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 The Diamond Heist DLC title card.
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| Downloadable Content Info | |
| Developer(s) | Overkill Software |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows Linux PlayStation 4 Xbox One |
| Release Date(s) | December 16, 2014 (PC) June 16, 2015 (PS4, Xbox One) |
| Price(s) | $3.99 (Steam) |
| Type | Heist Content Pack |
| Available At | Steam Store |
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The Diamond Heist DLC is the fourteenth paid DLC pack for PAYDAY 2, and the fourth purchasable heist DLC. It was released alongside the Clover Character Pack DLC.
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These masks, materials, and patterns are achievement rewards. They can't drop during a PAYDAY and cannot be sold. Instead, they can be returned to your mask stash for free, but any non-achievement or Infamy reward pattern, color, or material as well as the customization fee to put these together will be lost.
- "Anubis, Medusa, The Cursed One and Pazuzu – four historical and mythical characters that are almost too frightening to behold. Use them at your own risk!"
- —Announcement site quote.
The Egyptian jackal-headed god of the afterlife, Anubis sought to protect graves rather than fill them.
THIS IS A DIAMOND HEIST ITEM!
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A hideous visage, snakes for hair, a petrifying gaze and a hate for men. Her gazing eyes still sends chills down spines… But this is just a mask, right?
THIS IS A DIAMOND HEIST ITEM!
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Pazuzu was the king of the wind demons according to ancient Babylonian mythology. Legends also tell of him as a beastial behemoth fighting groups of adventurers in far away lands, and some even say he walked the earth as an immortal warrior in human form.
THIS IS A DIAMOND HEIST ITEM!
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His name is lost to legend. He might have been a King, or a mighty Sorceror. But even the great are undone by the Diamond.
THIS IS A DIAMOND HEIST ITEM!
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- The Cursed One mask is a reference to King of the Dead from the third movie of The Lord of the Rings franchise or of King Vendrick, a character from the game Dark Souls II who succumbs to the effects of the Curse.
Achievements[]
Ownership required
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Honor Among Thieves In the Diamond job, complete the heist while you and your four man crew are wearing one different "Diamond heist" mask each on OVERKILL difficulty or above. |
Achievable without owning DLC
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Devil of a Job Complete the Diamond job on the Death Wish difficulty or above. |
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Cat Burglar In the Diamond job, complete the heist without triggering the alarm. Unlocks "The Cursed One" mask, "Sand" material and "Hieroglyphs" pattern. |
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Culture Vultures In the Diamond job, secure 10 bags of additional loot. Unlocks the "Medusa" mask, "Rusting Metal" material and "Runes" pattern. |
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Smoke and Mirrors In the Diamond job, steal the Diamond and escape in under 10 minutes. Unlocks the "Pazuzu" mask, "Diamond" material and "Horus" pattern. |
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Diamonds in the Rough In the Diamond job, complete the heist, diamond puzzle and steal the Diamond after the alarm has been triggered on OVERKILL difficulty or above. Unlocks the "Anubis" mask, "Mummy Bandages" material and "Hawk Helm" pattern. |
The following appeared on December 10, 2014. They were replaced on December 16, 2014.
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Smoke and Mirrors In the Diamond job, steal the Diamond in under 10 minutes. Unlocks the "Pazuzu" mask, "Diamond" material and "Horus" pattern. |
This achievement is especially difficult as, even on a perfect speed run on Normal, the crew will be pressed for time; as such, it is highly recommended that everyone holds sprinting perks and/or picking bonuses. Additionally, both playing alone or with friends carry their own disadvantages: coordinating means the hacks and loud escape can be summoned immediately, but playing offline allows players to pause and memorize the maze path.
Regardless of approach, security must be disabled quickly, meaning either: sprinting to security whilst breaking alarmed cases to promptly trigger the 200 second hack objective; or swiftly navigating between white doors and floors to find four boxes in stealth. Once the lasers are off or the shutters raised, the crew will be down a few minutes, meaning the time-locks must be started promptly and watched vigilantly; since the locks take a minimum of 120 seconds and have a long interact time, any additional delays can make or break the attempt.
Once inside the Diamond room, players will have just a few minutes to bypass the tile puzzle and, once the Diamond is grabbed, secure it and escape; since alarms do not impact the achievement, players should strongly consider sprinting straight out the door rather than carefully crossing back. Players attempting stealth should consider using the Bag Man asset with the aced ECM Specialist to hurry through the final objectives, and those choosing loud must trigger the chopper immediately lest the 120 second chopper response time ruin the run.
To summarize, the restrictions on timers means that, between spawn and escape, stealth players need only give account for the time locks. However, loud attempts require 200 seconds to hack security, 120/150 seconds for time locks, and then 120 seconds for the chopper, meaning players only have 2 minutes 40 seconds (or 2 minutes 10 seconds on Overkill or Deathwish) to complete all other objectives and the tile puzzle.
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Diamonds in the Rough In the Diamond job, complete the heist, diamond puzzle and steal the Diamond after the alarm has been triggered on OVERKILL difficulty or above. Unlocks the "Anubis" mask, "Mummy Bandages" material and "Hawk Helm" pattern. |
Trivia[]
- This is the first paid non-soundtrack DLC to not contain any new weapons, and so far, the only.
- Adolf Hitler was depicted as one of the previous ill-fated owners of the Diamond whose possession of the gemstone was lost when he committed suicide via gunshot, the scene of his death was shown briefly in the heist's teaser, where the dictator shot himself in the head with a Luger P08. This is historically incorrect (as does Hitler's ownership of any cursed gemstone for that matter), as Hitler was widely known to have ended his life with his own Walther PPK (also known in-game as the Gruber Kurz), not a Luger.
- For reasons of censorship, the Nazi flags shown during Hitler's sequence are depicted as banners with featureless circles, the swastikas being omitted entirely.
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