The game had five DLCs planned, until Overkill's publisher 505 Games gave several million dollars in funding to ensure content and support for the game for the next 20 months. The series can be found for free on Youtube as well as several other websites. The series was produced and directed by Demian Lichtenstein, who also directed 3000 Miles to Graceland, and was co-produced by Overkill Software. The series showcases the main characters in action while also showing minor characters that play a role in the overall story arc, or what kind of people they are. In addition to the game, Overkill Software created a promotional mini-series, simply called PAYDAY: The Web Series, which consists of six episodes (averaging at about 10 minutes each) based on the game. The game also contains weapon mods that allow players to tweak and customize weapons as they wish for optimal performance, as well as customizable masks that have different materials, patterns, and colors. Supplementing class skills are perk decks that grant passive abilities (including four perks shared across every deck, like slightly higher headshot damage, and slightly faster movement while wearing armor, and five unique perks for each deck, like health bonuses for having hostages, regaining some health by killing enemies, moving faster, and having faster armor regen at lower health, etc.) that are applied to the player and sometimes the rest of the crew. Rather than having swappable classes, the game uses a more refined character class system you spend skill points to level up different class trees that contain different abilities, allowing you to mix-and-match abilities. Like its predecessor, PAYDAY 2 involves hitting a target for huge cash bonuses, and carries a lot of similarities: guys in clown masks, tropes and ideas borrowed from heist movies, and core mechanics that mirror the Left 4 Dead series.

Eventually, the original Hoxton was brought back to the fold through a prison break, and his replacement was renamed 'Houston' to avoid confusion. After fan outcry, the voice actors returned, save for Chains ( who remained the same character in-story) and Hoxton ( who was replaced in-story by Dallas's brother). This wasn't the case initially, due to a complicated situation involving the original voice actors being replaced. The game follows the same crew of hardened criminals Dallas, Chains, Wolf, and Hoxton who have moved on to bigger and better heists in Washington, D.C.

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