640471 No.15823588
>3 days ago, released a statement saying the company was entering solvency, putting games like their Walking Dead and WW2 raid game in an uncertain future.
>Just a few minutes ago, Swedish police raided the HQ and have arrested a person, probably on insider trading charges.
What the hell is going on over there?
http://archive.is/Sw63a
http://archive.is/tCDwM
16634c No.15823602
Fuck, this was one of my favorite studios. Enclave is still one of my favorite games to burn through. I'm not sure why, but I just enjoy it.
4df59e No.15823609
It all went downhill after Gayday 2.
28a830 No.15823622
I wonder if MFX is alright.
640471 No.15823632
>>15823609
That's where they got most of their money. Don't know if anyone remembers but they had that 2 hours stream when Payday 2 finally consolidated it's DLC into one package and they announced their WW2 game. They also showed experimenting in VR but since they made so much money off of Payday 2, they haven't been able to find another cash cow and have just been hemorrhaging money for the past year or so.
>The studio lost $22.2 million in 2017, and $11.3 million in Q3 of 2018- both before tax.
30 mil over 18 months is no small sum of money, especially to an independent.
c0e385 No.15823637
>company who published game about killing the police get raided by police
wew
c0e385 No.15823640
>>15823632
What have they been spending all that money on?
f83e1c No.15823648
>>15823640
capachino-mocha coffee machines aint cheap son
640471 No.15823656
>>15823640
Walking Dead license I'd assume. Took way too long to develop and when actually released no one played it.
3155d2 No.15823658
>>15823588
I know the article used a fucking cancerous image, but that doesn't mean you have to.
a4d889 No.15823689
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>>15823588
>Paypig 2 finally ends after 5 years of non-stop milking
>Walking Dead is losing viewers year after year
>Starbreeze got the license since 2014
>Do nothing with it, then announce the game on E3 2017, then a year later, release a fucking turd whose story and gameplay is fucking shit
Early Christmas indeed, also time to spoil shit.
548e08 No.15823737
c0e385 No.15823740
23572f No.15823760
>>15823737
shit nigga you only have 1 int
They're behind The Chronicles of Riddick, Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons, Payday 2 (the devs are a subsidiary) and Overkill's The Walking Dead (same story with PD2).
They also published Dead by Daylight, John Wick Chronicles, Raid: World War II and they're meant to be publishing Psychonauts 2 and System Shock 3.
Raid: World War II and The Walking Dead were both massive failures that have the potential to send them into bankruptcy.
873e0d No.15823805
>>15823760
>Raid: World War II
https://steamcharts.com/app/414740
but you can shoot le ebil nazis
548e08 No.15823858
>>15823760
So literally a single good game and nothing else of note. They're nobodies.
0672c2 No.15823860
>>15823656
it being shit and after they pissed of plenty of people with pd2 not suprising
4bfe68 No.15823862
>>15823805
I tried this game and it was beyond awful, think of everything bad about payday, and throwing of everything actually fun about it.
5d7f59 No.15823866
>>15823858
>1 good game
My nigga, I loved Chronicles of Riddick!
548e08 No.15823875
1e1efe No.15823890
>>15823689
>Bain is dead
I'm glad I stuck with The Heist and never tried 2.
873e0d No.15823905
>>15823890
pdth had better gunplay and was much more immersive plus very challenging compared to payday 2
1e1efe No.15823913
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>>15823905
It's the one thing I can comment on but I feel that The Heist's music was better too.
1869eb No.15823933
>>15823913
That first bank mission in PD1 was more memorable than the entirety of PD2.
873e0d No.15823954
>>15823913
indisputably superior
1869eb No.15823989
>>15823890
They resurrected him as the president of the US.
Notice when the president says "Let's do it" - that's Bain's motto.
edc7a7 No.15824005
>>15823588
So who exactly was arrested?
561815 No.15824879
>>15823588
So who buys the Payday IP? Better keep (((David Goldfarb))) away from it.
c6719b No.15824897
anime girls fighting zombie idols could have saved them.
07d9d4 No.15824947
You know if they made a safehouse raid style heist set in a "fictional" developer studio where you have to defend their PCs, that might be bretty cool
cf8562 No.15824949
>>15823588
>starbreeze is dying
Let's not wast time then
5d7f59 No.15824972
>>15823913
It was great, too bad Overkill had to piss it all away.
ef0bed No.15825060
>>15823858
>I don't like it so it doesn't count
Underage go.
cc596e No.15825084
>>15823989
>Notice when the president says "Let's do it" - that's Bain's motto.
