Heist failure stories

[DrEeveell]

We keep getting the one on Big Con where you get up to the locker room room w/o getting spotted and there's no exit outfit.

[Nerfgoth]

On 7/18/2022 at 6:46 AM, awesomefoot said:

Heist Attempt 1: Everyone goes upstairs because that's the way to the vault. We finally get in and I hack two doors open (just thumbprints) while someone else just fails repeatedly. When there's 30 seconds they give up. I go to hack but someone else takes it before I can and wastes the rest of the time. We get out and I'm 3rd to protect the guy taking up the rear. We get lucky with close cars and my driver loses them but the others end up dying in Sandy Shores or something. I try to vote to restart but it won't let me. I finally hit the continue button and it's Heist Failed.

 

Heist Attempt 2: Everyone goes upstairs because that's still the way to the vault. We end up dying twice and one guy quits.

 

Heist Attempt 3: I give the other guy 70% cut and he won't start so it's back to the planning room.

 

Heist Attempt 4: I start with no minimap, weapon wheel, phone. One guy starts way out in Paleto. When we go to enter it's an endless black screen.

 

edit: Also I can't load the Casino Heist from an Invite Only lobby anymore, nobody joins. It worked fine for years.

 

If you are on Ps5 and E&E the matchmaker is broken don´t know about Xbox tho.....

[ambi3nt]

46 minutes ago, DrEeveell said:

We keep getting the one on Big Con where you get up to the locker room room w/o getting spotted and there's no exit outfit.

This one usually can be avoided if you invite all players to the same session before starting. Also some hosts forget to actually select in finale board.

[DrEeveell]

I've been doing the Casino heists with my wife, so we always start in the same session, and I'm the host. I specifically selected the Firefighter gear because I wanted to unlock the trade price on the fire truck plus buy the outfits.

Had to completely restart and select the High Roller outfits.

 

[awesomefoot]

3 hours ago, DrEeveell said:

I've been doing the Casino heists with my wife, so we always start in the same session, and I'm the host. I specifically selected the Firefighter gear because I wanted to unlock the trade price on the fire truck plus buy the outfits.

Had to completely restart and select the High Roller outfits.

 

 

I unlocked all the outfits and trade prices just by selecting them for the finale and shooting my way out. Either NOOSE or Firefighters we tried to use them but someone got detected. The others someone detected before that so we just shot our way out. I never used the escape vehicles and have the trade prices on the Furia and Fire Truck.

[DrEeveell]

Well now I've got another fail. On or 4th or 5th attempt at S&S we finally got down to the man trap, and all of a sudden my screen went blank and there was some sort of message about "Removed from session for [something]" and I got kicked out back to the arcade and the heist failed. My partner in crime got stuck in the basement of the casino in a different session.

[DeathNyx]

This was my fault lol

 

 

 

Also during Prison Break finale, me and another player crushed each other with the Velum and Buzzard respectively. I set first person since i'm doing the "Another Perspective" challenge. I was so mad that i didn't keep the clip...

[Rotorhead359]

56 minutes ago, DeathNyx said:

This was my fault lol

 

 

 

/* Also during Prison Break finale, me and another player crushed each other with the Velum and Buzzard respectively. I set first person since i'm doing the "Another Perspective" challenge. I was so mad that i didn't keep the clip... */

This triggers me more than it should. And now you can restart the whole heist from the beginning.

So, what can we learn from this? As Big Smoke would say, all you had to do was turn left.

When hovering a helicopter above a slope, don't hover sideways, but facing up the slope (90 degrees left from this) and don't worry too much about the tail getting wet, there is plenty of room on the beach.

You can use the downward facing camera for precision landing if you wish.

Don't worry about sliding down after touchdown, all you have to do is press down on the collective (left trigger / S on keyboard) and the helicopter will push itself flat into the ground.

 

**GTA V has simplified physics, but in real life, the wind and uneven ground effect would blow you sideways down the slope and you'd have to correct to the left, further increasing the risk of tipover.

And why don't we hover backwards, facing down the slope? Simple, you'd get a tail strike.

 

Edited July 25 by Rotorhead359

[fsbkgb]

2 hours ago, DeathNyx said:

This was my fault lol

I blame the dead guy for running under moving vehicle, who knows you could've landed it just fine. I learned to take cover on rocks or something in these scenarios.

[DrEeveell]

My wife has been killed so many times by running into propellers, or the spikes on my arena wars cars.

 

[DeathNyx]

4 hours ago, fsbkgb said:

I blame the dead guy for running under moving vehicle, who knows you could've landed it just fine. I learned to take cover on rocks or something in these scenarios.

