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widespread
Aug 5, 2013

I believe I am now no longer in the presence of nice people.


Guys, the holiday special. Go get it.

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Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

The magnificent bastards.

UnknownMercenary
Nov 1, 2011

I LIKE IT
WAY WAY TOO LOUD


So, uh, increasing the Gage coin price of boosts has also made weapon mods cost 5 Gage coins. Was that intentional, or just a side effect of the boosts themselves basically acting like weapon mods in the game?

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011



That was great and all but it's not a payday Christmas without chains breaking down in tears over the broke dick piece of poo poo drill

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Kikas posted:

The magnificent bastards.

I lost it when he washed his brush.

Afraid of Audio
Oct 12, 2012

by exmarx

give me the afro

Dr Cheeto
Mar 2, 2013
Wretched Harp

Afraid of Audio posted:

give me the afro

Mega afro is the new COP reward

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Dr Cheeto posted:

Mega afro is the new COP reward

I'd be OK with that.

Afraid of Audio
Oct 12, 2012

by exmarx

Dr Cheeto posted:

Mega afro is the new COP reward

can metacritic scores go above 100%?

spit on my clit
Jul 19, 2015

by Cyrano4747
It's time for a Payday 2 (related) drinking game!

Take a shot any time a subredditor says "They lied" or "Almir lied" and try not to die after the first post

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/paydaytheheist/comments/3xuynq/i_set_my_daily_alarm_to_be_the_sound_clip_of/ The only good post from the entire reddit :allears:

spit on my clit fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Dec 25, 2015

Basticle
Sep 12, 2011


BillmasterCozb posted:

It's time for a Payday 2 (related) drinking game!

Take a shot any time a subredditor says "They lied" or "Almir lied" and try not to die after the first post

edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/paydaytheheist/comments/3xuynq/i_set_my_daily_alarm_to_be_the_sound_clip_of/ The only good post from the entire reddit :allears:

I need a ringtone of a cacophony of crimedad, chains and Houston all yelling it together

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPsRPbfUN7U I think I'm gonna enjoy playing around with this mod.

Nea
Feb 28, 2014

Funny Little Guy Aficionado.
That video is, well.

:perfect:

Concordat
Mar 4, 2007

Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete
I keep running out of spending money because I have ten pages of fully modded guns.

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
I was going through posts in the last two payday 2 threads for a project and came across this video link. I think it's worth sharing again as the pinnacle of goon payday 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKMCqppxqM

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Discendo Vox posted:

I was going through posts in the last two payday 2 threads for a project and came across this video link. I think it's worth sharing again as the pinnacle of goon payday 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xKMCqppxqM

You may have chosen the wrong video, Vox

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
nah, that's the one- I know it's unlisted, but you did post it in the previous thread, so I thought it was fair game. It's pretty epic.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Discendo Vox posted:

nah, that's the one- I know it's unlisted, but you did post it in the previous thread, so I thought it was fair game. It's pretty epic.

:v: I would have expected to see the one where the guy got cuffed by the guards on Hoxbreak.

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost
I've sorta started playing this game again, but my hours are off from the rest of the world. Again. Still shoot cops?

swims
May 5, 2014

Waiter, this band keeps shooting pearls at me.
Yeah
gently caress stealth

Wastrel_
Jun 3, 2004

Read it and weep.
Talk of goon playthroughs made me remember very vaguely that there was a PD: TH LP at some point. Found it in the LP archive and watched a few of the videos. Ah, when Overdrill didn't mean moving 84 loot bags on the highest difficulty...

Anyone ever going to do one for PD2?

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost

Wastrel_ posted:

Talk of goon playthroughs made me remember very vaguely that there was a PD: TH LP at some point. Found it in the LP archive and watched a few of the videos. Ah, when Overdrill didn't mean moving 84 loot bags on the highest difficulty...

Anyone ever going to do one for PD2?

I remember at least two or three folks talking about it maybe a year back but no one has done anything with it yet. Not to mention there's still content coming out.

maswastaken
Nov 12, 2011

I wouldn't have thought there'd be much interest in it, aside from goons already playing Payday 2 watching for prostrats. I could be and hope to be wrong.

Tempest_56
Mar 14, 2009

maswastaken posted:

I wouldn't have thought there'd be much interest in it, aside from goons already playing Payday 2 watching for prostrats. I could be and hope to be wrong.

People will watch and enjoy LPs of the weirdest poo poo.

Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.

