hacking mechanic wtf???

[Trifty ㋡]

The moment when me and my crew had to hack some server or whatever and had to run around and stand in circles we were shocked.... who had that brilliant idea? and why is he still working on this game. It feels so stupid, immersion breaking and uninspired. Ok its in the game now but its one of the first mechanics that should be reworked. what are your thoughts Payday community?

[Yanderia]

Yeah I am not a fan of the GPS location hacks, they make no sense and also just are frustrating with roaming guards especially as the difficulties ramp up

[paganSK]

they HAVE to add new features , otherwise game will become pure PD2 clone {remaster}

[Kieran]

if you think that's immersion breaking you don't know anything about real espionage

[Razyel D'Ropa]

its to make you move and not just wait it out. Its a difficulty thing

[Whispers Murmurs Voices Purpose]

they had to replace the PD2 drills with something.
sadly they replaced the drills with something extremely unfun and lazy/cheap.

[PewPew]

You guys dont do that irl? That's how I get my neighbor's mcdonald's wifi service.

[Trifty ㋡]

Originally posted by Razyel D'Ropa:

its to make you move and not just wait it out. Its a difficulty thing

They could have you run around to diffrent PCs or something....

[Tjoma]

Originally posted by PewPew:

You guys dont do that irl? That's how I get my neighbor's mcdonald's wifi service.

lmfao

[Trifty ㋡]

Originally posted by paganSK:

they HAVE to add new features , otherwise game will become pure PD2 clone {remaster}

At this point that would be a better game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Theleno97]

Place Tablets, phones etc around the map & place the "stand in circle" next to them after interacting with them

Place said items into high traffic areas so you have to constantly get near then move away, at least this way it goes from "random hotspot areas" to "these items are connected to the wifi" or some ♥♥♥♥

Same basic idea, but removes the "hot spot" thing from it, I personally agree that it's really weird and clearly serves the purpose to move you around a lot, but I don't find it difficult, just time consuming and pointless

[ANGRYMONKEY666]

i think the people an advisers that had a good idea how to steal something correctly left and the only people left working on the game are people who steal Starbucks wifi from the car park... OHsnap is that why the servers suck did ovk/sb just park a server in the carpark outside a Starbucks ?

[KishiPhio]

You know, I actually kind of liked that gameplay element the first time I've encountered it even though it makes no sense
And then...
You encounter it again
And again...
And again but this time you need to do it two times...
And another two in another mission...

Unfun and uninspired are the best words ever to describe this.

[KishiPhio]

Originally posted by Orbry:

Can't say the mechanic itself is bad it just feels out of place in PD. There is identical mechanic in GTFO and it fits in well. I agree that motivation was probably to make players move around but damn it feels weird staying in this circles...

Yeah exactly, in GTFO it just works. In Payday where scans are limited to only a few places, sometimes you complete one, it respawns in the same place ?
In stealth, they are quite hard to do and honestly just a hassle
It's just not fun to do.

[SodaDrinker69]

i mean, the in-universe explanation for the mechanic is you are looking for spots where the wi-fi is good for the fastest connection, however it very obviously doesn't read this way if this many people are confused as to what the hell is even happening

[Mordtziel]

If it even remotely made sense wtf we're doing we could talk, but like...it's really weird and the game doesn't even explain it. "I need access to the wifi"....so why don't I connect a device to a machine like I've done in pretty much every prior heist? Or even like...we need these hotspots for good reception but then like...why does it stop being good? And after I'm over at that other one for a bit, it stops working, and the prior spot starts working again? I guess WiFi is magic.