Heist failure stories

[scalliano]

My biggest blunder so far was during my first shot at Humane Labs. I was one of the ground-pounders and was waiting patiently for the chopper pilot (also the heist leader) to reach the corona to set off the EMP. However, he went too far out after reaching the checkpoint and the "too far away" message appeared on screen. I misinterpreted this prompt and bailed out of the chopper too early.

 

During the same session, the pilot was completely unable to land the chopper on the beach after our escape. All three subsequent attempts resulted in failure with the Valkyrie in the drink.

 

That was when I had to quit and go to bed.

[*Lola]

 

During the same session, the pilot was completely unable to land the chopper on the beach after our escape. All three subsequent attempts resulted in failure with the Valkyrie in the drink.

 

That was when I had to quit and go to bed.

After the ground crew exits the water and hits their yellow marker, swim over to the other beach so the Valkyrie has a nice safe place to land.

Edited May 23, 2015 by *Lola

[Nitinjay]

I have played the fleeca job mission twice(before hosting) and both went smoothly( actually at first I just went up the mountain thinking I have to loose the cops first but succeeded).As a host I wasn't able to get past the fleeca scope out mission because of some weird bug where both the player gets disconnected(Screen totally goes white). So today I decided to give it a try again and it went smoothly without any problem. Then comes the fleeca main job(I didn't know that this was the same job I did earlier). I was happy because it was childs play. I made my partner the driller because I was driving in earlier jobs too. But today bloody the manget wast pulling up, failed 2 times and then out of anger I quit the game. Then I replayed again but as a driller with another random player. While drilling I hit the start button then I was on desktop(mission failed of course), then restarted with the same guy and this time while getting in the car, cops f*cking shot me(the driver was waiting for me inside the bank instead of getting in the car and should be waiting for me). Restarted then succeeded earning 86k.

[cdjen93]

I have played the fleeca job mission twice(before hosting) and both went smoothly( actually at first I just went up the mountain thinking I have to loose the cops first but succeeded).As a host I wasn't able to get past the fleeca scope out mission because of some weird bug where both the player gets disconnected(Screen totally goes white). So today I decided to give it a try again and it went smoothly without any problem. Then comes the fleeca main job(I didn't know that this was the same job I did earlier). I was happy because it was childs play. I made my partner the driller because I was driving in earlier jobs too. But today bloody the manget wast pulling up, failed 2 times and then out of anger I quit the game. Then I replayed again but as a driller with another random player. While drilling I hit the start button then I was on desktop(mission failed of course), then restarted with the same guy and this time while getting in the car, cops f*cking shot me(the driver was waiting for me inside the bank instead of getting in the car and should be waiting for me). Restarted then succeeded earning 86k.

 

I hate that you have to stay under the magnet for so long… it doesn't look anything at all electric, so it should just start pulling you upward as you get close to it. But no, R* just had to make it do it instantaneous, plus it takes so long that if a cop car kicks in NOS at the last second and rams you… *shaking fist in anger*

Oh well, I'm just glad I haven't seen the glitch where Eddie forgets the magnet completely in a while…

[Gridl0k]

[Warliss]

Hydra setup....

That loading screen can be an omen of things to come

While waiting for the fourth to join, I hit the view players screen,

and it read like a bad slot machine...

 

Clown face, another clown face (same crew), and then ding! Level 6...

I should have ran out of the casino at that point, but I was waiting to hear Boom time!

 

The clowns were decent level so I figured if level 6 stays back and covered we can get through.

He jumps in my ride like training day... we speed off and get to the dinghy...

Where are the clown faces?

Five minutes later they show up, we get on the boat and of course they shooting at the dark all the way to the carrier...

Level 6 drove good, got up to the doorway, turns on his mic, clears his throat and yells charge??...... Okay, so maybe he starting a second character and his main is a badazz Rambone type...dosen't matter at lvl 6..npc took two shots, one erased his vest, and the second dropped his azz. Boom! Slam...enthusiastic noob has died...

 

They all took turns screwing the mission after that, suiciding right at sandy shores, tossing planes in the drink..after that I quit the team and respawned on the aircraft carrier?...I logged off to go eat..

 

Is the carrier there in free roam? When I got back on later I spawned on Simeon docks.

