Payday: The Heist
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Payday: The Heist is a downloadable cooperative
first-person shooter
video game developed by Overkill Software and published by Sony Online Entertainment
. It was released on October 18, 2011 for PlayStation 3
in North America and November 2, 2011 in Europe. It was also released on October 20, 2011 for PC
via Steam software in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The game has been confirmed to have downloadable content released shortly after the game is launched.
It contains six different missions to play with each mission containing random elements which alter the gameplay in subtle ways.
The game runs on a modified Diesel game engine
.
and stole a large amount of money. A post-game message congratulates the group, telling them that they are "set for life", but also recommends several more heists purely for the enjoyment of them. The full list is available below:
First World Bank
The criminals try to rob the bank after they hire an insider to put thermite into a copy printer and uses the thermite to burn a hole into the room above the storage vault and steal the money inside.
Heat Street
The four men are betrayed by an inside accomplice and try to escape the wrath of the police and capture the accomplice.
Panic Room
The criminals enter a dilapidated apartment building where a drug deal is going on but the main objective is to steal the cash stowed away in a steel panic room and try to drill and lift the room out of the apartment.
Green Bridge
The four men attempt to help a special prisoner out of his drive to jail by stopping the police escort and lead him off the bridge.
Diamond Heist
The hardest mission yet, the four are tasked to sneak into a skyscraper
which has a jewel vault inside.
Slaughterhouse
The criminals are able to attack an armored car and break into a nearby slaughterhouse to have time to break into it.
Enemies=
Guard(Example: Bank Guards at the First World Bank)
Guards are the weakest enemies - armed only with a pistol and not wearing body armour. They can be taken as hostages as there are usually a fair number of them at the beginnning of most heists. Dont waste anything other than Pistol ammo on them.
Patrol Officer
A step up from the Guards, they are usually armed with Shotguns and Pistols. A little stronger than the guards and many times more numerous. These guys are usually in large numbers around the first few minutes of a heist, and quickly taper off once the Police HQ realise you are armed to the teeth. Most go down in a couple of rounds of the assualt rifle or one shot of the M308.
S.W.A.T Operative
There are two different types of SWAT operative - Blue SWAT and Heavy SWAT.
FBI
These guys appear mid-way through a heist - only armed with pistols and no body armour they are more likely to die than to take the player into custody. They are also armed with smoke bombs, covering the composition of the next assault wave from the players.
Unlike other law enforcement officers, shouting simply provides a red highlight around them; there is no way to force them to surrender.
Bulldozer
The toughest special unit in the game - Covered from head to foot in bomb-disposal gear, and armed with a rapid-fire shotgun these juggernaughts can take a hideous amount of punishment before falling. They are suprisingly agile at times, meaning that they can occansionally get the jump on the players. Once they are near death, the bullet resistant glass on the helmet smashes open allowing head shots to drop the beast. The fastest way to deal with one is to open up with the M308 as fast as possible while aiming for the head, as the other weapons take far too long.
Taser
The "Taser" is a Heavy SWAT with a taser gun. They can visually distinguished from other Heavy SWAT by their bright yellow shoulder pads and gray helmets. When in distance, they electrocute the player, causing their weapon to sporadically fire and their camera to jitter and shake, making it nearly uncontrollable. The player still has a chance to aim at the "Taser" and interrupt his attack, but cannot reload if his weapon runs out of ammo. After being tased for a short while, the player is downed.
Shield
The "Shield" is an officer carrying a large bullet-proof shield and armed with an SMG. They tend to block whoever is firing on them, making it difficult to impossible to defeat them alone and in narrow halls. Flanking them as a group is the easiest way to bring them down. They arrive with a few other officers, and are as armored as a Heavy SWAT.
Sniper
Armed with an ultra-accurate rifle that can down the player in a couple of shots these officers are usually only seen at distance, otherwise they are the same as a Blue Swat
Cloaker
These are like spec op guys of tom clancy games. They have no audio cue at all, are armed with an SMG and if they hit you once, you go in to bleed out straight away. They are also very tough (3-4 M308 rounds) and have the delightful habit of not being in the main line of fire, circling around the players until they are in a position where they can defeat them easily.. They are also extremely agile, rolling away if under a lot of fire. Should be considered as dangerous (if not more so) than the Bulldozer.
Cooperative gameplay
Cooperative gameplay is a feature in video games that allows players to work together as teammates. It is distinct from other multiplayer modes, such as competitive multiplayer modes like player versus player or deathmatch...
first-person shooter
First-person shooter
First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...
video game developed by Overkill Software and published by Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment
Sony Online Entertainment is a game development and game publishing division of Sony that is best known for creating massively multiplayer online games, including EverQuest, EverQuest II, The Matrix Online, PlanetSide, Star Wars Galaxies, Free Realms, and Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, DC Universe...
. It was released on October 18, 2011 for PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
in North America and November 2, 2011 in Europe. It was also released on October 20, 2011 for PC
Personal computer
A personal computer is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator...
via Steam software in both the United States and the United Kingdom. The game has been confirmed to have downloadable content released shortly after the game is launched.
It contains six different missions to play with each mission containing random elements which alter the gameplay in subtle ways.
The game runs on a modified Diesel game engine
Diesel (game engine)
The Diesel engine is a game engine developed and used by GRIN. The engine was originally developed for their game Ballistics and has been used, albeit with modifications, in a number of other games since then...
.
