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I wanted to try something different instead of the meta.

This is what I'm using. You can ditch the sentries if you don't like them but the Crosskill is mandatory.

That's true enough, although I should note that you shouldn't have the highest expectations for an event if there is practically zero dollars from the consumer going in. If it's straight out the developer's pocket for no intended profit, you have to take it with a pinch of salt (like updates for some free to play games, like Warframe and such.) There are notable exceptions, like the Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut DLC or Skyrim's Hearthstone DLC, both of which were free and had no direct funding from users (besides the profits of the base game, which could have went to a new shiny car for the company director.) But with these sort of "free updates" I always go in with a 3 star expectation. Thus far, it's hit 2 and I expected a 3rd from Old Hoxton. This is on the assumption that Crimefest was purely from Steam Community group size, and not another source like a Kickstarter. If so, disregard everything I just said except for the ME3 DLC being great. That holds. Although if I'm sounding a bit too "holier than thou" right now, it's not that you have a right to complain about free updates - in fact, as has been mentioned, some stuff has actually become worse from the update or was not as it was advertised. So yeah, Crimefest could easily be better. But, well, I'm the guy who would rather have a free sweater than be naked and cold. And since all that was boring, light machine guns - worth it or not? It just reminded me of TF2's golden age I guess, I assumed it would be as extensive as all the class updates were. LMGs are alright, they aren't game-changers like sniper rifles but they have their uses as close range dozer shredders and crowd control.

Well yeah, it's new and free, but it's still disappointing. It's like a shitty birthday or Christmas. Sure you may get a free sweater or a new pack of AA batteries, but you're still gonna feel fucked over. If Overkill hadn't hyped up Crimefest so much and just released this stuff normally I doubt anyone would be disappointed. It may seem shallow but fuck I was hyped as hell but it turns out there isn't much to be hyped about (so far). Hell if I remember correctly they had "Rats during the day" as one of the things for the Day and Night thing.

Crimefest in a nutshell:

It's gonna be John Wick's dead dog, Daisy. She functions as a cloaker but doesn't have animations so she slides across the floor. She also has the same hitboxes as a cloaker.

HitmanPro might be able to find it if Malwarebytes can't.

You don't choose which version of the heist you get (day or night). However, you can tell because you won't be able to buy assets if it's not the "normal" version. Thanks Overkill.

Welcome back man. Seconded.

You can get really lucky spawns with the bus stop but you always have a distance to haul with the elevator trick. C4 escape is shitty as hell though. Also, Spoiler

One word: OVERKILL.

Yeah, the 6 minute fucking movie.

Except for the fact he screams so goddamn much. It's like tryhard action movie star to the max. Also akimbo doesn't benefit from Mastermind skills. The Hitman tree is fucking garbage.

Oh my God he screams so fucking much. HAWKSTON, COME WITH MEE Also Akimbo is a primary so it's pretty fucking garbage. You have four choices: Two of the new pistols (garbage), two Crosskills (garbage), two Bernettis (garbage), or two Deagles (simply not good).

One of the great things about the original Payday, in my opinion, was the banter amongst the crew. There's a lot less of that in Payday 2 and it just feels bad seeing the crew go from a very tightly knit band of brothers who have history to just dumping promos like it's fucking TF2. I mean fuck, they teased Old Hox for months, years if you count the winks, and then they just dump an entirely new character in with no in-game explanation?

It's just gonna be so AWKWARD though. You go from a cool crew of four dudes who know each other to a potential crew of tits, washed-up action movie guy, and two confused members of the old guard.

I fucking hope we can lock this cocksmoker out. He won't mesh with the gang at all.

Akimbo's probably gonna be a top tier skill, with basic letting you take two secondaries and aced letting you take two primaries.

It's for when some retard named "Guy923" wants to stealth and you want to try to carry him. You bring a suit to try to help him not be a retard during stealth and an armor bag with ICTV in it for when he inevitably fucks up, so you can actually do well during the loud part because God knows that retard won't be useful.

All perk decks have that. Every second perk is the same. They're: +25% headshot bonus +5 concealment, +45% XP, armor movement speed 15% less affected Armor bag +5% more damage, 20% faster doctor bag interaction speed Also here's how mines work in sensor mode during stealth now: Spoiler

They got rid of Improved Coupons, there's no way you can possibly spin this to be bad. Also, some perks seem really good: +45% XP A deployable that lets you change armor during a heist +35% more ammo from pickups (independant from Fully Loaded I think) LMGs, SMGs, and snipers can cause "panic" which sounds really neat

DOUBLE TROUBLE LIVES!