Crews Dog
Scout · Track threats and loot; scatter guards with a howl.
“Good boy. Knows exactly where the bag is.”
Not out yet. Dog is coming as DLC: wishlist Dog on Steam. The mutation paths below are designed and may still change before release.
Each crew levels from 1 to 10 with crew XP (60 / 90 / 130 per heist on Easy / Hard / Insane). Pick one direction per crew: the first pick is free, a change costs 2,000 Gold Coins and keeps the crew's level. The choices at levels 4, 6, 7, 9 and the evolution at level 10 are free to change in the Garage. Every path keeps the crew's natural attack, ultimate and passive.
Strong at protecting the crew inside the howl, drawing fire, holding revives and drills
Weak at slow, loud and easy to spot; the howl scatters less far on its shielding builds
Use it for revives under fire, drill and vault holds, escorting a bag carrier
Body +15%, slower, louder, spotted sooner, slower armour recovery
Lv 10 Guardian Howl Rally Howl or Challenge Howl
Strong at tracking one target, picking off stragglers, quick chases and quiet takedowns
Weak at fragile, little sustain, protects only itself
Use it for casing and thinning a patrol, catching runners, focusing an elite in loud
Body −10%, less HP and armour
Lv 10 Prey Mark Marked for the Hunt or Lone Prey
Strong at a howl that can be shaped, aimed, echoed and repeated; crowd control over whole rooms
Weak at no extra durability or mobility (the Apex cost); single targets and elites shrug it off
Use it for clearing a vault room for a drill, herding guards away from a route, loud holds against crowds
Normal body: no Titan durability, no Phantom mobility
Lv 10 Pack Signal Rally Signal or Sonar Signal
+15 max HP; allies inside your howl take 5% less damage
Cost Titan base: 6% slower, 20% louder, spotted 10% sooner, armour waits 15% longer
Best Loud holds where the crew stands together
+8 max armour
Best Every loud phase
Bites on an enemy within 4 m of an ally deal 30% more
Best Peeling a cop off a crewmate or a downed ally
Allies within 6 m of you take 6% less damage, howl or not
Cost You take 4% more damage
Best Escorting a bag carrier
+20% crowd-control resistance
Cost Bites 12% slower
Best Holding through flashes, stuns and shoves
While your howl is up, enemies target you 30% more and allies inside take a further 5% less damage
Cost Only while your howl is up
Best Drawing fire off a driller
Howl radius +20% (18 to 21.6 m)
Cost Howled NPCs flee 2 m less (6 to 4 m)
Best Covering a spread-out crew
The howl lasts 30% longer (10 to 13 s)
Cost The ultimate recharges 15% slower
Best Long revives and drill restarts
Finishing a revive lets out a bark that shoves every enemy within 8 m 1.5 m away from you
Cost The ultimate recharges 10% slower
Best Revives under fire
Armour starts coming back 25% sooner
Cost −6 max armour
Best Fights with short breaks behind cover
During your howl heavy bites shove 0.6 m farther; a bite on an enemy within 4 m of an ally refunds 2 s of the ultimate
Best Holding a revive circle
Allies inside your howl get +20% crowd-control resistance
Cost You move 8% slower while your howl is up
Best Holding a point against shield cops and flashes
You and allies inside your howl move 10% faster
Cost Howl radius −15%
Best Moving a bag line through cops
the howl turns from a scatter into a shield aura for the crew (short flee, strong ally protection)
Allies inside your howl take a further 10% less damage and get +25% crowd-control resistance; the howl lasts 1.3x
Cost Howled NPCs flee 3 m less and the howl radius shrinks 25%
Best A crew stacked on one objective
the howl turns into a challenge that draws the enemies' fire onto a tougher Dog
While your howl is up enemies target you far more (threat +100% in all) and you take 20% less damage; 1.15x max HP
Cost You move 15% slower while howling and all your actions are 10% louder
Best Pulling a cop wave off a downed crewmate
Heavy bites mark the target as your prey for 4 s: it gets its own bright trail, seen through walls (Phantom base: 10% harder to spot, 4% faster)
Cost Phantom base: 10% less max HP and armour, a 10% smaller body
Best Following one guard's patrol
+5% movement speed
Best Every route between cover
Bites on an enemy with no other enemy within 5 m of it deal 35% more
Best Picking off stragglers
While a prey mark is up you move 12% faster
