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Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.
Alt thread title: PAYDAY 2: D.C. Police opened a portal to the elemental plane of cops
Payday 2 Goons Steam group
Camping the Stairs mumble information
Payday 2 Skill calculator
Big Oil Calculator. Also here is another one.



Payday 2 is about murdering law enforcement officers in one of the best co-op shooters on the market today. Also about unhealthy amounts of gun love.

Yes, pubbies in this game are terrible you should play with goons. Join us on the Camping the Stairs mumble and by joining the Payday 2 Goons Steam group. Feel free to complain about your pub adventures in the thread though!

Hanging out in the steam group chat and joining the mumble server and idling in the Payday 2 Looking for game channel is the best way to organize a goon group. Some people are pretty jaded on playing this game after two years but whenever DLC gets released or sales happen, there will be an influx of new players that you can catch a ride with.

What’s new with Payday 2?

This game is pretty unrecognizable from what it was released as two years ago. If you haven't played in awhile you should just jump in because there aren't really any changelogs that will explain it to you. But who cares about that, lets see some pixel gunporn











:siren: Multiple free guns, mods and masks are yours if you join the Official Payday 2 Steam group :siren:

Paid DLC Tier List- this is roughly the order to buy stuff in. All this stuff goes on 60+% sale 4-6x a year though, so its usually better just to wait.

New to Payday Tier list:
-------absolutely-------
Payday 2 GOTY (has everything you need)
PAYDAY 2: Yakuza Character Pack (:japan:)
-------cool-------------
Gage Ninja Pack
BBQ pack
The Overkill Pack
Western Pack
Sokol Character Pack
------meh---------
AK/CAR mod pack
The Bomb Heists
Dragan Character pack
Alesso Heist
Golden Grin Heist

~*~*~*~*~*~*~

------MUST BUY Tier------
Gage Mod Courier Pack
PAYDAY 2: Yakuza Character Pack (:japan:)
Gage Ninja Pack(:japan:)

-------Great Value Tier------
Gage Sniper Pack
Gage Weapon Pack #2
Gage Assault Pack
Hotline Miami
The OVERKILL Pack
The Butcher's BBQ Pack
Sokol Character Pack (his perk deck is OP)

-----“Get it on a sale” tier-------
Official Soundtrack
Gage Weapon Pack #1
Clover Character Pack (great value if you host)
Gage Historical Pack (great value if you like ww2)
Gage Shotgun Pack
Gage Chivalry Pack
Butcher AK/CAR Mod Pack
Big Bank Pack
Alesso Heist
The Bomb Heist
The Diamond
Western Weapons Pack
Dragan Character Pack
Golden Grin Heist
A Merry Christmas Soundtrack
Armored Transport (redeemed by train heist getting fixed, hallelujah)

There are some write-ups of the DLC here

Other things


From Captain Swing


the allegory of the pubstove illustrated by allen wren


I’m a paranoid schizophrenic and I like spending hours of my time playing a convoluted ARG
You got it buddy! Secrets thread is here!



Yeah all that dumb bullshit is okay, but what about the LORE?!

HebrewMagic posted:

If you're a loving loser like me and absolutely CANNOT have fun unless you're strictly adhering to a Canon mission order, I may have your fix. I've been working on a list of Missions in their (closest thing to) proper order, including Payday 1 missions (in the strong possibility that we get the whole first game as DLC eventually)

For further fun-ruining, I've also marked out which Heisters would be "Available" on each particular job, as if we need more granular reasons to kick pubbies from our now Lore-Friendly lobbies.

The whole shitshow is available as a Google Doc here.


Payday web series episode 1
Payday web series episode 2
Payday web series episode 3
Payday web series episode 4
Payday web series episode 5
Payday web series episode 6

The Dentist introduction trailer

Payday 2 Hype Train

This music is really good! Where can I get it?
If you buy the soundtracks on steam they will be in your Payday 2 folder somewhere.
Also: http://overkillsoundtracks.bandcamp.com/


From Captain Swing

Also thanks to Plan Z for helping me with the OP. Blame him if it sucks.