 

I know, normally im not that bad with helis, sometimes you just lose control over it, you know, rushing without focus. However that player jumped for no reasons, he/she could have simply stayed inside. 

 

Also Valkyrie seems tricky to land compared to other helis. Not to mention that there is really few space in there to land, you need to be careful for the players on the ground

 

I wasn't the host btw, the player who got killed was. xD

Edited July 26 by DeathNyx

[Super Grunt 281]

Prison Break failed at the end because of a suicide BUT demolions was bugged (blades were static and the helicopter was falling, respawning, falling, etc) , that would be a single attempt with a low level pilot (under 30) otherwise.

 

Of course Rashkovski died on the second attempt at the end, the host left during the third for unknown reasons.

 

Unseen forces out to make the heist fail, no yolo police helicopter surprisingly.

[sonnyC]

First attempt at a Halo jump infiltraction at night, stealth my way over the wall and escape via airstrip. Score: Pink diamond, painting in the office and cocaine in the hangar. Oh and it rained as well. By far the coolest ever Cayo heist I've done. The whole experience felt like MGS, Splinter Cell and James Bond all at the same time. Even with the sloppy shot at a guard right by the plane which triggered the alarm I still got away unscathed with a full bag. Felt so badass

 

Why failure? Because just as it triggered the cutscene after you escape the island, the entire game crashed back to desktop. I think I might've gotten Elite had that not happened.

Edited August 17 by sonnyC

[Zak Ras]

Made the transfer to Series X last Wednesday, "but the idiots, aah, they stay the same", to quote Trevor.

 

These are from being On Call just today - all of them, happened numerous times across numerous teams.

- Diving out of their own car at top speed and getting killed.

- One of Prison Team deciding to go with Demolition on Prison Break.

- Inability to read the GPS and completely missing a both vital and obvious turn.

- Refusal to disobey the GPS specifically on Pac Standard finale.

- Impulsively firing weapons on Fleeca - Scope Out.

- Impulsively firing weapons at NPC's when they're right next to an objective marker to complete a mission - resulting in regaining a Wanted level that they just struggled to escape from.

- Someone going AFK at the mission start, coming back with the team halfway through to the first checkpoint. AFK'er proceeds to kill themselves and ruin a very successful run just so they can get a quick warp over to where the action is, rather than drive there like the rest of the team did.

 

I am now at the point where I will just quit at the first sign of these types of levels of incompetence. These people need to have their wrecklessness trained out of them - one of the guys who fired their weapon on Fleeca Scope Out, I did all the driving and we were inches from his garage to end the mission when he decided to fire it... I have no remorse over quitting in that scenario. If you can't sit patiently, having already been told the mission will fail if you get a Wanted level, and are so desperate to fire a gun in a mission where there's no enemies - you are not a person who is mentally equipped to play something like Heist missions.

 

And I feel like a jackass having to say that about a f*cking video game.

Edited August 23 by Zak Ras

[JimmyRustle88]

Black screen no matter f*cking what doesn't matter who I play with everything goes smooth then bam this sh*t

Edited August 23 by JimmyRustle88

[Valiant ENT CEO]

More self inflicted torture by hosting the cayo perico heist with randoms! I shall concoct an entry scheme not many have heard of. What could possibly go wrong? We will creep thru the main dock on the patrol boat while silently picking off guards with a sniper, snatch a grappling hook and run off in the jungle and rob El Rubio. No problem.. Im talking them thru it.

 

Failed that mofo 11 times and I quit on them. They were so damn clueless..I can't even explain. I had to log all the way off. 

 

Couple hours later I turn on GTA again.. Just to play this singular mission. Everything is going so epic. These two guys are sniping fron the boat. Jumping off to grab cocaine..Im picking off guards high upon towers... We got all the gear and are entering the compound now! Woot w00t! First time go!

 

...And then my wifi drops out again for the 10th time today. DEEP BREATH... 

[notyalc]

Cayo Perico Heist

 

Scouting start point: Procopio Beach

Primary Target: Sinsimito Tequila

Secondary Targets: Cash only

Sonar Jammer submarine location: Torpedo area

Weapons preparation: Merryweather HQ (no matter how many times I blow up the helicopter or find new session)

Cutting Torch: Cover automatically blown despite wearing hard hat

 

Heist Finale:

1. Siren alarm sound for no reason idk wtf I did to alert the guards

2. If I make it out without alerting the guards, elite challenge failed 15:01

[Zak Ras]

I'm at the point on Series X where if someone fails for a genuinely stupid reason, as in; "why would you jump off a 100ft bridge to your death rather than take the ovious path to get down here?", "you can't read on-screen instructions" or "you don't know the basics of how to play this game" - I just quit, instantly, even if the mission doesn't fail.

