🚢 Cargo Yard

Level 1 · 1,500 VICE · Crew 2–5 · 20 minutes · 30 min cooldown · needs 4 police online

The only heist with no hacking at all — this one’s pure combat and observation. Only one cargo yard heist can be running anywhere on the map at a time, so if it’s taken, you’ll need to wait.

Gear needed

An angle grinder and a pistol.

Locations

One of ten cargo/shipping yards around the map — the specific yard is picked when you buy the contract.

The run

1. Read the shipping manifest clipboard at the dock office. Containers whose consignee is blacked out on the manifest are the real ones — everything else is a decoy.
2. Head into the container yard itself.
3. Deal with the yard’s armed guards (multiple Merryweather-style guards patrol the yard, and they turn hostile if you get close or start shooting).
4. Grind open the containers that matched your manifest and loot them.

Watch out for decoys

Cutting open a container that wasn’t on your manifest releases a gas cloud that blurs your screen and coughs you for a few seconds — and costs your whole crew a 5-minute time penalty. Read the manifest carefully before you start cutting.

Heads up

Police aren’t alerted automatically at the start of this one — the alert only fires once a guard actually takes damage. A crew that can slip past the guards without a firefight can buy themselves real extra time.