Payday 2 Thread

I remember using a build that doubled up on grenade launchers, one incidenary one explosive. It was great but I cant remember how it worked, but I was able to use bulletstorm to cover everything in fire

They changed how bulletstorm works with the last skill rework

It was after the skill rework. Unless they nerfed it somehow.

No tank build is complete without this or the not-MG42

MG42 is glorious fun with the oppressor tree.

Useful useless trivia about the Commando; it has a batshit fast reload speed.

I want to fuck Sydney while she screams australian insults at me.

My builds are: a designated stealth build, a techforcer, a pure fugitive with hugh mobility and dodge and a regular mastermind.

I regret every hour I put into this shitfest.

Same here. What I regret more is that I bought some of the DLC.

Just go for surefire and inspire+fully loaded, you twat. Works with anything you can pull out of your ass on ovk. DW has been stealthily buffed to such a degree where you can only really win on it with either critcancer or ICTV shotgun memerchist even in a 4-man team

Feels good nigga.

Why even live?

Don't tell me you regret autisming the fuck out of every heist until you know how to do it blindfolded? It's such an immensely satisfying thing to dominate the maps.

It's about time for another PD2 thread.
overkillsoftware.com/games/housewarming/
Are we finally going to be getting safehouse customization?

I for one would much rather play the launch version of Payday 2 than the current one.

The best weapons are available from the dlc only. The minority played this game at launch, I started in around 2013/2014, watched this game develop from a interesting, thought provoking team work simulator into just a game with a load of shitty gimmicks in order to make cheap cash.

Not just that, Hackers and shitty balance take the fun out of this game.

The soul of this game has long been dead and all you guys are doing is suckling on the remnants of it's decaying corpse. Naturally you'll defend it to your last breath, but the damage is done for a lot of people who were once fans of this franchise.

also the ai is kinda broken and stealth has virtually always been shit

This is some grade A bullshit.
At the very least Bonnie has no porn.

I used to really enjoy it, didnt regret buying the dlc back then since i really used the weapons but looking back i wish i never played the game.

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>not AHM BONNEH
What are you, afraid of big guys, mr. CIA?

It was fun to roleplay jin-roh panzer cop with the mg-42 and using some super duper tank build.

So Holla Forums which is your favourite heist?

Beneath the Mountain.
fo sho

Why even ask about builds after they changed the skill trees? You barely need to make a build at all, since you can ace like 3-4 top-tier skills easy.I used to struggle to get sneaky bastard, inspire, and silent killer together without sacrificing the "necessary" skills like transporter and shit, but now I can get inspire, sneaky bastard, most of messiah tree, silent killer, other ghost skills, and still have points left over for whatever. Builds are now a joke, since everyone can do everything at once.

I've only played PD2 after the skill revamp, though it seems to me there are now less specialized roles you can take rather than being good at everything.

It's easy to win certain DW heists, but some others are grade A bullshit. Mainly, Big Bank, Firestarter, Big Oil, and a few of the other slightly older heists are great fun on DW.

It's the opposite really. Sure, they separated skills into 3 specialized "trees" per class, but you can get almost twice as many skills as you could before. You used to have to put in like 20 points into one tree just to get ONE decent (tier 3~) skill unlocked, now you can get a tier 3 skill after like 4 points invested in the tree.

I completely lost my shit when I first played that heist. Easily the best loud heist in the game

Stealth would be golden grin (when the AI doesn't bug out it's a great stealth mission).
Loud would probably be hotline miami.

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Let's just agree that it has a great soundtrack, that is worth listening to, even when not playing it.
I never actually played PD2.

critdodge is still most fun, because you can go fast

I haven't had the game installed for a long time, have they updated the soundtrack yet or do they still not have the songs from this year?

Is it possible to make an akimbo and pistol centered build worthwhile? Running and gunning as a tank shotgunner seems to work the best for me, feels outright overpowered honestly.

Can't download it for to weeks. I am actually writing a physical note for myself, so I remember to do it. Great shit user.

The best gun in the game is still a pistol, so yeah pistols work. Akimbo is kind of shit, though.
My favourite setup is GL40 primary and either the DEAGLE BRAND DEAGLE or jericho as sidearm (used as main weapon because OP).