Fellis fucked around with this message at 05:29 on Nov 9, 2015

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Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.
Game Mechanics and FAQ :words:
or: how I learned to stop worrying and skipped this post to start posting


M.O.? Is that they're good... Once it escalated into a murder one beef for all of 'em after they killed the first two guards, they didn't hesitate. Teabag guard number three because... what difference does it make?
From Captain Swing

if you really care about gettin gud you should read SA poster John Murdoch’s Payday 2 guide for beginners if you haven't. Many of the mechanics of this game are not explained very well or blatantly misleading, such as many many skill descriptions, but thankfully many brave goons have thrown themselves into the depths of :spergin: to bring the facts to us.

What is the Long Guide people keep talking about?

It's a ~30,000 word document detailing exactly how the game mechanics work from people who delve into the code. Many goons have long sections committed to memory and quote it as if it was a holy document. Seriously. If you find yourself looking at it, you might want to seek therapy.

----------------------------------------

I’m new, what skills/class/perks should I get first?!?

First of all, after a few heists look at the "Perk Deck" tab in the skills menu. Equip the Armorer or Crew Chief deck and stick with that until you have it maxxed out. By the time you have finished one of those two, you will probably know enough about the game mechanics to figure out what to do next, but either of those are a solid first pick. Make sure you stick with one because there are EXP bonuses in the perk decks now.

Plan Z posted:

Guide to using the Grindr Perk Deck

Chapter 1: Use Grinder. Stop whining about wearing lighter armor or sacrificing dodge or whatever. Healing yourself by setting cops on fire is the best thing to happen on a screen.

End of guide.

Comments? Corrections? Make sure to PM them.

For skills:
    Mastermind
  • Aced Cable Guy (Faster tying of hostages, raises number of cable ties to 6. Great for hostage-heavy maps.)
  • Basic Endurance (Doubles your sprint stamina.)

    Enforcer
  • Aced Transporter (Arguably the most important skill in the game. Lets you move faster while carrying bags and lets you throw them farther.)

    Technician
  • Basic Nerves of Steel (Halves damage while interacting with things; this includes anything that causes the interaction circle to show up on your screen, including reviving teammates and placing deployables.)

    Ghost
  • Aced Sprinter (Reduces the time before sprint stamina regenerates, makes it regenerate faster, makes you sprint faster, period, and adds a 25% dodge bonus while sprinting. Phew!)
  • Aced Fast Hands (Personally, I think this skill is a luxury buy, but it is almost universally useful much like Aced Transporter. It lets you pack baggable loot faster and pick up bags faster.)

Skill Trees/Classes/Builds
Here is a useful skill builder

Just post your builds in the thread and try things out. I suggest putting some points in enforcer.

Weapon information

Gestalt Intellect posted:

Use whichever one is the funnest to you.

Seriously, just use whatever gun and aim for the head to pop helmets and it’ll work. If the gun isn’t working, it's because you are bad at the game, I’m so sorry you had to find out this way. :gitgud:

Are there any cool mods/tweaks for the game?

Many cool mods can be found here: http://paydaymods.com/

GoonMod- A mod being developed by SA user Wilko! Removes corpse despawn limits, so you can see exactly how many cops you killed during the heist in grotesque little piles. Obviously affects performance. Excellent mod, A++.
:siren: Seriously look at this poo poo :siren:

It also does a lot of other things like:
Gage Coins- a massive fix to the terrible drop system
Crime.net Cargo- trade weapons and masks among other players with GoonMod
Rainbow lasers and flashlights- what it says on the box
Push to interact- press F once instead of holding it to lockpick, no more fat fingering pager answers!
Hilarious mutators like All Cops go to Heaven
And probably a bunch more things I'm forgetting!

