2019-10-18T16:17:47 02:00

GTA Online: Doomsday Heist made easy

In this guide you will learn:

What preparation missions await you
Which equipment you should use in the Doomsday Heists
How to complete the final missions of the three acts
What you need to do for the elite challenge

The Doomsday update was added to GTA Online () in December 2017, complementing the already existing five classic heists with another three-act heist that brings plenty of James Bond flair and new equipment to the game.

Unlike the independent five existing heists, the three acts of the Doomsaday Heist tell a self-contained, coherent story in which you have to prevent a war. Another new feature is that you'll complete the heists with two to four players, and in all the preparation missions, you'll preface the actual task (setup) with one or two easier missions (prep).

We have compiled general tips and the necessary requirements for the heists in our Heist Guide, besides that we also explain the classic heists of GTA Online in an extra article. If you are still new to the game, we recommend our current GTA Online money making guide. You'll find useful suggestions in it, especially if you're an inexperienced player or a single player, since the heists are end-game content for which you'll have to invest a lot of money and ideally have some gaming experience.

1. Doomsday-Heist Act 1: The Data Leak Situation /The Data Breaches

Leader cost: GTA$65,000
Participants: two to four
Winnings: GTA$650,000 (normal), GTA$812,500 (hard)
Elite Challenge: Complete Heist in under 5:30 minutes, 78 enemies killed, no player dies
Unlocks: Deluxo, Akula

For billionaire Avon Hertz, the first act of the Doomsday Heist has you investigating several government data thefts that are believed to point to an unknown warmonger.

Prep Mission: Dead Courier

Prep: Medic Equipment

Use your in-game smartphone and call 911 (type 911 on the keypad). When an ambulance arrives, steal it and shake off the cops before delivering it to your destination.

Setup: Dead Courier

Split into two teams. Team Paramedic uses the stolen ambulance and, dressed as a paramedic, drives to the Los Santos Coroner Office, the medical examiner's office. There, holster your weapons and enter the building. Search the corpses in the refrigerated chamber until you receive instructions to search the upper floor for the desired data.

Several FIB agents are waiting thereyou'll have to take care of them one after the other before you can start your data download from the laptop on the desk in the coroner's office. Leave the building on the first floor and quickly go to the waiting helicopter, do not engage in unnecessary fights.

Team Rescue will chase a black van and shoot its guard to get the transported data. Then use the waiting Savage helicopter to pick up Team Rescue at the coroner's office.

Find a landing spot away from it to avoid being shot down immediately by the cops waiting there. Get rid of the wanted level and then fly the Savage to the target point.

Prep Mission: Eavesdropping Attack

Prep: Deluxos

Drive to the house and kill all the guards outside, the last guard will leave you the garage key. Open the garage door and kill all the enemies inside. Then drive the four Deluxos to the finish point.

Setup: Eavesdropping

Drive to the given target point. There, each player gets into a Deluxo. You will follow four black Stockade armored cars driving around Los Santos to gather data from them. When you reach the Stockades, stay close to their side and start the hack on your in-game smartphone. Ideally, drive in front of or next to the Stockade, as there will be one enemy inside each vehicle that will attack you during the hack. Once the hack is complete, find the next target.

After the hack is successful, destroy the Stockade with your on-board weapons. After that, repeat this on police motorboats sailing on the sea, using the hover function of the Deluxos. After that, drive to Los Santos International Airport and hack the cargo plane taking off on the runway.

Since the cargo plane is traveling slowly, you can also track it in the air using the hover function. About halfway through the progress, three Valkyrie helicopters will appear. Take them out with your on-board weapons and bring the Deluxos to the destination after the successful hack.

Prep Mission: Server Farm

Prep: Akula

Head to Fort Zancudo and use the elevator to the right of the staircase to get to the top floor of the control tower. Download the location of the Akula helicopter there, then fight your way to the Akula's location and steal it. Get rid of your wanted level and take the Akula to the destination.

Setup: Server Farm

Board the Akula and fly to the NOOSE government facility with your weapons disabled. Land on the roof and pick up weapons with silencers. Use the ladder on the edge of the roof to reach the ground and take out both the guards marked on your minimap and security cameras on your way to the destination. If you are discovered, the mission will fail!

