Uploaded March 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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There are a plethora of cut/hidden events in Payback, and thanks to Enksx1, we are able to restore some of them back into the game. Most are just races or drift events but one caught our attention

"Cooldown," a cut event type that's basically like any of the escape missions, except in this particular event there are only 2 pursuers, and a helicopter spawns! Based on the naming scheme in the game's files, this is the first Cooldown event. It's relatively short overall, so I'm wondering were it finished, would it have been a longer drive to the hideout?

What's more, the helicopter doesn't follow you. Seems to go its own way and it's very quick, I guess it was never scripted to follow the player outside of Skyhammer. A lot of us assumed that the helicopter would get reoccurring appearances through Payback's story. I guess that was Ghost's intention too, it's just a shame they didn't include this event type or the helicopter in any other event

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