Insert name here posted:

So I made a mod:

Features the following on Overkill difficulty:
  • GenSec Elites and Skulldozers
  • DW spawn tables* and assault waves
  • Elites have their DW health (but use OVK damage values)
Everyone in the group must have the mod installed because otherwise anyone who doesn't have it installed will see (and be able to kill) the Greys at 130hp instead of 240hp. Also all Murkywater enemies will also have their DW health because they are literally just reskins of the greys. If you want the changes to assault waves and spawn tables, but are playing with someone who doesn't want to install mods, use the No Grey Changes version for consistency between host and client. Note that with the No Grey Changes version only the host needs the mod.

TO INSTALL: throw it into your BLT mod folder, cause it's a BLT mod

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/8yja44xbq64z3jd/OVKGenSec_v1.1.zip
No Grey Changes: http://www.mediafire.com/download/e7nus6pncwqqkia/OVKGenSec_v1.1g.zip

Make sure to report any hilarious and stupid bugs that cause the game to poo poo itself so that I can maybe hopefully fix them.

*The only change to the spawn tables I've made is adding Green Dozers. By default on DW only Saiga and Skulldozers will spawn. This mod will make it so all three varieties will spawn on OVK. DW should not be affected.

Stealth:

edit from Tulip. Original

Gif + Image collection
Using shotguns in stealth
Loco Supremacy
Chains keeping up his civilan undercover identity so the Feds don't find him
Note: Bulldozer died on the way back to his home planet
How-to get the Fish A.I. achivement
Fingerguns :ocelot:
Team Bulldozer's blasting off again!!
Always call your shots
Not Today :black101:
Game, what are you doing. Go home, you're drunk.
SkullDozer secret technique #7: Butt Slam
Knife Party Shield Shuffle
Heptakill!
Oh what a feeling, dozers dancing on the ceiling



if sykic was an overkill dev

Useful post link graveyard
click names to link to posts on these topics

Discendo Vox posted:

Deat Wish Loud Beginner Tips

Drewjitsu posted:

My thoughts and addendum on the above death wish tips

Discendo Vox posted:

Stealth Mechanics changes

Fellis posted:

Sentry gun build and advice

C.M. Kruger posted:

IRL reasons for why our drills suck (actually pretty interesting)

Fellis fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Oct 7, 2015

Pladdicus
Aug 13, 2010
I play this game lots. I used to run ghost, so that I could kill things. My friend slapped me and now I play Techforcer.

Play a techforcer

(actually play mastermind so I can get sweet bonuses)

Doorknob Slobber
Sep 10, 2006

by Fluffdaddy
I quit when they nerfed the mosconi because that was lame. I will play with goons again for a while now.

Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.
  • Armored Transport- Adds the armored transport series of heists where the crew knocks over some armored cars in various exotic locales. There is also a secret document that leads to another heist where you rob an armored train of some top secret weaponry. Also includes some weapons and presidential masks. Probably the worst DLC since the missions aren’t great and if you want to play them you can ask someone to host one. Only buy at a sale price.

  • Gage Weapon Pack #01- Adds 3 new weapons and grenades and some animal masks. A pretty good DLC, definitely worth it at sale price. You can also play with grenades if someone with this DLC buys a grenade asset before the heist. However, this DLC is super important so you can participate in the time honored tradition of throwing all your grenades at each other while waiting for the heist to end.

  • Gage Weapon Pack #02- Adds LMGs and combat knives and some masks. A fantastic DLC, the LMGs are among the best weapons in the game and are very fun to use. Knives are meh. Definitely worth it at regular price, must buy on sale.

  • Gage Mod Courier- Adds packages littered hidden around Washington DC that you can pick up during your heists. When you have picked up enough of the packages you earn 5 mods that fit on a variety of weapons. This is the best DLC out right now and you should buy this immediately so your weapons don’t suck. Seriously, this fixes the mod drop system that is really frustrating and gives you some amazing mods easily so you don’t have to care about the drop system being broken and frustrating. If you don’t have the DLC, any packages picked up during the mission will give you an EXP bonus.

  • Gage Sniper Pack- Adds 3 Sniper rifles and some bug masks to the game. Also added vantage points and ziplines to many of the heists. The sniper rifles are a lot of fun to use and are able to shoot through walls and Shields and also make short work of Bulldozers. A very good DLC, definitely worth it at sale price. Worth it at regular price if you have a tremendous hard on for .50 cals.

