Don't Do Storyline

[Memento Crepo]

https://imgur.com/a/FwaWw8C

Three continental coins. No achieves. No extra money/exp/mods/masks.

"OVERKILL salutes you!"

Yeah, salutes you with two middle fingers. Thanks for wasting my time and money contracting through the contract broker. At least recoup my costs for having to host.

[Z3r0_]

Originally posted by CptCodpiece:

https://imgur.com/a/FwaWw8C

Three continental coins. No achieves. No extra money/exp/mods/masks.

"OVERKILL salutes you!"

Yeah, salutes you with two middle fingers. Thanks for wasting my time and money contracting through the contract broker. At least recoup my costs for having to host.

Storyline is basically an extended tutorial to get newer players familiarized with all the different heists. You go for the achievements and such AFTER becoming familiar with them.

[TheUnchosen]

Like everyone else said, storyline is there so that new players can wade their way through the game's massive amount of heists and do each one in (somewhat) increasing difficulty and complexity. Experienced players who already know what the heists are won't have any benefit. Also, money in Payday 2 should be plentiful enough that you can host and fail a thousand heists and still not care.

EDIT: The storyline also gives you the ability to play all the heists for free at very hard/hard difficulty. I don't know why you wasted money through the contract broker.

[Memento Crepo]

Originally posted by A used 1996 mitsubishi eclipse:

EDIT: The storyline also gives you the ability to play all the heists for free at very hard/hard difficulty. I don't know why you wasted money through the contract broker.

Recent account reset, so winding up short on the $200m offshore cost to infamous repeatedly. To get credit for storyline, you have to be there from lobby to end, so no PUGs on crime.net. If I'm stealth heisting, it's DS please. And if it's DLC, there's a lot of playing "go fish" with DLCs finding out who has what to save on offshore cost. Better to just host DLC content and eat the offshore cost instead of dealing with bot bagtrain for low xp gain and mediocre payout anyways.

It's a real headache, you have to admit.

[TheUnchosen]

Originally posted by CptCodpiece:

Originally posted by A used 1996 mitsubishi eclipse:

EDIT: The storyline also gives you the ability to play all the heists for free at very hard/hard difficulty. I don't know why you wasted money through the contract broker.

Recent account reset, so winding up short on the $200m offshore cost to infamous repeatedly. To get credit for storyline, you have to be there from lobby to end, so no PUGs on crime.net. If I'm stealth heisting, it's DS please. And if it's DLC, there's a lot of playing "go fish" with DLCs finding out who has what to save on offshore cost. Better to just host DLC content and eat the offshore cost instead of dealing with bot bagtrain for low xp gain and mediocre payout anyways.

It's a real headache, you have to admit.

I dunno. Heists make a damn lot of money. If you're short on it, you could always play Cook Off and just keep on cooking until your fingers ache. Throughout my entire Payday 2 career, I've never had money shortages on anything, even after going infamous the first five times. If you happen to be running short on it after going infamous, maybe you can buy a bunch of weapons beforehand and then sell them immediately after going infamous.

Of course, maybe it's because I barely focus on storyline at all. I sort of do it only when I'm bored and such. I believe I stopped at Alaskan Deal and never bothered to go back to it.

[x0Z3ro0x]

Silly me, and here I've been playing games all along for entertainment and their content instead of the fake rewards at the end. Shame on me...

[JJ, Professional Fool]

This thread is ballbags. Is this the definition of "Deserving and Expectant" or what? You get money, items, progress, XP and learn the layouts of every heist in a low stress CPU controlled AI enviroment. I relied on story mode.

You are a maroon 5 op.

[Wandering Flare]

You get far more than 3 coins too, unless they removed the 6 coins per heist for w/e reason.

[Memento Crepo]

3 coins per step. Just go safehouse raid and dailies for more gains. It'd be nice if story mode ended with an in-game nod towards the secret ending. As it is, it just peters out with "Congraturation!" 100% unfun and unrewarding. If you think story mode is a good time, you're bad and your opinions are bad. The more people this thread warns away from it, the better.

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by CptCodpiece:

3 coins per step. Just go safehouse raid and dailies for more gains. It'd be nice if story mode ended with an in-game nod towards the secret ending. As it is, it just peters out with "Congraturation!" 100% unfun and unrewarding. If you think story mode is a good time, you're bad and your opinions are bad. The more people this thread warns away from it, the better.

That's basically the same as saying playing every single heist in the game is bad. The only difference is you get some coins and some lore that sorta-kinda-maybe-ish puts things into chronological order.

It's good for new players as it sets the difficulty low and old players as it gives them a reason to replay some heists that they might never play again otherwise (aside from Goat Simulator, because ♥♥♥♥ Goat Simulator).

[Sunday Driver]

Storyline is a good EXTRA addition to lead players through the heists in roughly the right order too. You get some extra coins and reward which is nice, over and above what you already get with some extra flavor text to guide new players through most the maps.

[Higf9]

THERE A STORY LINE ?

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by Mad Dawg:

THERE A STORY LINE ?

It's just all the heists (bar the new ones) in chronological order with some narrated lore before you choose them.

[[DP]18Bravo]

Does it let you play the newer DLC heists as well if you do not own it?

[Wandering Flare]

Originally posted by DP18Bravo:

Does it let you play the newer DLC heists as well if you do not own it?

No, heists added after the support restart won't be added to the storyline.

[Cursed Hawkins]

Originally posted by Martin Vol:

Originally posted by DP18Bravo:

Does it let you play the newer DLC heists as well if you do not own it?

No, heists added after the support restart won't be added to the storyline.

Which as of right now its just the ones with Mexico... I'm sure Overkill might update the story line where those heists do take place (either right before the white house job or immediately after just for a bit of extra cash)