The Cayo Perico Heist isn't the most exciting slice of new content added to GTA Online, but it'due south certainly the almost lucrative. It's possible to rake in up of a million dollars in GTA fun bucks past completing it and it can exist washed multiple times, which ways there's a lot of money to be fabricated.

While many of the heists require yous to bring along a gang of friends, this i can be done all by yourself. That means you don't have to share the spoils with anyone except the weird Russian guy on your submarine. Doing this heist solo isn't an easy chore, but information technology'due south non quite as difficult equally it looks if yous know what you're doing. And if you follow this guide, you'll exist able to finish this heist without anyone even knowing you were at that place.

Getting Started

Comms tower in GTA online.
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There are a few different steps to gain access to this heist, which is helpfully covered in this guide hither. One time you've bought a Kosatka submarine, y'all gotta become to Cayo Perico to gather intel. Each time y'all initiate the heist you accept to gather intel, which is sort of a drag since it involves sneaking around the isle without being caught. These missions make you steal a airplane from some drug smugglers who work for drug kingpin El Rubio and then fly south towards Cayo Perico.

Y'all tin scope out points of interest similar guard uniforms or extra loot, but all y'all demand to do is reach the communications belfry while fugitive the vision cones of the patrolling guards. Once at that place, you'll need to discover a signal box, practise a quick hacking minigame, and then use an app on your telephone to observe the large item in El Rubio's basement vault that you're going to steal.

While y'all're gathering intel for this heist you can await for infiltration points. These are the locations where you enter the island to get-go the heist. Yous tin can use whatsoever of these spots, only in that location's one bespeak in detail that I recommend finding if you're doing this heist lone. It's this one right hither:

Map showing the drainage tunnel entrance.

This is the Drainage Tunnel. This is how you're going to get into El Rubio's chemical compound without making a peep. You demand to bound into the water and swim to this spot on the map to discover it. Y'all don't need to have a picture of it, every bit a notification will pop up when yous've found it. Afterwards that, information technology should always exist available to be chosen every bit the infiltration point. Trust me, y'all're going to want to use this tunnel.

Also, since I don't intendance for the intel mission, I constitute a quick shortcut to get dorsum to the plane and then you tin can exit Cayo Perico. Simply climb to the elevation of the communications tower and jump off of information technology to your decease. For any reason, that instantly brings yous back to the plane. It's a existent time saver.

What Yous'll Need

Prep missions screenshot

Now you have to do the prep missions. Much like the intel mission, these have to be done each time you restart this heist. In that location's non that much variation to them so they're kind of repetitive, but if y'all want all that sweet loot, you got to practice them. Sorry.

Thankfully, you don't need to do all of them, just the important ones. For the arroyo vehicle, my advice is to apply the Kosatka as it's the fastest way to go to the Drainage Tunnel. For equipment, ignore the detonation charges mission. Just make certain you have the cutting torch, the fingerprint cloner, and either the plasma cutter or the safe lawmaking depending upon what detail y'all're stealing.

Equally for weapons, you can't bring all the weapons you've bought over the course of your time in GTA Online for arbitrary story reasons. Y'all need to choose one of the provided weapon loadouts and go steal those guns. My proposition would be to select the Conspirator loadout as you get a scoped military rifle, which is very effective in silently taking out El Rubio'southward guards. However, I also like the Crackshot loadout as it gives you a sniper rifle and the Aggressor loadout has the assault shotgun, so it's actually a affair of preference. Either manner, you must equip suppressors for whichever loadout you lot choose unless you lot want to wake upwards the whole island. You lot tin can disregard every other prep mission as these items are all you're going to need.

Getting In And Out Of Cayo Perico Without Making A Sound

Cutting through the grate
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Alright, nosotros're ready for the heist. Choose the Kosatka as the approach vehicle and the Drainage Tunnel as the infiltration point and archway. The exfiltration signal doesn't matter as you'll soon see. When the heist starts, yous'll be swimming underwater out of the sub. Keep going to the Drainage Tunnel grate and y'all'll go a prompt to begin cutting it with the torch. Once that's done, swim forward and you'll be inside the compound.

Yous can't get into the areas containing additional loot, since you need another person to insert ane of two keycards to open them. Nevertheless, you can withal fill up your lootbag. The Airstrip infiltration indicate has an assortment of drugs and money locked backside gates that can be burned open with the cutting torch. If you're feeling really greedy, you tin make a detour here earlier y'all enter through the Drainage Tunnel and grab everything you can to maximize your profits. It merely means more swimming and more stealth.

Now that you're in the compound, here'south some bad news: the all-time way to do this heist is by being completely stealthy. If you get caught you might besides die and start over from the checkpoint considering escaping will exist borderline impossible. Kill any guards in your way without setting off an alarm or alerting anyone. One of them volition be holding a cardinal that can open upward locked gates. This volition brand getting around the chemical compound much easier, then accept out guards until ane of them drops information technology. There's besides an armored guard wielding a minigun who patrols the area. Avoid him at all costs.

Now there are two ways to get to the basement and steal any item is the focal point of this heist. You can either make it to El Rubio'due south office and hack into his secret lift or use that key I just mentioned to unlock a gate that leads right to the basement. Each way requires you to use the fingerprint cloner to practise a hacking minigame. However, the ane behind the locked gate only has you clone one fingerprint while using the part elevator has yous do 3 or four. And so using the central makes this heist a cakewalk, but the function does have a secret safe that holds effectually $lxx,000, and occasionally there will be an expensive painting in there that you can steal. So information technology's your choice.

Once yous're in the basement, you'll cut the chain on the locked door with the cutting torch. Then you'll either unlock the safe with the code or cutting through a drinking glass example with the plasma cutter. When the item's in your bag, you need to sneakily escape from the compound. The forepart archway is probably the simplest way out, so accomplish that and head outside.

Escaping the island is the easiest nevertheless most tedious part of this heist. As long as you oasis't set off any alarms, all y'all should have to do is caput around the compound walls and towards a cliff overlooking the h2o. Dive in and swim underwater towards the north of the island. I've had success pond east as well, just n seems to be the safest direction. Keep swimming for as long as it takes. Eventually, the game hud will disappear, the screen will fade to black, and you'll be in a cutscene. That's it, you merely finished The Cayo Perico Heist.

And At present You're Rich

A rich looking GTA guy.
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I more tip about this heist. If you want to make a bit more than coin, you can play the heist on hard mode. To do that, restart the heist within 48 minutes of completing it. It volition increase the take and shouldn't be too much harder, as long equally you lot play it stealthily.

I wouldn't say that The Cayo Perico Heist is all that fun as having to do the intel and prep missions over and over is pretty dull, but yous can make around $900,000 to potentially fifty-fifty $ane.9 million per heist. So while it's a flake of a slog, if you're dying to purchase an Oppressor Mk. 2 or maybe a fancy yacht, this might be the best way to earn some serious cash in GTA Online.

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