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How to PAYDAY 2 : Goat Simulator Heist

By [El (Niño)]

This is the most up-to-date guide about Goat Simulator Heist. It provides a clear overview of mission's map, covering essential gameplay tips and give you simple tips for handling the cops and other threats. Learn basic navigation, understand key objectives, and get practical advice to survive the heist.
No advanced tactics, just everything you need to know to get started and complete the heist successfully. Perfect for new heisters!

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[El (Niño)]
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PAYDAY 2

Category: Achievements, Co-op, Gameplay Basics, Maps or Levels, Walkthroughs

Languages: English

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Guide Index

Overview

REMARKS

# Introduction

# The Vehicle

DAY 1 : Overview

DAY 1 : Map Overview

DAY 1 : Player's Spawn Location

DAY 1 : Snipers Spawn Location

DAY 1 : Goat Spawn Location

DAY 1 : Apartment - Blueprint

DAY 1 : Escape Truck Spawn Location

DAY 1 : Trivia Information

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DAY 2 : Overview

DAY 2 : Whole Map Overview

DAY 2 - Part A: Map Overview

DAY 2 - Part A: Player's Spawn Location

DAY 2 - Part A: Snipers Spawn Location

DAY 2 - Part A: Mission Starts !

DAY 2 - Part A: Trivia Information

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DAY 2 - Transition / Part A to B

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DAY 2 - Part B: Map Overview

DAY 2 - Part B: Snipers Spawn Location

DAY 2 - Part B: Mission Starts !

Achievement

Comments

REMARKS

# Introduction

Press this widget by the middle mouse instead (PC), if you have a trouble clicking it

https://steamhost.cn/app/433730/PAYDAY_2_The_Goat_Simulator_Heist/

>>> LEGACY COLLECTION <<<
>>> INFAMOUS COLLECTION <<<

Mission Overview

How many GOAT(s)

The amount of goat that need to be secured, it depends on playing difficulty from
Normal to Death Sentence (One down option doesn't affect anything)

Key facts

In this heist, pretty much everything uses a bit of luck,
called RNG (Random Number Generation).

This means lots of stuff changes each time you play. Where the bad guys show up (enemy spawn), where you find the goats (goat location), and even if tough gun things like SWAT turrets pop up (in Day 2) – it's all random.

So, one time you play, you might see different enemies in different spots, and the goats will be hiding somewhere new. You never know if a SWAT turret will be there to cause trouble! Because of all this randomness, each time you play will feel different, and you gotta be ready for anything. It depending on the difficulty level you are playing on.
>>> High risk, High return <<< (classic word 😁)

Short video for entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42VL9cssNLk

# The Vehicle

The most important thing
that we have to protect and escape with it

#DRIVE and KILL Them all

You can drive a vehicle around and hit the enemies at the same time.

#Transportation

Moving yourself and the team to another place with ease.
It also can put the loots/goats on the back of the vehicle, maximum load is 4

#Drift the vehicle

Accelerate the car forward or backward, turn the wheel to the left or right side then press the brake. Easy and Fun.

#Breakable and Repairable

While driving the vehicle, the enemies try to shoot you and you gonna get the damage as well as the vehicle. If you are playing on lower difficulty (Overkill or below) that could be fine.

However, it's very risky for the vehicle to get damage and break easily while playing on higher difficulty like Mayhem, Death Wish or above.

Even it can be repaired but how you gonna deal with ton of bullets from enemies around you while fixing it. Especially in Day 2, the turrets would be a problem to break the car so easily

#Stuckable

It's a disaster. It can be fixed but better restart the game when playing on higher difficulty.
We cannot escape and finish the heist without it

HOW TO FIX

If you really want to fix it
Well, it's stuck by the law of physics. So, it can be fixed by the law of physics as well.
This is a bit tricky to do. You need to find any object that movable and using a force energy of your weapons to push the car (shotguns got the best push functionality)
It's not worth and waste your time to fix it when playing on higher difficulty

FOV (Field of view)

We can change camera mode by pressing once on the Left Mouse Click and Left Shift (hold) for the behind view (default key mapping for keyboard)
The default view allows us to look around with a 130 to 180-degree viewing angle by turning our head. Passengers in the car can do this too

DAY 1 : Overview

DAY 1 : Map Overview

The map is so big! and got many places for enemies to get spawned, especially snipers.
It also has less place to hide and cover yourself

Key facts

The Central park is quite risky area because it will be surrounded by snipers, try to avoid using a zip-line from apartment building that lead to the park

DAY 1 : Player's Spawn Location

There are 3 random places that we gonna spawn along with the longfellow

As you can see, the location of our spawn is match to the zone that we have to focus on. Find and secure goats nearby after the game starts.

