Payday 2 went F2P

Don't get me wrong, of course I play(ed) the game for the fun of it. I just find it more fun if said fun has a "higher purpose" - growth is an classic, proven purpose, though Payday kind of fucked up with the infamy system, everything past infamy 5 is somewhat pointless (except for aquiring the bane mask or the cheeky breeky balaclava, of course). Though I'd probably still play it even if I already had everything, if it was with friends or something.

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I got it because the VR update will be free when it comes out.

To be fair there are still some OP builds that work without the DLC, especially if focused on the good old M308, for example. Though they should really give the shotgun DLC to everyone. Having AP slugs in your judge is just crazy. Just like using shotguns to activate Overkill and then switch to your silencer-boosted LMG which now does 90% headshot damage when you just do body-shots. Shit's fucking insane.

I actually pre ordered it back then. In my defense, Overkill seemed to be a cool company back then. In Payday 1 they allowed you to play on dlc maps even if you didn't bought them. I was very sure that payday 2 would turn out good but who could have predicted this jewish bullshit.

I played 2 or 3 hours max since I bought it a year ago. I encountered a hacker in a random game who helped me getting a ton of money and XP. Never touched it since.

what? can you guys share some of your builds? Because I tested some shit and shotguns seem to be the overall best weapons in the game. I will lunch payday and share some screenshots soon, the judge can deal like 4k damage in one shot.

They should just cut the middle man and apply the shotgun tree to LMGs then somehow.

Oh shit, did they actually run out of those 5 million copies they were giving away for free already? Or is it just that people who already have it can only see the ultimate edition in the shop?

For those who don't know / care: The "ultimate Edition" is basically all DLCs in one bundle + the game. If you bought the game the price for said bundle goes down for, like, 10 bucks. Don't know the exact number since I got the throwaway-DLCs back then.

Is there a spring?

Yeah, the FIRST Payday was like that. PD2 is set up like an MMO where all you do is grind replayable quests, except the only end goal is being able to grind the same quests at a more efficient rate.

That was, and never will never be as good as a DLC Sniper+Shotgun Combo or a Shotgun+Shotgun combo which just BTFO of anything vanilla.
And that's before you even get onto the other cheese that came out that needed DLC to function, like the suppressed builds that had major bonuses to damage and pen.

We are, indeed, in this world just to suffer.

I'm pretty sure they just ran out of time and pulled it. Did you even check this shit for yourself?

Anybody have a recent copy of the dlc unlocker?

Anyone want to run some ovk heists?

The judge is a fucking beast, yeah. The build is pretty uncomplicated. Get the silencer bonus skills, which gives you 30% dmg boost as long as you put a silencer on your weapons (much better than other barrel extensions). Skill the shotgun tree with the damage and range/accuracy boost to aced overkill. Then also skill opressor to the max. This way when you are ingame you can shoot a nigga with the judge, switch to the LMG and unload your 165 or so shots where each bullet kills even with body shots (unless you play on one down, I think). Sure, shotguns also kill with one shot, but the LMG shoots much faster and is far, far more ammo-efficient. Brotip: Get yourself some adhesive tape, put it in the middle of your screen and draw a little cross on it for MAXIMUM HIP-FIRE HAX™.

pd2skills.com/#/v3/eABdEf:tMOQR:gOqr:::

Put the remaining points whereever, I recommend iron man though.

I didn't even know there was a one for every season, I am taking yours.

Hacking is the only entertaining way to play this game. It's boring as hell otherwise. It's also nice not having to shell out your shekels for dlc when you hack.

Shotgun+Sniper or Double Shotgun is still the meta when it comes to dodgebuilds - and they are the only viable thing on one down. But when on lower difficulties / levels the 308 is the shit, one-shoting everything with one headshot without having to be supported by any skills. Surefire really fucking helps though, turning its 10 shot magazine into 25 shots. Other ARs get 50% more ammo - the M308 gets 150%. Fucking crazy.

You can play on DLC maps you don't own in PD2 too. You just can't host them.

