GTA Online is well-alive with updates. The latest one builds upon the big Diamond Casino & Resort new location. It’s about robbing the casino.
The Diamond Casino Heist is the new Heist being added and sounds like the most complex yet. The setup procedure is longer- you first need to set up a new hideout by buying an arcade parlour- complete with working arcades and new arcade mini-games.
The hideout comes with a place to store getaway vehicles, heist prep equipment, and a space to practice the vault cracking and hacking sequences.
Then comes the prep work. This includes gathering intel of the casino entry points, destroy supply shipments or find info on the casino security system. Doing more prep work opens up more options to tackle the heist.
You also need to hire the right people for the right job. Outside of your friends of crew members, you also can hire NPCs to be the driver, hacker or a gunman for the right price.
There are generally three approaches to the Diamond Casino Heist – Silent & Sneaky (go in undetected), The Big Con (disguise as various contract workers including pest control or maintenance staff) or all guns blazing with Aggressive. During the heist, there are choices to make as well. Breaking stealth will still let you push on to complete the heist, but with the scenarios that should happen changed.
The Diamond Casino Heist adds a lot of the nuance from GTA V’s heist missing from the previous GTA Online ones. So this sounds impressive on paper already. But like many of the GTA Online content, expect this to be hard to even get started if you are not a veteran with oodles of in-game cash already.
The Diamond Casino Heist is now live. The update also adds the aforementioned new arcade mini-games, new cars, new songs from a new radio station (iFruit Radio) and more. Check out the full update notes here.