[Red Lynx 23]

What was almost a heist failure. While three crew members were parachuting to the beach at the end of Prison Break, one of the crew members I just met was close to the ocean, roughly thirty-forty feet above it when the buzzard came along and cut his parachute with the rotor blades. Luckily he survived the fall into the water, and was the last one to get to the helicopter on the beach. He then took a second to point his Special Carbine at the pilot, before getting in the helicopter and allowing us to complete the heist.

[JuanG12]

We were doing the "The Prison Break". The host gave us a 25% cut, I thought it was going to be easy money. I was the prisoner, the host was demolition, everything was going fine, and the pilot crashes the Velum. He crashed it three times and the host quit.

 

I was doing "The Prison Break" again (with another host), this time I was the pilot (which I prefer), the host was the prisoner. It started off bad, demolition was wondering around and never made it to the airfield, the prisoner died, restart. 2nd try: demolition doesn't make it, officer dies, restart. 3rd try: demolition dies, idk how, restart. 4th try: we're like 10 seconds in and the "failed" appears on the screen, I thought someone quit but no, demolition managed to get killed in that time. I quit, I see the same host doing that heist again, this time we have a different team, I'm the pilot and he's the prisoner again. We pass it on our first try.

 

Doing "The Prison Break" again. lol I'm the pilot, everything's going fine, the demolition guy protected me, the prisoner & officer made it out the prison safe, I land the Velum and pick them up. I lose the cops but the "LOSE THE COPS." and stars won't go away, I fly around for 10-15 minutes with no cops on sight, so I just crash the Velum on purpose. I contacted Rockstar about the glitch and they award me and my team $300K

 

[The47Finn]

A level 65 dying on the cliffs above the beach in the final part of Prison Break – clearly the first time he has ever used the parachute.

One of the guys had his mic on and screamed: "Nooooooooooo, yoooouuuuuuu cccuuuuunnnnt...."

 

I love the British.

[RyanEsau]

Series A Funding - Weed

I heard about using the train tracks so since we had 2 newbs on lookout (Driving the Technical) that kept dying I chose to track it since I figured they were useless.

 

1st Attempt - I got there first and the host and one of the newbs followed, the 4th was way off so we started clearing the sawmill. We cleared it, but the newb decided to be gun happy and get on the Technical's MG which started the timer and the 4th guy still wasn't with us -_- So he caught up and they died..

2nd Attempt - They died again..

3rd Attempt - I didn't make it in time

4th Attempt - I was gonna track it only to the freeway this time,other benson follows me, we started on the tracks from the start since their to the left of the sawmill place, we got to the bridge and suddenly the train spawned.. ramming him off the bridge, and destroying my benson. So I guess the train can spawn randomly and so if you use the tracks, don't get on at the sawmill, wait until your on the road.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Sgt.Soldier

[Terrato137]

Stealing the Hydra from the Aircraft Carrier
1st attempt: I died from too much gunfire because apparently, I was the only one in the room

2nd attempt: Teammate crashed his jet into the ocean

3rd attempt: Same thing again

4th attempt: Me and another guy was sprinting towards the hydra, he pulled out his rocket launcher and blew it and me up

He quit after.

[Lay]

Shout outs to the guy who kept dying on Pacific Standard heist a couple days back. Really swell how you took no advice and kept saying how you will drive their in a cop car despite being a useless driver. Really good of you to ignore my helicopter and my commands of 'get in the f*cking helicopter'.

[LordRaijin]

I finished the prison heist today after many failures.

 

The number and variety of failures was actually hilarious. Prison deaths, plane crash, buzzard crash, demolition fail, one time somebody even accidentally followed the wrong team and failed us because he didn't do his actual task.

 

I am enjoying the heists though.

 

I made that same mistake. My job was to go to the airport to get a plane, and I ended up failing the heist because I had no idea what to do at the time.

[Terrato137]

Pacific Standard Finale. Probably our 8th attempt or so, got well over half way there (for the first time) while off road and someone jumped a mountain too fast, landed, bike literally disappeared, then they were surrounded by cops and killed.

[cdjen93]

 

I finished the prison heist today after many failures.

 

The number and variety of failures was actually hilarious. Prison deaths, plane crash, buzzard crash, demolition fail, one time somebody even accidentally followed the wrong team and failed us because he didn't do his actual task.