I just want to post more Simon Viklund.

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The GL40 was incredibly buggy for me, like I could shoot at a guys feet and still not kill him.

i only have the "merry christmas soundtrack" and "the official soundtrack" dlcs, there's the "b-sides" one that i don't have and can't upload so if those songs are there i wouldn't know
How do i check? say the name of a song from this year or something and i'll look at the soundtrack files, here's a screenshot of the folders too

Only use it for shields and the occasional group of enemies, really. On DW, most guys won't be 1-shot by a GL40. Also, if your ping is really high, the shot-delay makes the gun almost unusable, since you'll constantly do shit like "poke out, shoot, get back into cover and suddenly you explode" since the shot only registered after you went back in cover.

Looks like they haven't updated it still. After Point Break they stopped adding music to the soundtrack DLC and it wouldn't surprise me if they were waiting until the end of the year to introduce a "C-Sides" DLC or some other bullshit.

This is fuckin beyond fun chaps, 1hit almost anything.

>Not being confused the first time you run a zerker build and waste minis trying to restore your permanent health decrease because you're drunk and forgot acing it would reduce your max health

It's like you don't enjoy having fun or something.

How do we get lewd pictures of Padyay made? Do we ask drawfags?

>using anything that isnt a shotgun ever

Why is the music for this game so fucking good?
youtube.com/watch?v=CApfL0c8OwM
youtube.com/watch?v=tyAhaWwTLso
youtube.com/watch?v=fNPS27eWLoo

Just gotta ask or check the /pdg/ archives

Why is this so arousing, fuck.

she's a big gal

Wow, did we get another exodus from Halfchan?

Gee, commissar. I didn't know Holla Forums was a place where we are only allowed to talk about games YOU like.

It's not my fault my fetish for dyed hair was stolen by tumblrtards. I gotta take what I can get nowadays.

I want to FUCK that Bulldozer

I want to hug sydney

Note from an australian; Sydney has every STD known to man

Crook build is so much fun, but it takes so many skill points, as you need both Artful Dodger and good chunk of Tank tree for it to work properly.

I went back, and was assaulted with endless hordes of faggots that don't know how to play stealth and/or use cheats so they never die but don't bother to pick you up when you fall.

I fucked off real quick. What a shame.

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Who has time to establish bonds with people over temporary entertainment?

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Is this american servers or european servers? I Don't really see any cheaters other than dlc unlocker here and there.

I've put in over 200 hours and only run into a single cheating faggot and it was someone on my friends list, go figure
I usually host though, so I would just kick them on the spot anyway.
Also
The entire reason I even still pick this game up once in a while is because whenever there's something I don't like, I can just mod the game to fix it.

mercosur = love

Thumbnail, ants, ect.

it's etc
et cetera
ET Cetera
fuck you and your kind

What are some good mods for Payday 2?

the DLC unlocker

I've started to reconstruct my old build from before fucking Mayday.
Basically, load up on armor from enforcer then take speed buffs from ghost to become the flying tank.
Shit's fun.

>SIT ON MY DICK CLOAKER
What did she mean by this?

I wish I took some pics.

She's obviously into pegging. Sydney is too pure to be a degenerate.

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I bet you like fake tits too.

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It's a penis shaped impostor.

rude.

That image is perfectly fitting of what they did to Vlad's character.

UGH
MY SUIT

Other than the DLC unlocker, it's pretty hard to recommend stuff because I make my own mods 90% of the time.
I guess I'd say some of the best community stuff is
Makes the bots not retarded and buffs them to actually be able to hold their ground above normal. Cloakers and Tasers still fuck their shit, though.
Yes, it was made by SA Goons, but a broken clock is right twice a day because it's actually a good mod. Requires some tweaking last I checked to not crash the game, but adds several good features, the most important being Gage Coins. Gage Coins are earned by completing the courier assignments and can be spent to flat out unlock attachments/skins/masks/etc. It allows you to work towards what you want and completely bypass the bullshit RNG card drop system. Push to interact is also nice, as is custom laser colors.
It's the HUD mod I use. Lots of nice (though stuff like the kill counter is broken because of internal changes; like Goodmod this isn't really updated anymore) features and it can be fully customized at any time by hitting backspace.
If you're on a 144hz monitor, this lets you raise the retarded arbitrary framerate cap from 135 to whatever you want (like 144)
Adds a ton of new slots for skill sets, but locks them behind infamy levels and large cash requirements. You can open the mod files and edit those values yourself, like I did.
Shows you the nitty gritty of every weapon, including spread, reload time (both half and empty), exact damage numbers instead of rounded values, ammo pickup rates, etc.

