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A few hints that could help: hint #1: When scouting out the heist for the first time, make absolutely sure that you scout out the underwater entrance to the compound that Poob uses here. Without scouting that entrance out at least once, the cutting torch option won't be available, and hence you won't be able to just burn away locks, you'd need a bolt cutter that you can find randomly in a few places on the island. hint #2: Always pay attention to what secondary loot is available, how much they're worth, and how much of your bag they take up. their order by value: gold > coke > weed > paintings > cash the amount they take up from your bag for 1 full table's worth of loot (or for 1 painting, as that type can't be split) gold: 2/3rd of the bag coke / painting: half the bag weed: 3/8th of the bag (kinda weird, I know. 2 of these + 1 pile of cash is a full bag, as Poob has shown too) cash: 1/4th of the bag Always keep track of how much secondary you pick up outside, if you're planning on finishing it with a painting from the office. If your bag is more than half full, you won't be able to pick it up. For this reason alone,I'd always recommend actually checking out what the loot is near the hangar before you start riding the bike for the actual scope-out mission. hint #3: the setup tricks: For the speedboat, if you have the phantom wedge, use the phantom wedge. Drive to the drop off location, and do the suicide bomb thing there. This way you can push whatever the hell would be in your way on the road there out of your way without any worry of getting cops on yourself, as the suicide bombing will get them off your back anyway. hint #4: The pathing Poob has shown for both the bike and the compound's inside is pretty good. Not necessarily the one I'd use, but pretty close to it. WhatI'd definietly do differently, is the part from 15:10 To be precise: The 2 guards that Poob ran past, and the one that he knocked out. Out of those 3, one of them will always have the keys for the other entrance. I'drecommend knocking the first one out when he's on the grass next to the gate. If you do it there, noone will notice him taking a bit of rest on the job. The 2nd one can be dealth with however you want, no other guard even goes near that place. Same for the upstairs one. Alternatively, you can just avoid all 3. The first 2 the same way Poob did, the 3rd by sticking to the wall on the south side of the building (where the balcony facing the sea is) near the corner. The guard will walk past you without noticing you, and you can just walk past it from there. About these 3 guards, the only thing you have to remember, is to not off the first guard before it'd reach the grassy area around the gate. If you do, the Juggernaught will see it on it's rounds around the compound. hint #5: pay attention to the main loot when scouting the island. Tequila < Ruby Necklace < Bearer Bonds < Pink Diamond < panther statue (event only) (also, first clear is always gonna be the Madrazzo files. Back before nerfs, this used to be the same value as Bearer bonds. Now bearer bonds and everything below it in the list are nerfed. A lot. Much lower payouts. When scouting the island, you can technically see what the loot is behind the glass before the game would gerister that you found it. You can just enter a new lobby and start the scouting again if you don't like what you got. Kind of a pain to do this, but considering the tequila only earns you 630k now, while the pink diamond is 1.3 mill, I'd say it can be worth it. hint #6: Use the same exit strategy that Poob has shown here. Everyone who knows what they're doing uses that. It's much faster, and it is also much safer to do, as most guards won't be able to shoot at you, and if you can get out of the compound without being seen, you can most likely get off the island without being seen as well. Making the elite challenge quite likely to happen, if you were fast doing all this. Overall very nice and informative video, I'd haveincluded the 1st, 2nd, and 5th hints from my list here for sure, as they're pretty important info, especially #1 for new players. Edit: According to tb48bt (another commenter on this video) the guard at 15:10 shouldn't be taken out, even when it's at the location where other ones won't see; as apparently it's the cause behind the guard with extreme vision cone and wallhack spawning when picking up the main objective. If there's any truth to that, do keep this in mind.

Another alternative to switching sessions is to use the guided missile on the Kosatka to destroy the helicopter, the mission fails and they give you another one.

On exit, instead of swimming down that trench for a few minutes, just turn right and swim into the middle of that 3 mine cluster. As soon as you see "Escape from Cayo Perico" vanish from your screen, you have escaped. After I am done scouting the communications tower, I just parachute or drive in front of a camera. The guards will take me back to the plane in seconds.

