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>massive autistic image dump

anon pls

Too much DLC and memery is what happened with PD2. I wish there was a mode to remove all the bullshit, I just want to play with the original four heisters without all the random oh cees donut steel

Going away from that, I have a confession to make.

Whenever I got a cop to drop his weapon and cuff himself, I got a weird sexual kick of out it. What the fuck is wrong with me?

>>16254450

The company is busy bankrupting itself.

Summary of recent events:

>Raid: World War 2 came out: flop

>payday 2 support extended for another year, payday 3 supposedly on "fast development track"

>Overkill's The Walking Dead came out: flop

>Starbreezer CEO resigns

>Starbreezer files for reconstruction

>Starbreezer gets their offices raided, 1 person arrested for (now cleared) suspected insider trading

>The Walking Dead license pulled from Overkill

The company is having failure after failure. The only successful product they ever brought out is Payday 2. They've milked the fuck out of that, but never managed to recreate the same success.

Payday 2's storyline ended with the crew robbing the White House, and digging underground into a hidden ancient alien pyramid to reincarnate Bain into the president.

That should tell you all you need to know.

Fuck everything.

>>16254506

I don't get why, Sydney isn't exactly pretty in-game.

>>16254484

>jewes looks like an adams family reject mutant

>jew looks like his head is concave

The fuck.

Remember when Payday 1 came out? Things were simple back then.

>>16254504

>resurrect bain

The fuck? I just sped through the final heist just to see what the initial ending was. The fucking "secret" they touted for so long was that garbage?

>>16254768

No no no, they don't just resurrect Bain, they reincarnate him into the body of the 46th president of America.

>>16254781

They also did it with alien technology that was buried under the white house

>>16254450

>>16254506

I WANT TO BULLY SYDNEY UNTIL SHE MARRIES ME

>>16254479

tbqh, giving a single shit about lore in online multiplayer games is beyond retarded, especially if the game in question isn't even a RPG. To me it's the ultimate litmus test for clinical autism.

>>16254954

Like everything else, its better when its drawn by a non-feminist.

>>16255034

I did the same thing all the time holy shit

the Vr mode isnt too bad, just sucks i have no friends to play it

>>16255710

>>they had to take coolface out of the game because the owner said he was gonna fuck them over

The fucking coolface has a copyright or something?

>>16255727

A mexican by the name of Whynne owns the trademark.

No surprises there.

>>16255733

>A fucking beaner

I don't think memes and DLC made the game fail. I think shit game design made the game fail.

>All missions basically boil down to loud or quiet

>Loud missions become a boring tedium of headshots

>On higher difficulties they boil down to running the best shit at the time, be it duel deagles, shotguns, dodge-tanking etc

>They usually have a massive payout for their difficulty regardless

>Quiet missions are a fucking disaster in multiplayer

>Assuming you can get 4 competent people together, 4 people not making a single mistake for 30 minutes straight is hard to consistently pull off

>If you fuck up the mission either ends or goes loud, the latter of which is retarded since you cannot go loud on high difficulty with stealth gear

>Usually don't have a payout remotely as close to that of a 20 minute loud mission

>In both instances, gear and levels is more important than actual planning and gameplay

>If you want to grind to high levels, shit like Aftershock exists

>>16255744

Dont forget the constant drilling all the time even when stealthing, its boring as fuck just to wait for some drill to finish in 5 minutes only to spend another 5 minutes throwing bags around.

>>16255744

>>On higher difficulties they boil down to running the best shit at the time, be it duel deagles, shotguns, dodge-tanking etc

Worst addition they might have made was the One Down difficulty. Shit boiled down to using Inspire/Nine lives builds for everyone, made armors absolutely useless, fucked up some heists by making them straight-up bullshit with the damage cops dealt even from across the giant map in Goat Sim, and before they got nerfed, everyone use the crossbows, locked behind DLC. All for what? A difficulty mask. No wonder why people resorted to cheat through it.

BAIN?

I haven't played 2 but I'm absolutely sure The Heist is better.

>>16255814

Aye.

I don't know about Payday 1, but Payday 2's quality went down the drain quite fast. DLC-to-win shitfest, microtransactions when they said there wouldn't be, movie and game tie-ins up the ass to point that 66% of the whole game is pretty much linked to another movie or game. The gang went from being regular bank robbers to international terrorists who steal nukes, and pretty much what c766c6 posted. I used to really like it, but once I dropped it, I never played it again.

