I definitely get that, but from an indie studio I think this was a pretty sizable update. I just hope that they add on to it, because they added 20 new levels but only 8 masks and some negligible drop bonuses, which is pretty unfair. The way I see it is that this was an awesome thing for OVERKILL to do for the dedicated community members that want to go the extra mile and get to INFAMY 25. They need to add a followup update to fill in the gaps in order to make getting there interesting enough/worth it for players though. I'm worried that this update will never come since a fullscale gun rebalance update isn't even being planned, let alone in development even though the community has been begging for it since the Sniper DLC.

There was a thread on the forums recently talking about this yet again, and Ashley came in to pipe in about what the devs told her about weapon balance. Tbh I don't know why they would add so many guns and attachments if they weren't fully dedicated to balancing it all out so that all of the guns are actually worth using and having fun with. The way she described their thought process about gun balance leads me to think that the devs are absolutely clueless about basic game design and just want to make a complicated game about making things go boom and grabbing money in cool ways. She said that the devs think gun balance will detract from the game somehow and that the DLC guns/attachments are just there as an added bonus. If they're OP well that's just how they come out of the oven, if they suck well people will still use them because that gun happens to be their favorite.

So long story short, I think the devs are in over their heads at this point and they are just trying to push out ooh ahh content because they think that's what makes a good game and that's what their playerbase wants. It sucks and all that we can hope is that they poke their heads out of the sand soon to realize that they are quite wrong about gun balance/what their playerbase wants.

I'm a fag for making such a long reply post about something so small, sorry about that. I can't help but imagine how much better and more fun this game would be if they spent a little time fixing these things. It would make PAYDAY 2 more than just a game that I play for a few hours every month or so, but until they balance out the skills/new Infamy levels/guns it's a game that doesn't grab my attention for very long. Gets boring using the same 3-4 loadouts because all of the other guns are that much worse than their top-tier counterparts. Sorry again, this game has become the most disappointing one in my library so I can't help but rant about it.