ROB RUN loot & robbery targets

How a ROB RUN heist works

Kefir's own rules are short. You become a Criminal the moment you put on a mask; before that you can walk around Looty Bay safely, look at a building and plan the way out. Once masked, the Police and other Criminals can shoot you, and if you die you lose everything in your bag. The only way to drop Criminal status is to leave the city. Next time you drive in, you pick your role again.

• Keep the staff covered. Hold workers at gunpoint so they don't raise the alarm. Some places can be cleaned out quietly if you disable the alarms and intimidate the staff.
• Split the jobs in a party. One player breaks in, one hauls, one covers the door. Parties are capped at three.
• Solo has perks. Kefir says solo players start at Notoriety level 4 and get bonuses when selling and collecting loot. Notoriety rises the longer a spree lasts: better loot and payouts, more risk.
• Surrender if it's lost. Cops only confiscate what is in your bag, so your equipped gear survives.

Where to sell ROB RUN loot

Cash can only be stored at Lenny's. Stolen goods go to your base, which other players can raid. To turn loot into money, find the van with a dollar sign on the Looty Bay map or go to the Sales Center and sell to the Fence, then take the cash off the counter straight away, because anyone can grab it. Laundered money in a bank account can't be stolen, but the weekly Federal Raid still turns all of it into jail time.

ROB RUN heist keys and tools

Most of the money sits behind a locked door or inside a safe. Kefir only confirms the broad strokes (a key can unlock a safe, a jammer steals the Buletti from the Grand Hotel, a lottery ticket can pay out huge), so the details below come from fan guides that read the game files:

• Safe Keys and Room Keys drop around the city. A key often opens a safe in a different building from where you found it.
• Mini Drill opens the big safes in locked rooms and the three safes in the bank. It is a Black Market item that unlocks with a level 2 settlement.
• USB Hacking Tool fills up from Secured Computers and is one of the parts you barter for the Drill.
• Glass Cutter is for the Art Gallery exhibit. It is bartered for Code Tablets; Kefir raised the number of tablets on November 4 while cutting the time to crack the Fabergé Egg.
• Drill and ID Card open the bank vault. An ID Card also opens the police armory.
• Lottery tickets are easy to sell by accident. Kefir says it is working on protecting valuable items from accidental sales.

Getting decoders

• Search everything. Uncommon and Legendary decoders are random finds in safes, cabinets and other search spots. Fan sites list electronics stores as one place players find them.
• Barter at Lenny's Motel. The barter trader behind the suspicious door turns three Uncommon decoders and $10,000 into one Epic decoder, or takes one filled Action Camera instead. Action Cameras fill as you search cabinets, drawers and safes.
• The season pass. Players report a decoder among the Season 1 rewards. Kefir hasn't published the reward list, so check the pass screen in game before you count on it.

Using a decoder on a Security System

Every building on a base has a Security System. Its defense level is the building's own protection plus the points of every Electronic Fuse the owner has installed. Each decoder you plug in lowers that level by its breaching value and is used up. Once it reaches zero the system is hacked and you get temporary access to that one building. Kefir's advice is to act fast: the owners can repair the system and lock you out again, and their fuses survive the hack.

The math is simple: divide the defense level by your decoder's breaching value and round up. Fan guides put a bare trailer at defense 5 (five Uncommon, two Epic or one Legendary decoder) and a small house at 15 (fifteen Uncommon, five Epic or three Legendary). Every fuse the owner adds raises the count. Decoders don't open safes or security cabinets inside the building; that takes a Master Key from the Black Market.

Defending works the other way round: fortify with security modules and fuses, set raid alerts, and lean on your clan. Kefir also points out that a base that looks poor may not be worth a raider's rare decoders.

What we can't confirm

Kefir has not published payouts per location, how much Notoriety adds to a sale, or how many decoders a fully upgraded base takes. The numbers above are read from the game files by fan sites and can change with any patch. If you see something different in game, send us a screenshot and we'll fix the row. Server trouble mid-heist? Check the server list. Hoping to rob Looty Bay on a PlayStation or Xbox? See whether ROB RUN is coming to console.