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explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

I haven't played this in a couple days but wanted to this morning and it seems hard as hell to matchmake into a full party? I guess it's 10AM est but still, I tried a couple missions and at most only got 2 other players in the game.

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Explosionface
May 30, 2011

We can dance if we want to,
we can leave Marle behind.
'Cause your fiends don't dance,
and if they don't dance,
they'll get a Robo Fist of mine.


I was able to play with my crew for the first time last night. Apparently they had a little bit of a rough time matchmaking before I joined in, but by the time I joined in, it was pretty smooth. They still need to reconsider the general UI and "lobby" structure, but we worked around the wonky bits.

Fun game, can't wait for more content and some general polish on skills/UI.

e: and my friend playing Dallas in a loving dad sweater almost lost it when I called him Crime Dad

Legit Businessman
Sep 2, 2007


Explosionface posted:

e: and my friend playing Dallas in a loving dad sweater almost lost it when I called him Crime Dad

Eric Etabari also appreciated being told about the Crime Dad moniker.

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


Legit Businessman posted:

Eric Etabari also appreciated being told about the Crime Dad moniker.

DILF is the best type of casting for a career criminal.

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


If you ready then someone joins the lobby the game unreadies you then you can’t reready :thumbsup:

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


Found another fun glitch in 99 Boxes, you don’t need the keycard to open the camera room. Makes stealthing pretty drat easy

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


My current cross to bare is my 4 stack, when we plan a “stealth or restart” run, all takes double camera loops, and they fundamentally don’t understand to keep two looped. Some levels have like 12 cameras, we can permanently disable eight. Please just use the loving skill.

Levels with lots of hostages are fun. It’s a bummer the nightclub’s main reward is the crypto wallet that gets wiped if you gently caress up too soon, because when we did the more typical “stealth until we dont” I posted at the front door and held up hostages and bought us all the way to like, 17 for more time before the assault. That’s a super fun way to play and those minutes prior to the first assault are crazy fun, trying to work objectives and set up for the onslaught.

There’s a steam achievement for completing the Jewelry store in 120 seconds. I think it takes a full four stack, but my team set our sights on it and it is so stupid fun. I won’t share our strat for spoilers (unless someone wants it) but it does feel great to try and speedrun something as opposed to either plodding along in stealth or just shooting it out. If you have a four stack give this a try.

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

Anime Store Adventure posted:

I can't play until my friends get free later on tonight, but I was in game just to eyeball skill synergies and..

If you take:
-Grifter: Walk The Walk (With Rush, you can't be seen in private areas by Cameras,) Social Engineering (With Rush, Employees ignore illegal actions)
-Escapist: Battering Ram (If you have Rush, sprint through locked doors to breach them)

and use either the Grifter or Escapist first skills to maintain rush...

Can you just be The Turbo Team and sprint through private areas unlocking every door? It might not be crazy useful but it sounds fun as hell.

You can only use this on doors you can pick, breaching the door is a loud illegal action, and all guards and cameras will instantly pick up on it.

Also Escapist doesnt actually give you Rush if you dont have the mask on, at least not for sprinting for 3 seconds.

Wintermutant
Oct 2, 2009




Dinosaur Gum

Kikas posted:

You can only use this on doors you can pick

I expect it's a bug so wouldn't rely on it sticking around, but apparently Battering Ram currently works on the VIP door in the nightclub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-ulJC2w8UY

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

In the first bank heist with the thermite, are you supposed to not add all the extra bags because they trigger the sprinklers? My friend is convinced you're not supposed to because they say "don't overdo it" but I figured you're supposed to chuck em all in but just turn the sprinklers off quickly because the objective is always "add more thermite".

Wintermutant
Oct 2, 2009




Dinosaur Gum

explosivo posted:

In the first bank heist with the thermite, are you supposed to not add all the extra bags because they trigger the sprinklers? My friend is convinced you're not supposed to because they say "don't overdo it" but I figured you're supposed to chuck em all in but just turn the sprinklers off quickly because the objective is always "add more thermite".

