The reference in the thumbnail is a little more obscure this time - I'll be impressed if anyone can work out what it is!

Hearing "You and I..." when the assault phase starts is always hype.

After Simon Viklund left, I thought that the music in Payday 2 would never be as good as it used to be. The new music composer (Gustavo Coutinho) has proven me wrong with all of his recent music. “Deadeye” and “Bonebreaker” are every bit as good as Simon’s tracks in my opinion.

The Payday Soundtrack is Pure Gold

A great example of an alternate version assault music is in Scarface mansion where the music can play sometimes with vocals or just instrumental

Some lucky bastard out there is like: "Wait, that's the ALTERNATE version?"

Finally someone talks about assault intro after the anticipation

Bro the vocals of Break The Rules is so good I had to pause playing when it was playing

Fun Fact: On Watchdogs Day 1, if the escape driver dies while driving into the level (blowing him up after he spawns) he will actually crash the car in a special scene

at first there were shiny pokemon. Now, payday 2 has shiny music

I'll be honest, I've literally never heard the theories that the alternate assaults were tied to progression/specific heists before. I thought it was common knowledge since Ode to Greed that it was just random

Payday has literally the best Soundtrack of any game I've ever played. GTA doesn't count because it's basic normal music, most not original, in the Radio.

recommendeds led me here, i am not disappointed

I've noticed that almost all of my favourite games have a good and memorable sountrack. I think a good track at the right moment can make the experience exponentially better, it can give you so much emotion that it can change how you play completely. Payday is done so well that depending on what music is playing i change my playstile, something like death wish track makes me want to stay back and rambo, something like death row makes me cautious, stuff like evil eye makes me want to style, and then full force forward makes me concentrate to max level...

Idk if you’ll see this but I hope that in Payday 3, alternate tracks like this are used for that game’s version of the Captain Winter’s endless assaults (if it has any), just to add a little bit more oomph to the locked waves

When I was playing the demo, the soundtrack catch my ears and eventually bought it. And mostly it was the reason I stayed for a long time.

Ahh yes another believers of Lord Viklund and his successor Coutinho

For me, Payday's soundtrack kinda reminds me of the Doom, or hell, even the DMC soundtrack. All 3 of those games have such an amazing variety of soundtracks. From "Bury the Light" to "I Will Give You My All" to "Meathook" or "Rust, Dust and Guts". All 3 are basically in all of my playlists. Especially Bury the Light. For some reason, it just never gets old.

That No Mercy section, dear god man, what the hell was the Commissioner doing?

Want to hear something funny? I started Payday 2 again after a long time, did Bank heist: Gold (Very Hard) with Deadeye as music for the first time and guess what i get? This alternative soundtrack from it. Edit: Happened again on this christmas heist with the presents

As someone that puts music over almost everything in games, Payday 2's soundtrack is just incredible, the diferent versions of one same track, sometimes becoming a different track depending on the situatuon, it makes it a incredible experience, sometimes i boot up cook off and let the bots do the work while i enjoy break the rules or any other track, not to mention the complexity of said tracks, giant props to Simon and Gustavo! They made a incredible job.

The Payday Soundtrack is one of my favourite Soundtracks ever

I'm glad someone talked about how the music works in-depth, I always loved this system and how smooth the changes between phases are despite the music being split into 4 parts thanks to the composers making their music in a specific way with this system in mind. When you've known how it works after a while, it's easy to forget how well thought-out this is, and it's nice to take a step back and appreciate how much effort went into making the music fit with the gameplay. Also it's always been satisfying hearing an alternative version for an assault track. Even years later me and my friend still get surprised and a bit hyped when we get the vocals for "Break the Rules", and I'm very glad they kept using this feature later on, even recently with Deadeye.

I always liked when games go the extra mile with music. The combat layers that play in The Binding of Isaac when 6 enemies are in the same room. Parappa the rapper's music changes if your performance is bad. Ape out has dynamic music created by your own gameplay that gets more intense as you get more aggressive. Patapon has the fever side of the songs.

