Payday 2 has a serious problem
It has been in a broken state for an eternity and Overkill Software hasn't managed to fix it.
And while we wait for Payday: Aces High to release and give us an actual challenge, the competitive hardcore players are running out of patience — and energy.
Despite dozens of so called game play overhauls, the professional gamer community still yearns for the game to be fixed.
And none of the existing overhauls actually deliver. They may start with the right idea, but sooner or later they all fall into the same trap: feature creep of the highest magnitude.
Even an experienced mod author like myself isn't immune to this. Despite my best attempts with Streamlined Heisting and even Super Serious Shooter, I ultimately made the same mistakes as my fellow modders before me. That's exactly why I decided to start over — this time with a clearer objective and stricter limits.
As a seasoned Payday 2 elite DSOD veteran, I sat down and analyzed the core issues of the game with one clear goal in mind: fix what's clearly broken, preserve the identity of the game, and avoid bloating it with unnecessary features. And with Ultimate Game Overhaul Pro+ I achieved this goal!
The problem
Like Eurogamer expertly analyzed in its latest livestream, the main problem Payday suffers from is an abundance of useless difficulties, with DSOD being the only really interesting challenge. Lower difficulties feel arbitrarily balanced and neither present an interesting challenge nor resemble any form of difficulty curve.
The solution
The difficulty curve has rebalanced from the top down. There's no reason players on lower difficulties need to miss out on the actually well executed gameplay elements of Death Sentence, so this was one of the most important parts to tackle.
Casual and professional players alike will appreciate the fresh feeling of these difficulties. But even for DSOD veterans there are plenty of changes in this overhaul, too many to list each and every one of them — so it's best to try the mod for yourself!
Known issues
- On Normal and Hard, FBI SWATs spawn instead of regular SWATs, if you know how to fix this hit me up
- Not compatible with Better Bots
Sometimes players will go into custody instead of going downFIXEDSometimes Bulldozer armor is indestructibleFIXED- Not tested in multiplayer but most likely works fine I think
Disclaimer
While the description isn't entirely untrue, the mod doesn't do much more than removing enemy damage falloff and using all the balance values of Death Sentence (except for enemy damage)
