The Chop Shop update for GTA Online added new mini-heists players can participate in, and one of the last ones to get added was The Podium Robbery. This one will be a flashback for those who did The Diamond Casino Heist because they’ll have to return and steal something from this establishment again. Thankfully, this time is much easier with just a few guards, poison gas, and explosives. You know, it’s a usual day for any citizen of Los Santos.
GTA Online Chop Shop: The Podium Robbery Walkthrough
Since all Scrap Yard heists rotate weekly, chances are you might find this one on the lineup. If you do, it is one of the shortest we’ve seen in terms of preparation. While you can do it solo, we recommend bringing at least another player to make things much easier. And, with that out of the way, let’s see what this heist is all about.
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All GTA Online Heists in OrderScoping the Casino
Like any other Scrap Yard heist, you must do a bit of scoping first. This one is quite easy, and there’s a low chance of being discovered. First, you must head to the outside of the establishment and take a picture of the waste disposal entrance, the back exit, and the podium vehicle. The latter being your objective. We noticed the car didn’t match the one we were stealing, but that might be due to the Casino prize car overriding the heist one as a glitch. Nothing to worry about, though.
Luring the Los Santos Department of Sanitation
We hope you don’t mind getting your hands dirty because to infiltrate the Casino, you must pose as the Los Santos Department of Sanitation, or LSDS for short. This is the first prep mission we took for The Podium Robbery in the GTA Online Chop Shop update, but feel free to tackle them as you want.
First, you must head to the specified location and do some sabotage. When you arrive, destroy the sewage tankers. Be mindful of the guards and employees around you because they’ll attack. After you destroy everything and beat the enemies, you must release the valves to contaminate the place more and wait for the van to arrive. When the LSDS vehicle gets there, just fight the enemies in whichever way you want and take it back to the Scrap Yard.
Steal the Keycards
For the next step, you need to find the valet’s house near Mirror Park and steal their keycard. To do that, Jamal will send you a description of the outside of the house, and you must search it. Once you find it, enter the place, intimidate the valet by shooting any weapon near them, and wait for them to hand over the keycards.
Optional: Disrupt the Casino’s Security
Once we finished the previous prep missions, we decided to do the optional to make the fighting easier during the heist. For this, you must find one of the security lieutenants and kill him to obtain the location of other security members. Once you have the location, you must take them all down. We achieved this by splitting into two teams and using armored cars. This mission is on a timer, so try to floor it as soon as it starts.
Steal the Gas Masks
Given the security measures of The Poddium Robbery in GTA Online, Jamal suggests stealing some gas masks because the Casino sends poison gas to any intruders in one of its vaults. To get them, you must head to a Fire Station, fight some firefighters, and steal the masks. This is one of the missions you can do from the map, so take it whenever you prefer.
Steal the Rappel Equipment
If you did the Casino Heist with the Stealth approach, you’ll get some flashbacks. The plan is to rappel down an elevator shaft, but for that, you need the proper equipment. This mission is easy, as you only need to head to a hideout, clear it, and steal the tools. Ours was pretty close to our Scrap Yard, which made it easy.
Plant the Explosives
The next step might be hard to find because it is one of the few of these heists that is inside a building. You must head inside the Casino and wait for Jamal to call you. Once he does, find the restrooms and plant the explosives on a toilet. Remember, you’re posing a worker from the waste disposal company, so you’ll need to make some righteous mess.
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All Client Jobs in GTA OnlineThe Podium Robbery Finale
Like Toretto and his gang would say: “All roads lead to this.” Once you’ve done the previous steps, head to the Scrap Yard to begin the heist’s finale. For this, you’ll need to use everything you’ve acquired.
Head to the Vantage Point
First, you must take the LSDS van and take it to the vantage point in front of the Casino. Once you’re there, wait for the “Detonate Bomb” contact to show up on your cellphone and call it, thus triggering the explosives you planted. With that done, the casino will call you and ask you to go and clean.
Enter the Casino
To infiltrate the Casino, you must park the van, grab the rappel equipment, and follow the guard to where a puddle of dirty water is. Any of your group members can clean it, and while doing so, you must wait for the guard to leave so you can head to the elevator.
Once you find the elevator, you have to call it, and then you’ll enter a floor that’s under construction with some cameras. Your task is to find the elevator shaft as quietly as possible. Since we have the sneak skills of an elephant, we alerted the whole Casino and had to deal with guards. For us, the elevator shaft was in the middle of the floor. When you find it, just interact with it and prepare to rappel down.
Infiltrate the Garage
Using the codes you politely took from the valet, you must now open the gates to the garage and fight your way through. The Casino’s security measures will kick off, sending out poisoned gas. Thankfully, you have your gas masks, but they only help for a few seconds. You must send someone to the back of the garage and do some hacking akin to the one found in the Doomsday Heist.
After that, grab the car and drive toward the exit. Sadly, you’ll come across a checkpoint that won’t let you through. Send someone to deal with the guards in the security booth and hack the gates to let you exit the Casino. Be careful because you’ll get a 4-star wanted level. But once you lose your stars, you can head to the Scrap Yard and call it a day.
Selling the Car
As always, the game lets you scrap the car or sell it; we did the latter because it paid us $405,000.00, which is quite the deal for only a few hours of work. Like other sell missions, this one doesn’t have any dangers, and you can drive safely to your destination, assuming you’re in an invite-only session.
As you can see, The Podium Robbery in GTA Online Chop Shop is pretty fun and easy. Of the ones we’ve done, we found this to be the fastest to tackle and a pretty good callback to one of the most profitable heists of the game. And, now that you have the money, feel free to spend it on any properties you want to boost your profit.
