Makes me so happy to see how far you've come, despite the hardships. And as always, I'll be there through whatever you decide comes next. Stay safe, and enjoy the future.
Dolphin HQ oh my god I felt so stupid the other day when I installed it again and discovered that and that you can order them to stay still at choke points lmfao. I wrote this defending Horton because bots op
@@Punched0 I hear ya - I wouldn't have found Civvie or TehSnakerer or even Sseth if it wasn't for the algorithm. That's right - nerds - the RUclips algorithm fucking recommended SSETCHTZEENTACH to me. I don't know what it's like for people who bitch about it - do you get recommended nothing but instructional trumpet videos or something? I've always gotten things related to what I view.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Yeah honestly it's always recommended me good vids, a lot of my favourite channels I found through recommendations. I think it's just an overstated meme to rag on the youtube algorithm. It has it's problems but they mainly concern content creators that heavily rely on the algorithm for income. For viewers it works pretty well at least in my experience.
I know! I started playing on a free weekend just before that heist dropped and when putting together this video, I had a nearly minute-long pause just to consider I've almost been playing this game for half a decade.
That's fair, that and the Linux port. Totally forgot about the latter, a few of the mods on Connor Shaw's Discord asked me about it and I had totally blanked that that was even a thing! Thanks for watching, man!
Tbh i got tired of payday 2 and i went to rainbow six seige. The game for competitive and i loved it but a year later i clicked on payday 2 and it warmed my heart. Seeing enemies fly and the music was just great. Payday 2 will always be with us in our heart.
I’m haven’t played payday2 but I hope it gets its own version of what happened to Minecraft in 2019 when the game exploded in popularity again due to nostalgia, memes and a increase in good updates.
@@h4melp612 thats how payday works i did use a potato laptop and it worked perfectly somehow but now im using a good gaming pc and it crashes every seconds
PAYDAY 2 means a lot to me. I remember following it religiously with two friends and we played it so, so many times. It gave me a sense of teamwork and power that nothing can really match. I stuck around even with the whole microtransactions and H3H3 dlc. Once I started college though, I moved on from those friends, and we had a falling out. According to steam, last time I played was back in June, 2019. Watching this video reminded me of so many great experiences. Great laughs, many screams at running Cloakers, and goosebumps from getting insane amounts of money after a long, tough heist; or even just their spectacle. PAYDAY 2 never felt like a simple multiplayer shooter to me. This was always a hack and slash, Dynasty Warriors type of game, but with guns. The powertrips this game delivered to me is only comparable to DOOM. This video reminded me of how much fun PAYDAY 2 is to me, and will always be. I want to play it again - at least just one more time. Thank you.
Maaaan same experience here. I played PD2 back in 2017 when it was at its peak ave around 50k players/day got introduced to it by friends. We're always in OVK/Mayhem difficulty. Fun memories. We all moved on from it though, not necessarily a fallout but we rarely talk anymore. then some years after. i bought that Full Bundled DLCs even though i dont play the game nomore. Just cause the game holds alot of fun memories. BUUUT then recently.. 2022 babyy got back to the game lmao installed it again cuz one time i was bored. Maaaan tons of changes since i last played it!! Im now surviving in DW. Its my main difficulty rn. DSOD is still a PITA. I got addicted again because of MODDING. lol mods are now the biggest reason im still on it rn
Overkill was raided by the police. Talk about irony. Edit: Yah, been hearing that it's actually Starbreeze or some other party that helped make Payday 2, either way, still pretty ironic.
@@dhavalrana5902Someone inside the company sold a higher than normal amount of shares just before they publically declared bankruptcy which is a high indication of insider trading.
It’s a similar feeling to arma ... warthunder ... first few cods ... first halo ... divinity ... ect ect just a such unique experience it will live on forever as one of the best fuck it ima drop over 200hours just to do it games
It is dead. Tons of dlcs, bad graphics, unbalanced gameplay, destroyed lvling system, optimization problems, no anti-cheat(it gives you cheater tag mostly for dlc unlocker), ruined lore and story, 2017 giveaway, which downgraded community and made the game unplayable on pubs.
I think you were really brave to come out about your attempt, I'm glad you're okay now. I've loved your Payday content. Personally, I thought your content was up there with GeneralMcBadass and Connor Shaw, really solid quality
I thought this video was short but noticed the time length and was gonna ditch. I got hooked before I managed to leave and instead watched the whole video
It’s sad to see people putting the game behind them but it’s understandable why. I’ll just keep on drawing the screaming Aussie with blue hair since it’s what I love
@Lunova i kinda see what you are getting at but honestly the ultimate edition is pretty cheap these days which gives you all the content ever made apart from the H3H3 pack and payday 2 can be enjoyed as a run and gun but the stealth isnt pushed to the side. Most missions can be (and a few HAVE to be) stealthed and are fun to do multiple times. its worth a purchase on its loud style alone especially now with all the different heists guns and other stuff
@Lunova yeah hitman is more fleshed out in its stealth aspects but paydays no slouch in variety. heists offer alot of varieties in approach between the loud stealth aspect and speaking from personal experience the maps don't feel cranked out, theres alot of thought put into them that give a good challenge on both loud and stealth along with all the different builds it gives alot of replay value. to the game. despite its pretty weak visuals i really do recommend buying it, payday has been one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had.
This was such a trip down memory lane for me. I backed out of pay day 2 when they added the drills and safes. But listening to you talk about this brought back so many fun memories for me. This was a fantastic video and was easily able to listen to all of this from start to finish without needing to break it up.
I hear you, I would occasionally get the random safes in the card-drops, but it's a co-op game so some O.P. equipment is not nearly as game-breaking as a PvP-centered game. Don't get me wrong, microtransactions are an absolute disgrace, but I bought a huge, heavily discounted bundle in like 2017 so it was not really an issue for me and there was so much content, charactees and equipment that things that remained locked were not a deal-breaker. It was frankly classy of OK to allow participation in heists that you didn't own and I didn't understand what was going on with that for awhile, cause I just jumped in and played and didn't even understand what content came with my bundle and what didn't.
This is such a beautifully constructed video. You have really gone into every detail about the games lifespan and the ending bit, about your personal life, really got to me. It's nice to see that you had fun with the game while it lasted and can part with a smile. I have stuck 2000+ hours into this game and got every single achievement, litterally grinding for them. At this point I too am done with this game, searching for new interests and a good chunk of the community probably does aswell. I really look forward to your future endeavors and the content you put out. Stay strong!
"Everyone who wanted a copy of Payday 2 already had one" I don't , just recently find out about the game having Hotline Miami collabs , so waiting on that steam sale EDIT : I got the game couple of months ago , funny they also started updating again with new DLCs
the yakuza perk deck is quite good for stealthing, molotov yourself at the start of a heist and you are practically sprinting even with gold or weapons
I honestly did not expect you to talk about yourself near the end. This got me hooked up immediately again and wanted to hear what you had to say instead of just closing the video. It ended on a note that really makes this one hour and a half work stand out more than it already did. Congratulations and good luck with your next projects.
"This is Our Time" fit so well for the ending of this amazing video: "I'm back and I'm even better!" Great coverage of a game's lifespan that I also invested many hours of my life into! Keep up with the good content as you move along new paths!
This video hit me hard and left me with more thought and feeling than most movies have ever been able to do. I can't really describe it but I can say that it was a rollercoaster of emotions, however there is probably a better, less generic expression. When I think back to what I just watched, I can't really put it into a sentence that does the experience justice. And I can say that I'm getting that weird feel that happens when you realize that you have to let go of something. And that is just talking about the game, but this video tackled more than just the game and It's history, infact I sometimes forgot that this video was suppose to be about a shooter game at all. So much of what you said are things that I've been thinking about for some time and It sure feelt strange. I know that I am making a big deal out of this but Payday 2 along with a few other games, have been a large part of my life. It might not have prevented me from any potential suicide however you could say that it served a similar (if maybe less imactful) purpose. I apologize for the wall of text and any poor grammar as English is not my native language, It was originally just going to be a "Great Video!" sort of comment but I ended up here and I just started writing down what came to my mind. I guess all I can to finally finish this comment is: Great Video!
