PAYDAY 2

Game is generally pretty good... Except for the fact that they decided to "patch" the game a year or so ago and COMPLETELY BROKE HOLDOUT AND CRIME SPREE. Good luck getting every achievement when entire modes crash quite literally 95%+ of the time. It WAS perfectly fine. So WHY did we need to change it? Why did we need to 'fix' it? Development was halted years ago and yet the team felt the need to 'fix' the game all of the sudden when Payday 3 reviews were terrible? Coincidence? Personally, really doubting it. All in all, I'd love to recommend the game. I love the game. It's great. But with devs deciding to still put patches in the game that 'fix' certain builds they think are too overpowered or 'fix' game-modes by making them unplayable..? Just go back to the way things were. Sure it was a buggy mess but it was a PLAYABLE buggy mess. Now, a large portion of the game is so unstable that it frequently crashes and completely locks your mouse requiring you to literally create a new desktop and task manager the game without using your mouse in order to get it back or to just restart your entire pc. These are FREQUENT issues. I have not had a single play session in YEARS that didn't have multiple people crashing multiple times in just a few hours. All of this was without mods too. In fact, we even installed mods for the sole purpose of trying to make the game crash less. Revert to the way things were a few years ago and it's great. But don't stop development of a game and then give half-assed patches that completely break the game and then say you don't have the resources to fix what you broke because they're all focused on the other game.

I do and don't like this game I like the gameplay but I don't like how the 9.99$ price tag only comes with 1/5th of the actual game and the full actual game comes at a price tag of 118$

really fun just spent 40 minuts in a heist then the game crashes on the very end 10/10 would crash out again

Even though its a older game, it still is one of my go-to games to play. Due to being able to play in many different styles in loud and having a stealth option for many heists it is likely a game I will not be quitting. I truly recommend this game to those who enjoy stealth based games or multiplayer shooters because it holds the best of both genres.

Very, very fun, and there's plenty of content IF YOU HAVE ALL OF THE DLCs. It's kind of comical how little the main game is compared to the 74 things you can buy besides it? Almost every gun is going to be hidden behind something. There are of course, *other* ways to acquire these, but I'm not going to mention them. Not that they're difficult to find. Let's then, for the sake of this review, assume you have all of those. The game runs like a dream, owing to its age and ability for newer hardware to pretty much brute force anything, though harder modes still get crazy enough that you should probably set a corpse limit or risk dropping to the 50s even on something like my 4060. The content of years and years of those paid DLCs is here, such that if you start now, you won't be running out of things to do for some time (though you might not have many or any people willing to accept a completely fresh character). I personally run this game with a group of friends, but Steamcharts reports 33-34k concurrent players as of writing this review, so it's not dead by any means. You go into missions which have the same objectives every time, though certain elements of the objectives may be randomised, as well as the enemies that drop in being constant barrages of different groupings and special enemy types. You know what this formula is, you have a thing you want to do and you have a bunch of trash mobs, tough guys, specialists which incapacitate you, and specialist annoyances to deal with while you do it. Every objective and side objective completed is extra cash for you, multiplied by whatever difficulty you're running on. I tend to enjoy the general gameplay loop of mowing down the hordes so much I'll full clear almost every heist I run, and on the bigger heists, the optional stuff often pays far more than the contract itself, so it's incentivised. The main gimmicks come from your skill and perk decks. Perk decks are fixed 'this is what your playstyle is' lines of upgrades which take eons to grind up but define your build at its bones. Stuff like getting Dodge (percentage chance to ignore getting shot) or turning all your armour into health and almost all damage into a DOT you can chug alcohol to ignore, stuff like that. There's tons of builds like this, some are better than others (hi Stoic, my beloved), but as long as you aren't sweating at the highest level of difficulty, you're gonna be just fine with whatever build you want to run. Again, do try to have friends along so that the people who still are playing (who likely are those sweats) don't want to kick you instantaneously. Skills, on the other hand, is a much more freeform system that are all small upgrades that escalate into some really insane ones. Like a small buff to your armour turning into functionally infinite ammo for yourself, or the ability to turn a police officer into a friend turning into a functionally immortal health fountain. Go nuts. Now, I have 54 hours in this game. I skipped some of the grind via mods (you can allow cheaters in your lobby if you want, it's kinda all over the place and very easy) because by the 50 hour mark I did not have my first Infamy yet. That's the prestige system for getting to level 100. I had like 70% of one perk deck completed and I was level 74 or something? I just wanted to start having fun with a full build, so I skipped all the way there, but if you don't do that, expect to have this grinding going on until probably the 80 hour mark. Payday 2 is inherently silly with a number of its guns and melee weapons, the crap you're doing in the first place (raiding the White House to get a bunch of pardons and retire scott-free?) and you can lean into or out of that as far as you want. You could be a full on actual criminal mastermind with some reasonable choices of weapon, small bits of armour and trying to scout out the place first, do everything quiet. Or you do what I did. My team was the following: Me - Immortal drunk with a flamethrower, minigun, and greatsword. My weapons were blue and red, and I had no regard for civilian casualties. Friend 1 - Leech or Tag Team or something, swapped builds every round, most times a semi-mobile fella with two shotguns in his slots. Leech made his ability to somehow get hit by everything beneficial for the whole team, and he stacked Doctor Bags enough to never go to jail on top of being able to revive himself almost every time. Tag Team meant he just pointed at me and an exit and I mowed down 48 officers to heal us both to max. Friend 2 - Akimbo explosive shotguns and a fucking bow? He erased Bulldozers, which were the primary issue for either of our other builds, since I had to focus on the helmet point blank with a minigun to get them down. This game is amazing. Just remember what I said about the DLCs vs the main game, okay?