Hide behind the crates and wait for the security chief, then kill both him and the accompanying guard. Pick up the security codes and go around the building to the side entrance to the server farm (a low staircase leads there). Inside the building, hide between the server cabinets if the shooting angle is unfavorable, as they block the guards' line of sight, and then take them out from behind. It's best to split up and let your better shooters take care of the guards, precision is very important here.

In the hacking minigame, connect four server nodes on the left with four on the right. If the nodes don't match, you'll see a red light, successful connections will remain. You have a total of four attempts before the server stops responding. As soon as you have completed the hack, you will be confronted with attacking, well-equipped NOOSE agents.

Shoot your way to the elevator free in the middle and return to the roof. Use weapons like the minigun to get rid of the many enemies and their helicopters. After that, escape in the Akula, get rid of your wanted level and return to the finish point in Sandy Shores.

Final Mission: The Data Leak Situation

Drive in an armored car (for example, the Kuruma or an armed Insurgent) to the IAA base at the satellite farm and take out the waiting Merryweather people there. Go inside the complex, it strongly resembles your underground base in structure and equipment.

On your way through the base, shoot your way free with miniguns - there are many enemies waiting! Go down the staircase and then kill all the enemies to prevent a server hack. Then go to the command center and take control of the base's guns, which you will use to take out incoming enemy reinforcements such as helicopters, jeeps and insurgents. Once you have shot down enough enemies, the mission is successfully completed.

2. Doomsday Heist Act 2: The Bogdan Problem / The Bogdan Problem

Leader cost: GTA$95,000
Participants: two to four
Win: GTA$ 950,000 (normal), GTA$ 1,187,500 (hard)
Elite Challenge: Complete Heist in under 15:00 minutes, 5% or less damage to Avenger, no player dies
Unlocks: RCV, Stromberg

Using the information gained in Act 1 of Doomsday-Heist, the AI Clifford has identified the Russian warmonger Bogdan as the one responsible, who is hiding on a well-secured submarine off the coast of Los Santos. First, you'll acquire the appropriate equipment and then launch an attack on the rogue's hideout.

Prep Mission: Avenger

Prep: Key cards

Steal the van with the key cards inside, which is parked at a gas station. There is also a shootout between the police and criminals there, in which you can interfere, but you don't have to - if you blow up the event, the van won't take any damage. Take the car to the destination.

Setup: Avenger

Equip yourself with night vision goggles and ideally the MK2 sniper rifle with thermal scope and head to Los Santos International Airport, where the Avenger helicopter is located in a hangar rented from Merryweather. Head to the inner sides of the hangar. As soon as the lights go out, activate your night vision and kill all the enemies around you. If you can't see your enemies well enough, use the aiming function of the thermal scope. Go up the stairs to the upper part of the hangar and shoot your way as before.

Be careful: enemies often only become visible here when they shoot at you or are close to you, they unerringly shoot through the metal structures. Then activate the emergency generator and steal the Avenger. Fly close to the ground while the gunners take out enemy helicopters. Only when Lester notifies you that Merryweather is no longer pursuing you, fly to Paleto Bay beach and deliver the Avenger there.

Prep Mission: ULP Rescue

Prep: ULP Information

For the rescue mission, you'll kill four dealers in Los Santos to find out the location of information about the kidnapped agent ULP.

A bag with the needed info is inside the house, kill the enemies inside best with the help of a shotgun. After that, grab the bag and return to the base.

Setup: ULP rescue

Since the kidnapped agent is being held at the Grand Banks Steel Foundry, head there together in an armored vehicle, take out the guards in the courtyard and then split into two teams. Team Rescue enters the building and shoots your way to the stairs. Be careful, the enemies can take a lot of punishment, clean headshots will help you here.

Use all the opportunities for cover that are offered to you. Use the stairs up to a small storage room on the top floor, there ULP is threatened by a soldier at gunpoint. Kill the guard with a shot to the head so he doesn't hurt ULP, then your target will follow you as you make your way out of the steel foundry. Kill the remaining enemies on your way.

Team Protection stays in the vehicle and circles the main building to get rid of all the enemies outside, well protected. Also take care of the approaching reinforcements in the form of helicopters. For this part, an Insurgent with an on-board gun is ideal. Pick up Team Rescue and ULP as soon as they leave the building and bring the rescued agent safely to the destination.

