Will upadate this as soon as more content comes, as Overkill tries to salvage the budget loss from failed game launch of OVERKILL's The Walking Dead.



Dallas, Hoxton Houston, Chains and Wolf are back from the long vacation that took in original PAYDAY: The Heist game. And with the help of other heisters along the way, they want to do the criminal's actions again for the ridiculous amount of cash once again.

However, recent updates were focusing on a complicated plot where money doesn't seem like a top priority anymore. It's more of collecting strange artifacts that act like puzzle pieces that the community need to solve. Except that the recent and possibly final major update called "BREAKING NEWS", it added way more questions and almost no answers to it's plot. To top it all of that, game ends in the most tragic way possible...MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR EXPIRIENCE TO BE RUINED!The main contractor Bain, that lead Payday gang from the very start, dies from the virus that his gang retrieved from Mercy Hospital (Back from first game's heist), disbanding the Payday crew.


Game offers a tremendous amount of content from you to choose from. More than 70 heists to play, 7 difficulties, lots of Skill builds to create. And constant action.

The unique charm that this game offers is it's Dynamic scenarios, where you'll get minor RNG based map generation, which means you won't have same patterns to follow your objectives upon. You can also choose to approach quietly and with little to no heat coming at you, or go all out loud and call for the Police force to stop you with firepower.
However, if you previouisly played PAYDAY: The Heist, you'd think that this is a better game for you to play. Unfortuneatly, it's not gameplay wise. PAYDAY 2 kinda throws in the chaos on the way with frequent Special Unit drops. One Bulldozer in PD:TH was enough to put the team's morale to 0, as it is capable of knocking the entire team down, if the crew is unaware of his presence. While in here, a single player can outmatch a Dozer if top-priotized with anything. And it frequently sends you a squad of Bulldozers, losing the charm of Special Units being unique to it's original core.

As mentioned before, game offers you to play with different skill builds. Choose your playstyle from Skill Trees (Mastermind, Enforcer, Technician, Ghost, Fugitive) to benefit you in future heists. Aid your team with Medical supplies, providing ammunition, or throw yourself into the platoon while tanking the damage for your team and killing most of the threats opposing you. Lots of weird and uniquely different varieties can be made, so get creative there.

Difficulties determine your current skill in the game. From Normal to Death Sentence, the game will throw the desired enemies depending on which difficulty you've chosen.
The Death Sentence (firstly called One Down) is a perfect difficulty for the ridiculously competitive type of players. It puts your team in a true test! From the Enemies to the Enviroment, nothing will EVER give you a break in that difficulty! Including Stealth Missions!
While it sounds fun on paper, Overkill made a poor job in balancing these difficulties out.
The higher the difficulty is, the harder will enemies attack you as well as have higher health, which makes enemies feel like bullet sponges. On a highest difficulty, the enemies don't have Damage Dropout, meaning that the regular unit from 40 meters away will deal the same damage as the enemy that's in front of your face. Leaving very risky situations when moving to point A to B in the open areas and promoting anchoring in the room until the Assault blows over. Not to mention you have a very short time window between Assault phases. If you don't like grinding your way to the victory, refrain from getting into these difficulties until you feel capable of doing it.
Because of the strong meta that the difficulty originally had, the One Down got seperated into the modifier mechanic avaliable to all difficulties (which restrict you from going down more than once).

Game also offers Infamy Levels where you essentially prestige your progress. It has 25 levels and it gives you some unusually "infamous" masks and XP boosts. If you feel bored of being Level 100 and willing to do some crazy things while low leveled without completely resetting your progress, then Become Infamous.

If you feel bored of the core gameplay, you can try out other gamemodes, such as Crime Spree, Safehouse Raid or Holdout.
Crime Spree is an Endless Mode that gives you massive rewards upon consecutively completing heists. The higher your success, the harder the Assaults.
Safehouse Raid is a first unofficial concept of Holdout. Three-wave survival in your Safehouse where you defend your loot from cops that try to pry it from you.
Though it doesn't explain how the cops don't see anything suspicious over 200-300 units missing in action when they got updated that "searched" house didn't held anything of their intended interest.
Holdout is a later introduced 9-wave Survival, where you're set to defend a singular hostage in a random location for the Police Ransom. A mode where you can get some cash quickly. Only twist is, unlike Safehouse Raid, you can't let anyone in your crew to be put into Custody.


