Breakfast in Tijuana

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v·d·e Breakfast in Tijuana
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Heist Info
Contractor	Locke
Contract Days	1
Loud / Stealth	✔ / ✔
Stealth bonus	15%
Loot	Pure Cocaine Assault Rifles
Base experience (XP)	All: +1,000 (per secured bag) Stealth: 2,000 (completion) +4,000 (find RFID tag) +3,000 (find cells) +4,000 (armory opened) +4,000 (cut handcuffs) +5,000 (hajrudin reaches car) Loud: 3,000 (completion) +5,000 (open evidence room) +5,000 (evidence burned) +4,000 (armory opened) +5,000 (hajrudin reaches car) +4,000 (chopper arrives)
Extra Statistics JC Level 30 Minimum Experience 16,000 Maximum Experience (Normal) 25,000 Contract Cost 120,000 (Normal) (Hard) (Very Hard) (Overkill) (Mayhem) (Death Wish) (Death Sentence) Contract Payout 250,000 (Normal) 500,000 (Hard) 1,250,000 (Very Hard) 2,500,000 (Overkill) 2,750,000 (Mayhem) 3,250,000 (Death Wish) 3,500,000 (Death Sentence) Maximum loot payout 450,000 (Normal) 900,000 (Hard) 1,170,000 (Very Hard) 1,890,000 (Overkill) 3,240,000 (Mayhem) 3,690,000 (Death Wish) 4,140,000 (Death Sentence) Bag Limit 20 Package locations 25
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Internal name	pex
Achievement(s)
This heist is not required for the "complete all heists" achievement, nor "all heists" of the respective contractor.
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Description
Hajrudin is being held in the outskirts of the city. But Tijuana's murder rate is infamous, and the police station security level reflects that. It's a blerrie fortress! This won't be easy, but if anyone can do it, it's you guys. Good luck!

Breakfast in Tijuana is a PAYDAY 2 heist released on June 30, 2020.

Overview

Vlad's brother-in-law and the partner who help us with the car at the beginning of San Martín Bank heist, Hajrudin, has been captured by the Mexican police, apparently right after the robbery. He was transferred to a police station in Tijuana where they have enough evidence that can land him in prison for a long time. Locke will guide us to get him out of there and destroy the evidence against him as thanks for his help.

Objectives

• Stealth
• Loud

1. Hack the computer
2. Find an empty RFID tag and code it
3. Find the evidence room
4. Destroy the evidence
5. Get inside the armory
6. Code RFID tag with armory access
7. Steal door breaker
8. Find the prisoner
9. Cut the chains
10. Give uniform to Hajrudin
11. Give keys to Hajrudin
12. Escape

Find the evidence room

Defend the drill

Pile the evidence on the floor

Light the fire and defend it

Get inside the armory

Defend the hacking device

Steal door breaker

Find the prisoner

Cut the chains

Give keys to Hajrudin

Wait for the helicopter and attach the car

Escape

Preplanning

Players are given 10 favors. They can spend them on regular dead drops, camera access or backup which includes spiking a churro with a sleeping agent making front guard fall asleep, having an illegally parked car appear in front of the station allowing heisters to jump over the station's fence or bribing the janitor to leave the window open.

Walkthrough

When the player spawns, put the mask on at the beginning outside of the police station. A hole is on the side wall of the station. Once the player enters the station, expect 3 guards patrolling the parking lot, and 1 guard in the guard booth. Windows are alarmed, so it is recommended to rewire the window alarm power box right next to the gate, or the other side of the gate. The spawns for the window alarm power box might vary depending on heist RNG.

Strategy

General

• To find the correct key to Hajrudin's car, simply look behind the car's rear left tire for the parking lot number, at the bottom left corner of the white box on the ground, then grab the corresponding key in the adjacent room.
• Almost all of the doors can be quickly shot/blown open if players need to hastily retreat inside for cover or objectives.

Stealth

• The camera operator is inaccessible for most of the heist until players reach the holding cells via the door breaker, and thus cameras will be a constant obstacle. It is recommended to leave at least one pager for the camera operator to disable cameras for the rest of the heist, and to gain access to the station's cameras, if any surveillance assets were not purchased.
• There will also be at least one patrolling guard in the parking lot, so exercise caution once Hajrudin has been freed.
• If the player takes too long to locate the blank RFID tag, the game will automatically highlight its position.
• Unlike most heists, progress made in stealth cleanly carries over to loud if the alarm goes off at any point, as many of the objectives are identical and are accomplished in much the same way, loud or stealth.

Loud

• An OVE9000 saw will swiftly open the evidence room, cell block interrogation room doors, and also free Hajrudin from his cuffs once found instead of finding chain cutters; all three sawing operations can be done by a regular saw or saw user if no ammo is wasted. Trip mines are a good alternative, and can also quickly open the safe holding the 3 bags of pure cocaine inside the evidence room.
• The armory contains ammunition available to all players, exactly like the ammo shelves in Brooklyn 10-10's ammo cage or Hoxton Breakout Day 2's armory, should one need extra ammo.
• Snipers will appear on the police station roof and on top of the parking garage across from the station as soon as Hajrudin receives the right keys.
• Players do not need to defend outside in the parking lot when the car is awaiting the helicopter extraction. Players can instead continue to defend much more effectively inside the police station until the helicopter arrives with the straps.

