History Recap / Payday2

[[folder: Bank Heist]]

[[folder: Armored Transport (Park, Downtown, Underpass, Crossroad, Harbor)]]

[[folder: Armored Transport: Train]]

[[folder: Meltdown]]

* CallBack: In Bains' rant to Vlad about securing the loot, he mentions "smashing malls", and "stealing tiara's", referring to Mallcrasher and Ukrainian Job respectively.

[[folder: Boiling Point]]

[[folder: Brooklyn 10 - 10]]

[[folder: The Yacht Heist]]

[[folder: Scarface Mansion]]

[[folder: Panic Room]]

* AdaptationalBadass: In this iteration of the heist, Chavez is wearing armour and fights, instead of acting like a civilian.

[[folder: The Dentist Trailer]]

* InTheStyleOf: The short is stylised as if it were a mini-episode of ''Series/BreakingBad'', with lots of lingering shots, character pauses, and also introduces a SpecialGuest known for being on the show.

[[folder: Big Bank]]

[[folder: The Diamond]]

[[folder: Hotline Miami]]

[[folder: Hoxton Breakout]]

[[folder: Hoxton's Revenge]]

[[folder: Golden Grin Casino]]

[[folder: Birth of Sky]]

[[folder: Beneath the Mountain]]

[[folder: Heat Street]]

[[folder: Diamond Heist]]

[[folder: Henry's Rock]]

[[folder: Midland Ranch]]
New contractor Gemma [=McShay=] tests the Payday gangs' skills by asking them to retrieve weapons from a ranch in the middle of Texas, and destroying their workstations, as Esteban, the local gunrunning lord, is trying to sabotage her business.

[[folder: Lost in Transit]]

[[folder: Hostile Takeover]]

[[folder: Crude Awakening]]

* RecurringBossTemplate: Each level is functionally identical gameplay-wise to each other (even the Payday wiki and the in-universe FBI Files just groups these up as a co-ordinated hit by Bain, as they're so similar to one another), the key differences here is the location and number of transports, what cover you have to work with, and what loot spawns in each one. Judging by later lore entries, these heists occurred on the same day, making [=GenSec=] furious!

* EasierThanEasy: This is one of the easiest heists in the game, even in stealth, in part because of how small the map is and the low guard population.

** As [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGnjF4I1egI some reviewers noted]], this is the fifth train-related heist in the game; Armored Transport: Train (stealing turret and ammo from a military train), Bomb Forest (stealing bomb parts from a wrecked train), Murky Station (stealthily stealing an [=EMP=] bomb from a secret Murkywater train yard), Biker Heist Day 2 (stealing a [=BCI=] helmet atop a ''moving'' train) and now this heist (stealing money plates and ''then'' a train to escape).

** The line ''"Through murky waters..."'' is referring to Murkywater, the [=PMC=] that the crew fight against in several heists, including some of the last in the timeline.
** The line ''"And Golden Grins..."'' refers to Golden Grin Casino -- which is doubly meta, as the name and logo of that heist is taken from [=GRIN=], the predecessor to Overkill Software, making for a nice BookEnd of sorts.

** The music track for this heist, "On The Road", alludes to several past events, notably Golden Grin Casino (which is doubly meta, as the name and logo of the heist is taken from [=GRIN=], the predecessor to Overkill Software), as well as Murkywater (the [=PMC=] that the crew fight against in several heists).

[[folder: Bank Heist]]
Bain and the crew go on a bank heist. Comes in five variants in-game; Vanilla (Cash and Deposit boxes), Cash (Cash only), Gold (Gold and Deposit Boxes), Random ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs any of the above]]) and Deposit (Deposit Boxes only).

* BankRobbery: As basic as it gets when it comes to heists; a local branch bank in [=D.C=] the crew hit, and the canonically one of the first the crew do.
* EasierThanEasy: This is one of the easiest heists in the game, even in stealth, in part because of how small the map is and the low guard population.
* RandomEvent: The bank vault is the only large-scale random element in the map, though keycards and money bundles also change places.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: The goal of the heist is to drill into the vault, this includes in stealth, where the drill is '''silenced''', and can oftentimes be in plain view of people.

[[folder: Diamond Heist]]
To force Locke out of hiding, the crew steal the Garnet Group diamonds from their main vault in a penthouse apartment, while their son has a party on one of the top floors.

* DeathBySecretIdentity: The CFO of Garnet Group dies by being thrown out the helicopter. The reason is because he had seen Bains' face, and he'd rather keep that a secret.
* EmbeddedPrecursor: This is the fifth heist to be remade in Payday 2, and asides from the story change, the map layout and events play out largely the same as before.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The vault combination is random each time, the one consistency is the order of those numbers you enter adhere to the RGB color spectrum when entered on the vaults' keypad.
* StealthBasedMission: Unlike the original heist, which was stealth-able until you smashed the glass to get at the diamonds, you can sneak through the whole thing as Bain packed glass cutters to get at the diamonds.
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[[folder: Henry's Rock]]
Locke and the PAYDAY Gang go to Henry's Rock, a SecretGovernmentWarehouse owned by Murkywater to steal two coffers that can be found there.
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* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The vault combination is random each time, one one consistency is the order of those numbers you enter adhere to the RGB color spectrum.

* DeathBySecretIdentity: The CFO of Garnet Group dies by being thrown out the helicopter. The reason is becase he had seen Bains' face, and he'd rather keep that a secret.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The vault combination is random each time, one one consistency is the order of thoe numbers you enter adhere to the RGB color spectrum.

[[folder: Breakin' Feds]]
The Coffer the FBI has taken from The Elephant is in Comissioner Garrats Office, and the Gang need to steal it for future use.

