Payday 2 is one of those games that I'm very conflicted about. When it first came out, it lacked in both content and enjoyability. However, over the years, Overkill has slowly expanded it with free content updates and DLCs. The DLCs though are what kill it for me. More than half the DLCs are utter crap or stupidly necessary. Some DLCs will add weapons or masks that are trash and are there only for the novelty while others add items that should have been in the base game or make current base game weapons obsolete. Another thing that Overkill did was the introduction of skins and microtransactions. They introduced safes and drills, which are both needed to gain a single skin for a gun. The safes were gained through playing the game while drills were only given out very rarely, causing the market for skins to explode in prices.

The good news? Overkill does listen to the community of Payday and have since gotten rid of having to buy drills, and safes are a lot more common. The skins are actually pretty cool and don't give any advantages over people who don't have them. Payday 2 has also started to improve their latest DLCs over the past year as the new content is definitely worth it.

My only remaining complaints about this game is how it really pushes 3rd party games, like Dead By Daylight or Hotline Miami, and the massive problem with balancing. This game, just like many FPS games before it, struggles with balancing out the different playstyles. Some guns are clearly superior and there a select few skills in the game that are completely broken. Since the game came out, Overkill has struggled to find the happy medium between light dodgy builds and slow tanky builds.

Overall, Payday 2 is still definitely worth it. A lot of the newer heists are hilariously fun, the characters are all very unique, and the community isn't 100% ass-hats.

Final Verdict: 7/10