This makes sense in the context of casing for a bank robbery, but it creates an unbalanced perception of the value of casing mode. All you can do is walk around and observe. In casing mode, you don’t have a mask on, you don’t have gun out, and you can’t perform “suspicious activity,” which is pretty much everything. This is all well and good, but then the game activates several audio and visual cues through the UI and music that discourage stealth and encourage us to treat casing as a temporary pre-game mode, as something to be abandoned once the actual robbery is in progress. You’re acting like a spy, and spies don’t want to be caught. Stealth comes intuitively while in casing mode. You begin most missions in casing mode, during which time you’re supposed to walk around, avoiding guards, identifying exits, and taking note of any potential hazards. It has to be introduced in the beginning, even if it’s just as a concept, but Payday 2 doesn’t do that.
Thus, stealth is not an early game tactic, but if we don’t learn about stealth in the early game, we won’t ever know when/how to use it in the late game. I don’t, and learning those tips is a long process of experimentation and trial and error. Of course, I already know how to shoot, but the game also assumes I know how, where, and when to use each piece of equipment. Payday 2 seems determined not to teach you anything. The unfortunate truth is that Payday2 doesn’t actually want you to be stealthy.įirst, there’s the lack of any tutorializing. Payday 2 feigns interest at first merely by acknowledging that, yes, stealth is possible, but then it does everything it can to trick new players into shooting first and asking questions later. As a possible goal, it encourages us to delay shooting for as long as possible, but in practice, the game is completely uninterested in this alternative. The mere existence of the possibility of a silent robbery is important because it gives us something to strive for other than mowing down an entire city’s police force.
You can actually do most robberies without setting off an alarm or even firing a bullet. You and three other crooks break into banks or malls, steal money or jewelry, and then shoot through waves of cops to your escape vehicle. Payday 2 is a first-person shooter cooperative heist game.
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