There’s not too much to discuss here, as while perfect netcode is always impossible (anyone playing from Antarctica to Europe is always going to be laggy!) hopefully Payday 3 will have a better suited engine that alleviates this issue.

Payday 2 runs on a game engine that wasn’t originally designed for stealth gameplay, and that does show at time. “Lag” effects from this and the netcode can make it very hard for players to do things like participate in split-second dashes between cover if the host and clients see guards in different places. I think the issues with Stealth heists can be boiled down to three major problems. So how can this be fixed for the announced but still distant Payday 3? A quick browse of forums for the game show the same pattern. Of my regular Payday buddies, of 8 or so there’s maybe 2 people who actually enjoy the stealth heists everyone else vastly prefers going loud. I love Hitman and Mark Of The Ninja, for example. Why is this?įor starters, I’ll quickly point out I know I’m not alone here. These are generally terrible and I hate them, which is a little odd because generally I am quite in favour of stealth games. So, Payday 2 – the videogame about sending lots of virtual cops to a farm upstate where they can run around and play all day – has a few heists that can be or must be completed stealthily. And guess what? You get to share them, because if ever there’s a place for half-thought out amateur “improvements”, it’s a blog on the internet! I haven’t just been playing Skyrim recently! In fact, I have some deep design thoughts on a different videogame entirely.

Payday 2 one down stealth