If you are reading this, that means you want to complete round 9 on holdout and get those awesome new masks.... May god have mercy on your soul.
No one said this would be easy, but with the right loadout and skills you at least stand some sort of chance.


Positives:
- High ammo capacity and pickup
- Uses armour gating to negate damage
- Can kill cops quickly to get them off the hostage
- Can stun / kill multiple cops at once
- Uses jokers as meat shields

Negatives
Honestly there aren't that many negatives i can think of. Other than maybe the low self revive chance. Using this build you can kill everything fairly fast, but dozers may sometimes be a problem. You can still kill dozers quick enough but not as fast as say the RPG can.

Here are the results from using this build.

Guns
The clarion rifle and the claire double barrel shotgun. I tried many different weapons for holdout from LMG's to snipers and even bows, but i found all you really need is a sturdy rifle.
The clarion also has amazing ammo pickup so you will never need an ammo bag. The backup claire shotgun was modified to have dragons breath rounds to stun and kill multiple cops at once including shields.
The modifications will be explained in further detail later on.

Equipment
AAAAAAHHHHHHH I NEEEEEED A MEDIC BAAAAAAG!!!

Armour
The lightweight vest provides some nice protection while using anarchist, along with fast armour regen for the armour gating i mentioned earlier.
I didn't use a suit for a bit of dodge because you only get a small dodge chance with anarchist. I felt those skill points were better specced into other things.


Melee
Whatever you want really. I don't think i used my melee weapon even once while using this build.

Perk deck
Anarchist. You only need a small bit of armour to stop any health damage. So even with 1 point of armour a bajillion damage shot won't hurt you at all.

Throwable
The incendary grenade helps to kill a lot of cops at once, especially when using crits for the fire DOT. Plus you get 6 of them instead of 3.

Mastermind
Ace inspire and med bags to keep your team alive. You want to be able to revive people as quickly as possible, every second counts in this mode.
Get jokers for meat shields and take some of the heat off yourself. I got basic hostage taker for some small health regen, your armour won't save you all the time so it's nice to have some health too.

Enforcer
Get some basic shotgun skills for our backup weapon. Grab some armour skills to increase our protection a little and not forgetting the important bullseye skill for better armour gating.

Technician
This is where we can improve our rifle by taking skills such as lock n load for fast reload, surefire to increase mag size and body expertise to increase power on those shots that miss the head.

Ghost
Crits will help nicely from the ghost tree to increase the power of our rifle and the fire DOT from our shotgun.

Fugitive
Here we can get 1 more down and some self revive chance. But it's only a small chance and hopefully your team mates will be running inspire anyway.

I wish you the best of luck for trying this mode.
I will leave you with some advice from Silas:
"The core objective is to stall time rather than killing. In this case, you want to use as many diversion to keep them away from hostage as possible or to occupy their time.The last time I did it, the amount of kill my team execute is soo little it look like we are just afk. But we manage to get the job done."

What this man says is true, on round 9 there were so many cops everywhere i coudn't even count. Round 9 was mostly me just hiding in a corner and switching cover if it started getting too hot.
You should have seen my reaction when i finally managed to beat holdout mode.