  • The Big Bank- Adds a new heist, a gun, and some excellent masks to the game. A heist where all your dreams of heisting while riding the pink pig come true, it is a massive map with lots of objectives and a fun gimmick called preplanning. The contact for this new heist, The Dentist (basically Gus Fring from Breaking Bad, same actor), loves planning ahead and for the Big Bank you have access to the blueprints of the map that you can draw on in the lobby to plan out your perfect heist.



    Obviously the best DLC and you should purchase it immediately. Of course you can play the heist before you buy it as long as the host has the DLC. Definitely worth buying on sale.

  • Gage Shotgun Pack- Adds 3 shotguns to the game, 2 primaries and a secondary. Also adds some amazing melee weapons and masks and new shotgun ammo for all shotguns. If you don't own the DLC you get access to 000 Buck for free. Explosives easily stunlock Bulldozers, Flechettes give you some accuracy and range for a loco secondary, slugs and 000 buck are bad. I'd pick it up on a sale though.

  • Gage Assault Pack- Adds 3 new assault rifles to the game and a Grenade Launcher! Also adds 4 new melee weapons and 4 new masks based on supervillians. The assault rifles are all fairly strong, Grenade launcher is gimmicky but is another solid shield-killer, the melee weapons are pretty cool. Not mindblowing, but pretty solid DLC, wait for a sale. Also the DLC teaser page straight up rips off Battlefield's style, oh Overkill. Achievement guide from Drewjitsu

  • Hotline Miami DLC- Hotline Miami themed DLC where you assault a Russian Mob owned motel to: Kill all the Russian Mobsters, Set all their cars on fire, Blow up a Gas Station, Break into their underground vault, cook Meth all while doing the above. And that's just Day 1 of the heist! Also includes some sweet animal masks and SMGs and bonus content if you own Hotline Miami. If you don't know someone who has this who can host for you, I'd buy this at regular price. Achievement guide from Drewjitsu Also Check out this rad poster

  • Gage Historical Pack- Adds some WW2 themed weapons: MG42 LMG, Mosin-Nagant sniper rifle, Sten Sterling SMG, and a C96 Broomstick pistol. Also some masks and melee weapons, including a bayonet for the Mosin!!! Fun guns, but wait for a sale. If you have a huge boner for WW2 guns you should pick it up though.

Free Updates
:siren: Multiple free guns, mods and masks are yours if you join the Official Payday 2 Steam group :siren:
Charlie Santa GO Bank update- a pretty bad heist that showed how good Overkill is at reusing assets :haw:
The Infamy Update- added a prestige system to the game for all your xp grinding needs. Get some sweet sunglasses!
The Death Wish Update- Added a new difficulty level, DEATHWISH for all your masochistic needs. Only play Deathwish if you hate yourself (2EZ represent :smug:). This update also added a boost system for heists so you get more or less EXP depending on how often you have played that heist. Also a boost to your next heist when you finished a stealth mission was added. See second post for details.
The Election Day Heist- a fantastic heist that really showed that Overkill CAN make a decent stealth map that also has a great plan B
The Shadow Raid Heist- Stealth-only map where you rob some PMC’s of the poo poo they stole from wherever they were deployed. Good fun for the stealth guys but brutal if you mess up because there is no Plan B.

The Big Fat Music Update!!- Overkill took one of the best parts about this game, the great soundtrack from Simon Viklund, and made it even better. You can now control exactly how and when all the music in the game plays for each heist. Also if you own the soundtrack to Payday: The Heist, you also get all of that music to use in-game also! And you can sync your soundtrack to the host if you don't own any music DLC. Aside from one small tease, this update was completely unexpected and totally awesome.

Crimefest- A bunch of free community dlcs that are locked behind stretch goals of how many people join the official Payday 2 group (Please join the official payday 2 group). Since it doesn't matter if you have the game or not, a botnet was immediately started up but Overkill doesn't care because they just want to look good to investors! Snarkiness aside, many cool things await us in Crimefest, including Old Hoxton Breakout heist and Old Hox playable character.

