Rorxy Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Hey guys, we finally after 8 attempts completed the Criminal Mastermind Challenge ourselves! The OP guide here along with a number of other sources sure helped us get through it! We did a number of things rather differently though. Most of the time just to play things extra safe. OP and other are welcome to comment or add any of my tips to this very helpful guide if they feel they assist further in any way! http://gtaforums.com/topic/797753-criminal-mastermind-achievement-guide-with-videos/ Cheers Rorxy NeoLedah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammer2k Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Might be a silly question, but does the same person have to host all 4 Heists? Or can everyone take turns hosting a heist in the crew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorxy Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Might be a silly question, but does the same person have to host all 4 Heists? Or can everyone take turns hosting a heist in the crew? you can all take turns. as long as the team stays the same. that is of course assuming you are all at least rank 12 and each own a luxury apartment with a heist room to be able to of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammer2k Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I noticed on the Social Club that all the Bonus Awards have it at x/28 while the in-game stats show x/26(which is the correct amount). Is that just a Social Club bug that once we do all the bonus awards it'll show as Complete? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezekeil2Ofive17 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Its just a bug use the in game stat menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoLedah Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Yeah the social club is very unreliable to use for checking stuff like the CM awards. I've had many single player events that I've done but are not checked on my socialclub, and it says I don't have the elitas t-shirt but I do in-game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezekeil2Ofive17 Posted June 1, 2015 Share Posted June 1, 2015 Are quick restarts ok to use now? I was under the impression they weren't but I've seen posts saying they are I have no way of checking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FourFingersOfFun Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 Didn't see it in the guide, but for the Valkyrie mission you can drive to the helipad at the marina and pick up a helicopter that you can then land on the roof of the merry weather dock building, or land beside the Valkyrie if you have the heavy vest on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KucheKlizma Posted June 2, 2015 Share Posted June 2, 2015 For prison break: Also pilot can wait until his timer is 3:00 to take off (and then circle around vinewood sign until it's time to land - unless timer gets lower than 0:20) so he doesn't have to bother dealing with figher jets. (yes just skip them altogether) For Trash Trucks: If at least 3 people bring their kurumas on the mission, they can use "Request Personal Vehicle" from interaction menu, and have 1 kuruma for each destination (can even drive the last kuruma to the warehouse). NeoLedah and Rorxy 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gta4_player Posted June 5, 2015 Share Posted June 5, 2015 So it is safe to play survival while doing this challenge. Now I'm wondering does the same thing apply to races or missions or any jobs? (not random heist ofc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoLedah Posted June 5, 2015 Author Share Posted June 5, 2015 Other jobs don't affect your Mastermind progress at all lol you can do whatever you like as long as it's not a heist mission, if you and your team paused your mastermind run Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachcolbert Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 YES!!! Just finished ALL thanks to this tutorial. I didnt think the heavy vest made that much of a difference - WRONG! team was me, the wife, and 2 of her online girlfriends. Gotta say it was much easier getting this done with them then my other friends. One if her friends died (didnt turn off console in time on 3rd final heist) and finished it out with us. We promised her we'd help her knock it out before the update this Wedsnesday No one in our online circle has completed this challenge (about 25 of play consistantly together) so its been fun sending our screen shots. The girls also like that they were the first to get it done being everyone is always giving them sh!t for dying in heists any other time (im guilty too). fun times, like i said gotta go back through it for 1 of our teammates but its well worth it! Thanks OP! NeoLedah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leeds-Monkey Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 in todays update notes: •Fixed an issue which allowed players on the Prisoner team to buy weapons during the Prison Break Heist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockmasterGTA Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 in todays update notes: •Fixed an issue which allowed players on the Prisoner team to buy weapons during the Prison Break Heist. Well done Rockstar. They fix all the important stuff first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockmasterGTA Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 YES!!! Just finished ALL thanks to this tutorial. I didnt think the heavy vest made that much of a difference - WRONG! team was me, the wife, and 2 of her online girlfriends. Gotta say it was much easier getting this done with them then my other friends. One if her friends died (didnt turn off console in time on 3rd final heist) and finished it out with us. We promised her we'd help her knock it out before the update this Wedsnesday No one in our online circle has completed this challenge (about 25 of play consistantly together) so its been fun sending our screen shots. The girls also like that they were the first to get it done being everyone is always giving them sh!t for dying in heists any other time (im guilty too). fun times, like i said gotta go back through it for 1 of our teammates but its well worth it! Thanks OP! Nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails Prower Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I've asked this in the Q&A but I'll ask again here as I am attempting this challenge with some friends at the minute. On our 2nd attempt at Prison Break Finale I was the buzzard pilot and I couldn't get lock on to the enemies inside the prison and so was not able to help the ground team one member unfortunately died resetting our progress. Did we encounter a bug, anyone whose done this recently can they advise if the buzzard missiles still locked onto the enemies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezekeil2Ofive17 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 (edited) I've asked this in the Q&A but I'll ask again here as I am attempting this challenge with some friends at the minute. On our 2nd attempt at Prison Break Finale I was the buzzard pilot and I couldn't get lock on to the enemies inside the prison and so was not able to help the ground team one member unfortunately died resetting our progress. Did we encounter a bug, anyone whose done this recently can they advise if the buzzard missiles still locked onto the enemies? I wouldn't rely on using the buzzard, while I don't think it was a bug / update, there is no real value to using the buzzard versus the risk of getting shot down, its too inconsistent for such little reward Put your 2 highest levels in the prison, arm the prisoner, don't rush, use cover and