Is payday 2 any good?

Is payday 2 any good?

no

Yes it is.

Maybe.

How do I unlock the DLC for free?

Yes

>disastrous dlc management + microtransactions
>devs are huge cunts
>terrible coomunity

stay away from it

It's amazing with friends.
Not so much with pubs.

Has a lot of flaws and way too many paid dlcs, but great if you got some friends to play with.

Would be 10/10 if they added a map editor / steam workshop and let people make their own heists

I've had a lot of fun with it.
And I managed to get all DLC without a job. It's cheap as fuck on sales.
Pretty hard to get bored of it.

maybe

Too much DLC and the community is cancer when playing with pubs.

It's fun to muck about and shot hordes of cops with a ton of silly/impractical guns.

Not really. Wave defense is one of the most boring kinds of gameplay there is. The other option is stealth, which consists of about 2 minutes of action and 15 minutes of waiting for drills and shit.

it was good once before they became sellouts pumping out dlcs en masse that comletely break the game's balance and make the whole thing pay to win, so it pretty much has gone to shit

If it wasn't for the DLC, it wouldn't be being updated constantly three years after release.
A lot of shit has been added purely for free. How do you think they afford it?

Its fun for about a month, but eventually you'll get tired of repeating the same 50 heists over and over for minimal rewards.

"Oh cool so you rob banks and stuff?"

"Yeah but the robbing part is minimal and it plays out like a first person tower defense game"

"Oh and there's hundreds of dollars of pay to win dlc"

The real question is are you asking because you want it on PC or because you want to be a turbo-cuck and get it on console.

>join random lobby
>"hey dude where's your 6 ropes"
>"we're doing a realism run here, get out if you're not sophisticated enough to play the game the correct way"
This was about a few months ago but fuck I still hate them

It was. Before they fucked everything up.

DLC is fine p2w DLC is not

Adding microtransactions in addition to DLC is also a jew move

Please tell me what exactly is "p2w"
lest we also forget that PAYDAY is a PvE game.

I'd say no, it changes so much every few months that it's hard to even keep track of what the fuck does what anymore

The worst unlock system for items in video games, the worst dlc in video games, and the worst stealth system in video games

All that said, with friends it can be entertaining, but it's one of those games that some people take way too seriously

I tried some DLC unlocker like a couple of weeks ago but it didn't work.

Any of you know how to do it? I just want to play with my brother, I don't care about pubs.

Fun game with a lot of customization, fuckload of DLC (bearable if you buy on a 75% sale but holy fuck otherwise) and garbage community.

DLC Unlocker

Getting an ingame advantage by spending money is p2w. It doesn't matter how big or small, there are different levels of p2w but this game is p2w.

But I mean, that advantage helps you too.

Check the pd2 thread on /vg/

Worst $6 I ever spent. It's like playing terrorist hunt in R6 Vegas except clunkier and with less variety. I swear more time and money went into making the boxart than the actual game.

Yeah on harder difficulties they help you and you're dead weight compared to someone who pays.

On lower difficulties it's dick waving and someone who pays will kill much more than you.

A full group of people with everything bought will have a much easier time than a full group of players with absolutely no dlc.

They heists themselves usually aren't that fun, certainly not after two or three playthroughs. The game is based on grinding for money and xp to upgrade your guns and skills.

Did they nerf dodge builds? I haven't played since after Hoxton revenge.

It used to be good before they fucked with everything

They did nerf dodge.

But both dodge and armour will always be meta, and right now, along with crossbows.

Seriously, crossbows are stronger than guns right now.

Is the OD meta still suit dodging, friend making, crossbow fun time?

Haven't played since OD came out and was pretty bad.

Yes, it's still crossbows and jokers.

You could do armour builds if you want, armour was never not good, you just had to not be dumb and maybe skip jokers.

That's a shame, the stale as hell OD meta was what killed PD2 for me and I played through the Masterforcer/Techforcer CAR-4 + HE Judge and Akimbo crouchshooter meta.

I remember just standing infront of those turret vans and dodging everything, it was unstoppable.

I miss my CAR-4.

It's been like 16 months since Kikefest and like 18 months since the Unbalance.

40 damage ARs are still trash.

Yeah, with the atrocious as hell ammo pickup on those there's really no point when the SMGs do more damage and have more pick up than 40 damage ARs.

The ammo pickups are actually pretty high compared to the past and not a problem.

The problem is just that you can't put out even damage even while holding M1 and having perfect accuracy because there are shit like medics now and because cops just shoot you down too much.