From the starting point, we would be surrounded by enemies and civilians. And we start with stealth mode for a few seconds before it goes loud. Try not to kill civilians

Don't underestimate these boys in blue, they come with heavy weapon like shotguns or revolver. But don't worry about the gangster, they just spawn a few people.

DAY 1 : Snipers Spawn Location

There are 9 of them which probably not spawn at once, but be aware and kill them all before they kill you 😎

Key facts

Nearby alleyway and inside the Apartment are the best place to hide from snipers or take some cover around this area. It can be accessed to the apartment through the opened doors available

DAY 1 : Goat Spawn Location

There are 22 possible location
which are spread across the map and require exploration
(Check on the Day 1: Map Overview)

Remember, we only need to secure 15 goats at most (Mayhem or above). Some locations will be deducted from the total possible location.

Lamp post (RNG)

The goat is stuck on the lamp post.
It requires players to use a (FREE) saw to cut it down
(no need to bring anything, all of our buddy can saw it)
If it jammed, then try to fix it !
Because it's RNG, we have to find and secure the goat, 1 out of 4 lamp posts only.

(1) In front of the apartment
(2) Far left of the map
(3) On the side of hat shop near the food cart
(4) Near construction site, top right of the map

The Shop

There are two possible states, and which state it's in is determined randomly:
State 1: Closed Door (Drill Required): The shop is closed and locked with double doors, and you need a drill (FREE) to open it. Then, picking a lock that second door or shoot its handle to get inside.
State 2: Electrified Fan (which shocks you on contact): Disable a power by hacking the power box nearby to stop the fan.
This is an RNG-based situation, but with the added twist that the goat can potentially spawn in more than one shop. Therefore, the task is to locate 2 of the 3 shops.

(1) Hat shop
(2) Coffee shop
(3) Minimart

Key facts

The power box nearby the Hat shop can be used to disable the electrified ladder of scaffolding, resulting in the hat shop itself NOT spawning an electrified fan but sometimes will spawn a closed door that require players to using a drill instead.

Interesting RNG

If any shop has an electrified fan, the goat on scaffolding won't spawn for sure because the power box will be used and it won’t spawn in more than one place.

If any shop requires drilling the closed door, then the goat has a chance to spawn on the scaffolding with an electrified ladder (hack the correct power box before climbing the ladder).

It's possible one shop will have a closed door and a different one an electrified fan. This means you won't find scaffolding with an electrified ladder because the powerbox has already spawned and been utilized at another location.

DAY 1 : Apartment - Blueprint

-The 4-story apartment building is now in chaos by the goat 😄

-We will definitely see the goat in the apartment, it's a fixed spawn

-There is only (01) goat that need to be secured but it has 2 possible spawns on different floor inside the building.It's on the 2nd and 3rd floor. Once we found one goat, the another goat inside this apartment won't spawn for sure.

-You might wonder why the apartment's goats don't count as two locations in the map overview. This is because they're randomly generated within the same area, unlike the lamp posts or the shops that we have to explore the whole map to find.

Once you get inside the apartment, try to find a sign that gives you a direction of where you are

Apartment : Ground Floor

The elevator is out of service (we cannot use it, of course)
The debris is interfere our way, find the valve, activate sprinklers , then wait for a few seconds and remove it
Move to the first floor

Apartment : 1st Floor

Go around because our way is block by the debris to reach the valve
Activate sprinklers
Remove the debris
Move to the second floor

Apartment : 2nd Floor

If we are be able to activate sprinklers nearby the stair that means the goat should be on this floor
Remove the debris
Go through the rooms to reach the goat
In case, the goat isn't on this floor, you will notice that there is no valve for the sprinklers on this floor. Then move to the third floor.