Honestly great video, I personally learned this method first from TGG but I like the way you explained it too and some aspects I wasn't really aware of...such as the aspect that you can still use the gate as a cut-through while scouting the mansion and that you ramp up the wall to the checkpoint instead of making a jump off of a makeshift ramp via the terrain. Really you highlighted and explained the tips and tricks for Cayo very well, some I had to learn myself. Great video

This is filled with so many things that I wish I knew on my first solo run, great stuff

I haven't run a Cayo yet but this will probably save me a lot of time, thanks for the info!

If you swim to the whale skeleton just past a group of mines, you exit the mission faster 🐳

wow. This video made the heist way easier, and now I can do it and not get bored lol. Thanks!

Great video Poob. Thank you, but I disagree with not scooping the 2nd target. As solo, it is always best to find the Coke and takes a few minutes on the same bike.

I never though aboyt the pathing u showed to get to the communications tower!I actually didnt even bother to check if the gates were open and if you could jump that little wall where the hardest part to get through is.Really saves times I am so grateful for your guide!

Sometimes when you finish a prep mission, if I switch to another session it wouldn't save. What I always do before switching lobbies is change my appearance. It forces the game to save. It saves it even if you lose internet connection.

1 more tip is you should beach your kosatka on Vespucci beach if you like to use an oppressor mk2 go get the equipment and quickly come land on kosatka saves so much time

Excellent video! Can’t wait to try this!

Man thank you, you halped me a lot, i'm freshly after my first cayo and that video definitly will help me in future!❤

To cancel MW weapon prep, consider using guided missiles to destroy helicopter on top of docks warehouse. Might be faster than looking for new session if your kosatka is parked nearby

You don't need to swim for 1min to leave the heist. Just swim down into the dipped sand area right to the right of the ravine shown. When you get to it the helicopter will appear on mini map. Once you reach bottom of the sand area, start swimming to the surface. Halfway up the heli icon will disappear and heist will end in the next 3 seconds. So less than 10 seconds after hitting the water on the bike. Markgaming shows this exit.

AYYY THANK YOU MAN!!! I just tried it and i got it, thanks man you da best

When escaping, the further point west is quicker than going south... When swimming away

Awesome tips! BTW at 15:21 you don't need to knock out the guard. Just use wall as cover and he walks right by - it's weird but somehow he doesn't see you.

During the “Disrupt Buzzards” mission to remove the attack helicopters, you can use submarine fast travel + guided missiles to take them all out before the time limit expires. Usually you only need to fast travel once or twice. It’s difficult to do with a Raiju in time, but quite comfortable with fast travel + missiles.

Best video out there ! Thanks !

There is a faster route that you can take where you don’t go through the area where the party is held the first time you do the heist

17:09 I will add something that will make that way more faster. Find a skeleton over there and move towards it and when you reach on top of it the cut scene will start

Using the bolt cutters are also a good thing they are way more silent depending on where you use them.

Thank You So Much You Have Saved Me So Much Time

You have definitely earned my subscription

Now I know my mistakes thank you so very much Hitting Cayo tonight

Also for prep work 1st get your Weapons and leave the longfin as last, so once you have a good weapon mission (707, Penris, Schlongburg) you can fast travel with your Kostatka to venice beach and leave it there for all prep missions it's the best location

The point about secondary targets, I get that. But I think part of what makes the Cayo Perico grind fun is that you can have a different route each time due to the location of secondary targets, guard clothing, supply truck, etc. You've got things that change around each time. You can really get into the nitty gritty and scope out things that completely change how the run plays out. Might not be the most efficient, but it's one of those things that adds so much replayability imo. At least for me. 👍

When you jump from that spot he showed to swing away, if you turn right 45 degrees and follow the mines, it only takes about 30 seconds to leave Cayo Perico. I used to swim out the way he does here, and it takes at least a full minute of swimming to leave. This is the only thing he missed but I learned a lot too.

