[parker]

Does steam not have a thing where you can see a list of people you've played games with recently anymore?
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[TXTSWORD]

[TXTSWORD]

Played the beta a shitload yesterday thanks to AnotherDawg's generosity.

Was p baller, I'm really excited to jump in with my friend. Trying to decide between mastermind and ghost which class I wanna be. We expected to have 4 dedicated dudes but it looks like it's just the two of us for now. Not excited about dealing with randoms in a game like this soooo :S

[parker]

Txtsword what are me and my brother to this game if not two dedicated people. Also the game is available for preloading. Wonder if it will be available at midnight
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[TXTSWORD]

Can't preload as I must wait for gamefly to send me the code :|

Well heck I'll see about hitting you up tomorrow night! Have you guys picked your classes/roles?

[wpham]

A few of my friends and I are going to check this out; we got a 4-pack, I'm preloading, and I watched Heat last night to prep.
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[parker]

I'm focusing on technician cause I want those shape charges and the drill and armor upgrades. Any spare points I was going to stick into ghost skills to help out with stealth. My brother is going with a bunch of enforcer and mastermind stuff I think.
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[TXTSWORD]

Great, that actually works out since we'll be focusing on mastermind and ghost as our primary classes - so we'll each be focusing on a different class.

[parker]

The level select thing is awful. It was okay in the beta but now there's a million jobs on the screen and I'm getting actual headaches trying to read the screen. You have to constantly scan everything and take a second to decode the symbols to understand what difficulty and mission and amount of people are in it and click on it before it disappears. I've spent 90 percent of my time in this game just trying to get in a game. When I can even find one I'm looking for and manage to click on it in time it either never loads, fills up or it's all level 3 people trying to do a mission on overkill difficulty.
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[notbov]

it's a little unwieldy, but it fits the game like a glove and still isn't the worst server browser I've used

(looking at you, BF3)
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[wpham]

It gets even worse the higher you get in level, as you'll be looking primarily for higher-star jobs, sometimes pro versions, on Overkill, and you still see things like Four Stores on Normal/Hard popping up a lot. Visually, I get it, but functionally it detracts from my enjoyment of the game. Our core group of four ranges from level 45-52 right now and we're still enjoying the game, but yeah, at the very least more granular filters would be much appreciated. The IGN preview I remember reading wasn't wholly accurate but one thing they did get right is the Diablo II comparison: Ukrainian Job is this game's Pindle run.
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last.fm

[another god]

Do you have to have mics when you play this game? How coordinated do you have to be? Are random games good to play? Are you really OP at level 50 compared to level 1? I don't know much about PD2 except it's "dark souls diablo l4d heat".
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[TXTSWORD]

[parker]

Everyone has saws and c4 now so everyone runs in, blow the safes, and runs out in about 2 minutes on all the levels except the assault oriented ones or bank jobs where you have to use a drilll. Coordination and stealth is never going to be a thing you'll ever see in a public game ever again unless everyone else is low level, but it only takes about a day or two of playing to get that stuff. It's all about rushing and grinding for cards now. The number of heists is pretty disappointing too. They were making it sound like there would be a lot more and that it was just going to be a bigger game than payday 1 but it's about the same as 1 with the dlc. But unlike payday 1 there's not really anything like the hospital level or counterfeit money level where everyone has to guard a certain area or do a certain job and keep things in control while the plan is happening or whatnot.
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[TXTSWORD]

Yeah, I played a mission where a dude was just rushing with saw. Basically I want a closed group to play with so we can actually have fun and not suck the fun out of the game with grinding. It literally doesn't have to be played that way.

[wpham]

Just did a Pro Overkill Rats with 7 bags of meth cooked on day 1, all of the meth stolen back on day 2, and all of the money retained on day 3, and we somehow managed to get less money than a regular Overkill Rats with 4 bags of meth.

Most of the levels' layouts heavily favor shotguns, so I've been playing around with the Reinfeld a lot. Haven't yet tried the other shotguns, but the low damage on the auto shotgun and the tiny magazine size of the most expensive shotgun seem too restrictive.
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[MattCD42]

Just got this game this week. I've been finding the interactions I get with others more interesting through this game. It's really an interesting online experience. I wish it had better steam integration. Is anyone on SB still playing this?
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[parker]

I jumped on the other night for a minute and people are still blowing up the fucking meth lab
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[MattCD42]

Most people I find are robbing one jewelry store after another.
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Steam: Godamn_Milkman

[CubaLibre]

God, you guys, I wish I had the time and we could just make a nightly crew.
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Let's Play, starring me.

[MattCD42]

how about we find a magical night start slow and build from there, I'm leveling for shaped charges...
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[The Blueberry Hill]

This is cheap this weekend. I will be grabbing it.

