PAYDAY 2 V9 - 900% More Chromatic Aberration and Lens dirt Edition - Games

[QUOTE=Notanything;50172181]So, I read an interesting little thing regarding Payday 2, but I was very skeptical because it sounded absolutely ridiculous, but at the same time, if it's true, it would explain several things I've personally experienced. Apparently, from what I read, the host's CPU speed can affect the aggression and mobility of law enforcement AI to the point where if they've got a very fast one, the AI will be much more reactive and aggressive. Oppositely, if the speed is lower, the AI will be much slower. Is there any truth to this, or is it as crazy as it sounds?[/QUOTE] It's true to an extent- there's an upper bound on enemy speed(they won't get harder than normal) and the degeneration with poor hosts isn't linear. In practice the thing that's being effected is AI decisionmaking, particularly on switching between goals. A sign that it's happening is stuff like in SC's video- the enemy spends some time staring towards some other location (their prior target) before staring at you, then firing at you.

my friends stopped playing with me because "pub games have WAY less cops" I guess this is the first time in gaming that overclocking your hardware actually puts you at a disadvantage

[QUOTE=Finale;50172226]It's true to an extent- there's an upper bound on enemy speed(they won't get harder than normal) and the degeneration with poor hosts isn't linear. In practice the thing that's being effected is AI decisionmaking, particularly on switching between goals. A sign that it's happening is stuff like in SC's video- the enemy spends some time staring towards some other location (their prior target) before staring at you, then firing at you.[/QUOTE] I see, so this explains the times where I've played and the AI just seems so stupid. They hardly react, it almost makes it seem like the host is cheating to make the AI passive, but they still attack. So, it affects you more as a client, or does the host witness the anomalies the client sees? Either way, it's interesting now that I realize I'm not crazy when I've experienced some hilariously easy heist, and other times on the same heists, it's suddenly much more challenging; which I assume is what's supposed to be normal. I wonder if anybody can estimate an exact speed for CPUs that it starts to affect the AI in a detrimental way.

I can see it now. Client: What CPU do you have? Host: Intel i7... Client has disconnected. Client: What CPU do you have? Host: AMD A4.... Client: Ahh ok. Cool

[QUOTE=Notanything;50172447]I see, so this explains the times where I've played and the AI just seems so stupid. They hardly react, it almost makes it seem like the host is cheating to make the AI passive, but they still attack. So, it affects you more as a client, or does the host witness the anomalies the client sees? Either way, it's interesting now that I realize I'm not crazy when I've experienced some hilariously easy heist, and other times on the same heists, it's suddenly much more challenging; which I assume is what's supposed to be normal. I wonder if anybody can estimate an exact speed for CPUs that it starts to affect the AI in a detrimental way.[/QUOTE] It's not a specific speed thing, and varies by map size and number of NPCs and players. Also bear in mind that some of this is also effected by other map-specific pathing issues (Alesso has problems with this a lot).

[QUOTE=Notanything;50172447]I see, so this explains the times where I've played and the AI just seems so stupid. They hardly react, it almost makes it seem like the host is cheating to make the AI passive, but they still attack. So, it affects you more as a client, or does the host witness the anomalies the client sees? Either way, it's interesting now that I realize I'm not crazy when I've experienced some hilariously easy heist, and other times on the same heists, it's suddenly much more challenging; which I assume is what's supposed to be normal. I wonder if anybody can estimate an exact speed for CPUs that it starts to affect the AI in a detrimental way.[/QUOTE] I'm assuming it happens just as bad on host side since it's his CPU that's doing most of the work. I'm not sure about what I'm about to say but I think the host CPU is handling movement and logic for each unit and client is handling targeting and shooting. Host : unit decides next action, moves there, decides which player to target, decide if it can shoot player, send info to clients Client : read unit path, unit has targeted you, confirm if it can shoot you, looks towards you and shoots This explains why, because of desync, cops can shoot you while climbing a fence as a client. On host side, the unit's AI has already passed the fence and targeted you. As a client, the unit still hasn't passed the fence but the host asks it to check if it has line of sight ; bullets can pass through fences so it assumes it has and shoots. This kind of thing doesn't happen as a host because units positions don't get desynced so their logic is always up to date with their position.

I usually find myself using only the few latest tracks when I play, I should go back to the older ones more often. Searchlights is one of the best in the entire soundtrack imo

The first few track were good imo Razormind ftw

Hatley would surely not mind more cops All he cares about is starting a genocide in every heist :v:

[QUOTE=Flubbman;50173190]I usually find myself using only the few latest tracks when I play, I should go back to the older ones more often. Searchlights is one of the best in the entire soundtrack imo[/QUOTE] We need a mod that updates all the older tracks with Viklund's Remastered version.