Thanks for this am a lev 32 and i needed help doing setup faster

At 4:59 they now put sometimes put a guard at that shack. When having to follow the Mayweather chopper. You don't have to. You can just go to one of the two sites. Fight them and blow the helicopter out the sky when it finally gets close enough without having to wait for ever. Cutting torch at the high rise construction site. You can just fly your sparrow to the top. Saves lots of time.

Wow thought I was gonna learn something new

For those doing the Kosatka approach, you don't have to leave the sub to do the prep mission. fast travel to the site, submerge, put the sub into auto-pilot mode, put on the diving suite and swim to the other sub. Leave the same way. I made the mistake when I first started trying to fly to the site....never ended well lol.

👍thanks. The best cayo tutorial for now👍

12:29 I'd recommend when you jump down, not to aim for the forlift but rather to the floor. Because you can get stuck somehow between forklift and crate and can't get out.

Something i would like to point out when jumping off the island into the water if you look on the mini map where the water is before it goes all dark there is a little triangle and that will instantly make you escape

I use the long fin 99 times out of a 100 so I can move around the Island as needed during the heist. Use a guard uniform even without the truck as can then move freely. I always find the cutting powder as it spawns in 3 points only and it’s on route to the tower. I have a Phantom wedge and park on the rail bridge just before the drop off point as you will always lose the cops when parked on there

Great video poob

instead of going to the hangar, then to the compound, its faster to just go to the compound first then go to the main dock. theres 2 lockups easily accessible there and you can just take a boat and drive away to escape.

So you're telling me I didn't have to go back to that stupid plane! 😤😂

In gather intale (the first misson) you don't have to switch your session, just alert the guards and they will return you to the airport and then return to the city

You say you can loot for half-full bag in the hangar, and grab painting in Rubios office to completely fill it, but I’ve never been able to do that. I tested it out multiple times Carefully making sure I loot halfway, but was never successful in also obtaining painting. I was very curious to see how that was going to work. But other than all that, coming from an experienced player this video is 200% accurate and well detailed.

Even though he says not to check anything else.I don't.I recommend checking the airstrip and main dock

*[ITS GOING TO BE VERY LONG BUT VERY BENIFICIAL TOO SO READ IT!]* Always try to use oppressor MK2 while doing weapons mission from office buildings as there is little to no landing space on 2 of them and barely some on the 3rd one [ yes there are only 3 possible office buildings for the weapons prep] so sparrow or any heli will require more space to land rather than oppressor. also heli take almost 3-4 sec to start to fly while oppressor mk2 takes almost no time and its boost allows it to get to max speed slmost instantly. This is a important factor while doing Plasma Cutter prep too as if its del perro or rockford hills from where u have to steal the cutter from then just blasting the hell out of that gang crew with oppressor mk2 missiles and then just picking it up and boosting ur way out of the shooting is way better than having to land the chopper then picking it up and then com ing back to chopper as till then reinforcements of the gang crew will come in 2 cars which is a pain in the butt while flying a chopper. Incase of where to land the mk2 while entering the kosatka then right infront of the hatch i.e towards the inside side that is the side to which the door is also present, its a smooth flat surface there, just be careful that if mk2 gets tilted even a little bit then it slides in the water and eventually gets destroyed, so land it perfectly and it will be good to go when u go in kosatka, start another prep again and come back, it will be a fast takeoff again.

The docks have that big shed that's only guarded by one guard and u need to flick the switch to open its a great first route before u head to the air strip hangar.

For the actual heist, swim slightly to the right instead at the end when you're leaving the island. There should be a whale skeleton and 3 mines in the area I'm talking about, swim towards them and it'll end the heist around 30 seconds sooner.

me and my friend have been using the cutting torch since we first figured out about it

thank bro this will be a lot faster

I don't skip it if it's the Merryweather weapons prep. The Merryweather guys only spawn in one of 3 locations, and you don't have to follow the helicopter at all. Just fly over near Merryweather to get the helicopter moving, then just fly ahead to those locations until you find the Merryweather guys. Once you find them, you can take them out and usually have the area cleared by the time the helicopter shows up. Take out the guys in it once it arrives, then enter in the Avenger.