>>16255004

It is hideous when drawn by the artist that was being dumped in this thread, too. It's straight up impossible to make that creature's haircut look good.

>>16255814

2 has amazing weapon customization that's literally unmatched in any other game that isn't a military simulator, but The Heist is the better core game.

>>16255864

>good weapon customisation

>doesnt do anything special or has any in depth options

>just slap on something, shorten something or remove something

>everything is behind drops and you cant just buy an attachment directly

>>16255849

I tried to see if there was a mod to change her haircut, but the only mods I saw were to shave her side burns and give her a less blocky face. An improvement, but not good enough.

>>16255864

>amazing weapon customization

It sure isn't only one scope and silencer per weapon and you have many other things, but is it really worth the gun gore?

>>16255864

>>16255846

Fuck it, post music. Best track coming through.

>>16254504

>Payday 2's storyline ended with the crew robbing the White House

Isn't that mission full of anti-Trump wankery?

The music was really good though, shitton of tracks do choose from

>>16255943

>not posting razormind

hue

>>16255727

TLDR some faggot who didnt actually make it copyrigthed it, and everyone hated him because hew as profitting of something he didnt make. But he kindof became a gatekeeper by sending cease and desist to any shitty meme game, comic, tv show or ANYTHING and anyone that tried to use it without permission so he is not so bad i guess.

If you think about how much video games get attacked and blamed for random shit, these swedecuks were obviously very scared of some cop shootout being linked to their game.

So they decided to abandon reality and make it a meme game. That people never asked for,

>>16256129

That's not really true. They're talentless faggots who couldn't figure out how to make bank heisting and gallery robbing different or interesting on different jobs, nor could they think of more fitting weapons so they just started adding random shit off the top of their heads. Their reddit-core audience loved it, so they just kept adding more.

>>16256147

also keep in mind the engine they used was originally for racing games

>>16256161

Hmm I always forgave them for the abysmal quality of thier outdoor maps because I thought the engine wasnt up to the job.

>>16255894

Can I get sauce?

>>16256905

The face might be a bit better, but I can't see it well because of the shadows and the giant haircut (You can't save that haircut anyway, even without the sideburns).

>>16256929

I don't know, must be the color, or that now, haircuts like these are associated with the usual harpies.

>>16254484

They managed to make Hila look like even more of a man than normal.

Also, why are these kikes even in the game? Where's my MDE character pack?

>>16257139

>Also, why are these kikes even in the game?

Something about funding an expensive-ass lawsuit that they won prior into launching the DLC anyway.

>>16254504

>Payday 2's storyline ended with the crew robbing the White House

Fantastic idea ngl.

Payday 2 improved massively on the original in turns of soundtrack, but the sheer amount of DLC, funky balance, bad memes, and as was pointed out, overdone crossovers, really ruined the feel of the game and made it massively bloated too. Makes me glad I only picked it up after it went F2P, if I'd paid money for what it turned into I'd be butthurt.

I'd rather play The Heist.

>>16256125

Wew that robot is a Loader from Borderlands

>>16257373

>soundtrack

All everyone posts when it comes to PD2's soundtrack is Razormind. What else did it improve? I didn't play the game so I have nothing to reference and the other tracks I've heard to sound like inferior versions of Razormind.

>>16262789

You might need to go further in the soundtrack to have really good songs, Armed To The Teeth and Death Row are some of my favorites.

>>16262820

Armed To The Teeth was pretty fucking good. Thank you.

I got PD2 during some event where they gave it away for free. I also recall they had a DLC unlocker or some shit, is the game worth playing with a singular friend with that DLC unlocker?

>>16262827

>is the game worth playing

No, the AI is shit so even with the OP DLC weapons you're stuck with 2 dead weights that cant lift bags, repair drills only shoot cops, phase through walls and pick people back up

>>16256339

how is this fixed

This reminds me, where is Viklund now?

>>16263087

In 10 Chambers, making monster noises with oranges for GTFO.