Fellis fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Feb 20, 2015

Hobo Siege
Apr 24, 2008

by Cowcaster
What a baller sweet OP. What a fun OP. What a good OP. What a good game. It's a good game. Did you buy this good game during the sale?

No? What a shame.

ps Big Bank is the most fun I've had with a shooter in years. Go play it.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

Hello criminals. I just started playing this game. I edited some technician/mastermind build off the internet to suit what I thought would be fun and good to play at level 100 which I'm sure I will never get to. Here it is. Anything dire or obvious I should change?

Darwinism
Jan 6, 2008


net cafe scandal posted:

Hello criminals. I just started playing this game. I edited some technician/mastermind build off the internet to suit what I thought would be fun and good to play at level 100 which I'm sure I will never get to. Here it is. Anything dire or obvious I should change?

Only thing I'd say is you don't have to ace Die Hard, really, that 15% faster armor recharge is sort of not noticable to me.

edit: If you drop it, a point into Cat Burglar will help you not murder yourself for falling off a five foot ledge, Fast Learner is nice for just speeding poo poo up, and I dunno Cleaner or something

Darwinism fucked around with this message at 06:00 on Jul 1, 2014

Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.

net cafe scandal posted:

Hello criminals. I just started playing this game. I edited some technician/mastermind build off the internet to suit what I thought would be fun and good to play at level 100 which I'm sure I will never get to. Here it is. Anything dire or obvious I should change?

The point in Martial arts should really be in Cat Burglar instead, it is a crazy useful skill.

Die hard is really not necessary for that build, I would say put the 4 points into Inside Man aced for loud utility (buying expert drivers to prevent escapes) or Ace Shinobi and put a point into Cleaner for stealth utility.

Here is a level 40 build that anyone should aim for, it has all the best low level skills that should be a part of most builds and at level 40 you probably have a good number of heists under your belt and have unlocked all the weapons: http://www.pd2skills.info/#/profile/level-40-build-2/

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Die Hard Ace is for people who expect to be under fire a lot, but that build is actually going to be under fire quite a bit so I disagree that it's wasted points. Might be better elsewhere though. There's no shotgun skills so you're not going to be the big damage-soaking thicky of the team, most likely.

I do feel like Spotter over Inside Man is a really questionable choice though. Aced Combat Doctor isn't BAD, but I will also that that I very rarely see a successful team that has need of that much healing, even on Death Wish. The Martial Arts point should absolutely be in Cat Burglar though, Cat Burglar is just fantastic.

I also think Inspire builds tend to undervalue Combat Medic since the +30% health it gives works with Inspires and as an Inspirer you're going to be doing basically every revive ever.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 06:32 on Jul 1, 2014

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen
Picking up bags of drugs and trying to make trick shots with them while my team fights off an assault has been pretty drat fun, playing with goons is the best.

-Zydeco-
Nov 12, 2007


New thread = new mask chat






RandallODim
Dec 30, 2010

Another 1? Aww man...

Well, time to go make Juggalo Rambo.

Opposing Farce
Apr 1, 2010

Ever since our drop-off service, I never read a book.
There's always something else around, plus I owe the library nineteen bucks.
I picked up this game in the sale and it's pretty fun. A little slow-paced and grindy, but that's okay. I've been going heavy into Ghost since I like the idea of being the stealth guy who does objectives and takes out cops with a few well-placed shots while they're preoccupied. Haven't had much luck getting people to play with, though, and while I haven't had many total shitheel pubbies most of them are no more competent than I am and that means heists rarely get done. I should probably join the goon group or whatever.

I really like the music in this game. The loud techno assault wave tracks fit well and the way they build up at the start of each assault is cool.

Caufman
May 7, 2007
I do not endorse the previous thread or this title's prejudice against pubbies <:mad:> Literally most of them are absolutely fine, and the gooncestuous goonlitism is just exaggeration and lack of patience.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!
Definitely join the goon group. It's the best gaming experience I've had in years, outside of my LPs.