23:23 The funny thing is I watched his performance in The Dentist trailers before Breaking Bad, but I have to say hes really good at playing a two-faced ultra mega rich crimeboss.
Giancarlo Esposito finally escaped being typecast as "That camp counselor character in a single episode of Sesame Street" to do this with his life and honestly it's a power move I'm 100% here for.
I can relate to your story man, Payday 2 also came up at a time in my life while I was down and I just love the game to pieces and I don’t regret a single minute I played, thank you Payday 2.
Wow. I started watching this video a few hours ago after waking up and deciding to watch some youtube. I understand it's coming on almost a year old, but can I just say again, wow. Everything in this video is perfect. The topics covered, the explanation, telling users to hold things in their mind and actually discussing those topics, it's amazing. I watched the whole thing like I was paralyzed, stuck watching every bit. The ending almost made me cry, if I'm being entirely honest. I tried taking my life as well, and hearing that someone got into Payday 2 for the same sort of reason was a hit a place so close to home that I didn't know I had. I had a borderline obsession with Payday 2, from watching videos about it constantly, to having Shadow Raid (My personal favorite raid despite how terrible it is in most regards) down to muscle memory, and printing maps of different heists and pinning them to my wall. This video is a gift, and though I haven't ever found your channel before that I remember, I'll subscribe even just for this. Thank you so much for this, and I hope that on the anniversary of this video, you can look back on 6.5k subscribers and realize you've already doubled that.
its so fun watching this and remembering how instead of following the meta I made my own, while everyone was running pistols I used Sokols gun, and while the crossbow was golden I ran with the Cavity 9 just tapping away
Bit of an older video that the Algorithm suggested to me, glad I watched it. The wrap up at the end talking about your channel struck a chord with me on a personal level. I've never heard of you before bingeing old General McBadass Payday 2 videos and trolling the comments, and even then I only saw what could be compared to whispers to your name. I look forward to seeing where you go in the future. ;
Thank you for the amazing video, I used it mostly as a history lesson when it comes to the game, but the clear emotion and occaisonal joke made it very enjoyable and easy to watch all the way through. On another note, after browsing through a good deal of comments and re-watching the video, I figured I'd add onto the pile of crossovers this game has done and bring up the Enter the Gungeon crossover. While the content that Enter the Gungeon got was much more substantial than the four badly modeled masks Payday 2 got, I hold both games close to my heart, so to see it left out did hurt me a bit. Also, props to you for still replying to comments on a video that is almost a year old. Thanks for making a great video!
Thank you for the video. Great history of Payday 2, and thank you for talking about the console players; as I am one of them. It's so hard to keep investing time into a game when you don't know when your next update is coming. Maybe a year, maybe 18 months. I've been a Payday 2 player since PS3 and then when they stopped supporting it and it was coming to PS4, I upgraded to PS4 for it. Game still has it's bugs and my files have been corrupted and I've lost my progress before. The grind back to XXV-100 is so hard when you've been playing maxed out for so long. Thanks again for the video!
I had been lurkin on this channel for a while now, looking thru the older two builds series because me and my friends started playing payday agian and all that lead me here. I didn't really care much to subscribe as i knew your payday content was ending but this video made me realize that you're actually a pretty cool dude. I have now subscribed and will stick around.
I just randomly came across this and didn't really think much about it. Decided to watch despite the length and my, by this point, faded interest on payday 2 and my god. What a trip this was. I kind of felt more sad after each chapter and just realized how much this game, the community and the developers have gone through. And how it ended on such a sad and tragic note. I sincerely wish you the best with your channel and thank you for opening my eyes to this amazing look back at a crazy story that has shaped my life more than I ever thought it did.
Thank you for being SO incredibly comprehensive. As someone who has only recently decided to play Payday 2, just to experience it, it is amazing to see it's long and storied history. So thank you for making this video, even though it was 2 years ago. Also I hope things have improved for you over the years, sincerely.
Looking back, I loved the wild twists and turns are what I liked most about the game. It was wild to see this company that was once competing with GTA Online's heist missions fumble its way into commissioning SFM animators to make trailers because they couldn't afford a proper animation team. I can simply not look at this game anymore without thinking about how badly Bo screwed up Starbreeze on a pursuit to become the household name in commercial VR ventures and the deep scars its left on the community, game, and industry. Those are the things that I think would be easy to miss for whatever people are still coming into this game fresh; it's an older FPS but still gets occasional DLC, but once it was pretty much on top of the world and earned that spot, and it's a very specific string of interconnected actions and products that brought the whole thing crashing down.
"The white house heist has only been beat by 2% of all players -" *goes to get water,forgets to pause* "In 2015 I attempted suicide" Nice video man I hope you have gotten better.
Don't give this pathetic loser the attention. I guarantee his "suicide attempt" was taking 2 aspirins 10 minutes before his Mom came home from work. Then again that would still be to dangerous for him as he could have an allergic reaction. Probably just left an empty Tylenol bottle on the floor and took a nap.
@@Khoros-Mythos THANKYOU i was so fucking confused as to how his fucking suicide attempt had any relation to a video about payday 2. Other than that though i liked it
@Khoros Mythos - It was a gun to my head after a hell of a lot changed in my life in a very short timespan. I was up from 5:00 AM to 1:00 AM commuting, going to class, commuting to work, and working, only months out of high school, and had fallen out of touch with my friends at the time, I felt alone in a way I hadn't ever in my life and at the time I was literal seconds away from accepting that death was a better alternative to trying to work things out, because I didn't think things would get better. @Zachary Hodges - The point made at the end of the video was I was looking for a means to distract myself from the massive aforementioned life changes and making videos on this game was the one I had enjoyed the most and I was looking forward to trying new things with the channel, with this being the end of my time covering PD2. This was as much of a personal journey as it was a journey of the game's development and I wanted to talk about why I even started making videos on the game to begin with and also come clean about my own mental health struggles as I had only alluded to them in the past and never told anyone but Dan about my suicide attempt.
When I was trying to sell payday 1 to my friends so we could play together, they asked; "what's the game about?" I responded with, it's L4d, but the infected are cops, there are special enemies, and you need to heist places. I managed to get 7 people to buy it with that line XD
I stayed up until 2 in the morning watching this after saying I was going to go to bed, I figured there was no way I would make it through the whole video. I stayed up for the whole thing and enjoyed every second of it. Thank you for taking the time to make this and giving me an enjoyable hour and a half.
Glad to hear! In the two years since I ended covering this game, I've done a number of other reviews and video essays, most notably a thematic analysis of the Fallout series similar in size and scope to this one.
Subscribed to your channel because i kind of got bored with pd2 and was loking for new builds and stuff, but wow i didn't expected this kind of video. I know now that i'm definetly gonna keep being a subscriber :D
Gotta admit I almost didn't dive into this. But I am glad I did with how well made and researched this video is. I'm glad you're still around, and would really love to see videos about other games in this format.
that was a great video with a good ending, thank you for what you've done. i've recently picked up the game towards the end (hopefully) of quarantine. It was nice to here about the past of the game. I wish you luck with your future.
Great video, watched the whole thing and i think pretty much all your points landed. Ill still personally keep coming back to this game. Theres something about it that almost makes it relaxing. It definitely has its problems but i still loved this game to death.
