Casino Heist Extras

Heist setup board

Casino Scoping

Jan 09, 2020 Last month, Rockstar released the Diamond Casino Heist for Grand Theft Auto Online. It’s been hailed as the the game’s biggest and most elaborate heist to date.In addition to choosing an approach to the mission, there are several steps that you must take before you’re able to embark, including buying an arcade and hiring a crew.

  1. The vault you are looting in GTA Online's Diamond Casino Heist can contain anything from cash and artwork to gold, or even diamonds. The payout varies depending on which type of content you find. Cash is the most common loot, followed by artwork, gold and finally diamonds.
  2. Dec 13, 2019 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. Finding these allows you to buy extras from.

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 contentRarity / ProbabilityMaximum Potential Payout(Hard mode) Maximum Potential PayoutColect time
CashVery common$2,115,000$2,326,50038 seconds
ArtworkSomewhat common$2,350,000$2,585,00020 seconds
GoldRare$2,585,000$2,843,50025 seconds
DiamondsVery rare / event driven$3,290,000$3,619,50038 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

GunmanSkillsCutProvided Unmarked Weapons
Silent & SneakyThe Big ConAggressive
Chester McCoy Expert10%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 MotaExpert9%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 Good8%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 Good7%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 AbolajiPoor5%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

DriverSkillsCutProvided Getaway VehiclesDeparture Vehicle
Chester McCoy Expert10%RUNE Zhaba
Maxwell Vagrant
Nagasaki Outlaw
Karin Everon
Canis Kamacho
Eddie TohExpert9%Karin Sultan Classic
Bravado Gauntlet Classic
Vapid Ellie
Lampadati Komoda
Karin Kuruma
Taliana MartinezGood7%Vapid Retinue Mk II
Declasse Drift Yosemite
Dinka Sugoi
Ocelot Jugular
Karin Sultan
Zach Nelson Good6%Maibatsu Manchez
Nagasaki Stryder
Shitzu Defiler
Principe Lectro
Bravado Youga Classic
Karim DenzPoor5%Weeny Issi Classic
Maxwell Asbo
Dinka Blista Kanjo
Übermacht Sentinel Classic
Declasse Rancher XL

Location of the departure vehicles :

Hackers

Casino Heist Extras
HackerSkillsCutProvided Time
UnexposedExposed
Avi Schwartzman Expert10%3 minutes, 30 seconds2 minutes, 26 seconds
Paige Harris Expert9%3 minutes, 25 seconds2 minutes, 23 seconds
Christian FeltzGood7%2 minutes, 59 seconds2 minutes, 5 seconds
Yohan Blair Good5%2 minutes, 52 seconds2 minutes, 1 second
Rickie LukensPoor5%2 minutes, 26 seconds1 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.

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.
Vault ContentsApproach selectionExtras to practiceHeist prep boardFinal boardHacking and vault content helpTips and tricks

The Diamond Casino Heist is a new heist job in GTA Online's Diamond Casino and Resort update. The casino heist is by far the most complicated heist GTA Online players have seen, but it offers some good ways to make a lot of money along the way.

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If you don't know how to start the Casino Heist or if you are stuck on one of the missions, our walkthrough on how to complete this job in GTA Online is outlined below.

Step 1: Buy an Arcade

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Before you can start The Diamond Casino Heist in GTA Online, you need to purchase one of the six possible retro arcades in the game. You must talk to Lester in Mirror Park to access the arcades.

Casino Heist Hack

After you talk to Lester and the six arcade locations appear on the map, you can use the Maze Bank Foreclosures store webpage on your mobile phone to purchase one of the arcade locations.

Here are all the locations and their prices. The best arcades are located in the city.

  • Pixel Pete’s
    • Price: $1,235,000
    • Location: Paleto Bay
  • Wonderama
    • Price: $1,565,000
    • Location: Grapeseed
  • Videogeddon
    • Price: $1,875,000
    • Location: La Mesa
  • Warehouse
    • Price: $2,135,000
    • Location: Davis
  • Insert Coin
    • Price: $2,345,000
    • Location: Rockford Hills
  • Eight Bit
    • Price: $2,530,000
    • Location: Vinewood

Step 2: Set Up Your Heist

Once you have your arcade location up and running, you can enter Lester's underground base, where you will gain access to three blackboards. Use these blackboards to manage your heist.

