Cayo Perico Heist Prep: Disruption Missions Guide

While not mandatory, completing the Disruption setup missions for the Cayo Perico Heist can significantly ease the difficulty of the finale, especially if stealth fails. These missions target El Rubio's supply lines, weakening his guards' weapons, armor, and eliminating hostile air support.

Disruption missions are like the Duggan Shipments from the Diamond Casino Heist separated into a three-part mission. These are not necessary, but completing them will provide an added advantage during the heist finale.

Weapons

In this optional prep mission, you must eliminate El Rubio's arms dealers. There are always three dealers spread all around the map. You only get 10:00 minutes to take them all out.

If you manage to take them all out within 10:00 minutes, the damage done by El Rubio's guard's weapons during the heist is reduced significantly. You only get one chance at this mission every heist. Do not worry, as each dealer eliminated decreases the weapon damage.

This means even if you took two of the three dealers, you should see some considerable difference in the damage dealt during the heist.

We recommend that you either use an Oppressor Mark II or a Buzzard helicopter to reach the targets faster. The homing missiles on these vehicles are useless as they won't lock on to the targets. They will be used solely to go from point A to point B.

This is the reason why you can even use the Sparrow helicopter (if you've bought one) to go to the arms dealers. Another quick tip for all disruption missions is to press the handbrake button once in the air if you use the Oppressor Mark II. Your Oppressor will reach the maximum speed of 130 km/h.

The Oppressor will descend gradually, but you can gain altitude and repeat the same. You will reach the targets much faster by following this strategy. Eliminate all the dealers to weaken the weapon damage of the guards during the heist finale. You do not have to kill the surrounding enemies. Focus fire on the dealers and eliminate them only, and then move on to the next one.

Note that you will also come across heavily armored dealers. An efficient way to eliminate them is using RPG or explosive weapons.

Armor

In this optional prep mission, you need to destroy the armor shipments scheduled to reach Cayo Perico island for El Rubio's security guards. If you manage to destroy them all within 10:00 minutes, the guards will not have any armor during the heist finale.

First, you will be asked to go to a warehouse to find several crates outside the warehouse. Destroy them all using explosive weapons such as a grenade launcher or RPG.

Then you will need to enter the warehouse. You will find more enemies inside the warehouse with more crates.

After clearing the warehouse, Pavel will inform you that another shipment is leaving on a boat. Make your way to the boat and destroy the last shipment.

Once you've destroyed the last shipment, this optional disruption mission will be completed.

Air Support

Out of all three disruption missions, this is the most important one. When the guards are alerted during the heist finale, El Rubio sends his security helicopters to patrol and find you. If you manage to complete this mission within 10:00 minutes, the guards won't have any helicopters to patrol the island.

In this mission, you must destroy El Rubio's Buzzards that are intended for security on the island. You will only get 10:00 minutes to take them all out. If you destroy all the Buzzards, the guards won't have access to the Buzzards when alerted, as mentioned above.

You only get one chance at this mission every heist. A Buzzard or an Oppressor Mark II are super useful for completing the mission and we highly recommend using the Oppressor if you have one. Use the same handbrake technique stated above to reach all the targets quicker.

There are a total of 10 Buzzards that must be destroyed within 10:00 minutes and you get a total of 20 missiles in your Oppressor Mark II. Make sure you use them efficiently.

The homing missiles do not lock onto the targets and so a good trick here is to lock onto the guards standing near the Buzzards at the site. If you fire the missiles at those guards, the explosion's impact also takes out the surrounding Buzzards.