I have attached my build. Going to check yours out in a sec. What I do is Fenzy + Anarchist, I can go all the way to mayhem with no problem, mayhem = normal to me, but one down is hard. I guess I could try some lmg builds at some point

What're you gonna ask for next, the mods being competent? ;^)

If you can do mayham you can probably do deathwish. The powergap between deathwish and one down is brutal though. Only dodgebuilds work there - even super heavy armor breaks with just 1-2 bullets.

Lua hacking was always revenge for the kikery.
Maybe if the community respected them people wouldn't instadown the whole team at the end of each match as often.

gee OP did you ever consider making this thread a week ago before the deal expired

Yes I know, they carried that shit over to payday 2, but back in the payday 1 days this was not so common.

Yeah I pre ordered payday 2 because the first one was a lot of fun, but the second one just isn't the same.

In the first payday you could just set rep limit to 145+ and you got a bunch of good teammates, but payday 2 is just full of cheaters. Ranks mean nothing. And then there are those cheat haters… ffs, the community is so cancer. People are so obsessed with cheaters, they kick you for all kinds of bullshit.

You can get accused of cheating for: Using inspire. Using inspire through walls. Having a Deathwish Mask. Using HE rounds. Using a silencer on a Judge (He said it was a Bronco) Killing a doser with 2 shots (Thantos) Picking up ammo/using health kits. Carrying 2 deployables. Nine-lives. Pistol messiah and that one perk that gives you infinity bullets for a short time after you use one of the ammo bags.

If it's just for the DLCs I don't mind hackers, fuck the kikery. I only mind hackers who have no idea how the game works, screw everyone over and spam russian in chat

Of course not. That'd be proper timing and thus completely absurd for an OP.

We had threads when payday 2 was free and also days before it. I did share some of my builds back then and someone recommended that fenzy build that I use right now.

I can see how new people would think the unlimited ammo perk is a hack when they see it used with the grenade launcher or something for the first time, but the other shit? Jesus fucking Christ, people are retarded.

We had 2 threads at once when it first became free.

I remember 2 too, one was a general payday thread and the other announcing that payday 2 was free. I actually have both archived:
archive.is/OxgFG
archive.is/gBB2o

I remember I bought the ((("GOTY"))) version of this shit in 2014 (which by the way lacked like half the DLC) during a sale.
It was fun at first, but then came the stability issues. Then it seemed like there wasn't enough people, and everyone kept playing the same maps. Eventually I got bored of the lack of people and how most of the played maps were ~40-60 minutes long and people kept ragequitting or losing connection. When I got a better PC I considered coming back but the whole box and key fiasco made me drop it.
Now that it's fucking F2P I bet the playerbase will get irredemably fucked by dumbshits and BRs.

What a fucking shitshow of a game.

You already have spring

I got it for free and only play it with 4-5 mates.
We all used the DLC Unlocker and never socialise with anyone else.
Great fun in short bursts, tedious if we actually try to do something properly.

If you play co-op PvE games with randoms, you should expect this kind of shit. Go make some friends or stop playing.

Kill yourself, redditor.

For now it is somewhat okay, even if you end up with BRs or their european and asian counterparts. The reason for that is that if you, as an experienced player, enter a game of those BR newfags, it will likely have gone to fucking shit and lasted 1 hour already and you, as the only competent person, will be the saviour of the apes. And even monkeys can show gratitude.

What about fun? That's something only Payday: The Heist had. Its heists were fun. Payday 2's are just grind, grind, grind.

Hacking in Payday only adds "cheater" in bright red letters alongside your name, and that's only because a modder made it and sent it to them. If anything, Payday 2 going F2P means they're going to drop most, if not all the support they had for the game.

Shit, just went these autist goys figured out we are out to milk them for all they are worth

shut it down

I've done it lads. This is my Summum Opus. My final work. The product of all the hours I have sunk into this terrible game. Never have I felt more overpowered in a videogame.

pd2skills.com/#/v3/mbdfpr:eABEflr:tMnOQr:gGJKLOPQr:ibcdea:pR8::w42-14-21-24-7:s49-4-25:a1

This build was inspired by those weird as fuck flamethrower dodgebuild and my overkill LMG build. An LMG overkill dodgebuild. It only works with the RPK, you absolutely need two concealment boosts and you also need to sacrifice the FAK ace in order to put those points into accuracy and stability. I consider all the skills in there, except for Scavanger and Resilence, "core". You can constantly run around and mow down everything without running out of ammo. If you are careful enough it even works on deathwish, it might even work on one down if your team compensates for your weaknesses, not sure.