>>16263087

Working on GTFO

>>16262910

You can throw bags at the AI and they'll pick them up, but they drop them randomly, so it's really a gamble. And now you can actually customize your AI's gear, and you can pick a special perk for each of them that gets stronger the more bots you have on your team. For example, you can get a perk that speeds up your interacts, and if you have four AI, you can lockpick a safe or deposit box in five seconds or less. You can give your AI magical infinite range inspire that has a 2 minute cooldown, you can pick a health regen perk that heals faster than Muscle if you're running 3 bots. And last but not least, you can give them armor piercing ammo and M14s, which they fire with perfect accuracy on full auto, and they'll instakill any shield or bulldozer that spawns on the map. That's about the only good thing Goyverkill has done for the game

>>16263095

>>16263094

Tell me what GTFO is, anon search engine.

It's just Sci-Fi L4D? That's it?

>>16263097

Basically, yes.

>>16254450

payday 1 was a fun and cheap co-op game to play with friends

payday 2 is a DLC shitshow with schizophrenic design principles, shitty missions and bad writing

>>16262789

The Diamond Heist track from PD1 was already pretty good, but it got a whole lot better with PD2.

payday 2 is a total mess of a DLC purchasing simulator but it works surprisingly well in VR since VR players dont have to deal with recoil at all.

I never knew joy till I beat an hombre to death with a fat wad o dosh

>>16254450

>What happened with the payday series

A ton of things, actually.

>Release Payday WW2 skin as a stand alone game. Game is 10 times more grindy as you now also have to do specific taskes to unlock FUCKING WEAPON MODS and each individual heister soldier

>Bombs HARD, company more or less tried to fund a competitor to their PD2 game, supposedly, because the CEO was friends with the devs

>Buy the walking dead IP to fill time while they make PD3

>Take 5 years to make because the CEO was blowing money on all kinds of stupid shit, including a buggy unfinished engine the overkill devs were forced to make a game on

>Couldn't make the game on it, so at the very last second they mandated a switch to U4, but devs now only had a year to get it out the door

>The walking Payday launches, flops HARD, does so bad the company is now close to bankruptcy

>Flopped so bad the IP owner Skybound cancels the fucking game, CANCELLED THE FUCKING GAME after release, before they even finish the season 2 DLC they were trying to sell.

Their last hope atm is a Psychonauts 2, and a fucking Payday mobile game they suckered Universal into investing cash on. Most of the blame for the stupid shit in Payday 2 is supposedly on Bo Anderson, one of the creators of the IP, supposedly, he was the one responsible for the microtransactions they tried to blame on 505 Games(to the point where he fucking disowned his brother, who was very much against it and seemed to be the one responsible for making the game) the hollywood promotions and shit like that.

>>16254450

Essentially what all the other anons said, greedy devs who have no idea what they are doing, glad I left after the diamond heist before it got really,really bad with the meme stuff.

Something else to note is that they most of the "balance" changes they did changed the entire build system for no apparent reason, in addition to this they only added a difficulty higher than Deathwish when everyone stopped playing the game and its a complete meme difficulty where your forced to use extremely specific strategies and items; the worst possible type of "difficulty"

>>16266263

>lively

And clinically retarded.

>>16255943

I just realized there are two(?) versions of The Heist's soundtrack, I even find these two versions on Soulseek and such. Which was supposed to be the official one?

I don't particularly remember Green Bridge's drums sounding this harsh.

>>16267081

>Re-recorded version of Green Bridge. I also modified it a bit and added an assault build-up part.

>>16266263

MarioInATopHat is always fun to watch

>>16267527

online is the only way to go, just make sure you join lobbies with a low difficulty and players around the same level as you. I've always used shotgun/tank builds, the IZHMA is my personal favorite shotgun.

only way to really learn is to just play

>>16267527

You got in at the worst time. The game is bloated and weird as fuck now.

>>16267396

Oh, my bad.

>>16255885

Wtf when did trollfface became known as coolface?

>>16267940

Is it strange that coolface is now more obscure than trōllface?

>>16267527

>Shotguns

>Payday II

>SHOTGUNS

The game fucks up a lot of things but even now shotguns are insane. In the good way.

>Damage done is by a single pellet and doesn't stack.

>This means 1 pellet does X damage if it hits one person, and 8 pellets do X damage if they hit one person.

>So poor accuracy (large spread) is actually good.

As for build:

>Go enforcer tree

>Go up shotgun tree

>Get 'Overkill' basic

>Every time you kill someone, your damage with shotguns is increased by 75%.