communicate I realise that sounds basic, because it is, there is no silver bullet for the prison break, it's a tough fight but easily done by taking cover and going slow Edited June 21, 2015 by Ezekeil2Ofive17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StangOne50 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I've asked this in the Q&A but I'll ask again here as I am attempting this challenge with some friends at the minute. On our 2nd attempt at Prison Break Finale I was the buzzard pilot and I couldn't get lock on to the enemies inside the prison and so was not able to help the ground team one member unfortunately died resetting our progress. Did we encounter a bug, anyone whose done this recently can they advise if the buzzard missiles still locked onto the enemies? I wouldn't rely on using the buzzard, while I don't think it was a bug / update, there is no real value to using the buzzard versus the risk of getting shot down, its too inconsistent for such little reward Put your 2 highest levels in the prison, arm the prisoner, don't rush, use cover and communicate I realise that sounds basic, because it is, there is no silver bullet for the prison break, it's a tough fight but easily done by taking cover and going slow I have passed the elite challenge 3 times using the buzzard to help take out enemies inside the prison. There was a couple runs where the demo guy was not getting a lock but I believe this was due to not being in the correct position.Once you do it a couple times you should be able to figure out how you need to position yourself inorder to get the locks. But as mentioned above I would definately not recommend this method if you are going for CM as it is too risky. ShockmasterGTA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghoraaa Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 BOOM ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockmasterGTA Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 BOOM ! Congratulations. dankbowls247 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghoraaa Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 BOOM ! Congratulations.Thanks ! I can't stop smiling after i finished it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShockmasterGTA Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 BOOM ! Congratulations. Thanks ! I can't stop smiling after i finished it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dee-account-with-1kbans Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 If anyone has a 3 man crew of skillful high levels and are willing to join me on this challenge, pm me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShiviSRT-10 Posted July 4, 2015 Share Posted July 4, 2015 If anyone has a 3 man crew of skillful high levels and are willing to join me on this challenge, pm meA few things..I've already done this so I'm not recruiting, but you'll need to state your console, rank, timezone and experience at least! Also, this is on the wrong section. If you head to the lobby and meetups section, you'll have better luck finding a crew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zecanelao Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) What happens if the message saying my challenge was canceled shows up( when I joined a new session again after being disconnected)but the challenge progress reamains the same, 7/26? We died at the same time when we were taking off the plane in the Prison heist. Everyone disconnected from Internet just after it. I was the only who got this message. My friends didn't. I unpluged the internet cable very fast, so Im pretty sure there was no time to save. Also my body armors I used are still there as if I have never had used them. I think this message might have showed up because I didn't leave the game? Edit: just checked on Social Club. It seems it Hasn't got canceled. Has Anyone else experienced something like that? Edited July 5, 2015 by zecanelao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rorxy Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 What happens if the message saying my challenge was canceled shows up( when I joined a new session again after being disconnected)but the challenge progress reamains the same, 7/26? We died at the same time when we were taking off the plane in the Prison heist. Everyone disconnected from Internet just after it. I was the only who got this message. My friends didn't. I unpluged the internet cable very fast, so Im pretty sure there was no time to save. Also my body armors I used are still there as if I have never had used them. I think this message might have showed up because I didn't leave the game? Edit: just checked on Social Club. It seems it Hasn't got canceled. Has Anyone else experienced something like that? basically if the message came up saying you failed then you will have to restart. The achievement can still bug and say you have progress. things like armours and snacks almost always 'reappear' after disconnect because of server desync Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zecanelao Posted July 5, 2015 Share Posted July 5, 2015 (edited) What happens if the message saying my challenge was canceled shows up( when I joined a new session again after being disconnected)but the challenge progress reamains the same, 7/26? We died at the same time when we were taking off the plane in the Prison heist. Everyone disconnected from Internet just after it. I was the only who got this message. My friends didn't. I unpluged the internet cable very fast, so Im pretty sure there was no time to save. Also my body armors I used are still there as if I have never had used them. I think this message might have showed up because I didn't leave the game? Edit: just checked on Social Club. It seems it Hasn't got canceled. Has Anyone else experienced something like that? basically if the message came up saying you failed then you will have to restart. The achievement can still bug and say you have progress. things like armours and snacks almost always 'reappear' after disconnect because of server desyncAre you sure? I mean, I was the first to unplug the internet cable and the only one who got this message. I think this happened because I didn't leave the game, but there was no time to save the progress on the server. So my theory is that I got this message because of that. I went back to singleplayer and then after a few minutes I pluged the internet cable and joined a new session. That was when the message shows up.I believe that message was ready to show up and the game would save my progress if I hadnt unpluged the internet cable. Also, my progress on Social Club Hasn't got reset. Edited July 5, 2015 by zecanelao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timcatgt5 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 (edited) Happy to announce that I'm the newest member of the Criminal Mastermind crew. Video going up soon. https://imageshack.com/i/eycDYRFoj https://imageshack.com/i/exRrOP7Sj https://imageshack.us/i/f0in5TAej Edited July 10, 2015 by Timcatgt5 NeoLedah 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTAonlineplayer Posted July 17, 2015 Share Posted July 17, 2015 Happy to announce that I'm the newest member of the Criminal Mastermind crew. Video going up soon. https://imageshack.com/i/eycDYRFoj https://imageshack.com/i/exRrOP7Sj https://imageshack.us/i/f0in5TAej Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammer2k Posted July 23, 2015 Share Posted July 23, 2015 Out of curiosity. Do you have to start the challenge at Fleeca? Say you, and your crew started at Humane Labs, and went all the way through, and back around again. Would that still count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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