Note: There is a big hole near the stairs, we can jump down and reach to the first floor so easily

Apartment : 3rd Floor

Find the valve and activate sprinklers
Remove the debris
Go through the rooms to reach the goat

Key facts

We will be interrupted by enemies inside the building (Cloaker, Shield, Bulldozer etc.)
All doors are opened, no need to lock picking it.
All windows are glazed, we can jump off the windows by breaking the glass
(no lock picking required) but doing it on the 1st floor only because the height of the other floor from the ground is too high. We will take a damage fall down.
Zipline that lead to the central park is available on 2nd and 3rd floor. However, just avoid using it while playing on higher difficulty because we will get hit by snipers all around.

DAY 1 : Escape Truck Spawn Location

There are 3 location randomly spawn of escape truck, we have to secure all the required amount of goats and drive the Longfellow into the truck to make an escape

>> The old game version had a glitch with an invisible wall on the road that stopped us from driving through. And yeah with this glitch, we could know where the truck will spawn <<

Sadly, it is no more an invisible wall with the latest game version (240.7)

# The Cop = The robber

While waiting for the truck to get spawn, we have to find, grab the goats and protect them.
Untouched goats by players won't draw enemies' attention.
However, If we already grabbed and placed the goats at somewhere without any protection. They are trying to steal the goat from us and place at the corner of the map. If the goats are missing, check these areas

Recommendations: place the goats inside the shop
- Hat shop
- Coffee shop
- Minimart

Surprisingly, by breaking the glazed windows, we get inside the shop through the windows then hide ourselves and the goats inside the shop. Make sure the door is still closed. The enemies cannot get inside and grab our goats (how amazing it is 😂)

We put the goat on the back of Longfellow, maximum is 4 at a time. So we can feel confident that the enemies cannot grab our goats

We tossed the goat onto Team Ai's back, so they can help moving the goats.
Note : If anyone of our team (human player) run out of HP and yelling at team Ai for help, they will drop the loot on the floor. And yeah, same result when we get into the Longfellow.

# The Handy Skill

The goat is the same as loot bag, so take this skill for your convenience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWg8BgyL-0

# The Final Objective

After we have completely secured all the required goats, we really need to put the Longfellow inside the truck for the escape

Key facts

Here's a path of truck will drive through on the road. If you park the Longfellow in highlighted area, then the car will get pushed and stuck somehow. Just try to avoid parking in those area before the truck completely stopped

DAY 1 : Trivia Information

# The ATM

There are 5 ATM around the map, we need a OVE9000 saw or ECM jammer to open it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uteb3HN10nM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da7xrqV2jxs&t=2s

# The CAPTAIN WINTERS

A special enemy that gonna randomly spawn at any time and there is only one spot he will get spawn on the map.
(high chance to see him when playing on higher difficulty)

The assault wave of cops will not fade away, if we don't spread them out
(Captain Winter and his subordinates), aim and shoot a Captain's head with sniper rifle or any weapon like grenade launcher etc. to fade the assault wave !

# The Goat Attack

Beware the standing goat, if we try to capture on the front or back of the goat.
Try to capture it on the side.

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DAY 2 : Overview

DAY 2 : Whole Map Overview

The map is 4x bigger than Day 1. But we cannot access to all area, only a long road we can drive and drift a car :D

Key facts

We have to finish part A, then we get moving to part B by using a longfellow, driving on a rough road to reach a main road (ready yourself to drive and put your driving skills to the test)

DAY 2 - Part A: Map Overview

DAY 2 - Part A: Player's Spawn Location

We spawn inside the barn with all the goats we have secured on Day 1.
Then we wait for a few seconds and the game will start

From the starting point, we would be surrounded by the gangsters in just a few seconds. And there is no civilians involved in the part A

We couldn't underestimate these enemies even they are weak, because of their SMG weapons dealing lots of damage to us. Get a good build ready for yourself, it's going to be a tough day to complete the mission

Key facts

Gangsters are all around us, and the roof has holes. They are trying to kill us from their position
Use the board to barricade the windows available. They can be found around the map and from buying asset for a few additional planks, which spawn at the 18-wheeler truck outside. This could help a little bit against enemies.

DAY 2 - Part A: Snipers Spawn Location

The most annoying enemies are coming again. If we play on higher difficulty, they will get spawn more often. One sniper or two snipers at a time. As long as we know where they are, that won't be a problem

DAY 2 - Part A: Mission Starts !

Step 1: Waiting for the cage parts

Once the game has started, we are now waiting about 4 minutes for the skyhook cage parts from Vlad’s brother-in-law (the pilot) to ship the goats by air instead.