>There is no cooldown on this. No. Cooldown. At all.

>>16256054

It's not anti trump, there's not even a single trump reference in the whole game, you're there to steal pardons or if you know the secret unearth an ancient machine from underneath the white house

>>16267527

Yeah, get a refund.

>>16268846

>there's not even a single trump reference in the whole game

you seem to be forgetting the masks literally titled The 45th and God Emperor

>>16268948

If I remember right, they made a joke that they'd put the mask in if Trump actually managed to win, and when he did they actually put it in instead of pussying out.

>>16268963

Didn't they say they would put the mask of the candidate who would win the presidential race?

lol

>>16268825

yes, because thats what its originally called and newfags always out themselves trying to correct it back to Tr0llface. its better this way

>>16269396

But is it worth playing, even with the DLC unlocker or is the game fundamentally shit and I'd be better off going back to The Heist? My brother's been craving some heisting and we got the game for free during some event or other.

>>16268846

SOULJA TAN

SOULJA TAN

SOULJA TAN

>>16273931

So what are the consequences for using the DLC unlocker?

>>16275653

You get marked as a cheater ingame while you use it. The tag immediately goes away when you stop using the unlocker though.

But don't parade it around on the steam forum for obvious reasons.

>>16275653

>>16275917

also, by default you will get kicked as a cheater when you join a lobby(host can choose to disable this, but it's on by default)

This won't matter if you're hosting your own lobbies though

>>16275968

fuck if I know, I usually just host

>>16275968

The option to auto-kick cheaters is checked by default when you create a lobby. Hosts that uncheck it have no problem with anything short of bag spawning and actual cheating from my experience.

You should know that the cheat detection is a joke. It only gets triggered by dropping a lootbag while simultanously still carrying one (which can get you a false-positive if you have bad ping), having more than 120 spent skillpoints, invalid mask patterns (no idea how that works), and using DLC content you don't actually own on steam (DLC unlocker)

So, where's that Dozer porn?

The original artist deleted all of it and I haven't seen it since the original PD2 threads we had years ago.

>>16255894

Source?

>>16269333

>>16268963

Regardless, calling him "God Emperor", and giving him glowing eyes, on top of the description of the mask (which I recall, was also on the joke) shows they at least have a sense of humor, regardless of what we assume they think about the matter.

>>16273310

The Golden Grin Casino heist forced us to get creative, because we were a three man team, and two of us sucked at stealth. In particular, we decided not to grab our weapons until almost everything was already done, because that way we were able to inform our competent friend of everything he had ahead without being caught. This made me think about some sort of Social infiltrator role, which would allow you to spy without being caught, and also distract guards or people by talking to them. This would also require the devs to add some "restricted areas" not even Social characters can cross without getting caught (think everything past the metal detectors in the Golden Grin), but depending on how not supposed to be there were they, you could get out of that place with little more than a slap in the wrist ("you're no supposed to be here, leave immediately", etc). For fuck's sake, this happens in a lot of heist movies; it's what the Beautiful Lady in a Fancy Dress character always does. I can't believe the fuckers did not think about it.

Given the game has gone full sci-fi, they may had as well incorporated Mission Impossible technology, like hookshots, gliding drones, hyperrealistic masks and voice changing, insane pulley systems to suspend some characters from the roof, etc. Also possibly a Driver role which acted as the extraction team. Fuck, the possibilities were endless.

>>16276410

>Engineer on roof with binoculars and a tiny camera drone disguised as a fly or something

>Engineer can hack the intercom system and play music to distract guards

>Motorized grappling hook is super janky and exploitable, can let you go faster than sanic if you time it right and can also open up new infiltration routes due to vertical infiltration

>If the alarm is tripped and the cops arive, you can hide from the cops until they give up and drive off

>>16276465

>Can actually make the guards back off by threatening to kill hostages, buying time to make an escape, but they'll be watching closely for an opening to save them and arrest you all

>>16276470

>Disguise yourself as a hostage to play fool when the police comes, or even move bags around while your teammates draw attention to their guns

>Take on and take off the fucking mask as needed, if you are still undetected

>Possibility of buying a stash during Planning Phase where you can drop another set you can change to if SHTF (yes, I know there is a perk for this; the ability not to reset after going loud shouldn't be a perk)

>Checkpoints for stealth inb4 git gud

>Going back to the last checkpoint costs a considerable amount of money. Same for killing civilians.