Cost 8% less max HP
Best Catching a runner before it reaches help
Your bites make 30% less noise
Cost Bites deal 10% less
Best Takedowns with another guard in earshot
The scent refreshes 0.25 to 0.1 s, the trail to the nearest isolated threat turns a second colour, and your prey's trail stays 4 s after its mark ends
Best Choosing the next target in a patrol
Bites on your prey slow it 30% for 1.5 s
Cost Prey marks last 1 s less
Best Runners and fleeing guards
Hunting Bite deals 55% more instead of 35%
Cost The target needs 7 m of empty space instead of 5 m
Best Cleaning up a patrol your howl scattered
Killing your prey gives +10% dodge chance for 3 s and marks the nearest other enemy within 12 m
Cost 10% less max armour
Best Clearing a loud patrol one by one
After a bite kill you are 30% harder to spot for 3 s
Cost 6% less max HP
Best Quiet takedowns in a guarded room
Casting the howl marks the nearest elite or boss inside it, else the nearest enemy, as prey for 6 s; a bite kill on prey refunds 15 s of the ultimate
Best Opening a loud fight on its toughest enemy
Killing your prey restores 10 HP (once every 8 s)
Cost The howl lasts 20% less (10 to 8 s)
Best Long loud fights with no medic near
Your bites on your prey stagger it for 0.3 s, giving the crew a free window to shoot
Cost Prey marks last 1 s less
Best Focus fire with the crew
the howl becomes a multi-target hunt mark with only a short scatter
Your howl also marks up to 3 enemies inside it as prey for 10 s, and your bites on prey deal 25% more
Cost Howled NPCs flee 3 m less (6 to 3 m, never under 2 m); the ultimate recharges 10% slower
Best Elite squads and bosses that shrug off fear
the howl splits the prey from its group instead of scattering everyone
Your howl spares your prey: everyone else flees 2 m farther while the prey stays and is slowed 40%; Hunting Bite's bonus is 1.3x
Cost 10% less max HP and the howl radius shrinks 30%
Best Cutting an elite or a guard captain out of a group
Howled NPCs flee 25% farther (6 to 7.5 m) and 15% faster (3.2 to 3.7 m/s)
Best Clearing a vault room for the drill
Howl radius +10% (18 to 19.8 m)
Best Every howl
A heavy bite barks: other enemies within 4 m of the bitten one flinch (staggered 0.3 s)
Best Breaking a cop pair at a doorway
The howl reaches 30% farther in a 120° cone ahead of you
Cost Nothing beside or behind you flees
Best Clearing a corridor ahead of the crew
Each howl push holds its fear 40% longer (0.45 to 0.63 s)
Cost Howl radius −20%
Best Tight rooms full of guards
While your howl is up, trails to threats it did not move (immune, elite, boss) turn a second colour
Cost Only while your howl is up
Best Calling which enemy the crew must shoot
Howled NPCs flee in the direction you face (within 60°) instead of straight away from you
Cost They flee 15% slower
Best Herding guards out of a vault or away from a bag pile
When the howl ends it echoes once: a 3 s howl at 60% radius
Cost The ultimate recharges 15% slower
Best Holding a point after the first scatter
Casting the howl gives you and allies inside it +15% movement for 4 s
Cost The howl lasts 20% less (10 to 8 s)
Best Moving the crew after a scatter
The bark reaches 6 m instead of 4 m
Cost Each enemy can be barked at only once every 10 s instead of 6 s
Best Groups that bunch up on you
Each enemy the howl's first push scares refunds 2 s of the ultimate (up to 20 s a cast); a heavy bite during the howl pushes once more around you
Best Long loud fights against crowds
The howl's sound carries 40% less far
Cost Howled NPCs flee 2 m less
Best Scattering a patrol in stealth without waking the next room
The howl grows 1 m a second, up to 6 m more
Cost It starts 25% smaller
Best Open lobbies and the street
the howl spreads to every ally nearby instead of riding the Dog alone
Your howl calls the pack: every ally within 25 m carries a 6 m signal howl for 5 s; howled NPCs run 1.2x as fast
Cost Your own howl is 40% smaller
Best Crews spread across several rooms
the howl becomes three long-reaching sonar pulses that reveal enemies instead of a lasting zone
The howl becomes 3 pulses 2 s apart, each reaching 1.3x as far and showing every enemy it touches to the whole crew through walls for 3 s
Cost No lasting howl zone between pulses, and each pulse's fear is 20% shorter
Best Scouting a building before the crew moves in