Be aware with Ghost: stealth and combat do not really mix together in this game at all. There's pre-alarm, there's post-alarm. That's it. The Ghost tree is kind of schizophrenic in that the lower tiers are INSANELY useful for a lot of people, and like the upper half of the entire tree is mostly bullshit and worthless. I can't think of a single skill on tier 5 that is worth the points you put into them. So be ready to branch into another tree by level 40 or so, in order to not be totally useless when a heist goes hot.

e: I went ahead and tagged most of the stuff that isn't lovely as hell in Ghost. http://goo.gl/1RJeVY

That will get you to the top tier, at which point you can pick up Camera Loop, which is good in all of one map, if you really really want to.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 06:48 on Jul 1, 2014

Brainamp
Sep 4, 2011

More Zen than Zenyatta

-Zydeco- posted:

New thread = new mask chat







and a failed attempt at zeratul

clockworkjoe
May 31, 2000

Rolled a 1 on the random encounter table, didn't you?
Requires level 100, but a fast tech forcer seems like a workable build: http://goo.gl/W7vMwa

Jamfrost
Jul 20, 2013

I'm too busy thinkin' about my baby. Oh I ain't got time for nothin' else.
Slime TrainerS

Caufman posted:

I do not endorse the previous thread or this title's prejudice against pubbies <:mad:> Literally most of them are absolutely fine, and the gooncestuous goonlitism is just exaggeration and lack of patience.

Half of them are fine. That's as far as I would go. I've been kicked before finishing heists and verbally harassed by pubbies. It was so bad that I switched to host only unless a friend set up a lobby. People were incredibly toxic at times. I've met some cool players, but there's a lot of sewage to wade through.

I'm not sure how sales impact the playing environment.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011






Hm, ok, I took out Die Hard, and replaced Martial Arts with Cat Burglar and Spotter with Inside Man aced. Leaves me 4 points that I'm probably gonna use for some of the stuff suggested by you, the dangerous and powerful outlaws. Looking at the trees, there's some other stuff that looks interesting to me: Aced cat burglar, with the super fall protection and halved custody time, seems pretty good to me. Also, SMG specialist, because I like using single shot primaries and SMGs are a nice offhand for that. Anyone have any thoughts on these?

Darwinism
Jan 6, 2008


Die Hard 1 point with Nerves of Steel aced is seriously fun, you get to actually contribute heavily while downed and can pop heads like a boss. If you ace Nerves of Steel, may as well have one point in Die Hard so you can pop heads with your primary while you're downed.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

you guys, I just figured out how to make the Sentry Gun actually kind of useful.
Remember in Payday: The Heist, where you use a sentry in the Mercy Hospital map, and it suppresses the civs? Have sentries be able to do that. Boom, sentries are now situationally very, very useful.

Geight
Aug 7, 2010

Oh, All-Knowing One, behold me!
This game is hella fun, and I don't have anything else to say because the OP actually answered the question I was gonna ask about the big stealth rework that apparently veteran players don't like.

LuciferMorningstar
Aug 12, 2012

VIDEO GAME MODIFICATION IS TOTALLY THE SAME THING AS A FEMALE'S BODY AND CLONING SAID MODIFICATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RAPE, GUYS!!!!!!!
Weapon mods: What's the story with them in terms of inventory space and selling? The Murdoch guide mentions selling what you won't use, but I don't see an obvious option to do that. There also seems to be talk from a while ago about how detaching mods deletes them. Is that no longer the case?

Opposing Farce
Apr 1, 2010

Ever since our drop-off service, I never read a book.
There's always something else around, plus I owe the library nineteen bucks.

Coolguye posted:

Definitely join the goon group. It's the best gaming experience I've had in years, outside of my LPs.