>Enforcer gets to have meatshields.

>>16276593

I could accept no checkpoints for stealth if they made it possible to recover from a tripped alarm. Maybe through a combined effort from the group, hacking the alarms to turn it off, calling the security company and posing as the owner, regaining control of the civies and ensuring no one makes a 911 call, cleaning up the area and posing as staff and talking to the guards to make them think the 911 call was a prank, etc

>>16276620

Would also like to add that an actual hostage standoff which is iconic in heist movies is completely ignored. Could be amazing to start a heist stealth, and then messing up and the cops roll in, and taking a lot of hostages and shouting demands while the cops set up barricades and snipers take positions looking for a clean shot while you all rush to get all the loot you can before vanishing without a trace before the cops grow balls and send in a team.

>>16277257

>Demand a helicopter

>They actually deliver it to you, the absolute madmen

>Get to the roof to take it

>It's actually a trap

>You have to fight a fucking helicopter

>It doesn't even always have to be a trap

A shame Overkill doesn't really have funny ideas.

I would also argue having less enemies, but making them tougher, more damaging, and specially smarter would be a good thing. Never understood where did all those small armies come from, or why do they keep sending them after some guys who are more than capable of killing 1000 highly trained men in less than one hour. Not to mention a game about infiltration and heisting should feel tactical and not like a reskinned zombie game, but that's more about game design tastes rather than no brainers.

>>16277900

That's too bad, they were pretty fun. I had 3 other friends playing it close to release. We had a blast.

>>16277930

Sure, you had a blast with the contentless game and buying all those DLCs.

I remember exactly how contentless it was.

It was so hyped the irl normalfags I talked to at the time owned a copy of the game and asked me whether I owned one too?

*?

.

>>16278216

DLC Unlocker

You will get instabanned as a cheater from games you join not as host. Infinite ammo mapkills are allowed but god forbid you didn't pay for DLC.

>>16256102

>>16267081

My favorite track

Since this thread is practically dead I would like to take this chance to ask what the assault music in this video is.

>>16288210

Should be this one here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts8Pu-LfQiI

>>16288210

I would agree with this video if bank heist simply wasn't the best place to grind on hell on earth, seriously

>>16267527

>Just bought Payday 2

Good goy.

>>16268846

>It's not anti trump, there's not even a single trump reference in the whole game

Did you read the e-mails in the White House, they ain't fucking subtle about it.

>>16288210

>>16289355

>deposit box stealth solo on old Death Wish

Easy as hell for a warmup.

>>16289470

>>16289355

Robert Landolt is a crutch character. Also, he can't hook or slice worth shit.

>>16290558

Who do you play as in neo turf?

>>16289470

Is stealthing even fun though? I remember in The Heist it was the furthest thing from it, especially since it culminated in 10 or so minutes of waiting on a drill or something for the big diamond and faggots kept restarting when they fuck up. It's like how idiots save scum and then complain that stealth games are boring.

>>16290595

George Spinner, Toyoshige Takeno, and Robert Landolt. My buddy really likes to play as Thomas Stewart because he's a giant dweeb.

So does GTFO have a chance at being good?

This is my weak way of trying to get this thread going again

Also I need someone to give me a few wake up calls since I feel like I've missed out on the Payday 2 beta and early builds, and as such am considering GTFO should it be reasonably priced.

>>16289470

I just wish guards didn't walk through walls or spot me out of pure bullshit.

Also Jew-ery store stealth is the most mind numbingly easy heist, more so than any of the branch bank ones.

>>16292391

Jewelry store is for farming cards on normal. Just go in as a group of 3, have everyone mask up instantly walk in, grap 1 baggable, then run back to the can. Getting cards and queueing up the next one takes longer than actually doing it.

>>16291953

>As such some anons began to sexualize the look for the delusional fantasy of purifying a tumblr-slut and making her a good wife.

And in doing so prove themselves unworthy of one. Funny how people never realize they're part of the problem.

>>16298149

Guess I'm hosting if I ever get around to installing the game.

Why the hell is it this large? I'd like to play it but everything this thread has mentioned says it's probably not worth downloading what amounts to 1/8th of my data cap, at least not until the end of the month

>>16256265

Now is GTFO going to be better than Payday 2?

