How do I play the story mode?

[paulie2510]

Hello,l I found a story mode on crime.net, but it seems to be more like a tutorial, but I found on youtube that there is some kind of real story mode, with cutscenes and all that. How do I play it? I stopped playing this game about three or more years ago, last story bit for me was Hoxton's Revenge, how do I catch up with the story? If there is any... I am out of the loop here.

Thanks!

[Popkorne]

If you continue past the tutorial it goes into the story... but it's more missions in order, chronologically.

[O_T]

There is a tutorial and a story mode. The story mode is nothing else then the heists in a order (the correct order that isn't existing or anything strange like that) and different challenges like reaching lvl x. There is only text to explain how this is connected. There aren't any cutscenes. The story mode is starting with the heists from the tutorial.

There are 2 ways to start the heists from the story mode:
1. Directly from the story mode with a fixed difficulty. The difficulty raises from time to time. IIRC the max difficulty is Overkill.
2. As a normal heist at crime.net with the needed or a higher difficulty. You can host or join a lobby (before starting the heist).

The story mode is including heists from DLCs. When you aren't owning the DLC you can start the heist directly from story mode or you can join a lobby. When you're starting a DLC heist directly from story mode that you aren't owning it's possible that the game is detecting this and you get falsely a temporary cheater tag. The tag is disappearing after the heist and isn't making any trouble aside the posibility that joining players thinking you're a cheater and are blacklisting you.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by paulie2510:

I found on youtube that there is some kind of real story mode, with cutscenes and all that.

No such thing exists. I don't know what you've found, but this game doesn't have a campaign. There have been a number of live-action videos made of the game, but they're typically promo material for heists as they were released, and they don't exist for all of them. There's also a live-action Payday web series, apparently. There is, however, no "campaign" in Payday 2.

[LesserSphinx]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by paulie2510:

I found on youtube that there is some kind of real story mode, with cutscenes and all that.

No such thing exists. I don't know what you've found, but this game doesn't have a campaign. There have been a number of live-action videos made of the game, but they're typically promo material for heists as they were released, and they don't exist for all of them. There's also a live-action Payday web series, apparently. There is, however, no "campaign" in Payday 2.

There is a story and there is ending cinematics for Payday too

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by LesserSphinx:

There is a story and there is ending cinematics for Payday too

The OP is aware of the story mode, but believes there's something more story-driven, which there isn't. And while there is an FMV for "the end," it doesn't play at the end of a campaign mode. It unlocks for completing the White House heist. Granted, there's another secret ending by solving "The Secret" but that's not the end of a campaign, either.

[paulie2510]

Thank you all for your responses! I saw a video named "The End" and my friend spoiled it to me, and it seemed like a big thing storywise, so I thought there are more cutscenes/videos and missions that explain what happened before "The End" - that is why I thought there is a story mode now. My bad....

I do have one more question though - is it hard to solve "The Secret"?

[Meredith K Pseudonym]

Originally posted by paulie2510:

I do have one more question though - is it hard to solve "The Secret"?

Quite. Ignoring the part where you're expected to be able to decipher text in real time and solve/know the answer to some insanely obscure riddles (guides exist for this; cheat away), there's a lot of setup to being able to attempt it all and if you're unlucky some of the things the game can choose for you to do are not very nice.

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by Your Make-Do Friendship Analogue:

Originally posted by paulie2510:

I do have one more question though - is it hard to solve "The Secret"?

Quite. Ignoring the part where you're expected to be able to decipher text in real time and solve/know the answer to some insanely obscure riddles (guides exist for this; cheat away), there's a lot of setup to being able to attempt it all and if you're unlucky some of the things the game can choose for you to do are not very nice.

Yeah, I'm still suffering trying to get my achievements. Taking pictures of the text helped, I've almost memorized that stupid alphabet

[Meredith K Pseudonym]

Originally posted by Sobbing over Obsidian Tablet Ach:

Yeah, I'm still suffering trying to get my achievements. Taking pictures of the text helped, I've almost memorized that stupid alphabet

Most of my playgroup have been going scorched earth on it, doing every single one that could possibly be assigned. Chances are that someone needs it and after all, why not go for 100% completion anyway?

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by Your Make-Do Friendship Analogue:

Originally posted by Sobbing over Obsidian Tablet Ach:

Yeah, I'm still suffering trying to get my achievements. Taking pictures of the text helped, I've almost memorized that stupid alphabet

Most of my playgroup have been going scorched earth on it, doing every single one that could possibly be assigned. Chances are that someone needs it and after all, why not go for 100% completion anyway?

I hate achievement hunting lol, but once you get a feel for the tablet alphabet it only takes a minute or so to translate one

[Strider]

You kind of learn the alphabet after a while of deciphering the riddles. The most common riddles start with "the four thieves" or have some segment of it in there which you can skip over to the next word in the riddle and search that up in the guide.