Insanely fun with a posse of friends. I would highly recommend this game for some shoot-em-up shenanigans.

Why does this game run on fucking Diesel engine the ammount ive crashed in a single day is not something i can count

This was one of the first M-rated games I was actually allowed to play growing up (it came out when I was 12). Legendary game, legendary heists, legendary community. Probably the least toxic multiplayer experience out there. Randoms are usually great about coordinating and working together, chat is usually active enough for people to consistently communicate. Weapons feel consistently fantastic, ammo management feels hectic on Mayhem or higher difficulty but you never end up in the Killing Floor situation where you're totally out and have to sprint 3 miles to find an ammo box. Progression feels consistent and rewarding - you're always unlocking new swag. Get your life together and buy this game if you haven't yet.

Good game but don't play VR mode, controls are weird.

1/10 —game glitched on my second day of playing. Saying 0 ammo, even when more is picked up and it says “inventory full” but doesn’t let me use my weapon. Very disappointed.

its a very fun and cheap game i bought it years ago on my andriod when i was a kid thinking that i could play on my phone but then i got a samsung computer thinking i could play and i couldnt then ladt year on christmas i got acomputer that i could play on

fun, easy to play for hours at a time with friends, solo isn't too bad either. the ability to customise is pretty good also easy to drop for months and forget about it entirely. fell into the backlog quickly

I guess this was something that was fun back in 2013. But it's just a goddamn boring zombie horde shooter, police edition. You can run between bullets but you won't die cuz zombies don't really do much damage, even when they do have bullets. They never stop spawning either. Zzzz.

I have played this game for too long and had too much enjoyment playing it. Highly recommend if you just want to mess around without anything serious.

This is perhaps the most fun I have had in a while. I end up playing this game for sessions that last 6 hours at a time. It is like crack.

i know my friends is not smart, but playing this game tells me that my friends is quite underdeveloped.

Robbing banks? Fun. Shooting cops? Cathartic. Trying to understand the skill tree? Nightmare. DLC count? Higher than my Steam library. Microtransactions in a co-op game from 2013? Classic Overkill. I came to be a criminal, not a customer. Game’s fun with friends, painful alone, and absolutely ridiculous if you try to keep up with all the paid content. Buy it on sale. Then rob a virtual bank to afford the DLC. 10/10 gameplay. 0/10 wallet safety. Would commit financial crime again.