Be aware with Ghost: stealth and combat do not really mix together in this game at all. There's pre-alarm, there's post-alarm. That's it. The Ghost tree is kind of schizophrenic in that the lower tiers are INSANELY useful for a lot of people, and like the upper half of the entire tree is mostly bullshit and worthless. I can't think of a single skill on tier 5 that is worth the points you put into them. So be ready to branch into another tree by level 40 or so, in order to not be totally useless when a heist goes hot.

e: I went ahead and tagged most of the stuff that isn't lovely as hell in Ghost. http://goo.gl/1RJeVY

That will get you to the top tier, at which point you can pick up Camera Loop, which is good in all of one map, if you really really want to.

Are the door hacking/safe picking perks really not useful? They both seem like they'd be incredibly valuable for doing certain heists stealthily without busting out the drill.

Darwinism
Jan 6, 2008


LuciferMorningstar posted:

Weapon mods: What's the story with them in terms of inventory space and selling? The Murdoch guide mentions selling what you won't use, but I don't see an obvious option to do that. There also seems to be talk from a while ago about how detaching mods deletes them. Is that no longer the case?

The story with weapon mods is that you should probably get the Courier DLC and you will still curse futilely at the terrible card system that gives you what you need one hundredth of the time.

Darwinism
Jan 6, 2008


Opposing Farce posted:

Are the door hacking/safe picking perks really not useful? They both seem like they'd be incredibly valuable for doing certain heists stealthily without busting out the drill.

The biggest problem with them is they're too niche - there are very few missions where C4 or a saw aren't preferable.

Grapplejack
Nov 27, 2007

Darwinism posted:

The biggest problem with them is they're too niche - there are very few missions where C4 or a saw aren't preferable.

The picking perks are a loving necessity for Go Bank, though, considering you can't use the saw.

Lester Shy
May 1, 2002

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!
~160 hours in the game, almost exclusively playing with the Loco and not a single Extended Mag or Shell Rack drop. :suicide:

LuciferMorningstar
Aug 12, 2012

VIDEO GAME MODIFICATION IS TOTALLY THE SAME THING AS A FEMALE'S BODY AND CLONING SAID MODIFICATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RAPE, GUYS!!!!!!!

Darwinism posted:

The story with weapon mods is that you should probably get the Courier DLC and you will still curse futilely at the terrible card system that gives you what you need one hundredth of the time.

I already got that. I'm more concerned about the mechanics of attaching them and whatnot.

Stanos
Sep 22, 2009

The best 57 in hockey.
Like a previous poster said, Go Bank is the only time I've ever thought 'drat I wish there was a faster picker here' since using the saw on that map is a 100% crapshoot to ALARM CITY and a trip through the sewers. Original Banks have 4 guards and you have all the time in the world to saw/C4 poo poo open, the armored truck missions can be sawed open with maybe 1 reload and I haven't played framing frame in a while but I'm pretty sure that's saw city also. If I bring a saw, usually someone has C4 (or will bring ammo so I can bring the C4) and whatever doofus with the lockpick skills can go gently caress himself.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Grapplejack posted:

you guys, I just figured out how to make the Sentry Gun actually kind of useful.
Remember in Payday: The Heist, where you use a sentry in the Mercy Hospital map, and it suppresses the civs?

Wait, what? It does this?

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

net cafe scandal posted:

Hm, ok, I took out Die Hard, and replaced Martial Arts with Cat Burglar and Spotter with Inside Man aced. Leaves me 4 points that I'm probably gonna use for some of the stuff suggested by you, the dangerous and powerful outlaws. Looking at the trees, there's some other stuff that looks interesting to me: Aced cat burglar, with the super fall protection and halved custody time, seems pretty good to me. Also, SMG specialist, because I like using single shot primaries and SMGs are a nice offhand for that. Anyone have any thoughts on these?

SMG Specialist loving rules and is a bargain, for how good it makes an entire handful of weapons that are in both the primary and secondary slots I'm amazed it isn't a 4/8 skill. Cat Burglar Ace is pretty good, I wouldn't gush over it but having armor-only falls is situationally useful. The half custody time is worthless, as you should not be going into custody that often.

