The Paleto Score - Planning #32

3.32. The Paleto Score - Planning

This is The Paleto Score Setup, the planning mission for The Paleto Score. It opens after you finish Minor Turbulence, and it starts with Michael and Trevor meeting Steve Haines and Dave Norton at the meth lab in Sandy Shores. When the agents tell them to get the gear for the next job themselves, the two of them go with Lester to look over the bank in Paleto Bay.

  • Scoping the bank
  • As Michael, pick up Trevor, go to Paleto Bay, and pick up Lester, who arrived by bus. Look around in front of Blaine County Savings, then go back to the empty lot next door and check the alarm unit out back.
  • Lester decides the cost of disabling the alarm is higher than the take, and suggests timing how fast the police show up. As Michael, you only have to shoot the alarm. If you have no gun, stop at Ammu-Nation first and buy one.
  • Checking the police response
  • Watch from the gas station across the street and four police cars arrive quickly, with extra units waiting as well. On the police radio, they say they will set up roadblocks on the highway.
  • At this point Trevor gets out of the car and steals a Ruffian that was parked there.
  • Race back to the lab
  • You choose whether Michael or Trevor makes the run. Trevor's Ruffian is faster than Michael's Premier. If you pick Michael, the conversation with Lester explains why this bank has to be robbed in a head-on fight with the police.
  • Either direction on the Great Ocean Highway has a roadblock, and driving straight through gets you spotted by the police and fails the mission. The guided route through Paleto Forest and up toward Raton Canyon is safe.
  • Whoever arrives first, the mission continues.
  • Choosing the gunman
  • Once you gather at the lab, Lester sets up the planning board, and the mission ends when you pick one gunman for The Paleto Score.
  • A rookie gunman such as Daryl or Norm is guaranteed to die during the finale. Even so, the cut plus the death fee comes to 9% for Daryl and 10.5% for Norm, which is less than Packie, Chef, or Gustavo.
  • Daryl is the cheapest, but it is better to save Daryl for The Bureau Raid and The Big Score and use Norm here.
  • Finishing it adds Lester to Trevor's contacts, and it unlocks Predator and the setup mission Military Equipment.
  • Gold medal
  • Reach the bank within 3 minutes 30 seconds
  • Win the race back to the lab
  • Reasons for failure
  • A protagonist dies or is busted, Lester dies, you leave Lester behind, or you leave the mission area
  • The car is destroyed or stuck, or you enter Los Santos while banished from the city
  • The bank or the police spot you, a guard notices you, or you are not watching the bank when the police arrive

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