Introduction
The payphone hits are new series of assassination missions in GTA Online given to you by Franklin after you complete at least three security contract missions as part of the Contract DLC. Once you’ve completed three security contract missions, you need to drive around in free roam until a payphone icon flashes on your mini-map.
Go to the payphone and answer the phone to start your first payphone hit mission. The missions you get are always random.
Once you’ve completed your first payphone mission, you can then order a payphone hit by calling Franklin directly from your mobile phone.
The Payphone Hits missions are named as follows:
- The Popstar
- The Tech Entrepreneur
- The Cofounder
- The CEO
- The Trolls
- The Judge
- The Hitmen
- The Dealers
All the missions can be completed solo except the hitmen and the dealers. The hitmen and dealers’ missions can only be completed if you have at least one player in your organization. You can complete these missions in either public, solo, or invite-only sessions.
Each hit mission has three different variants and has a special condition. If you meet the special condition, it grants you extra cash called the assassination bonus. The assassination bonus is always revealed a few seconds after you start the mission. It will be shown as a pop-up at the top-left corner of your screen and also as a text message from Franklin.
The standard pay for completing any one of the payphone hits is $15,000, but if you complete the mission fulfilling the assassination bonus criteria, you will get an additional $70,000. Any associates with you will earn $15,000 standard plus an additional $30,000 for meeting the bonus criteria.
If you fail to meet the bonus criteria, there is a chance for you to get a three-star wanted level or multiple enemy NPCs attacking you. If you meet the criteria, you will get an option to leave the area to complete the mission.
Once you complete a Payphone Hit, there is a twenty-minute cool down before you can request another one. If you change a session in the middle of an ongoing hit (give you’re a leader of the organization), you can instantly order another payphone hit by calling Franklin. You won’t have to wait for twenty minutes.
In this guide, we’ve listed down all the variants and proper steps to complete each variant for all mission types.
The Popstar
In Popstar, you are tasked to assassinate a spoiled kid who makes peoples’ lives difficult by being a nuisance to society.
The target is always driving around in his sports car. The sports car manufacturer is Annis Euros.
Variant 1
In this variant, you’ll be tasked to pursue the target in a police car until they crash their vehicle.
It is pretty easy to do. The first thing you must do is find a cop car. You can either go directly to the nearest police station (if you know the location, of course) or wait a minute into the mission, and the game will automatically source the vehicle for you.
The game located vehicle will appear once the timer hits 14:00 min. It will appear as a yellow circle with a question mark on your map. It shows the general region where you can find the vehicle.
Here is one of our favorite locations where we always find a cop car parked right outside the station.
Once you have the vehicle, drive to the target and stay within the intimidation region (a red circle marked on your mini-map).
You will notice an intimidation bar at the bottom-right corner of your screen. As long as you’re inside the region, the level of this bar will increase. Fill the bar to cause a car crash and assassinate the target.
Once assassinated, leave the area to complete the mission.
Variant 2
In the second variant, you need to take out the target using a driveby weapon whilst in a Vagos lowrider.
The game will give you the location of the Vagos lowrider, drive to the location and steal the bright-yellow vehicle.
Now, drive to the target and just eliminate them using any one of your driveby weapons, such as a micro-SMG.
Once eliminated, leave the area to complete the mission.
Variant 3
The final variant requires you to destroy the target’s vehicle using a truck cab. The truck cab will be sourced at the construction site.
Go to the yellow-marked region and get into the cab.
Drive it to the target and keep ramming their vehicle until they eventually crash the vehicle.
Leave the area to complete the mission.
The Tech Entrepreneur
In this mission, you need to assassinate a target who is drunk and is always coming out of a hotel.
All the mission variants require the use of a taxi. You can always find the taxi in the marked location below. This is where the game also sources the taxi for you.
Variant 1
In the first variant, you need to pick up the target in a taxi and take them out with a gas station explosion.
Once you’ve got the taxi, go and pick up the target from their hotel.
When they’re in, go to any one of the gas stations around the city. The following are the most common and easiest to find in the city. You can always go to the one you know of.
Park the car by the filling unit.
Shoot the unit to cause an explosion and eliminate the target. This will complete this hit mission.
Variant 2
In the second variant, you need to pick up the target in a taxi and drown them by submerging the vehicle in water.
