Gta Online Casino
Dec 16, 2019
- The GTA Online Inside Track game in the Diamond Casino offers players the chance to win big just for predicting the winning horse, and make no mistake, there’s a knack to this as well as luck.
- The second secret GTA Online casino mission is slightly less random, but still requires some setting up and an element of chance to access.
- This GTA Online Diamond Casino Heist Scope Guide tells you where to find each of the different scope locations so that you can unlock the different methods for participating in the Heist, including aggressive, stealth, and trickery.
It looks like the Vinewood Casino in GTA Online might finally get its grand opening. Earlier today, alongside its usual weekly update, Grand Theft Auto Online made a small but important tweak to.
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This Guide covers the Missions of the Diamond Casino Heist and our experience with it.
First Board — Scoping Out
Starting Costs
The first time to do the heist, it will be free of charge. Every other time you want to complete the heist, it’ll cost you 25.000$.
Scoping Out the Casino
To unlock all different options, take a photo and send it to Lester. If you take a picture of an A.P (Access Point) or an P.O.I (Point of Interest), the option to send it to Lester will appear.
Access Points
These points are seen in the Casino Model (if bought). The first board will be kept once the heist is completed.
Front
Back
Points of Interest
Casino Scope:
- Guards
- Indoor-Cams
- Outdoor-Cams
- Keypads
- Valet
Vault Scope:
- Security Room
- Lobby
- Staff Elevator
- Metal Detector
- Elevator (Out of order)
Possible Targets
Extras
All extras are kept once bought.
- Casino Model (130.000$)
- Door Security (425.000$)
- Vault Door (900.000$)
(Take a photo of the blueprints inside the office of the casino).
Second Board — Prep Work
Crew Choices
Gunman:
Karl Abolaji
Skill: Poor; Cut: 5%
Weapons:
Charlie Reed
Skill: Good, Cut: 7%
Weapons: SMGs and Shotguns
Gustave Mota
Skill: Expert; Cut: 9%
Weapons:
Chester Mocoy
Skill: Expert; Cut: 10%
Weapons:
Driver:
Karim Denz
Skill: Poor; Cut: 5%
Cars:
Zach Nelson
Skill: Good, Cut: 6%
Cars:
Talina Martinez
Skill: Good; Cut: 7%
Cars: Retinue MK2, Drift Yosemite, Sugoi, Jugular
Eddie Toh
Skill: Expert; Cut: 9%
Cars:
Chester Mocoy
Skill: Expert; Cut: 10%
Hacker:
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Rickie Lukens:
Skill: Poor; Cut: 3%
Yohan Blair
Skill: Good; Cut: 5%
Christian Feltz
Skill: Good; Cut: 7%
Paige Harris
Skill: Expert; Cut: 9%
General Prep Works
Hacking Device
Get a FIB-pass from a corrupt agent, enter the FIB building and..
Vault Keycards
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Patrol Routes
Go to a meeting of the Duggan security guys, eliminate them and search for the right car. Once found, open the trunk, take a photo of the documents and send them to Lester.
Duggan Shipments
Like a freeroam job. You have to destroy 10 shipments of these shipments, spread all over the map. Best use a helicopter for that.
Security Intel
Help poor Vincent, who is now a mall security guy. The Intel will be done in every heist when completed once.
Power Drills
Go to a construction site that is marked and collect either a vehicle with the drills or the drills alone. One person can carry two drills. A disguise is sometimes available.
Security Pass
- Level 1: Acquired from a cleaning woman.
- Level 2: Acquired from a croupier.
We had to crash a drug-party and find the croupier to search him for his pass.
Specific Prep — Silent & Sneaky
Nano Drone
You have to drive round the city and shoot down drones used by the LSPD. Then just collect the dropped parts.
Vault Laser
Go out to the desert, fight some (OP) Army guys and search for the lasers. They look like this:
EMP Device
Go to LSIA and steal a cargobob. Then fly to the university, lift the EMP out (it is right on the open filed) and fly it to the substation of LS Water and Power right across the casino.
