Utterly Mad

Self proclaimed master of Fallout New Vegas? I'll have you know I would challenge you for that title, your hàrdcore (why is that blocked tho?) settings mean nothing to me, I play with the most realistic settings I can possibly manage, a single shot from almost anything means near instant death and I don't wear power armour because it's ugly.

In all seriousness though, pretty much everything AJ said is entirely accurate as hell, although one slight suggestion would be if you really want to survive then build towards a 'sniper' build and always carry a scoped rifle, a shotgun and some kind of automatic weapon with really high dps for those "oh shìt" moments. Also yes on Spice of Life, as someone who goes purely for aesthetics with my characters and couldn't care less about DT, despite my stupidly hard settings, the backpacks are brilliant, because where the **** else are you carrying a thousand stimpacks, and some of the clothing is definately useful, although the majority of it is designed for aesthetics over practicality.

I may haven't beaten the game (due to me not wanting the journey to be over), I have started up 28 playthroughs that always end 2 quests before the battle of the dam. And all of those playthroughs were on hardc0re mode.

.50 Anti Material rifle with explosive shells and stealth attacks will win you most fights.

Payday 2 tips
1: listen to allies, if they ask for ammo or health and it's what your carrying then put it down.
2: LISTEN TO THE DAMN HOST! Seriously that's just a good thing to do.
3: If your playing melt down put the heavy bags in the car, then carry stuff like coke by foot. There's a lot of ways to get to the objective, and on foot is perfectly viable for light items.
4: Pay attention to your allies ammo counters at the bottom of the screen when your carrying ammo, it's seriously beneficial if you put down an ammo bag in a good spot, and it's usually helpful if you do it before someone needs ammo.

Let me add another tip onto your list:

Tip 5: Just because the dude is lowranked and a newb doesn't mean to automatically kick them or to talk down to them, I was a level 3 and I was doing a better job of not getting spotted than my fucking ret@rded level 2-54's that just blamed me even though I was sitting by the car.


Probably going to hurt some feelings here but screw it: Playing Payday 2 isn't that hard... at all, most of the difficulty comes from actually having common sense and awareness at what the fuck is going on in the game world. You'll make mistakes and others will make mistakes, its to be expected. BUT WHEN I SPOT A FUCKING CAMERA AND LITERALLY SCREAM INTO THE MIC NOT TO RUN INTO THAT FUCKING ROOM! THEN DON'T FUCKING DO IT!

I was playing the Car Heist with two great players, and another player aptly named "Markiplier Animatronic" (what the fuck did I expect, no offense Wilson) the dude was dumber than a bag of cow crap, he never listened, and he blamed me for everything. We tell you not to kill the guards outside because we don't need to, this fucker says that we do, runs up and melee's them. Its like fucking seriously.

On top of that when we did finally make it out he didn't know how to get into the car and drive it, even though we told him at the start of the fucking match. We all ended up leaving, host included. So many restarts, so many close calls to end up with nothing but an achievement and me despising that fucking heist.

Other then that I must ask why we don't all play Payday 2 together, I finally got some good shit and you rank up pretty quickly when you play with people that actually know what they're doing.