FAUXTON posted:

You may have chosen the wrong video, Vox

It's the video where i yell at it for two minutes because if you just stop killing cops for 10 seconds you could grab the server and get in the stairwell before they aggro you.

The video is impressive though, the amount of poo poo you deal with and with no ammo too. I also soloed tabula instead of stoving so i have a lot of respect for it. Although In my day we didn't have grinder, we had to dodge uphill both ways in the rogue deck!

dscruffy1 posted:

I've sorta started playing this game again, but my hours are off from the rest of the world. Again. Still shoot cops?

Shootcops with goons is hard to get if its not around the release of dlc or a major event nowadays. I rarely see more than a lobby or two around primetime EST, so being off that I dunno.

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost
It's a little difficult not to touch the stove if there's no lobbies.

Plan Z
May 6, 2012

Wastrel_ posted:

Talk of goon playthroughs made me remember very vaguely that there was a PD: TH LP at some point. Found it in the LP archive and watched a few of the videos. Ah, when Overdrill didn't mean moving 84 loot bags on the highest difficulty...

Anyone ever going to do one for PD2?

Bootcha's been putting stuff together, but I'm guessing he's been getting side-tracked by Star Citizen videos. Plus, an LP's gonna be hard since there are a lot of heists, longer heists, and more gameplay stuff being added regularly.

dscruffy1 posted:

It's a little difficult not to touch the stove if there's no lobbies.

Pop into the Hangout lobby and ask. We miss you.

Shachar
Apr 5, 2006

I need a BLT mod to that adjusts scoped sensitivity proportionally to zoom level so my zoomed sensitivity is not crazy high. Suggestions?

I heard the GoodMod has this feature, but I also hear it no longer works, and I've installed it and it doesn't seem to do what I need. Is it an option located someone other than under Controls?

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

Fellis posted:

It's the video where i yell at it for two minutes because if you just stop killing cops for 10 seconds you could grab the server and get in the stairwell before they aggro you.

The video is impressive though, the amount of poo poo you deal with and with no ammo too. I also soloed tabula instead of stoving so i have a lot of respect for it. Although In my day we didn't have grinder, we had to dodge uphill both ways in the rogue deck!


Shootcops with goons is hard to get if its not around the release of dlc or a major event nowadays. I rarely see more than a lobby or two around primetime EST, so being off that I dunno.

Yeah, the drill finishes up before I kill that one bulldozer that ended up kneeling in the entry hallway, I think. I just really needed to get out some frustration after the poo poo I dealt with in the ops room :v: the video started at around 33 minutes.

FAUXTON fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Dec 27, 2015

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


I've personally thought about doing an LP, but I have no idea what the best way to show poo poo off would be. Just start with XXV-100 folks and just go through heists? Just let the thread vote on heists to show off until interest drops off / shadow raid wins?

dscruffy1
Nov 22, 2007

Look out!
Nap Ghost

Tulip posted:

I've personally thought about doing an LP, but I have no idea what the best way to show poo poo off would be. Just start with XXV-100 folks and just go through heists? Just let the thread vote on heists to show off until interest drops off / shadow raid wins?

I'd say maybe go through it chronologically, show off the heists in the order they came out. For heists that can be done both ways, might as well do one video for each. You probably don't need more than one H&T Bank video but you do need at least one with a saw bitch. Or maybe save that for Big Bank.

Tempest_56
Mar 14, 2009

Tulip posted:

I've personally thought about doing an LP, but I have no idea what the best way to show poo poo off would be. Just start with XXV-100 folks and just go through heists? Just let the thread vote on heists to show off until interest drops off / shadow raid wins?

I see it actually with a lot of pauses - stopping mid-action for a few seconds to explain to the audience just why a player just did what they did, or to point out things that happen a bit fast. For some heists, maybe 2/3 takes (stealth/beginner loud/expert loud) for comparisons. And probably a bunch of different builds/weapons being showcased along the way.

John Murdoch
May 19, 2009

I can tune a fish.
So obviously at bare minimum you'd want all four heisters to be filming their antics so you could cut between all sides of the action at any time. From that baseline, you can keep piling on the fancy poo poo. Cut-aways to pre-planning/overview shots of the maps with Madden lines summing up the strategy. Maybe some interspersed bits of gun porn; highlights of a chosen gun via recording tinkering around in the customization menu and some clips of it being used in play.

Basically not far removed from something like this old trailer. But it's the sort of project where you'd need someone who's really into video editing to elevate it to great heights.

