GTA 5 Planning the Big Score Walkthrough

Choose between the Subtle and Obvious approaches to the Union Depository job.

Objectives

Choose the heist approach.
Choose your crew.

Mission walkthrough

The crew meets again at the Vanilla Unicorn. This is a planning scene with no combat, and your only job is to choose.

Michael walks along a street past a red-brick club building with a purple canopy.

Michael stands at a door marked private club, members only, with a man in black beside him.

A man in a maroon shirt points at the Big Score planning wall while two others watch.

Michael stands with two men in a dim room while a bald man with glasses speaks to them.

Subtle: You hijack the two Securicars that make the morning run, drive in dressed as guards, load up and leave in modified cars. The setups are Stingers and Gauntlet.

The planning wall shows an armored truck photo and a red route map as the subtle approach is explained.

The planning wall shows an armored truck photo, a red route map and a Getaway note.

Obvious: You drill into the vault from underground, fly the gold out by helicopter and drop it on a moving train. The setups are Driller, Sidetracked and Getaway Vehicle.

The planning wall shows a Hole note and a map of the dig site as the tunnel boring plan is explained.

The planning wall shows a helicopter photo, a metro construction photo and a Drop-off note.

Both count the same for 100%. Subtle has less shooting early on, and Obvious is the larger firefight. You pick the second gunman, the second driver and the hacker now too. See Heist crew choices.

Karim Denz's driver card is pinned on the planning wall.

Crew cards for Daryl Johns, Karim Denz and Taliana Martinez, with the prompt to select a gunman to hire.

Gold Medal requirements

Planning the Big Score has no Gold Medal requirements.

Part of The Big Score in the story walkthrough.