Hoxton sinking back into his paranoia after he meets up with Shade. He'd been betrayed, ratted out before - it cost him 2 years of his life and freedom, and damnit history just has a way of repeating itself with him, doesn't it?
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@pd3thoughts
Hoxton sinking back into his paranoia after he meets up with Shade. He'd been betrayed, ratted out before - it cost him 2 years of his life and freedom, and damnit history just has a way of repeating itself with him, doesn't it?
If Rust comes back then things are gonna get awkward real fast
The gang looking back and forth between them: 😅
secret santa gift for @pd3thoughts! I thought about the gang taking one of those polaroid pictures with bain, where he actually makes it for christmas! I hope you like the gift! :D
THANKS
Irreplaceable
Or, Chains thinks about Houston.
(Hi @neomineom ! I was your secret Santa! Sorry for taking years, it wasn’t canon compliant so I scrapped it and restarted. Among other real life things. it was totally my fault! I hope that I got your boys right and did them justice 👀)
written for @paydaysecretsanta
// canon compliant fluff with a bit of angst :)
I am very shy di about sharing this because I desperately want to do better with my art but haven't the resiliency to deal with criticism at the moment 🤡
ANYWAY IT'S JOY FROM PAYDAY FELLAS.
3rd artpiece made with Ohuhu markers (Xmas present from my partner)
I might add a background? Idk? Idk.
I guess SINS has all the data of the Payday gang members? Luckily I recorded about Sokol one. I want to collect all of the dialogues but the stupid server won't help me
Anyways, since I'm rambling payday 3, some thoughts.
Does anyone else feel like Payday 3, in terms of replay value, is EXACTLY the game people who don't understand Payday 2 think Payday 2 was?
Because I remember the naive opinions I heard when Rock city or whatever came out from youtubers who never played Payday.
I remember hearing repeatedly "The game is repetitious, but I guess Payday fans who replay the same missions over and over and over again won't mind" because these dolts don't understand the randomization / pre-planning / alternate conditions etc that added together to give Payday 2 INSANE replay value on nearly every heist BEFORE you consider the decade of content shoved into that game or the plethora of ways you could build your character to play.
Anyways, playing a good amount of Payday 3 feels like playing the "assumption" version of Payday 2 those youtubers spoke into existence.
There's nothing meaningful that changes on repeat plays- and this feels minorly exasperated by the fact you can't get new seeds unless you quit to the main menu entirely. And majorly exasperated by how gutted pre-planning is with all the insane combinations and alternative heist experiences of Payday 2's system cut to shreds and replaced with.... do you want a shitty alternative entrance? How about a keycard? What about a dumpster to loot into? Pick ONE.
Funny fact on that- why the FUCK can a solo player only pick one? You SHREDDED fucking pre-planning to the most soulless shitty thing it could possibly be- and then punished solo players with the new system too???? why??? Fuck off
Also god fucking damn it do I miss multi-day heists.
Pre-release I said I wanted more "small scale" heists like 4 stores and I was not gifted a single interesting mission like that one (Give me my silly shoplifting missions!!)
And I said I wanted them to further explore multi-day heists that divert based on your actions- like fucking up the election heist and having to "fake" a bank robbery- that's an entire heist track a ton of people never experienced!!!!!!! THAT FORMULA RULES!!!!
WHERE IS IT~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There are a ton of problems with this fucking game, there really are.
Progression is shit on MULTIPLE levels
Weapon xp is tied to mission objectives and not anything to do with using the weapon???
XP is 90% weighted towards challenges which are not interesting in the slightest- with highlights like "Do each heist 150 times, kill 1000 enemies with every weapon, and slide 5000 meters (all 3 of these are real and for every weapon and heist btw)" WHERE IS THE CREATIVITY OF THE PAYDAY 2 ACHIEVEMENTS??>????
IF YOU WANT TO UNLOCK ALL THE SKILLS TO ACTUALLY MAKE A FUCKING BUILD YOU WILL SPEND YOUR FIRST 50 INFAMY LEVELS JUST RUNNING A SKILL POINT IN EVERY SKILL TREE- MEANING YOU WILL HAVE NO BUILD AND NO IDENTITY BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO GET XP FILLED OUT SO YOU HAVE ACCESS TO THE ENTIRE LIST OF SKILLS. WTF IS THAT STUPID NONSENSE.
