Hello Mr Listo!
Thank you for taking the time to answer questions from the community. Even though Overkill is a small team, I am impressed by your commitment and closeness to the community. I own almost every DLC you guys have put out, I am only missing the Alienware Alpha mask pack and the OVERKILL pack (which is on the top of my wishlist, I'm just on a college budget right now). Even though I got a late start around update 8, I even tracked down a CCE from a fellow enthuisist that had a spare! I am not the kind of person who preorders games before they come out, but I will definitely be getting Payday 3 as well as considering other games you and your team is working on (college student budget allowing). I have bought the game for multiple friends and I really do believe that what you guys at OVERKILL are doing with Payday 2 is special and amazing. I have logged 1350 hours in Payday 2 and I look forward to playing more.
I know you have a lot of things going on right now and I have a few questions for you:
I have not seen anything regarding the Xmas Challenge winners yet. Should we expect to see something soon (after the Hype train, presumably)? I really liked attempting the community challenge, even though it was frustrating at times.
Are there any plans to change crimenet? I have seen a few community members that suggested having a stealth/loud toggle to show whether or not the host wants to attempt the day in stealth or not. I think this would be helpful, especially with the skill swapper y'all added in a few patches ago.
Will there be a way to augment/choose item drops other than the end of mission card flip? The way it is set up now, players have the same drop rate and chances from ecm rushing a jewelry store as they would running DW Frame or Big Oil. Have you considered giving extra cards for higher difficulties or multi-day missions or upping the infamous chance for Deatwish?
Will there be a way in the future to obtain more of the single-inventory materials, patterns, and masks we have been seeing lately from DLCs? I understand not having more than one DW mask but I would like some more leather material/monkey skull, and having an extra Hoxton Reborn mask would be pretty cool.
How many days will Hoxton Revenge be? I expect this to be another ";)" answer, but I'm super excited to see who the traitor is and track him down/whatever we are going to do with him!
Will OVERKILL and Lion Game Lion continue to work together in the future, both for Payday 2 and the other games in the works?
Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these questions!
I've seen a lot of other people mention infamy 2.0 in this thread so I don't want to ask you too much about that, but I was slightly surprised that 20 levels were added, 12 of which were pure experience boosts and 8 of which are not necessary in order to obtain all the masks and materials. I was hoping the update would contain small upgrades at each new infamy level, such as the 5% movement speed, 10% shout distance, etc suggested above in another comment. With the amount of crazy cool things you guys have produced and have in the works from the Hype Train and Crimefest, I think the infamy update didn't quite stack up to the quality OVERKILL usually puts out. I'm glad to see that you guys are listening to the community feedback and I look forward to seeing what you guys do to move things forward.
Sorry for the wall of text. I want to thank you guys for listening and catering to the community, and I look forward to seeing everything that you are working on.