This is why the meta is shotguns and GLs and crossbows. The only thing that matters is killing cops instantly before going back behind cover because any extended amount of time out of cover is just going to mean you keep getting shot by insta-down bullets.

Useless.

They redirected me to the steam profile of some Overkill queer.

Literally the most cancerous gaming community in all of gamingdom. Stay away at all cost. Shit game/10

I played with a couple friends when it first came out and we had a great time.

I moved out, and stopped playing so much, and that's when all the DLC and shit started happening, though, so I'm not sure if it's the same game anymore.

They finally fixed the 75 detection bag glitch a couple months ago.

There's that for positives.

Worth it for one cute, Scottish reason.

So there's a scot and an Irish one?

>I played through the Masterforcer/Techforcer CAR-4 + HE Judge and Akimbo crouchshooter meta.
Those were good times.

It was i the beginning, now it's too late

Man, you guys are retarded.

The only DLC you need is "gage courier pack" which gives you weapon mods.

The CAR-4 is a free weapon and is pretty much S tier fully modded (with gage courier pack)

The Judge is a free community weapon and pretty much the best side arm in the game.

No content gating exists since only the host needs DLC, you can join and play in any game from any DLC.

>massive dlc plague is ok guys
kys

OLD
AND
BUSTED

BUY CROSSBOWS GOY

puu.sh
/tYmTA/1e11d58770.rar

Here you go. Just put what's in the folder in your pd2 install directory

>6 ropes
Literally what

>two year old meta
It's all about crossbows now.

what difficulty do you play? I just finished a mayhem scarface heist and got like 12 mil offshore and 3.7 mil spending all in about 30 mins.

um, clunky? With how floaty payday is? nigger learn to play video games.

>boxart
He bought a console version.

It's fun for a bit. The ai is completely shit which makes it fun and goofy to mock and fuck with.

Post your mains folks.

Only get it on sale since the majority of the game's weapon, gear and perk decks (the last are especially important for certain builds) are locked behind shittons of DLC. You can participate in any lobby, even for DLC missions you don't own but you won't be able to host without owning it yourself.

Most importantly, make sure you have friends to play with. Payday 2 has one of the most retarded, bitter and asshurt communities where people consistently utilize cheat huds, auto-kick systems that remove you from the server if you have weapon or skill that the host doesn't like, in low level you're very likely paired with retards who play the game like it's L4D hiding in a corner without doing objectives etc. The default kick system is also set to host-only kick, meaning that if you do anything that even remotely peeves the host be prepared for a kick and losing all your mission progress.

Having friends with mics is also important when playing stealth heists (save for few really easy ones) since even one player making a mistake can fuck the mission up for everyone.

why would you retards even play OD and even go as far as acting like OD is the only difficulty that matters, while only a small subset of players does OD because they like it instead of just doing the cheevos and then never touch that shit again? everything is viable at MH/DW and it's less frustrating than playing hide and seek simulator on OD.

DW was piss easy for a year+ so it's boring to do anything else.

it okai

20€ game 250€ DLC
prepare to spend a fuckton of money

you seriously enjoy being able to only use 5% of the game's content and 3-4 builds at most in the GET THE FUCK UP/SWAN SONG difficulty? baka

mask editor is love

I enjoy getting paid.

tying ropes mate

Just informing you as to what the meta is. As you said, everything is viable at MH/DW.

I know what the OD meta is because I actively play this game, including the 2 new heists which I already did in OD multiple times.

What I despise is how you retards act like OD is the default difficulty and the META is OD only.

Is this dolphin porn?

Everything is viable in DW and below so there's no point in arguing whether a weapon or skill or build is good in those contexts because who the fuck cares it doesn't matter.

So you only talk about the context where not everything is viable.

Not since October 2015. They ruined it with updates.

is hitman dw viable? checkmate atheist

Yes.

I appreciate the idea behind the Crimefest rebalance (making people use something else than the same boring ass meta build all the time), but holy fuck the execution was just bad. That said, the short-lived Deagle brand Deagle meta was funny as hell and I had a blast with it.

Can anyone confirm?

Payday 2 has the same problem Left 4 Dead 2 has. It gets extremely repetitive.

Left 4 Dead 2 at least has modded maps, guns, etc. to pad it out.

Looks like BLT (the Lua hook required for a lot of mods) and the DLC unlocker, it's legit unless some joker stealthily modified the files.

>Zip-Ties
unsophisticated scrub

Pretty much, the only new maps being DLC on a slow drip feed doesn't help things at all. Also it's been three and a half years and the longest heist is still only three days, not to mention the nearly complete lack of branching despite the feature making a lot of sense.

One thing Payday 2 did right was the music. I get hype every time the assault phase hits.