Payday: The Heist
41 Achievements
66-88h
Pacifist
Beat COUNTERFEIT on hard difficulty or above without killing any law enforcers or civilians. To complete this challenge, everyone in your crew will have to have played the heist from the start.
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How to unlock the Pacifist achievement in Payday: The Heist - Definitive Guide
No-one can kill anyone when going for this trophy!
I suggest playing this a few times on normal or hard and getting a good outside strategy going. What I mean by this is you're going to want to stay upstairs at all times and derive any attention from the center. This being you don't want anyone down there when an objective is being completed.
Keep away from the center, always go in pairs to the power or water as there's usually Bulldozers and Tazers waiting and finally, when going to escape be very careful. Before opening the grate, there is usually 3 shields which you will just have to ignore and some times after opening the first gate down in the sewer a Cloaker and Tazer will drop down.
The tactic:
Okay, at the start make sure you and your team all know where the 2 crowbars, the power box and the hose are. This will make for a quick reference when the objectives come.
Now, start by assigning a person to specific hostages as you want to tie them all down. In doing so you will be able to do a stealth scene of sorts. You wait until the owner (guy in pink) goes down stairs to show you the leak. Make sure he stays down there! After tying everyone down, Bane will tell you that people might have saw you and cops will come to check it out. Be very careful to not kill them here, shoot them once and get them to surrender. If you mess up, no big deal just move on to the next step,
if done right, however, you will still be undetected. The police will be reported missing and more will call the house. Another group will come in and the assault will start.
There's a few places to take note of.
1) The girls room in the left house
2) The couch next to the window in the right house
3) The counter in the kitchen of the right house
4) The top-right hand corner of the map, just outside where one of the escape hatches are. Stay on the outside next to the bush, in the corner.
5) The tool shed at the bottom-left where the other escape hatch is (next to the beach)
These places are where you want to stay. Stay on one side of the map and if gets too crowded, switch sides, never go through the middle of the map or you will die! Make sure to place a health bag in the corner where the bush is at the top-right, one behind the tool shed in the bottom-left and 2 down in the vault.
Now, go about the mission normally but inbetween objectives go back to one of those areas. Also, always go to objectives as a group in case of Tasers. If you get tazed then someone can melee them ONCE but there seems to be a glitch where if you shoot in the air he will stop for a moment.
Keep doing this method until the escape, staying away from the middle and the vault (you don't want attention there). After dropping down, be cautious as a Taser and Cloaker sometimes drop down a little further in.
If there's something you didn't understand, feel free to message myself or ipkiss for an attempted better explanation or if you'd like to play with us for a demonstration.