[The Blueberry Hill]

I was getting a bit cold on this game, but today played a view rounds with strangers interested in being stealthy and it felt pretty right. I'd had trouble even figuring out how to go quiet till now, didn't understand what to really do with hostages, etc.

The most fun was a GO Bank full of civilians, which we almost stealthed.

It would be nice to play this with a full SB team. I only ever see Parker on; I guess most people have done all they want to in this?

I wish you could stab chums in the back like in Dog Days. I guess I wish this game did a lot of things it doesn't do.

[parker]

I like the game a lot more now when I just jump on every so often for a game or two than when I was trying to play through it all at once at first. The loot oriented style of the game irritated me then coming from payday 1. I still don't get shit for loot, I finished a pretty challenging level on the new DEATHWISH difficulty, which is basically impossibly unless you stealth it, and all I got for my trouble was some denim.
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[| BLUE | BLACK | PURPLE |]

I know fuckall about this game but if people were playing it on the regular i'd get it and play it too. if it runs on this here cheapest nvidia card on the market on a low res, that is

But you fucks have to be all over the timezones, from the US to Australia and that's always difficult

I just added everyone in the sb group on steam to my friends so i can figure out which multiplayer game you people are playing the most, so i can tag along (if it supports shitty graphics and, ideally, is around 10 bucks)

[The Blueberry Hill]

I'm not sure there're any particular games people are multiplayering at the moment. There was some talk of Binary Domain in one of the threads when that got discounted/bundled.

Dog Days is $5 on some Brazilian website listed on isthereanydeal.com: http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/449-kane-lynch-2-dog-days

[parker]

I'm out there making moves at all times of day and night
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I knew i could count on you guys

[parker]

The mission about lives up to the trailer.

Gus Fring is The Dentist who hires the Payday crew on behalf of a client he refers to as "his patients" to take on some legendary uncrackable washington dc super bank. Supposedly these Dentist missions are going to eventually lead up to some big prison or cia blacksite break or whatever to bust out the original Hoxton character from Payday 1. Cause he originally was voiced by a british guy in that one, and fans being the deranged fanatics over the stupidest details that they are, have done nothing but complain about bringing him back since then, because of course you can't have something being different. I tell you they better not bring him back before the female heister they've been promising forever.

Gus Fring teaches the payday crew how to take two seconds to think about what they're doing for the first time in their lives

You pick different escape routes or methods of cracking the safe, different ammo and medkit placements, alarm delays, things like that, but they cost points. I could see in the future or a payday 3 maybe you could build up points after successful heists, that could be something, but right now this is only the heist that has the preplanning feature anyway.



of course most people use it to draw dicks and fuck around.

There's a Ulysses S. Grant mask I really want. You got to take the guy in the trailer hostage and guide him back to the vault to unlock it though.
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[The Blueberry Hill]

Sounds like a good one to not play with strangers.

Edit: Actually I kinda want to take that back: most of the time I seem to end up in games with okay people.

[JoeX111]

I've gotten back into this in a big way recently. If any selectbros want to crew up, just say the word.

[The Blueberry Hill]

We've got enough people playing at the moment to fill a team and a half I think, so yeah, let's do that.
Aside from Parker and me I've seen ChairTax and dinopoke on, and Youpi got the DLC the other day.

What's your Steam thing?

[MattCD42]

Feel free to hit me up:
Godamn_Milkman
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[The Blueberry Hill]

I've finally fixed my mouse lag troubles, so may be a bit better at shooting things now. Still won't cure my bouts of running about like a chicken with its head cut off though, I guess.

Also finally finished a heist on the new bank. One guy waited out (by the van in the basement) everyone being in custody twice, and we got off with a big lot of bags.

I'm enjoying using the locomotion as my secondary most of the time (actually I think I like shotguns too much and will make enforcer my main skill set), but haven't felt super happy with any of the primaries I have access to yet. I'm gonna try the M308 next, and am open to any recommendations for guns that do well at medium-high range.

edit: Gosh, yeah, this is a million times better without the lag. I can actually play missions above normal difficulty now. And this M308 was a great compliment through rats.

[MattCD42]

[Amish Chipmunk]

Any SB-ers still playing this? I just got it last week and have been regularly playing with friends: it's been a blast.

If you want to add me, Steam name is the exact same as my SB name. Hit me up if I'm online and we can do a heist or four.
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[The Blueberry Hill]

PD2 is free to play this weekend. I'm probably going to jump back in (and maybe play the first game a bit too, which is free to download today.)

[The Blueberry Hill]

That Hotline Miami mission is great.

[Dracko]

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[parker]

Keanu Reeves dropped out of playing Chris Shiherlis in Heat to do Hamlet. DeNiro and Keanu in Heat together is up there with Jodorowsky's Dune in the might-have-beens of cinema
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