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The Meltdown Heist Guide

By Hobo

This guide will explain a lot of basics and help you a lot out with this heist due to the fact that it contains : Crowbar locations, Vault Locations and package locations and a lot more. Work in progress

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Languages: English

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8 May, 2015 @ 11:37am

14 May, 2015 @ 1:44am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Important Notes

Practical Tips

--Objectives--

Finding the vault

Finding Crowbars [WIP]

Keycard Locations [WIP]

Escaping

Enjoy the payout

--Other stuff--

Achievements

Package Locations

Easter egg(s)

Videos [WIP]

Shortcuts

Credits

Comments

Introduction

This guide is going to contain most of the basics of this heist, a few pro tips, crowbar locations and much more. If you enjoy it please be kind to help others find it by rating it. Enjoy.

Important Notes

This heist cannot be stealthed in any kinda way since the alarm goes of when you spawn in.

A saw might be a good thing if you want to get the vault opened faster because some crowbars spawn INSIDE the locker rooms.

If you drive into any bags using the forklift you pick the bags up this saves you alot of time.

Take keycards to open the lockers with crowbars inside.

Find all 3 crowbars to open the vault alot faster.

Dozers can spawn inside containers.

Practical Tips

This one is created due to readers idea.

The Longfellow can carry 4 bags meanwhile the forklifts can carry 3.

Crowbars speed the vault opening progress up. You need atleast 1 crowbar to active it. And 3 to make it go the fastest it can.

If you press CTRL while sitting beside the driver you can shoot out of the window. This doesnt take place for the 2 other passagers though.

More to come soon

--Objectives--

Finding the vault

The vault can be found inside the containers. If you're unlucky enough the vault might even be outside. But its more likely to spawn inside due to the massive amount of spawn locations they placed inside and the fact that there are more openablecontainers inside the warehouse.

To get the fastest possible start you might want 3 people inside and 1 guy outside. And maybe 1 guy should shoot the soldiers coming from the walls. Because they are really the only hard challenge of finding the vault due to the fact that they have a lot of health and armor and some pretty solid firearms and there a pretty many of them.

Finding Crowbars [WIP]

Finding crowbars is the hardest part of this heist but not if you know the locations of the crowbars.

I will try to make ALL crowbar locations for the heist but im not sure if i can find them all.

First look in the locker rooms (The rooms that contains a lot of boxes) and then look there. Look inside the house as bain advices.

1st Crowbar:

In left corner of the 1st floor near a manhole.

2nd Crowbar:

Near the vault behind a container close to the stairs.

3rd Crowbar

Near the green beside some white stuff infront of the main room on 1st floor

4th Crowbar

On the 2nd floor in the middle boxes on the right side of them.

5th Crowbar

On the 2nd floor in the farest room (close to the server room not camera).

6th Crowbar

On the 2nd floor in the locker room where the guards have their bags.

7th Crowbar

On the 1st floor near the garbage bags.

8th Crowbar

Beside the red container shown on the picture in the big hall

9th Crowbar

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Beside the vault and the yellow container shown on the picture

10th Crowbar

On the ways up to 2nd floor under the fire extinguisher. (Not on picture!)

11th Crowbar

On the first floor in the center beside the green container shown on the picture

12th Crowbar

In the freeman was here locker on the first floor

13th Crowbar

Behind some boxes near the room that leads to the locker rooms (Second floor).

14th Crowbar

Near the entry gate beside the box shown on the picture.

Common Crowbar

Inside the ''Locker rooms''. Drilling is needed.

Keycard Locations [WIP]

The keycards are used to open the locker rooms and they save you ALOT of time so take these up if you can find any of them.

1st Keycard

In the computer room on one of the desks. (First floor)

2nd Keycard

On a bench in the locker room. (First floor).

3rd Keycard

On a desktop in the computer room near the window with a container infront. (First floor).

Escaping

Methode 1:
This methode is a great methode and the one i recommend. 2 people get in the longfellow with 4 bags the others gets a forklift with 2 bags each or 3/1. Then you drive to the train. This one even works on deathwish. God bless cars.

Methode 2:
This one is not recommended but what you do is take a forklift each and fill them up and just drive to the train. Again not recommended i rather use Methode 1 but if you like forklifting around then its your style of life.

