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| Contractor | Locke | ||||||||||||||||
| Contract Days | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Loud / Stealth | ✔ / ✔ | ||||||||||||||||
| Stealth bonus | 10% | ||||||||||||||||
| Loot | N/A | ||||||||||||||||
| Base experience (XP) | Both: 2,000 (heli used for escape arrives) +1,000 (entered white house) +2,000 (entered west wing) +8,000 (opened safe) +4,000 (entered PEOC) +8,000 (hacked mainframe) +2,000 (stole pardons) +2,000 (exited PEOC) Stealth: +2,000 (cut wireboxes) Loud: +4,000 (hacked wireboxes) +2,000 (found thermite) +1,000 (used thermite) +4,000 (disabled AA) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Internal name | vit
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The White House is a heist available in PAYDAY 2 released on November 1, 2018 on the final day of the Breaking News community event of CrimeFest 2018. The Payday gang is tasked with stealing presidential pardons from the titular building, allowing them to get off scot-free and retire.
Overview
After being rescued from Hell's Island, Bain's condition has slowly gotten worse as the Murkywater virus starts killing him. In his last contract for the crew, he instructs them to break into the White House in order to steal the unsigned presidential pardons which reside in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). Doing so will allow the entire crew to be excused of all illegal activities, and they will be able to retire as criminals.
After the gang successfully infiltrates the White House and steals the pardons, they escape by getting into Locke's chopper and flying away. Bain congratulates the crew over the radio, but presumably dies while speaking to them. The heisters meet in Mexico, where a grave for Bain has been dug up and his funeral is being held. Everyone throws in their masks (with Jacket throwing in his tape recorder), giving up their criminal lives. It remains unknown whether Dallas does this as well, or if he's going to continue on with heisting.
Objectives
- Enter the White House
- Go to the West Wing
- (Stealth) Locate and cut the correct wires
- (Loud) Hack the wire boxes (2)
- Proceed to the West Wing
- Find the Oval Office
- (Loud) Use the thermite to get in
- Find the hidden safe
- (Stealth) Search for clues
- (Stealth) Locate the USB drive
- (Stealth) Extract the code
- Open the safe
- Take the keycard
- Go to the library
- Access the P.E.O.C
- Investigate the vault
- Hack the mainframe (3 times)
- Steal the pardons
- Leave the P.E.O.C
- (Loud) Disable the anti-air
- (Loud) Wait for the helicopter
- Escape
Assets
Purchasable
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| Body Bags | |
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| Price: | $7,000 (Normal) $10,500 (Hard) $14,000 (Very Hard) $21,000 (Overkill) $35,000 (Mayhem) $49,000 (Death Wish) $63,000 (Death Sentence) |
| Requires the Aced Sixth Sense skill to unlock | |
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| Grenade Case | |
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| Price: | $3,000 (Normal) $4,500 (Hard) $6,000 (Very Hard) $9,000 (Overkill) $15,000 (Mayhem) $21,000 (Death Wish) $27,000 (Death Sentence) |
| Requires Gage Weapon Pack #01 DLC | |
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| Ammo Bag | |
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| Price: | $4,000 (Normal) $6,000 (Hard) $8,000 (Very Hard) $12,000 (Overkill) $20,000 (Mayhem) $28,000 (Death Wish) $36,000 (Death Sentence) |
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| Doctor Bag | |
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| Price: | $6,000 (Normal) $9,000 (Hard) $12,000 (Very Hard) $18,000 (Overkill) $30,000 (Mayhem) $42,000 (Death Wish) $54,000 (Death Sentence) |
Intel
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Walkthrough
The heist begins with Locke dropping the crew (in disguise) onto the front lawn of the White house in view of a contingent of Murkywater troops. Make way up the staircases to the front entrance of the building where one of two scenarios can ensue.
Stealth
Assuming the party wants to do things quietly, they will need to avoid the scrutiny of guards and cameras all the way. Make way through the lobby down stairs and take a right towards the West Wing entrance. There is an RFID scanner next to the doors that must be interacted with, revealing a combination of colored wires that must be cut to gain access. There are four colored wires secured inside the cable boxes found throughout the floors: red, blue, yellow and green, and the RFID scanner will require a random combination of two to be cut to disable. Cutting the wrong wire(s) will raise the alarm.
After cutting the correct wires, interact with the RFID scanner to gain access to West Wing, and carefully make way through the cubicles and press stage towards the Oval Office. Several secret service members will stand guard throughout the area, and a security office may be found here as well. Once inside the Oval Office, Locke will suggest the crew to remove some paintings around the room to find a safe containing the PEOC keycard. The safe must be unlocked using a random combination stored on a USB key, the location of which is found on one of the staff laptops found throughout the halls. Once the right laptop is located, it will give a clue leading to the general area of the USB key, which can either be in one of the nearby drawers, or in a fireplace. Plug the USB key into a laptop once found to copy out the code, which must then be punched in at the safe to gain access to the PEOC pass card.