 

I am enjoying the heists though.

 

I made that same mistake. My job was to go to the airport to get a plane, and I ended up failing the heist because I had no idea what to do at the time.

 

 

Not trying to be a dick, but did you not see "Get in the Velum" at the bottom of the screen? And since you were the pilot, figure that the Velum must be a plane? And couldn't figure out from that to go to the plane icon? Or at least get the idea what you were doing as the pilot from Agent 14's dialogue over the radio??

 

Series A Funding - Weed

So I guess the train can spawn randomly and so if you use the tracks, don't get on at the sawmill, wait until your on the road.

 

No, it spawns regularly. You just have to wait until one comes out of the tunnel at the sawmill before going down the tracks. Next one doesn't show up until after you're near Sandy Shores Airfield. But you're right about the timer starting when the lookout guys take the Technical.

Edited May 27, 2015 by cdjen93

[Fireboy769]

And now it's time for Epic Heist Failures With Random Idiots. The part of the game where Random Idiots comes out and fails miserably in Heists.

[Lay]

Yeah you shouldn't really end up not going to the Velum when you're the pilot. All the instructions are on screen..

[countingfingers]

It went sorta like this.

 

EMP - Human Labs

 

Seemed like a decent crew being the highest level people looked highly of me. They chose me as the pilot of the Hydra when the time comes. I accept the offer and we move to the carrier. As we enter the place I combat roll into cover took out a few dudes and waited till my health regenerates. Guy runs up melees him leaving him open to gun shots. Dies.

Take 2- We actually clear the room but one of them gets killed by the guy in the door to the way up

Take 3- We make it up and I hop into the hydra the others get in their own although one fires their turrets and ends up blowing up one of the jets before one could get on. I tell the player to get inside and hide. Wait until we clear it out and deliver the jet. At that point he got shot dead by a missile before he could get inside

Take 4- We all manage to get a jet and I flew the Hydra again. I ended doing most of the work and take out the jets. Flew to Sandy Shores and I hear an explosion as I land.

 

Didn't ask what happened just quit.

[triplem]

Nothing has been funnier than this one so far...

 

 

Playing with a group of people who had mics and one of the dudes insisted being pilot during the set up so i was like w/e. He shuts his mic off and we don't hear a word out of him during the whole heist. We all do our jobs successfully and make it into the plane. Finally shake the cops for once after experiences numerous police glitches. Any way next thing we know he turns the plane around from the yellow marker and heads in land towards los santos. We were all like wtf dude turn around and fly into the yellow marker. Next thing we know we are coming over vinewood hills and his mic cuts in. He just starts screaming and i mean SCREAMING through his mic. "ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR ALLAHU AKBAR!" as we head straight towards the tall building. I was f*cking done. We were just like bruhh why us. Then boom. Heist failed after all the hard work. f*ck trolls

[Gridl0k]

5th or 6th attempt with randoms at PacStandard, we were 3 up in a Landstalker and could *see* the dinghy, we were that close. Then the one who'd been throwing grenades like candy held onto one for too long.

 

"Free roam".

[SyparAlec]

In the Pacific Standard Heist, my team kept failing to get to the bikes. Finally we got to the bikes, (I was low on health) and of course my stupid self didn't know the correct path to the bikes so I fell over the wall, landed on my head and died. There was a guy on mic. Lets just say he wasn't too happy.

[Polygxn]

I'm so sick of reading about/experiencing heist failure stories, If you die twice or leave you xhould be IP blocked for a year, sent a dead animal (something substantial like a rhino) and have to knock on everyones door in your neighbourhood explaining how bad you are at GTA.

[Terrato137]

I'm so sick of reading about/experiencing heist failure stories, If you die twice or leave you xhould be IP blocked for a year, sent a dead animal (something substantial like a rhino) and have to knock on everyones door in your neighbourhood explaining how bad you are at GTA.

Damn chill out kid.

[Nutduster]

Earlier today, I was doing Pac Std finale with randoms. I just accepted the invite because I figured if we finished it within a few attempts it was easy money, but I should have known better. First, the host put it on normal (bye bye, part of my cut for no good reason); I might have liked having the extra life with low levels, but they kept finding a way to waste it and then still die again anyway. He also third person camera-locked it - why? I prefer first person on foot, so it was kind of annoying adjusting back to third. Next, the two guys with the money got shot to pieces following the roads (never off-roading) and crashing their bikes. We quickly reached the apparent payout minimum of $550,000, which I didn't even know was a thing until this run.

