{"id":9395,"date":"2023-09-11T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9395"},"modified":"2023-10-01T10:40:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T17:40:45","slug":"payday-2-best-death-sentence-one-down-builds-july-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9395","title":{"rendered":"Payday 2 best death sentence one-down builds (July 2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Payday 3 is coming out very soon. I played a lot of Payday 1 and Payday 2 over the years – as well as meeting the original voice actors at a PAX West party, unlocking a lot of achievements, and collecting a good bit of cash in my vault. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the run-up to the launch, there is a Payday 3 event in which various infamous achievements earned in Payday 2 will unlock free items in Payday 3<\/a>. All you have to do is link your Payday 2 Steam\/Epic\/etc account to Starbreeze and then launch Payday 2. Getting the specified achievements in Payday 2 will unlock the special Payday 3 item. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I had already unlocked these achievements in Payday 2, so I logged in and all of them became available to claim (you need to manually claim them from the website). But in doing so, I realized my old character build from years ago wasn’t very good anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like many modern games, the designers are constantly selling new weapons and gameplay elements as well as tweaking, nerfing, and rebalancing the weapons and gameplay<\/a>. I’m not a huge fan of this trend personally, but it seems like that’s a ship that has long since sailed. It lets developers continue to cash in on the long tail of games by making some relatively easy to make skins\/guns\/upgrades and bundle into sellable seasons. Unfortunately, that usually means the gameplay and mastery is in a regular state of flux and goes through serious times of being broken or mechanics being completely unbalanced. You either get on the train and ride, or get left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I for one found this all too annoying as a largely casual gamer these days. I didn’t have time to experiment endlessly<\/a> with the different new perks and find the Achilles heals of the new powers and weapons. It felt too much like having a second job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I leave that to others and just enjoy the fruits like these from KevKild <\/a>who does all that grunt work and gives you the fruits of the community’s labors. Pick a build for your style and go. I can affirm his #1 build is ridiculously fun and powerful. Enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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