Payday 2 Out Today, Plan the Ultimate Co-op Heist

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Payday 2 Out Today, Plan the Ultimate Co-op Heist
Payday 2 Out Today, Plan the Ultimate Co-op Heist

If you’re reading this, Payday 2 is almost out — and the Overkill team is off on well-deserved vacations planning our next heist. It’s hard to express just how excited we are about the game finally being available for everyone to play. But soon, everyone will be able to mask up and get their heists started for real!

If you’re new to Payday, you’ve got a lot to look forward to. Payday 2 is an intense and dynamic first-person four player co-operative robbery game unlike any other. It’s equal parts RPG and action game now, allowing players to rob banks, jewelry stores, art galleries, and a hell of a lot more. Even, uh, unusual jobs. Our angle, even on the first Payday, has been “make a game where you feel like you are the bank robber” and we’ve referenced everything from Breaking Bad to Heat to make that happen. We want to make players feel like they’re really experiencing all the tension and high-stakes action of a life of crime.

Veteran Payday: The Heist players are going to remember the intense four-player heisting with the old Payday gang of Hoxton, Wolf, Dallas, and Chains back together again with Bain, their trusted planner. But they’re going to be blown away from all the new additions. Now a player can really pull off the perfect heist, without even firing a shot, with the addition of real stealth and deep team play-based skills. There are 144 skills and four archetypes (Ghost, Mastermind, Enforcer, and Technician) that allow players to make the kind of robber they want to be. There is a working money-based economy, so you’re actually robbing places to get money for things you want, whether its masks, mask mods, money for training or that rare optic.

Payday 2 has five times as many missions as Payday: The Heist. We have vastly improved gunplay and combat and immensely dynamic and replayable missions, some of which stretch over multiple stages. Even a Payday where players can get masks and weapons mods that they can customize. Last, but certainly not least, there is a huge visual and audio leap from the first game and a safe house to test out your gadgets and see the fruits of your labor in your own personal vault. I also need to mention the game’s incredible soundtrack from Payday: The Heist audio director Simon Viklund.

As for DLC, we have a full year of it planned. We can’t talk about it much…but everyone likes an armored car hit, right?
Mask up. The Payday 2 world is your bank. Get robbing.

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  • its not sony its happening everywhere gamestop best buy walmart target amazon does not have it ive call everywhere from where i live NY R.I LA no1 has it everyone keeps saying that Overkill changed the date to 8/14/13 or 8/16/13 if this is the case overkill should give us the season pass or DLC for free just saying

  • How long is it taking everyone to download the game. Verizon is pretty slow looks like 4 hrs.

  • I had dl and install in 30 min pretty quick! But only thing missing is the red dot sight on my rifles don’t know whether anybody else has the same problem? I have pre-ordered btw.. Anyone up for serious heists add me acc: effective

  • Looking for a good player with a mic? Add me :D

  • anybody else not able to join or create games?

  • One of the worst lobby systems ever…

  • DAT PAYDAY 2

  • HAs anyone else had problems installing the game?

  • payday 2 is downloading on my console as we speak, will have it in like 20 minutes but i want to play with some people i have a brand new mic i bought just for this game and am down as hell to start robbing so hit me xogxskeezy

  • Who wants to play payday 2 on ps3 psn:swordsman46

  • Yes, joining a lobby is terrible it’s like you have to be super fast in the first place to select a heist and then the games are always full. Only reason I can think of is that people are teaming up with friends or there is some sort of bug which doesn’t allow you to join. (Maybe because you also play solo heists with, for example, 2 ai + yourself?). Also i’m having a hard time figuring out who is talking when playing with 4 people and microphone. There is no indicator for that. Also i would like to see when we are in “lobby” status, which isn’t quite similar arranged as the first payday, who are my compagnions, what skills they have? What’s there class etc.

  • Apart from these issues I’m also wondering why rep lvl 100 is max, I read on a different website that the max skillpoints you can earn is 120 so when I look at the skilltrees, this means you can’t even complete one entire skilltree if you where planning on specializing on one skilltree.
    You would need 9 * 4 skillpoints for the skills till the third tier so 36, and for the upper tier you would need 12 * 9 skillpoint (108) which would make you overall need to fulfill one skillclass 144.
    I think the developers should learn from a game like skyrim or so where you can at least level out one tree and perhaps some extra skillpoints for basic necessities of other trees.

    Sorry for the long post.

  • @303 I haven’t gotten the red dot sight either and I preordered too. I’m going to call sony and find out if they know why? Let you know in a few.

  • Red dot sight unlocks after you buy your first primary gun, took me a while to notice that as well.

  • bout to get on in like 30 minutes got a headset and looking for people who are serious bout this bank robbing thing

  • i need a partner in crime… everyone ADD ME KLNG__CRACK

  • I have to agree with nanaki and LV with the sheer fact that the lobby system is atrocious. First of all you can barely ever join a public match because 95% of the matches you try to join are full and why on earth would full matches show up on online crimenet when your trying to join? It’s also bad on the developers part for the fact that it doesn’t update with other people that well because it re-shows the same people in full matches over and over again. Secondly I don’t know if you guys have experienced this but is just me or is it that whenever you do happen to get lucky enough to join a match the host is asleep, I mean I can somewhat sympathize considering that whenever I host a match alone that nobody joins at all (must be me) and that I would probably just go on my labtop and wait for people but come on don’t just leave your ps3 running and getting people’s hopes up. Considering how bad that is I really feel that the developers should have given all players in the lobby the ability to kick so if the host is gone for over 20 minutes than they can kick him/her and get on with the game

  • Other than that the game is quite solid, with a few minor bugs like AI’s walking on and crouching/laying on top of things, but that’s not the point. Sorry for the long rant but I had to get it off my chest. I’m not bashing the game or saying its bad, its quite good and I really enjoy it but that’s just a blunder on the developer’s part and I hope the whole lobby system gets fixed in a future update. I mean we did get it a few days early so maybe things will change when people get it on disk this friday. I’m definitely hoping there’ll be more lobbies to join. Anyways thanks for reading if you got this far and send me a message if you want to hit up some payday 2 with me, I definitely don’t mind right now since I’m mostly going solo on this and need a couple of partner’s to help out (I do have a mic for those who are wondering so communication is no problem).
    -Tsyukiomi

  • When will this game be shipped to Linden NJ gamestop because my friend said that he got it today and I’d like to play it with him and I can’t because they haven’t received the shipment yet until tomorrow and also I pre-ordered it.

  • Anyone else have the problem where when u make a lobby no one joins? And when u try to join a lobby it says it’s full? Add me if u want to play I have a mic :)

  • Ahhh man i’m really fed up with the public heists and joining them. I don’t know what it is but please fix it i’ve been selecting heists for half an hour and none of them are joinable… This makes me demotivated to play the game. I can only play it in the morning then i don’t have not much trouble getting in for some reason. I mean I like the layout and all but heists dissapear too fast and the only comfortable way to play is by doing it with friends.

    Please patch it up soon because else I think you will miss out on a lot of people playing your game including myself.

  • FINALY go it add me if your in California
    Bout to kill some pigs

  • Finally got people to join my lobby but it took over a few hours, also It’s a lot easier to get in games very late at night like 2Am – 11AM with people overseas :\ hope Overkill Software fixes this, they seem to know there is a bug with lobbies so that’s good to know, hoping for an early fix!~

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