I've put hundreds of hours into these games and I never noticed that. Why would you use something so incredibly generic as his catchphrase?
9d6829 No.15825099
>>15823760
>>15823862
The demo was just embarrassing.
40318e No.15825624
>>15823588
HAHAHA!
Get fucked, leftist cucks.
>>15825060
Shit won't stop being shit just because you like it.
b01e5a No.15825639
>GAYDAY: jew
only good game was PDTH, everything since then has been complete dogshit with DLC out the ass even though the base game lacks extreme amounts of content
>>15825220
>they still havent fixed any major issues
>big reveal for the 3 year aniversary was to add jumping animations to the game that you cant even notice
>still no leg or arm hitboxes
everyone involved is at fault
c0e385 No.15825700
>>15824972
PDTH had such great music, PD2 had good music as well but to a lesser extent.
88cf76 No.15825704
>>15825624
enjoying your first day?
e452f1 No.15825901
>>15825624
>this faggot again
Get a different image, you're getting traceable
1af39f No.15825940
>>15823866
Shame you can't buy it anymore.
And The Darkness was underrated; the sequel moreso. It pisses me off that Digital Extremes is riding their Warframe parachute instead of making The Darkness 3.
85f3e2 No.15825986
>>15825901
>>15825901
>you're getting traceable
You'd have to be a narcoleptic retard to not instantly spot him the moment he posts. It's almost always tor, if not his files have "[emotion] #.png", he responds to a fuckton of posts, and uses the words impotent, deformed, and leftist like they're on his word of the day calendar every day.
89ff73 No.15826015
>>15825639
>still no leg or arm hitboxes
actually they did add them
2 years later
e96140 No.15828163
Developed
2000 The Outforce
2002 Enclave
2003 Knights of the Temple: Infernal Crusade
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay
2007 The Darkness
2009 The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena
2012 Syndicate
2013 Payday 2
2013 Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
2018 Overkill's The Walking Dead
Published
2016 Dead by Daylight
2017 John Wick Chronicles
2017 Antisphere
2017 Raid: World War II
2018 Ape-X VR
2018 Inked
2019 Psychonauts 2
TBA System Shock 3
2fcccb No.15828342
>Payday: The Heist
Challenging co-op shooter where stealth is practically essential if the mission even allows it. Game has as much weapons as it needs to have and all serve a purpose, leveling up is linear but robust and the skill branch serve a practical role. The tone and atmosphere of the game is serious while fun and not being stuffy, they're just criminals doing their job and their personalities & looks are distinct. Soundtrack is simple electronic stuff, it gets the job done. Game has one DLC that adds a new skill branch, two heists, 3 guns, and some new equipment.
>Payday 2
Blast through levels without getting shot thanks to specific skill tree, multiple masks that are randomly unlocked with patterns and colors. Superfluous amount of guns that you can customize on the level of mutilation porn. Extremely jewish amounts of DLC as typical for Swedish companies (but they didn't ban you for using the DLC unlocker so meh) in which they fuck you over if you bought any now that they're free and you have to buy the rest instead of getting an upgrade like everyone else, lootboxes were a part of the game for 8~ months. Proficient bank robbers wanted by the FBI turn into a fucking platoon of internationally-wanted terrorists with obnoxious personalities and characters that don't need to be in the game like the Tumble fangirl and movie promotions who jump out of planes and steal nuclear warheads yet no one can catch them and the police are the only ones sent with the same horde rush tactic every time, you don't feel like a bank robber anymore. Game promised 30+ heists on launch but pic related which is probably why the reason the game is the way it is. Setting grounded in reality turns into wacky XD-tier humor akin to Saints Row 3, epic YouTube Israelis have joined the "gang" to hunt down goats with you epic style.
Nice things to say about 2 is that like the first you don't need the DLC to join DLC lobbies, soundtrack lacks drums and has that electronic/rave/dubstep siren but is serviceable, new content isn't inherently bad for a game like this
000000 No.15828445
>>15828342
can you really trust some random screencap tho
all this "insider man" shit is usually just a larp
4c0866 No.15837206
>>15824972
Simon Viklund the composer, and Ulf Anderson the lead programmer, have both jumped ship and are making a game called GTFO without Overkill or Starbreeze. I'm cautiously optimistic.