Forced with the overwhelming incompetence of all the new - mostly russian - players I figured that I need a build which allows me to kill everything myself because noone else will do it for me. And by god, it works. People think I'm a fucking hacker, that's how well it works.

For the love of god if you got the infamy levels and the two concealment boosts you HAVE to try this shit out for yourself.

Nigga, your 2nd webm is the one for spring.

u wot m8

all but one my man…

Good eyes, but let me explain.

You have more than enough ammo because of how stupidly ammo efficiant the RPK is.

As for inner pocket ace that is only for saving points. I know it's stupid but I need those points elsewhere. Dire Need or Shockproof both don't make up for the acc / stab I can get elsewhere.

Cheating is the fastest way to break any interest or obsession you might have with a game.

meh, I played it once and never felt need to go back

I keep hearing about this game being free but all I can find is a $45 version of it.

Doesn't mean much since retards think you're a fucking hacker for just using grinder

The game's community was already irredeemably shit, at least now I'm having a laugh at newfags fucking up on every occasion.
Also limited free copies =/= F2P, I get the similarities, but it's still not the same thing.

Honestly, you wouldn't want to play it anyway. It's called free-to-play but the reality is that the game is freemium.

Payday 2 was never good

I'm sorry to hear about your mental disabilities and I hope you can find the help you so desperately meed

someone gifted this game to me back then, played for half an hour and i still feel like i wasted time on this shit

This is how many of the players actually got those achievements which are basically for free. Around 30% didn't even ever play the game even though they have it. 5% did not even finish their first job - I assume those players have their game crash on starting a mission and can't fix that shit. 15% did not even care enough to make it to level 5, which basically means they had enough of the game after the first round.

Yet the reviews are "mostly positive" lately and "very positive" overall.

A lot of people get games on Steam for the level and cards, for free games you can most certainly bet the vast majority are either people that are getting it because it is free or autists that made multiple accounts and redeemed the game ten times because it has cards worth 0.05 cents.

can you try buckshot instead of slugs on your judge? I assume you pick slugs for range right? Because in my experience the judge can even with buckshot snipe people across the map, so you end up dealing much more damage while being just as accurate as before.

If games counted the amount of positive reviews counting every single person that has played the game and not written a review as a negative one then all the games would be negative

True, but I let him do it because I had bad memories of the first Payday where I was always kicked out of lobbies because I had a low rank.

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I bought it for 4 bucks in 2014 and played it for 500 hours

Wait, so does that mean you have to buy ALL of them if you want one?

You have to buy the ultimate edition goy! All DLC included :^)

any cute chicks in this game. can you play as a chick In this.

I bought it at release and only played 30 hours.

Glad I never bought any of the DLC. Game is shit. First Payday was better.

Yeah but it shaves off a portion of the price for every DLC you already own, and the resulting price is cheaper than each DLC individually. I used to be a bit of a whale for this game up until a point so I have all but 5 DLC and the price is $6.94

I got a free game and had lots of fun playing it with my friends. I don't get why nothing good ever happens to you.

Two aren't exactly what you would call cute and the third is fairly meh
payday.wikia.com/wiki/Bonnie
payday.wikia.com/wiki/Sydney
payday.wikia.com/wiki/Clover

A very late and moot point.
I quit buying them in November 2014. Got the game in May 2014, when I bought the base game and all the current time's DLC including soundtrack for twenty bucks. I did get everything afterwards on sales (barring anal assault which I got for free) up to Historical pack, which I got just for the moist nugget. The god damn ultimate edition would cost 27 bucks for me. I seriously didn't expect them to do over six times more DLC than I started with.

thanks for the info of this.

The first payday IS better.