 

More Prison Break pilots due to receive a visit from Horsecock Harry.

 

Situation 1 - Rudders, what are those?:

I'm Prison Officer, pilot crashes Velum once causing a reset. Attempt two, I get us through the prison so fast that by the time we're pulling up to the airstrip, Demo is just arriving with the Prison Bus. I don't hold this against Demo, because Demo has a really awkward spawn in the grand scheme of things, I say this to emphasis how fast we got through Prison. Pilot decides to use the full length of the runway to stop, so by the time I get to the west end, what awaits me is the Velum on fire and smoking - but since that Velum has a health buff for this mission, fine. That's when Pilot decide's; I won't turn the plane around and use the runway, I'll use the 4 foot of runway left, struggle to lift it clear of the uneven terrain and crash us into a tree.

 

Situation 2 - False hope.

I'm on Demo, first (and only) attempt, Pilot (rank 145) decides to go for the vertical evasive moves of going straight up into the air then plummeting like a rock once the engine fails, but impressively he actually stays behind the jet when I text him to do so. This was cruical since Prison team were Ranks 28 & 3, they were gonna need the Buzzard to do the work. Few close calls with the jet deciding to aim straight for me, bit of trouble trying to tag a few prison guards - but it's all smooth. And that's when it happens, just as Prison team are moving Rashkovsky to the NOOSE van, Pilot commits suicide.

 

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The good news is I went On Call for a Cayo Heist - and we got the Elite Challenge with zero communication and 5 minutes to spare... although that might've been cause the Rank 100 something host decided I would take the lead and he would follow me whereever, which luckily he took us to the Drainage Tunnel first thing, and we just swam south for the escape, no alarms.

Edited September 4 by Zak Ras

[Rotorhead359]

30 minutes ago, Zak Ras said:

I'm at the point on Series X where if someone fails for a genuinely stupid reason, as in; "why would you jump off a 100ft bridge to your death rather than take the ovious path to get down here?", "you can't read on-screen instructions" or "you don't know the basics of how to play this game" - I just quit, instantly, even if the mission doesn't fail.

 

More Prison Break pilots due to receive a visit from Horsecock Harry.

 

Situation 1 - Rudders, what are those?:

I'm Prison Officer, pilot crashes Velum once causing a reset. Attempt two, I get us through the prison so fast that by the time we're pulling up to the airstrip, Demo is just arriving with the Prison Bus. I don't hold this against Demo, because Demo has a really awkward spawn in the grand scheme of things, I say this to emphasis how fast we got through Prison. Pilot decides to use the full length of the runway to stop, so by the time I get to the west end, what awaits me is the Velum on fire and smoking - but since that Velum has a health buff for this mission, fine. That's when Pilot decide's; I won't turn the plane around and use the runway, I'll use the 4 foot of runway left, struggle to lift it clear of the uneven terrain and crash us into a tree.

 

Situation 2 - False hope.

I'm on Demo, first (and only) attempt, Pilot (rank 145) decides to go for the vertical evasive moves of going straight up into the air then plummeting like a rock once the engine fails, but impressively he actually stays behind the jet when I text him to do so. This was cruical since Prison team were Ranks 28 & 3, they were gonna need the Buzzard to do the work. Few close calls with the jet deciding to aim straight for me, bit of trouble trying to tag a few prison guards - but it's all smooth. And that's when it happens, just as Prison team are moving Rashkovsky to the NOOSE van, Pilot commits suicide.

 

Same here, I guess I have played too much and this sounds more than familiar to me. I find myself playing less GTA Online lately, but when I do, I like to get a few heists done.

If I'm pilot, I will patiently watch the ground team die 100 times, no problem, because usually, eventually they get it, and I will be there to pick them up.

But nothing annoys me more than watching a bad pilot crash. If they are going to crash a plane, better do it at the flight school, not at a prison break where 3 other players depend on them.

 

Of course, I always ask to be pilot.

Edited September 4 by Rotorhead359

[Thomas2026]

The fact that there exists a topic with 7 years of heist failure stories makes me smile.

On 7/25/2022 at 4:29 AM, ambi3nt said:

This one usually can be avoided if you invite all players to the same session before starting. Also some hosts forget to actually select in finale board.

 

Damn if this is true, I might finally get the Elite Challenge on all approaches award. This last bit usually screws us over because someone always panics and runs through the lobby.