Darwinism posted:

The biggest problem with them is they're too niche - there are very few missions where C4 or a saw aren't preferable.

This exactly. There are only a few missions where ECM Overdrive is useful, and lockpicking skills are only useful on the one map that has been explicitly designed to cater to it, and that map is so unrewarding that barely anyone ever plays it. If they were 1/3 skills I could see the argument for them, but as 4/8 skills they are mammothly overpriced. Truthfully for as relatively small a part as stealth plays in this game, I would really expect the 4/8 skills to be something as universally useful as 'civilians and guards must now fill up 2 detected bars to actually see you'. With an ace of 'now cameras have to do that too.'

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jul 1, 2014

Mr.Hotkeys
Dec 27, 2008

you're just thinking too much

Party Plane Jones posted:

Wait, what? It does this?

As part of the scripted objectives for stealthing the map you set up fake sentry guns that stop the civilians from getting up. He's suggesting actual sentry guns do that in Payday 2, which admittedly would be pretty cool. Kind of encroaching on Mastermind but we get all the cool stuff already anyways so I'm cool with that.

Party Plane Jones
Jul 1, 2007

by Reene
Fun Shoe

Mr.Hotkeys posted:

As part of the scripted objectives for stealthing the map you set up fake sentry guns that stop the civilians from getting up. He's suggesting actual sentry guns do that in Payday 2, which admittedly would be pretty cool. Kind of encroaching on Mastermind but we get all the cool stuff already anyways so I'm cool with that.

No, I mean, when was the whole sentry thing added for Payday 1 for that map? I literally never saw anybody do that and I played that map a dozen or so times.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

Party Plane Jones posted:

No, I mean, when was the whole sentry thing added for Payday 1 for that map? I literally never saw anybody do that and I played that map a dozen or so times.

It was in the No Mercy DLC map that OKS did in cooperation with Valve. You actually heist Mercy Hospital, and it's heavily implied that the Payday crew was responsible for the Green Flu outbreak in Left 4 Dead. However, it only shows when you successfully stealth the place. At one point, Bain gives you dummy sentries to keep people down while you switch into scrubs.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Jul 1, 2014

Doctor Shitfaced
Feb 13, 2012
There's a mistake in the OP. It's the Chimano Custom, not the Chimano 88 that's the best handgun.

net cafe scandal
Mar 18, 2011

Coolguye posted:

SMG Specialist loving rules and is a bargain, for how good it makes an entire handful of weapons that are in both the primary and secondary slots I'm amazed it isn't a 4/8 skill. Cat Burglar Ace is pretty good, I wouldn't gush over it but having armor-only falls is situationally useful. The half custody time is worthless, as you should not be going into custody that often.


Alright, with the remaining 4 points I grabbed SMG Specialist and Aced Shinobi. Cleaner, no, because I have friends who will probably spec further into Ghost. Die Hard, no, because SMGs seem pretty versatile and I don't like the idea of firing off sniper rifles or whatever while I'm bleeding out on the floor. And Combat Medic, no, because, well, it seems bad.

Thank You Card
Mar 20, 2007

I'm your only friend.

LuciferMorningstar posted:

There also seems to be talk from a while ago about how detaching mods deletes them. Is that no longer the case?

it never was the case

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Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011

Required by his programming!

net cafe scandal posted:

Alright, with the remaining 4 points I grabbed SMG Specialist and Aced Shinobi. Cleaner, no, because I have friends who will probably spec further into Ghost. Die Hard, no, because SMGs seem pretty versatile and I don't like the idea of firing off sniper rifles or whatever while I'm bleeding out on the floor. And Combat Medic, no, because, well, it seems bad.

Cleaner Basic's good, Cleaner ace is a waste imo, Die Hard basic can be nice though. Firing off a Thanatos to punk a Bulldozer or Shield that's gloating over your corpse is fantastic. That said, not a huge thing, probably not a terrible loss if you ever get it. Combat Medic is definitely the weakest of all the bottom tier Mastermind skills and is fantastic if you have Aced Inspire. Just...not before that.

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