The game is based upon the Diesel Engine. A heavily modified engine, in fact.
Originally intended for Racing games, Overkill Software managed to modify it to make it work as a First-Person Shooter.

Downside of it all is that the game looks outdated from our today's standards, despite being released in 2013. With major visual and gameplay bugs, it ruins the player's expirience as a whole.
And top it all up with Unoptimization for most of newer heist where you can expirience a massive framerate drop from amount of polygons that game renders for proped models bunched up in the range of high draw distance. If you don't have optimal/recommended hardware capable of doing those things, you will definetly notice it.
And I'm not done here. The game tends to crash pretty frequently if something goes really wrong in-game! Do have those in mind when you're playing this game.


(You should ignore this one, since it reflects my personal expirience with this game. Best ot see that for yourself. Advising to play with one trusted friend, nevertheless)

The game has a mixed community, really. Sometimes you will face toxic players sticking to their meta and hate anything that they don't like (like in every multiplayer game, really...), sometimes you will face cheaters. Sometimes you will face utter newbies and underaged players who really don't understand the concept of the gameplay, while they feel confident playing hardest difficulties at the same time or without thinking what approach will the lobby have upon that heist.
There are people who are expirienced enough with the game to take their time to sit down with you and teach you their ways and possibly help you out, but those are rare.
And while it mainly has memes, the game has a great mod support.


Overall, one of the great game titles that you should have on your Library!
Would recommend everyone who loves FPS, Co-op or FPS games in general!

