As someone who already got the achievement solo, I'm happy to see that such a drastically different approach to what I did is still viable to getting this difficult achievement!

The trailer and the heist itself were really great and all, but they missed one big part of it which nobody told us: you can get downed in casing mode.

Solid gameplay Kknowley! Very nice to know that the achievement counts as long as you _step into the escape_ before the 7 minutes. Really liked the fact that you enter the building early, to trigger Locke's eventual objective marker for the computer - your strategy is pretty much the same as mine, with some minor differences! Since you mentioned you'll continue attempting to lower your time, my current best for the Pacifist achievement is 5m36s in DSOD (for Titan cams and, I assume, more civs / guards), so that at least is feasible!

Just got the achievement today, a few hours before your video dropped. I found the hardest part to be the loot securing, plenty of runs were failed due to guards spotting a hostage or broken camera just as I entered the documents room. One run was even failed because I ran over the two civs at 8:28 haha, though I had almost no ecm time left so that one was already a lost cause. I must've also gotten really unlucky, as I've heard the guard passing through the lab is really uncommon, yet I got him on plenty of runs for him to spot my civs, and the lady on the stage got spotted way more frequently than you mentioned it happened to you. I had fun running the achievement, but at times I was malding over my RNG lol.

Literally did this achievement with 3 people 2nd try an hour after the Heist came out in 2m 40s and did it solo in 6m15s the next day after like maybe 4 tries - I don't think this update was particularly challenging for most as it already has a higher % of achievement completions than even Lost in Transit did a week after release (at least amongst my friends list and people I've seen completing)

I love the fact that you still play and upload videos about payday 2 despite it being so old.

This seems like a solid achievement, and it's nice to see more games encourage speedrunning as a part of the core game, as i feel like it encourages a lot of creativity from the players, as well as the developers themselves, in how they design the levels to accommodate these strategies!

Me who cant even stealth a heist

Good strategy and love the vid as usual ☺️

Thank you for that warning at the beginning! I'll give an update after I finish it!

I had lot of fun doing this with a friend of mine. Doing this solo is much harder than 2. 4 mins are plenty due to the fact you van start the rush after 2 min

I used the same pre-plans when I got this achievement on release. Got lucky with the guy coming out of the lab at the start and skipped the camera room, ended at 5 and a half minutes

really enjoyed doing this achievement as a duo, managed to get it in 2m 50s. Figuring out a really efficient path and executing it effectively was so much fun. Although we did theorise about running the golf cart we ultimately did it with the zipline to the south entrance. Was super annoying though as I found some of my ECM jammers being eaten for no reason. Regardless super fun, my favourite path was using PA and running through the lab doors as the scientists exited, happy with that optimisation.

Breaking my keyboard any% speed run

I love payday and ur content! Keep it up! :D

On loud there's a bug when the lab has water and electricity on the floor where you can keep getting infinitely electrocuted after getting out of the room.

it's honestly VERY easy to do in a 4 man tean in 4 minutes. we did it on the second try and two of the players hadnt played the map before. i did both of the lab parts together with one of the new guys just running afte rme and helping and the ither two did the other two parts. pretty easy. and ecm rushable with a team of 4. btw: there is a maintenance guy in the lab. he has a kc. so, you don't need to rely on getting the one from the security room

I am so bad at speedrun stealth, hell I still need that damn scarface mansion achievement

I personally think this one of the easier 'speedrun' achievements. 'The Auction Cry' is still the hardest imo. In my first 30 minutes of attempts I managed a 6:51, which was invalidated. (I killed the chief scientist. Not a strong reader :P) This attempt didn't utilize any special strategies, so I wasted a lot of time doing the objectives in order. Returning to it today I managed a 5:05. This was due to equal parts rng and planning. This achievement seemed hard when reading its description, but it was fairly easy to be honest. A proper strategy is all you really need to shave minutes off your time. The route I used. I would definitely recommend you doing something similar. Start with the Neo-2 (avoids lockpicking the safe as the civ with the code is already there) Loop back around and start gathering dirt (get a keycard as well, spawns in the office/security room or on civs in green) Proceed to the lab. Mark the chief scientist (He's usually somewhere around the research center at this point) Get to work destroying the equipment. (This step can be done before getting the access tag, do this first if he's in a bad spot) Get the access tag and start gathering the bags Lastly, move and secure the bags (Preferably with the golf cart to save time)

I did it with a friend yesterday. I usually don't care much for speedruns but still. After loads of tries we got a good RNG combination and got it at 3:37 on the timer.

since i can only play ps4 payday the only way i know of any new updates is through you so thanks for that.

