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I flat out refuse to play the sniper maps. The concept is poorly executed. (accidents cause everybody to panic and flee? gently caress you!)
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The mobile game is better in that regard.
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Nakar posted:Did you actually test this? Because it doesn't work at all. At the very least, a blood puddle is not conductive of electricity under any circumstances I can determine. Whoever said this must have been standing in water or a puddle or something without knowing it. The blood's just a decal, it doesn't appear to do anything. i didn't test it  but thank you for doing the hard worki thought it could be feasible since flammable oil conducts electricity in-game, and i thought it didn't do that in real life
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IMPORTANT NEWS! Agent 47's hobby is sweater knitting! https://youtu.be/fvU9EL4zd1M 
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Let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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Tobias Weaver.
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Zedd posted:Tobias Weaver. Knitman
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It would be Wiever
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trying to evoke some john wick vibes huh
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I am hyped as gently caress to start blundering my way through a new map tomorrow. 
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gently caress that looks great. really happy they keep doing completely different locations. Holding out hope the last one is a nerd convention in San Diego.
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poo poo I totally forgot that was tomorrow, amazing. Looks amazing.
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Super No Vacancy posted:trying to evoke some john wick vibes huh John Wick 2 reminded me a whole lot of Hitman with the in-depth setup and prepping to go through the map and hit the target, only to gently caress it up on the way out and pull the guns out
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It's good to have variety, but I always enjoyed the flashy james-bond-style environments like Hokkaido, Bangkok, or Sgail over the grungier environments like Colorado or Mumbai. A massive ritzy unrealistic bank is an awesome idea and I can't wait to see which conveniently bald distinctively dressed upper-level employees work there.
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Payday 2 used to be my most played game on Steam until it became... whatever it is now.
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Oh is it bad now? I bought it on Steam sale months ago and forgot about it.
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Mantis42 posted:Oh is it bad now? I bought it on Steam sale months ago and forgot about it. Same, except I bought it years ago and forgot about it. Heard it became a bloated mess, but maybe someone else can provide actual insight.
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Jun 24, 2019 23:00
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How many job interviews has 47 participated in now
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Discendo Vox posted:I miss payday 2... No matter what Jules has done, we'll always have Big Bank.
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UnknownMercenary posted:No matter what Jules has done, we'll always have Big Bank. And as of tomorrow we'll have a big bank that's fun when you're going stealth, rather than loud, too!
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Work is keeping me away until the weekend so enjoy beating me to the bank goodness, folks.
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I want that outfit to be unlockable so you can wear it in Whittleton Creek.UnknownMercenary posted:No matter what Jules has done, we'll always have Big Bank. Nottherealaborn posted:Same, except I bought it years ago and forgot about it. Heard it became a bloated mess, but maybe someone else can provide actual insight. Mantis42 posted:Oh is it bad now? I bought it on Steam sale months ago and forgot about it. Mzbundifund posted:Payday 2 used to be my most played game on Steam until it became... whatever it is now. I am kind of a super expert on all the things that happened with payday 2. Without derailing, it suffered from a whole host of things, particularly repeated turnover in lead roles, psychotically poor corporate leadership, and a lead designer at the end of life who actively ignored feedback and made unimaginably terrible decisions; the closest analogue would be "ok, people are complaining they have run out of content, so here's a new difficulty called 'True Hitman' where all guards are now two guards and move twice as fast, and all NPCs have four times their current health". The game still has a bunch of fun core elements, but there's a learning curve with all the different material going on, and the core gameplay of loud combat is nowhere near as fun as it once was. ...and I was being sort of facetious because I lead a big overhaul rebalance mod that's fixing all its broken features. game's good again, you just have to Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 01:47 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Discendo Vox posted:and I was being sort of facetious because I lead a big overhaul rebalance mod that's fixing all its broken features. game's good again, you just have to Big Bank was the first major PD2 map DLC, released with huge fanfare (ah, Bobblehead Bob, I brought you with me every time), wasn't it? Unless I'm missing one in my memory? Makes sense that we'd make a mental association with the Hitman 2 situation (I did too, when the bank being a big ornate one that reminded me of The Benevolent was revealed, myself). edit: Oh, right Armored Transports. I actually got PD2 slightly after the release, and got AT with it, so I guess I don't really think of it as DLC.
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EimiYoshikawa posted:Big Bank was the first major PD2 map DLC, released with huge fanfare (ah, Bobblehead Bob, I brought you with me every time), wasn't it? Unless I'm missing one in my memory? Makes sense that we'd make a mental association with the Hitman 2 situation (I did too, when the bank being a big ornate one that reminded me of The Benevolent was revealed, myself). Big Bank was the second paid heist DLC, but there were also several weapons ones. As EimiYoshikawa notes, it is really heavily reminiscent of this bank:  For context, y'all, payday was also running as a games as service model, principally based on large amounts of added content as relatively cheap DLC, alongside free content. They also tried a variety of other, worse models because so many people complained about the amount of DLC, but this was no more successful (the game had a really toxic, entitled fanbase). Only toward the very end of its ~5 year lifespan did they start offering bundled "ultimate edition" versions. It lasted forever and made a lot of money, but over time it turned into a horrifying crunchfactory for the devteam (made much worse by the parent company basically torching all of its earnings).