All these songs, all these alternate versions, and I'm still here listening to "Gonna Give You My All."

Found this on my recommendations and I am glad I found your channel. Your videos (specially your newer video essays) have a ton of effort put into them and it shows the audio, editing and script are so clean. I hope to see more from you.

Man I just love that you spend so much time to hear that version of the song and when I hear the song for the first time I get the other version that you tried to get for so long.

I wish I could relive the moment when for the first time in my life Razormind kicked in during assault.

How the hell do you only have 1.58k subs?? This video showed up in my recommended and after watching it I was convinced that you had to be some large youtuber for a video that is this high quality with this much time put into it. This video is absolutely amazing and you've definitely earned yourself a sub, it's a shame I can only sub once lol. Keep up the absolutely amazing work my man!

I love your work dude.

This is an amazing video, from such a small, underrated creator. Wish I found this sooner. You deserve more recognition this is fantastic content dude Fanboying aside; I've always wondered if the music in payday 2 plays in the Heister's head or if its like in some sort of headphone device thing, like how Bain's communication is probably only heard from the Heisters and not the enemies or civs, since having Bain's assistance be heard by everyone nearby wouldn't be good. Perhaps the music may just be a sign of how immersed or focused the Heisters get when things get loud, or stealthy Funnily enough, the game's soundtrack is what actually got me into the game. I Heard the "No Mercy - Blood Spillage" track on youtube from a video, and thought "isnt there a *second* payday game?" Then I then found Code Silver 2018 of which I, of course, instantly fell in love with, which lead me to watching videos on the actual No Mercy Heist, most notably GeneralMcBadass' video. After countless more listens and videos watched, I played the heist, loved it, and then played it again. ...about 17 times. The soundtrack just doesnt get old, or the close-quarters combat too, the throwing of grenades at shields out of my reach, the accidental slaughters of civs, and the many failed attempts at the beginning stealth part still get me jumping in my chair giddy with excitement. I've heard the second assault in No mercy on several different occasions though. But I really won't forget how the soundtrack and robbing of a Hospital was what got me into a Heisting game, and not a bank or jewelry store of which are the most iconic and popular just shows how unique and diverse Payday 2 is. It's a concept I didn't think twice about trying. Despite its clunky engine, its questionable realism, and other things, I cant believe I just turned a small thought about the music into a whole paragraph about how I got into the game because thats exactly how I found interest for the game in the first place. Thats how you know a game is just *that* good. Thanks for reading (or not reading) my large block of text, hope someone sees this (lol)

I love the mix of video essay and funny moments of the video. You did an excellent job.

This video is amazing! I found this channel by chance and I'm super happy I did, I'm definitely subscribing.

I disapprove of how little you talked about Ode to Greed, still my favourite theme from Payday 2. It fits Big Bank perfectly and when the opera part hits and you're fighting hundreds of cops at the same time while trying to carry the loot out... Perfect.

Payday's music is the reason why I like playing Payday 2... Especially loud, screw stealth xD */// DANCE ASSAULT IN PROGRESS ///*

Games that use music in a god tier way: Diablo 1 Doom Eternal Payday 2 All for different reasons but goddamn it's just so good.

Great video, watching the part where you tried to force the trumpet section was hilarious for me because my friend and I got it the first, and only, time we ever heard the track. I honestly thought it was just a normal staple of the song.

This was one of the most in-depth videos about a game mechanic I've ever seen. To think that the same mechanic was used decades ago in Sonic is mind boggling.

Music is such an important part of payday 2, Really hope they can get Simon Viklund back for payday 3 If not, I hope they at least port the payday 2 music, Just like they ported Payday The Heist's tracks. Also me and my friends came to the conclusion that the lyric parts are random, My friend had a manic obsessions with Break The Rules and Ode To Greed when we played, Those were on pretty much every loud heist. Not only do the lyrics come randomly, They don't necessarily trigger to all players at once. We also agreed that Big Bank and Scarface Mansion both had higher chances of triggering the lyrics, But naturally we had no actual hard data for it. Either way good video.

