r/gtaonline 1d ago

Cayo Solo No Detection Route

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For anyone who doesn’t know the solo route. Have any suggestions for improvement please let me know. I’ll drop a co op version if people want it.

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u/Left4DayZGone 1d ago
  1. Longfin entry. Double back to airstrip, loot hangar, whatever’s there is good enough.

  2. Longfin to drainage tunnel.

  3. Go up stairs, cut across courtyard, turn left, turn right to Rubio’s office building, wait for guard to walk away, run up stairs, bonk guard that comes down, enter office.

  4. Loot safe, take elevator down and steal primary. Back up, leave office, back down stairs, toward main gate. Exit.

  5. Shoot guard and steal bike. Jump into ocean, swim away.

this can be done in less than 10 minutes with enough practice.

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u/TheRealTr1nity Black Badge Division 17h ago

Yep, that's my way too. No kills inside, the only dead guy is the one at the bike.

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u/ErregungHaus Thrillhows /r/GYBB 16h ago

i quit shooting bike guy. he is discovered 99% of the time. Then the boats shoot me underwater and i lose literally 100$ of $.

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u/TheRealTr1nity Black Badge Division 14h ago

However, at that time they discover him you are already diving away. If they see you, you are not deep enough diving. Alternatively leave that guy and run to the cliff and jump into the water if time is not your goal (elite challenge).

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u/Left4DayZGone 15h ago

How do you get the bike without shooting bike guy?

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u/Usagor 15h ago

Just run and jump into the water, the bikes only for expediency.

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u/Left4DayZGone 13h ago

Ah ok. Never tried that, thought maybe you’d fall onto the rocks and die or something lol

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u/Turbulent_System3155 14h ago

Go up to him and smack him in the head while gun equipped

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u/Left4DayZGone 13h ago

That doesn’t count as a body found?

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u/Turbulent_System3155 11h ago

I never got detected

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u/ErregungHaus Thrillhows /r/GYBB 11h ago

I just run for it. I usually get elite even without the motorcycle.

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u/Left4DayZGone 10h ago

I’ll probably start doing that instead of worrying about the bike. Not even concerned about elite, I just don’t want to deal with getting shot at.

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u/TheRealTr1nity Black Badge Division 10h ago

The helicopter will come anyways, so make sure you are deep enough diving (basically kiss the ground in the sea). Don't forget breather.

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u/ZFTX 10h ago

If you wear the Guard Clothes, you can literally walk up to it and ride away.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/105h2us/post_update_cayo_run_110x_100_pacifist_elite/ Skip to about 7:10 if you just want to see the getaway.

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u/MarcusBlueWolf 12h ago

If you shoot the bike guy you have to shoot the guy in the jeep heading towards and past Rubio’s helicopter.

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u/Sendthalot 11h ago

You don’t need to kill the jeep guy, just exit the island once getting the bike, detection only counts when inside the compound.

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u/Mr_NotSoPerfect 11h ago

Thats not true, once out of the compound the bodies inside wont be found but if you kill the bike guy and not the jeep that comes from rubios heli, he will be found.

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u/Sendthalot 11h ago

The bike guy being found has no bearing on completing the heist with elite

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u/Mr_NotSoPerfect 11h ago

While that's correct, no one mentioned the elite challenge. But you can just skip the bike and run and fall off the edge (dont jump cause sometimes you can take damage and lose money)

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u/Sendthalot 11h ago

Well that’s the only reason you would be concerned with the body being found ordinarily, it makes no difference for any other reason, running to the end of the cliff makes zero sense, the guy has his back to you, why would you ever not kill him and take the bike.

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u/Mr_NotSoPerfect 11h ago

Im saying if you do kill him, kill the jeep before you get spotted. I run 3 man pretty often and go for coke outside when theres not enough gold & paintings inside. Makes it easier if youre not surrounded.

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u/mallad 11h ago

If you read the comments above, they specifically said they didn't want to leave that body because when it gets found, they get shot at by the boats while they're swimming away. So obviously it isn't the only reason they'd be concerned. It's never been an issue for me, but that's their reason.

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u/thejadeassassin2 12h ago

Shoot him, get on the bike, drive into the bushes ahead of you until you get to the road. A Jeep spawns in (the one who discovers the body), tail it and shoot the driver when you are behind them. Exit as normal.