That's about all I use of community mods.

I haven't played for a bit, but wasn't there a mod that added hitboxes to the Shield's legs?

What kind of shotgun is that?

Yeah, but it's outdated as fuck now so there's no guarantee it won't crash the game if you try using it. Nobody even cares to update it because OVK is claiming they plan on fixing those hitboxes and making it an official thing in a future update.
Speaking of bundle mods, I forgot the most important one.
Requires the pdbundle patcher, so you'll have to uninstall it before every game update and reinstall it after, but it removes all of the eyecancer in the game. Blue filter in menus? Gone. Piss filter in-game? Gone. Chromatic abberation and distance blur? Gone. Looks like a completely different game afterwards.

Benelli M3 or M4
I think the M4 is the semi auto one.

M3 can switch between pump and semi-auto, like the SPAS

From the video I don't see space for the pump to actually operate there, unless it's locked back in semi auto mode.
fug

I can't tell if it's an M3 from the video, just stating what I know about it.

Two new difficulties. "One down" (above death wish) and "Mayhem" (below death wish)

Do bulldozers just hold you down and rape you in this one?

For what purpose

They're piss easy mate just peek or aim at head with shotgun, if you have some points in shotgunner you can take down 1 layer of head armor with 1-2 shots.

i'm okay with this

if you have the glock or anything else with rapid fire you can kill them in less than half a second

They look so soft, in those suits, like giant, stuffed teddy bears.

I must cuddle with one.

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New trailer for content my fellow goyim.

youtube.com/watch?v=wBMAYV5oUFU

I want to be excited by Ron Perlman was wasted on them

You literally can't even die.

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At least there'll be something to be done with the safe house now.

Never forgetti.

Midas still causes cheater tag with the skill boosts.

Did they have some complete amateur animate this? Why does their entire bodies body is every fucking word?

Shit dude I need to get off these meds.

Isn't this just Crimefest under a new name because they burned that bridge horribly?

I mean, I'm pretty sure they won't fuck it up as badly as they did last time, but it's pretty clear that they have scheduled content releases and they just needed to re-brand this one.

leddit payday found content for the website in the source that wasn't used.

The new enemy is a medic.

Does anyone have more lewds of Sydney?

rule34 sites.

user they are a wasteland for payday pictures. I'm hoping that there are anons in this thread who will provide an oasis. They've done a good job so far

WOW WHAT A REVEAL I AM SO SUPRISED BY THIS DEVELOPMENT

Wasn't Hoxton supposed to be from a working class family, and grew up as a thug?

I think they did change their animator, actually.

They totally changed bulletstorm so that anyone can get it, but only by using your ammo bag, and duration depends on how much ammo they get.
That change took a giant shit on my favorite way to end Hotline Miami day 2, as well as just making it not worth taking because ammo bags take too long to interact with when you're in a good spot to benefit from bulletstorm, especially since fully loaded and a sufficiently leveled perk deck actively work against it.

Maybe he got the mansion from all the money he made from being a criminal. After all the butler seems comfortable with Hocton robbing banks.

Leave me alone, you sick fucks.

There is nothing wrong with cute bombsuits.

For you.

Try out some of these codes. Third and fourth from bottom are taken, for sure.

No. I don't want this.

Theres a whole website where they just give out codes user, code whoring is no longer required

Haven't played this in ages anons, think they'll be able to NOT fuck up crimefest this year?

They look extraordinarily comfortable to sleep beside

What website?

(nice trips)
>realise I still have no qt /k/ommandette to even wear it with
STOP IT

I dont understand why they dont just add the national guard, instead of all these supersoldier PMC guys that look like henchmen from a capeshit movie.