Prep Mission: Data Recovery

Prep: Water Cannon

Drive to the marked area, throw tear gas to the civilians there and swing your fists to provoke a mass brawl. After a short while, a water cannon will appear there, which you will grab. Get rid of your mugshot level and bring the water cannon back to your base.

Setup: Data Recovery

Drive the water cannon to the destination at the Stoner Cement Plant. Split into two teams. Team Water Cann on drives the vehicle and takes care of putting out fires. Be sure to extinguish the aforementioned van and keep attackers away from the vehicle with a sweep of the water cannon.

Team Data gets out, kills remaining attackers and searches the hard drives in the deleted vans for useful data (2). The next destination is in La Mesa, already on the way there you will be attacked again and again and have to overcome roadblocks made of Nightsharks. Arrived at the Mirror Park Rail Yard, you collect more data in the same way in the slightly better guarded area (3). As soon as you get to the data on the other side of the building, an Insurgent with reinforcements will reach the area.

At the third location in a small car graveyard in Cypress Flats, many enemies await you, but at least no roadblocks. There you will collect a total of (4) data. The last (5) disks you collect on Elysian Island, where you have to fight your way through a roadblock, a large amount of enemies with an Insurgent and a Nightshark.

As soon as you get the hard drives from the van standing away from the building, more reinforcements will arrive. Once you've collected all the data, return to the destination with your loot.

Prep Mission: Submarine Reconnaissance

Prep: Strombergs

First, you'll track down four trucks that are driving destroyed Strombergs around the area. Stop the trucks and get behind the wheel yourself. Note: Not every truck has the right vehicles on it, the Strombergs are painted completely white and have very flat bodies. Then bring the trucks to the finish point.

Prep: Torpedo Control

Use the jet skis and head to the floating platform. As soon as you come into sight, pull out the guns and shoot at about a dozen waiting enemies. Then collect the two torpedo ECUs and make your way back with them.

Setup: Submarine Recon

First, you'll get a brief introduction to the Strombergs' abilities, which you can then try out right away. Drive to North Chumash and destroy the military convoy with your on-board weapons. This consists of four trucks, two Insurgents and three accompanying Buzzards.

Then head to Paleto Bay, taking out some annoying Nightsharks on the way and using the beach as an access point to the sea. Travel underwater to the target area and destroy a total of ten mines with your on-board weapons. If you can't detect a mine, move on to the next one.

Finally, also underwater, scan the wreckage of a crashed plane. During the scan you will see a red light on the front of your Stromberg. After that, you still scan the submarine in the marked squares and leave the area as soon as you are asked to do so, before taking your Strombergs to the desired destination.

Final Mission: The Bogdan Problem

Split into two teams for the second final mission of the Doomsday Heist. Team Air goes into the Avenger and and flies to the target position above the submarine. Stay there and be ready to shoot down attacking Buzzards with the on-board cannon as soon as the other team enters the submarine. If you are alone in the Avenger, rely on the autopilot to keep the Avenger stable in the air while you operate a gun.

Team Submarine settles into the Strombergs and approaches the top of the submarine to enter. From there, shoot your way through the submarine. It's best to use a shotgun. Fight your way to the brig and thus your contact, after which you'll be sent to the bridge to take some important photographs.

After a long cutscene, you escape from the sinking submarine with diving gear and reach the beach. Team Air destroys more attacking helicopters and collects Team Submarine from the beach. After that, deliver the Avenger to the hangar at Los Santos International Airport and you will have successfully completed the mission.

3. Doomsday Heist Act 3: The Doomsday Scenario

Leader cost: GTA$120,000
Participants: two to four
Winnings: 1.200.00 GTA$ (normal), 1.500.000 GTA$ (hard)
Elite Challenge: Complete Heist in under 30:00 minutes, 150 headshots, no hack goes wrong, no player dies
Unlocks: Chernobog, Barrage, TM-02 Khanjali, Volatoi, Thruster

Now that you finally know who your enemy really is, you have no choice but to support the government in the upcoming battles for a decent fee. In the third act of Doomsday Heist, some very crisp preparation missions await you, for which you'll need good shooters and coordinated action. Equally important is good equipment, be sure to get night vision and the heavy MK2 sniper rifle with heat/infrared scope!

Prep Mission: Agent 14-Rescue

Prep: Marked Money

Reach the indicated position and grab the unguarded money bag. After picking it up, all members of your organization/biker club will receive a four-star mugshot level, which you must get rid of before delivering the bag to the destination.