Never played Payday 2, but I did play Payday The Heist back in the day. But even now, I'll still listen to the soundtracks of both these games. Also, YT recomendations knocked it out of the park with this one. Checked out what else was on your channel and it seems pretty interesting, gonna check it out later! Subbed

just got the vid in my recommendations, insanely good stuff! hope your channel blows up, you deserve it

Your Channel is underrated! I really like the video, it was very interesting!

Gonna make you salty I've only ever heard the alternate of deadeye I've never got the "normal" assault when I'm paying attention to be fair

This is the first vid of your channel I ever watched, and I gotta say that your dedication to editing these vids shows a lot! I hope you have a nice weekend and the subscribers you deserve 👌🏼

really good vid, would love to see more stuff like this

Simon Viklund and Ulf Andersson blew my mind with their work and I fell in love with their respective crafts because of them. Gunmetal gray is forever burned into my brain!

As someone who is a massive fan of Payday 2, this was a super fun watch. Love the editing style, you deserve so many more subs!

Me and my crew trying to escape on scarface mansion while a ton of enemy shoot at us, all of my 3 teamate were put down but ... LETS BREAK THE RULES I manage to save all of them because I was tanky and had inspire basic

my favourite soundtrack is I Will Give You My All 2017. that song is on loop for me for over 1 year now 😍

I've had Deadeye's alternate track kick in Cook Off after about thirty minutes, in Overkill, i think in the middle of the regular assault song

Trouble Always Inbound is beautiful.

It's always been obvious to me that the music in payday is dynamic and tied to how waves build up before a push. But those alternate versions are something I had no idea about. Fascinating.

I use a mod called CustomOST to insert custom music in game, and it works on a random alt assault basis- you can even set the chance of the alt assault triggering. I think it’s most likely random chance with the official music too.

I just wanna say how amazing yet gruesome it is that the bodies just pile up in hallways, to the point that you are wading through the corpses of your enemies... igs such an insane game

Some of the banter in the in between sections of this video is hilarious

What a great video so much time was spent for a great payout i feel so informed now

Very informative video, you deserve more views. Nice Astolfo bean plushie there at 2:37 btw

Code Silver 2018’s alternate usually happens in the elevator section. I don’t know if it has a chance to happen during the rest of No Mercy, but that’s usually where I’ve heard it.

Great video!

Your commitment to this video is impressive

9:14 that music played when i was doing swing vote but the music was set to original track of the heist

I hear the alt Dead Eye a lot when I play. It might be that I’m not paying attention to it but I feel like I hear that trumpet all the time.

I didnt even think that odd musical gap in heist songs was due to Bridging Desync, That blew my mind. God dam, Great video.

Somehow I got Break the rules’ alternate assault on the first assault of a Prison nightmare heist, really didn’t expect it on such a random heist

Some days ago, I was playing Hell's Island with Break The Rules and the lyrics started when the point of no return timer triggered, it was cool.

9:14 that music played or a similar one when i was doing swing vote but the music was set to original track of the heist

The music in payday is so good I use it for my D&D sessions when ever there stelthing or when it goes totally wrong

Love the video, just wanna throw my two cents in with “bridging”. Sometimes desynch could happen so badly that the assault “never” happens, what I mean by that is that the assault is happening but somehow it skipped over actually starting the assault music, meaning the control version could be playing over it, or worse, the anticipation version and hear and endless 3 second loop.

My fondest gaming memory was playing Meltdown on a higher difficulty than I or the randos in my lobby were ready for, getting the bare minimum to escape after getting the Longfellow stuck, just about to leave behind the rest of the loot in the warehouse when suddenly, the lyrics to Break the Rules started. We emptied the place of everything

Fun fact: Code Silver 2018 does in fact have an alternate assault track, which feels slower than the main one.