Methode 3 [SOLO]:
This one is okay but methode 1 is still a lot better. What you do is take the longfellow and drive back to refill when you dropped of the 4 bags. It makes you drive a little more but sometimes the forklifts are just really really slow and you just need to do this. Also better for Solo.
Set the forklifts up like this so you can take the bags meanwhile being in cover since the cops dont like walking here:

Then drive to the train and drive back and refill and finish up the heist.

Enjoy the payout

Just do it okay?

--Other stuff--

Achievements

This section is for the achievements. If you aren't a achievement hunter this is not recommended for you.

There was a car?
At the moment this achievement is bugged so you can get it USING the car. But when it gets fixed you need to do it without the dogde. So you need to do it with forklift only.

Sunday Drive
This one is easy. All you need to do is beat the heist on any difficulity.

They don't pay us enough
An easy achievement. But easy dont mean fast. All you need do to is take every single bag in the heist (also the nukes.. duhh) so you might wanna keep a crowbar for this one.This also unlocks the new mask shown on the achievement logo.

Pedal to the metal
For this one you need to beat the heist on deathwish. If you follow escape methode 1 and use the crowbar locations and are a good driver this one should be the easiest deathwish achievement for you. Yay.. Free achievements..

Package Locations

I really did this for the others that read my other guide. Enjoy.

Package Location #1

Beside the green container near the longfellow and the fence that leads to the free world. Lol. Should be easy to spot if you look at the picture.

Easter egg(s)

The Toast

This is the toast. This most likely aren't almirs toast due to the fact thats its very tiny. Its the loner toast. It likes to be alone.

It can be found near the water at the junkyard. If you still can't find it you should watch GeneralMcBadass video covering it.

GeneralMcBadass's video:

Videos [WIP]

COMING SOON

DEATHWISH

DEATHWISH ALL BAGS

DEATHWISH IN 12 MINUTS

2 PLAYER DEATHWISH

SOLO DEATHWISH

Shortcuts

This is a video and it doesn't include screenshots. Just a quick video i made so you can get a feeling how to drive faster and avoid gunfires and getting downed meanwhile driving and ofc the time.. ohh the time..

Video:

Credits

Not really many to credit but ill start it out...

OVERKILL SOFTWARE-For making a nice free DLC for the community.

You-For reading this.

Pizzawolf238-For helping me with videos and other stuff.

Wolfy-For being wolfy (helping with videos).

Zephyr-For helping with crowbar locations.

Wakuboys-For helping with the video.

86 Comments

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Banana Duck ඞ 27 Oct, 2020 @ 3:30pm

you missed some Crowbar and Keycard locations. Theres 18 crowbars in total. You have 13 locations, crowbar 8 and 11 are the same crowbar lol. You probably thought that they're both different crowbars because you dont seem to be aware that the containers are random colours. 'beside the green container'? Containers are always different colours lol. Theres 2 big hall crowbars that you missed (both are on wooden boxes and are near eachother, they're both near the Samarai Armor Vault). There are also 2 crowbar locations upstairs you missed, one is outside the camera room and the other is in the same room as crowbar 5.
There are also keycards that can be found in Kitchen and Camera Room. Keycards are found on any desk/counter/table.

Emil215p 5 Sep, 2020 @ 1:25am

To complete the "They don't pay us enough" achievement you dont need to secure the nukes, just all the additional loot is sufficient.

想要对你说的不敢说的爱会不会有人可以明白 19 Apr, 2019 @ 12:17am

666

Enterprise 10 Apr, 2019 @ 6:56pm

nice

Schneider 25 Feb, 2019 @ 8:33am

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TitanRevolver EasySkins.com 19 Nov, 2018 @ 6:28am

TR:Bir tanesini seç ve profilime yaz , aynısını sana yazacağım !

RUS: Выберите что то одно из этого списка и напишите в моём профиле, отвечу тем же!

ENG: Choose the one that's on the list and write in my profile, I will answer the same! <3

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Apokalyptohaze 20 Jul, 2018 @ 11:36am

Thx nice guide

kerimg. 1 Jul, 2018 @ 1:51am

thanks!

Foxu 22 Jun, 2018 @ 11:08am

Thx nice guide ;)

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