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* Almost all DLC for the game comes with the "Ultimate Edition", which is discounted slightly if you have the base game, and more if you have some DLC already.
* Almost all DLC for the game comes with the "Ultimate Edition", which is discounted slightly if you have the base game, and more if you have some DLC already.


* You do not need the Ultimate Edition to play DLC heists, just to host them. A ton of good weapons and equipment is only available in the full version, though.
* You do not need the Ultimate Edition to play DLC heists, just to host them. A ton of good weapons and equipment are only available in the full version, though.


* The base game has hundreds of hours of gameplay. The full version has around two thousand. Your call.
* The base game has hundreds of hours of gameplay. The full version has around two thousand. Your call.
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* "Continental Coins" are gained by completing safehouse raids, daily missions, and Crime Spree. They're used to upgrade the safehouse and buy gun parts. Safehouse upgrades are 99% cosmetic, get gun parts first.
* "Continental Coins" are gained by completing safehouse raids, daily missions, and Crime Spree. They're used to upgrade the safehouse and buy gun parts. Safehouse upgrades are 99% cosmetic, get gun parts first.


* "Crime Spree" is a sort of endless survival mode for advanced players. It's also a huge continental coin sink. Don't bother with it until you've gotten gud.
* "Crime Spree" is a sort of endless heisting survival mode for advanced players. It's also a huge continental coin sink. Don't bother with it until you've gotten gud.
 
* "Holdout" is an infamously ill-balanced multi-wave survival mode with limited maps, poor rewards, bugs galore and completely broken, nonsensical difficulty. There is no reason to play it other than to get special associated masks for completing weekly challenge runs. Find a full team of expert masochists if you want to do it.


== Stealth ==
== Stealth ==
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* Jumping onto the folded-up blankets in Lab Rats keeps you from taking fall damage.
* Jumping onto the folded-up blankets in Lab Rats keeps you from taking fall damage.
* Be aware that the last couple heists in the game's storyline, Hell's Island and White House, never got a complete optimization pass and therefore suffer from serious performance problems.


* Yes, the motorcycles in Biker Heist Day 1 handle that badly. Their hitbox is much, much larger than it looks.
* Yes, the motorcycles in Biker Heist Day 1 handle that badly. Their hitbox is much, much larger than it looks.
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