I remember the first time I saw anything of Payday 2, it was at a sleepover at a friend's. He had a desktop background that probably was one of those promotional pictures from way back when. I remember I was scared, maybe a little disgusted, because "scary clown masks" and whatnot. I think I ended up buying Payday at a later time, probably through a steam sale. Back when Old Hox was still Hoxton, before all the Gage stuff happened. Played for like 2 hours maybe, as you do solo. Then I moved on to Folk Highschool, it's like a one-year private school course here in Norway, with more subject availability than I dare count. I attended Game Design. Not that I used that for anything, but we were 5-6 people who owned the game. "Hey dude, you wanna play Payday?" Most Fun Of My Life We were doing everything we could, countless tries on Shadow Raid (where most of them were fails), Go Bank for cash, I ended up grinding Jewelery Store solo for quick easy monies, we did so many runs of Hotline Miami I'm getting headaches just thinking of it! And the Dentist. Ooooh boy, we were wild. After that however, we all more or less left the game, doing a heist every now and then. I don't think I've even got Payday 2 installed on my PC anymore (I don't, just checked Steam). The Criminal Network, who were the Payday 2 streamer group I used to hang out with, quit the game. Everyone I knew left. Haven't touched the game in years probably. Big epic storylines that tie in old-gods, the creation of Humanity and whatnot are really cool! But not when your primary goal is robbing banks and stealing diamonds. The game went from being a cozy by-the-fire-with-your-friends mood to grandiose battles with stories of yore, but you're still just sitting by a fire trying to be cozy with your 3 other friends. Payday 2 has changed my life (for good, fortunately), I won't say otherwise. I've met people I'd never meet otherwise, I've bonded with people who are completely different from me. And hearing you talk about your history, your journey through Payday 2, has been good. I'm glad RUclips showed me this video. Thank you. On another note, I hear OVK are working on Payday 3. It's gonna be made in Unreal, if I'm not entirely mistaken. Hopefully it will be able to take up the mantle of Payday 2's glory days.
Unbelievable video. I played Payday 2 only for a month or two seriously, but this video basically covers everything I missed. Glad to see the effort you put into this. Even if I didn't get to experience it, your storytelling made it feel like I was there right along with you each year as new content came out. Good job!
dude, this video is so close to my heart after one viewing. my dude, if you ever need help, reach out to anyone, and bringing the change of your channel like this, stunning man
Even with all its flaws, Payday 2 still is one my favorite games ever. Thank you for this amazing video, talking about all of its life, achievements and mistakes. Much love to you, my friend. Peace.
Absolutely amazing content you put out and we will always be here. Payday always has and will be a game that we will remember in a good light. Yeah it had it's ups and downs and now it's come to it's end because all good things have to have an ending. I'm glad to have shared these experiences with you and hope to see more content that you enjoy working on. Love you man x EDIT: the ending hit me in the feels hard 😅. What you do is truly amazing thank you so much xx
Wow, Honestly an amazing video. I've been with payday 2 for a long long time and stuck with it through all of its years and this video feels like one great recap of it all. all those years of playing this game come to an end. like high school graduation, bittersweet, but in the end the best way to say goodbye to what once took so many hours of my life, all wrapt up in one to two hours.
I watched the ENTIRE video. This was quite the trip down memory lane to my days on xbox 360 in 2014, solo stealthing firestarter, even day 1. Great video man. I just started playing Payday again after a 3 year hiatus, and I have to say, I'm having fun with it again.
13:20 "This is the sound of popping open the game and not the sound of my inhaler's cap, no sir." -A guy who clearly doesn't know the suffering he caused by having the message be in so little many frames.
this is one of the few videos that have been this long that i have had the interest to watch. i’m glad you are feeling better. thanks for the great videos
2013 eh, feels like i have been playing this game for 10-20 years... well made video, you sure got it right payday 2 wasnt just "ups" but wasnt just "downs" either. One thing is sure it was quite a ride and i think i'll remember it for a long time to come.
Just damn. I can't get over the fact you made a 1 and half hour video constantly interesting. I'll stay around because you have talent. Love from germany! (Also that last part made me sad and happy)
I had something to say around 40:42 but I decided to hold it until I was done watching the whole video, and I'm glad I did. I must say, it's impressive how personal of a project this was for you, and how it's affected your life, and I'm honestly happy that you're continuing on and experimenting with other things. It takes a lot of strength to move on, but it's always worth it, and what's life without changes? Getting into it, I'm thoroughly entertained by how you presented the game's history in short form, especially as someone who experienced much of it firsthand. I remember Crimefest 2015 vividly, and the effect it had on me personally, as I was the guy who packaged update 78 and distributed it in protest to the microtransactions at the time. I remember seeing the steam group hit over 1000 members and seeing people backport some of the features (such as the loud/quiet filter and the ability for AI to revive players). Unfortunately in the end, all the effort was wasted, and people moved on, as I moved on from the game myself with too sour of a taste in my mouth. I'm glad I did that back then, as it showed me how fickle the community could be, as I'm sure any PD2 veteran probably knows very well. It hurt a lot to see a game I loved so much and put so much time and money into just crumble in front of me. I didn't play it again for well over a year, after many of the ongoing balance changes and the removal of future paid drills. It felt good to come back to a game after seeing the devs have tried to make it up to the community for so long. Sure, it might have been mostly a PR move, but seeing as they kept it up for the rest of the game's life, I'd say it was sufficient. The fact that they tied everything together at the end with such a weird and fantasy-based twist only contributed to the game's wacky and unrealistic feel for me. In short, I can say that I feel much the same way as you about the game. It's been an emotional few years full of ups and downs, and constant meta and balance changes that didn't make a lot of sense a lot of the time. Overall I'm glad the game exists and is a thing that's filled so many of my hours and continues to bring me back from time to time. I feel that it's going to keep doing that for many years with all the odd achievements and goals and challenges I still have yet to conquer in it. You've earned yourself a new subscriber for how much time and thought you put into summing up one of my favorite sagas to date. P.S. nice ace flag, from a fellow proud ace, happy pride month 💚
I didn't expect to have my face covered in tears over a video about Payday 2. I really appreciate the openness near the end. I went through something similar, but my muse to keep me kicking was writing, and animating. I hope that you're doing well after all the time this video has been out, I hope you're as happy as could ever be.
Wait you’re telling me we could’ve had another cool female heisted before joy. With a cool mask as well... and we got someone with the face of a statue!!!!!!
Holy hell was this an amazing video. I’ve seen many videos discussing PAYDAY 2, but this was not only the most substantial I’ve ever watched, but probably one of the most informative, witty, and downright pleasant videos I’ve been recommended in awhile. You gained a sub from me today, and I’m super excited to see where your content’ll go going forward!
Honestly, I've never heard of you or your channel until today but part of me has always felt an attachment to Payday ever since I watched my first Connor Shaw video and then I started watching all of the character trailers, watching Attorney General McBadass cure the cancerous conga-lines of cops that polluted many of Payday's heists, and eventually found myself watching from the sidelines as the crew's twilight hours came and went but all of those little moments of joy I felt in learning about this game and its community have been fun. But, like you said, Payday is daunting beast that poises itself to only be tamed by the most dedicated players, something I could never claim to be by any means. I played a few hours of Payday around the holidays of 2018 in hopes of playing the new Icebreaker Auction heist because the atmosphere of the heist drew me in, but I also had a preoccupation with getting myself up to speed with everything I'd need to succeed as a heister with hopes of flooding my offshore accounts with green but I quickly found my limits in the boundaries of my machine. Maybe a sign of my own technological limits, but Payday is legitimately a large investment of time, energy, and resources just to gain a bit of insight into how it works and I've often found myself being more liability than asset on my crew. So Payday has always been this illusive game with all the charm of a Deadpool comic, rich with pop culture references and humorous in-jokes that border on the juvenile but it was always endearing and to the point with a staggering amount of variety. So in some ways, seeing it come to an end is bittersweet for me like it has been for many members of the community. Unlike Valve titles which live and die by a devoted community that they don't deserve even to this day, Payday, Starbreeze, and Overkill seemed to be shooting stars with bold ideas and big plans but often were overambitious and laid the groundwork for tomorrow without much consideration of the problems of today. Growing too big, too fast, and bleeding value talent to keep the course. In some ways, I think Payday could've continued for many years to come and it still may have life yet but much of Payday's appeal may be lost after years of unattendance. Or its heists will live on for years being quietly grinded by a dedicated few and the occassional new face hoping to join in what once was a proud gaming tradition. All that's for certain is that it's time for a new hope and hopefully, in time, we'll see the vision Payday was intended to be fulfilled. But until then, I expect the same from you.