I played since the demo on the ps3 (i have +400hs in the ps3 version). This game is fantastic, and the comunity was always super cool. The ONLY down point i could name, its the guns balance, you FEEL wich had a lot of love and others are with bad/mid specs and have only 3 attachments (the ones every other weapon has), and its a bit sad, because its wasted potential in a game with tons of personalization and shit. Aside from that, this game is solid for solo and with friends, You have easy, like +300-400hs without even talking about mods (play first without).

the police told me to drop my gun, so I responded with warcrimes and liver damage. the police then responded with warcrimes and pancreas damage. 10/10 will heist again.

theres a LOT OF REPLABILITY. Theres a lot of diffucultys guns equipment. Dont forget there is 70 HEISTS in the game. There is skill trees that you accustum to for your playstyle and build. You cacn go stealth or you can say HELL NAH and go guns ablazing

Funny gun and yes they have minigun yipeeeeee I WOULD HIGHLY RECCOMEND GETTING LEGACY EDITION GUYS (pd2 goes on sale quite a lot so yeah) funny medic bag guy

Honestly one of the best games I've played, I love robbing banks with medieval weaponry and suits

все детство задротил в эту игру спустя 5 лет я вернулся в эту игру и начал понимать шутки влада они легендарны "Даже у пилотов летающих на Донетцк не такой перегар"

this game makes me feel like im in a hollywood movie. objective is steal, kill, and get drop kicked by cloakers and get emoted on 10/10

i enjoy shooting civillians as jacket from hit game Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number and completely losing every single penny I could've made from a heist, due to having to pay cleaning costs. Very good game. 10/10 would rob the white house again.

it's worth it just cause of giancarlo esposito saying "I want my PayDay, too" good game btw

I will recommend this game a million times over. It has got to be one of my favorite games and I've probably sunk more time into this one than any other. Now you may be thinking, "115 hours being the most?" well you see, I originally had the game on Ps4 and had dumped loads of time in that shit-ass version, it is obsolete in every single way. I believe 7 years behind on updates, leveling is EXTREMELY slow and I won't add more just because that's not what this is about. But the point is even on a far inferior version I have been able to spend an extensive amount of time on that version and now that I've had access to more recent content, and many improvements overall, it's just far better. The game is obviously way better with friends as with any game but Payday 2 is really not bad to play solo, I usually play solo and find the AI teammates to be above competent and can really take a lot of damage and carry bags for me. The game for sure feels clunky given that it's over a decade old and was developed on a game engine FOR RACING GAMES those maniacs. But if you are somehow questioning whether or not to buy it, buy it anyways. It goes on sale for 3 dollars last time I checked and I believe that the entire DLC collection is about 10 or 15 dollars on sale with the game as opposed to over 100 dollars.

Woah this game Is SO cool like coolest cool ever cool and like genocide and stuff

very fun game, unless they send a police force as strong as some middle eastern country's

payday 2 explained in 3 sentences: Great heisting experience. Great Heists. Funnily Serious

one of my favourite co-op "horde" shooters. I mean. its basically a cop killing simulator! and the heisting is pretty fun too. Very fun to goof around with friends, I reccommend going into the normal bank and doing a "stealth" run and killing each other with explosives while waiting for the drill. its fun

This is a 10/10 game but theirs one problem, the DLC's. the DLC's cost way to much to get them all, you also have to look in the fine print for all of them to figure out what you get.

I have seen this game, but never got play it because I had no money. Until now. - Kick-ass music - Stellar gameplay ranging from intense (peppered with bullets) to intense (not wanting to get detected) - A hot englishman - Variety of playstyles - Great design Sure, there are some mistakes but overall, a great sequel to the already classic Payday The Heist! Ramblers, let's get rambling!