Gameplay
In Payday: The Heist, players use a variety of firearms to complete objectives (usually centered around stealing a certain object or a particular amount of funds). The game plays from the first person perspective, but offers a few twists on the standard FPS formula. Killing civilians is generally frowned upon in-game, meaning players have the option of restraining civilians until the heist concludes. Should any player die during the heist, one of his teammates may release a civilian in exchange for permission for the player to respawn. Each heist is generated randomly, though it typically involves dealing with law enforcement, which can range from standard patrol officers to S.W.A.T operatives.Heists
The game has no major plot but mainly focuses on four criminals (Dallas, Hoxton, Chains and Wolf) who team up together to create their own heists. Chronologically, the group's first heist took place at the First World Bank, where they entered a vault by using thermiteThermite
Thermite is a pyrotechnic composition of a metal powder and a metal oxide that produces an exothermic oxidation-reduction reaction known as a thermite reaction. If aluminium is the reducing agent it is called an aluminothermic reaction...
and stole a large amount of money. A post-game message congratulates the group, telling them that they are "set for life", but also recommends several more heists purely for the enjoyment of them. The full list is available below:
First World Bank
The criminals try to rob the bank after they hire an insider to put thermite into a copy printer and uses the thermite to burn a hole into the room above the storage vault and steal the money inside.
Heat Street
The four men are betrayed by an inside accomplice and try to escape the wrath of the police and capture the accomplice.
Panic Room
The criminals enter a dilapidated apartment building where a drug deal is going on but the main objective is to steal the cash stowed away in a steel panic room and try to drill and lift the room out of the apartment.
Green Bridge
The four men attempt to help a special prisoner out of his drive to jail by stopping the police escort and lead him off the bridge.
Diamond Heist
The hardest mission yet, the four are tasked to sneak into a skyscraper
Skyscraper
A skyscraper is a tall, continuously habitable building of many stories, often designed for office and commercial use. There is no official definition or height above which a building may be classified as a skyscraper...
which has a jewel vault inside.
Slaughterhouse
The criminals are able to attack an armored car and break into a nearby slaughterhouse to have time to break into it.
Enemies=
Guard(Example: Bank Guards at the First World Bank)
Guards are the weakest enemies - armed only with a pistol and not wearing body armour. They can be taken as hostages as there are usually a fair number of them at the beginnning of most heists. Dont waste anything other than Pistol ammo on them.
Patrol Officer
A step up from the Guards, they are usually armed with Shotguns and Pistols. A little stronger than the guards and many times more numerous. These guys are usually in large numbers around the first few minutes of a heist, and quickly taper off once the Police HQ realise you are armed to the teeth. Most go down in a couple of rounds of the assualt rifle or one shot of the M308.
S.W.A.T Operative
There are two different types of SWAT operative - Blue SWAT and Heavy SWAT.
- Blue Swat - Armed with Assualt Rifles and Shotguns. They have body armour which protects them from short bursts of the Assualt Rifle while they go down from one shot from the M308. They stay numerous throughout Heists and make up the vast majority of assualt wave Officers
- Heavy Swat - Like the above, but doubley armoured and as such a lot tougher to take down. Aim for the head for quick kills. Falls to a half-mag of assault rifle, or two M308 rounds.
FBI
These guys appear mid-way through a heist - only armed with pistols and no body armour they are more likely to die than to take the player into custody. They are also armed with smoke bombs, covering the composition of the next assault wave from the players.
Special Units
Special units are law enforcement officers with special gear and are more rare than previous types of enemies. Each one has a special equipment or ability that makes them more challenging than regular officers. Additionally, they usually have a audio cue (sound of weapons charging, police radio chatter) announced before they arrive. The number and type of special units depends on the difficulty of the mission and how far along in the mission the players are.Unlike other law enforcement officers, shouting simply provides a red highlight around them; there is no way to force them to surrender.
Bulldozer
The toughest special unit in the game - Covered from head to foot in bomb-disposal gear, and armed with a rapid-fire shotgun these juggernaughts can take a hideous amount of punishment before falling. They are suprisingly agile at times, meaning that they can occansionally get the jump on the players. Once they are near death, the bullet resistant glass on the helmet smashes open allowing head shots to drop the beast. The fastest way to deal with one is to open up with the M308 as fast as possible while aiming for the head, as the other weapons take far too long.
Taser
The "Taser" is a Heavy SWAT with a taser gun. They can visually distinguished from other Heavy SWAT by their bright yellow shoulder pads and gray helmets. When in distance, they electrocute the player, causing their weapon to sporadically fire and their camera to jitter and shake, making it nearly uncontrollable. The player still has a chance to aim at the "Taser" and interrupt his attack, but cannot reload if his weapon runs out of ammo. After being tased for a short while, the player is downed.
Shield
The "Shield" is an officer carrying a large bullet-proof shield and armed with an SMG. They tend to block whoever is firing on them, making it difficult to impossible to defeat them alone and in narrow halls. Flanking them as a group is the easiest way to bring them down. They arrive with a few other officers, and are as armored as a Heavy SWAT.
Sniper
Armed with an ultra-accurate rifle that can down the player in a couple of shots these officers are usually only seen at distance, otherwise they are the same as a Blue Swat
Cloaker
These are like spec op guys of tom clancy games. They have no audio cue at all, are armed with an SMG and if they hit you once, you go in to bleed out straight away. They are also very tough (3-4 M308 rounds) and have the delightful habit of not being in the main line of fire, circling around the players until they are in a position where they can defeat them easily.. They are also extremely agile, rolling away if under a lot of fire. Should be considered as dangerous (if not more so) than the Bulldozer.