Honestly this was a beautiful review of a game and its WAY more than I expected. You covered not only what the game was (over the years and in a whole) but you covered WHY the game has become it and the why the game is what it is as a whole. I can truly tell you had a deep enjoyment for this game. I could not only find myself to remember the good old days of PayDay and PayDay 2 but found myself connected with you as a person... which is so weird because I just now found your channel and know nothing about your channel or you as a person. Thank you for the nostalgia trip and I'm sorry to hear about you emotional state. I wish the best for you and your channel and thank you for the content!!!!
15:32 "The Bulldozer becoming a relatively easy to defeat enemy unit..." as he dies to it in 15:46 hahaha lmao. Nice video tho(only went 1:11:00 in tho =p)
That's fair. Also, that bit was mostly because I was playing a Mayhem bank heist with just the AMCAR/Chimano and no skills; I had made it a point to grab footage of a level 0 bank heist but couldn't bring myself to reset either my main account or the side account where I filmed the Starter Guide, and my first heist for the Starter Guide was an Overkill Ukranian Job so I could level up quickly, so I had no footage of just the regular bank heist with the default weapons. I probably should have invested in skills, so that's a mistake on my part thinking I could manage that easier.
The game honestly feels like it stopped getting proper updates in 2016 and has like an extra two and a half years of fan mods stapled to it with its hit-and-miss level design and haphazard quality control.
This is my first video from you, and you spoke directly to me. I played the first Payday for hours with my friends and its easy to see why everything fell off once we moved over to Payday 2. I'm definitely going to come around here more often. Thank you for this.
Wow. The only reason I'm not finishing this right at this second is it's 2:02 AM and I have to be up early to go see a movie tommorow. Good god, you did a fantastic job on this.
I joined in right before Big Bank. A guy by the name of Veggie was the one who got me into the game and it's community. I've logged just about 900 hours and despite all of its ups and downs, I don't regret a single one playing Payday 2. I'm actually just starting to get back into the game. I got my friends into it and we're hoping to get all the achievements. That all said, thank you for this incredibly detailed video. You took me through memory lane and left me with a better understanding of a game that I'll always remember.
As someone who was a "whale" buying just about every DLC, I never really fully understood perk decks and fully checked out after Safegate, I thank you for this nostalgic mix of joy and pain. Payday 2 Classic needs to exist, I honestly don't think I could boot up and play a mission I used to have memorized without gimping all my teammates today.
Makes me so happy to see how far you've come, despite the hardships. And as always, I'll be there through whatever you decide comes next. Stay safe, and enjoy the future.
Thank you for everything (including the thumbnail art!), Dan.
Good stuff, keep in touch if you need anything
19:54 ya but to be fair tokyo necro was literally a visual novel basicly full text based so even using an old engine works
You were so good I didn't even realize it was an hour long
@@E3kHatena mate I have also attempted suicide multiple times before so it's good that you found something unlike me
After years of playing PayDay 2, I found out that if you throw a bag at an A.I. Teammate, they carry it
First I've heard of this. PC, Console, or Both?
@@streetsweeper8592 i can say it's true for pc since i got back into the game 2days ago and found out about it too
They updated the AI at one point and it was one of its elements
@@streetsweeper8592 Sorry for the late response. I think its for both because im on PS4 and Im pretty sure you can do it on pc
Dolphin HQ oh my god I felt so stupid the other day when I installed it again and discovered that and that you can order them to stay still at choke points lmfao. I wrote this defending Horton because bots op
“Let’s talk about payday 2.”
“Left 4 dead was a cooperative first person shooter-“
Bruh
you arent very bright are you?
@@ropuchamexicka5358 r/youmissedthejoke
@@zekillaclimastic😂😂😂
One of the few times the YT algorithm struck gold. Thank you for this well written video.
i don't get these comments the algorithm for me atleast has always been pretty good
no
@@Punched0 your account must be blessed or something
@@Punched0 I hear ya - I wouldn't have found Civvie or TehSnakerer or even Sseth if it wasn't for the algorithm. That's right - nerds - the RUclips algorithm fucking recommended SSETCHTZEENTACH to me. I don't know what it's like for people who bitch about it - do you get recommended nothing but instructional trumpet videos or something? I've always gotten things related to what I view.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 Yeah honestly it's always recommended me good vids, a lot of my favourite channels I found through recommendations. I think it's just an overstated meme to rag on the youtube algorithm. It has it's problems but they mainly concern content creators that heavily rely on the algorithm for income. For viewers it works pretty well at least in my experience.
This video is fine...
But did you know Sydney's hair is not naturally blue?
Oh h*ck, damn
ITS DYED,WE F*CKING GET IT OVERKILL!
the shit you learn
@Arcrombie Nah thats Bonnie
The Shining Steak You fools, Dragan is the real snacc
WAIT HOXTON BREAKOUT WAS IN 2014?!
Holy shit where did the time go? I can't believe it's been that long!
I know! I started playing on a free weekend just before that heist dropped and when putting together this video, I had a nearly minute-long pause just to consider I've almost been playing this game for half a decade.
Honestly i remember it being 2016, lord its been a long time
just started playing the game back in 2020 and still think hoxton breakout came out like 2 years ago
Not a single mention of the menu update that never came out? I guess everyone forgot about it, including Ovk
That's fair, that and the Linux port. Totally forgot about the latter, a few of the mods on Connor Shaw's Discord asked me about it and I had totally blanked that that was even a thing! Thanks for watching, man!
I don't have a problem with the menu, are there things not as good as it should?
I think what he meant was there was supposed to be an update but it never was released
@@sn31t33 there was gonna be a menu update like panoramic for CSGO
Tbh i got tired of payday 2 and i went to rainbow six seige. The game for competitive and i loved it but a year later i clicked on payday 2 and it warmed my heart. Seeing enemies fly and the music was just great. Payday 2 will always be with us in our heart.
Dude that's exactly the same scenario I went through.
@MoistNugget SAME WTF
Same but didnt really get tired of it, got into the pro scene of r6, was incredible. both games are so close to being my favourite.
R6 community sucks and I've already stopped playing it and now i'm rusty :(
I’m haven’t played payday2 but I hope it gets its own version of what happened to Minecraft in 2019 when the game exploded in popularity again due to nostalgia, memes and a increase in good updates.
2013 payday : crashes every min
2019 payday : crashes every second
PROGRESS
i do not understand how payday is crashing for people yet im sitting here with my crappy laptop and it runs fine
@@h4melp612 thats how payday works i did use a potato laptop and it worked perfectly somehow but now im using a good gaming pc and it crashes every seconds
@@pijfioJEFIPJFij im pretty sure thats how it works the beeter ur pc the more it crashes
huh, thats odd
im on a gtx 1080, i7 6700k system and it never crashes, even in vr mode
PAYDAY 2 means a lot to me. I remember following it religiously with two friends and we played it so, so many times. It gave me a sense of teamwork and power that nothing can really match. I stuck around even with the whole microtransactions and H3H3 dlc. Once I started college though, I moved on from those friends, and we had a falling out. According to steam, last time I played was back in June, 2019.
