PAYDAY 3 Road Rage Walkthrough: Rob the Truck Without Becoming a Road Worker
Road Rage is loud-only. You ambush the armored truck, hijack it, escort it across the bridge, crack it open, steal the rare elements and escape.
You need 4 bags on Normal, 5 on Hard, and 6 on Very Hard or Overkill. The truck carries ten loot bags in total: six rare elements and four cash.
The biggest timesaver is simple: use the 1:30 arrival countdown to prepare the road before the truck gets there.
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Quick Route
EMP --> control civilians --> prepare road --> steering device --> hack truck --> escort --> drill electronics hatch --> override doors --> loot --> flare --> secure required rare elements --> cut fence --> escape
Road Rage has two main route variations. One sends you through the electrical gate. The other gives you two potholes and a forklift to deal with.
Find out which fresh piece of municipal bullshit you've inherited before the truck starts moving.
Prepare the bridge before the armored truck arrives
Place and activate the EMP. You've now got roughly 1:30 before the truck arrives, and this is where a quick Road Rage run is actually won.
Keep the civilians under control, then inspect the route. Find the electrical gate and its controls. Locate the road plates for the potholes. Move or prepare whatever the game allows before the escort starts.
This produces one of Road Rage's stranger pleasures. You're four heavily armed criminals preparing to rob an armored transport carrying rare elements, yet somebody still has to sort out the potholes first.
For once, PAYDAY has created a criminal organisation with a more proactive road-maintenance policy than Belgium.
Hijack the truck and stay with it
Once the EMP stops the armored vehicle:
Retrieve the steering device.
Attach it.
Hack the vehicle controls.
Start escorting the truck.
Stay inside the control radius or the truck stops. More players near it also make the escort faster, so there's little benefit in scattering across the bridge while one poor bastard walks alongside your multimillion-dollar robbery at the speed of a pensioner browsing Lidl.
Your job is the truck.
Follow the truck.
Road Rage is refreshingly straightforward. PAYDAY 3 absolutely does not maintain this courtesy everywhere. See which heists are actually worth tackling alone before your AI crew discovers another fascinating wall.
Electrical gate or potholes: the Road Rage RNG
The electrical gate route is the cleaner version. Get the gate open, escort the truck and repair the steering device when required.
The other route has considerably more Department of Transportation energy.
You'll need to cover two potholes, move the forklift and deal with steering-device failures. In our current runs, this version required two steering-device repairs.
Get those road plates into position early whenever possible. Otherwise the truck reaches the hole and stops while somebody runs off to find a large sheet of metal under police fire.
It's difficult to imagine the planning meeting.
"We jam the armored truck."
"Good."
"We remotely hijack the steering."
"Excellent."
"Then Hoxton fixes the road."
"...what?"
For the Traffic Control achievement on Overkill, this preparation becomes crucial because the truck can't be allowed to stop.
Crack open the armored truck
Once the truck reaches the final position, access the electronics hatch underneath it and start the drill. It takes roughly 30 seconds.
Then override the rear doors, get inside and open the loot containers.
There are six rare-element bags and four cash bags.
Here's what you actually need:
Difficulty | Required loot |
Normal | 4/10 |
Hard | 5/10 |
Very Hard | 6/10 |
Overkill | 6/10 |
Very Hard and Overkill therefore force you to take all six rare-element bags.
The four cash bags are where PAYDAY performs its usual psychological experiment.
The objective is complete. The police are flooding onto the bridge. You have what you came for. Escape is becoming increasingly attractive.
But there's money in that box.
Of course you're taking a look.
Best Road Rage favors
For fast runs, Additional Secure Point is the standout. It adds another secure point and can save time during extraction.
Unlocked Lockboxes is excellent if you simply want fewer things wasting your time inside the truck. The containers are already open, removing the lockpicking stage.
Stronger Signal increases the truck's control radius. That's handy when the bridge gets crowded and everyone is trying to remain close enough to keep the world's slowest stolen vehicle moving.
Then there's Additional Explosives.
It is certainly one of the favors available in Road Rage.
Anyway.
For most runs, take Additional Secure Point for speed or Unlocked Lockboxes for convenience.
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Signal Bile and get off the bridge
Place the flare once you're ready for extraction.
Bile takes roughly 90 seconds to arrive and can approach from either side of the bridge, so don't pile everything somewhere based purely on muscle memory.
Secure the required rare elements when the getaway arrives. Once you've hit the minimum, Final Charge begins.
This is the moment to leave.
Cut through the fence, head down through the scaffolding and escape. Any remaining cash now has to compete against an endless police assault for your attention.
You already robbed an armored truck, remotely hijacked it, escorted it through a construction site, repaired its steering system, resurfaced part of New York and stole six bags of rare elements.
You've done enough for one shift.
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