This is the reason why Rockstar changed oppressor price from 4mil to 8mil...

Prep missions; - First do weapon load out (in city) - Then drive sub to channel/harbor area. Do Torch, Fingerprint/Codes, Cutter. - Lastly do longfin. Set marker to location to deliver. Drive to marker while cops are chasing and sticky boom there if you didn't loose then along the way. You only need to switch sessions when you get MerryHQ quest and after longfin. This can save 5~10 minutes overall.

6:50 I mean you can do that and actually the location where you need to get the longfin is the same every time. And pro tip: This is a way to "test drive the Phantom Wedge" and its more fun to mess with the cops.

That low payout is exactly why I do 2 people, also I'm surprised to see the methods I made when the heist dropped are the meta

In Merywether weapons mission you technically don't need to follow the helicopter, there's only 3 possible locations and it will alwyas fli in a straight line to it's destination so you can tell which it is. So just get there beofre the helicopter and kill everyone. You might still need to wait for the heli to get there for the objective to advance, I'm not sure if you can skip that and go into teh avenger before

Holy shit. This way is a lot faster. But I usually check my secondary loot first then go to the bike, I always respawn in the Kosatka

Also, when you come to shore before going to the hangar, you need to back your boat into the rock near the shore so it doesn't float out to sea.

If you leave your kosatka between Vespucci beach and LSIA, you'll never get the merryweather weapon source mission and always get the CEO Office raid because the area where the Valkyrie is supposed to spawn is already rendered.

I find with reseting the weapons if you reload the lobby and choose a second Loadout it will still give you the main loadout you choose first dont know if this works on console but definitely does on pc i use the sabtour and conspirator classes and works everytime

I do it a Lil differently bc I changed up a solo heist video to also be for when I have ppl to get smaller cool down but I didn't know you could just switch lobbies once u found the cams at the tower I always died or got caught to spawn by the plane than flew back.

1:14 Even better, learn job warp and warp close to the velum. 6:10 that might bug the game and u have to do the scope again, so I recommend jumping to death then geting into plane. 7:05 U can also accept a job (like gerald or a pre made) and leave job so cops will be gone, u don't die and u stay close to truck. 08:08 buy supressors first to avoid trouble. 10:24 don't stick in guards vision too long or they will aggro. 17:20 go for the whale bones and when the chopper disappears on hud ure done.

Every time i do the weapons prep i fast travel to pacific bluffs and i never get the merryweather hq mission.

Air field is now not spanning enough stuff to fill your bags, Now the faster is to park longfin near main docks and fill you bags killing bunch of guard then do as in video. I usually do it under 12 mins

Oh man... Where is the part that was hinted to in the thumbnail?

at the end, instead of swimming through the ravine for the minute or two it takes to escape go to the left through the mines and you will complete the mission when you reach the whale bones in 15 to 20 seconds.

1, Intel part: I scope the hangar and opposite area, get the motorcycle to the southernmost beach tip north of the main dock and then use my diving suit to swim there and run beside the water tower and possibly find the washing powder on my way. Just thru the jungle with no guards up to the tower. 2, To lose the cops: Get into the truck once the Longfin is attached, get out and call your Buzzard. Circle until wanted level is gone. Oldest trick.

You're making a lot of assumptions about my internet speeds with all this lobby hopping.