Prep: Recon

Head to the Pacific Allied Shipyard. Don't land your helicopter in front of the shipyard entrance to avoid a one-star wanted level. After that, take pictures at ten different locations in the shipyard and send them to Lester. Once you have taken all the pictures, leave the area.

Setup: Agent 14-Rescue

For this mission you'll need the high-tech goggles that you'll get from Lester. Drive to the main gate in an armored Kuruma (or an Insurgent with an on-board cannon) and kill all the guards there before entering the area through the main gate. Clean up vigorously among the existing guards in the large dry dock building as well, without leaving the car.

Park the Kuruma near the container behind which Agent 14 is hiding. Hide as soon as Lester sends you a warning. Since the three Juggernauts arriving from the entrance of the building are armed with miniguns and wear high-end stealth suits, they are practically invisible to you. Use your infrared vision to see the heat signature of your opponents and take them out from cover behind the Kuruma and from the opposite side.

You'll fare best with headshots, minigun fire, rocket launchers and sticky bombs. You'll deal with the Juggernauts well by having one player draw their fire and stay in cover, while the others take them out with concentrated fire. After that, you'll have to deal with four more Juggernauts attacking from the same direction.

Once you've dealt with them, hop in the Kuruma and head to the back of the building to take out normal reinforcements. Once the extraction point for Agent 14 is displayed, enemies will start arriving en masse. As soon as you get close to the target point, you will be warned again about two Juggernauts who have mixed in with the normal soldiers there. Once you've killed them, two more will follow before you can get into the Escape Akula. Stealth-flight Agent 14 to the destination near Stab City.

Prep Mission: ULP Escort

Prep: Chernobog

For your upcoming task, you need to steal a Chernobog from a Merryweather training camp. Drive there with an armored car and take out all the enemies, then the driver of the Chernobog will escape and you will immediately get hold of it. Two players should grab the Rhino tank to defend the Chernobog against the attacking four waves of two Mesas each on the way to the destination.

Setup: ULP Escort

Drive in the armored Kuruma to a construction site near Paleto Bay and take out the guards waiting there. Grab the Chernobog and head to the marked landing site where you will wait for Agent ULP, who will be in a helicopter on approach. You will also be provided with buggies for escort, but since the Chernobog can take a lot of punishment, you won't need them.

Several Valkyries are chasing him, which you take out with the Chernobog's missiles. Follow ULP and take out all his pursuers. Since the Chernobog can't drive and shoot at the same time, you'll have to coordinate your attacks well. Once the Chernobog is stopped, a team member can get out and attack the pursuers with a rocket launcher as well. On the way to ULP's safehouse, there are always roadblocks waiting. Once you reach the target point in the southwest of Alamo Lake, the mission is done.

Prep Mission: Barrage

Prep: Flight Route

Go to the destination and wait for your target, a dealer. Follow him at a certain distance to a quiet place - Lester will notify you accordingly - and take him out with a silenced gun to get his information. Grab his suitcase and return to the base.

Setup: Barrage

Drive in the armored vehicle (Kuruma or Insurgent) to the ambush target point near the Galileo Observatory. There, wait for the helicopter convoy to come into view and start by shooting down the Valkyrie escort helicopters. For this, use the explosive sniper rifle ammo, miniguns or rockets issued for the mission.

After that, turn your attention to the main helicopter, a cargo bob with barrage cargo. Destroy it so that it drops the vehicle, then drive the barrage to the target point at Sandy Shores Airfield. Man the gun in the barrage to take out pursuers, the driver should be theHead for the target point across the terrain and avoid roads to avoid getting shot.

Once at the airfield, destroy the RM-10 Bombushka taking off with the Barrage's minigun before taking care of the remaining enemies and their vehicles. It's better to use the heavy MK-II sniper rifle for this, so that the Barrage doesn't blow up in your face due to enemy fire. Then deliver the barrage to Grapeseed.

Prep Mission: Khanjali

Prep: Test facility information

Since your enemies are working on a stealth tank in a hideout, you will be sent to the corresponding building. Take out the guards with silenced weapons and sneak into the building. In a box inside the building there is a laptop with the desired data, so advance carefully and finish off your opponents with caution.

