How To Make Death Sentence Easy In Payday 2 (Complete Death Sentence Guide 2022)

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Published on July 15, 2022 2:00:16 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoebuFSINiU

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Payday 2 (2013)

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Guide

Duration: 41:32

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Here's a video I wanted to make months ago, but was unable to for various reasons. As a matter of fact I wouldn't have been able to make it on my own now as well, but my friends made it much easier and possible, so if this video helps you, thank not only me but 3 different people as well. I am not necessarily happy with the editing of the ending test, but finding the time to edit was already difficult enough in the first place and there's more stuff we want to make, so I'd rather save some energy. Anyway, here are the links to their epic channels:

Arn: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY2U7ubtNcK3JTHBl9fyGwQ
Flicc: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEnLQE5VaYpWsE-aaw2rz4Q
Bun (He streams a lot and the streams usually have very positive energy, highly recommending): https://www.twitch.tv/ruggedlyhandsomebunbun
Kev's DS guide (map-focused) - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2269730558

As for the difficulty on its own, I think people exaggerate. This is caused by two things:
1. Wrong mindset - I think that's the biggest problem. People are too used to every difficulty being only slightly harder than the previous one and when death sentence makes the gap much wider, people react negatively. This is the highest difficulty in the game and that's exactly how it should be treated, complaining about it and calling the game "bullshit" for every mistake you make is something that will kill your experience entirely. As long as your mindset is right, things will go much smoother.

2. People join DS lobbies right after buying the game. I've seen hundreds of new players join either my lobbies or someone else's, what could go wrong? Well... everything. I don't understand why people think that you should be able to join the hardest difficulty while having 50h in a game as wide as payday and somehow finish everything with ease. This is meant to be played by people who have played enough for deathwish to be too easy. If you decide to start earlier, then it's your fault.

Introduction - 0:00

[Assault States] - 0:39
Important stages of the assault - 0:45
Fade demonstration and when it happens - 1:25
Control demonstration and when it happens - 2:11
Objectives shouldn't be done randomly - 2:52
Post [assault states] graph - 2:59

[Map Knowledge] - 3:04
Nothing wrong with learning the heist on deathwish - 3:09
Learn as many enemy spawn points as you can - 3:35
Use this knowledge to trap enemies - 3:53
Unrealistic teamwork, but the possibility to literally wipe out the map is there - 4:12
Appropriate loadout and strategy makes certain maps 10 times easier - 4:51
It helps greatly with making objectives as well - 5:48
No guide on enemy spawns, play/watch and memorize (practice makes perfect) - 5:59
Sniper spawns are different to every other enemy, but they're not in random places - 6:12
Knowledge of upcoming objectives allows you to skip heists, GS day 1 being the best example - 6:23
Not every spot you can use as cover is good - 10:11
Post [map knowledge] graph - 11:47

[Grace Period and Armor Gating] - 11:51
Grace period is every heister's guardian angel - 12:01
Grace period enabled demonstration - 12:47
Grace period disabled demonstration - 12:55
Grace period and bullseye - our best friends - 13:00
How exactly armor works - 13:13
Bullseye = an additional armor shot (doubled survivability) - 13:54
How great bullseye can be (text example) - 14:04
In-game demonstration of the most powerful combo (grace period + bullseye) - 14:40
Post [grace period and armor gating] graph - 15:48

You've learned quite a bit, it's enough to play DS if you practice, but there's much more you can learn - 15:53

[Targeting] - 16:14
"use cover" has more secrets to it than just not getting hit (line of sight) - 16:21
Line of sight demonstration - 17:19
Try not to play like that - 17:49
The secret to proper peeking is line of sight - 18:03
Try to play like this instead - 18:17
Silencing your weapon has much bigger impact than you might think (and why jokers are so strong) - 18:51
Silenced vs unsilenced weapon demonstration - 19:12
Post [targeting] graph - 19:26

[Enemy AI] - 19:33
Dozer dancing - 19:38
Scripted spawns are scary - 20:20
Quality over quantity (enemy ai logic) - 21:42
Post [enemy ai] graph - 22:50

[Miscellaneous] - 22:55
How to do objectives - 23:21
How to do objectives demonstration - 23:40
Killing more =/= doing more - 24:14
Low contribution demonstration - 25:10
Sharing is caring - 25:36
My stance on inspire aced - 26:22
Clients have it harder - 27:39
Most annoying bug in the game demonstration - 28:30
Extending control by a bit - 28:41
Helping your team with jokers - 29:07
Throwables - 29:36
Mashing F is one way to survive - 30:34
How it saved my life - 31:15

[How much did you learn?] - 31:23
How the test works - 31:28
Test your knowledge now - 32:16
Scoreboard - 37:48

[The ending] - 38:55
Might want to have a look at Kev's DS guide for map-focused stuff - 39:21

["Making of"] - 39:47

[Credits] - 41:06

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