We are currently going through crimefest under a different name right now. They didnt even bother having an event to hype it beforehand, so theyre most likely playing it safe.

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How could anyone think that that was a good idea?

Now that I think about it, this might be in preparation for the "mutators" they're going to be adding in a few days, with the pro-jobs as one of them.

Do they even change any mechanics or are the enemies just more bulletspongy on the new difficulties?

I think the enemies are just slight upgrades to the death wish units. The main gimmick of the "One Down" difficulty is that you can only go down once before going into custody. As for bullet spongeyness, they've actually increased cop health across all difficulties; the cloaker apparently has 3k health on Mayhem.

This is some Christopher Robin tier bullshit

>game also spawns hordes of shields(record by far is fucking twelve on hox breakout d2)
I'm not sure what is this bullshit supposed to be, but I'm not liking it. It's just more boring DW.

Other than fully loaded and the shields I dont see how any of that's a bad thing; the game's been piss easy ever since update 100.

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I checked the Steam forums, and everyone is bitching about how bad this update is. Some of them even linked Reddit threads of people bitching about how bad this update is. Something tells me they're gonna revert it.

Jules made a post on the steam forums stating that the current tweaks are not final and will be changed, and that due to certain circumstances they were unable to make it a beta first.

steamcommunity.com/id/overkilljules/posthistory/

They got to these cop HP values by the assumption that everyone was running frenzerker. Dozers being immune to stun, and all explosives getting a damage buff is an overreaction to the overuse of HE shells. Cloakers getting an absurd HP buff is an attempt to maintain the "cloakers are hard, you asked for this!" meme.

Basically Overkill is still completely out of touch.

They didn't playtest because that requires paying people to do what the community will do for them for free.

Something tells me you haven't played One Down yet.

I have played One Down, but only on solo. The health for specials is a little ridiculous, but I dont mind the health of the normal enemies. I couldn't finish any heist due to being solo, but I feel like if I just play with one other guy it'll be doable.

You sure about that? Sprinting Dozers and near cloakers would like you have a word with you.
Also >completely invalidating any lower damage weapon because enemies have such bloated HP pools
how the fuck is this a good change to you

It isn't a bad change to me because I'm not shit at the game. I used to play Overkill 145+ in Payday 1 all the time, sprinting dozers are no big deal at all. However, you are right in that cloakers need to have their HP lowered by a lot.
Then use high damage weapons you nut. This fucking "build diversity" meme needs to die, honestly. Next thing you guys'll be saying is that the game needs to be rebalanced because you cant do pacifist runs on loud.

That's the stupidest argument I ever heard, at that point they should just remove all guns and have "gun" with no talent options either, really just remove all customization if you're restricted to the same 2 cookie cutter builds.

Deathwish was already shit because the raw damage/HP bloat pigeonholed you into a very small selection of meta builds, and now that's been extended to the entire game. You're legitimately retarded if you think this is a good change.

Yeah you're right. We should all use the same build that requires gear from four different DLC packs to barely function.

We should also never run with randoms, and kick anyone who doesn't have 3000 hours and 100% achievements.

It's nice to meet the cancer that made this update possible.

Except that's already been a thing for the longest time. Ever since the weapon rebalance there's been two guns: 1-hit-kill or 2-hit-kill, no variety in damage whatsoever.

I was just talking about One Down. Having a defined meta should be expected in what is the hardest difficulty in the game. However, the other difficulties definitely need to be reverted back.

Yes, I am right. Playing the hardest difficulty should take actual coordination with thought out builds. I only ever use non-dlc weapons, by the way.

man, sometimes I feel like these payday threads are just a front for reddit to lurk here.

Post your build.

That will settle real quick if you're just talking out your ass, which I'm really beginning to suspect you are.

Alright, do as says and post your build, faggot.

I don't have a smug enough anime so this will have to do

What's wrong with wanting to fug bulldozers?
He can fuck off about game balance, though.

One of my biggest complaint about the new difficulties is that the near-doubling of the number of skulls on crimenet makes it a bitch to find heists on a particular difficulty without using filters.