Doing heists in a roughly chronological order is definitely the way to go, within reason (bonus points if you can maintain character continuity - no Hoxton before breakout, etc.). It probably helps that you can knock out most of the early stuff in a video or two at most and editing can punch up the dull stuff like waiting for the thermal drill on Trustee bank stealth.

In short, the more you can preserve the heist movie feel the better. Though maybe I'm alone in wanting to downplay the "four goons bumble around in a video game" aspect. I guess that's a good case for both pro and not-pro runs. :shrug:

John Murdoch fucked around with this message at 23:01 on Dec 27, 2015

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
none of you guys has any clue who you're making this for

there are a couple of subsections of people who would watch a let's play or stream of Payday - the people who are spectating a game like it is a TV event, the people who are hoping for help playing the game themselves, and the people who know how to play, but are wanting to watch other people play to see if there's something they haven't considered.

the first subsection is overwhelmingly larger than the other two in the LP format. you can throw bones to the other two because some subset of people in group 1 become people in group 2 (these are the people who say "I picked up this game because of your LP!"), or some folks might make an occasional comment that shows they might have once been in group 3 ("I never thought about that before!"), but first, foremost, and always, you are there to be the dancing monkeys for someone who is unwinding. this is an important revelation because it leads to a couple conclusions.

1)

John Murdoch posted:

So obviously at bare minimum you'd want all four heisters to be filming their antics so you could cut between all sides of the action at any time. From that baseline, you can keep piling on the fancy poo poo. Cut-aways to pre-planning/overview shots of the maps with Madden lines summing up the strategy. Maybe some interspersed bits of gun porn; highlights of a chosen gun via recording tinkering around in the customization menu and some clips of it being used in play.
bad idea. some cut-aways if something truly funny happens on another heister's screen (such as a cop blasting off and returning to his home planet) are great, but you do not want to make a habit of it. it is disorienting and annoying to someone who is only half paying attention, which is what people will do if they're snuggling in their chair. you want to decide on a 'host' for the LP and stick with his/her view as much as possible to avoid rubber banding people. the pre-planning shots are can and should be organic as possible, with the 'host' playing straight man talking about the plan in great detail with the other 3 drawing insulting pictures of the guy who's talking on the board. might want to avoid dicks, but you could totally draw some pictures comparing vox to a charlie brown teacher while he's sketching out the plan of attack.


2)

John Murdoch posted:

In short, the more you can preserve the heist movie feel the better. Though maybe I'm alone in wanting to downplay the "four goons bumble around in a video game" aspect. I guess that's a good case for both pro and not-pro runs. :shrug:
good idea! while PAYDAY LORE is a humongous joke, stealthing four stores and doing mallcrashers loud as your first episode makes a lot of sense, while jumping straight to big bank does not. even if a progression is not overtly appreciated, an anti-progression (e.g., heisting a loving thermobaric bomb and then later robbing a couple of ATMs or armored cars) will be noticed and not appreciated.


3)

Tempest_56 posted:

I see it actually with a lot of pauses - stopping mid-action for a few seconds to explain to the audience just why a player just did what they did, or to point out things that happen a bit fast. For some heists, maybe 2/3 takes (stealth/beginner loud/expert loud) for comparisons.
terrible idea. wrecks the experience for people who are just watching. only prospective and current players give a poo poo about your thinking and even then not all of them do. most people are just chilling and watching and they just want you to get back to shooting cops and cracking jokes. also, nobody gives a poo poo about your mad varied strats, if they did they'd be watching [BR]PROgaming instead. if you want to get the crowd of people who view for gameplay tips, you want to be publishing your videos no more than a week after content comes out and you don't want to be doing full heists or going on for 20+ minutes. nobody gives a poo poo. you can talk about the mechanics of the game if you like, that's fine, functional tidbits can be interesting, but if you're interrupting the action to lapse into an autismal treatise on HP granularity , leave it to the long guide link at the end of the video - which will stay way more relevant than anything you say, anyway.

