PAYDAY 2

mike.grayizzle said:
Without stating the obvious.....playing solo will be extremely tricky as the AI team mates are pretty average, they don't have any abilities beyond shooting and helping you when downed.

Once you go online you will have a better chance.........it makes me cringe and laugh in equal measure as every server someone always says "lets stealth" and about 25 secs later you get a sea of red exclamation marks. Bettter to accept you will have to shoot your way out 95% and bring your heavy gear.

I have a couple of people I play regular with and it can get a little stale as they often want to complete jobs quick for XP. I find that playing with randoms can sometimes be more enjoyable, granted you don't make as much money or XP but its good to help lower lvl players and learn new tactics.
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Omaeka said:
Once the guard manning the cameras is done the cameras can't do anything, so for the guy in the back room in the Ukrainian Job for example, whos stood next to the camera feed, and the guys in the big rooms marked 'SECURITY' on most other levels. Once the camera operator is KIA, missions easy.
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Cheers for the replies guys.

I think I was getting a bit closer last night, and i was probably trying to practice it on missions which just dont suit it like Four Stores. I thought i might be on for a shot at a stealth run in the bank though, as the key card was in the office and i'd managed to nip in & out masked up and the security room was in the back corridor too, opened the door, yelled at the guy... got cuffed :(:mad::D
Otherwise i think i could have had a decent shot at it.

The AI, while dumb and unable to interact with the heist, i kinda abuse their unlimited ammo and uber health/armor, and i'll quite often position myself somewhere they've got a decent vantage point from, and im relatively well covered by them, and i'll chip in when needed (with pistol) because its just too easy to run out of ammo & shield/armor. So i 'abuse' their strength because of their weekness. If they could assist with the robbery, grabbing a bag, throwing down ammo, mines, health etc then i wouldnt need to exploit the fact that they're not equals, not in what they can do to help, or in the fact that they have unlimited ammo and can take a ton of damage which seems to regen. So thats the trade-off i use.
I did manage a couple of decent runs last night though, i got 4 bags of cash out of the bank on Hard and all 9 bags of coke out on day 1 of watchdog, and 7 to the heli in day 2, but as expected even putting the extra bags into the pickup zone and carrying 1, it only counted the 4 in the boat and the one i carried.

Right now, i dont want to go online with others till i understand how to do more, i dont want to go into a game with people trying to do stealth and be the guy causing the 25sec red exclamation marks :D
Thats how ive always been, im not one to jump in the deep end, i'd rather play privately till i feel im some help.
Im pretty sure by the end of the day i'll have stealthed a bank job though, i dont think im far off it, just need a bit of luck with how the map is rolled, and not doing anything stupid :D
 
If you want to stealth the Bank, and the vault is near the main foyer, you have to sneak around to the back door, sneak in, pick the lock to the room with the tellers and kill them both. You must kill the tellers everytime the vault is near them otherwise the slightest provocation and they'll trip the alarm, you can't intimidate them either.

Normally it's worth restarting the heist if the vault is near them, ideally you want the vault to be in the offices, kill all the guards and take out the camera man, and then intimidate all of the civilians around the office and drill, the other half of the bank won't move and will be oblivious to it. If you decide to take the vault from the main foyer you'll have to cuff the entire bank as the guys in the offices will notice the main lobby whereas the main lobby wont notice them, pretty weird A.I. :p
 
PaulC2K said:
Right now, i dont want to go online with others till i understand how to do more, i dont want to go into a game with people trying to do stealth and be the guy causing the 25sec red exclamation marks :D
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I wouldn't worry too much about it tbh. I've been playing the hell out of it online (lvl 1-40ish in about 2 days) and I've not seen a successful steath-through yet. It's practically impossible to have a co-ordinated stealth group when playing with pubbies so everyone just goes in body armoured up and starts shooting.

So long as you're not the first to open fire or get spotted then when it all goes belly up just go along for the ride.
 
[Damien];24831349 said:
I wouldn't worry too much about it tbh. I've been playing the hell out of it online (lvl 1-40ish in about 2 days) and I've not seen a successful steath-through yet. It's practically impossible to have a co-ordinated stealth group when playing with pubbies so everyone just goes in body armoured up and starts shooting.

So long as you're not the first to open fire or get spotted then when it all goes belly up just go along for the ride.
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I've been playing with a mate who's on here, and yesterday asked a couple of clan mates if they were interested in having any of the other 2 keys and found 2 people, so thankfully we should be able to play as a 4-man team and play the game more like its intended. Managed to get 1 person to lv30-31 in half a day, and hopefully the other guy will start playing tonight and we can get him levelled up at a decent rate, then we should be able to create builds which are more role-specifc, because i've spent far more time playing solo so my skills are spent in a handful of areas, rather than 1 branch and unlocking the higher stuff.

Still havent done a stealth job, got the jewellery store locked down and started robbing them but got spotted outside and it quickly spread and i'd only got 2 bags out, but hopefully with 4 players it wont be too long.

Still 1-2 missions i dont think we've done yet, a couple we've been unable to complete, and Rats which we complete but always by blowing up the meth, them burning the intel, and then taking out the bus and leaving without issue.
Im not entirely sure about the whole add the ingredient part, does Bain always tell you the wrong one then correct himself, cos i know he does sometimes but ive waited a few seconds in anticipation of the correction, got nothing, put that chem in and moments later the rooms a mess.
 
Anyone elses game really dark?

Just installed it, fresh install of Win 7, 27" monitor and ATi HD whatever card.

For some reason it's really dark, nightclub map is impossible to tell friend from foe almost!!

Is this a known problem (yes, monitor and game brightness turned right up)
 
Vanilla said:
Anyone elses game really dark?

Just installed it, fresh install of Win 7, 27" monitor and ATi HD whatever card.

For some reason it's really dark, nightclub map is impossible to tell friend from foe almost!!

Is this a known problem (yes, monitor and game brightness turned right up)
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Hey there!

Question, is your character blacked out on the main menu and in lobby? Or is the game just dark?

Possible Solutions:

My old PC had the same issue. If you go on CCC ("Catalyst Control Center") and change the Anti-Aliasing levels and what not, whilst in-game, you'll be able to get rid of the dark bits.

Seems dumb but try turning up the brightness on the settings of PAYDAY 2.

Hope this helps!
 
« VK » said:
Hey there!

Question, is your character blacked out on the main menu and in lobby? Or is the game just dark?

Possible Solutions:

My old PC had the same issue. If you go on CCC ("Catalyst Control Center") and change the Anti-Aliasing levels and what not, whilst in-game, you'll be able to get rid of the dark bits.

Seems dumb but try turning up the brightness on the settings of PAYDAY 2.

Hope this helps!
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I had that happen too, I just kept fiddling with the CCC settings until it stopped :)

Pretty tiny update then
 
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Ok im kinda bummed that I only just figured out that both the safehouse and the offshore account are pointless. They literally serve no purpose.

i was looking forward to building a criminal bunker.
 
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