This one is relatively easy. As usual, all you need to do is get into the taxi and pick up the driver.
Now, drive the car to the beach. Accelerate towards the sea, and exit the vehicle just before the vehicle reaches the sea.
The car will submerge in the water, drowning the target.
Note that you can go to any water body. It doesn’t have to be the beach. It can even be a shallow river or a pond. It’s a good location as long as the vehicle completely submerges in the water.
The hit mission completes once the target successfully drowns.
Variant 3
In the final variant, you need to pick up the target in a taxi and drive them to the car crusher at the scrapyard.
After getting the taxi and picking up the target, drive to the scrapyard. The scrapyard will be marked with a yellow crusher hook icon on the map.
Go to the location and drive into the yellow marker to eliminate the target by crushing them.
You don’t have to leave the area. A small cutscene will play, after which the hit will complete.
The Cofounder
The target is always in a motel with a prostitute, and you can kill them as soon as they leave their hotel room.
Or, you can opt to go for one of the following variants.
Variant 1
The first variant requires you to take out the target using an explosives modification installed on their car.
First, make your way to the target’s hotel location. You will get a checkout timer at the bottom-right corner indicating the time before the target leaves their hotel room.
The target’s vehicle is always an old rusty Mariachi Tornado.
Get into the vehicle, and drive it to the nearest Los Santos Customs. You will automatically get a waypoint to the closest Los Santos Customs as soon as you enter the vehicle.
At the Los Santos Customs, rig the vehicle with an ‘ignition bomb’ for $500.
After that, drive it back and park it in the same spot.
Now, wait for the timer to run out, and the target will come out of their hotel room.
As soon as they start their vehicle, an explosion will eliminate them.
Leave the area to complete this hit.
Variant 2
In the second variant, you need to set the target’s car on fire while they are inside it.
The easiest way to do this is to use molotov.
Go to the target’s car and wait for them to check out.
Wait for the target to sit in the vehicle and start throwing molotovs at them.
Do not throw them before they sit inside and close the car door. Otherwise, they will start running away from the car and you.
When you throw the first Molotov, the chances are that the target will crash the vehicle, causing them to get stuck in a spot, making it easier for you to throw molotovs at the car.
Throw a couple of Molotov, and the car will explode.
Leave the area to complete the mission.
Variant 3
In the third variant, you need to use a scoped rifle to blow up the engine of the target’s car while they are inside it.
When you reach the motel, you will get a white bag icon on your mini-map. This is the location of the scoped rifle.
It is usually found on rooftops around the motel. Climb up on the roof and interact with the bag to get your scoped rifle.
Now, wait for the target to check out and get inside their car.
When the target is inside the car, shoot the front bumper area of the car to blow it up.
Leave the area to complete the mission.
The CEO
In this mission, you are tasked with eliminating a target at the construction site, filming a reality TV show called the ‘Closet CEO.’
The following variants revolve around making this assassination look like an accident at the construction site.
Variant 1
The first variant requires you to use a scoped rifle to take out the target with a cargo container.
When you reach the construction site, a white bag will be marked on your mini-map (similar to the one seen in Variant 3 of The Cofounder). This bag contains a scoped rifle. All three variants of this mission utilize the scoped rifle.
Go to the white bag and interact with it to get your scoped rifle.
Aim down sights towards the construction site where the target is. You will find a hanging cargo container with a red arrow hovering over it.
You need to wait for the marked target to walk under the container.
As soon as the target is under the container, shoot the lock on top of it, and it will fall right on the target eliminating them.
Leave the area to complete the mission.
Variant 2
In the second variant, you will be tasked to use a scoped rifle to take out the target with a bulldozer.
Once again, make your way to the construction site and get your scoped rifle.
This time, aim at the driver of the bulldozer.
If you’re not getting a good angle, move around until you get a perfect shot of the head. You need to kill the driver in one go.
Wait for the target to walk in front of the bulldozer, and kill the driver.
The bulldozer will accelerate into the target, instantly killing them.
Leave the area to complete this mission.
Variant 3
The third variant requires you to use a scoped rifle to take out the target with a gas tank.
The gas tank is also at the construction site.
Wait for the target to walk by the gas tank and shoot it.
It will cause an explosion, killing the target.
Leave the area to complete this mission.