4)

Tulip posted:

I've personally thought about doing an LP, but I have no idea what the best way to show poo poo off would be. Just start with XXV-100 folks and just go through heists? Just let the thread vote on heists to show off until interest drops off / shadow raid wins?
variety is the spice of life. there's nothing wrong with XXV-100 people, but they should be using differing builds, differing guns, differing tactics so the action remains interesting. this probably means you cannot do Death Wish on a regular basis because though it is much easier now, the experience is still quite homogenized in a way that isn't true of Overkill difficulty. you can probably do Death Wish just fine on some of the easier maps for it (Big Bank immediately comes to mind), and you should to put some variety in the enemies and threats you're facing. but if it means you're gonna be sitting in a corner for a break to happen (Framing Frame loud), do not loving do it. you are there to dance. so dance, monkey, dance. or, ideally, make the cops dance for you. on a related note, nobody gives a poo poo if you're doing most of your stuff on death wish or not. playing on the hardest difficulty is only interesting and impressive if it's contrasted against other difficulties. otherwise it just comes off as a pointless wank to your own stupid celebration of playing too much of this game.

what will make your poo poo a success is fun. fun on the screen, fun in your voice, fun in your laugh, just plain fun. you should be oozing fun out of every pore, echoing it in every syllable you speak, and ringing it out with every silly event. if your idea does not contribute to Fun, it's bad. if your idea does contribute to Fun, it's good. that's really the long, short, and simple of it. have fun. so much fun that the people on watching you can't help but have fun too. have so much fun that someone who was thinking of killing themselves can't do anything but grin, even for a moment. and you will be successful.

if you can't have that much fun, then don't do the LP, and instead go out and do something fun, until you feel that deep down exhilaration of joy from doing something that makes you feel feather-light, even for an instant. once you've felt that, you'll know what it is you should be trying to communicate. then figure out how to do that on camera. it is really quite simple. but it is not easy. all this other details like organization, arrangement, cut aways, editing, it's all bullshit unless it's a vehicle to that moment of joy from having a ton of loving fun.


qualifications for this post: i've been autismally doing LPs for four and a half years now and the channel i run with TheLastRoboKy is popular enough that we're an acknowledged Youtube partner with private email support access and up-tiered rates for monetization on our videos, should we decide to do so.

Coolguye fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Dec 27, 2015

Discendo Vox
Mar 21, 2013

We don't need to have that dialogue because it's obvious, trivial, and has already been had a thousand times.
I don't think we were trying to do it as a business venture, Coolguye.

Coolguye
Jul 6, 2011
Probation
Can't post for 3 hours!
people were overtly wondering what 'the best way to show things off' would be, however. and the best way to show it off is anything that contributes to Fun.

worship the Fun and the Fun will not fail you.

Concordat
Mar 4, 2007

Secondary Objective: Commit Fraud - Complete

Shachar posted:

I need a BLT mod to that adjusts scoped sensitivity proportionally to zoom level so my zoomed sensitivity is not crazy high. Suggestions?

I heard the GoodMod has this feature, but I also hear it no longer works, and I've installed it and it doesn't seem to do what I need. Is it an option located someone other than under Controls?

Normalized Ironsights is what it is called.

LuciferMorningstar
Aug 12, 2012

VIDEO GAME MODIFICATION IS TOTALLY THE SAME THING AS A FEMALE'S BODY AND CLONING SAID MODIFICATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RAPE, GUYS!!!!!!!

Okay, you've sold me. Let's be business partners.

Tempest_56
Mar 14, 2009

Coolguye posted:

3)

terrible idea. wrecks the experience for people who are just watching. only prospective and current players give a poo poo about your thinking and even then not all of them do. most people are just chilling and watching and they just want you to get back to shooting cops and cracking jokes. also, nobody gives a poo poo about your mad varied strats, if they did they'd be watching [BR]PROgaming instead. if you want to get the crowd of people who view for gameplay tips, you want to be publishing your videos no more than a week after content comes out and you don't want to be doing full heists or going on for 20+ minutes. nobody gives a poo poo. you can talk about the mechanics of the game if you like, that's fine, functional tidbits can be interesting, but if you're interrupting the action to lapse into an autismal treatise on HP granularity , leave it to the long guide link at the end of the video - which will stay way more relevant than anything you say, anyway.

You're vastly misinterpreting what I'm suggesting. I mean like '3 second pause, draw a circle on the screen with a note next to it saying "Remember this power box, we'll be back here in two minutes", then unpause' not 'let's pause here for fifteen minutes and try to describe the science of gunfeel'. When the team's going full bore there's a lot of finer details that zip by REALLY fast because goons have 100+ hours in this poo poo and know where everything is and how it works - but viewers/newbies end up standing there wondering WTF just happened.

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Sykic
Feb 9, 2004

Resist! Humanity demands it! Resist!

Tempest_56 posted:

'let's pause here for fifteen minutes and try to describe the science of gunfeel'

Only if it's Vox doing the voice over, set to footage of him staring at pillars and taking screenshots.

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