[DominusTaranis]

It's been a while since I've had a heist failure that wasn't due to me being stupid. Well, to be fair, I wasn't being stupid in this one either, and it was shenanigans, but it's too funny not to share.

I accepted a random Bogdan Problem finale invite because I could use the monies. Starting over from scratch and not being a hardcore grind24/7 type has made me real thirsty for that dollarydoo. I expected a low payout, but I also expected a little courtesy. But default 15% and being handed the harder part of the heist? That doesn't fly with me. But, still, I'm a nice guy, so I go along with it...sort of.

We start all the way over in the Land Act Reservoir. I have called out my DR1 and sprint for it, taking off immediately. Host has a Stromberg 2.0 but I completely ignore that and still beat them up there because I actually drove over the road instead of BOOSTO up the mountain. Hop on into the Stromberg and find out that, not only do I have the harder job, not only has the host not explained what the hell is going on, but they're also going to just chill in the submarine car under the submarine instead of actually flying the Avenger. Fair enough, but you're literally playing waiting simulator and I'm putting in actual work for a pathetic 200k. Probably 250k since it's likely we'll get the elite challenge, but meh. 

I do my due diligence and fight through the sub responsibly, complete my objective, return to the subcar 2.0, and they drive us to the Avenger. I'm pilot. Slightly more work than gunner, imo, but whatever, I like flying. Now, I'm not the type to throw a heist unless you force me to take like 5%, but I did want to do a little trolling. So I queue up a message in the chat and, as we near the hangar, I fly a little recklessly. Well within my capabilities, but it certainly looks like I'm about to throw. As I do, I send the message "Asking an awful lot of me for only 15%" and then start correcting to swing the Avenger into the hangar. I was probably coming in a little too hot to simply VTOL straight into the hangar, but I was ready for it and definitely wasn't going to eat it. No sooner do I switch to hover mode than does my game crash, which is perhaps a full half second after I sent that message.

I laughed. I laughed hard. Full LMAO xD. 

[siteseer]

i have a heist success story. me: rank 740, they: a group of random rank 20s. prison break finale. in the role selection screen they're already talking amongst themselves about roles and one of them is asking not to be pilot and to give it to a better player so its looking good already. we load in and everyone drives to their designated location, the demo fails somehow and we have to reload, uh oh. i play as the prisoner and we clear out the guards and make progress, as i snipe the roof guards the prison officer cleans up but is running around the yard not taking cover. surprisingly he doesn't get killed. i drive the getaway armored van to sandy shores and meet the velum just as he puts it nose down into the tarmac, but he pulls back and brakes just in time to stop right in front of me. the demo is close by and is actually shooting down hostiles. we all pile in the velum and i'm amazed we've made it this far without a single death. they're all rank 20s remember. it takes a minute for the pilot to put gears up and the velum is barely gaining altitude while getting pinged by ground fire. are we gonna make it i think to myself. well yes actually as the pilot dodges left and right around cop helicopters heading straight for the waypoint. rashkovsky takes over, we take a jump, and even though the helicopter lands rough on the beach and starts smoking we all still get in and complete the finale. one early restart, no deaths, a quick escape, 15 minutes. rank 20s y'all.

[Rotorhead359]

This one has been a while. Humane Labs - Deliver EMP. All high level players, so should be easy, right? No. Guess who f*cked it up? The host himself.

While me and the crew were picking off guards and scientists one by one, this idiot hops into the insurgent and races straight past everyone, to the waypoint at the garage.

Everyone but the host voted Continue.

Edited September 9 by Rotorhead359

[Nerfgoth]

On 7/24/2022 at 10:51 PM, awesomefoot said:

 

I unlocked all the outfits and trade prices just by selecting them for the finale and shooting my way out. Either NOOSE or Firefighters we tried to use them but someone got detected. The others someone detected before that so we just shot our way out. I never used the escape vehicles and have the trade prices on the Furia and Fire Truck.

 

This is how we did it with the truck....

 

 

It was kinda finicky to do due to they cant spot you and the the other npc firefighters at the same time.....

[Zak Ras]

Prison Break

Pilot - Me, Rank 88X

Prison Officer - Rank 5XX

Prisoner & Demo - Ranks in the 10's & 20's.

 

One restart just as I get into the Velum, because someone gets a Wanted Level - something in me shows mercy, because I know Wanted Level's can be funny for Demo who can randomly auto-fail after blowing up the Bus, which I figure can happen in those precious seconds between the "Bus" and "Helicopter" phases for them - as well as having to kill the Bus Driver.

