side
- Roof Terrace – four keypads, one just before the pool (on the left side), one behind the bar (down the stairs), two around the back.
- Security Tunnel – garage door located in the tunnel under the racetrack at the back of the Casino
- Roof – two keypads on doors on each side of the helipad
- Sewer Tunnel – near the river past the racetrack, across the street from the casino, you'll find the entrance to the sewer tunnel. Get inside and you'll find a gate on your right.
Main points of interest
- Security Guard – standing next to the elevator by the front desk
- Keypad – on the casino floor, next to restricted access doors
- 1st Security Camera – on the ceiling of the main casino rooms
- 2nd Security Camera – on the roof and roof terrace
- Valet – outside by the Casino front door
- Vault Blueprints – (required VIP membership) on the desk in the management office, accessible by going through the Inside Track room, and into a door down the side hallway.
Yung Ancestor
You can also unlock the Big Con approach via Yung Ancestor by going to the Diamond Terrace, a cutscene will trigger and he will contact you afterward. This is also how you will unlock the reduced rate on the Grotti Furia which is his personal vehicle that he will offer you to use as an escape vehicle.
Vault Contents
Vault Contents points of interest
To find these you need to move between the different camera views in the time allotted.
- Carpeted room – POI pops as soon as you switch to this view
- Metal Detectors – In grey room
- Security Office door – doors in the room with the grey stripe running down the middle
- Staff elevator – In the purple diamond casino room, pan to the two elevators on the right
- Blue door – In the corridor with the elevator and blue door, pan to the door on the left
Vault loots
Vault content | Rarity / Probability | Maximum Potential Payout | (Hard mode) Maximum Potential Payout | Colect time |
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Cash | Very common | $2,115,000 | $2,326,500 | 38 seconds |
Artwork | Somewhat common | $2,350,000 | $2,585,000 | 20 seconds |
Gold | Rare | $2,585,000 | $2,843,500 | 25 seconds |
Diamonds | Very rare / event driven | $3,290,000 | $3,619,500 | 38 seconds |
Approach selection
After discovering the contents of the vault, you will be able to choose one of three approaches to the heist: Silent & Sneaky, The Big Con, or Aggressive.
The Silent & Sneaky approach will allow you to enter the casino and get rid of the guards with complete discretion, as long as you stay on and don't make yourself heard by the other guards.
The Big Con approach will use disguises that allow you to break into the Casino, but not all guards will be fooled.
The Aggressive approach will be the most violent, equipped with heavy weapons you will kill the guards without states of heart to arrive at the vault.
The approaches have three possible statuses:
- Without post-it: Heist is available on normal difficulty
- Post-it padlock: The heist is unavailable because you have just completed this approach
- Skull Post-it: The heist is available in hard (possible after completing the heist approach, then another approach to remove the Skull Post-it), this approach provides higher gains due to its difficulty.
Tips !
Once the three approaches are completed, you will be able to unlock the ability to phone Lester and cancel the heist to change the contents of the vault, you will lose the $ 25,000 in initial costs by canceling the heist.
Extras to practice
- Casino Model – $130,000 – highlights access points
- Door Security – $425,000 – practice hacking doors
- Vault Door – $900,000 – practice cracking vault
Heist prep board
Support crew
Gunmen
Gunman | Skills | Cut | Provided Unmarked Weapons | ||
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Silent & Sneaky | The Big Con | Aggressive | |||
Chester McCoy | Expert | 10% | Pump Shotgun Mk II (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | SMG Mk II Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Pump Shotgun Mk II SMG Mk II Pipe Bombs Pipe Wrench |
Carbine Rifle Mk II (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Bullpup Rifle Mk II Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Assault Rifle Mk II SMG Mk II Pipe Bombs Pipe Wrench | |||
Gustavo Mota | Expert | 9% | Carbine Rifle (Silenced) Heavy Pistol (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Carbine Rifle Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Carbine Rifle SMG Proximity Mines Machete |
Assault Shotgun (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Assault Shotgun Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Assault Shotgun SMG Proximity Mines Machete | |||
Patrick McReary | Good | 8% | Combat PDW Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Sawed-Off Shotgun Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Heavy Shotgun SMG Sticky Bombs Crowbar |
Assault Rifle (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Compact Rifle Ceramic Pistol Switchblade | Combat MG SMG Sticky Bombs Crowbar | |||
Charlie Reed | Good | 7% | Assault SMG (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Machine Pistol Ceramic Pistol Swichblade | Assault SMG SMG Grenades Hammer |
Bullpup Shotgun (Silenced) Pistol .50 (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Sweeper Shotgun Ceramic Pistol Swichblade | Pump Shotgun SMG Grenades Hammer | |||
Karl Abolaji | Poor | 5% | Micro SMG (Silenced) Vintage Pistol (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Micro SMG Ceramic Pistol Swichblade | Sawed-Off Shotgun SMG Molotov Cocktails Knuckledusters |
Machine Pistol (Silenced) Combat Pistol (Silenced) Stun Gun Knife | Double Barrel Shotgun Ceramic Pistol Swichblade | Heavy Revolver SMG Molotov Cocktails Knuckledusters |
To unlock Packie you must participate in a random event available in free mode. It triggers in a session with at least 2 players in total.You will hear police sirens and a blue dot will appear on the map, this is a police van that will have to be stolen to unlock Packie :
Drivers
Driver | Skills | Cut | Provided Getaway Vehicles | Departure Vehicle |
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Chester McCoy | Expert | 10% | RUNE Zhaba Maxwell Vagrant Nagasaki Outlaw Karin Everon | Canis Kamacho |
Eddie Toh | Expert | 9% | Karin Sultan Classic Bravado Gauntlet Classic Vapid Ellie Lampadati Komoda | Karin Kuruma |
Taliana Martinez | Good | 7% | Vapid Retinue Mk II Declasse Drift Yosemite Dinka Sugoi Ocelot Jugular | Karin Sultan |
Zach Nelson | Good | 6% | Maibatsu Manchez Nagasaki Stryder Shitzu Defiler Principe Lectro | Bravado Youga Classic |
Karim Denz | Poor | 5% | Weeny Issi Classic Maxwell Asbo Dinka Blista Kanjo Übermacht Sentinel Classic | Declasse Rancher XL |
Location of the departure vehicles :
Hackers
Hacker | Skills | Cut | Provided Time | ||
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Unexposed | Exposed | ||||
Avi Schwartzman | Expert | 10% | 3 minutes, 30 seconds | 2 minutes, 26 seconds | |
Paige Harris | Expert | 9% | 3 minutes, 25 seconds | 2 minutes, 23 seconds | |
Christian Feltz | Good | 7% | 2 minutes, 59 seconds | 2 minutes, 5 seconds | |
Yohan Blair | Good | 5% | 2 minutes, 52 seconds | 2 minutes, 1 second | |
Rickie Lukens | Poor | 5% | 2 minutes, 26 seconds | 1 minute, 42 seconds |
To unlock Avi Schwartzman it will be necessary to destroy the 50 communication jammers which are distributed on the map :
Final board
On the final prep board you can choose the entry point, exit point, your buyer, clean vehicle and gunman decoy.