>>16298149

Meanwhile, the host is the best person to be when doing stealth as what's happening in the hosts game is the only thing that matters. So if a connecting player throws a bag into a pit, but in the hosts game the bag glitches out and drops to the ground, a common occurrence btw, then the roaming NPC will see that bag even though connecting player did everything right, they get fucked over because of constant desync shit like that.

>>16298454

Frankly even if GTFO is practically L4D but in space I don't really care. I just want to go back to the days of L4D where people wanted to have fun and didn't sperg out on everything.

>REE YOU TOOK MY SECOND PISTOL KICK

>REE YOU HEALED KICK

>REE YOU REVIVED ME 5 SECONDS LATER, KICK

>REE YOU SPAWNED AS A TANK KICK

>REE YOU SPAWNED AS A HUNTER KICK

>REE YOU JOINED MY GAME, KICK

Is Payday 2's playerbase like that? The Heist, even though it's pretty small, is really chill most of the time.

>>16298458

Yes.

Payday 2 suffers from retarded hosts that

>don't know how to set the game to private/friends-only, and repeatedly kick everyone that joins

>leave the moment they get taken into custody

>can't take any criticism, ignoring objectives entirely and ban you for suggesting they should help

>have no fucking clue how stealth works, leave dead bodies lying around and kick others for the bodies being detected

>use silent assassin mod, which makes stealth laughably easy by removing the need to pager killed unalerted guards, allowing you to clear the entire level

I don't know how frequent this is, as I don't really ever host. But after running into this a few times I just stopped bothering with joining pubs. The only pubs I join these days are high difficulty (DS/OD) lobbies.

Ever since bots got a rework, bots are just better than retarded players in general, simply on virtue of actually following you around and ressing you. I've played plenty of games in offline too as a result of it.

>>16298458

Not really, but you might see a more sweaty attitude the higher difficulty you go, I tend to stick around mayhem/dw and people are pretty chill unless there's someone really bad who doesn't know how to play, yet for some reason is joining a high difficulty lobby, but that's kinda expected I would think.

The worst aspect of Payday 2 is joining people who are waiting for their friend to join but didn't set the lobby to private, so they just kick you as soon as you join & that happens in about 1 in 20 games? But at the end of the day you can always go fuck you I'm hosting and you'll generally get people joining you and then you get the be the dickhead with the kick button unless you pick santa's workshop or something like that.

People seem to hate those heists where near infinite bags spawn, also never expect a stealth heist to go well unless you can retardproof it.

>>16298508

I can't really speak on Payday 2's heists but to me I like Diamond Heist because stealth is more or less an advantage that you can keep until you get caught then all hell breaks loose and it's fucking intense. The last thing I want to do in Payday is not shoot cops.

>>16298525

I think they remade Diamond Heist in Payday 2 to where you can fully stealth it?

If I'm thinking about the right one that is, you simply get some bonus loot however, kinda like the elephant heists where you're doing robberies for a senator and playing the mission fully stealth rewards you with extra loot at the end.

>>16298573

I had misunderstood you since I didn't actually know some PD2 stealth heists pretty much fail the mission if you fail stealth. I'm not particularly a fan of that, I'm under the impression stealth should be something you attempt and if you fail you should go loud like normal with the only penalty being going loud and maybe missing out on stealth objectives like No Mercy's.

>>16298708

Oh yeah there's a few missions like that, but they are few and far between. I think the total number is like 3 or 4? 4 technically, as you can still beat a specific mission (Car Shop) on lower difficulties due to reduced timers and so on, but on higher difficulties you are guaranteed to fail, and lets be honest, if you're not shooting anything, why wouldn't you do the max difficulty? It's not as though stealth gets any harder.

>>16298573

There is no extra loot for completing the heist in stealth. The saphires in the main area are the only things that go when the alarm is triggered, but they are only worth a low 4 to 5 digit sum each, even on Death Sentence. If you mean the blood diamond inside the vault, it has a fixed 10/20% percent spawn chance depending on difficulty.

>>16299139

Oh I got it to spawn on my first and only attempt so I thought it was a stealth only thing.

Is Payday 2 also P2P? Replaying The Heist I just remembered I'm from Egypt and I have a the worst connection for P2P so it's either mostly getting dropped halfway into heists and making them wait a minute until I connect, or it's fairly laggy and I end up breezing through heists or getting decimated through lagspikes.