Watching this video reminded me of so many great experiences. Great laughs, many screams at running Cloakers, and goosebumps from getting insane amounts of money after a long, tough heist; or even just their spectacle. PAYDAY 2 never felt like a simple multiplayer shooter to me. This was always a hack and slash, Dynasty Warriors type of game, but with guns. The powertrips this game delivered to me is only comparable to DOOM.
This video reminded me of how much fun PAYDAY 2 is to me, and will always be.
I want to play it again - at least just one more time. Thank you.
damn got me tearing up
same here man
I would say welcome to payday, but it’s clear you’ve played your share of long hours.
Maaaan same experience here. I played PD2 back in 2017 when it was at its peak ave around 50k players/day got introduced to it by friends. We're always in OVK/Mayhem difficulty. Fun memories. We all moved on from it though, not necessarily a fallout but we rarely talk anymore.
then some years after. i bought that Full Bundled DLCs even though i dont play the game nomore. Just cause the game holds alot of fun memories.
BUUUT then recently.. 2022 babyy got back to the game lmao installed it again cuz one time i was bored. Maaaan tons of changes since i last played it!! Im now surviving in DW. Its my main difficulty rn. DSOD is still a PITA. I got addicted again because of MODDING. lol mods are now the biggest reason im still on it rn
"Ulf wasn't coming back, so they took to RUclips Pooping his lines."
my fucking sides, have my subscription.
Overkill was raided by the police.
Talk about irony.
Edit: Yah, been hearing that it's actually Starbreeze or some other party that helped make Payday 2, either way, still pretty ironic.
Actually Starbreeze was, but still pretty ironic.
I haven't kept up.
Could you please inform me why they were raided?
@@dhavalrana5902 some people at the publishing company were accused of insider trading. Not sure what happened with it though
They also declared bankruptcy not long before the raid, so i assume it had some truth to it
@@dhavalrana5902Someone inside the company sold a higher than normal amount of shares just before they publically declared bankruptcy which is a high indication of insider trading.
payday gave me a vibe and feeling that i will never forget
Reminds me of the Runescape heyday.
It’s a similar feeling to arma ... warthunder ... first few cods ... first halo ... divinity ... ect ect just a such unique experience it will live on forever as one of the best fuck it ima drop over 200hours just to do it games
@@Steampunkzter 200 hours?!?!?!
You've barely scratched the surface of payday
Bloody hell this is what I call meaty content
Carlo Cousins Real meat
this is like a huge nostalgia wave... I remember being super super excited and patiently waiting for each of the Dentist heists
hi
Dentists heists>> anyone else
The game really isn't put to rest, the game is still alive and thriving with tons of new players coming everyday, but this was a good video.
Its 2021 and ı still find new bambis with their amcar riflez
@@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES I just got the game during a sale lmao
Just got into the game a few weeks ago and im in love with it
Mods make the game worth playing
It is dead. Tons of dlcs, bad graphics, unbalanced gameplay, destroyed lvling system, optimization problems, no anti-cheat(it gives you cheater tag mostly for dlc unlocker), ruined lore and story, 2017 giveaway, which downgraded community and made the game unplayable on pubs.
I think you were really brave to come out about your attempt, I'm glad you're okay now.
I've loved your Payday content. Personally, I thought your content was up there with GeneralMcBadass and Connor Shaw, really solid quality
Making 1:30 hour video and still keeping it intresting....
Thats natural talent dude
I thought this video was short but noticed the time length and was gonna ditch. I got hooked before I managed to leave and instead watched the whole video
Wait, this video was over an hour long? Didn't even notice.
Actually, that's HARD WORK!
Unlike Sydney’a hair
You accidentally time stamped it
It’s sad to see people putting the game behind them but it’s understandable why.
I’ll just keep on drawing the screaming Aussie with blue hair since it’s what I love
Link for your art?
PauloTheKat it’s all on my channel brotendo
@Lunova i kinda see what you are getting at but honestly the ultimate edition is pretty cheap these days which gives you all the content ever made apart from the H3H3 pack and payday 2 can be enjoyed as a run and gun but the stealth isnt pushed to the side. Most missions can be (and a few HAVE to be) stealthed and are fun to do multiple times. its worth a purchase on its loud style alone especially now with all the different heists guns and other stuff
@Lunova yeah hitman is more fleshed out in its stealth aspects but paydays no slouch in variety. heists offer alot of varieties in approach between the loud stealth aspect and speaking from personal experience the maps don't feel cranked out, theres alot of thought put into them that give a good challenge on both loud and stealth along with all the different builds it gives alot of replay value. to the game. despite its pretty weak visuals i really do recommend buying it, payday has been one of the best gaming experiences ive ever had.
as soon as he mentioned sydney's fanart i immediately went looking for you in the comment section
This was such a trip down memory lane for me. I backed out of pay day 2 when they added the drills and safes. But listening to you talk about this brought back so many fun memories for me.
This was a fantastic video and was easily able to listen to all of this from start to finish without needing to break it up.
I hear you, I would occasionally get the random safes in the card-drops, but it's a co-op game so some O.P. equipment is not nearly as game-breaking as a PvP-centered game.
Don't get me wrong, microtransactions are an absolute disgrace, but I bought a huge, heavily discounted bundle in like 2017 so it was not really an issue for me and there was so much content, charactees and equipment that things that remained locked were not a deal-breaker. It was frankly classy of OK to allow participation in heists that you didn't own and I didn't understand what was going on with that for awhile, cause I just jumped in and played and didn't even understand what content came with my bundle and what didn't.
That was stunning from begining to end. I honestly havent seen a better made video about any subject
I am proud of myself, I watched the entire video in one sitting.
Also well made video.
Qwertyuiopkl556 same
im more disapointed i did xD
Same
get a hobby or a job
Real inspirational
This is such a beautifully constructed video. You have really gone into every detail about the games lifespan and the ending bit, about your personal life, really got to me. It's nice to see that you had fun with the game while it lasted and can part with a smile. I have stuck 2000+ hours into this game and got every single achievement, litterally grinding for them. At this point I too am done with this game, searching for new interests and a good chunk of the community probably does aswell.
I really look forward to your future endeavors and the content you put out. Stay strong!
"I'm a soft boy that likes hugs"
I feel that
It's videos like these that makes me happy youtubers like you exist. It took me 2 sittings but it was very fun to watch. Awesome video man.
"Everyone who wanted a copy of Payday 2 already had one"
I don't , just recently find out about the game having Hotline Miami collabs , so waiting on that steam sale
EDIT : I got the game couple of months ago , funny they also started updating again with new DLCs
it's 9.99
ultimate edition which has ALL the dlcs apart from the most recent one is around £15 on steam
I may be 10 months late but!!!! the game is on sale now (well at the time of this comment posting)
@@madwolf0966 Hahaha yeah , I already got it a few months ago , and coincidentally they also are working on new DLCs for the game
Digi Well I just got it on the recent sale for 99 cents, so maybe you should wait for a sale
Amazing video. One of the best video essays I've ever watched.
Watched through the whole video/documentary...
Would do it again
Same
Same. I already watched a 3 hour video about MGS4 6-7 times and i think this will also not be my last time here
Same
100%
this is mi third time actually
Have done it like 4 times.
"This is where I get off"
*HALFLIFE FLASHBACKS*
Also, just... Me over here still playing Payday 2. XD
(•‿•)
the yakuza perk deck is quite good for stealthing, molotov yourself at the start of a heist and you are practically sprinting even with gold or weapons
I honestly did not expect you to talk about yourself near the end. This got me hooked up immediately again and wanted to hear what you had to say instead of just closing the video. It ended on a note that really makes this one hour and a half work stand out more than it already did. Congratulations and good luck with your next projects.