Entrance
Silent & Sneacky approach : we recommend you to choose the Staff lobby entrance
Aggressive approach : we recommend you to choose the Sewers entrance
The Big Con approach : we recommend you to choose the security tunnel (Grupe Sechs disguise)
Exit
Allways select the Staff lobby exit, or eventualy the Waste disposal exit.
Buyer
Your choice but we recommend you choose a HIGH LEVEL buyer for maximum profit.
Diamond Casino Heist Hard Mode
Clean Vehicle
Not necessary
Gunman Decoy
Not necessary, but you can eventually use it for the Aggressive approach.
Hacking and vault content help
Finger prints
Practice !
Practice and test your skills here.
Vault
It is important to be organized because the time that is not wasted is extra time to take loot!
Cash, gold and diamonds loot locations
Artwork loot locations
It is possible to collect all the 6 artworks being 2 players with Paige (9%), or even with Christian (7%) if you have a good level.
You can try all the possibilities with our heist calculator
Tips and tricks
- Enter through the arcade room garage to get to the heist preparation room more quickly.
- If you don't like the content of the vault and if you have completed all the 3 approaches, you can call Lester and cancel the heist to change the content of the vault. You will lose the $25,000 initial fees by canceling the heist.
- It is possible to tune the getaway vehicles once the recovery mission is completed. Enter the vehicle in the basement of the arcade room to tune it.
- During the heist you can also grab some extra cash from the secret vault, which is on the ground floor right next to the elevator. The switch to open up the secret vault door is in the CCTV room next to the elevator. You can expect somewhere between $20,000 to $100,000 to be in there.
You can grab this vault content twice during the Silent & Sneaky approach, once on your way to the main vault and once on your way back up to the exit.
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Vault content
How can I cancel the heist and change the vault content ?
Once the three approaches are completed, you will be able to unlock the ability to call Lester and cancel the heist (you will lose the $ 25,000 in initial costs). After cancelling the heist you'll be able to restart the mission to scope the vault content.
The gold and the artwork.
You only need two players to collect all the artwork (using Paige or Avi as your hacker). Each item takes only 20 seconds to be collected.
You need 25 seconds to clear each cart containing gold. To collect all the gold carts you'll need at least 3 players. Using only 2 players will allow you to collect 7 out of the 8 carts.
During the heist you can also grab some extra cash from the secret vault, which is on the ground floor right next to the elevator.
The switch to open up the secret vault door is in the CCTV room next to the elevator.
You can expect somewhere between $20,000 to $100,000 to be in there. It will vary from heist to heist though.
Heist prep board
The Gruppe Sechs gear. You will get direct access to the vault.
Increased security, and doors harder to hack
The amount to loot will also be increased.
Here are the optionnal prep missions we recommend you do:
- Exit disguise mission for the Big Con and Agressive approaches.
- Get security pass level 2
- If you do the Aggressive or Silent & Sneaky approach, always do the Duggan shipments mission.
- The patrol routes for Silent & Sneaky
- The power drills for the deposit boxes. only if you are more than 2 players
What is the difference between the Level 1 and Level 2 security pass?
Level 1 cards are actually useless compared to level 2 cards.With a level 1 card, you'll need to hack each door that has a keypad.
Level 2 cards allow you to enter through all the doors without the need to hack them, you just need to swipe the card. It makes your heist much easier especially if you are doing the Silent & Sneaky approach.
To unlock this prep mission you need to take a picture of the security tunnel of the Casino. It is right beside the racetrack.
Final board
How can I get the Sewer Tunnel as the entrance option?
During the Casino scoping mission you'll find the Sewer gate in the Sewer Tunnel. It is right across the street from the casino.
Casino heist
Do I need to buy the penthouse to carry out the Diamond Casino Heist?
Casino Heist Artwork Payout
No, you do not need the penthouse to carry out the Casino Heist, however some points of interest require you to have a VIP membership in order to access them, such as the Vault Blueprint in Agatha Baker's office.