[Video] The true ending of Payday 2 (massive spoilers)
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/331491537?t=00h01m14s
The true greatest heist was stealing the entire United States, it's implied the machine under the White House transferred Bain's soul into the President
Time stamps I'm not gonna watch a 2 hour stream god damn
I tried using the time url but it didn't work, one minute is about when it starts
1:30 to 14:30. The rest are chat conversation and gameplay stuff.
Ah cool thx
Found a Youtube version instead of the stream.
I like that what the secret heist itself actually did is not stated outright. Gives it an air of mystery, like the whole event itself really.
All in all I think they handled the whole event very well and brought it to a satisfying conclusion.
Weird the Youtube embed didn't save and went back to the Twitch one, maybe I just forgot to hit save
Damn, Q got old.
I always thought Payday 2 was just a generic heist game but it seems to have one of the most convoluted plots ever.
The way you access this is complete the recent heists to build an ancient machine, then in the safehouse play eight specific notes on the piano by shooting it, the notes form the oldest known melody, the Hurrian
Hymn. Then the base of the machine will show in the fictional alphabet twenty achievements you need to do, which apparently then light up gold in the achievements list. After doing these get three others who
have done the same and enter the White House. In the underground chamber you normally enter for the heist a painting will glow if the conditions are met, and can be removed and blown up with explosives. This
opens an ancient mine shaft and the door to the Ark of the Watcher.
You then have to spend forty minutes figuring out a lock combination involving four sets of five letter worlds, all in the fictional language again. The entire time demons constantly spawn and attack you. When you open the door to the Ark you then have to open the door to let the Dentist in, and kill him, and take the Mayan gold from the Overdrill (the first game's secret) and spread it around the temple in the middle of the Ark, then everything goes white and the heist is done and this movie unlocks. It appears the Dentist was also trying to possess the President.
I'm still pretty sure the payday 2 plot is a bit that everyone in this forum is playing on me
Poor President, the dude didn't deserve possession And poor Bain, having to wake up as some wrinkly old dude every day.
What the fuck is all of this? I thought Payday 2 was about some kooky robbers that form a gang and rob shit. Not reincarnation and other supernatural shit. Going through this thread I thought this was an elaborate joke.
How did a game about heists involve this Im geniunely confused?
In the first game on First World Bank, if four players stand on specific spots it unlocks the Overvault, a secret giant vault that needs half an hour to open. In the vault is a fuckton of ancient, cursed Mayan gold.
The first game's secret also had mention of a man named Baldwin. Canonically this gold is sold to Hector and used to start crime.net. Pre-ordering Payday 2 gave you a pdf of "The Guide of Bain" a book that, turns out, was the payment for stealing the virus in No Mercy.
Bain was kidnapped in the Reservoir Dogs heist, by the Dentist, who is fighting the Elephant over control of Kataru, an ancient society of three kings and their squires, Watchers, built over controlling the secret
to immortality. Baldwin and Alessandro Cagliostro, the creator of the Guide of Bain, were Watchers. The artifact is housed in the Ark of the Watcher under the White House, and there are four sites of power.
The Temple of the Sun, the Pyramid of Giza, the Ziggurat of Ur, and the Dream Temple. The Dream Temple may be the homeland of the Nephilim, giant beasts who seem to be controlled by Kataru. They destroyed
the White House during the War of 1812.
Kataru broke up after Baldwin tried to use/take the artifact for himself while the White House burned in 1812. He needed gold to do it, but he didn't use the pure Mayan gold and so was destroyed. The artifact
came to be known as Baldwin's Lament after this. The Healer king and the Elephant King struggled over control, while the Scribe King disappeared and regents took his place. The key to the Ark was split up
and distributed among each king to prevent misuse, in three golden boxes.
August Lindenhurst, the last regent while the Scribe King was gone, tried to hide away the fourth part, an obsidian plate, to prevent the Dentist getting all of the pieces. He boarded a ship of the Shacklethorne
expedition headed to Antarctica, but they may have traveled too close to the Dream Temple and awakened the Nephilim. They killed Lindenhurst and the plate was lost.