* BigStormEpisode: You can hear a storm outside the building, and it's raining outside. Quite fitting, given the Gangs' actions.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: The safe that has the Coffer is hidden, and when you find it, you must enter the correct code with clues that are in Garrett's office.
* SkewedPriorities: The intro to this heist has Duke, Chains and Locke discuss the proper method of making donuts... all the while breaking into '''FBI headquarters'''.
* StealthBasedMission: This heist is stealth only, and the guards are particularly jittery too. Even ignoring Payday 2's wonky stealth mechanics, much of the gameplay here is letting guards pass to get to certain places on the map, not to mention guessing the code to the safe the Coffer is in.

[[folder: Henry's Rock]]
Locke and the PAYDAY Gang go to Henry's Rock, a SecretGovernmentWarehouse owned by Murkywater to steal two coffers that can be found there.

** The music track for this heist, "On The Road", alludes to several past events, notably Golden Grin Casino (which is doubly meta, as [=GRIN=] was the predecessor to Overkill Software), as well as Murkywater (the [=PMC=] that the crew wage war on in several heists).

* GrandFinale: This is the last heist in the game (despite taking place before the storylines' ''actual'' final heist; The White House). To wit, this is one of four heists to have a song with lyrics (after Big Bank's "Ode to Greed", Scarface Mansions' "Break the Rules", Diamond Heists "I Will Give You My All 2017"), in this case "On the Road".

** Like with Hostile Takeover, certain objectives can be completed before they are needed to be (getting the USB stick early, for example).

* LogicalWeakness: The [=EMP=] bomb serves two purposes: 1. To let the crew into the lab, and 2. to knockout the super soldiers in the lab. Given the super soldiers all have mechanical implants to varying degrees, it makes sense that it'd knock them out. Given Akan never tried to replicate the tests, the [=EMP=] seems to actually ''kill'' the test subjects.
* MadScientistLaboratory: One situated underneath the lumbermill, where Akan does his initial experiments into super soldiers.

[[folder: Brooklyn 10 - 10]]
The BadassBureaucrat of the New York Continental, Charon, has been kidnapped by some low-level street gang while trying to find a briefcase in a nearby rundown building.\\

Released as one of two heists as some cross-promotion with ''Film/JohnWickChapter2''.

* RandomEvent: There are four rooms the game chooses from when you pick from:

** The Laboratory, which essentially has the player mix uop a specific combination of marked chemicals to make a thermite compound to open a door to get at the coffer inside.

* ShoutOut: The design of the heist is clearly inspired by ''Series/Warehouse13'' snd ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (note the massive corridor with shelves filled with boxes), as well as ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' (which is mostly set in a sci-fi lab underground).

'''2019 - 2022: The Heists before the Greatest Heist of all:'''

Heists that take place during the AmbiguousTimePeriod before the PAYDAY Gang take on their greatest heist of all; [[spoiler:The White House]].
[[folder: Midland Ranch]]
New contractor Gemma [=McShay=] tests the Payday gangs' skills by asking them to retrieve weapons from a ranch in the middle of Texas, and destroying their workstations, as Esteban, the local gunrunning lord, is trying to sabotage her business.

* {{BFG}}: An [=LMG=] can be found on the back of a pickup truck and on top of the barn, both that can be constructed (though only one can be active at a time). It is A: very effective at killing cops in the short radius in front of you, and B: very, '''VERY''' loud (as in, anyone on the map can hear it's cannon-esque gunfire).
* CowboyEpisode: About as close as PAYDAY can get to one anyway. There are haybales, the map is drenched in orange lighting, mimicking that of a western, and several cosmetics were released that give appropriately western headwear, such as two variants of a ten-gallon hat, and a straw hat.
* GimmickLevel: You actually have to ''construct'' most of the weapons you find and loot, which means players have to keep tabs on who has what parts (barrels, stocks, and receivers), and the crates, by default are unmarked (the "Mark Weapon Crates" pre-planning option does mark them with symbols, however).
* OutlawTown: Or, rather, Outlaw barnyard. There's a few civilians that are merely farmhands, but the great majority of the staff are guards.
* RecurringBossTemplate: Of Scarface Mansion. While the level bears very little resemblance to the heist, it does however, share surprisingly similar motivations to that of The Butcher (contractor of that heist), in that Gemma asks you to wreck Esteban's operations as Revenge because they were trying to take her business out. You even steal his weapons, mirroring how you steal Yayo in Scarface Mansion.

[[folder: Lost in Transit]]
Because of their impressive work in Texas, Gemma gives the gang first dibs on a new job for the gang; stealing money printing plates from a military trainyard. However, instead of merely taking the plates and running off, the gang ''steals a goddamn train'' to escape on (the justification being that the cops are watching the roads).

* BrickJoke: In the previous heist's intro (Lost in Transit), Locke mentions to Gemma that Dallas has never been to Dallas, and notes how silly that sounds. In this heist, Dallas actually gets to go to Dallas as that's where the contract is set.

* RecurringBossTemplate: The contract is rather similar in setup to Big Oil, in that the crew steals a prototype energy device for the contractor, although in this case, Blaine is fully committing to using it to get into the oil game, The Elephant wanted the prototype in Big Oil to quash clean energy alternatives.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: This heist is unusual among its peers in that almost any objective can be tackled in any order, even in loud where it's usually a linear objective cycle. It's entirely possible to split the team into two and just handle two objectives at once, finishing the heist in less than 15 minutes.

Bain and the crew go on a bank heist. Comes in four variants in-game; Vanilla (Cash and Deposit boxes), Gold (Gold and Deposit Boxes), Random ([[BreadEggsBreadedEggs either of the above]]) and Deposit (Deposit Boxes only).

* BankRobbery: As basic as it gets when it comes to heists; a local branch bank in [=D.C=].