Also not a fan of sprinting dozers, but that's because the fucking retarded pathing means they sprint away from me when I'm trying to shoot them in the face.

The cloaker hp buff only bothered me a little bit, since I got used to taking them down with a falcon rifle double tap on overkill, but they still die from being shot in the face once with a revolver, so I might be able to get used to it.

On a related note, did they buff up the hp of vest swats on overkill? I remember being able to kill them in one uncharged melee after 2 kills, now I need to charge it.

Perhaps, but there's a difference between having a meta vs. being designed to promote a meta, and the following quote from a fucking OVK employee suggests the latter.

imo the problem is simply damage sponge enemies. I like using machineguns but when I'm standing there unloading 20 shots into a taser's face (let alone a bulldozer) I know I'm not bothering to go above overkill difficulty if it stays like this. It's a shame too because I like the damage in Mayhem, I like the number of specials, I love the bulldozer is tough, can rush you and is an actual honest-to-god threat now. I think. the AI is slightly tighter too, I believe the shields are trying to wall up and tasers are sticking with other specials

Show me one post where I talked about fucking bulldozers.

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And what does that have to do with fucking bulldozers?

Regardless, I played a few more heists on varying difficulties along with using different builds and I've come to realize how fucking retarded I was being with those previous posts. It's just that I'm a bit of a masochist when it comes to vidya so One Down was pretty enjoyable for me. I suppose I'm also still too used to the pre-update 100 beta as well, so feel free to post all those smug animes once you finish finding them.

I really need to stop posting when feeling so agitated as well.

What an unexpected turn of events. Truly no one could have seen this coming.

I was doing things other than browsing Holla Forums. My build is complete ass right now since I'm still getting back to rep 100. It's a generic techforcer build, I mainly just go off of grinder, shotguns and occasionally sentries. And yes, this is damage control. I rcame to my senses and realized you guys are right, and that I am wrong. Congrats. I will now go into the corner of shame.

Current build.

I don't even know where to begin.

Let's start with the fact that you could've just used pd2weapons.com/ rather than posting screenshots.

4 points for 20 more armor. Did you even play pre-update DW?
I don't know if that aced Third Law is just to reach JOAT, or if you actually think you're bringing non-silenced sentries with virtually no sentry skills. If you're not bringing sentries you could've saved a point by dropping it into the basics on the 2nd tier.
because what you really want on shotguns is accuracy.
I'm certain your teammates appreciate it when their movement speed changes randomly for a very short duration.

You said you were running this with grinder? So 0 dodge grinder, underdog basic, and a die hard aced LBV. That comes out to a little over 400 EHP, with regen that isn't strong enough to do jack shit on One Down, and wasn't all that great on pre-update DW.

user you could've just got out with that last post. This is just embarrassing. If you brought this on pre-update DW you were dead weight. Your comments about being able to do One Down with one other teammate was just a flat out lie.

Please go before you cause yourself any more pain.

I've had the game since release, yes I have played pre-update DW. I've barely played the game after update 100 and whenever I did it was with friends, so I'm still not entirely used to the new skill system. Even then I've been able to play DW easily with my crew. And I do prefer accuracy for shotguns. Yes, I am aware of how shotguns work in the game.

Then why aren't you using the Shh! supressor, or the accuracy boost? You're also trying to run a shotgun without flechette?

So that's one of the weaker damage shotguns, without overkill basic aka 75% of its damage, and a 10 meter range before damage drop off.
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For the good of both of us let's just stop here.

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Because I have no idea what I'm doing. And yea, let's just stop here.

Y'know, I was tempted to reinstall and go back to going fast with my triple MP5 build, but seeing this shit about balance being thrown out the window and remembering how retardedly unoptimized the game is makes me glad I uninstalled in the first place. Don't get me wrong, I've had a bunch of good memories with the game despite it being stuffed up the ass with DLC, but it looks like it's really not worth coming back to, especially since a few of the heists would just crash the game on me every time. Have fun anons, and remember not to feed the electric jew.

I got time to download it now.
"#!ZR0TVYKY!TTGDTZdcvZpQ9h9VKJVGaAXScOKTPBDSHBkldpQti2o" a code for? How the shit do I use this?

