The only custom weapon I really use is the Montana 5.56, which is mostly because it's a much more faithful recreation of Tony's 'little friend' than the Little friend, and it's a fucking blast to use. Really as long as the weapon is fun and isn't game breaking I have no issue with it. Level 1 Hoxinator2 points 3 years ago. Aug 16, 2013 Payday 2 Weapons. If you have been playing Payday 2, you must be aware of the shooting mechanism, and you must have used a few weapons that are made available initially. Now, if you want to know. The most recent update (Death Wish) added a new difficulty and in that difficulty, we have two more weapons featured in the hands of NPCs (The guns are currently unavailable to players). The guns being the HK UMP and the Benelli M4 (Which seems to be based on the H2O model, but with a solid instead of a telescoping stock). Both seen featured here. Custom content mods So the annual PAYDAY 2 Crimefest event just had it's first update (basically Crimefest is a week or so of free updates every year where they release new weapons, heists, music, etc for free) and are introducing cosmetic microtransactions into the game basically the same way that TF2 or CS:GO does it. Payday 2 Custom Skins.
The co-op shooter FPS Payday 2 is a great game to play with your friends, but it gets even better with mods. There are tons of Payday 2 mods but most of the ones that exist aren’t total overhauls since it is mainly a multiplayer game, but the modding community of the game already produced some useful additional content. Without further a due, here are the best Payday 2 mods you need for a better experience.
Best Payday 2 Mods
BLT 2.0
Before we get to the meaty part of great Payday 2 mods, we need the BLT 2.0 to install and manage our mods easier. It notifies you when there is an update for one of your mods and lets you update it easily. You can also check the information about the mod you are planning to download beforehand, so overall this is an essential Payday 2 add-on if you are planning on modding the game.
Enemy Health and Info
Payday 2’s Enemy Health and Info mod show the health of the enemy you are aiming at with a health bar above their head. It also shows their names, giving each kill more weight; you can also change these names from the mod’s files. A small Payday 2 mod, but useful regardless.
WolfHUD
One of the must-have Payday 2 mods, WolfHUD combines a lot of useful HUD mods together and makes some necessary changes. There are around 30 additions and changes such as KillCounter, TabStats and AutoPickup. You can also turn off the functions you do not like from the Options menu.
Better Bots
Though Payday 2 is mainly a co-op game, there will be times where you have to play with bots. Better Bots does what its name suggests: It makes Payday 2’s bot way more useful. They can aim and shoot faster, throw grenades, melee, dominate cops and mark enemies and more. It is one of the best Payday 2 mods for when your friends are offline.
Keepers
Keepers is another mod for Payday 2’s bots that when combined with our previous pick, can make the singleplayer Payday 2 experience much better. This essential Payday 2 mod improves bots’ pathfinding, taking cover and responsiveness. You can also order them to patrol, take cover or interact with objects.
Re-Texture Project – Performance & Quality
Re-Texture Project is a texture mod that vastly changes some of the locations in Payday 2. Some indoor textures in Payday 2 are undeniably badly textured and designed. This mod overhauls all of them and changes those textures to more modern ones.
FEDNET Inventory Icons
This Payday 2 inventory mod changes vanilla grey icons of your weapons and equipment in your inventory with colored ones from the game’s FBI database. FEDNET Inventory Icons look way better and make it easier to find what you are looking for in the game.
Restoration Mod
Restoration Mod is the closest you can get to a Payday 2 overhaul mod. It is a major mod project collaboration that adds a lot of new features, restores cut features, rebalances gameplay elements and adds new masks, heists, weapons and enemies with new gameplay mechanics. It is one of the biggest Payday 2 mods out there, so it requires some outside help in order to work: SuperBLT, Beardlib, and the Voiceline Framework.
Bullet Dismemberment
Enemies in the Payday 2 can get really frustrating in the later levels, so if you have ever wanted to rip a Taser’s limbs off, you can use Bullet Dismemberment mod. As its name suggests, this graphics mod lets you decapitate and dismember your enemies in Payday 2.
Burstfire
You can shoot your guns in single fire or full-auto in Payday 2, but there aren’t any burst fire options. Burstfire is a weapon mod lets you use burst fire on some weapons by tapping V twice. Be careful, though, since if you mod the gun with a fixed fire mode like auto/single fire, burst fire won’t work.
Dynamic Crosshair
The first Payday game, The Heist featured a crosshair, but as you know, there isn’t one in Payday 2. While this makes the game more immersive, some people like to play with a crosshair. Dynamic Crosshair is a HUD mod does not only add a crosshair, but it also makes it so that it changes shape according to stances and changes color when aiming at an enemy or civilian.
Drap & Drop Inventory
In Payday 2, you need to click “Move Item” on the item you want to move and then select the slot you want in order to manage your inventory. That is far from smooth. Drag & Drop Inventory is a quality of life mod allows you to move your inventory by dragging and dropping the items in your pack.