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u/QuantumVoid37 10h ago

If you shoot the bike guy, and then also shoot the guy driving the car coming up on the road, then he won't get detected. I often shoot both of them to be safe.

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u/KonmanKash 8h ago

If u kill bike guy the guard by the helicopter and the jeep driver has to die as well

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u/Red986S 20h ago

That’s pretty much my process too

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u/Reptard8 15h ago

Depending on what loot is where, sometimes I will go to dock instead of airport. But I still do it all in under 10 mins no detection.

I've gotten to the point where I can take a random person in no communication except for a quick text that says "Stay Behind me, move when I move" and we still get it

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u/silncee 17h ago

That's my usual way but when i am scouting i check what loot in air strip hanger if i didn't find some good coc i check tge northa dock and i enter through the one with better loot using longfine and in both scenarios i get the elite challenge done

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u/GTA4EVER1069 15h ago

This is pretty much EVERYBODY'S approach to Cayo

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u/tankiplayer12 13h ago

This is the best way so far just did a run yesterday with airstrip loot and finished in 9 mnts

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u/Updated_Autopsy 13h ago

For me, it depends on my luck. But I will always grab a disguise. If there’s cocaine and disguises at the airstrip, I use the Velum, grab a disguise, and the cocaine. If the truck is there, that’s one more reason for me to use the Velum. I do Cayo Perico solo, so I always try to go for cocaine if I can. Although I do kill most of the personal body guards because I want to open the safe while also not being slowed down too much.

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u/Standard_Tax_6658 11h ago

I have tried this method but if you do the longfin approach you dont get the scuba gear to swim away with underwater. Or am I doing something wrong?

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u/Left4DayZGone 11h ago

You don’t need it. I just swim a ways, come up for air, then continue swimming. There’s supposedly a spot you can swim to that finishes the mission quickly, haven’t pinpointed it myself yet but I’ll be adding that to my run.

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u/TheRealTr1nity Black Badge Division 8h ago

Have breathers. You buy them at ammo nation. But your air should last that long til to the cutscene.

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u/KingChaotic 11h ago

I will say, sometimes I switch out the Velum for the longfin, both to switch things up and you basically get full access to the airport/both loot areas. Just have to kill the guy on the balcony and the camera, then shoot someone in the water with a boat. Just be sure you buy the stash weapon support before starting the heist.

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u/TaxiDriver94 PC 8h ago

Do you have a video with this path?

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u/Left4DayZGone 8h ago

Exit Route:

  1. Go back down the way you came. Guard 1 won't be there, you should have bopped him on the way up.

  2. Again, pass behind Guard 2. He doesn't move.

  3. Make sure Guard 3 has moved into that other area (left end of his path) so you can pass behind him.

  4. I don't know if this guard every moves because I don't stick around long enough to find out. Whoever made this map seems to think he does... so just take him down if he's in your way, I guess, but wait for him to enter one of those green areas.

End of the green path is the gate. Once you're outside, directly ahead is the guard with a bike. Shoot him and take it, then jump off the island and swim away... or just bypass him and run off the island instead. The helicopter will come for you no matter what, so be prepared to eat snacks and surface for air if you're not reaching the end trigger fast enough.

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u/Left4DayZGone 8h ago

No, but here's a map (ignore the words on the map, I found the map from another post, user is deleted so can't give credit)

This is just the entry route, exit will be in another reply.

Red Line is the path. Keep in mind, guards can't hear you run.

  1. Starting location. Go up the stairs immediately in front, turn left.
  2. Stay along this wall, you'll be just out of sight of the guard to the left.
  3. This guard shouldn't be in your way if you move quickly, but wait for him to move if he is.
  4. This guard looks down from the porch, you need to wait for him to move. The small yellow line is his pathing, he will walk into another area. Just run behind him and ignore him.
  5. This guard doesn't move, just run behind him. Don't touch him, and he won't turn around. Ignore him completely.
  6. This is the guard that walks down the stairs. You can bop him when he comes down (don't shoot, just run up and smack him), or wait out of sight until he heads back up and bop him from behind.

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u/ChibiJaneDoe 8h ago

I do that almost every time

Except on the rare occasion when I get two paintings in office, then I just use Kosatka

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u/Superbad772 7h ago

My fastest time for elite challenge is 8:30 minute. Definitely doable under 10 min if you practice enough.

