Panic Rush

The Panic Rush is an easter egg minigame in which users have a set amount of time to collectively click all Panic Switches on the map to succeed. If players are unable to accomplish this in time, a bomb will appear on-screen and beep in a progressively rapid manner, immediately followed by confetti and spinning text stating "you lose lol". This easter egg is meant to subvert expectations by creating fast-paced suspense followed by a light-hearted reveal that there is no real danger.

Activating the minigame
To activate the Panic Rush, you must first find the Contingency Unit. This is a GUI panel found in a ventilation shaft directly connected to the first T-junction hallway into Sector A (from the stairwell). The Contingency Unit has a red text label on top reading "AUTHORIZED CONTINGENCY UNIT", and is comprised of five clickable buttons with an input label on top. Four of the buttons are characters that can be entered as a part of a password, and a green "ACCEPT" button at the bottom will submit the provided information to check if there is a match.

The password is randomly generated for each server, and will re-shuffle any time the minigame is triggered. It is four characters long and involves any random assortment of the following characters: * These characters were chosen at random and have no intended meaning or significance when combined. The password can be brute-forced but is not the most efficient means of activating the Panic Rush. With four characters and a four character long password, this leaves a total of 256 possible combinations. It is faster to locate the hints placed around the map, each of which display one character of the password needed to activate the minigame.

Password hints
There are a total of four locations around the map which will offer a hint towards constructing the password needed to trigger the Panic Rush. Each location gives one character of the password in the position it should be placed in. For example, if ɀ was character 2 of the password, it would be displayed as: -ɀ-- The current locations these hints can be found at are:


 * On the wall of the Cargo Bay, in the southwestern corner
 * In the Turbine Hall, adjacent to a ladder leading to an upper catwalk
 * On the wall of the tram tunnel, directly to the left of the Sector A Tram Station
 * On a pillar in the upper balcony section of the Sector D Cafeteria

Gameplay
When activated, a message in chat states that the CVRF self destruct mechanism has been triggered and to cancel it, you would need to press all of the Panic Stations within 138 seconds once the sequence begins. After waiting a few seconds, all of the stations are marked with orange octagons to guide players in the right direction. The time and number of panic stations pressed are displayed in a Payday 2-like HUD on the top right corner of the screen. When a panic station is pressed, the orange octagon highlighting its location will turn green and fade away. When the timer hits zero, and if not all panic stations have been pressed, a scene is shown to all players in an area of Sublevel 5 labelled "Contingency Room Alpha". A red border grows on-screen alongside the beep of a bomb in the center of the room, slowly increasing in pace. A few seconds later, the border will disappear and the beeping will stop, along with a confetti effect and spinning Comic Sans text saying "you lost lol". The chat message reflects this and clarifies the scenario was simply an easter egg.