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||ART HEIST - STEALTH	||
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(I tried to make ASCII art
of the layout, it turned 
pretty sour pretty fast)

Art Heist, the first day of 
Framing Frame made into its
own separate contract. 
Personally, I love it. It
has problems, of course,
but overall it's fun. The
fact that RNG does not 
completely dictate whether
a run is viable or not 
is a welcome change from
many of the heists seen
in the closest thing 
PAYDAY2 has to a story 
mode, CAMPAIGN. The 
only real gripes I have
with the stealth version
of this heist is the 
luck that goes along with
guard placement in the 
entryway. There's one 
guard that blocks entry
from one side of the 
building to another. He
is patrolled by two guards
from both sectors of the
building. Unless you want
to purchase the spycams
on both quadrants of the 
building, then it becomes
a gamble whenever you need
to/want to go to the other
side of the building. 

That's my only real gripe
with Art Heist however. 
The right side of the 
building is accessible 
through a bathroom. The
bathroom's locked enterance
is accompanied by a 
spiral staircase to the roof.
This is what I love about 
the heist. It is heavily
incentivised to observe
how the guards move from
the skylight before making
a plan. Depending on their
pathing, your strategy might
differ completely than if
the guard moved a slightly
different way. The
strategic value that comes
from that one simple design
decision is a favorite of
mine. 

Along with the guards, 
cameras also are present.
Cameras work like stationary
guards, though unlike guards
they immediately set off the
alarm if they catch you. 
The cameras are put into 
locations that incentivise
moving from one location to
another quickly, otherwise
everything goes down the drain.
The cameras can be disabled, 
either from stealing a keycard
from a guard, or getting the 
keycard insider favor, then 
finding the keycard locked
guard station and killing
the guard. While killing
that guard uses up one
of your four pager calls,
it's worth it in the end.

The main objective of the 
heist is to steal at the
bare minimum 6 paintings
marked with the SOLD 
sticker. These SOLD 
stickers can be seen
from the skylights, 
thus adding another 
factor in planning a
strategy. Guards usually
go in pairs, split up when
reaching a gallery into
the two separate sections
of that gallery. Usually
blocked off by a display.
Blind spots can be 
exploited to effectively
avoid being spotted, in
most occasions. While 
you might think that 
killing guards to clear
out giant spaces would be
a good idea, four guards 
patrol one quadrant of
the building while 
another 4 patrol the 
other side. If you kill
4 guards then two more
are stationed. Most of
the time this would 
throw off your strategy
completely and kill any
chances of completing
the heist. It's advised
to kill three guards
and hide the body bags
outside. It takes 
roughly 10 seconds to
answer a pager call
and doing so leaves
you open to being 
spotted easily.
Killing guards 
should only be done
after vigorously 
viewing their pathing
and finding an effective
window. Other than that,
avoid guards instead
of killing them.

Final notes I forgot to
mention:

The two quadrants of 
the building are blocked
by a laser fence that 
gets set off if 
somebody without an
authorized SmartCard 
attempts to pass.

The music composed by
Simon Viklund, the
tracks differ as the
heist never got a 
custom song, as it
was a community 
request.
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||HOW WOULD YOU RATE    ||
||ART HEIST (stealth)?  ||
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||8/10 "Slightly flawed,||
|| but still immensely  ||
|| enjoyable"           ||
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