Most of these content and updates were rolled into later console versions. The game has also received numerous downloadable content packs (both free and paid), adding additional weapons, heists, playable characters, and masks.
Over the years, most of Payday 2's gameplay mechanics in the Steam version were updated, expanded, and sometimes completely revamped (including new weapon and enemy types, additional difficulty levels, the ability to drive vehicles, a complete restructure of the Skill Tree system, and full VR support). Along with an expanded metagame, the game now takes advantage of heists that are both dynamic (with random events and object placements), extended (sometimes splitting the heist into separate levels, or "days"), and completely stealthable.
Using the CRIMENET interface, players can progress through various sizes of heists (from small-time convenience stores to major bank vaults), upgrade their criminal's special skills through Skill Trees, purchase various unlocked weapons and weapon modifications, and customize their unlocked masks with randomly-earned materials, patterns, and pattern colors. The crew now take advantage of CRIMENET, an underground criminal network (led by their handler, the mysterious Bain) where they accept contracts from criminal contacts such as deranged up-and-coming Vlad the Ukrainian, shady American politician "The Elephant", and Colombian drug trafficker Hector. (among, later on, other locales) for an epic crime spree. In this sequel to Payday: The Heist, players team up as masked criminals as they descend on Washington, D.C. It was later released for the Xbox One (on June 26, 2015), PlayStation 4 (on June 16, 2015), Linux (via Steam on March 21, 2016), and Nintendo Switch (ported by Sumo Digital on February 27, 2018).
KitGuru Says: With Payday 2 having so much DLC, I imagine this ultimate edition will be quite appealing to those who haven’t managed to keep up with all of the updates. I’ll be looking forward to the H3H3 pack myself.Payday 2 (stylized as PAYDAY 2) is a co-operative crime-themed first-person shooter developed by Overkill and published by 505 (later by Starbreeze) for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC (via Steam) on August 13, 2013. All proceeds from this DLC will go towards funding H3H3’s legal defence.
To help with the mounting fees, Overkill has decided to put out a H3H3 themed DLC for Payday 2, costing $4.99.
In H3H3’s most recent update regarding the lawsuit, they showed their legal bills totalling $50,000 per month. Since then though, the legal fees have really started to pile up.
At first, Philip Defranco ran a GoFundMe campaign to raise $170,000 to go towards the legal fees as this lawsuit is seen as an attack on fair use on YouTube. This person didn’t like the video and proceeded to sue. Over the last year, they have been fighting off a copyright lawsuit over a parody video they produced about another creator. Going forward, any extra DLCs will be free, with the exception of the Ethan and Hila character pack.įor those who don’t know, Ethan and Hila Klein are the duo behind the YouTube channel H3H3 Productions. Considering the amount of DLC PayDay 2 has, you can expect a ton of extra content in this version of the game compared to the standard edition. This is a new $45 edition of the game, which comes with the base game and all previously released DLC. Well, with the exception of one character pack- the Ethan and Hila pack, which is being put on sale to help the channel H3H3 Productions fight an ongoing lawsuit.įirst let’s go over the PayDay 2 Ultimate Edition. This will come with the base game and all DLC, with all future DLC being free. The folks over at Overkill have been very busy lately as this week, the company announced that it will soon be releasing a PayDay 2 Ultimate Edition.