>>16299387

yes

>>16254450

Same shit happened with Coffee Stain studios. One phenomenal game (Sanctum 2) and then they saw dollar signs and we got Goat Simulator. Now we're getting "Satisfactory" which is a fuckin joke too. If we ever get a Sanctum 3 it will be 10000% guaranteed it'll be SJW garbage

>>16307572

But what else is there to play? For all the supposed good I hear about Vermintide 2 there's still the matter of the fact that some people have had fuckery happen to them due to the anti cheat, and some have been banned, and outside of that I genuinely have no idea of the game outside of that it's a melee focused game. L4D is not really an option anymore, just as The Heist isn't because I've played them to death, the former also shines in the now dead or cancerous, in L4D2's case Versus mode and the latter is just not that exciting anymore when all you have left is one person to play with.

Orcs Must Die 2 is way too easy and waves are spread stupidly thin, with the hard mode being locked to the second playthrough which is dumb because I don't even want to get 20% into the first. Sanctum is too bulletspongy and wasn't to my taste. What's left? Risk of Rain? Done to death. 2? Gearbox AND early access, fuck that shit for now. Forced? Pretty meh. The new Gauntlet? Nah. The Old Guantlets? Done. Alien Swarm? Dead. Spiral Knights? Dead. Even something as mediocre as Starforge? Dead.

>>16307572

It's certainly unique. It's much like an ARG in it's own right, tailored to me, where I uncover the story in my own time with sources which are openly available (aas oppose to real history in which facts and interpretations can be blurred and there is already a general accepted timeline of wider history to work with). All the patchnotes are out there, and people who lived through it but everything is still blurry.

I wouldn't call it great though. Whereas wandering abondoned estates and dicking around is fun and free because you can Tokyo Drift cars, smash winddows and draw on walls with no regard for what the place is now; this feels more like being in an estate that is a few years from being abandoned and nobody dares to quite yet drop formalities just yet. This used to be something big, and it still technically is, however I'm wandering the thin transitory times between the end of it's life and full abandonment.

In short it's not curious, but melancholy. Quiet and melancholy.

But stranger yet, is that following the trend that has been set, the place is (nearly) guaranteed to be revitalised at an unspecified point with the inevitable cashgrab release of Payday 3 - yet nobody is around to care right now. Which is odd, since I've lived through the long process twice before with Bloodborne and Planetside 2, however this is the first time that I'm entering the game while it's ded as oppose to watching the game die in front of my eyes and all my friends leaving me to keep the seat warm, like that start of Overlord. It's like taking vid related and skipping directly to 3:18, but being aware that everyone else as watched the entire thing, It's like entering a campsite and watching the final flickering embers of a bonfire that everybody else has left.

A very abstract feel indeed.

>>16308537

do you really need a reason as to why reddit likes it?

>>16308651

I'm just bewildered that such a mediocre repetitive game that is just a skinner box to keep playing the same mediocre game got so absurdly popular the devs kept supporting it for half a decade

Left 4 Dead 2 at least had its versus mode, mods and the AI director adding some variety to levels

>>16308667

I can only speak for The Heist, but

>Excellent music that fits the gameplay like a glove

>Frantic action gameplay that's absurdly simple but has a fair amount of nuances that make it wonderful to play, stuff like using a dead shields shield as cover, dominating a police officer in absence of civilians so you can do a trade on the spot, the ecstasy of seeing a dozen police officer hats and helmets fly up into the air after a series of headshots, the intense moments of trying to get a bead on a sniper who is actively fucking up your health, breaking through an assault just enough so you can reach an area safe enough to revive a downed teammate without getting downed yourself

>Heists are really well made, from side objectives as simple as "destroy cameras so that the assault wives don't bite you in the ass as hard" or "pick up stacks of money lying around" to something substantially cool like sapphire display cases or the big diamond, overdrill, stealth in No Mercy playing completely differently with different objectives including access to the shutter doors of the ICU. The amount of variety that you can find in a heist, from something as simple as how many special units spawn and how many times the drill fails, to substantial changes like different routes through the level(most notably access to the roof in Panic Room, how hard you get fucked with Diamond Heist or Heat Street)

>Dallas and Hoxton having really nice voices

>Really neat gunplay with the exception of the revolver and both shotguns, which don't feel that good to use, especially with how terrible the shotguns handle in the game with one pellet dealing all the damage of the weapon

>No bullet sponge enemies, with the exception of the one designed to be a bulletsponge, the Bulldozer(basically L4D's tank but less dangerous with the stipulation that they might spawn in packs)

>Compared to L4D's slower, more cautious pace, every heist is practically one long Crescendo fight under stress of objectives and the fact that anyone can come at you any which way.

