The Diamond 30 sec timer?

[CaleoGaming]

Wtf is this. Me and a friend have been doing this for hours and even though we call out the path really quickly , there is no way at all we can run all the way back in time. Who the ♥♥♥♥ designed this? Are we missing something?

[Seal]

Try playing on a lower difficulty. :special:

No, seriously, the timer is infinite on normal, and it's 30 seconds on about Mayhem and above.

[Curious Fox]

Yes you are missing something.

Do it over and over until you have a straight line. You can go and return within 20 seconds.

That's really the trick to doing it for the 14 minute achievement.

[Snivy]

You are missing the fact that the timer can be started over and over again, for an unlimited amount of times.

The patterns reach from difficult to pretty much "walk a straight line".

[Stret]

Originally posted by Doug Dimmadab:

Wtf is this. Me and a friend have been doing this for hours and even though we call out the path really quickly , there is no way at all we can run all the way back in time. Who the ♥♥♥♥ designed this? Are we missing something?

There IS time.
Just do it until you get a good path and go.

[Stret]

Originally posted by Curious Fox:

Yes you are missing something.

Do it over and over until you have a straight line. You can go and return within 20 seconds.

That's really the trick to doing it for the 14 minute achievement.

You could get any simple path and it will be fine.

[Curious Fox]

Originally posted by Stret1311:

You could get any simple path and it will be fine.

Pretty much, but I was lazy to explain all that.

Like... 4 up, 1 left, 3 up is easy, but I didn't want to explain the details.

[Duende Tuneado]

Originally posted by Doug Dimmadab:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ designed this?

The guy who wanted to have a cool indiana jones like security system at a museum.
Think about what would happen if they invest into a proper securty system.

[Greb]

Keep hacking the thing until you get a better thing. I've heard it steadily gets better, although I wouldn't know for sure. Most people just take the first path they get, grab the diamond, and then set off the gas on the way back.

Not an option in stealth, but in stealth, you have all the time in the world.

Consider using the razor sharp steel edged playing cards throwable, since you get 21. If you're nervous, you can mark the path by throwing those. Might waste a bit of time, but, eh it's something.

I normally type it out real quick anyway. Like uh, you'd skip the first tile cause easy to know where to start, then you'd say something like "3 - L2 - 4 - R4 - 1 - L1 - 2" and it'd translate to "3 steps forward, 2 steps left, 4 steps forward, 4 steps right, 1 step forward, 1 step left, 2 steps forward" and that's it.

Admittedly that's with a buddy of mine who does the crossing while I do the typing, or vice versa, but if you're quick at typing and understand it, you can type it out for yourself.

The floor is the heists gimmick.

The Diamond is one of the few heists it's actually worth bringing a Plan B build to, because restarting right at the trapfloor is like throwing away the whole heist, and triggering the alarm there isn't so bad, you just have to hold out for like one assault wave, you're always in enclosed quarters not being pelted from every direction, lots of bottlenecks etc.

One Down on Death Sentence? Well, crit builds and dodge builds go hand in hand with low concealment, as well as surviving DSOD, so there's that lol. Sure you won't pick doors as quick, or answer pagers as fast, but you also won't be squish in five seconds either.

Though I guess if you want the stealth bonus that'd kinda suck...but again if you wanted a stealth bonus you'd speedrun Election Day in like 6 minutes, right?

Originally posted by Doug Dimmadab:

Who the ♥♥♥♥ designed this?

Probably GenSec, or Umbrella.

[CaleoGaming]

I did this last night on solo. Which is probably the only way it can be done easier because you can actually pause and get to memorize the path before you go.

[Pigeons555]

If you play online, you can type out the path in chat, and I have done it solo round trip on OD with only one trip, so it's definitely possible.