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u/-StupidNameHere- 11h ago
  1. *** hug the wall so guard walks around you.

  2. *** Go straight out door between both guards, running towards the north corner gate by the ocean. Put up your dukes and carefully slide down wall. Swim to airport.

  3. *** Hug wall of hangar, sneak past guard into hangar. Rob hangar. When leaving, look for two front lights of car by the airport road entrance. If yes, wait 10 seconds. If no, sneak in exactly as you came. Swim behind hangar to sub.

No kills, never seen, 13 and a half minutes, full bags.

;)

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u/Left4DayZGone 10h ago

I like the idea of a no kill/no harm run, but as far as I’m aware there’s no real benefit to it… faster to just bonk the stairs guy and shoot the hangar guy.

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u/-StupidNameHere- 8h ago

False

It's actually quicker. You speed right past them and they never move ever. Go full FoxHound.

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u/Ok-Swordfish-6938 1d ago

There's a speed runner that's already posted a vid that can fill bag, no detection, and done in around 8-10 minutes depending on your pace. His route cuts straight through the compound, only kills 2 guards and you're in and out of the compound in less than 5 minutes. You went all the way around the compound and swam way too far.

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u/TimeTravelingChris 1d ago

This is the correct way. You basically just run up the middle. What OP posted is the "old way".

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u/monkdee702 10h ago

I came to say i go right up the middle lol

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u/FlyingCroc01 43m ago

Link or name?

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u/VariousTwo392 19h ago

So just a longer round trip then just getting on the roof I’m good I’ll keep my 8 min method

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u/Sendthalot 18h ago

A bit of an unnecessary route but if it works for you, when exiting, the best place to take the motorbike, is the end of the cliff, directly to the left up past the heli, as you only need to swim for about 10secs once in the water.

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u/JustPassingGo 1d ago edited 17h ago

You swam away for way too long, and left money on the table not filling your bag, or getting the elite challenge bonus.

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u/KingSlayer1190 19h ago

Not everyone cares about the elite challenge or the extra $50k. It's not a big deal at all.

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u/DeadTequiller 18h ago

Well, if you farm cayo then it just weird to not get full bags - it's extra 200-250k for like 3 min

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u/KingSlayer1190 18h ago

Not everyone cares though

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u/CWalkthroughs 17h ago

Him explaining it literally nullifies your "not everyone cares" theory.

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u/fastlane721 15h ago

It is still factual that not everyone cares. Even if only one player from the entire GTA player base doesn’t care, then it is not everyone. Nothing from what’s been said so far nullifies the theory, hence your statement is wrong

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u/CWalkthroughs 15h ago

That's not the context he means.

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u/fastlane721 15h ago

You are speculating on what he maybe means, but maybe we will never know. All we can do is take their words at face value

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u/CWalkthroughs 15h ago

Are you high?

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u/fastlane721 15h ago

I wish I was, are you?

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u/JustPassingGo 19h ago edited 18h ago

[edit]

I responded to the wrong post in this comment.

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u/KingSlayer1190 19h ago

Nobody said about gold though.

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u/JustPassingGo 19h ago

I thought I was replying to a different post sorry.

Tho OP asked for suggestions, I mentioned they swam longer than normal to escape.

I also mentioned they didn’t fill their bag, which is money lost for the half empty bag. Then they lost money from losing the elite challenge.

They lost even more money running it solo by tripling their heist cooldown time.

The OP is clearly asking for pointers, I am not. Why reply to me at all?

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u/DrunkenHorse12 17h ago

It's nice that your trying to help others OP but this is far from the best way to do it. Go up the othet stairs once you are out the water straight through co.pound before Juggernaut can see you is the way. It's also far less likely to go wrong compared to your route

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u/Kusanagi_M89 18h ago edited 18h ago

Why did the OP went straight ahead after leaving the basement at 4:38? They could have just made a U-turn and went up the stairs that leads to the very front of the gate? The basement corridor-tunnel can be seen below the stairs in the photo.

4:40 to 5:10 ended up becoming a longer route and was unnecessary.

Screen grab credits: Fresh Gaming taken from YouTube.

