The Ukrainian Prisoner heist is a PAYDAY 2 heist released on June 16, 2021. It is the second heist offered by the contractor Jiu Feng, although Locke provides voice over and instructions. After acquiring the Golden Dragon, Vlad has been captured by the Golden Dagger triad, being held in a triad-controlled dockyard, and the Payday gang has to rescue him. The gang can do so silently or loud.
Overview
The crew breaks into the dockyard and accesses the camera feeds to locate and release Vlad, who has been heavily injured by the torture inflicted onto him. After stabilizing him, he is put into the scoop of a skid loader operated by a worker allied with Jiu Feng and escorted to the docks, acquiring intel on the triads along the way. Before Locke can contact Jiu Feng to come in by boat to pick up Vlad, the crew's comms are jammed by the triad and the boss, Yufu Wang, speaks to the crew directly, telling them he is giving them one opportunity to return what they stole to "save everyone a lot of trouble". Locke regains control of the comms but the triad's jamming prevents him from contacting Jiu Feng to extract the crew, so the crew uses a box of fireworks to signal him and subsequently escape.
Walkthrough
The crew starts in front of the dockyard gates, which are electrified. The crew can either open one of the nearby power boxes and break the panel inside to turn off the electricity so they may lockpick or saw it open, or, if the crew has bought the "Broken Wall" asset in pre-planning, can bypass it by going over a wall to the left of the gate.
After accessing the dockyard, the IT room must be found on the upper floor of the main building and accessed so that the crew may look through the camera feeds by affixing a camera access panel to the servers. One camera feed is watching Vlad in a container, and the name of the shipping company and the numbers for the container can be seen inside. To find where he is being held, a computer in the control room is hacked into to display the shipping manifest, matching the shipping company to either warehouse A, B, or C.
The doors for the warehouses have different security measures locking their doors- two different keypads and a keycard panel- with the methods for bypassing these depending on whether the alarm has gone off yet.
- Hanzi keypad: A keypad that uses characters of the Chinese alphabet. A clipboard (called "notepad" in-game) has to be found in the main building and brought to the keypad to see the characters to press on the keypad.
- Keycard panel: The keycard is in the foreman's office in the main building, which is currently being occupied by a triad member. Locke suggests finding a bottle of "cleaning product" near janitorial supplies to spike a cake in the kitchen, and then looking through the windows of the office to call the triad member about the cake through the intercom so that he leaves to eat it and the crew can take the keycard.
- Number keypad: The keypad has a rotating code that changes every minute. The crew has to find and hack a powered-on desktop in the cubicle area in the main building, and then enter the code displayed on the screen before it changes.
Having accessed the warehouse, the containers are found to all be sealed with a lock that can only be opened with a blowtorch, which can either be picked up on a toolbox in/around the main building or on a workbench in the warehouse. After opening Vlad's container (all the other containers can be opened but will not hold anything of value) and releasing him from his shackles (while the camera watching him can be alerted by seeing the players in stealth, it will not be alerted by Vlad being released or walking out of the container), he will need to be stabilized before he can move. In stealth, the crew has to find a first aid kit attached to one of the walls inside the warehouse, take the adrenaline shot within, and inject him with it. In loud, he is suffering from cardiac arrest and a 3-minute timer starts to stabilize him, with failure to do so resulting in his death and the heist ending; the crew has to charge a defibrillator (taking 10 seconds each time) sitting on a workbench in the warehouse and shock him twice.
After stabilizing Vlad, he gets into the scoop of the skid loader, and the crew gathers at the security gate so that they may proceed. The crew then has the choice of lockpicking/shooting/sawing the lock of either the gate on the left or that on the right to continue, up to player preference. After making their way to the harbor office (by either sliding a gate or moving a container via a crane, respectively), Locke states they should take information about the triad from the building before moving on; in stealth, the crew has to take a USB stick from the building's IT room and a set of documents from one of the office rooms, putting both in the scanning machine in the IT room, then taking the USB stick out of the machine. In loud, they have to hack and defend the IT room computer.
After acquiring the triad info and pulling a switch to lower a set of bollards to let the skid loader through, they again may choose whether to go left (by moving a truck out of the way) or right (by defeating another lock), with the former requiring the crew to move a few ramps to let the skid loader drive on and off of a ship, and the latter requiring the crew to move another vehicle out of its path. After making it to the docks and being contacted by the triad boss, the crew has to find a box of fireworks in one of the containers and light it at the extraction point to signal Jiu Feng, and after waiting for a bit he will arrive and the crew can escape.
Thinking Ahead
Buttons on ground floors of the heist
Buttons on second floor of the heist
Players have to opportunity to open a secret area of the map by pressing three different buttons, located in three areas of the map. There are five possible spawn locations for the first button in the first warehouse, three for the second button in the container area with the fork in the road and two more for the last button on the ground floor of the harbor master's office.
After pressing these buttons, the player can make their way towards the boat and turn left to find a two-colored container. This container can be interacted with, leading to a secret compartment where a small jump puzzle must be completed to access a container. This container will have 10 crates with bags of gold and coke. Securing these bags in Jiu Feng's boat and then escaping will net the player(s) the "Thinking Ahead" achievement.
Variations
- The locations of most of the objectives relevant to finding/rescuing Vlad and stealing the triad info vary, as well as the location of the fireworks.
- The IT room and foreman's office in the main building may swap in different playthroughs.
Mayhem+ Changes
- All cameras are replaced with the Titan variant.
Trivia
| Misc. | Safe House (Laundromat Safe House) | |
| Game Modes | Crime Spree • Holdout | |