I took total of nine people out of custody and hauled all but one bag on my fucking own.
Cunts.

"Woah, how do you expect a small studio like Overkill to survive without any shekels, goyim? It's not like they could have just made another game by now, or anything like that." Either that they're retards you think DLC Unlocker is gonna get them b&.

*or they're retards who think

>you just spend money on "continental coins" remember John Wick?? XD that can be used to unlock more areas and features in it.
At least you can visit it with your buddies. And gamble your money at a roulette table.

Hey, Wick's alright.

I enjoyed the movie a lot, but it seems a little weird to have your new currency system be a reference to a franchise you're only loosely associated with. Though I suppose it kinda makes sense since Wick is in the game.

and I'm wrong about the coins; you get them from doing side jobs, not by buying them.

Apparently you can use the coins to buy weapon mods too?

Was this a mistake?

Didn't hear about that.

Overkill has a bit of a reputation of not knowing jack shit about firearms.

I don't understand. Do people enjoy this? Does whoever writes these achievements implement them with a straight face? They know they're fucking with us. They have to know.

If you've done everything on death wish, you just have to tackle One Down achievements, all the Mayhem shit gets unlocked when you start the game.

The real mistake was naming the gun after jizz stains.

Yeah, a mistake.

Since my build was completely shit on, what skills/weapons go well with Grinder?

Why do you care? I thought you were breezing through the game on One Down solo without pressing the fire button.
Or did you actually decide to play the game.

Anyway, the answer is none because grinder is garbage on higher difficulties.

Before this clusterfuck of a balance overhaul hit, nothing because Grinder is bad and objectively one of the worst perk decks.
Now that this clusterfuck of a balance overhaul hit, the best combo with Grinder is nothing because Grinder is bad and objectively one of the worst perk decks.

Seriously though, Grinder is straight garbage after the huge nerf it got.

That sounds about right, I've had it enabled since it released and never really bothered using another perk deck afterwards. Not exactly a great idea in the long run. Perhaps I'll use Ex-President, I heard its a lot better.

I never said I was actually able to beat One Down, I just said I enjoyed it.

So why is Overkill bad aside from OP dlc like frag rounds?

Does anyone here have the screencaps from the Mayday threads? Seem to have lost mine.

new difficulty is too hard fam

They've said that it wasn't final, and that they'll adjust it. An open beta just started today, which I'm assuming is related to that. God knows when the final patch for it will actually come, though.

Nevermind, there is no beta. I'm just gonna go off myself with how much I've fucked up in this thread.

Did I not mod something right? What are the breakpoints now?

Seems like they fucking buff'd the shit out of all cops' health across all difficulties. I have no idea what were they thinking.

The breakpoint for Tans on Mayhem and DW is currently 384 damage for 1 headshot. Right now how enemy health works is that each cop has the same base health across all difficulties, with Mayhem and DW adding a 2x multiplier and OD adding a 3x multiplier.

Every nerf to the M308 I consider a personal attack on myself
I can get increased body health, but head health multipliers need to fuck off except on OD

Why is it so hard for them to get the balance right? For a gametype that is "supposed" to be for level 100s I shouldn't be getting my shit kicked in as a level 95.

It's pretty ironic considering they said they were trying to make the difficulties feel more incremental with this update. I thought the new difficulties were fun when I first tried them, but after looking at the numbers I can tell they were not thought through at all.

No I know Mayday, but aside from that?

This guy's smug face.

Pulling the "We are but small indie developers, pls don't criticize us" card when Starbreeze was publically traded on the stock market and had about a hundred people on staff, for one.

Isn't Starbreeze their publisher?
I thought Overkill developed it.

Starbreeze is their partner/parent studio. Payday was originally published by 505 Games.

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Shit I hope I get a case so I can buy that for Steam market shekel.

I was going to tell you the safes aren't worth anything and the contents are, but I suppose now that they're free to open, the value of each one must have shot up, correct?

Safes are like 40 cents each. I've gotten 3 different ones and all of them were around that price.

Well it's something at least. Better than a couple cents a piece when they were pay to open, basically trading card level.

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