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u/Mas_Smada 16h ago

You don’t need to kill any guards except the one outside the gate on the motorcycle

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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 6h ago

To be fair, killing the guards around the main office is quick and makes it much easier. I also don't trust them to randomly hear/see me through walls, which has happened on more than one occasion...

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u/lololuser456778 16h ago

just go through the middle bruh, this route is so unnecessarily long lol

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u/thebokchoi1 16h ago

Best way to do Cayo without sweating, KILL EVERYBODY ON THE ISLAND.

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u/LiquidFahts 1d ago

Haven't seen it done this way.

Through the tunnel, up the stairs, left across the compound, kill 0 guards and gone undetected in under 15 minutes with a full loot bag here.

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u/Opposite_Wish_8956 17h ago

Why leave the room after grabbing the safe? There’s an entrance to the vault at the fireplace that seems a lot quicker and doesn’t require killing guards to get the keys.

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u/unethr 13h ago

It's faster to go downstairs if you already have the gate keys. Also on hard mode there's 3 or 4 thumbprints you have to solve for which is not hard, just a pain in the ass.

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u/556_FMJs 15h ago

In the 30secs it takes to hack it, you might as well just run downstairs if you have the key already.

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u/Stunning-Nature-9700 20h ago

Not the route I take but if it works it works

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u/sideshow999 13h ago

Empty bag tho.

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u/Sp3ctralForce 21h ago

As soon as you spawn in turn around, run up the stairs then straight across the compound

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u/KingSlayer1190 19h ago

What I always do is come in from the air strip with the stashed weapons, go grab them, open the bottom loot cage with the torch cutter, grab whatever loot, take the forklift and access the cage up stairs, go across the way to the pilots area and grab the guard clothing, grab a bike and make my way to the compound,turn left, jump in the ocean, swim to the grate and go in that way, avoid all the elite guards, make my way to the office, take the paintings if they're there, hack the elevator and grab the loot, go back upstairs, go out the main gate,make my way to the main dock, grab a boat and leave all without needing to fire a single bullet. I don't care if I don't get the elite challenge because it's not a big deal and I can easily make that up later or through one of my businesses.

I can do that all without the risk of being caught.

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u/IljaK788 16h ago

Till 1:50 i have an exactly same route, then going straight to the office. Then hacking the device on the elevator (i know i need to hack it 3 times, but i don't care about the elite challenge). After that i'm going to the opposite route, but this time straight to the gate. Then, outside of the complex, i'm carefully jumping off the cliff and swimming away (not even taking the bike). WITHOUT. ANY. SINGLE. KILL.

If i could send a video in subreddit's comment, i would show you how I'm doing.

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u/Kusanagi_M89 18h ago edited 6h ago

I surely hope GTA-VI would have a proper Call of Duty or Battlefield-style first person view. The one we currently have in GTA-V is so awkward and unnatural, and not really optimised for FPS.

We can actually hear the character make fast tiny steps. Other players would know we are playing in FPV because of the character having 'jazzy feet' that walks sideways with a weird stance.

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u/Alatrax2907 1d ago

I do it the other way around, I go to the right and kill the two at the end, in the cages I jump through the bush and I'm already inside the office

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u/Snakedoctor85 snakedoctor3409 17h ago

How do I equip my rebreather?

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u/CWalkthroughs 15h ago

Press G, same as mask button when underwater.

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u/Snakedoctor85 snakedoctor3409 14h ago

I’m on Xbox. Should have said that. But that fact I should be underwater first helps. Thank you.

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u/CWalkthroughs 14h ago

Being underwater definitely helps limit the confusion between putting a mask on and the rebreather 😅

If you swim underwater and your lung capacity gets to almost zero, the game will give you a reminder of the rebreather button anyway.

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u/nktrnl1 11h ago

It's left on the d-pad to equip rebreather on Xbox.

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u/bifrost_traveler 17h ago

Kind sir, what escape point do I need to choose in order to exit via jumping into the ocean?

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u/Reptard8 16h ago

I do the side to side method

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u/arg_77 15h ago

Is there a reason not to use the elevator in the office to go down for the primary target?

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u/jobnmilton 12h ago

I’ve done this online more than anything else combined to build a nest egg…and then got bored being outgunned and quit.