I'm fine with them making guards detect bodies but the then need to make it so you can pick them up and move them

11:50 to save a little bit of time theres a ladder you climb up instead of using the forklift

Thanks, Bro

😂 I never do the first mistake (fast travel) I seldom do Cayo solo anymore, even if I heavily did look for coke as a semi-newb in the past. Tylarius showed early an alternative route to the jump at the guard tower, which is equally good. Omg, I actually learned something 😂 I used to jump of the tower suiciding then travel immediately to LSIA in the plane. Phantom wedge is so worth it, as you get the opportunity to call it in if the police confiscated it (wait that only counts on private owned vehicle like your wedge right? 🥳), and you can have a lucky drive that you loose the stars on the way to drop off. Sometimes Pavel is extra generous to offer a fast travel in a phone message. So you can do something else while waiting for this message, as an alternative? What takes longer hit helicopter with kosatka cruise missiles or reload session? You didn't cover escape from Vespucci 707. Which is to walk out onto the roof and walk in again about 3 times repeated. Boom, no helicopter enemy is going to chase you. Everyone know this about the cutting torch these days. It is so widely covered on KZfaq. I just blow the construction site guards up with my sparrow before entering 🥳 Don't you lack weapon to do in on the Juggernaut with your weapon Loadout. Aggressor Loadout is meta for finishing the juggernaut if you have the wrong team mates that are inexperienced. Longfin is the meta with drainage tunnel. Do the secondary loot first. Or you risk alerting the guards because restock of guards after the primary loot can trigger this new guard with Lazer x-vision after R* did change revisions. With a team it can be more efficient if everyone knows what they should do. Someone can go directly to the basement opening the solo fingerprint on easy mode with the gate keys. Then the player in the office can assist on secondary loot. Escape is also well known. Some run, some jump with motorbikes. I like the motorbikes off the cliff rather than the extra swim. Notice that the mines before the whale carcass is a good spawn back to Los Santos. If you have a team that know when to stop swimming. Oh those newbs swimming and swimming as if the devil is on their heals 🤣🤪

Well I think the most optimal way to do the cayo heist would be via the submarine the Submarine prep isn't that long since you can tp with the submarine, plus you just go inside the enemy sub and find a little box then leave yes, not doing the explosies prep is a thing i discovery later but still, very nice to bring it up if you start via the submarine, you'll just swim, cut the gate, get around inside (either kill a guard and get a key or go via the office to open the locker for extra cash) getting out, just kill the guy near the motorcycle, and the car that coming too (he'll see the dead boy) and then go to whatever places has a better loot (cocaine, weed and then cash) then either swim out, or go to the port and get a boat and just get out, easy 10-14 mins heist with a, lets say around 20-30 mins prep (using sprarrow only) since the elite challenge doesn't need you to be stealth you can just run to a boat and get out, even if they find you out but then again that's my pathing, i think my record for prep and heist itself was like, 35 mins maybe less I also use the exterminator weapon prep since the sniper is great for those towers guard and the AP pistol is reliable at headshots and if you need to deal a lot of damage, molotovs are whatever, and of course supressors I don't know if i can do a faster pathing tbh, usually if i get a shitty main objective (tequilla or bank docs, i don't even look around the island for the secondary, but if i get the diamond of even the panther, then i'll max it out) even with the changes of the enemies seeing dead body i manage to completly fast and with no errors, so yeah (waiting for 2,5 hours to get the hard option is a pain tho 😭)

when you finished all preps you could go to a public lobby and do it with a low level guy, only send a message to him and enjoy your gold or paintings if you play in solo

Check for secondary so you dont end up muddling your way thru the actual heist, (as i have seen poob do more than once) hunting for secondary after, higher risk, wasting time etc etc. afew minutes extra spent PREPPING makes for an easy heist. I can rob either dock or the airstrip, plus hit the compound in and out undetected, 8-10 mins and job done. Elite challenge blah blah. Oh and using longfin. I have this heist legit mastered

A few improvments on the whole thing, paintings weed and money had already been seen to not be valuable of taking as it gives way less money a full bag compared to gold or cocaine, and gold can be obtained solo with simple glitches, another tip for the truck, rather put in on the spot where it needs to be delivered so you can save time by just dying and already having it on spot, and for entering the heist just for the sewage or parachute route loot compound and once outside if done all in stealth just grab what's left and swim in a boat or manually in any direction and soon enough you'll be out and heist complete.

