Candy Coating!

[theweaselking]

Payday 2 is on 80% off today. So is all the DLC except the most recent heist. Just FYI.

They've got Giancarlo Esposito (yes, from Breaking Bad) doing mission briefings!

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[krfsm.livejournal.com]

Starbreeze (the makers of Payday 2) sit two floors below my current employer...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Excellent! So, get a co-worker to guard the stairs while you drill through the ceiling, drop down into their server room, and change the price on the most recent DLC. Then post "butts" while logged in as Almir and retreat back through the building to the roof. The posting of "butts" will be the signal for your hot air balloon escape.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

So it's a more violent Hitman with clown masks?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No?

Except that both it and Hitman involve guns?

Payday is a 4-person co-op heist game, where there's USUALLY a better, more profitable, quieter way to rob places if only you can remain undetected, take hostages and keep them quiet, and not set off any alarms. And when you screw that up (it's sometimes inevitable, other times it's just hard, occasionally and very rarely it's mission-losing) it gets really shooty.

It's more like Left 4 Dead, with big stealth sections. And equipment choices. And ability trees.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Ah, all I'd seen of it was that it was crime, it had you case the target, the stealth element, and preferable avoidance of shooting.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

In Payday, it's not always "preferable". Or "avoidable." Sometimes you charge in guns blazing and get out before the alarm goes. Sometimes the alarm is THE POINT and you blow the shit out of all comers because that's what the client wants. And sometimes the alarm is already blown and you're running cleanup when the mission starts.

Payday is awesome. And it's very much "4-person action Armed Robbery Simulator", where occasionally the focus is on "robbery" and sometimes it's on "ARMED".

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

[drcuriosity]

Excellent. That's just what I was waiting for.