1869eb No.15837430
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>Check PD1 playercount on steam
>56 playing for the past hour
Feels bad
e1ad75 No.15837447
>>15837430
I might get it due to the fact of hearing so many recommendations over PD2.
c00d79 No.15841597
>>15837447
It usually goes on sale as a complete package for about $3 Canadian, so go for it.
2d4a54 No.15841635
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>>15823588
It isn't surprising given how retarded so many of their decisions are.
>multiday heists & crime spree despite the game being an unstable pile of shit
>instant fucking flashbangs
>damage falloff removed on highest difficulty
>jewboxes
>stealth heists that are literally just hallways filled with guards
>loud heists that rely on excessive swarming to the point that half the weapons are useless due to lack of raw firepower
>that fucking pd2 secret
It's probably the same stupidity that led to insider trading.
>>15823689
At least post the true ending mate.
efa259 No.15841642
>>15825986
Didn't notice it was the hue nigger, I though it was a niggerpiller from /adgd/ that I've seen once
93bacf No.15841650
>>15823602
Agreed. These people actually had talent. Riddick proved that.
Unfortunately gamers being the tasteless swine that they are the studio had to make shit like Payday to survive. It did not pay off.
119d24 No.15841668
>>15828163
>Enclave
Never heard anyone talk about this game, I distinctly remember seeing it in a store whilst still a kid.
I was trying to choose between Enclave and Gothic 1, my choice was going to decide exactly how I'd be introduced to the PC RPG genre.
I went with Gothic 1 and never regretted it. Played Enclave years later and it was okay I guess, don't remember ever finishing it.
What do you guys think of it? Tempted to play it again. I remember it feeling like a soul's game with very linear map design.
fbfc66 No.15841685
Clearly they should have banked more on additional Goat Stimulator DLC.
09545b No.15841697
>>15841668
Melee combat is absolute trash, ranged gameplay (bows) is decent, magic is kinda shitty. The best quality of the game is the level design but most levels are too short.
Better third person sword and sorcery action games to play are:
- Drakan: Order of the Flame
- Heretic II
- Severance: Blade of Darkness
b01e5a No.15841702
>payday
>one of the only heisting games
why has no one made something similar? it would be nice to have a game revolve around robbing banks, doing shady deals, stealing artefacts and jewels, posibly do something with drugs, hostages and police shootouts. but with a semi-serious feel that doesnt play like a reskinned L4D were you have to wait a few minutes on some drill even when you stealthed the entire level.
the setting and theme has so much potential yet is extremely underused, who thought it would be a good idea to make 10s of shitty heists, crossover with so much games that there is much less content related to your own game and spend time making useless melee weapons?
119d24 No.15841731
>>15841697
Thanks for the recommendations, upon searching their names I see all three pop up on a site called 'myabandonware.com'. Never used it but seems fairly legit.
Can anyone confirm?
09545b No.15841775
>>15841731
My Abandonware is good but those games have some compatibility issues with newer hardware and could be a pain to set up if you don't know what you're doing.
For Blade of Darkness, it used to be available on GOG and you would be better off looking for a download for a GOG installer. As long as the installer has the GOG digital signature, you can be sure it's good and not tampered.
For Drakan, install the game, apply the official 445 patch then apply the latest version of the "AiO unofficial patch" which fixes a lot of compatibility issues and other bugs with the game.
For Heretic II, I forgot if I had to do anything to get it to work properly.
a02d83 No.15843001
>>15841702
Thank you for posting the final piece of the puzzle.
To answer your question, you're either looking for Monaco which is heist-themed Pac Man or a 3D GTA; sans the "reskinned L4D" criterion you would have Payday.
c0e385 No.15843057
>>15841702
Those masks were in the first game as well.
1869eb No.15843091
>>15841702
I wish we had a 4-player FPS game like payday 1 without all the faggotry and DLC of payday 2.
2fcccb No.15843110
30fb41 No.15843114
>>15823656
>Walking Dead license
that shit is poison to video game devs, why do they keep trying to make anything other then mobil garbage with that flaming trash pile of a show? also, how have developers still not learned that licensed games are always a bad idea unless its connected to some ultra popular comic book character like batman or spiderman?
dd67b8 No.15843243
>>15843114
>licensed games are always a bad idea unless it’s connected to some ultra popular comic book
Don’t Star Wars games count as licensed?
Also there was a Hercules licensed game for the PS2 that was decent.
2fcccb No.15843282
>>15843243
The Nightmare Before Christmas game was decent too and made by the DMC dev team.