Infilitration Suits
Go out to Human Labs and kill the guards in your way (the alarm will trigger as soon as you enter) Bags are in the rear (where you have to par the Insurgent in the Human Labs Heist). Bags look like this:
Specific Prep — The Big Con
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Specific Prep — Aggressive
Thermal Charges
Acquire Thermal Charges to blow up vault door. We had to go out to Sandy Shores and crash a Hillbilly party.
Vault Explosives
We had to go out to Paleto Bay and recover the explosive from a sunken airplane, guarded by Merryweather. Grab scuba gear and dive out to find it.
Reinforced Armor
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Boring Machine
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Third Board — Heist
Your personal weapon arsenal can be collected in either Laundry or Waste Disposal
Silent and Sneaky
Take out the electric stuff with your stun gun
Kill the guards right away, DO NOT STUN THEM! Guards with a helmet can’t be killed right away. You can kill them with your knife.
Our way through:
- We went in through waste disposal, disabling the first metal detector, in the area behint it.
- After that we opened up the guard rooms and killed the guards.
- In the elevator bay, there is a button in the middle of the security room, right by the window, that opens the door of a small vault. There is the daily income in there, that you can steal. Press the button, let one guy go in, close the door and wait until he has emptied the vault. The vault can be opened from the inside.
We waited for the elevator guard to pass and opened up the stairs access.
The Big Con
Our settings where:
- Entrance: Security Tunnel
- Entry Disguise: Gruppe Sechs
- Exit: Waste Disposal
- Exit Disguise: Firefighters
Buyer: High Level (is further away, but you get more money)
First: Get into the Gruppe Sechs van and drive to the casino, to the security tunnel. You are being let in and have to drive down the tunnel, where your credentials are being checked and you are able to park the van.
Then, go down to the vault area, proceed through the manhole. To go through, you have to swipe two keycards at the (roughly) same time (time-window is roughly 4 seconds) and then just go down the winding tunnel.
Then you have a short cutscene, one knocks out the guard who opens the door and then you have to start heisting.
Aggressive
W.I.P.
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For Grand Theft Auto Online diehards, there is nothing more infamous than the Vinewood Casino. A rumoured playable location since players first got their hands on the game in 2013, I remember parking my busted Sultan on Mirror Park Boulevard and seeing the ‘Opening Soon’ banner for the first time — a beacon of hope back then for an ambitious multiplayer game that hadn’t quite found its feet.
Since its inclusion, gumshoed players (myself included) have obsessed over this eerily quiet corner of Los Santos, searching for clues behind the scenes and lobbying Rockstar to put together a grand opening. Alas, much like that decaying lot you see each time you return to your hometown — nothing changed.
That was true until 6th June this year, when something extraordinary happened. During a routine weekly update, the once-legendary banner vanished, a selection of props changed location, and every corner of GTA fandom on the internet erupted in tandem.
After nearly six years of waiting, the Diamond Casino & Resort will land in GTA Online today, 23rd July, touting almost everything that fans had been clamouring for: high-stakes card games, penthouse suites, bottle service and even aircraft concierge. Yet this route from speculation to spectacle has not been as simple as it seems. In fact, the story is tangled up in years of GTA Online says nervous heist master Lester Crest in the datamined audio, seemingly confirming that a gambler’s paradise was on the way. It’s worth noting that the Beach Bum newswire post also teased ‘exciting new Story Mode updates’ coming ‘very soon’ — back when the promise of single-player DLC for Grand Theft Auto 5 was still alive.
Turning the viscous plot into a thick porridge, Tez2 exposed some very important strings of code in early 2014 which tied a number of allusions to the casino to a potential three-pronged single-player DLC plan for GTA5, the individual parts tagged ‘GTA’, ‘Trevor’ and ‘Dead’ — the latter supposedly alluding to a zombie apocalypse expansion, with the datamined DLC selection menu checking for the tag ‘SPZOMBIES’, showcased best in this video from GTA YouTuber Chr0m3xMoDz.