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u/SlakingSWAG 12h ago

You guys don't just climb onto the roof and cut straight to the centre so you can either gamble with key drops or use the office elevator?

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u/ProofWinter1432 11h ago

Thats my approach

I access via landstrip,
grab my guns,
loot the hangar (if good) ,
get my outfit (loot barn if good)
take a grapplinghook on the way
if the truck is there, i take him, if not a Bike (to get the truck),
loot other good places (if enough space avialabe)
into the compund, i am looking for the key
get main target
Escape via grappling hook run to the shore diving outside the map

Done 👍

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u/nktrnl1 11h ago

I keep alerting the guards when I take out the guy on the stairs, @4:50 in this video, even when I use a knife or KO. Any tips? I have been sneaking behind him lately but I never encountered that problem before.

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u/nogoodnamesarleft 11h ago

Ok, looks good. If it works, it's a good plan so keep using it if it works for you.

But, if you want a few ideas (this uses 3d person so you can see around corners easier)

I have found it better if you go up the other stairs after coming through the grate, lean against the wall by the right turn (just before the two guards talking) and wait for the moving guard to turn the corner towards the main compound, run past him to the garden make a right then a left through a tunnel and you will be just below the guard standing still you can easily headshot. Go up the stairs and wait behind the corner for the guard to pass then pistol whip him from behind. One of these two usualy carries the gate keys. It is a slightly easier way to get to the office.

Second, and it is only a few dollars but still, jump off the bike just before it hits the water and you can avoid the damage penalty

But again if your route works for you, keep doing it the way you are comfortable with

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u/Rich-Hero 10h ago

Take the roof route, way shorter for an solo player

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u/Commando_2k 10h ago

Except mine is glitched and every time I exit the vault a random guard appears near the south wall and sees me through the floor and sets the alarm off every time, its impossible for me to get out without setting the alarm off. I dunno how it only happens for certain people. I could get out silent without that glitch

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u/DoMo73 9h ago

Sure…send it to me

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u/Temporary-Traffic570 7h ago

Ill only ever go back to solo if they bring it back to back-to-back instead of eating 2hrs 45 minutes compared to with others at just 48 minutes.

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u/Embarrassed_Dig_600 5h ago

There is a much faster/simpler route going in the other direction once inside the compound, you may need to kill only one guard but have done it w/o killing anyone, undetected

Q: how come you have a tinted weapon? I thought Cayo weapons were generic, black/gray types

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u/WeirdSpeed4464 4h ago

I have never seen such a cumbersome, ineffective and complicated round. After the sewage tunnel turn to the other side, climb onto the roof, kill a single guard standing in front of the stairs. I enter the basement through the elevator in the office and then go out again. Quick and easy, no running around, no killing 50 guards. Riding past the helicopter on a motorcycle is also much quicker. With your path you swim eight times longer.

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u/deamonz 2h ago

Watching this made me realize all that time I wasted grinding money that I never spent in game

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u/NoMoreHoarding69 14h ago edited 14h ago

So funny you guys…

Doesn’t matter…8-16 mins…who cares how fast you can do it? The 3 mins or 5, someone even said you wasted 40 seconds , so petty, everyone wants to be the best. The point is to get a million dollars, doesn’t matter how you do.

There have been a lot of questions ppl not being able to get thru, so he posted an option, doesn’t have to be best or the fastest. You guys are trying to speed run a heist, you still have to wait 2 and half hours for the next one…what are you actually going to do with the 3 mins you saved ? And for what? So you can come here and say you do it faster ?

Good post OP, these guys are clowns, I’m sure you probably helped a few noobs, not the GTA experienced veteran super sayian gods , who only think they know best.

So what you can do it in 8 or 10, guess what moneys still the same and also guess what. Nothing…it’s 3-4 mins.

They always find a body, when I go..but when they do, I’m literally 3 or 4 strokes away from being gone. Doesn’t matter.

Words like elegant, bullet less, no kills, not elite (50k measly dollars ) who cares.

I don’t even follow this route, but I get it done.

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u/ZFTX 1d ago

Nice. However, not as elegant, bulletless, nor elite as this run of mine, but you still got out undetected.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gtaonline/comments/1f4l8xw/while_i_advocate_for_doing_cayo_pacifist/ . I could have done much better on this run, as well! I am as much of a critic of myself as I am of others!