Payday 3’s fourth heist will see players silently invade the Neon Cradle nightclub. To steal the crypto wallet, players will have to secure the device before raising any alarms; otherwise, the device will be wiped, and the loot will be lost. Players will need to gain access to the VIP room to find the wallet but will first need to find an invitation to the VIP room and properly validate the invitation using a thermal scanner located somewhere in the club.
Accessing the Manager’s Office
Once loaded into Rock the CradleinPayday 3, headstraight back to the innermost bar of the club, where the VIP room is located. Across the room from the VIP entrance, there is a locked door that leads to a staircase -take this staircase up to the second floorto the walkways behind the DJ booth. Justpast the DJ booth is the door to the manager’s office, watched by one security camera. Players can stand in the corner under the camera and safely unlock the door.
The VIP Invitations in the manager’s office will besealed inside a glass display case locked with a QR code. To access the case, players mustfind Rifkin and hack her phone. Rifkin can be found by hanging out at the bar toward the entrance of the club - she willeither enter through the front door or from the employee area staircase.
Stick close behind Rifkin anduse the activate button to start the hack. Be careful tostart the hack when not observed, or the club will immediately go into red alert, and the crypto wallet will be wiped.
Once the hack starts, players can follow behind Rifkin past guards without concern - after following for about 45 seconds, the hack will complete, and players will have access to the display case upstairs.Return to the office and swipe the QR codeat the keypad just to the right of the case, open the case, and grab the invitations. As a bonus, players can alsobag up the painting in the display casefor bonus loot.
Authenticating the Invitations
Now that players have the invitations, they will need to find a scanner that will activate the invitations to make them acceptable to the VIP room bouncer. The scanner will be located in one of the employee areas of the club,either in the back office behind the door to the left of the VIP access door or in the upstairs employee lounge area. Thedownstairs employee area has one camerathat players can stand under safely while scanning the invitation - if the scanner is in the upstairs lounge, players will need to be more cautious.
There isaguard that patrols the upstairslounge as well as two security cameras that monitor the area- this is in addition to random employees that may pass by and raise the alarm if they get too suspicious. There is asweet spot in the loungewhere players will be able to crouch and be unnoticed by the cameras - players will want to make their way to the booth furthest from the stairs with the laptop andstand directly in front of the laptop screen. This should prevent players from being noticed by the security cameras, although the guard can still become suspicious if he walks past.
Once in front of the laptop,place the invitation on the scanner and interact with the computer to start the scan. It will take a few minutes to fully update the invitations, but players should be able to stay put while the scan completes.Skills that make players less noticeablewhile unmasked are incredibly helpful for completing this step.Once the scan is completed, take the invitations, return to the entrance to the VIP room, and talk to the bouncer. He will confirm the invitations are valid and let players into the VIP area below.
Payday 3is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S.