[QUOTE=Flubbman;50173190]I usually find myself using only the few latest tracks when I play, I should go back to the older ones more often. Searchlights is one of the best in the entire soundtrack imo[/QUOTE] Idk man, the newest track Sweat isn't all that great imo. Feels a bit too slow for Payday.

Can we just take a moment and appreciate how far Payday's weapon animations have come? [video=youtube_share;RTLo04dFw4s]http://youtu.be/RTLo04dFw4s[/video] [video=youtube_share;zCZUZFWsZQY]http://youtu.be/zCZUZFWsZQY[/video] They really are so much better nowadays, it's amazing how it went from the weird slippy slides of Payday The Heist to what we got now I didn't put a video of the latest animations, the Payday 2 video here is from release, which also shows much progress

[QUOTE=Nickolas;50173964]Can we just take a moment and appreciate how far Payday's weapon animations have come? the Payday 2 video here is from release, which also shows much progress[/QUOTE] Yeah, but I don't get why so many players miss the old animations, other than the nostalgia factor they are just worse than the current ones.

Payday 2 has surprisingly high quality weapon animations in comparison to other games

[QUOTE=jeremytox;50174613]Yeah, but I don't get why so many players miss the old animations, other than the nostalgia factor they are just worse than the current ones.[/QUOTE] I don't think i ever will understand why people want the older worse looking animations back sometimes, or do things like remove the recoil animation I usually hear people wanting a reload like the AK back in The Heist, but that was slow and made no sense, it's kind of back in but only on the Krinkov

[QUOTE=Nickolas;50173964] [video=youtube_share;zCZUZFWsZQY]http://youtu.be/zCZUZFWsZQY[/video] They really are so much better nowadays, it's amazing how it went from the weird slippy slides of Payday The Heist to what we got now I didn't put a video of the latest animations, the Payday 2 video here is from release, which also shows much progress[/QUOTE] Seeing PD2 with weapons that were in the game from the release makes me wonder if we really needed 2 thousands guns we have now. [editline]21st April 2016[/editline] [url]http://steamcommunity.com/games/218620/announcements/detail/847050591264665241[/url] Neat

[QUOTE]The “!” next to the inventory that signifies a new item will now be removed once the player has opened and closed the inventory. The player no longer needs to find and view each new item [/QUOTE]THANK FUCK

The achievements are just general achievements added to Birth of Sky, Bomb: Dockyard, Cook Off, Bank Heist(any by the looks of it) and Murky Station.

Aw yes more akimbo SMGs. :fap:

*All players given the Jimmy Mask and Wick Glasses Now we can have entire heisting teams wearing the 2 Cool 4 School glasses

[quote].Mitchell has taken cooking lessons, he will no longer burn his food[/quote] :v:

*Mitchell has taken cooking lessons, he will no longer burn his food Why? Goddamn Ninjas Also what was the Risk Level asset and why is it now gone from most heists?

[QUOTE=Ruby_Axe;50175013]*Mitchell has taken cooking lessons, he will no longer burn his food Why?[/QUOTE] It means the little effect of the food burning won't occur if the heist hasn't gone loud yet. I assume it still does burn once it has gone loud.

[QUOTE=Dougley;50175017]It means the little effect of the food burning won't occur if the heist hasn't gone loud yet. I assume it still does burn once it has gone loud.[/QUOTE] I know, I was asking why they removed it since Mitchell burning his food is damn hilarious

[QUOTE=Ruby_Axe;50175013]Also what was the Risk Level asset and why is it now gone from most heists?[/QUOTE] Is the image which shows what kind of enemies you will encounter on that difficulty. Since Murky Station, Shadow Raid and Car Shop are stealth only heists seems like there is no point of that being there. And of course, Safehouse doesn't have any enemies around.

[QUOTE]Jewelry Store Job Fixed an issue where players could climb the pipes in the alley [/QUOTE] Bye-bye, infamous Mario pipe. I will miss you. [QUOTE]Big Oil Removed the flashbang that can spawn when entering the house on day 1 [/QUOTE] First they "broke" the stealth on this map and made it ECM-rushable, now this... Why? It's already easy as fuck. Other changes are really good though. P.S. Am I late, or is this a recent glitch? Set the speed to 0.25 and see what I mean. [video=youtube;rgH7SLqCPOQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH7SLqCPOQ[/video]

And it took them how many years to remove it [editline]21st April 2016[/editline] the "!" icon at the inventory

Have there ever been any "rings" in Birth of Sky?

Heh,that's cool I guess. Was expecting a bit more tho.

Any hidden changes we should know about as well?