With the PEOC keycard on hand, backtrack to the hallway where the RFID scanner is, and head in the opposite direction to find the Library on the left near the East Wing entrance. The PEOC entrance is located here, but must be opened by pressing a hidden button. Interact with the bookcases and tables to find it and unlock the PEOC airlock to progress. Once inside the PEOC, head down the staircase and use the keycard on the reader to gain access. Around three security guards will be patrolling the floors here, and the vault door cannot be drilled open, so Locke will advise the crew to find a marked computer for him to hack the controls, which should be nearby. Hacking takes some time to finish, and there are three stages that must be manually started, while more guards will spawn in to replace the ones killed. Once the vault is open, head inside and press the button there to gain access to the presidential pardons. Grab these, and make way back to the airlock. From here on out, the players simply need to return to the front lawn to extract, though this can be challenging to do since casing mode is forced and there is a strict time limit to escape, as fighter jets are entering D.C. airspace and may shoot down Locke's chopper.
Once all players have reached the chopper, the mission ends.
Loud
Assuming the party triggers an alarm before reaching the RFID scanner, cutting the corresponding wires will no longer work due to a security lockdown. Instead, the players must hack the same wire boxes to open the door.
Once completed, the crew must head to the West Wing to find the Oval Office blocked off by a security gate that must be destroyed by thermite paste, which can be found in the rooms nearby.
Strategy
Variations
Mayhem+ Changes
The FBI Files
Bugs
- The "Big Brother" achievement has an unlisted requirement of OVERKILL and above difficulty.
- Despite Murkywater being the primary enemies of this heist, FBI snipers appear instead of the Murkywater ones (which exist, being used on Hell's Island).
Gage Courier Packages
Achievements
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Strolling through the Rose Garden Complete the White House job on the Normal difficulty or above. |
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Just Like John Adams Complete the White House job on the Hard difficulty or above. |
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Don't Forget to Vote Complete the White House job on the Very Hard difficulty or above. |
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Setting Your Sights On 1600 Penn Complete the White House job on the OVERKILL difficulty or above. |
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A Hearing in Congress Complete the White House job on the Mayhem difficulty or above. |
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A Night at the Theater Complete the White House job on the Death Wish difficulty or above. |
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Party Like it's 1812 Complete the White House job on the Death Sentence difficulty. |
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Taking the Oval Office in Style Complete the White House job on the Death Sentence difficulty with the One Down mechanic activated. |
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A Heist to Remember Find a fitting souvenir from the White House and take it with you. Pick up the toast in the P.E.O.C |
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Big Brother Complete the White House job in stealth and without destroying a single camera on the OVERKILL difficulty or above. |
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President For a Day Complete the White House job while wearing any presidential mask on the OVERKILL difficulty or above. Also allows use of the "The First American" mask. |
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The End Complete the PAYDAY 2 Secret. Replaces the Secret Achievement. |
- Big Brother is the synonym for abuse of government power, particularly in respect to civil liberties, often specifically related to mass surveillance.
- The term itself originated from George Orwell's 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where Big Brother is the supreme figurehead of Oceania, a totalitarian state wherein the ruling party Ingsoc wields total power "for its own sake" over the inhabitants, giving rise to the phrase "Big Brother is watching you". Generally, the idea conveys a line of propaganda, meaning citizens have to follow what a dictatorial government wants them to do, and if they do not, Big Brother will know, as it spies on them all the time.
Trivia
- Despite the emphasis on the stealing of the presidential pardon letters, these wouldn't work the way Bain had intended them to in reality.
- The delivery of a pardon had to have been officiated by a trusted party if it were to be considered valid, which is obviously not the case here, since the documents were neither issued "constitutionally" by the president himself, or even an acting president, and therefore could be instantly overturned by the Supreme Court were they to be presented.
- Even then, a presidential pardon would only forgive the recipient of their federal crimes, while those committed within respective states will still be under said states' jurisdiction.
- Being issued a pardon does not absolve one of their criminal misdeeds, and their records will remain unchanged, making the act of obtaining the pardons rather pointless.
- It's funny to note that considering all these facts, Bain still called it the "greatest heist of all'. Added with the fact that there is no obtainable loot, it makes the entire heist mostly futile.
- Even though at the time of release the real president is Donald Trump (even shown in mask form as 'The 45th' and 'God Emperor') the President in charge (and presumably died in a crash from Air Force One) during this heist is "the 46th".
- The White House is the only heist that unlocks a corresponding cutscene upon completion.
- It is also the only heist that has a contractor supposedly die off screen.
- There is some speculation about what happens in the final movie in the main menu, titled "The End." It supposedly ends PAYDAY 2's storyline, but leaves a lot of loose ends. Dallas is seen with his mask still in his possession, though he may have thrown it out after. Many believe he may continue his criminal career, as a member of another (new) crew or as a contractor.
- Having no coffin in the hole the gang drops their masks into also raises the question of whether Bain died or not as he is not seen or heard of past his "dying" message when the heist has been completed. However, it could simply be a symbolic gesture from the gang and his body is elsewhere or even may had been cremated.
- Even though this heist was requested, and likely set up, by Bain, it is Locke who is the contractor presumably due to Bain's withering condition at the hands of the virus.