Unless Payday 2 dropped the ball I'm downloading it expecting more of the same, more cool multilayered heists, more intense gunfights, sick beats and not much else, and I'll be damned if I spend a dollar on DLC if I can get it for free and play with the one person I know for a fact plays co-op shit to enjoy their time, with the game and with me.

>>16310639

payday 2 is nothing like the heist, you just wasted 25GB by downloading shit, every heist is the same shit, go here drill this, carry bags, repeat, the gunplay is shit and there is no arm or leg hitboxes, the music downgraded hard turning into generic wubs and dubs. every thing good about the heist is removed and all the bad shit is amplified, just watch gameplay of any PDTH level being played in PD2 to see what i mean, you know overdrill? now you actually have to carry each stack of gold to the exit, takes far too long to complete

>>16310884

I haven't wasted the 25GBs yet. Thank you for making me reconsider.

>>16254450

It didn't pay off.

>>16310964

i think it actually takes up 50 GB, lots of shit with PD2 and updates that say their 300mb taking up 1GB. something to do with the way they distribute files so people with shit internet can download it then it unpacks itself

>>16311008

I just have one question. Is it worth it, at the very least, for the Classic heists? I hear the old PDTH ones are still in the game, and I wonder if at the very least those would be worth falling back to if the rest of the heists(I've watched two, Shadow Raid and the regular Bank Heist, and latter seems like a bite sized meh version of First World Bank while the former is a stealth heist which I can't really comment on) are unimpressive? Am I incorrect in assuming all the big involved heists are DLC?

>>16311018

no, the classic heists play far differently, with you having to do extra steps or carry loads of shit around because of PD2s different style of gameplay

>Am I incorrect in assuming all the big involved heists are DLC?

no, every big heist is DLC or crossover content, all the vanilla heists take place on small maps with you just drilling something for 5 minutes then moving bags, or sneaking into some place and reseting alot because of the broken stealth then moving some bags, or you have to do some mini game tier shit like place the right ingredient to cook meth but he purposefully gives you the wrong answers even with a guide he can actually say X, everything points towards X but once you add X the whole thing blows up and he says you should have put Y, its probably some bug they never bothered fixing oh and then you have to move all the bags.

but once you get into the big heists its just more of the same, you have to drill more doors/vaults that take up 20-30 minutes because you need to do some side objective and no one can repair the drill with all the cops shooting and phasing through walls, you have to move EVEN MOAR BAGS that are heavier so you go even slower, and the reward isnt even worth it. play the biggest and baddest heist and you'll get less XP and money for your time than if you just Stealthed a few easy heists. money doesnt do shit and you need to play a fuckton of heists just for a slim chance at getting the attachment you want for your gun, even if you dont have the DLC it still gives you DLC attachments and since theres loads of DLC guns your fucked if you want to pick the game up now and have any sort of fun or progression, and the progression isnt anything special either, you just get to lvl 100 and get infamy, all it does is give you a 5% bonus on XP so you can level up faster, gives you a shit mask and maybe a cash bonus %. however there are 25 fucking tiers and they all give you just 5% more xp stacking on eachother, ECM russing during double XP events with 25%+ XP bonus still felt like a chore to do, i got to 14 infamy before realising how much time i wasted playing this shit game that just gets worse each day

>>16311102

But all of those games where estremely popular, i'd be suprised if people here didnt play them

>lumping in gayne and lynch with actuall good games

fuck off IO shill, that series killed the freedom fighters sequel

>>16311080

Well, that sucks. Thank you again for making me reconsider.

>>16311121

You got the wrong thread bot, UT2K4 gamenight is thatway ->

Is that you, schizoanon?

>>16311130

Ah, my mistake, JIDF like you should go back to tel aviv where you belong!

>>16311198

>Is there another flag to capture?

Yea, the red teams flag, we're down 2-1 and its best out of 3!