How does this game compare to Payday 2?

[JhonnySkeiner]

Is it better? Decent? How's performance? I also noticed that the playerbase seems kinda small for this type of game, is hard to get a lobby being a random?

[Mr Tophat]

Definitely more scuffed but a good heist game. AI is brain-dead though

[Mush]

you can not fully compare the 2.
It has heists and in my opinion they are better (except a few) but you also have the turf war and story missions that are quite different to anything in PD2.
Overall, i think it is a decent game, performance is good for me.
getting a lobby to fill up depends on the time and possible a little voodoo magic.
one moment the lobby fills up in a minute or 2, at other times i can play a 2 hour session and don't see anyone.

[JhonnySkeiner]

Originally posted by Mush:

you can not fully compare the 2.
It has heists and in my opinion they are better (except a few) but you also have the turf war and story missions that are quite different to anything in PD2.
Overall, i think it is a decent game, performance is good for me.
getting a lobby to fill up depends on the time and possible a little voodoo magic.
one moment the lobby fills up in a minute or 2, at other times i can play a 2 hour session and don't see anyone.

I saw those too in the description. So there is some sort of tycoon/sim elements on this? Like, running your criminal enterprise and whatnot?

[Mush]

Originally posted by JhonnySkeiner:

I saw those too in the description. So there is some sort of tycoon/sim elements on this? Like, running your criminal enterprise and whatnot?

I would not call it a tycoon element.
The main campaign (single player roguelite) goes a little like this :
you are presented with a map, divided into territories.
you have your resources in the form of soldiers and money and you take turns (days) against the other gangs and the investigation (think of it as a timer).
you try to conquer to whole map before the investigation reaches 100% by taking turf from the other gangs while defending your own.(spend soldiers)
your crew members can do a single mission per turn and then they need to rest, the boss can do 2.
The money you earn is used to buy equipment, hire crew members, fund heists and deal with random events
you gain XP to unlock perks that carry over to your next run, a little bit of failing upwards if you will.

i probably forgot something but that's more or less how the main campaign works.

[JJ, Professional Fool]

Similar in ideal, but not remotely the same product even in execution. Payday 2 does things in a one-off world of pick this job do this choice. This game does not allow full map access for the roguelite elements involved, but how one steals what to where it is being done, the crew system and the optional all jobs being completed in stealth unless programmed to start hot, this game gives more choices on how to apply pressure and complete basic jobs as it spawns, If white border it is for one day, that day. Yellow Icons can offer more actors if done before the 3 day.

This is not Payday. It does not handle like a payday. It has no common ground and can laugh at itself. The characters and timeframe of this game is light hearted with a lovable bunch of criminals making it big in the neon dripped 80's. PD2 was *Le elite gang talk to shady faceman but ALIENS* Nah. You cannot compare the two.

Sorry, My FAVORITE mechanic in this game, Being able to put your gun AWAY if the job has not gone loud. You go loud in Pd2, ain't no going back.

[Felix]

I'd say payday 2 is better than CB.
The recent $15 sale with all dlc included definitely help bridge the gap between games and there are some unique elements that make it stand out like the Single player roguelike or the ability to carry multiple bags and holster your weapons but it's a worse game overall. The game could have been a lot better if they didn't spend so much budget on celebrities

But CB is definitely better than PD3.

[Snow]

It has Chuck Norris so you can't compare them.

[B Dawg]

Payday 2 is a broken mess that suffered from years of downgrades and bad updates. Crime Boss is an actual good game.

[Banana Boogaloo]

As someone who really enjoys Payday 2 (and Payday 3 - I know, you hate that i exist) this game is really fun. I think it has some confusing inventory/character management, but overall I'm loving the game. Some people say that the ai is brain dead but.... Honestly on Normal Mode, i kinda want the AI to not be supermen, and i wanna be a sneaky betch. [:

[Sentry]

I've played all of the Payday games and overall I think this is better than all of them. If they keep polishing and expanding the content, I don't think it will even be a competition.

[bun E]

payday 2 doesnt delete your saves

[arsenicBumpnip]

Current-moment Crime Boss is a good deal better than "1 year and 3 months after release" Payday 2 imo. Hard to compare it to present-day Payday 2 given how long of a support cycle the latter had in total, but if they keep supporting Crime Boss with regular updates then it absolutely has the potential to eventually eclipse Payday 2 in overall quality.

[MadGrim]

It's like Payday 2 on release, very low on content, but it is fun to replay the same heists 500 times.
And unlike Payday, this game has dozens of gamebreaking bugs. Like, unable to finish a mission kind of bugs, softlocks. Mostly in multiplayer.
Crime Boss is a broken mess, it should be a dead game by now, but it's not, against all odds.

[FEEKY CHUCKER]

CB has a good roguelite campaign (PD2 doesn't have one at all)
CB has a better developer
CB is Mechanically better than PD2
CB's heists are worse than PD2 (though CB has level generation)
CB's animations are better than PD2
CB's AI is worse than PD2
CB's multiplayer is worse than PD2
CB has worse performance (though 10 years newer than PD2)
CB has less content than PD2 (though 10 years newer than PD2)

Just buy it and see for yourself, it is cheap as ♥♥♥♥.

[Jason rifleman]

Crime Boss is a better game. It combines the good from payday 2, 3 and GTA.