If you find the laptop without being detected, you can bring it back to the base without further problems. If you alert your enemies, you will receive a three-star wanted level when you leave and will have to fight against advancing mercenaries. Only after you get rid of your wanted level, you can deliver the laptop.

Setup: Khanjali

Drive to the junkyard in an armored vehicle (Kuruma or Insurgent) and clear the area of enemy guards and vehicles marked on the map. After that, get into the Khanjali and leave the area. On the way to your new destination point, you will be attacked both from the ground and the air.

Drive through the terrain and avoid head-on collisions and rolling over burning enemy trucks; the Khanjali can withstand quite a bit, but like all tanks, it is vulnerable to vehicles exploding underneath it. At the level of the access road to Fort Zancudo, your opponents stop pursuing. Once you have delivered the tank in one piece, the preparation is successfully completed.

Preparation mission: Air defense

Prep: Onboard computer

To get the frequency data located in the on-board computer of a Hydra jet flying around randomly on the map, you will pursue this jet and shoot it down. Once the plane has crashed (presumably into the water), one team member will slip into scuba gear and collect the data module from the wreckage. Return to base with the module and watch out for a Buzzard that will attack you on the way back.

Setup: Air Defense

Drive in the armored vehicle to the Sandy Shores airfield and climb into the waiting Volatoi. With this stealth plane, you won't have to worry about ground-to-air defense guns in this mission, but enemies in the air remain a threat. Fly to Mount Chiliad and destroy the 12 ground-to-air guns - you can recognize them on the gun camera by the red flashing position lights.

The mountain is defended by several Buzzard gunships. After destroying half of the surface-to-air guns, Lazer jets will be mobilized, but you can avoid them if you move reasonably fast. Return to Sandy Shores airfield after destroying all the guns.

Final Mission: The Doomsday Scenario

Before starting the final mission of the Doomsday Heist, be sure to replenish your armor, snacks, and ammo, as you'll need them! Go to a farm plot near Grapeseed and choose one of the two vehicles standing by: either the Barrage or the Khanjali. The unused vehicle is sold at the end of the mission for more profit (the Barrage brings GTA$50,000, the Khanjali GTA$100,000). Here, despite the lower profit, it is recommended to use the Khanjali for the attack, as you will make the first section much easier. Drive to the objective point at Mount Chiliad, a tunnel entrance.

Cross the tunnel until you reach a mini cutscene, then continue down the tunnel and use the on-board weapons to take out the enemies and vehicles along the way (MP for soldiers, gun for vehicles). Be careful not to run over burning vehicles!

Once you have reached the end of the tunnel, fire from all guns at the enemies waiting there, including four Juggernauts (as in the preparation mission "Agent 14-Rescue"). Once you have cleared the entrance, slowly fight your way deeper into the fortress from cover to cover - also watch out for newly spawning Juggernauts.

From here on, you will be instructed to destroy five enemy supplies. Cover each other with fire as you advance, the enemies can take much more. When you are given the suggestion to split the group, fight your way through two tunnels leading back to each other at the end.

As soon as you destroy the last crate, new enemies and two more Juggnernauts will spawn; after that, your opponents will start the missile launching program. Advance to the control room and kill all the guards present on your way to the second floor to the control terminals marked with green map markers.

Protect each other while one player hacks the servers, enemies keep coming. The hack itself works quite simply: you direct a blue beam of light from a starting point to several data packets to be collected (round target points marked in turquoise) using adjustable ladders, and you must avoid hitting the firewalls (red boxes).

Starting from the desired target points, adjust the rotating mirrors/ladder and only then send the light beam. Gray round markers with a yellow line in them act as self-rotating proxies. Interrupt the light beam if necessary so that it is not unintentionally directed into a firewall. You have 5 minutes per hack and may use up 2 lives.

Once you have hacked all four servers, the startup program will be interrupted. Then fight your way through the remaining enemies and advance to the upper floor to control the orbital cannons. You need to destroy a total of four mobile cloud servers with the base's cannons, just follow the green markers on the target screen until you have a target unlock.

After that, follow your main opponent as he tries to disengage. Fight your way slowly, always staying in cover, on the way to the missile silo. After a short cutscene when you reach the silo, chase your opponent with jetpacks. Use the missiles of the jetpacks to destroy attacking helicopters, of which there are plenty around your boss - as soon as you have finished him off, the Doomsday-Heist is also done and a longer cutscene follows, which leads the story to an end.

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