History Awesome / PAYDAYTheHeist

** Undercover has the crew ambush an IRS agent to snatch a server he has on him which is worth $25 million. Rather than going out in the open, the crew has Alex operate a crane to snatch up the limo that the agent is in, place it on the roof, and have the crew infiltrate it to steal the server and force the agent into a room where they interrogate him for the sever codes.

* Anyone that was able to survive the ARG event in the First World Bank is made of this trope. If you were able to survive 2 hours waiting for the drill to open the hidden door and get the gold inside while playing on [[HarderThanHard Overkill 145+]], you deserve kudos.

* ''PAYDAY 2'' has the crew go to an auxiliary FBI building at one point and sneak inside to steal a server. Yes, you get to stage a heist on the freaking ''FBI''.
** The best part is - no matter ''how'' it succeeds, it's awesome. You make the FBI and cops look ''completely incompetent'' either by [[StormingTheCastle storming the building and brute-force stealing the server]]... or by [[PhantomThief stealing the server out from under the noses of almost a dozen guards and half a dozen security cameras without ever being spotted]].
** With the Hoxton Breakout heist now playable, we get a second raid on the [=FBI=] as Day 2 of said heist. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge No quiet option for this one, though]]. Good thing they left the keycards to their infirmary and armoury out in the open, eh?...
* ''PAYDAY 2 : A Merry Payday Christmas'' features Old Hoxton performing heist-themed Christmassy songs. It also has an intro track, where Old Hoxton is verified for the Badass he is while trying to get his lawyer to bust him out.
->'''Old Hoxton''': "You need some... economic... motivation?"
->'''Lawyer''': "Look, I'm gonna pretend I didn't hear that."
->'''Old Hoxton''': "Ah, you prefer a whip to a carrot."
->'''Lawyer''': "This conversation is over."
->'''Old Hoxton''': "This conversation's over when I say it's over!"\\
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Then not a few seconds later...\\
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'''Old Hoxton''': "I guess I need to contact Bain."
->'''Lawyer''': "Who's... Bain?"
->'''Old Hoxton''': "This conversation IS over."

* Even more epicly, the whole album hints towards a possible future DLC where the current Payday gang will attempt to bust out 'Old Hoxton'
** Well, hinted. Said heist is now live for all [=PAYDAY 2=] Community members.
* Plan C of the Election Day heist once again shows how far ahead Bain thinks. To keep suspicion off of the Elephant for rigging the voting process, you have to wreck the voting machines. Before that, Bain has you scramble the database that contains the votes so that there won't be any back up data. You then blow a hole in a wall to access a bank next door, which not only destroys the voting machines, but the stunt has you robbing the bank so the cops think you were just robbing the place rather than tampering with votes.
* Getting all the bags in Rats on [[HarderThanHard Death Wish]]. This involves cooking every bag of meth, getting the money from the gang AND stealing the meth back, and then getting all of the money from the transport and getting it into the helicopter. Any team who can pull this off [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpH_HgPuFR4 has earned themselves a place in the Heister Hall Of Fame]].

* Even more epicly, the whole album hints towards a possible future dlc where the current Payday gang will attempt to bust out 'old Hoxton'
** From the looks of it, this has been confirmed by the Dentist Trailer. "Drastic Measures" indeed.

** Panic Room is basically an awesome version of TakeAThirdOption. Posing as buyers in a drug deal, the crew infiltrate a crack house and eliminate the gang inside. The panic room in the building has the money the crew seeks, but rather than trying to crack the code to open the door or brute forcing the door open, the crew decide to ''steal'' the whole damn room. How do they do it? Detach the panic room from the floor with some saws, use C4 to blow a hole to the roof above the panic room, and then have their helicopter pilot airlift the room out via magnet.

* Plan C of the Election Day heist once again shows how far ahead Bain thinks. To keep suspicion off of the Elephant for rigging the voting process, you have to wreck the voting machines. Before that, Bain has you scramble the database that contains the votes so that there won't be any back up data. You then blow a hole in a wall to access a bank next door, which not only destroys the voting machines, but the stunt has you robbing the bank so the cops think you were just robbing the place rather than tampering with votes.

* Even more epicly, the whole album hints towards a possible future dlc where the current Payday gang will attempt to bust out 'old Hoxton'

** Even more epicly, the whole album hints towards a possible future dlc where the current Payday gang will attempt to bust out 'old Hoxton'

->'''Old Hoxton''': "This conversation IS over."

->'''Old Hoxton''': "This conversation's over when I say it's over!"

Then not a few seconds later...

->'''Old Hoxton''': "I guess I need to contact Bain."

* ''PAYDAY 2'' has the crew go to an auxiliary FBI building at one point and sneak inside to steal a server. Yes, you get to stage a heist on the freaking ''FBI''.

* Anyone that was able to survive the ARG event in the First World Bank is made of this trope. If you were able to survive 2 hours waiting for the drill to open the hidden door and get the gold inside while playing on [[HarderThanHard Overkill 145+]], you deserve kudos.

* Nearly every single heist is performed in a way that shows you how Bain and the crew really think ahead:

* Anyone that was able to survive the ARG event in the First World Bank is made of this trope. If you were able to survive 2 hours waiting for the drill to open the hidden door and get the gold inside while playing on [{HarderThanHard Overkill 145+]], you deserve kudos.

** Diamond Heist shows how quickly the crew can improvise if the heist goes completely sour. Should the codes to the vault not work, Bain tells the crew to get the CFO so that he can negotiate with Mr. Garnet for the codes. Should the negotiations fail, Bain then decides that Ralph, Mr. Garnet's son, will be their next best step and then he pushes the CFO out of the helicopter so he falls to his death in front of all the cameras to show that the crew is not fucking around. After getting Ralph into the helicopter, Mr. Garnet gives up the codes, knowing he can't put his own son's life at risk.

** Counterfeit has a safe that is full of jewels and printing plates worth a ton of money. Unlike other safes, the lock cannot be drilled into and it's resistant to explosions. Bain tells the crew to drill a hole above the safe, fill it up with water, and then use C4 to explode it from the inside out so that the door can pop off while the water protects the goods from the explosion. The man knows his stuff. And before the heist itself, the crew poses as a pool repair shop at least a week in advance so they can scout out and sabotage the target's security system.

** Counterfeit has a safe that is full of jewels and printing plates worth a ton of money. Unlike other safes, the lock cannot be drilled into and it's resistant to explosions. Bain tells the crew to drill a hole above the safe, fill it up with water, and then use C4 to explode it from the inside out so that the door can pop off while the water protects the goods from the explosion. The man knows his stuff.

** Panic Room is basically an awesome version of TakeAThridOption. Posing as buyers in a drug deal, the crew infiltrate a crack house and eliminate the gang inside. The panic room in the building has the money the crew seeks, but rather than trying to crack the code to open the door or brute forcing the door open, the crew decide to ''steal'' the whole damn room. How do they do it? Detach the panic room from the floor with some saws, use C4 to blow a hole to the roof above the panic room, and then have their helicopter pilot airlift the room out via magnet.