PAYDAY 2 SOLO INFAMY GRIND GUIDE

A guide sharing how I grind infamies mostly solo.

Disclaimer

This guide is meant for people whom have reached infamy 25 before hand as you'll get 205% EXP as Infamy bonus.[\h1]

Level 0 - 48

Before you click the Infamy button, you should do 1 Framing frame/Election day on Normal difficulty, this way you can retain the 25/20% Stealth bonus after you infamy.

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After you go Infamy, go do Diamond Store on Death Sentence difficulty in stealth and grab all bags (18 bags), you might have to wait a while for guard pathing, but there's only 4 guards and you have 4 pagers.

*Note, kill all civillians you see after using the keycard so they don't call the police*

After you've done this heist, you should be on Level 48 (or level 50 if you have done election day before going infamy) Now put a build focusing on STEALTH with ECM's for ELECTION DAY. It's sole purpose is for ELECTION DAY.

Level 48 - 78

Now we enter the Grinding part and let's hope OVERKILL STUDIOS doesn't patch this 100% legit EXP making method.

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After you have done the Diamond store, it is time to do Election day, if you are not skilled enough then do election day on Normal difficulty as you would get the same 20% stealth bonus as if you've done it on Death Sentence : One Down.

Now with 20% Stealth bonus you should make a Holdout build. I would recommend following the build below. You can spend the rest of the skill points on any other helpful skill like ammo pickup.
We will be cheesing the FIRST WORLD BANK HOLDOUT until WAVE 9 as its the easiest holdout to cheese and will net you more skill points down the line.

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This is where you will place the Turrets, for the first few rounds you may need to replace the ammo
This is where you will place one of the BOT, the rest of the bot can be position beside the turrets.

Level 78 - 90

Now that you've reached this stage repeat previous stage but with BIG BANK HOLDOUT map as its the 2nd easiest Holdout map.

To cheese this Holdout and make it easier for us you'll want to grab JACK OF ALL TRADES ACED
and put a turret on the secondary deployable.

At the start put the turret like shown, this will make most of the enemies gravitate towards it leaving us scott free. Very helpful round 6-9.
This is where you will place the turret, underneath the table.
This is the recommended bot position so they don't shoot the ones stuck upstairs

Level 90 - 98

At this point you only need 8 million EXP left, you can either do random heists or 1 Holdout + 1 2 million EXP heist.
I choose the latter so I played Alesso Holdout as you can play passively/aggressively.

Extras

My modlist:
BBPC Helper
Show remaining levels
Clear Texture Cache
Iter
Less Inaccurate Weapon Laser
Low Violence Mode
Map Scripting Improvements
No Duplicated bullets
No Screen shake
No Weapon verification
Show Contracts XP
Solo Achievements
The Fixes
VanillaHUD Plus

[Irene]

@olovia Rodrigo, on the first few rounds(~2-5) you can be active around the hostage, but after that the enemies should get stuck by the turrets so there's no need to shoot anymore.

[Sethles]

What do you recommend for AFKing? I keep failing all my holdouts because the AI is letting the hostage get free. This guide is really unclear on a lot of details.

[Irene]

Juicedoyboy, Don't kill enemies at all. just AFK in a good spot, past round 2 the enemies will be stuck. If you kill them, they'll respawn and make the process harder

[Dark Lord by Killian]

In the first world Bank what should I do should I run around and killing enimies like usual or just afk in a good spot?

[berkshire boar]

Thank you! Your really great help!

[Irene]

@Cloamkern, you lose access to it, but you don't lose the weapons/skills. Once you are matching level you can unlock the weapons back and the skills set back

[berkshire boar]

Question abouut Imfamy: do you lose weapons, masks, and other things once going imfamous?

[Irene]

All Holdouts give the same EXP, its just the map layouts that's easier/harder according to the player. Don't forget to play Election day first to get the 20% stealth bonus.

[[VN]-𝕋𝕦𝕒𝕟♂-]

Different map will give you more exp or it just the same? Cause I can't setup the big bank and alesso, only work on FWB (2.8m exp / 30p)

[Irene]

Entry point? wut?