The answer's in the middle; when you add a bag, you'll see it flare up momentarily. If you add another bag while it's flared, it'll trigger the sprinklers. But if you wait for the flame to settle down, then you can add another bag without tripping them.

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

Wintermutant posted:

The answer's in the middle; when you add a bag, you'll see it flare up momentarily. If you add another bag while it's flared, it'll trigger the sprinklers. But if you wait for the flame to settle down, then you can add another bag without tripping them.

Ah, nice. Thanks!

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
You can see black smoke almost touching the ceiling when you shouldn’t throw more in

explosivo
May 23, 2004

Fueled by Satan

I owe my friend an apology then, heh.

limp_cheese
Sep 10, 2007


Nothing to see here. Move along.

Unless I'm missing something are there really only 2 shotguns in this game, the pump and the double barrel?

I miss my AA12, or any auto shotgun really.

CuddleCryptid
Jan 11, 2013

Things could be going better

explosivo posted:

I owe my friend an apology then, heh.

Tbf the game could do a lot more to signal it. Usually when it says "don't overdo it" its just for flavor but here it actually matters.

Saying the sprinklers went on because you used too much thermite could go a long way.

RandolphCarter
Jul 30, 2005


Finally got level 50 so now Chains can wear a proper suit. Also figured out that getting escorted while unmasked costs a down.

RandolphCarter fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Oct 2, 2023

Elendil004
Mar 22, 2003

The prognosis
is not good.


RandolphCarter posted:

Finally got level 50 so now Chains can wear a proper suit. Also figured out that getting escorted while unmasked costs a down.

Holy poo poo that explains why sometimes you just get arrested. God they really could explain some of this stuff.

edit: this does not appear to be true.

Elendil004 fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Oct 2, 2023

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
I just found out the number and symbol on your portrait is remaining downs and you get more for lighter armor. They need advanced tutorials or something to explain it all

padijun fucked around with this message at 01:49 on Oct 3, 2023

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
https://www.reddit.com/r/paydaytheheist/comments/16vat3t/how_armor_penetration_works_and_how_a_completely/

Here’s some stuff from reddit math guys about armor/penetration. It looks like the revolvers and the SA A144 are going to dominate the meta for a while.

swims
May 5, 2014

Waiter, this band keeps shooting pearls at me.
Road Rage isn’t Watchdogs but it’s the heavy one. I haven’t even got to the last 2 missions yet though, are either of those shooters?

gently caress stealth

Dirty Ice so far is probably the best shooting gallery but most either stealth attempt or quit. On Xbox.

Anime Store Adventure
May 6, 2009


Funny enough having done all the levels both stealth and loud now, Road Rage is one of my least favorite loud heists. It’s relatively fast, but there’s not much variety or anything to it. It’s decent if you want to try out a new heavy load out/skills though!

The night club is fun loud, but man it gets really rough toward the end. If you bring one person with double hostage value you can really drag out the pre-assault phase since the level has one exit and an absolute ton of civs. I’m not sure why we always have bad luck near the end.

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

swims posted:

Road Rage isn’t Watchdogs but it’s the heavy one. I haven’t even got to the last 2 missions yet though, are either of those shooters?

gently caress stealth

Dirty Ice so far is probably the best shooting gallery but most either stealth attempt or quit. On Xbox.

All mission except for Road Rage start in stealth and usually it's fine to attempt stealth until you can't, as you don't need no build for that.

I've had attempts at all the heists with loud/control builds and managed to get through in stealth even without skills as basic as camera hacking. Hell, I went through Rock the Cradle up to stealing the wallet without even masking up! Got loud then, but didn't really get to test out my build with control and civilian trading as it instantly went to final assault :v:

Revitalized
Sep 13, 2007

A free custom title is a free custom title

Lipstick Apathy
I think it's always fun to start in stealth and see how far you get but come equipped for loud.

