The bank job getaway

Objectives

• Get clear of the bank with the police already moving
• Hold off the pursuit while your partner drives
• Break the description the police are working from
• Lose the wanted level and get off the street

Walkthrough

1. 1

   The seat you are in decides the job

   The sequence runs from roughly the fourteenth minute of the video and shows the two-protagonist system doing real work. Lucia is at the wheel, Jason is leaning out with a carbine, and the camera switches between them without a cut. Raul Bautista is in the back, and the conversation frames the bank as a tryout for something larger.

   

2. 2

   What the police know about you

   This is the stretch that gave everyone the wanted system. The meter is six slots wide; underneath it sits a row of four red icons for your face, your clothes, your car, and the fact that the two of you are travelling together. At 14:24 the ammunition counter reads 36 and 268 under an M16-pattern silhouette.

3. 3

   Breaking the description

   Losing the chase means invalidating what the police have: change the vehicle, change clothes, split up. In the video the pair end up in a parking garage with the car burning behind them and Lucia in a bandana, then leave on foot into Bayside.

4. 4

   Outlined stars

   At 15:20 two stars are filled and four are drawn as empty outlines, which matches the reported behaviour that an outline means the police are searching without having confirmed a sighting. No official description of the system has been published.

5. 5

   How the swap works while you are moving

   This is the sequence to study if you want to understand the two-protagonist system. Press describe the change as instant while the pair share a scene, with a wider camera move when they are apart, and the character you drop keeps acting: driving the line, leaning out, reloading. In practice that turns a chase into a choice about which job you want, because whoever is in the passenger seat is the one who can shoot. Previews add that you can also swap seats mid-chase, so the decision is not locked in when the mission starts.

6. 6

   Where the money goes afterwards

   The conversation in the car frames the bank as a tryout, and the previews collected by Vice describe money as gating parts of the campaign: certain chapters do not open until a specific amount is in hand. That puts a job like this at the front of a chain rather than at the end of one. What the take actually is, whether it is split, and what it unlocks have not been published, and no figures exist for any robbery in the game.

Questions and answers

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