 

Anyway, something I always do as Pilot is let the time run down before I fly over the Vinewood Hills, I do this by flying up to the Vinewood sign and then just holding one of the bumpers so the plane flies in a circle over the Sisyphus outdoor theatre for a few minutes until I've got about 1 minute left, at which point I proceed to the objective marker to trigger the jets. A crack team (with a mission restart for the team warps) can get in and out of the Prison without the jets ever being triggered by doing this. Demo does the standard of ignoring my messages to ignore the jets since I'm clearly flying behind them by the time he catches up to me - he only manages to destroy 3 before Prison Team escape the Prison.

 

I'm a bit further away than I'd like to be from the runway at this point, but the good thing is I was able to land and ready for takeoff before Prison Team got there, they had a bit of off-road trouble with the truck, no biggie. They pull up, me making sure they pull up BEHIND me and I've got the door open. Prisoner, of course, tries running for the front passenger door which Rashkovsky is scripted to take, I pull it forward slightly and he hops in the back... the trouble was the Rank 500 Prison Officer.

 

He pulled up having driven the truck over to the runway, got out... and then immediately just whipped out his mini-gun, planted his feet and just unloaded all his ammo into any cop vehicles that had pulled up at the runway with his back to the plane. There's not much I can do other than sit there and wait for him to get in. That's when a Granger spawns in front of me, and I just watch it apathetically pass me, knowing what's about to happen but not caring in the slightest for someone so thick, it pulls up behind him and watch the complete lack of awareness as blood spews out of his back as that team unloads their rifles into him, not turning around to see what's shooting him once - he dies.

 

Plot twist;

Spoiler

We were playing on Normal... so we were still going and had 0 Lives Remaining. Demo was in the Buzzard overlooking all of this the whole time - and you know how he refused to stop firing missiles at the Jets? Well here, it was the exact opposite, he just hovered above all the police, not firing any missiles at the obvious lock-ons he would have had and got himself shot to death, failing the mission.

 

I quit after that.

Edited September 9 by Zak Ras

[DominusTaranis]

I decided I wanted to join some heists for the memes and fill my soul with vitriol.

Prison Break.

But NO. We all knew what we were doing on this one. Except me, sorta. Bit rusty you see.
Everything goes according to the meta. Demo nukes prison, pilot plays tag, ground team does.....stuff I guess. Only this time, Rasputin doesn't want to do anything. So they're slowly trying to bully him towards the target. During this, I've cleared the prison and then some, and am flying loops around it for fun. During one of these, my missile lock tags the jet and before I verify, I let fly a missile at the jet. Of course, it pegs it and I type up an apology real quick. As I do this, my helicopter drifts right into range of the RPG towers. I hear lock on and whip my chopper around, narrowly dodging an RPG. It even barrels its way dead center into my screen so it was like the AI fired it at ME, not my character. Bit of a jump scare. I continue to loop. Eventually, I drift just a millimeter within range and am instantly pegged by a hypersonic RPG, forcing a restart. 

Round two. Same deal as before, only this time, one of the scrubs is impatient. Generally, I'm able to move forward fast enough to clear spawns as they spawn, but this guy pushes forward way faster than I'm able to eliminate spawns and gets wasted after dying immediately after getting to Rumplestiltskin. Rage quits. 

[Rotorhead359]

So after many days of getting kicked from Casino heists, or not being able to join them at all, I finally got one.

The first-time cutscene played, but we were doing Big Con with Gruppe6, and we even had the level 2 security passes, so what could possibly go wrong?

The heist went as normal, until we got to the laundry room. The Noose uniforms were there, we were putting them on, except the level 2700 random did not pick up his one, and walked straight through to the exit.

Of course the alarm went off and we failed. Weirdly, this was not a new account, the guy appeared to have been playing GTA Online since 2015 (including the length of his friends list), so modded level or not, he should have known better.

Edited September 11 by Rotorhead359

[DuhBritishTea]

DCH - successfully lose the cops and we're driving to the buyers. Some retard throws a sticky bomb and it blows us all up.

 

This game is proof that negative iq exists

[Zak Ras]

Please endure, there's 2 parts to this.

 

 

[partci]

You know, the usual PB Finale. I am Demo, cleaned the prison, Pilot was competent enough. Prisoner had to target my Buzzard after the plain jump, but I was watching closely and didn't had any of it, so I dodged him. While he proceeded to dive and kill himself on the hills above the beach. I told him to eff off and quit. I'm not having any of this bs anymore.

Edited September 15 by partci