Step 2: Assemble the cage

There are 3 random locations, the pilot will drop the cage parts (3 bags) on the ground
Road
Silo
Bridge

The pilot will tell us where to drop the packages, just listen to him carefully or follow the game's reminder on the screen.

Once we reached to the cage parts, it will show us where to assemble the parts and again follow the game's reminder on the screen or listen to Bain.

Interestingly, there are also 3 random locations that will give us the designated area to assemble the cage after we collected the parts

However, the game's system narrows down the search. Once the cage parts dropped, any one of these location will be deduction that leaving us with 2 key locations to focus on.

For example:

If it drops near the Silo, then either the Road or the Bridge will be the designated area. The reason is that the drop area and the assembly area are the same or near each other

We have to assemble the cage parts which contain 3 bags and it's quite heavy to move.
We just toss the bags into the designated area and that's it.

Step 3: Defend all the goats in the cage

After the cage was built, we have to put all the goats in the cage and raise the balloon.

Then, the pilot will return to pick it up. It takes about 2 minutes, and we have to defend all the goats from the enemies.

The cop, the real robber (again), they try to steal the goat from us all the time !

Step 4: Go to the Longfellow

It's time to drive the car. Ensure the driver has a valid license 💀

DAY 2 - Part A: Trivia Information

# The pilot’s fault

Occasionally, the pilot fails to catch the balloon, resulting in a return time of approximately 1 minute. It might happen a few times, especially when playing on higher difficulty.

# The pilot’s dialogue

He will tell us the drop-off point before releasing the package. Here are all the dialogues I have collected in the game.
Make sure to turn on the subtitles, and they will appear on your screen. Follow the keyword spoken by the pilot

# The Fault or Intention

Fault

We left some of the goats behind because we counted them carelessly. So, we have to wait for the new cage parts and assemble them again, which will take approximately 30 to 40 seconds.
Although we started over again, the pilot will take less time to return and pick up the cage (about 60-70 seconds after we raise the balloon)

Intention

Why have we had to do that? Of course, it's for an achievement called “Farmer Miserable”
Assemble the cage > put 01 goat in > raise the balloon and wait for the pick up

We are doing this over and over again, until all goats are collected by the pilot.
The minimum difficulty to do this achievement is playing on OVERKILL that means 13 goats for a total of 13 times!

# Alternative pilot’s dialogue (for the second cages drop onward)

He will inform us of the drop-off point before releasing the new package. Here are all the dialogues I've collected, with a few variations but the keyword remains the same.

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DAY 2 - Transition / Part A to B

Multiple dangerous curves are ahead. Ensure the driver has good driving skills and maintains control of the wheel. The road is rough, unlike flat concrete, making it difficult to drive on

We have to drive carefully; there's a fork in the road ahead, and the game will force us to choose one path because a SWAT van will block the other. There's a sniper on the chopper too, and he's trying to shoot and hit one of us, even though we're inside the car

Move forward, but be aware of numerous threats. These include a Bulldozer and oil barrels rolling out of the truck, a sniper on the chopper, SWAT turrets, and a few cops nearby. And try not to crash the car on the main road

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DAY 2 - Part B: Map Overview

We move from part A to part B here, to complete the mission

There's another fork in the road, and again the game will force us to choose one path because a SWAT van will block the other (RNG)

Once we reach the destination, it's time to suffer with lots of obstacles

DAY 2 - Part B: Snipers Spawn Location

One sniper or two snipers spawn once at a time on the ground near the hill and two helicopter snipers regularly spawn when defending the bridge

DAY 2 - Part B: Mission Starts !

Enter the control room

Actually, while the saw is more efficient for simply opening doors, C4 offers the significant advantage of also being usable as an explosive weapon to clear the way or deal with enemies.

*** This recommendation applies when playing on lower difficulty levels only
(Death Wish or below) ***
C4 (Shaped Charges that come along with trip mines in Inventory Equipment)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVaKFfz7xig
However, on highest difficulty (Death Sentence; DS for short), everything is tight and tough. Carefully managing our build is crucial to withstand the numerous enemies and accomplish the mission.

We have no choice but to use the drill instead when playing on DS. The drill can be placed or repaired underneath the stairs

Interference

After getting inside and hitting the button to turn the bridge, the cops will try to halt it, making us to press it again. Then, they'll climb up the building and deploy tear gas from the ceiling