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I think it's fair to say that Payday 2's attempt at loot box monetization was poorly thought out at best. The reaction was overblown because it ultimately had little effect on gameplay (and other changes happening at the same time were far worse for end users). I hope they do some dumbass Payday 2 easter egg for this map even though it's very unlikely. Like just stick some clown masks somewhere.
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Discendo Vox posted:I want that outfit to be unlockable so you can wear it in Whittleton Creek. I could be wrong, but I remember reading an article or something a couple of days ago, which said that the suit (usable in different maps, I mean) would be the last unlockable in the bank's mastery tree. I'm at work right now though, so I can't try and dig it up EDIT: vvv Oh yeah, sorry I should've clarified that - I thought DV meant the regular map's suit, not the sweater. Major Isoor fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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The suit is the double-breasted trenchcoat; the sweater appears to be a unique NPC's outfit that 47 can probably steal to impersonate him. It (probably) isn't unlockable. They updated the website, by the by, and the suit is called The New Yorker.
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I brushed up on Mumbai since that's getting a new mission tomorrow (along with Colombia). I know the new missions take place at a different time of day than the original ones, but I don't know if the maps will be radically different other than that.
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I really want the sweater in Whittleton Creek because I really want to make some Mr. Roger's Neighborhood contracts.UnknownMercenary posted:I think it's fair to say that Payday 2's attempt at loot box monetization was poorly thought out at best. The reaction was overblown because it ultimately had little effect on gameplay (and other changes happening at the same time were far worse for end users). I have a magic story about that. The announcement was done with a big reveal on day one of the event, swinging open a heavily teased door to reveal...the game's generic scumbag character was going to start selling lootboxes! Boxes drop for free, buy keys for a buck fifty. The devs announced that keys would also drop for free...five days later in the event, via one of the protagonist characters. Across that five day gap, the community became so incandescent with rage that when the key announcement hit, huge swaths of the userbase believed it was a hastily thrown together reversal. By that point they were doing things like review bombing, stalking devteam members irl and setting up separate, pre-lootbox instanced versions of the game. That's not the magic story. The magic is that this announcement setup was a last minute change. Originally, they were going to announce both the lootboxes and the free keys on the last day of the event, at the same time. The scumbag was going to make people shell out for keys, then immediately after the protagonist would reveal "C'mon, did you really think we'd do that to you? Keys will drop for free, you only need to buy them to speed things up". Because someone higher up decided to rush the rollout, they generated five days of completely unrecoverable bad press and total loss of faith. It's still the thing payday 2 is most known for.
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Keys were (and are) still $2.50 because Overkill copied Valve's model almost wholecloth but without the handful of minor conveniences that made it semi-tolerable. Free key drops were so rare that they might as well have not existed. If both announcements happened at the same time it might've gone over better but honestly it was a bad loving idea from top to bottom and this is coming from someone who embraced the system.
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Can you really blame the community for reacting the way it did? Corporations deserve no faith nor love when they remove their own masks willingly before you. Also, anyone unironically using the term "entitled fanbase" in tyool 2019...is...just...hard to stomach. I say this as someone who (still) has more positive than negative feelings for Overkill, even now.
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EimiYoshikawa posted:Can you really blame the community for reacting the way it did? Corporations deserve no faith nor love when they remove their own masks willingly before you. Also, anyone unironically using the term "entitled fanbase" in tyool 2019...is...just...hard to stomach. Yes, I can. Payday 2's fanbase demanded that everything in the game be free, from the very beginning of support. That is not an exaggeration. The immediate response to the loot crate system involved antisemitic memes and can be traced back to problems with chud content creators who dictated community response and perception of things even in the previous game, payday the heist. Influential members of the community defined themselves, and socialized themselves through, identifying real or perceived slights by the developers and fixating on them. The community generated multiple waves of conspiracy theories about the company's activities, and much of the modding community is based around restoring "stolen content." One of the community mods developed an enemies list and was ultimately banned after repeatedly trying to promote what were basically DLC unlocker mods. There were attempts (thankfully inept) at direct irl harassment of individual developers. The userbase for payday 2 was much more toxic than that of most other comparably sized games. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 25, 2019 |
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Eh, I'm not trying to defend the worst elements, because poo poo people will be there in pretty much any game community these days. Hell, there are probably horrible people making "funny" videos about purging the jews in Hitman levels that I hope I never learn actually exist or not. I'm simply saying that people being upset at Overkill (or rather, Starbreeze, effectively) introducing loot crates as a "gift" to the community in the midst of Crimefest, which Overkill chose to make a thing that existed to show said fanbase that they cared, and, contrariwise, that they appreciated the support of said fanbase, and one could, of course, dismiss as a cynical attempt at generating goodwill within a customer base like any other PR, was a terrible loving idea that deserved the outcry it got, generally speaking, obviously not including bigoted bullshit, because trying to use the horrible minority to dismiss the valid concerns of a majority is also loving bullshit and disingenuous tactics of the man 101. I'm not going to pretend that a small part of a fanbase being toxic means dismissing the entirety thereof or validating the bad behavior of a company that both the shitheads and the non-shitheads are upset about. And why the gently caress are we talking about this in the Hitman 2 thread, given that we no longer even have the pretense of talking about the Big Bank anymore?
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where the red fern gropes posted:if you wait long enough in the new bank level, some parodies of the payday crew arrive and start shooting the place up Oh man I love the Paycheck crew.
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11.6 GB download, and I see the New York + Special Assignments Pack 1 in my DLC listing. 
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