[i]Will upadate this as soon as more content comes, as Overkill tries to salvage the budget loss from failed game launch of OVERKILL's The Walking Dead.[/i] [h1][b]PAYDAY 2 is a game sequel where you get to play as antagonist (Professional Robber) where you rob the Banks, Casinos, The Private Securities, do the dirty political work, or cook a Methamphetamine. Literally everything what every American Criminal would do, right? A 4-player Co-operative FPS game where it's all about getting rich! Only this time the game takes the plot into another twist.[/b][/h1] [h1]Story[/h1] Dallas, [strike]Hoxton[/strike] Houston, Chains and Wolf are back from the long vacation that took in original [url=http://steamproxy.net/steamstore/app/24240/]PAYDAY: The Heist[/url] game. And with the help of other heisters along the way, they want to do the criminal's actions again for the ridiculous amount of cash once again. However, recent updates were focusing on a complicated plot where money doesn't seem like a top priority anymore. It's more of collecting strange artifacts that act like puzzle pieces that the community need to solve. [spoiler]Except that the recent and possibly final major update called "BREAKING NEWS", it added way more questions and almost no answers to it's plot. To top it all of that, game ends in the most tragic way possible...[/spoiler][spoiler]MASSIVE SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU DON'T WANT YOUR EXPIRIENCE TO BE RUINED![/spoiler][spoiler]The main contractor Bain, that lead Payday gang from the very start, dies from the virus that his gang retrieved from Mercy Hospital (Back from first game's heist), disbanding the Payday crew.[/spoiler] [h1]Gameplay[/h1] Game offers a tremendous amount of content from you to choose from. More than 70 heists to play, 7 difficulties, lots of Skill builds to create. And constant action. The unique charm that this game offers is it's Dynamic scenarios, where you'll get minor RNG based map generation, which means you won't have same patterns to follow your objectives upon. You can also choose to approach quietly and with little to no heat coming at you, or go all out loud and call for the Police force to stop you with firepower. However, if you previouisly played PAYDAY: The Heist, you'd think that this is a better game for you to play. Unfortuneatly, it's not gameplay wise. PAYDAY 2 kinda throws in the chaos on the way with frequent Special Unit drops. One Bulldozer in PD:TH was enough to put the team's morale to 0, as it is capable of knocking the entire team down, if the crew is unaware of his presence. While in here, a single player can outmatch a Dozer if top-priotized with anything. And it frequently sends you a squad of Bulldozers, losing the charm of Special Units being unique to it's original core. As mentioned before, game offers you to play with different skill builds. Choose your playstyle from Skill Trees (Mastermind, Enforcer, Technician, Ghost, Fugitive) to benefit you in future heists. Aid your team with Medical supplies, providing ammunition, or throw yourself into the platoon while tanking the damage for your team and killing most of the threats opposing you. Lots of weird and uniquely different varieties can be made, so get creative there. Difficulties determine your current skill in the game. From Normal to Death Sentence, the game will throw the desired enemies depending on which difficulty you've chosen. The Death Sentence (firstly called One Down) is a perfect difficulty for the ridiculously competitive type of players. It puts your team in a true test! From the Enemies to the Enviroment, nothing will EVER give you a break in that difficulty! Including Stealth Missions! While it sounds fun on paper, Overkill made a poor job in balancing these difficulties out. The higher the difficulty is, the harder will enemies attack you as well as have higher health, which makes enemies feel like bullet sponges. On a highest difficulty, the enemies don't have Damage Dropout, meaning that the regular unit from 40 meters away will deal the same damage as the enemy that's in front of your face. Leaving very risky situations when moving to point A to B in the open areas and promoting anchoring in the room until the Assault blows over. Not to mention you have a very short time window between Assault phases. If you don't like grinding your way to the victory, refrain from getting into these difficulties until you feel capable of doing it. [i]Because of the strong meta that the difficulty originally had, the One Down got seperated into the modifier mechanic avaliable to all difficulties (which restrict you from going down more than once).[/i] Game also offers Infamy Levels where you essentially prestige your progress. It has 25 levels and it gives you some unusually "infamous" masks and XP boosts. If you feel bored of being Level 100 and willing to do some crazy things while low leveled without completely resetting your progress, then Become Infamous. If you feel bored of the core gameplay, you can try out other gamemodes, such as Crime Spree, Safehouse Raid or Holdout. [b]Crime Spree[/b] is an Endless Mode that gives you massive rewards upon consecutively completing heists. The higher your success, the harder the Assaults. [b]Safehouse Raid[/b] is a first unofficial concept of Holdout. Three-wave survival in your Safehouse where you defend your loot from cops that try to pry it from you. [spoiler]Though it doesn't explain how the cops don't see anything suspicious over 200-300 units missing in action when they got updated that "searched" house didn't held anything of their intended interest.[/spoiler] [b]Holdout[/b] is a later introduced 9-wave Survival, where you're set to defend a singular hostage in a random location for the Police Ransom. A mode where you can get some cash quickly. Only twist is, unlike Safehouse Raid, you can't let anyone in your crew to be put into Custody. [h1]Graphics[/h1] The game is based upon the Diesel Engine. A heavily modified engine, in fact. Originally intended for Racing games, Overkill Software managed to modify it to make it work as a First-Person Shooter. Downside of it all is that the game looks outdated from our today's standards, despite being released in 2013. With major visual and gameplay bugs, it ruins the player's expirience as a whole. And top it all up with Unoptimization for most of newer heist where you can expirience a massive framerate drop from amount of polygons that game renders for proped models bunched up in the range of high draw distance. If you don't have optimal/recommended hardware capable of doing those things, you will definetly notice it. And I'm not done here. The game tends to crash pretty frequently if something goes really wrong in-game! Do have those in mind when you're playing this game. [h1]Community[/h1] (You should ignore this one, since it reflects my personal expirience with this game. Best ot see that for yourself. Advising to play with one trusted friend, nevertheless) The game has a mixed community, really. Sometimes you will face toxic players sticking to their meta and hate anything that they don't like (like in every multiplayer game, really...), sometimes you will face cheaters. Sometimes you will face utter newbies and underaged players who really don't understand the concept of the gameplay, while they feel confident playing hardest difficulties at the same time or without thinking what approach will the lobby have upon that heist. There are people who are expirienced enough with the game to take their time to sit down with you and teach you their ways and possibly help you out, but those are rare. And while it mainly has memes, the game has a great mod support. Overall, one of the great game titles that you should have on your Library! Would recommend everyone who loves FPS, Co-op or FPS games in general!