I can't even stealth this on normal, there's no way in hell I'll be able to do that achievement.

You're the best Kknowley

I got this with 2 randoms my first time playing it, didn't think it was too hard lol

I did every achievement in about 3 and a half hours, and now its back to infamy grinding to 100, but defintly putting this heist in my list

Sam might be getting used now

Did you learn anything about what makes the investigators spawn? It seems less likely when you do things out of the intended order. My winning run was the first time I didn't have them spawn.

Still easier than "Caution! Wet floor" also known as the WORST achievement in Payday 2

If only I knew what the final update number was for Xboxone. Then I could know how much I’ve missed 😢

Ay can u beat the game as the heavy from tf2 kknowkey?

Im so rusty at PAYDAY that i just barely got this solo at 6m55s lmao

Its a bloddy hard one for sure, but using Yakuza might be what pushes my time over the edge.

En mi opinión de alguien que ya tiene el logro, no es tan difícil como se hace ver, claro siendo nivel bajo es difícil pero todo tiene su truco y aunque es el logro más simple que he visto el problema es el camino de los guardias en su y los civiles

I'm glad there's a new hardest achievement! Means before payday 3 everyone will be gated on equal grounds on the 100%!

Damn, this achievement is the more intelligent little brother of the "Let's do th..." achievement

I disagree with this being "one of the new hardest achievements in game" since I feel things like one down goat sim or bomb forest trump this by miles in the context of solo runs IMO but regardless great video

While i wouldn't say it's an easy achievement, it's thankfully way easier and less depending on RNG (and also a lot more fun) than solo Auction Cry. That being said it didn't stop me from failing it at least 3 times by ramming the golf cart into a pair of civilians that can spawn on the bench near escape van and at least twice by getting spotted on both 1st and 2nd office floor, having to pacify and tie up all civilians there and having no cable ties left for CSO as a result. I guess that kind of shows how big of a deal not being able to kill civilians is, especially when the standard approach is to just gun them on sight if they get in a way.

6:05 on DS/OD cheers up guys its (achiv) not so bad ^)

At first I was very confused by the title but it makes sense if you are attempting this solo

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So Payday 3 will have multi-tasking objectives too?

This is not the hardest achievement. Hardest ones are the ones that needs friends to do it :C

The hardest achievement to grind for in payday 2 is enjoyment of the game.

Took myself an hour to get my 6:13 run, and I've only pushed it further since. Currently, 5:35 is my best.

Me playing on console not having an update for years

The golf cart achievement is even worse. i despise pd2 vehicle physics with abundance.

what about ecms, everyone could complete thier own task while they each get a minute of ecm jam

Dang

Nah, not even close compared to Auction Cry. Me and two other homies did it on third try, you can ECM rush it from start to finish if you got a full team.

Sadly it is one of the easiest achievements in the game, with 4 players. You can full ecm rush it.

Pretty sure shacklethorn in 5 is more difficult

it was so easy ;)

Payday 2 challenge idea: Play payday 2 from A to Z Complete every heist (and possibly variations like bank deposit, transport heists and Ukrainian job) in alphabetical order. For example go from alesso heist to bank to breakfast in Tijuana, to car shop. As for rules, I dont know, maybe you can only use guns and equipment with the same starting letter as the heist, if there isn't anything with the same name you can't use what's in the slot so you'd be beating safehouse raid with a saw and other stuff starting with S

I bet it aint even hard its just a majority of players will never waste their money on anything past legacy collection. Everything past legacy is overpriced compared to it lol.

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I was the first. I have seen… everything.

Ya consider this the hardest achievement? Clearly you never did guessing game before

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Time to git gud then?