The three blackboards represent the three following stages of the heist:

Extras
  • The Set Up
  • The Prep
  • The Heist

The first blackboard is dedicated to helping you set up your heist. You will see the 'To Do' list in the upper right corner, which is a list of actions you must perform before the actual heist.

You can also choose to do the optional list of tasks, but you will have to pay for all of the intelligence associated with them, so we'll just focus on the main missions.

Scope Out Casino

This is the first task you need to complete. To make things easier, it is advisable to purchase the two extras from the setup board:

  • Casino Model
    • Price: $130,000
  • Door Security
    • Price: $425,000

These two pieces of intelligence will help you to find all of the safest entry points into the casino.

Scope Out Vault Contents

After you arrive at the casino and find the vault, you can scope it out for four types of valuables:

  • Cash
    • Price: $2,115,000
  • Artwork
    • Price: $2,350,000
  • Gold
    • Price: $2,585,000
  • Diamonds
    • Price: $3,290,000

You can only choose one of the four options, and they are random. The best loot you can get from the vault is diamonds, which cost over $3 million. The least profitable is cash. So if you happen to get the case with diamonds, then select it and mark it on your blackboard.

Select Approach

The final part of the setup is selecting one of the three available approaches:

  • Silent and Sneaky
  • The Big Con
  • Aggressive

All three approaches offer different types of gameplay. Silent and Sneaky is obviously a stealth plan; The Big Con uses tricks and disguises; and Aggressive offers a full-on guns blazing robbery.

It doesn't matter which approach you choose, as they all lead to the same results. Choose the style that fits your personal taste the most.

Step 3: Prep Your Heist

This stage of the heist requires the most time and money. This stage is where you hire your crew of NPCs, select disguises, vehicles, and other necessary items from the 'To Do' list.

Support Crew

In this first section, you can choose three possible crewmen for the heist:

  • Gunman
  • Driver
  • Hacker

All three categories offer different skills, but these also come with varying prices. Whenever you choose a crewman, it will show you their cut in percentages. Obviously, the higher the skill, the higher the cut.

In this case, it is strongly recommended that you take all three Expert level crewmen, where each will take 9% of your heist earnings. It's a lot of money to give away, but you will have the highest quality weapons and vehicles during the heist.

The To-Do List

After you have chosen your team, you can start the six main prep missions. In each of these missions, you need to select which item types you wish to steal.

Below you will find the best choices for the prep missions:

  • Rifle Loadout
    • Unmarked Weapons
  • Sultan Classic
    • Getaway Vehicles
  • Gruppe Sechs
    • Entry Disguise
  • Noose Gear
    • Exit Disguise

During the Getaway Vehicles mission, you will also have the choice to upgrade your vehicles. You can buy bulletproof tires for $25,000, which will make the getaway section easier.

Casino Heist Extra Money

Step 4: Start the Diamond Casino Heist

You will be offered a chance to choose your buyer and get some extra help on the third blackboard.

Choose Buyer

Buyers have three levels: low, middle, and high. Always go for the high-level buyer. They will offer the most amount of money. The heist will be more difficult, but if you've done your prep correctly, and spent cash on the right things, then you should be fine.

Also buy a Clean Vehicle and Gunman Decoy for $50,000 if you can.

Starting the Mission

If you've selected the Gruppe Sechs entrance disguise and The Big Con approach, then you will start the heist mission in an armored truck, which is the best for this mission.

Here's how to get through the entire heist easily:

  1. Enter the underground garage of the casino
  2. Take the elevator to the vault
  3. Run past all the guards without killing them
  4. Use the vault keycard
  5. Let the casino worker open the vault for you
  6. Get the loot
  7. Exit the vault floor through the staircase
  8. Change the disguise in the locker room (Noose)
  9. Exit the casino through the staff door

When you're outside the casino, you can safely deliver the vault contents to your buyer.

Extras Diamond Casino Heist

Finish the Mission

The only problem you might run into during this final stage of the heist is the chasing helicopter. Steal any car you see and use it to deliver the loot (if you didn't purchase the Clean Vehicle option ahead of time).

If cops start chasing you, use the underground sewer system to get away from them and stay undetected. Follow the marker on the map to your buyer's location.

When you've reached the buyer location, the mission ends with a cutscene, and you get your money reward.

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