We stole one of the boxes from the Golden Grin Casino for the Dentist, after he helped break out Hoxton. Hector was the one who ratted out Hoxton, so personal theory: Hector is the Dentist's Watcher. He got the
Overdrill gold, and with Hoxton in jail the Dentist offered his help to free him and then offer the Golden Grin job. This box was the missing Scribe's one, the Dentist had his own, then he made a deal with
Commissioner Garrett, arrest the Elephant and take his box, and give him his box in exchange for Bain. But we stole the Elephant's box from Garret before the trade.
We steal the Dentist's and Scribe's boxes at Henry's Rock, a research facility owned by the PMC Murkywater, controlled by Kataru, there is a biolab in Henry's Rock with Nephilim remains. The lost Shacklethrone
ship was unearthed and a sled containing the plate was unearthed, we steal it from a secret auction, at the Shacklethorne manor.
The Elephant released directs us to Bain's location, an old prison nicknamed Hell's Island, we rescue him but he was injected with the same virus we stole in No Mercy for the Guide book. The pieces of the Key
are now assembled and as he's dying Bain directs us to take the Mayan gold and get to the White House. After the White House Secret is done, mentioned above, you enter the Ark, a massive room with a
pyramid in the center of a circle. Baldwin's remains are here. The Dentist speaks to you and now has Bain and Locke at gunpoint. He has us open the door on the other side of the Ark for him. We kill the Dentist
and get Bain to the Lament and spread the Mayan gold around it to activate the machine.
The Dentist was controlling the President and had him evacuate the White House, Air Force One crashed, the Dentist wanted to posses him and complete his plans of world domination, but Bain did it. He did
the real Greatest Heist of All.
Secret ARG shit like this has been planned from the very start with the whole Cagliostro thing you get when pre-ordering, just that the new writer decided to kick things up to 12th gear around last year or so.
Regardless, just following the entire thing is entertaining enough for me to look over the sheer ridiculousness of it
Jesus christ
By the way, Overkill did actually learn how to foil the dataminers, and we didn't give them enough credit:
The game unlocks a hidden DLC once you complete the secret, which contains the files for the true endings. And without the DLC, the dataminers can't retrieve the video files. The guy who thought of this should be given a raise.
If I didn't know any better, then I'd really think everyone here is pulling a forum-wide joke about Mayan gold and demons in Payday 2.
Honestly, the idea that Payday ISN'T just about heisty buddies doing heisty things is awesome imo
I'm not sure if all this is an elaborate "jump the shark" contingency plan or just terribly bland writing getting massively retconned or both
It feels like some co-writer trying to overthrow another's work by inserting all the sleeper arg and then pulling the trigger when the balance of power shifts.
Planned from the start or not nobody expects or wants Payday to involve Elder Gods because the presentation indicates none of it.
what the fuck
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/228180/34e35afc-1dcb-41b4-bfbe-66faf48ae49a/image.png
(thanks for taking the time to explain this but also how on earth have you managed to understand this enough to tell it to other people)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5Xl2wsPjm0
im watching this right now and i still refuse to believe any of this is real and that im only dreaming
Y'know, when I started playing Payday 2, it was just a grindy game where you rob people but it ends with fighting immortal egyptian druids, possessing the president of the United States and stealing the entire planet. When is it revealed this was all fake starting from Hoxton Breakout because Hoxton was never busted out, he instead got the death penalty and he experienced 4 years worth of game content as he died from lethal injection?
Wait guys dont forget about the infinity stones
so it's basically some heisty buddies who find themselves in the middle of some occult type shit with mayans and aliens
wow
This feels a lot like what the Nazi Zombies mode in Call of Duty did, only without quite enough guile to go full retard without inciting fan complaints. I really can't say one thing or another to the quality of this metaplot since I stopped paying attention to the series after No Mercy, but it's interesting to see the complexity of it all.
This is the end credits movie unlocked along with the Offshore Payday one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lv3BByhQWQ
i did it. i did the payday
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