 

We ultimately failed and had to quick restart about half a dozen times. As usual the first half was no trouble, it was the bike chase that led to deaths left and right. On the third-to-last attempt, I stole a cop car and made two of my teammates get in; one of them insisted on chucking sticky bombs at our pursuit until he accidentally detonated one right next to the car, killing us all. On the second-to-last attempt, that same guy took a bike instead, but when I got to the parachute jump he was somehow standing there with no bike or any other visible vehicle (not sure how that even happened). I had a passenger so I couldn't help him. So he ran off the cliff, opened his parachute, and predictably splattered all over the rocks anyway. We did finally beat it on the next attempt, but it was a hard-earned $107,000 for me.

Edited May 27, 2015 by Nutduster

[Polygxn]

 

I'm so sick of reading about/experiencing heist failure stories, If you die twice or leave you xhould be IP blocked for a year, sent a dead animal (something substantial like a rhino) and have to knock on everyones door in your neighbourhood explaining how bad you are at GTA.

 

Damn chill out kid.It's that kind of thinking that gets us here, cull the population send a few Rhino's, I'm sick of having to walk as slow as our slowest member

[RogerWho]

I don't do much heists anymore but on every one of the last 3 Prison Break finales I joined, the demolition got shot down over the prison.

 

Is this some new thing, flying over the prison with the heli?

 

Yes I know you can help the ground team, but you also have to know not to get too close. And out of the perhaps hundreds of PB finales I've started, I've never seen anyone doing it until last week or so.

 

Well another reason not to join random heists...

[Clintonics]

close call

Edited May 27, 2015 by CX25

[Fireboy769]

Ok here we go. Four times I failed in setups or finales somewhat miserably (From miserable to not that much miserable but really?):

1.) Series A - Weed: We are shooting the Ballas at the sawmill. We kill all of them. Because of heavy lag, the game was very slow to show the next objective. That's when I see this red dot near a truck. I blow it to smithereens. Cue Mission Failed screen for blowing up a objective truck.

2.) The Pacific Standard Job: I'm the demolitions. We go in. I burn the doors. Everything is going smooth as silk. We go down the stairs and see a guy shooting at me. I quick select my Assault Shotgun.....only to quick select the GRENADE LAUNCHER. I Blew Up.

3.) Humane Labs - EMP: I go up the stairs to get to the control room. I turn a corridor to the next flight of stairs and BAM! Guy one-shots me with a shotgun.

4.) Prison Break - Station (Which turned to be a miracle): I go to the cargo ship. I start shooting everybody and leave a wounded guy while my 'buddy' went to hang out with his friend on the opposite team (who for some reason stupidly, tagged along in my car). So, I go up the stairs to parachute from the ledge. I land a bit too hard and faceplant on the crates. But I survived, which was good because we had 0 lives. A guy spawns right next to me with a rifle and shoots me, leaving me with 1/2 HP. Then the guy I wounded earlier expires. I level up with full health and armor and a minigun. Cue evil smirk on my face as I massacre everybody, get the car, go to sandy shores, blow up a few guys chasing, and deliver the goddamn car. BAM! I passed the setup.

 

 

I need help on the Prison Break Finale. I'm on the PS3. PSN: fireboy769 Stuck for two whole months now. I seriously gave up on All-In-Order and decided to join heists, which somewhat helped.

[*Lola]

I'm so sick of reading about/experiencing heist failure stories,

Is someone holding a gun to your head making you read the threads?LOL

 

This thread is my favorite thread to read here. It makes me laugh.

Edited May 28, 2015 by *Lola

[Shadowfennekin]

Soon after I see the Prisoner team entering the Prison..... "Prisoner Died"

 

I sighed loudly as I was like the Demo like ALWAYS. Hate that long ass drive on failures -_-

 

I texted him "USE COVER AND SNACKS/AMMO"

He replied "Guard shot me for no reason" ...................................

Restart, as soon as I get past the Prison again...... Prisoner has died *quits*