Here's some stuff I do even before watching the video and proceeding to not change my routes: 1, Fast traveling using the submarine to get as close to the destination as possible then proceeding to use my sparrow to reach land 2, I take the bike and drive into the water and swim around the beach that normally has the beach party and make my way to the main dock then proceed to run to the nearest water tower and then from there run up the mountain to the communications tower and when I'm done finding the main target I jump off the tower to die and respawn at the airstrip and exit the island 3, I use the guided missiles to destroy the merryweather helicopter and take literally any loadout cause I'll only use 1 of the guns 1 time and it is to take out the guard that stands in el rubio's building and sticky bombs will just despawn off of el rubio's helicopter when I swim off of the island 4,, I use the longfin to enter the heist at the main dock and make sure i am in first person so that i don't have to wait long and i go to the airport and collect only the high value targets first and then after my bag is full i go and enter the compound using the cutter which also doubles as a tool i can use for burning chains on doors I already take the route you used in the heist and have used it for quite some time, I however don't knock out the guard I instead shoot him as it is safer then going up and trying to melee him Also, if i somehow get caught i use the money from the wall safe to avoid my main target take from being damaged. then theres also the fencing fee which usualy takes 100-150k and pavels cut which is around 12k max

can u also do the escape method with the motorcycle in ocean if u have been spotted, i ment if u are before going to underground vault, and the motor didnt spawn for me, a guy riding it drove up to me

What I do to get back to the plane instead of lobby hopping, is just jump off the comms tower so it respawns you back at the plane

Did not hit like cuz i didn't want to change the like number from 888. i did like the video though. Thanks Poob!

Think you can use the sub for disruption (heli)missions ????

pro tip, dont do the fast travel by finding session online if its ur first cayo perico. Gather intel mission will not complete until you use plane.

You don't have to kill Guard #2 on the stairs to the office. If you lean against the corner and let him walk by, you can literally run behind him. My pathing is similar to yours and ive perfected no-kill finales for Cayo.

I normally swim out and take a boat and slide to the maintenance by the boat port.

You see I think it is worth it to check the two secondary loot spawns for the main dock that are easily accessible from the boat that you don’t really need to kill any guards and the hanger and the shed everything else is not worth your time

how to equip the rebreather ? i bought the rebreather from the agency before starting the heist but don't know to use it

Nice video bro! However, i find the easiest method to avoid all guards is to climb the roof. There's videos on it ;)

Wow, you have a lot of options for the weapon loadout! Is that from a DLC or smth?

There’s a golden pistol in the table drawer, just pick up the key on the table and unlock the drawer 15:30

I thought I mastered Cayo but seems like bro made it 5x times better

There's about a 5% chance that the airstrip and shed won't have enough to fill the bag. I've experienced this 8 times in close to 200 cayo's, 3 of those runs didn't have a painting forcing me to grab the glitched north dock lever to fill the bag.

At the route, you can just Jump over the Road, that‘s faster and you don‘t make a whole Curve (i‘m playing since 3-4 Years, i‘m not a Noob if anybody thinks that) 4:36 17:18 You could just stay between 3 Mines (if you turn right where he turned left) and then you‘d be off the Island much faster

I do like to check secondary in the hanger. Might be shit there and two paintings in the office.

I take the Phantom wedge bc it drives way faster than the normal one and it can ram other cars

3:50 you can just go through the door next to the gate and never get detected it's so simple it just requires a motorcycle

Any reason why the guards would be alerted as soon as we exit the door through the cut scene of the drainage tunnel???😢

Doesn't killing any guards before looting primary objective immediately trigger alarms once you loot the primary target?

3:10 or just use the glitch(if you playing solo) you can grab gold and its kinda easy to do once you do taht first

After scoping the compound instead of going all the way back to the plane to go to los santos just find a new session u will end up in ur kosatka and saving plenty of time.

Am I missing something here because there is a guard and camera preventing me from jumping that spot of the wall