Payday 2 was the longest running early access scam on Steam… Now it's gone F2P. Rightfully jamming a thumb up everyone's ass.
Well, except the faggots who honestly waited until now to get into the game.
They deserve the cancer they're getting.

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They are all horrible, bonnie is a stupid fat fuck, clover has a weird ass accent (can't stand the way she says guard) and sydney is ugly as fuck. That said, all of them are ugly as fuck.

Clover isn't that bad in terms of appearance, she simply looks a bit aged. The image used in the wiki makes it look worse than it is.

Looks pretty bad to me.

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but a beard on her, improves the look, trust me.

That's just what Irish women look like.
No joke, look up her VA, Aoife Duffin.

Is there a way to disable the crosshair and all the cheat keybinds like x-ray vision? Nice dubs btw.

Who the fuck cares it's still the jewiest game on the planet with all its constant DLCs in order to play with others. Also the announcer is the dumbest sounding human being in europe aside from sadiq kahn.

You have to go into the .lua files, under "config" I think, you can edit everything there using notepad. Thanks for checking.

I don't have the link handy, but if you search for MAYDAY 2 in steam groups, a bunch of Holla Forumsirgins who play PD2 are there.

The biggest kikery in the game is the achievements (for content) that can only be unlocked by having others with the DLC play wth you, so not only do they have to shell out extra shekels, but you also have to track them down and have them be competent to accomplish certain missions.

go into mods and delete the pp folder

I know, it was pointed out in one of the previous payday threads, she still looks like trash.

Thanks, I changed the config to disable all keybinds and disable some of the insta unlocked stuff.

What are you trying to use the trainer for? The stuff you disabled is pretty much its whole use. Are you just after cosmetics or something? You trying to level legitly?

Unlock the DLC, having all the skins or all the weapon slots bought felt like it would ruin part of the fun.

user, you realize you'd have to pay for those if you wanted them, right?

Also, if you're concerned for as the stats bonuses they give, the skins are basically a token bonus + attachments. You can buy them separately if you have them unlocked. The skins derive their stat bonuses from both the token and the attachments they come with. You could therefore buy a skin, and remove/change the token and the attachments and the stats would change.

Ah okay, I remember the Mayday 2 fiasco and was wondering if the vaults still dropped and you could open them for free. Fuck them in that case.

pagers causing alarms make sense if it's like a bank with a security room, but a fucking jewelry store? are you shitting me?
stealth in payday 2 is fucking retarded with the pager limit system on every single map.
nobody wants your fucking difficulty you shmucks, they want to rob shit with friends and feel like career criminals, not have to deal with LE INSTANT KILL NINJA MANS if an omniscient Security God thinks that you've shot too many people

Those safe drops were scripted events; when Overjew came out with a new safe type, they gave 1 as a loot drop for free regardless of the heist that you finished. Safes will never drop as a random reward, if a safe drops it's because Overkike made it drop for you.

I've got some time right now if anyone wants to play…

Gotta agree. Also the "stealth" in most cases seems like a slow, silent takeover rather than a stealthy sneak-job.

Reading the steam news right now because I haven't checked up on it for a week or so, and I see this

So I guess it wasn't a joke, they really are bringing those kikes aboard AND charging for it. Someone please post that webm where Ethan gets butthurt that someone disabled ads on his jewtube vids. Also if anyones up for a game, lemme know.

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Because of pagers it essentially means you will only ever kill guards for two reasons in stealth: they got close to detecting the drill or they bumped into you as you were turning around the corner. Everything else is either you cleaning up after your shitty mistakes or simply saying "fuck it" and going with ECMs instead. Objectives with forced stealth just makes that even worse, the only exception to this is Murky Station.

Car theft is the worst mission, because you're forced to kill 2 guys or wait 14 fucking minutes

Shadow Raid is pretty bad for this as well but it gets away with it because it's always your own damn fault for fucking up rather than luck. Having to try to kill guards next to the vault in order to get the armour because you can only carry one keycard is also clearly very fun.

The trick is to get the two guaranteed keycards instead. The orange suit man does walk by the vault on occasion, and him being in the warehouse standing out in the open is just enough time for you to get the keycard from there, at least with parkour basic.