18:04 The fridge will also use a lot less power, like new engines can use processing power more efficiently.
Chains' mask and wolf's were in John wick 2
The actor did not have a cameo
Wait for real?
i cant find anything on it but i hope so
@@freedom-man yeah during the 7m contract there are two posters that show wolf and chains mask
@@antares4313 cool
"This is Our Time" fit so well for the ending of this amazing video: "I'm back and I'm even better!"
Great coverage of a game's lifespan that I also invested many hours of my life into! Keep up with the good content as you move along new paths!
This video hit me hard and left me with more thought and feeling than most movies have ever been able to do. I can't really describe it but I can say that it was a rollercoaster of emotions, however there is probably a better, less generic expression.
When I think back to what I just watched, I can't really put it into a sentence that does the experience justice. And I can say that I'm getting that weird feel that happens when you realize that you have to let go of something. And that is just talking about the game, but this video tackled more than just the game and It's history, infact I sometimes forgot that this video was suppose to be about a shooter game at all. So much of what you said are things that I've been thinking about for some time and It sure feelt strange.
I know that I am making a big deal out of this but Payday 2 along with a few other games, have been a large part of my life. It might not have prevented me from any potential suicide however you could say that it served a similar (if maybe less imactful) purpose.
I apologize for the wall of text and any poor grammar as English is not my native language, It was originally just going to be a "Great Video!" sort of comment but I ended up here and I just started writing down what came to my mind. I guess all I can to finally finish this comment is:
Great Video!
23:23 The funny thing is I watched his performance in The Dentist trailers before Breaking Bad, but I have to say hes really good at playing a two-faced ultra mega rich crimeboss.
Giancarlo Esposito finally escaped being typecast as "That camp counselor character in a single episode of Sesame Street" to do this with his life and honestly it's a power move I'm 100% here for.
This video is epic, great job dude.
@CosmicGorillaBoy lol
I can relate to your story man, Payday 2 also came up at a time in my life while I was down and I just love the game to pieces and I don’t regret a single minute I played, thank you Payday 2.
Wow. I started watching this video a few hours ago after waking up and deciding to watch some youtube. I understand it's coming on almost a year old, but can I just say again, wow. Everything in this video is perfect. The topics covered, the explanation, telling users to hold things in their mind and actually discussing those topics, it's amazing. I watched the whole thing like I was paralyzed, stuck watching every bit. The ending almost made me cry, if I'm being entirely honest. I tried taking my life as well, and hearing that someone got into Payday 2 for the same sort of reason was a hit a place so close to home that I didn't know I had. I had a borderline obsession with Payday 2, from watching videos about it constantly, to having Shadow Raid (My personal favorite raid despite how terrible it is in most regards) down to muscle memory, and printing maps of different heists and pinning them to my wall. This video is a gift, and though I haven't ever found your channel before that I remember, I'll subscribe even just for this. Thank you so much for this, and I hope that on the anniversary of this video, you can look back on 6.5k subscribers and realize you've already doubled that.
Rarely do these vids that go over an hour stay interesting, but you my friend kept me going the entire time. Bravo, my guy.
be me.
watches video that lasts 1,5 hours about a game I never played
Why are you typing like an idiot?
doctor dumbass
These haters be hating on you.
John Bayani same but I downloaded it while watching lol
Nothing wrong with that. I do it all the time. Information is key
I didn't even know Payday 2 had a storyline
and I have 480 hours on that bad boy
That's reasonable. It took a few years into 2 for them to realize a story might be an interesting thing to add
Donnie Jefferson the early heists did hint at a story and a big plan that Bain had, but it seems like OVK dropped that idea for years lol
its so fun watching this and remembering how instead of following the meta I made my own, while everyone was running pistols I used Sokols gun, and while the crossbow was golden I ran with the Cavity 9 just tapping away
Bit of an older video that the Algorithm suggested to me, glad I watched it.
The wrap up at the end talking about your channel struck a chord with me on a personal level.
I've never heard of you before bingeing old General McBadass Payday 2 videos and trolling the comments, and even then I only saw what could be compared to whispers to your name.
I look forward to seeing where you go in the future.
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Thank you for the amazing video, I used it mostly as a history lesson when it comes to the game, but the clear emotion and occaisonal joke made it very enjoyable and easy to watch all the way through. On another note, after browsing through a good deal of comments and re-watching the video, I figured I'd add onto the pile of crossovers this game has done and bring up the Enter the Gungeon crossover. While the content that Enter the Gungeon got was much more substantial than the four badly modeled masks Payday 2 got, I hold both games close to my heart, so to see it left out did hurt me a bit. Also, props to you for still replying to comments on a video that is almost a year old. Thanks for making a great video!
Thank you for the video. Great history of Payday 2, and thank you for talking about the console players; as I am one of them. It's so hard to keep investing time into a game when you don't know when your next update is coming. Maybe a year, maybe 18 months. I've been a Payday 2 player since PS3 and then when they stopped supporting it and it was coming to PS4, I upgraded to PS4 for it. Game still has it's bugs and my files have been corrupted and I've lost my progress before. The grind back to XXV-100 is so hard when you've been playing maxed out for so long. Thanks again for the video!
I had been lurkin on this channel for a while now, looking thru the older two builds series because me and my friends started playing payday agian and all that lead me here. I didn't really care much to subscribe as i knew your payday content was ending but this video made me realize that you're actually a pretty cool dude. I have now subscribed and will stick around.
I just randomly came across this and didn't really think much about it. Decided to watch despite the length and my, by this point, faded interest on payday 2 and my god. What a trip this was.
I kind of felt more sad after each chapter and just realized how much this game, the community and the developers have gone through. And how it ended on such a sad and tragic note.
I sincerely wish you the best with your channel and thank you for opening my eyes to this amazing look back at a crazy story that has shaped my life more than I ever thought it did.
Thank you for being SO incredibly comprehensive. As someone who has only recently decided to play Payday 2, just to experience it, it is amazing to see it's long and storied history. So thank you for making this video, even though it was 2 years ago. Also I hope things have improved for you over the years, sincerely.
Looking back, I loved the wild twists and turns are what I liked most about the game. It was wild to see this company that was once competing with GTA Online's heist missions fumble its way into commissioning SFM animators to make trailers because they couldn't afford a proper animation team. I can simply not look at this game anymore without thinking about how badly Bo screwed up Starbreeze on a pursuit to become the household name in commercial VR ventures and the deep scars its left on the community, game, and industry. Those are the things that I think would be easy to miss for whatever people are still coming into this game fresh; it's an older FPS but still gets occasional DLC, but once it was pretty much on top of the world and earned that spot, and it's a very specific string of interconnected actions and products that brought the whole thing crashing down.
"The white house heist has only been beat by 2% of all players -"
*goes to get water,forgets to pause*
"In 2015 I attempted suicide"
Nice video man I hope you have gotten better.
Don't give this pathetic loser the attention. I guarantee his "suicide attempt" was taking 2 aspirins 10 minutes before his Mom came home from work. Then again that would still be to dangerous for him as he could have an allergic reaction. Probably just left an empty Tylenol bottle on the floor and took a nap.
@@Khoros-Mythos THANKYOU i was so fucking confused as to how his fucking suicide attempt had any relation to a video about payday 2. Other than that though i liked it
@Khoros Mythos - It was a gun to my head after a hell of a lot changed in my life in a very short timespan. I was up from 5:00 AM to 1:00 AM commuting, going to class, commuting to work, and working, only months out of high school, and had fallen out of touch with my friends at the time, I felt alone in a way I hadn't ever in my life and at the time I was literal seconds away from accepting that death was a better alternative to trying to work things out, because I didn't think things would get better.
