PAYDAY 2: CRIMEWAVE EDITION

By far the fastest method to farm infamy ranks is to use the crime spree exploit. This method will get you one infamy rank in about 1.5-2 hours depending on your loading times. It's still a grind, but way faster than anything in the other solutions. This method can only be done solo. Here's what to do

1. Got to Crimenet offline and start a crime spree
2. Pick the heist with the highest number, I only ever did anything above 12 (15 is highest). Reroll if you must
3. Make sure you have right heist selected and hover over the "Start the heist"
4. Sign out of Xbox live and sign back in
5. Go to Crimenet offline again and load up Ukrainian job on normal, bring shaped charges (Yakuza perk decks gives you speed as well but it doesnt matter too much, you'll get this done in about 40 seconds regardless)
6. Run to the back rooms, blow up the safes, grab the tiara and escape
7. After the heist you'll notice you got credit for your crime spree. Pick your modifiers, select the highest numbered heist and while hovering over "Start the heist", sign back out again.
8. Repeat steps 5-7 until you reach 23,336,413xp as spree rewards. Usually for me this was when my crime spree hit around 500. You can check your rewards after every heist. Once you hit this, go back to your crime spree and hit "Claim rewards" and enjoy going from 0 to 100 in 2 seconds. If you're not level 0 the first time aroud, use this experience table to see how much you need https://payday.fandom.com/wiki/Reputation_(Payday_2)/Experience_table

Essentially what you're doing is tricking the game into thinking you're running the hard crime spree heist and getting rewards accordingly. In the beginning you'll get around 300k xp per run, but later you can get up to 1,6 million xp per run. The xp penalty does not matter here, because the xp you get come out of the increasing spree.

You might have to do some lower tier heists in the beginning, if you don't have enough continental coins to keep rerolling. Fortunately you'll get them as rewards as well so after your first spree you should be good.

Note that you can "bank" your spree as it does not get affected by resetting infamy ranks. I always had a level 100 character. When my rewards were high enough, I would reset my infamy rank and immediately go claim my rewards. This way you can go for other things between xp grinding and you don't have to worry about your level.

If you mess up and accidentally start the actual crime spree heist, just quit out of the game and pay the continental coins to resume your spree. Signing out of the game while in the loading screen might save your spree however. It is not worth paying coins to continue your spree after you've claimed your spree. The reward multiplier gets reset regardless so even though your spree gets higher, the rewards are the same as if you started from 0.

Happy grinding :)

Welcome to Crime Spree Boosting

I do not know why this strat has not been talked about on this forum as I thought it was pretty common knowledge and is way faster than the offline sign out exploit, but much more skill intensive.

The only downside is you will need to find someone in the payday 2 community that has a crimewave over 24 thousand, but if you do find them then you will hit infamy 25 in 4 hours at most if you are starting from non infamy levels.
This is because of the catchup bonus. If you complete a single mission with a insane high Crime spree player as host you will get a catchup bonus and it will give you way above 23.3 million XP. I was getting 110 million per mission

You will start a fresh crime spree and join the high crime spree players lobby. They will select a mission they are comfortable with doing as crime sprees get ridiculously difficult at that high of a score. The crew I was with would only do Airport, Bank heist, and FBI office. Each mission had an exploit to make easier and avoid enemies which I will list below.
They get difficult because every 50 crime spree enemies get a health and damage buff so at an extreme crime spree they can practically become unkillable and one shot players.

Now you can not be a burden on the team you have to help them due to the difficulty of high crime spree it makes it difficult to be carried especially if it is only one player that knows what they are doing. I Highly recommend 6 items. The Inspire skill, Joker skill, maxed out doctor bags, a saw primary, a Grimm shotgun with fire rounds, and the anarchist perk deck (wear a suit for armor).

-Joker friendlies are still very hard to kill for enemy AI and are an amazing distraction
-due to enemy health being insanely high the best thing to do is stun them with fire rounds on the Grimm (it is also amazing for normal play if you have not used it there)
-Your crew will go down a lot so inspire makes it way easier to save them
- anarchist makes it wear you can actually get hit and be alive
- Doctor bags keep you in the fight longer don't be afraid to use it before grey screen
You should also buy the continental boost one more down and if you want you can have another player buy one more equipment.

Ok I know that is a lot but setup is important. Bad setup = consistent failure

As said previous we used only three missions and they would reroll until got one of the three
Airport- AKA day 1 of Firestarter- if you can jump over the fence without ever cutting it open you get like a 5-6 minute window of no cops showing up after the assault wave starts. The gangsters will still be there and they hit hard but when the assault wave starts they tend to retreat out of the map as the cops are suppose to take there space. There should be enough time for you to turn in all of the necessary guns to leave. The jump over the fence can be a pain and the host is the only one that needs to do it. When they do it the other players can leave, restart their crime spree, and join back. They will spawn on the host on the other side of the fence
Bank Heist- This one requires the most skill but is possible. One player should try and get in the walls with the roof exploit glitch. Pros- when they are in the walls they are unkillable and they can still inspire down players, con- they can not fix the drill. The players outside must survive the drill timer so they can be the one to fix it, Drill skills are very important for this one. when the vault opens the player in the wall can get out of the glitch grab one bag and book it to the van.
FBI Offices- AKA day 2 of Firestarter. Stealth the mission if you can but remember that stealth modifiers in crime wave are dumb and make stealth almost impossible in the game. When you do go loud find the server room and open both doors with the saw and get the drill down on the shutter gate. Simple exploit here but has a chance for rng to be against your crew. the managers office is located on the second floor on the side of the building where the van is closest next to one of the two staircases in the office area. If the wood door is shut leading into it is closed you are basically home free, as you can just jump through the windows on the side of the managers office and the enemies have no pathing to get to you as long as that door stays shut. The best part is that the enemies tend to pile up downstairs so you can quickly go and fix the drill and make it back relatively safe unless you get the downstairs spawn, but I had no trouble with that either. When the drill is done take the server back to the van for mission complete.

Sorry for the over explanation of everything, this strategy is way quicker but, way more difficult to pull off so more details are to be shared. I went from infamy 14 to 25 in 2 hours and we had a few bumps in the road from time to time, but if I was doing the other strat I would only be infamy 15 in the same amount of time.

Now your Crime spree host may have different missions they want to do or a different build they want you to run. Do not be apposed to what they want as they have a ton of experience and just want to get you on the same page as them. I have just given my experience here.

I will say it can be hard to find a player that has grinded to such a high crime spree. Most achievement hunters for this game probably have never even wanted to grind that high before. I have found that Payday 2 has a pretty niche community of people that like seeing their crime spree number be as high as possible. I would recommend using the Xbox Looking for group system. I found one guy that was personally willing to help, but he took a while to be ready to help me. For the crew I actually worked with I just loaded up crime.net with an active Crime spree and pressed to search for a job and clicked "any heist" when you find a job it will say "difficulty X" X= crime spree level. when you have one super high join it and as quickly as possible get the host gamertag and send them a message asking if you can join them. They will most likely kick you but may be ok if you can convince them that you have some knowledge on what you are getting into.

If you downvote please give an explanation in the comments I am still pretty new to writing guides and only do it when I have knowledge of the topic that has not been shared.

This is a solo Tutorial using an exploit to level up fast. 1.5 to 2 hours per infamy level 0 to 100.