PD2's “Wonderful” Community
I swear, Payday 2′s community has to be holding back the modding potential of that game. The community seems to think that mods are just simply gun skins or sound replacements and the moment someone tries changing the actual function of the game the fucking ‘Payday 2 Purists’ come out and shame the hell out of the modder. If no one tried changing a game’s function we wouldn’t have games like Killing Floor, which has a shit ton of mods that changes the game’s functions. In fact a lot of new experiences can be had because of these mods, and it is really fucking stupid that the community wants their game completely unmodded even though they don’t have to fucking mod their game if they don’t want to. Payday 2 has the tools to exclude these people from your game if you do not want them. However, they seem to think they have the fucking right to control how everyone experiences Payday 2. Why? Probably because they are fucking assholes.
Payday 2 only has four ways you can currently play the game. Here is the list:
Sandbox Mode (with a Trainer)
I only recommend playing the game in the last three ways since single-player is an underdeveloped shit stain of a game mode that shouldn’t even be there. Seriously, you only get two meatbags that don’t do anything except sometimes kill cops and thinks about reviving you. The meatbags don’t complete objectives, and their well being doesn’t count towards the end bonus. They also don’t understand to stay away from the goddamn turret enemy half the time getting themselves killed anyway. It’s not that single-player is hard—which it isn’t—it’s that the game mode isn’t fun. Fans like to excuse this by stating that the game is meant to be played online. They can go to hell. If a developer puts a game mode in their game it should be just as fun to experience than the rest of the game. I don’t overlook the bird shit on my car because the rest of my car is clean. There is still bird shit on my car. The game mode is bad and lowers the overall quality of the product.
Adding other players to the mix increases the enjoyment of the game dramatically. You still get cunts like ever other multiplayer game, but you can just kick those fuckers. Playing with a bunch of friends will suddenly make a 2 hour game a 200 hour game, for some people at least. I don’t blame those people either, OVERKILL knows how to make a gun feel good when you shoot it.
If you are like me, than you most likely installed a trainer so you could see how all the skills functioned to see what you liked (and if you disagree with what I did, fuck off.) Most trainers come with a lot of scripts and such that allows you to do things like switch weapons on the fly, spawn cops, turn off AI, spawn bags, make shit explode for no goddamn reason, etc, etc. Now don’t get me wrong, if you use a trainer in a public lobby you are just asking for people to get pissed (for good reason but at the same time just fucking leave.) I only suggest you do this with a closed group of friends who are okay with it or by yourself. Seriously, it’s good fun.
And last but not least, we have mutations. Thanks to the wonders of GoonMod we have the Left 4 Dead 2 styled gameplay gimmicks including only Cloakers, only Bulldozers, increased cop amount, sanic cops, etc. Kudos to the modder for the fantastic work for making the game more interesting. If more modders decided to just tweak how the game plays a bit we could have fantastic things like custom weapons, custom enemies, custom music, and increased player count. There are whiners who say it ruins the balance of the game, but it’s fucking co-op. If you care so much for fucking balance just increase the amount of police in the game. Killing Floor has servers that support 32 players and they are hectic fun. I just wish the Payday 2 community could just suck it up and let people tinker with the fucking game.
Side note to modders: You guys gotta stop calling shit impossible. Seriously, it’s annoying because if it were impossible than the game wouldn’t fucking exist.
tl;dr The Payday 2 community pisses me off and prevents wonderful new mods that could exist within the game.