Fun crime sim with only the best parts of a crime game. Enough randomized elements to keep it consistently interesting. Characters are varied enough to feel somewhat relatable. Combat is legendary, and is one of the best parts of the game. Highly recommend.

this game is A Lot of fun to play either alone or with friends with a campaign system to help you learn the game and the maps and plenty of perks and classes you can pick from. i personally like an anarchist build for loud missions, basically just turns you into a tank on overkill or mayhem that regens armor through headshots and kills, or a dodge or yakuza build for stealth. i like yakuza when im doing missions alone i can throw a molotov at my feet drop down to the lowest HP ill have a much faster movement speed allowing me to crouch jump most guards that seem impossible to bypass without being seen and i can transfer loot bags faster than normal. (i can run faster with a Bag of Weapons compared to another player carrying cash) and dodge builds are nice for when you are playing with friends and know the mission will go wrong and for higher difficulty missions aswell being able to move quickly dodge bullets and utilise cover to your advantage is a must on higher difficulties. theres a ton of fun missions to run whether or not youre heisting a bank stealing cars Breaking into the FBI or even casually stealing a few nuclear warheads, keep in mind its got its fair share of bugs too most hilarious some frustrating but the chaos the ensues is always fun.

Medic Bags were needed, and money was sent offshore. A GOAT of the multiplayer FPS genre.

I love this game. it's smooth, runs great, and has a variety of different things for me to try/do. Not to mention the difficulty, and how nice it is to have the option.

When the modern heisting world just kind of sucks, go back to the classics.

Its the goat of any heist game, great mobility the builds are fun, the stealth is hard but enjoyable, i love it, give it a chance, even thought is kind of old its great

Platinumed the game on console Got it on sale on PC cause they stopped updating it on console Saw that most of the attachments were locked behind achievements DLC that i paid for was locked behind a bunch of convoluted BS Said "F this" Now i have every achievement Thanks nexus mod manager Oh btw steam does not have a good time trying to process that i just unlocked 1300 achievements in half a second

This game is a great learning experience. I now know that I have a with the right build I have a IRL chance to dodge 75% of the bullets shot at me, and robbing banks is super easy and I should do it all the time.

I love shooting at cops while cooking meth and being raided by the FBI. Very Good. Recommended to those who live in Chicago, very relatable to the average American citizen in Chicago. It even features John Wick, Very le epic gaming. Don't forget AHHH I NEED A MEDIC BAG.

got this game for 3 bucks on sale and it doesnt dissapoint considering its barely staying relevant after the release of payday 3 (amazing game btw) its fun and has some replayability and good if u grind achievements only downside is probably the graphics since most of us are used to the new graphics and tech of today it looks mid but not horrible 8/10 game

Addictive and fun even a decade later. Hunkering down here until Payday 3 is a viable replacement. Recommend grabbing some of the DLC in a bundle when they go on sale if you can.

ENG/PTBR This game is really addictive and good, the gameplay feels great, and the multiplayer is good, and a important detail: THE GUNS ARE AMAZING Esse jogo é realmente viciante e bom, a jogabilidade é boa, o multiplayer é bom, E AS ARMAS SÃO MARAVILHOSAS

good game wolud recomend but it was pretty hard to create a lobby to plsy whit frinds

Not long ago I left a review on PAYDAY 3 talking about how much better it was than this game. But now, after coming back to this and spending some more hours in it, this game just has so much more to it than PAYDAY 3. I still enjoy PAYDAY 3 and its improved mechanics and visuals, but there is just something about this game that makes it so much more special than 3. This is not just coming from nostalgia either, because I only started playing PAYDAY games this year. TLDR: If you are deciding on buying PAYDAY 2 or 3, this one will probably get you many more hours of gameplay.

i don't know if anyone can hep me I've bought this game years ago played it for about 100 hours and now i wanna play it again with my friends but the game wont lunch i tried every possible solution i uninstall it and reinstall it I've verified the fills integrity check all my drivers are up to date run it as administrate nothing worked if anyone face the same issue as me please let me know how did you fixed it

Timeless game, always love to come back and play more

This game is badass, everything about it just is awesome....you have to spend about 20-25 mins online..which is fuckkin amazing...heists are good...10/10