PAYDAY: The Heist

PAYDAY: The Heist

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The 10 Most Common Ways to Die in Payday: The Heist, and how to prevent these deaths
By Warden++ and 1 collaborators
Death occurs a lot in this game, but there are a couple types of death that are especially common...
   
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10. Cop Rush
Description:

Professionally trained, these handsome young men in uniforms run up to your face so that you can see them, and start blasting you with their pistols.



Solution:

Shoot them or punch them.
9. Blue Swat Rush
Description:

Well, these boys are still quite handsome, but they have better armor, weapons, and are even better trained.

(Blue SWAT snipers are so good at sniping, sometimes they run up to you to snipe you down!)



Solution:

Shoot 'em harder, or go Chuck Norris on them.
8. Heavy Swat Rush
Description:

They've got black uniforms, black guns, and they look professional. What else can I say?



Solution:

Don't just go Chuck Norris on them... go Bruce Lee on them!
7. Tazer
Description:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Once you get tazed,
You feel dazed!



Solution:

You've got multiple solutions to this problem: run towards it, and remember to keep looking at it. Although when it taze you, you'll shoot towards where you look with low accuracy, and at an uncontrollable rate, you should still be able to hit it. The closer you are, the higher the chance of you shooting it when you get tazed.

The alternate solution is to punch them. When you punch them, they are stunned for a brief moment of time.
6. Bulldozer
Description:

You know what's the most intimidating thing about these guys? They got white balaclavas!



Solution

Keep on shooting its helmet. Although it will take a while to destroy its visor, it is worth it, for once it's down, you will be able to kill it quickly with multiple headshots.
5. Hugging with a Cloak


Description:

We all love the feeling of a new blanket. Many of us want the magnificent cloak that the cloaked carry. They are all very sad. With a kind hug they will give you their blanket.

(Warning: If you hug too fast or hard they will be aggressive, be careful.)

Solution:

Shoot it before it gets too close to you, and keep backing up as it shoots you, as it can one-hit kill you with his stick. Another solution (very risky) is to sneak up on one, and keep on meleeing it, for when it is being meleed, it will be stunned for a brief moment.
4. Taser Rush
Problem:

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
when one's not enough,
you gotta be tough!



Solution:

Shoot 'em all!
3. Cloaker Rush
Description:

More blankets for everyone!



Solution:

When there are multiple cloakers, don't sneak up on them, for when you're stunning one, the others will finish you. Just keep backing up, and shooting 'em.
2. Bulldozer Rush
Problem:

How intimidating can it possibly get?



Solution:

Don't attack them on your own. You'll need a friend to help deal more damage. Use the same strategy for killing a lone bulldozer.
Honorable Mention: "Oops! I fell!"
Description:

Don't jump off that building for fun...

Solution:

Look where you're going.
Honorable Mention: The heat is on!
Description:

What's cooking, doc?

Solution:

Don't go near fires.
Honorable Mention: Trippitty, trippitty mine!
The Problem:

You're right beside a mine, and a cloaker is running towards you. If the cloaker reaches you, he will die, due to the mine, but you will too, because you have low health. The batman bomb disposal tactic isn't working. What will you do?

Solution:

Just run away from those mines, even if they're yours, OK? Just stay away, or run away...
1. The "Everything" Rush
Description:

Well, this is the rush where the special units charge at you, with the normal units backing them up. This rush happens the most!

Solution:

Be able to identify each type of danger, and deal with the most dangerous one first!
Conclusion
After reading this article, you'll probably draw the correct conclusion that OVERKILL wants their players to die, die and last but not least, die. Have fun!
9 Comments
kaymo 10 Aug, 2021 @ 12:24am 
The writing in this guide is the best i've ever seen, i'm going to patiently wait for the full book to come out
Ugandan Bruce Lee 22 Jul, 2017 @ 5:46pm 
hi
Yinsanga 20 Jul, 2017 @ 4:03pm 
my answer to 1 YOLO IT BITCHES
InF 16 Aug, 2016 @ 5:48am 
Using trip mine.
Warden++  [author] 7 Aug, 2016 @ 9:31pm 
If you feel like we haven't covered an area enough, just comment below.
Lloyd 7 Aug, 2016 @ 7:58pm 
Playing Heat Street on Easy.
xenocide 4 Aug, 2016 @ 12:18pm 
You know what's the most intimidating thing about these guys? They got white balaclavas!
Fucking true
Warden++  [author] 31 Jul, 2016 @ 5:07pm 
@DorentuZ' Thanks for pointing that out. I've added that part now!
DorentuZ` 31 Jul, 2016 @ 3:28pm 
So where is the "and how to prevent these deaths" part?