The Setup

"Remember, no cops"
"If the police get involved..."
"Yeah, it's all over"
"We heard you the first 40 times"
― Harvey and Jade

The Setup was released as part of "The Freelance Heists" expansion on January 16th, 2021. It is the first mission of the expansion and the first mission chronologically.

Overview

"None of us like the task, but we've all accepted it. We're going to have to do some dirty work for the broker to get out from under their thumb. We're being sent after a government shipment being moved in a convoy of armored trucks. Our first job is breaking into the security company and tagging the trucks moving the target."
― Mission briefing

In this mission, The Freelancer is tasked with infiltrating a security company to find out more about one of their contracts and to tag their security trucks with trackers. To cover up the break in, they also empty the company safe. The mission is coordinated by Harvey and Jade.

The mission takes place at night in the middle of a city. You spawn in front of the main building on the side of the road. The building has a locked entrance at the front and various sensor doors on both sides. To the left is a parking lot and a small walkway which gives you access to the top of the building. On the right there is a ramp leading to the underground garage. There is also a small balcony with a ladder which can be accessed from inside.

The building has 2 floors and a basement. The floors consist of office space, a break room, a locker room and stairs. There are also 4 small rooms locked by a keycard door, 2 of them on the first floor and the other 2 on the upper floor. The one on the upper floor next to the stairs will always be the IT room, while the other 3 are random, with each of them containing either the safe, the servers or the camera operator.

NPCs

The only type of NPC in this mission are Security Guards who roam the inside and outside the building. Guards in this mission are aggressive guards, which means they will always pull out their gun when fully alerted. They cannot be interrogated, and killing any of them on Elite or Legend difficulties will fail the mission. One of the guards inside the building will carry a Keycard.

	Rookie	Professional	Operative	Elite	Legend
Security Guards (outside)	2	2	2	2	2
Security Guards (inside)	6	6	6	6	6
Camera Operator	1	1	1	1	1

Mission Progression

"That guard had a family"
"That guard wasn't real"
"Okay fair but you still weren't supposed to kill them"
― The Freelancer and Harvey breaking the fourth wall

The main objective is to plant trackers on the security trucks found in the basement and hack the servers for intel. After that, you also have to empty the company safe. This mission can only be done in stealth. Raising the alarm in any way will fail the mission, similar to the Night Heists. Additionally, on Elite and Legend difficulties, killing anyone will also fail the mission.

There are multiple ways to get inside the building. 2 power boxes can be found outside, rewiring the first one will disable the window alarms, rewiring the second one will disable the door sensors. On Elite and Legend difficulties, the second power box will spawn inside the building, so you must use an Engineer or any of its subclasses to bypass the door sensors or open the garage door. Alternatively, you can also open a skylight after the window alarms have been disabled. This can be done with a Lockpick Kit or Silent Drill. Attempting to open a door while the sensors are still active will result in the camera operator being alerted. On lower difficulties, if you can quickly wallbang the camera guard with a CH-A after breaking a window or door, the alarms will not be raised because the sensors function similarly to door sensors in The Deposit.

Once inside, you have to search through the files found in various rooms. After that, you have to plant trackers on 3 of the trucks in the basement and hack the servers. The servers can be found in one of the small rooms. If you are a Hacker, you can hack them, otherwise you need the server password from the files in the IT room.

The final objective is cracking the safe found in one of the small rooms and escaping with the money.

Objectives

Breach of Security

• Use power boxes to disable the alarms
• Window alarms are disabled
• Door alarms are disabled

Scouting Job

• Search files for intel
• Hack database servers
• Tag the armored trucks
• Crack the safe
• Escape with the cash

Rewards

	Rookie	Professional	Operative	Elite	Legend
XP	3,500	7,000	10,500	14,000	18,000
Bonus XP (No alarm + no kills)	700+700	1,400+1,400	2,100+2,100	2,800+2,800	3,600+3,600
Contract	$1,000	$2,500	$3,500	$5,000	$6,500

Badges

• Plan For Success - Complete "The Setup" on Legend

Soundtracks

• https://www.roblox.com/library/1841579249/Solitary-Quest-a

Trivia

• Killing a guard on Rookie-Operative will result in unique, 4th wall-breaking dialogue.

• Shooting an unsuppressed weapon, or setting off any explosives will result in the alarm being raised, even if all guards have been neutralized.

• The Setup doesn't have an escape point for hostages.
  • Other missions without escape points include The Financier and The Lakehouse.