It's very thematic and feels like an actual heist gone wrong but we came prepared for the worst case scenario.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

I seem to be having some issues with the game crashing

It’s always a pak file error , and I just run a integrity check each time

Sometimes I can complete a heist and other times I get 80% of the way

Sometimes it crashes 5 seconds in or just at the joining screen

Is this an uncommon issue ?

I could see verifying files and downloading a missing piece once. But this is like every other heist almost

I wonder if it’s indicative of a disk drive issue ….

No issues with other games. Just payday 3

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
Do a full reinstall. It sucks but I’ve had it work on other steam games where the check showed no problems.

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

padijun posted:

Do a full reinstall. It sucks but I’ve had it work on other steam games where the check showed no problems.

Yup , did it again last night thanks

Hopefully it fixes it this time for good :)

Kikas
Oct 30, 2012

Blue On Blue posted:

Yup , did it again last night thanks

Hopefully it fixes it this time for good :)

Well, there's a patch today anyway, and if Payday 2 patches are any indication of stability...


:v:

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

Kikas posted:

Well, there's a patch today anyway, and if Payday 2 patches are any indication of stability...


:v:

Oh
Good
Maybe they’ll fix the xp finally

padijun
Feb 5, 2004

murderbears forever
I suspect their plan to keep people playing was to constantly add more challenges through DLC content, incentivizing buying it to keep infamy xp going. But it’s been so poorly implemented and received they’re already going back on it.

One thing I noticed when you hold tab is how little info there is. Put the weapon achievements for what I have equipped there. Or the achievements for the current level. Or even just show me what I have equipped!

EorayMel
May 30, 2015

WE GET IT. YOU LOVE GUN JESUS. Toujours des fusils Bullpup Français.
Rigorous Self-Critique is a thought in Disco Elysium.

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truther
Oct 22, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT THE BEARS
Man, they've really borked Payday 3 huh.

MariusLecter
Sep 5, 2009

NI MUERTE NI MIEDO
Payday 3: AAAAAAA! iiiii neeeeed a medkit stable multiplayer matchmaking!

Blue On Blue
Nov 14, 2012

I mean. When it works it’s what you expect. Shooting cops and clicking things stealthily

The initial sealed was hot garbage and they have some kinks to work out

But it’s going to be fun once the dlc starts rocking I’m sure

ErrEff
Feb 13, 2012

The core of the game is still recognizably Payday and it is very fun (when it works, it sucks when it disconnects you right at the end of a heist and you earned nothing), but they're not doing themselves any favors with this.

Very unfortunate that they first announced a patch which should've been a day-one thing, then said they'd have to split the patch in two... and now there will be no patch for probably a couple of weeks?

Lord_Hambrose
Nov 21, 2008

*a foul hooting fills the air*



Learning that X-box pubbies can't see chat text explains a lot of my problems with the first few days I was playing.

Novasol
Jul 27, 2006


Lord_Hambrose posted:

Learning that X-box pubbies can't see chat text explains a lot of my problems with the first few days I was playing.

I'm playing on Game Pass. I have a friend who has the Steam version, and we can't see text from each other. But another friend of mine with the Game Pass version can see all that text. It makes zero sense.

FAUXTON
Jun 2, 2005

spero che tu stia bene

I had no idea the drill store sold dev services too

Croccers
Jun 15, 2012

ErrEff posted:

The core of the game is still recognizably Payday and it is very fun (when it works, it sucks when it disconnects you right at the end of a heist and you earned nothing), but they're not doing themselves any favors with this.

Very unfortunate that they first announced a patch which should've been a day-one thing, then said they'd have to split the patch in two... and now there will be no patch for probably a couple of weeks?
From what I've heard from Goon devs, console certification is a bitch of a process. And trying to keep platform parity would make it even more of a bitch.

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Blacula
Dec 22, 2008

FAUXTON posted:

I had no idea the drill store sold dev services too

Lol

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