I'm into PD2 mostly for the music. Viklund is too good for this world.

here you go son

Of course, they can't randomly drop them to you. You can sell them on the market, people would make payday 2 scripts to farm those safes if they dropped randomly. It's the same in cs:go, dota and tf2. Every week you get a hidden timer, let's say it's 4 hours. Every time you play this counter ticks down and once it reaches 0 you get a drop by the end of the game. After that you get no more drops unless you do certain things that reset it. In cs:go buying a pass would reset it and allow one more drop.

I don't know if they have fixed it, last time I played cs:go was June 2014. Back then you could just idle on servers and earn money. I had bought 3 cs:go accounts with the money I earned from drops and bought passes on them. I think I ended up earning like 30€ through those drops.

Now imagine how much worse/better the situation would be if you had random drops instead of 1 per week. It would either crash the market, which now that I think about it would be a good thing, or… I don't know to be honest how this would affect the market but I guess you can see why Valve would be against this.

Agreed on that, I am generally not a fan of stealth in payday 2, the fake scripted stealth in payday 1 on that diamond heist map was more fun imo.

I would remove that pager shit entirely, let us kill as many guards as we want, and stop the stupid body bag thing. Let us carry corpses around like in Splinter Cell Double Agent or Hitman Blood Money. And destroying cameras shouldn't cause alarm either. I just wish it was more like Hitman and Splinter Cell, go into a mission, silently kill people, steal shit and leave with no one noticing.

They should of course add some extra measurements for bigger heists, like heart beat sensors in Mercy Hospital, but not in every heist.

They should also stop with the small heists and focus on big ones only. Payday 1's heists were all fun, panic room, first world bank, mercy hospital, counterfeit… Payday 2 on the other hand… I honestly can't think of a single good heist. I play that Alesso a lot, but honestly not a big fan of it either.

I also hate how everything slows you down, carrying money bags should not affect your speed at all. In payday 1 escaping was a lot more fun because you could sprint the fuck out. Now you are slowly moving out because you are carrying heavy shit with you.

This is what happens when you put realism over fun.

Although I agree on everything else for stealth, cameras should exist to be something that forces you to reassess the situation rather than having them act like every other stationary guard you kill.

Also having pagers only apply when you kill/hold-up guards after they have seen you would be a decent alternative, since it would also make perfect sense for it to work that way. If they see you then obviously they would try to reach for their radio, but if they haven't then there is really no reason why you would have to justify a silent guard continuing being silent.

In every other game they don't matter as well, so why should they matter here? Keep the titan cams (those who can't be destroyed) and let us destroy other cameras. You could maybe have some guards be send to check out destroyed cameras, but I don't see a point in those causing a alarm.

His sister's looking pretty good there.

Sounds good to me, I would totally support that idea.

Thanks user

Consider yourselves lucky, I got fucking hooked on this game till the bullshit going on with it was too much (left after safes dropped, but was sick of the DLC assfuck).
I honestly hate what this game has turned into. Outside of Serious Sam and the like or Musos' nothing has scratched my itch to lay wastes to hundreds of fuckers at a time.

Kinda unrelated but does anyone know why whenever I try to open a mega link it asks for a decryption key?

He left though, but I think he still does PD music as a "freelancer".

when did you buy it? Because as far as I remember this game was shit back then when it got released.

June 2014 according to steam. Will admit I had Hoxhud for the most part (and when the game would update and break hoxhud I'd wait for hoxhud to get fixed).

Wish there was a way to enter a date and see a game's state back then, because I have no idea what was going on in june 2014 back then. Was this before or after they added that infamy shit?

Well you kinda can with Payday 2, just go by what the latest DLC was released (Which was big bank). So after the first thing of infamy (which might have been in since release) but far before the second round of infamy.

Yeah, I know he did, but most of the music is still his and I still love it.

Reminds me that they fucked up Infamy by increasing the rank to 25. Before that second round, you were getting actual playing cards (Joker, 2, 3, 4, 5) and it seemed like it would continue all the way up to ace. Then the second round happens and all the playing cards are just replaced with roman numerals (except for Joker, I think). Looks stupid.