Hostage Escort Tweaks
This quality of life improvement lets you handle 3 hostages at once and increases their maximum follow distance, so they don’t just lay on the ground when you move a little bit far away from them. They also follow you a lot closer and move faster, so you won’t just kill hostages out of frustration anymore thanks to Hostage Escort Tweaks.
Loading Screen Info
Loading screens in Payday 2 used to be black screens, but even the new ones are pretty bland with just trivia information. Loading Screen Info simple mod adds a lot of general and useful tips, tricks as well as some specific information about the campaign you are playing. A fundamental Payday 2 mod for newcomers.
Reconnect To Server
Every gamer faces some connection issues at some point, but in the vanilla Payday 2 reconnecting to the last server you were playing is a hassle as you need to find the game again on Crime.net. Reconnect To Server is a lightweight mod that adds the ability to reconnect to the last connected server by a simple Reconnect button.
Inventory Count
Probably the simplest Payday 2 mod in our list, Inventory Count shows you the number of throwables and deployables such as grenades and Ace of Spades cards when you select them. This should be in the main native game, but who needs good game design when you have a modder?
From the simple quality of life improvements and small tweaks to huge overhaul and gameplay mods, here are our top picks for the best Payday 2 mods you can’t play without. Of course, there are countless more mods for Payday 2 but these are our choices. If you have a great suggestion or liked our article, let us know!
In honor of my favorite pistol (number 3 on this list) getting its first ever skin in the most recent Sydney safe, I thought I’d write a Payday 2 article designed for new players, showcasing a number of free weapons that you should definitely give a shot. This guide assumes you own none of the paid DLC, and are subscribed to the Payday Steam Group for the free community weapons.
1. Platypus Sniper rifle – Sniper rifles in Payday 2 come with infinite penetration, meaning that you can kill as many cops as you line up. Even more importantly, it can penetrate Shields, giving you a powerful and easy strategy to eliminating them without having to worry about flanking. If you only try one weapon on this list, make it this one.
2. Electrified Brass Knuckles. Everybody went bonkers when the Golden Grin Casino added the Buzzer melee weapon, and now with the release of the Hardcore Henry pack, free players can see why. While its stats are slightly below the Buzzer, the electric knuckles retain the vitally-important ability to send any cop into a shuddering fit for a few seconds, during which they won’t attack and are extremely vulnerable to being taken hostage. This is certainly not a weapon for anyone planning on getting melee kills, but with its utility and 30 concealment it can go well with any build.
3. STRYK machine pistol.Payday 2 has a lot of pistols, but this is the only one capable of fully-automatic fire. Due to entire branches of skills requiring pistols, such as Pistol Messiah, Trigger Happy, and Gunslinger, the STRYK provides a full-auto option for a lot of builds that otherwise wouldn’t get one. Make sure you use the select-fire option (default key V) to toggle firing modes, because you should really stick to single-fire for most situations, only switching to full-auto for needed situations like an ambush Bulldozer. With all the pistol skills, the STRYK eclipses even the SMGs and becomes an insanely versatile secondary that works with practically any primary.
4. Ksp 58 light machine gun – Just like Overkill’s given us a free sniper rifle, they’ve also released a free LMG, and its worth giving a go just to see if the playstyle suits you. Nothing like dropping bipods and single-handedly covering an entire direction for over fifteen seconds without reloading. Not to mention the Ksp unlocks at a very early level 23, meaning that it provides a very powerful option for a new (or newly Infamied) player. It helps that Overkill’s buffed the LMG playstyle a few times from the disappointment they were before.
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5. M308 battle rifle – The M308 was the best weapon in the first game, and it regained that title in the sequel after the Crimefest 2015 weapon rebalances. Excellent damage, excellent accuracy, excellent reload speed…its primary weaknesses are low ammo reserves and low base stability. Overkill’s recent buff for ammo pickups and the “Walk-in Closet” perk that comes with every Perk Deck basically remove the first downside, and the stability issue can be fixed by firing in semi-automatic (or with a bunch of weapon mods). To that end, the M308 is the only select-fire rifle in the game that defaults to semi-auto, emphasizing how it strikes a balance between serving as an assault rifle and a sniper rifle. An extremely versatile heavy-hitter that unlocks at a low level, it’s worth keeping in the inventory just in case you find yourself needing a little of everything.
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UPDATE #6. The 5/7 pistol. Since I wrote this article, another free weapon was added that players should definitely know about in case your build calls for it. The 5/7 is a powerful little gun that fires special armor-piercing rounds, meaning it can shoot right through shields (same as the Platypus!) This means it’s great for using with primaries that otherwise might not have an answer to shields. It suffers from an extremely low ammo reserve, however, meaning that you’ll want that primary to be a versatile general-purpose gun with good ammo pickup.