Mayhem+ Changes

• All cameras are replaced with Titan variant.
• There is an additional civilian, stationary in the green room, where the bolt cutters always appear.
• Up to two guards may be patrolling the parking lot near Hajrudin's car.

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Achievements & Trophies

• Permanent Achievements
• Guide
• Teaser
• Trivia

Get Our Guy Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana job on the Normal difficulty or above.

Prisoner Lost Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Hard difficulty or above.

Ain't Goin' Out like That Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Very Hard difficulty or above.

No Taming a Coyote Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the OVERKILL difficulty or above.

The Food in There Was Awful Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Mayhem difficulty or above.

No Evidence, No Crime Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Death Wish difficulty or above.

We Ride at Dawn Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Death Sentence difficulty.

Leaving Tijuana Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana on the Death Sentence difficulty with the One Down mechanic activated.

Low Murder Rate Complete the Breakfast in Tijuana job in stealth without killing anyone. Unlocks the "Desert" weapon color.

Paid in Full In the Breakfast in Tijuana job, secure all loot bags.

Stolen Valor In the Breakfast in Tijuana job, find and steal all the medals in one run. Unlocks the "Cave" weapon color.

Only For Us Naughty Heisters Find the hidden presents in the Border Crossing, San Martín Bank, Breakfast in Tijuana, and Buluc's Mansion jobs. Unlocks the "Mega Sangres" mask.

Stolen Valor In the Breakfast in Tijuana job, find and steal all the medals in one run. Unlocks the "Cave" weapon color.

• There are seven medals scattered around the precinct that can be picked up as loose loot. They can be identified by their golden sheen. One medal will always be in the locker room on the ground floor, hidden inside one of the lockers, while the rest are upstairs, placed around the cubicles and in some of the rooms. The achievement will pop after picking up the seventh medal. For a more thorough checklist of their locations, consult this guide.

Paid in Full In the Breakfast in Tijuana job, secure all loot bags.

• There are six loot bags in total, three Coke bundles in the Evidence Room safe on the second floor, and three Assault Rifles in the ground floor Armory. The achievement will pop after securing all six bags.

Only For Us Naughty Heisters Find the hidden presents in the Border Crossing, San Martín Bank, Breakfast in Tijuana, and Buluc's Mansion jobs. Unlocks the "Mega Sangres" mask.

• Click on this link to find all the present locations.

The following teasers were added on June 22nd, 2020, and removed on June 30th, 2020.

I went I went

to prison to prison

for for

something something

I didn't I didn't

do. do.

I I

didn't didn't

run run

fast fast

enough. enough.

• We Ride at Dawn is a reference to the trope in media of old adventure movies, where the leader of the group announces they're leaving tomorrow morning.

Notes

Guards will be alerted if they manage to see the chiefs computer being hacked, which can lead to frustrations and unavoidable detection.

Trivia

• This heist is oddly not contracted by Vlad despite the main objective being to rescue his brother in law.
  • The two other heists where you save Hajrudin were White Xmas and Stealing Xmas.
    • Quite obviously, both of those heists were contracted by Vlad and were christmas heists, less obviously was the fact that rescuing Hajrudin wasn't the main goal of those heists, but rather was recovering Vlad's cocaine he was smuggling into the country.
  • This actually may be due to Vlad's own capture by the golden dagger in The Ukrainian Prisoner.
• This is the first and so far only heist where Hajrudin is referred to by name.
  • Ironically, due to this contract not being contracted by Vlad and not having any dialogue by Vlad, this means that Vlad had never actually referred to Hajrudin by name despite being family. Vlad has only referred to Hajrudin as "a pilot of mine", "my brother in law", or "santa".
    • Even more ironically, Vlad's next contract, Buluc's Mansion, is in direct response to Hajrudin being arrested, even then when referring to Hajrudin, he still only calls him "brother in law".
    • In The Ukrainian Prisoner contract, Vlad can be heard muttering Hajrudin by name once you escort him to the docks via a skidloader.
• Breakfast in Tijuana is the fourth heist in the game to be set entirely outside the United States, preceded by Boiling Point, Border Crystals, and San Martín Bank.
• Breakfast in Tijuana is the only heist to directly canonically confirm a method of completion of a previous heist; all others were never confirmed, were only confirmed in FBI files entries (something both this heist and San Martín Bank don't have), or, in the case of The White House, a secret ending.

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Video

Payday 2 - Sucker Punch (Breakfast in Tijuana Heist Track)

Heist's Original Soundtrack

PAYDAY 2 Breakfast in Tijuana Heist Trailer

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