PAYDAY 2 finally comes to Linux! DLC ALL THE THINGS!11!
Game: Payday 2
Webzone: http://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/
Devel: Overkill (a Starbreeze Studio)
Engine: Diesel Engine 2.0
Price: 19.99 / CDN 21.99
Wazzat: PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew – Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains – as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree.
CHAIRQUISITION:
– Nooope
– Not sure if want
– Check it out
– Shutupandtakemymonies
Makes with the working
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- The first few times you start this critter up is launches in 8X6 and that’s a bit jarring @ UHD.
- I think I had to set the res twice manually but it eventually obeyed.
- It took a performance dip while playing /w an AI team but that was sorted in the 2.2.GB update.
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- Empty and Venn both reported that the resolution setting kept getting reset. I ran into no such issue
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Shiny / Sounds
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- Even with Anisotropic filtering set at 16X the jaggies were visible at 1080.
- Cranking the res to 2160 sorts most of that.
- Visually the easiest way to describe PAYDAY 2 is L4D2 with a slight graphical upgrade that takes place (mostly) during the day.
- The environments rage from Malls, to banks, to warehouses and a somewhat unique meth lab.
- Oh, there’s also a freeway map that will get you killed to death. True story.
- The gun sounds are there along with the radio announcer who will update you on your current tasks but all that is drowned out by the wub wub.
- However you might want to keep that playing since the 5.0 shows up at the drop.
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- If you’re focusing on the soundtrack instead of the screaming of your buddies, or you screaming at the AI, you’re doing it wrong
- It definitely makes with the jaggies
- The voice acting is competently done, despite it just being random yelling
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- The wub-wub got muted pretty damn fast.
- I didn’t think I’d ever NEED AA as much as I do for this game.
- The sound effects are on-point, but I’d like an option to have surround.
- I’m not even going to ask for 7.1 which this headset supports, just 5.1 would do.
- Counter-Strike Global Offensive has it, why doesn’t this one?
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Control
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- WASD + gerbil with a logical layout that you can rebind.
- Didn’t need to futz around with any settings. OOTB
- If I had to gripe about something it would be the on/off crouch but it kinda makes sense.
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- Standard FPS fare. Had to switch q and c because why would you not make your switch weapon button Q? Like every other game ever?
- I’m not really a fan of the ironsights style shooting, to be honest. I get what the game is supposed to be, but it’s just a nitpick
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- Rebindable controls and a mouse sensitivity slider that actually works.
- The shooting feels responsive enough for a game that actively pushes stealth or at least a much more tactical approach.
- As someone who plays a lot of CS:GO I don’t particularly like the shooting in this one but more on that later.
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FUN?
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- Let’s get this out of the way; PAYDAY 2 has some thirty odd bits of DLC that it really really wants you to buy.
- In fact, it’s hard to find a single in-game menu that does not mention some type of available DLC.
- And yes, I know all about the pay-to-win SNAFU but everything I’m about to say comes from the perspective of someone who never plans to spend a dime on it.
- Minus the initial purchase price.
- We cool? Alright!
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- This game gets three chairs because of one fact and one fact alone:
- Multiplayer with your friends is stupid fun
- The game basically boils down to Left4Criminal, and it works.
- Having played the single player after trying multiplayer, I can tell you that the fun factor for single player is severely lacking.
- There’s a fairly detailed customization system as well, however most of that is locked away behind a metric fuckton of DLC
- Joining their steam group gets you some stuff, but you had to pick up a ton of cross promotion DLC to get any of the cool stuff. And that isn’t cool man
- Despite all that, I had a blast playing with Venn and Empty. Fun is fun
- Also, the police in this game apparently have mastered the instant transmission technique
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- First thing I see when I start the game, a fucking ad for DLC.
- Guess that’s to set the tone for the rest of the game.
- When you’re not in a mission, there’s always ads scrolling down the bottom left hand side of the screen telling you to get the new DLC.
- The top item in the Main goddamn Menu is a big blinking button telling you to buy DLC.
- This is usually a $20 game! Why are you pushing Free-to-Play marketing bullshit?
- Weren’t these the guys that said they wouldn’t do Pay to Win bullshit DLC but then totally went and did it?
- I suppose it’s a good thing they let you play for free until the 31st.
- But enough bitching about the DLC, let’s talk gameplay.
- You may remember the past few weeks when I said that, in a game, I’ll take solid gameplay over narrative any day of the week right?
- You may also remember when I’ve mentioned I don’t like Real Time Strategy games.
- While I think the gameplay and mechanics of PayDay 2 are damn solid and you should at least try it out on the free until the 31st, I don’t like Tactical FPS.
- The only one of those I ever played was the OG Tom Clancy Rainbow Six from 1998. I didn’t like that either!
- The only reason I’m even remotely competent in CS:GO is because that game actively rewards lone-wolf tactics.
- I can run around and nope people with any gun I damn well please and no one gives me shit for it. (Unless I kill them, then they’ll call me a cheater and a hacker)
- PayDay 2 is a stealth game that requires everyone to know exactly what to do or else there’ll be cops.
- And everyone starts with the same shitty AMCAR and the same shitty Glock ripoff.
- What’s that? You don’t like those weapons and would rather have a shotgun or a sniper rifle in order to be useful? Well, hope you have some friends to carry your picky ass over a couple of missions so you can buy it.
- Or you know, drop some actual money on the bullshit DLC. Bad Pedro, we were done with that!
- If you’re playing offline, the brain-dead AI teammates will get shot down within minutes of the first assault.
- Forget getting into an online game with randos. You’ll get kicked almost immediately until you’re anywhere north of level 20.
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