Overview[]
As you commit crimes, you'll generate heat. If the heat is at 5 stars for too long, the police will start an investigation. If you fail to stop the investigation, it's Game Over!
Stopping an investigation[]
There are several ways to stop an active investigation:
- Call in a favour from a Deputy residence
- Requires warm relations with the deputy
- If deputy is already busy with a henchman, the option can't be used
- Afterwards, the deputy - and any weapon they are offering - will become unavailable
- Pay Deputy Kingsley to reduce heat
- Job must complete before the investigation finishes
- Use a Mastermind in a new sports car for fastest job completion
- If Kingsley's boss tries selling resources, defeating him will reduce heat and stop the investigation
- Occurs randomly when buying resources from Deputy Kingsley, so not a reliable solution
- Lawyers will sometimes reduce the heat enough to abort the investigation
- "Stalling Tactics" upgrade must be applied
- Establish multiple lawyers and stop committing crimes for best results
- Click the "Investigation" button for additional options (see below)
Last chance options[]
When an investigation ends, a menu will be displayed with a few 'last chance' options.
Note: You can show the menu during an investigation by clicking the "Investigation" button.
You can:
- Bribe the investigators
- This option is only available if you can afford it
- Costs $500 the first time
- The cost doubles for each subsequent use
- A Lawyer with political connections will reduce the cost increase
- Bonus: You might get warm relations with an independent protection racket!
- Call in a favour from a friendly deputy
- Chooses a random non-busy deputy that you have warm relations with
- Deputy - and any weapon they were offing - will then become unavailable
- Use another criminal as a scapegoat
- Option is only available if there's a suitable building on the map, in order of preference:
- An independent business with warm/neutral relations
- An enemy gang business
- The enemy gang hideout
- It doesn't matter whether the building has been discovered yet (sometimes there's also an invisible warehouse that doesn't appear even if you've discovered whole district)
- Penalty: You might get cold relations with other buildings on the map
- Option is only available if there's a suitable building on the map, in order of preference:
- Destroy the evidence
- This option can only be used once per map
- Combat mission in a random police station
- On rare occasions it happens in the train station