Payday 3: Expanded Stealth Heisting
In the thrilling universe of Payday, any misstep in a heist instantly summons SWAT teams. They descend upon banks and museums with a single command: shoot to kill. As they stream in, you and your elite team of thieves battle them off, all the while transferring your stolen bounty to your escape vehicle. Sure, you can approach Payday 3 as a mere shootout with theft-themed tasks. But I relish the more intricate, stealth-based method. And just when my team and I were inches away from a flawless execution, I messed it all up.
Payday 3 echoes much of its predecessor, Payday 2, which has been around for a decade. During my preview of its co-op levels, I, along with three fellow heisters, strategized an entry, scouted the premise, and executed a series of slightly varied tasks to retrieve the precious loot. In one mission at the Secure Capital Bank, the overt approach to the vault required sourcing bags of thermite from the rooftop, followed by melting our way through the floor. However, the covert strategy is far more intricate, culminating in the quintessential heist move: forcing a bank executive to unlock a door using a retinal scanner. That was, unfortunately, the moment things took a turn for the worse.
Our squad comprised mostly Payday newcomers, including myself, and a gracious developer from Starbreeze who endeavored to guide us through the intricate labyrinth of Payday 3’s advanced stealth techniques. Our stealth pursuits were foiled multiple times: once by a teammate’s inadvertent grenade toss (arguably one of the least stealthy moves imaginable), and another by an observant civilian who spotted us scaling a fire escape and promptly alerted the authorities. In one particular museum mission, my misstep over a laser security line, ironically as I was attempting to deactivate it, set off alarms. And on one occasion, a vigilant security guard nabbed me mid-lockpicking right in the bank’s main entrance. Clearly, we weren’t exactly pulling off a heist of “Ocean’s Eleven” caliber.
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