Payday 2 celebrates its fifth anniversary with every week of recent prison content material

Five years in the past, co-op FPS crime ’em up Payday 2 was a scrawny little factor with only some missions to its identify. Now it’s a large, nonetheless increasing ball of hyper-criminality that includes everlasting crossovers with 5 movie universes, arguably placing Reservoir Dogs in John Wick canon. To have a good time its fifth anniversary as we speak, builders Overkill are rolling out a week of free updates, beginning with cyber-masked heister girl Joy, previously unique to the Switch model. The Ultimate version of the sport (together with nearly all DLC) can be 80% off for the week.

New character Joy’s masks is probably not fairly as fancy because the one worn by the man in Ruiner, nevertheless it does permit her to be an enormous walking pun. Right now she’s the one a part of the Icebreaker content material launched, however the event page does give us somewhat peek at issues to return, together with the theme of an enormous new heist. Looks like we’re persevering with the more and more National Treasure-ish important story arc, and going after an historic, impossibly superior Astrolabe being auctioned at a elaborate black tie occasion.

For these fashionably late to the occasion, Payday 2’s important story arc has gotten a bit bizarre over the previous yr or so. On prime of the standard authorities and police forces gunning for them, the Payday gang have fallen foul of the Kataru, an Illuminati-esque organisation who’ve apparently been round for millennia. It’s weird, oddball stuff however by some means it matches proper in, contemplating that is the place Jacket from Hotline Miami can bust in on scenes from 2015’s Point Break remake. In Payday 2, every part’s up for grabs.

While you can get the bare-bones version of Payday 2 for £3.74/€5/$5 on Steam, I’d extremely suggest springing for the Ultimate Edition, at the moment £11.39/€15.14/$15.14. It consists of all the sport’s DLC, minus a single cross-promotional bit that includes some YouTuber I’m not too conversant in. The reductions will run till Sunday (August 19th), and extra free content material might be touchdown on Wednesday (August 15th) and Friday (August 17th).