@Zachary Hodges - The point made at the end of the video was I was looking for a means to distract myself from the massive aforementioned life changes and making videos on this game was the one I had enjoyed the most and I was looking forward to trying new things with the channel, with this being the end of my time covering PD2. This was as much of a personal journey as it was a journey of the game's development and I wanted to talk about why I even started making videos on the game to begin with and also come clean about my own mental health struggles as I had only alluded to them in the past and never told anyone but Dan about my suicide attempt.
@@Khoros-Mythos damn bro making fun of someone for having mental problems? Mad cool bro
@@Khoros-Mythos I assume your dad left you
The ninja pack was reaaaally good. Grinder combined with that sniper, judge and dodge skills made it so OP.
Oh pd2.
The game that I tried for free, instantly fell in love and bought it.
Then all dlcs and spent 150$.
All 600hours were well spent.
10/10.
lol i got it all for 10 dollars cause steam sale.
@@swampfox1007 I remember the 5mil free game giveaway.
I told my friend and we played for hours on end.
Edit:I thought it was 20mil.
When I was trying to sell payday 1 to my friends so we could play together, they asked; "what's the game about?" I responded with, it's L4d, but the infected are cops, there are special enemies, and you need to heist places. I managed to get 7 people to buy it with that line XD
I stayed up until 2 in the morning watching this after saying I was going to go to bed, I figured there was no way I would make it through the whole video. I stayed up for the whole thing and enjoyed every second of it. Thank you for taking the time to make this and giving me an enjoyable hour and a half.
I'm actually so happy I've found you dude, Payday 2 videos, a good channel, and Ace Pride!!
Glad to hear! In the two years since I ended covering this game, I've done a number of other reviews and video essays, most notably a thematic analysis of the Fallout series similar in size and scope to this one.
Subscribed to your channel because i kind of got bored with pd2 and was loking for new builds and stuff, but wow i didn't expected this kind of video. I know now that i'm definetly gonna keep being a subscriber :D
58:40
ignore my comment, just a time stamp for me to continue watching later
Great video, just finished watching it. I'm sorry for what you've gone trough in the past, hope you're better now
Wow. Amazing video! I will tell about it to my friend who plays Payday with me.
Gotta admit I almost didn't dive into this. But I am glad I did with how well made and researched this video is. I'm glad you're still around, and would really love to see videos about other games in this format.
that was a great video with a good ending, thank you for what you've done. i've recently picked up the game towards the end (hopefully) of quarantine. It was nice to here about the past of the game. I wish you luck with your future.
Great video, watched the whole thing and i think pretty much all your points landed. Ill still personally keep coming back to this game. Theres something about it that almost makes it relaxing. It definitely has its problems but i still loved this game to death.
I dont really ever comment or like a video like ever, but man this...this is something else, great job
I remember the first time I saw anything of Payday 2, it was at a sleepover at a friend's. He had a desktop background that probably was one of those promotional pictures from way back when. I remember I was scared, maybe a little disgusted, because "scary clown masks" and whatnot. I think I ended up buying Payday at a later time, probably through a steam sale. Back when Old Hox was still Hoxton, before all the Gage stuff happened. Played for like 2 hours maybe, as you do solo.
Then I moved on to Folk Highschool, it's like a one-year private school course here in Norway, with more subject availability than I dare count. I attended Game Design. Not that I used that for anything, but we were 5-6 people who owned the game. "Hey dude, you wanna play Payday?"
Most Fun Of My Life
We were doing everything we could, countless tries on Shadow Raid (where most of them were fails), Go Bank for cash, I ended up grinding Jewelery Store solo for quick easy monies, we did so many runs of Hotline Miami I'm getting headaches just thinking of it!
And the Dentist. Ooooh boy, we were wild.
After that however, we all more or less left the game, doing a heist every now and then. I don't think I've even got Payday 2 installed on my PC anymore (I don't, just checked Steam). The Criminal Network, who were the Payday 2 streamer group I used to hang out with, quit the game. Everyone I knew left. Haven't touched the game in years probably.
Big epic storylines that tie in old-gods, the creation of Humanity and whatnot are really cool! But not when your primary goal is robbing banks and stealing diamonds. The game went from being a cozy by-the-fire-with-your-friends mood to grandiose battles with stories of yore, but you're still just sitting by a fire trying to be cozy with your 3 other friends.
Payday 2 has changed my life (for good, fortunately), I won't say otherwise. I've met people I'd never meet otherwise, I've bonded with people who are completely different from me.
And hearing you talk about your history, your journey through Payday 2, has been good. I'm glad RUclips showed me this video. Thank you.
On another note, I hear OVK are working on Payday 3. It's gonna be made in Unreal, if I'm not entirely mistaken. Hopefully it will be able to take up the mantle of Payday 2's glory days.
how are they gonna get teh money for payday 2....
Overkill are broke they cant make any game at the moment
@@solo_steve observe the DLCs
Unbelievable video. I played Payday 2 only for a month or two seriously, but this video basically covers everything I missed. Glad to see the effort you put into this. Even if I didn't get to experience it, your storytelling made it feel like I was there right along with you each year as new content came out. Good job!
dude, this video is so close to my heart after one viewing. my dude, if you ever need help, reach out to anyone, and bringing the change of your channel like this, stunning man
Even with all its flaws, Payday 2 still is one my favorite games ever.
Thank you for this amazing video, talking about all of its life, achievements and mistakes.
Much love to you, my friend. Peace.
Absolutely amazing content you put out and we will always be here. Payday always has and will be a game that we will remember in a good light. Yeah it had it's ups and downs and now it's come to it's end because all good things have to have an ending. I'm glad to have shared these experiences with you and hope to see more content that you enjoy working on. Love you man x
EDIT: the ending hit me in the feels hard 😅. What you do is truly amazing thank you so much xx
same here
me watching this video learning that there is night vision despite having like 900 hours.
Wow, Honestly an amazing video. I've been with payday 2 for a long long time and stuck with it through all of its years and this video feels like one great recap of it all. all those years of playing this game come to an end. like high school graduation, bittersweet, but in the end the best way to say goodbye to what once took so many hours of my life, all wrapt up in one to two hours.
I watched the ENTIRE video. This was quite the trip down memory lane to my days on xbox 360 in 2014, solo stealthing firestarter, even day 1. Great video man. I just started playing Payday again after a 3 year hiatus, and I have to say, I'm having fun with it again.
I'm half tempted to jump back into payday and at least experience the ending
beautifully made video, watched it till the end.
Honestly same
13:20 "This is the sound of popping open the game and not the sound of my inhaler's cap, no sir."
-A guy who clearly doesn't know the suffering he caused by having the message be in so little many frames.
Haven't played this game in like 4 years but thanks recomendations
this is one of the few videos that have been this long that i have had the interest to watch. i’m glad you are feeling better. thanks for the great videos
2013 eh, feels like i have been playing this game for 10-20 years... well made video, you sure got it right payday 2 wasnt just "ups" but wasnt just "downs" either. One thing is sure it was quite a ride and i think i'll remember it for a long time to come.
Man I remember looking everywhere for how to upgrade the safehouse and being extremely disappointed when it wasn't actually a feature
I sat through the whole vid, really great man! U got a subscriber👍
time to put it to rest? idk man i just started playing again and i havnt played since before they added the infamy stuff. im enjoying myself
Not only is this video genuinely high quality, but dude i just respect you a whole lot in general, keep that shit up
Just damn.
I can't get over the fact you made a 1 and half hour video constantly interesting. I'll stay around because you have talent.
Love from germany!
(Also that last part made me sad and happy)
Thankyou RUclips for the recommendation. Noice video my dude
for that beginning quote, i really wanna be friends with you now
Jokes on you I stick around for all the other stuff.
Still though this is really indepth I gotta watch it in parts.