‘What Rockstar was planning to do with the single-player DLC can be compared to adding a whole new map expansion,’ said Tez. ‘They had plans to redesign 80 or 90 per cent of the map to fit a specific theme — one of the episodes was supposed to feature a zombie apocalypse. Rockstar would make changes to the whole map to fit the zombie apocalypse theme.’
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But enough about zombies, for the time being; we need to talk about Trevor.
According to Tez, one of the episodes was ‘based on Trevor’s story after the ending to Grand Theft Auto 5, in which he would work with the IAA.’ This tantalising spoke of the rumour mill then spun off its hub when even more strings of code came to light in 2015. In May of that year, Tez’s post on the GTAForums read ‘The main characters will rob the casino’, listing strings that, when decoded, alluded to Oceans 11-style setup, preparation and heist missions, the kind that would go on to become a smash hit in the Online part of the game.
It then took until 2017 for Rockstar to simply come out and say it. In an interview with Game Informer, director of design Imran Sarwar put the concept of single-player DLC to bed and laid many a dream to rest. Yan2295, who is now an ex-GTA leaker (at the request of Take-Two), offered the now widely believed explanation for the bait-and-switch. ‘The casino was supposed to come to GTA5 as single-player DLC as well as to GTA Online, but as many already know, the single-player DLCs got cancelled thanks to the success of GTA Online,’ Yan explained.
Tez believes that the leftovers of this bold expansion plan were eventually repurposed into content updates for GTA Online: ‘it turns out that most or some of the online updates that we received in 2017 and 2018 were based on the planned single-player DLC.’ Tez cites the Doomsday Heist update as a key example of this. While there’s no casino, you work with the aforementioned IAA as part of the narrative, and it utilizes the malevolent ‘Clifford’ as its neural network antagonist — a name which cropped up during the 2015 casino leak.
The narrative that suggests itself is that Rockstar made a shift away from single-player content add-ons to fleshing out GTA Online, which was swelling in popularity thanks to the Heists update and, of course, providing a remarkable amount of revenue via Shark Cards. This plan clearly worked: GTA5 became the most profitable entertainment product of all time in 2018, with over $6 billion raised since its release.
Yet this staggering feat is also what both of my sources believe to be the main cause of delays to the casino’s implementation in GTA Online. How can you implement a realistic representation of gambling into a game that already offers microtransactions without falling foul of gambling legislation and getting the lawyers involved? The answer: its rootin’ tootin’ Wild West nephew, Red Dead Online.
‘The casino update was canned since, because of Shark Cards, laws in some places would see that as online gambling, which is illegal in some of those places, especially considering many players are teens or kids,’ Yan explains. ‘But recently, they found a way to make it work, as we all saw gambling being added to Red Dead Online.’
Tez echoed a similar sentiment: ‘In Red Dead Online’s case, you use cash to gamble and you can purchase gold bars from microtransactions. The extra currency ensures there’s a layer of safety for Rockstar from legal trouble, even though that doesn’t apply to all regions or countries as some may have trouble with the existence of gambling itself — and not the way to acquire cash.’
Rockstar has so far been tight-lipped about how its new currency will work, so how well its take on casino gambling will be received by GTA Online’s fans is still up in the air.
Even so, years of iteration, a cavalcade of forum discussions and months of code-trawling YouTube footage have led to this hotly anticipated moment. The question is, will it be worth it?
Rockstar seems to think so. From the Diamond Casino & Resort’s tongue-in-cheek webpage copy:
‘You’ve heard the rumours. You want to believe them, and there’s only one way to find out. Abandon your preconceptions. Let go of your inhibitions, your doubts, your sense of proportion, your credit rating. The rumors didn’t begin to do it justice.’
Players have taken to eulogising the old Vinewood Casino on the GTAForums. Join them, won’t you, in saying goodbye to this virtual landmark. And when you get the keys to your polygon penthouse, think about the wild story behind its almost six-year-long construction effort. B boomers poker room.