Also, the feedback loop of this game is non-existent. You do things over here to get progress over there, you play your heart out and get pennies, you fumble with your belt buckle and level up 9 times and unlock 50 challenges. The game has like no weight to what you're doing and "trying" to progress feels... bad!
Like, you figure it out, sure, but the feedback of "do thing get reward" is just fucking JANK!! The fact the fastest way to level weapons is to speedrun heists ASAP because objectives > everything else is ????? what????
The fastest way to level up your infamy is to camp in a corner spamming deployables and kill grinding???? what????? Not weapon xp???
Hell, what else. C-stacks are bugged to fuck in the most mind-boggling way- the way in question is that they Don't List The Correct Price for some fucking reason.
$1,800,000 for 10 C-stacks is actually $2,700,000. Why? Because managing a simple table of data is really hard :(
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
Cosmetics are fucking dog shit across the board- the first paid DLC has some cool stuff coming that was sourced from amazing fan-artists who have been commissioned to help (what a surprise! The talent is coming from OUR side of the table!)
Builds in 3 can be fun! But are not in any way interesting. Like, that's maybe the worst part of it. You can make something "fun" but it's also just.... soulless more often than not. A shotgun build. A throw build. A rifle headshot build. A hipfire build.
The MOST interesting builds are just "I refresh my throwables so I throw a bunch of grenades" and "I use grit and edge to become stagger immune and then hold a hostage".
And again, those can be fun, but man do the list of "interesting" options feel.... nada.
They cowered away from the wacky stuff in 2 and it "works" but where is the new identity? Where's the new "payday"?
I'm being bitchy but look at this rant, I have things to bitch over and plenty more than what comes to mind here.
And all that comes to make the game mid! Just! Mid!
I WANT it to be great as fuck and I don't know if it can when the foundation is so... this! Add pre-planning, expand heist variety IN THEMSELVES (ONE HEIST DOING MORE THINGS ON DIFFERENT RUNS), Multi-days, skills, fucking anything man just give this damn game a chance but hey
that's the operative word ain't it.
There's a chance it's great in a bit of time.
I hope so.
At least Payday 2 is right there still.
Yeah and don’t even get me STARTED on crossplay. It’s basically non functional! I like how the characters interact with each other and I like the way there’s a coherent story, but there’s nothing to replace the charm that PAYDAY 2 had. That, and it’s pretty unforgiving. Shade doesn’t tell you where anything is.
I want to support these people but Deep Silver is known for ruining franchises. A lot of people are being rude about it but you said it perfectly—the game is mid. It’s great at its core, but the execution is terrible. They’ve strayed away from more sci-fi themes but there’s no meat! There’s just no meat!
You could say that the change in Mission Control is the reason why everything is serious instead of goofy, but now there’s no soul :(
I trust that eventually it’ll be better but it’s gonna take like. A year. It’s sad
bain, has this always been your wallpaper
Imagine the og 4 walking into the new Cook Off and the chemical smell bringing back memories of a simpler time
The First Annual Payday 3 Secret Santa is Open!
Welcome to the first annual Payday 3 Secret Santa heisters. There's been a minor change as we have a new game but I have decided that not just Payday 3 applies here. All heisters from prior Payday games are allowed as character inspo as we all know and love them and who could really let them go? But I wanted to include the newbie Pearl, don't haze her too hard guys.
I cannot update the carrd currently, but will post it and put it in our description as soon as possible.
Click here to join!
Happy Heisting! 😎
If the FBI has the gang’s actual likenesses then why haven’t their faces been shown to the general public?
Dallas kept the mask he had in PAYDAY 2…
But he ends up getting a new one in PAYDAY 3. During the assassination attempt, Dallas lost the mask that Bain handmade for him. He’s lost everything.
Gonna write something about this… hehe hoo hoo
Chains is so funny actually
Shade actually on McDonald’s wifi as the gang runs around trying to get a better signal
A very lonely Dallas
Fun fact: Bain wanted them to get out of heisting and be free so his death is in vain either way
Dallas kept the mask he had in PAYDAY 2…
But he ends up getting a new one in PAYDAY 3. During the assassination attempt, Dallas lost the mask that Bain handmade for him. He’s lost everything.