Just got the urge to play a bit of payday 2, what do I see? Diesel 3.0 open_beta. Yeah, maybe there’ll be a good game to play again this summer.

  • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
    3·
    9 days ago

    As someone who played this game, did not buy any DLC, and eventually pirated all the DLC, I can tell you the game is not balanced if you

    A) don’t have a group of 3 friends to play with, B) don’t buy at least some of the DLC, and C) don’t get some of the good DLC weapon mods as random drops.

    That’s right, you buy the DLC and then get a CHANCE to get the content you paid for by succeeding at a mission. You only get 1 drop per mission, and it could be armor, clothing, masks, mask paint, and weapon mods. Grinding out the few solo-able/stealth-able missions for more drops becomes an enormous chore.

    I don’t miss this game. Interesting to see it getting resurrected, but they’d have to really fix the loot system.

    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
      4·
      9 days ago

      It’s also incredibly scripted. If you down a guard while undetected, use fly cheats, and drop his body bag out of bounds, you will see a new guard spawn in the map and attempt to B-line it to the body bag’s position. Even if you and your team play perfectly, the game goes out of its way to force a fight. The harder missions are not stealth-able despite seeming that way at the outset.

      • Loren@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        9 days ago

        The harder missions are not stealth-able despite seeming that way at the outset.

        Every mission that says it is stealthable is stealthable. This is just wrong. I’ve played this game for ~700 hours.

    • unknownman@lemmy.zipOP
      1·
      8 days ago

      I mean the game was free for a while. I got it when it was free then I just bought a big DLC pack for like $1. I play DSOD with random people, and it’s completely fine for me. Also, I don’t think they would bother running it still if there would be no DLCs, or at least DLCs weren’t worth as much as now they’re, since nobody would be buying them. At the end of the day, the company is made for profiting.