1869eb No.15843293
>>15843110
It's dead and the bots suck.
4518a7 No.15843309
>>15841702
>why has no one made something similar?
Sub Rosa?
Sneak Thief
Sneak King
The Masterplan
>>15843091
I wish we had a 4-player Co-op FPS with heists that aren't glorified horde shooting and if you get into a siege with police you're fucked most of the time
featuring betrayal mechanics of Kane and Lynch 2, where if you're retarded enough to heist with strangers they get an option to backstab you for the trouble, because a getaway driver is also a role.
Game would allow you to write down the names and steamID of all players in a lobby, but never do it for you.
1869eb No.15843345
>>15843309
I find horde shooting better and more appropriate for the sort of game it is. Stealth is fine but focusing too much it isn't as fun as the feeling of urgency of an incoming police assault while you wait for a drill to punch through the entrance to the vault.
4518a7 No.15843359
>>15843345
If I moved my lazy ass to making a heist game I'd make it possible to have a shootout with the cops, but if you don't leave under a timer, or under a certain cop kill count, national guard or someone else will come in and just strafe you with rockets unless you find a PTRD and shoot the pilot through the canopy of the helicopter.
1869eb No.15843385
>>15843359
>national guard or someone else will come in and just strafe you with rockets
Unless you have hostages
But that would be overkill for a squad of bankrobbers. Maybe they start sending drones?
b01e5a No.15843403
>there are no other heisting focused coop games
makes me realize that anyone could come along with a decent heisting game and steal gayday players whilst forming its own userbase
>>15843345
horde shooting sucks, the police in payday act like literal zombies and phase through buildings, payday 1 got it right with waves of cops, then swat and between the round FBI agents would sneak around freeing hostages, i think a more realistic tone would work well with the police being unpredictable opposed to having special infected that you can easily understand what is about to happen. maybe you could even expand the enemies to include military, special forces, counter terrorists or even have your hostages randomly be undercover cops that can free themselves and shoot you in the back
1869eb No.15843424
>>15843380
>Less action-oriented
>Planning this planning that
>Stealth galore
>Weapon handling like Insurgency or RO
>Throw the whole theme and atmosphere of the game out the window by making ridiculous scenarios just because "shooting too many cops is unrealistic"
>He says all of this while posting a pic from HEAT
Why do people fawn over slow and clunky tacticool shit so much? What's so bad about making an action game that plays fast like a late 90's FPS? It always has to be full muh reelism these days. Payday 1 struck a good balance already, if a bit on the clunkier side.
Just make a game like an 80's/90's action movie with correct weapon depictions and trim down on the boring/silly shit, that's it.
b01e5a No.15843451
>>15843380
>posts from 2 years ago
>not a word from the guy or even postings on /agdg/
just ideas that got tossed around, making a good heisting game would take a few people and i would glady help out if anyone was to try and make one, guy also seemed to have alot of features that sounded like they would be shit for an FPS, mainly in the third image
>>15843424
because they want to feel like they are doing more than they actually are, tacticool shooters are just full of bloat to make the game seem more complex than it actually is, the only thing i would agree with is having a similar aiming style to RO2 where the weapon sways around instead of just being fixed on the centre of the screen
>Just make a game like an 80's/90's action movie with correct weapon depictions
no indie dev could ever do this, it will always end up having some quirky gimmick or filled with memewave asthetic shit
1af39f No.15843461
>>15843359
> unless you find a PTRD
In what, a cupboard? Those guns are 2m long.
1869eb No.15843468
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>>15843451
>aiming style to RO2 where the weapon sways around instead of just being fixed on the centre of the screen
Yeah I agree on that too, and the lack of microtransaction shit, but the rest of that cap's idea is trash.
People around here have this idea that every scenario that involves guns is gonna be more fun, if done slow as molasses as if it were a SWAT house-clearing training session or a Hitman game showing their /k/ "credentials" as if the robbers were trained soldiers or some dumb shit like that. Bank heists aren't tactical, they're loud and messy. I'm so tired of seeing this kind of shit, I just want a normal simcade game with plenty of shooting.
b01e5a No.15843589
>>15843468
> I just want a normal simcade game with plenty of shooting.
if only there was a few interested anons to put a team together, even for 1 or 2 levels, a demo could be made to show any potential
2fcccb No.15843673
I also got this one.
>>15843451
>just ideas that got tossed around
Yes.