I had something to say around 40:42 but I decided to hold it until I was done watching the whole video, and I'm glad I did. I must say, it's impressive how personal of a project this was for you, and how it's affected your life, and I'm honestly happy that you're continuing on and experimenting with other things. It takes a lot of strength to move on, but it's always worth it, and what's life without changes?
Getting into it, I'm thoroughly entertained by how you presented the game's history in short form, especially as someone who experienced much of it firsthand. I remember Crimefest 2015 vividly, and the effect it had on me personally, as I was the guy who packaged update 78 and distributed it in protest to the microtransactions at the time. I remember seeing the steam group hit over 1000 members and seeing people backport some of the features (such as the loud/quiet filter and the ability for AI to revive players). Unfortunately in the end, all the effort was wasted, and people moved on, as I moved on from the game myself with too sour of a taste in my mouth.
I'm glad I did that back then, as it showed me how fickle the community could be, as I'm sure any PD2 veteran probably knows very well. It hurt a lot to see a game I loved so much and put so much time and money into just crumble in front of me. I didn't play it again for well over a year, after many of the ongoing balance changes and the removal of future paid drills. It felt good to come back to a game after seeing the devs have tried to make it up to the community for so long. Sure, it might have been mostly a PR move, but seeing as they kept it up for the rest of the game's life, I'd say it was sufficient. The fact that they tied everything together at the end with such a weird and fantasy-based twist only contributed to the game's wacky and unrealistic feel for me.
In short, I can say that I feel much the same way as you about the game. It's been an emotional few years full of ups and downs, and constant meta and balance changes that didn't make a lot of sense a lot of the time. Overall I'm glad the game exists and is a thing that's filled so many of my hours and continues to bring me back from time to time. I feel that it's going to keep doing that for many years with all the odd achievements and goals and challenges I still have yet to conquer in it. You've earned yourself a new subscriber for how much time and thought you put into summing up one of my favorite sagas to date.
P.S. nice ace flag, from a fellow proud ace, happy pride month 💚
I didn't expect to have my face covered in tears over a video about Payday 2. I really appreciate the openness near the end. I went through something similar, but my muse to keep me kicking was writing, and animating. I hope that you're doing well after all the time this video has been out, I hope you're as happy as could ever be.
Wait you’re telling me we could’ve had another cool female heisted before joy. With a cool mask as well... and we got someone with the face of a statue!!!!!!
23:25 All buried under a facade of an innocent chicken res- dentist office.
Nice
Holy hell was this an amazing video.
I’ve seen many videos discussing PAYDAY 2, but this was not only the most substantial I’ve ever watched, but probably one of the most informative, witty, and downright pleasant videos I’ve been recommended in awhile.
You gained a sub from me today, and I’m super excited to see where your content’ll go going forward!
Honestly, I've never heard of you or your channel until today but part of me has always felt an attachment to Payday ever since I watched my first Connor Shaw video and then I started watching all of the character trailers, watching Attorney General McBadass cure the cancerous conga-lines of cops that polluted many of Payday's heists, and eventually found myself watching from the sidelines as the crew's twilight hours came and went but all of those little moments of joy I felt in learning about this game and its community have been fun. But, like you said, Payday is daunting beast that poises itself to only be tamed by the most dedicated players, something I could never claim to be by any means.
I played a few hours of Payday around the holidays of 2018 in hopes of playing the new Icebreaker Auction heist because the atmosphere of the heist drew me in, but I also had a preoccupation with getting myself up to speed with everything I'd need to succeed as a heister with hopes of flooding my offshore accounts with green but I quickly found my limits in the boundaries of my machine.
Maybe a sign of my own technological limits, but Payday is legitimately a large investment of time, energy, and resources just to gain a bit of insight into how it works and I've often found myself being more liability than asset on my crew. So Payday has always been this illusive game with all the charm of a Deadpool comic, rich with pop culture references and humorous in-jokes that border on the juvenile but it was always endearing and to the point with a staggering amount of variety. So in some ways, seeing it come to an end is bittersweet for me like it has been for many members of the community.
Unlike Valve titles which live and die by a devoted community that they don't deserve even to this day, Payday, Starbreeze, and Overkill seemed to be shooting stars with bold ideas and big plans but often were overambitious and laid the groundwork for tomorrow without much consideration of the problems of today. Growing too big, too fast, and bleeding value talent to keep the course. In some ways, I think Payday could've continued for many years to come and it still may have life yet but much of Payday's appeal may be lost after years of unattendance. Or its heists will live on for years being quietly grinded by a dedicated few and the occassional new face hoping to join in what once was a proud gaming tradition.
All that's for certain is that it's time for a new hope and hopefully, in time, we'll see the vision Payday was intended to be fulfilled.
But until then, I expect the same from you.
Honestly this was a beautiful review of a game and its WAY more than I expected. You covered not only what the game was (over the years and in a whole) but you covered WHY the game has become it and the why the game is what it is as a whole. I can truly tell you had a deep enjoyment for this game. I could not only find myself to remember the good old days of PayDay and PayDay 2 but found myself connected with you as a person... which is so weird because I just now found your channel and know nothing about your channel or you as a person. Thank you for the nostalgia trip and I'm sorry to hear about you emotional state. I wish the best for you and your channel and thank you for the content!!!!
46:49 Wait, I don't know what that is. You must inform me at once!
Just look up Sydney waifu fanart and get out your lotion 😂
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15:32 "The Bulldozer becoming a relatively easy to defeat enemy unit..." as he dies to it in 15:46 hahaha lmao. Nice video tho(only went 1:11:00 in tho =p)
That's fair. Also, that bit was mostly because I was playing a Mayhem bank heist with just the AMCAR/Chimano and no skills; I had made it a point to grab footage of a level 0 bank heist but couldn't bring myself to reset either my main account or the side account where I filmed the Starter Guide, and my first heist for the Starter Guide was an Overkill Ukranian Job so I could level up quickly, so I had no footage of just the regular bank heist with the default weapons. I probably should have invested in skills, so that's a mistake on my part thinking I could manage that easier.
Payday 2 is honestly such a great game.
And I’m glad I finally got it out of my backlog.
It has the right amount of jank for it to entertainment.
The game honestly feels like it stopped getting proper updates in 2016 and has like an extra two and a half years of fan mods stapled to it with its hit-and-miss level design and haphazard quality control.
Glad you're still with us.
This is my first video from you, and you spoke directly to me. I played the first Payday for hours with my friends and its easy to see why everything fell off once we moved over to Payday 2. I'm definitely going to come around here more often. Thank you for this.
Wow. The only reason I'm not finishing this right at this second is it's 2:02 AM and I have to be up early to go see a movie tommorow. Good god, you did a fantastic job on this.
Wdym? This is a movie.
BRO I KNEW THE VOICE SOUNDED FAMILIAR YOU ARE IN ONE OF MY CLASSES THATS CRAZY. I JUST FOUND THIS RANDOMLY.
a lot of people have similar voices, shut.
@@clankplusm bro i know its this kid what are you smoking. mad cause you only got 66 subscribers
I haven't been this quick since I hit puberty
Hail Vanu
I joined in right before Big Bank. A guy by the name of Veggie was the one who got me into the game and it's community.
I've logged just about 900 hours and despite all of its ups and downs, I don't regret a single one playing Payday 2.
I'm actually just starting to get back into the game. I got my friends into it and we're hoping to get all the achievements.
That all said, thank you for this incredibly detailed video. You took me through memory lane and left me with a better understanding of a game that I'll always remember.
As someone who was a "whale" buying just about every DLC, I never really fully understood perk decks and fully checked out after Safegate, I thank you for this nostalgic mix of joy and pain. Payday 2 Classic needs to exist, I honestly don't think I could boot up and play a mission I used to have memorized without gimping all my teammates today.