I think I heard something about it being a bit more common on maps that are set in Mexico like San Martín Bank, Buluc's Mansion and (just maybe) border crossing.

I feel like the vocal version of Break The Rules plays every time I play Cook Off or Rats day 1. Usually on the third or fourth assault.

That's weird I didn't realize how rare the alt version was, it was literally playing for me yesterday

It's funny that alternate versions of dead eye, break the rules, code silver 2018 and ode greed can be heard in when selecting the music for the heist And as much as you listen to them it can still happen that when you enter the heist the normal version sounds and not the alternative

They're could also be another factor, or im just incredibly lucky. I think the special assault music will always play or at least have a higher chance of doing so if it's your first time playing a heist. I don't play big bank often infact im pretty sure I've only played it once or twice, and i specifically remember getting the vocal section every time I've played it. I also just played scarface mansion for the first time on pc since i played on console until the steam sale and got the lyrics for break the rules on what felt like every assault wave which is amazing since its my favorite song from payday 2.

Literally got the alt one randomly first time playing it was so cool

That sonic spin transition was A1 bruh

The Payday 2 soundtrack lived rent free in my mind since the game's launched even though I heard a few songs. Some time in late 2015 was the first time I saw John Wick and when I got to the Club Scene I thought it sounded like something out of Payday 2. I hadn't played the game at this point nor did I actually know about La Castle Vania or his songs in Payday 2 but, somehow, I just knew this guy was making music for the game. When you can pull this information out of thin air because you heard Razormind before is insanity.

there’s also 2 different assault tracks for many other tracks. example: code silver 2018. it activates after a while at random.

ive heard the alternate version of code silver once and i was like? wait is this the correct version what, i was freaking out on how good it was

Ive heard somewhere that its not actually random but its a bit more counter intuitive, there has to be lots of cops on the map for it to play the alternate version, i believe this to be true because sometimes the lyrics of ode to greed play in the middle of an assault, and i usually just hide in a corner while kingpin recharges so i dont exactly go on a rampage so theres usually lots of cops on the map, which might be a bit of bias on my part but i always found it to be above 50 cops or so

I remember playing Scarface Mansion for the very first time, I was going through the story mode for fun, never having played before. I just got the vault up and started moving the cash and yayo. I'm throwing bags over the railing while firing my microgun, rushing to the van. Then I hear *"You and I...we've been going the distance..."*

Amazing video

I don’t use professional coding language, I use scratch. But I can explain the basics of what peer to peer is. In most coding languages there are these things called “variables” which just keep track of a certain number/phrase. Some variables can be linked to the internet itself, not a server. If an internet variable is set to a player’s xy and z positions and then sets those variables to their corresponding coordinates, that model’s positio. Is saved to the internet. Detecting certain online rooms to enter those coordinates into.

I heard Deadeye for the first time yesterday in-game and now I realize I got the alternate version first time and just thought that's how the song was... Nice.

"Understanding the music of PAYDAY 2"

That was some smooth editing at 9:11

0:36 I know you're talking about functionality but I like to think that break the rules with lyrics is the best one

I only got the game recently but break the rules is my favourite song in the game, I haven't heard anything else in the soundtrack that comes close to it imo (although it's all great music, break the rules is on another level)

I tried Buluc's Mansion for the first time yesterday and got the alternate Deadeye on the first assault wave. I love learning about these little mechanics about how the game handles music. Also what mods do you use? If you've got a list somewhere. Great video!

The watchdogs escape video can actually be killed before he arrives because it’s stationed so close to the map before it arrives. Killing the escape driver was a common tactic for old challenge runs, which in turn has been made more difficult by ovk patching it slightly, so now you need a gl instead of an rl. Killing it early will proc the helicopter to come early, meaning you can escape with 0 bags and softlock yourself out of day 2.

Payday's soundtrack really is amazing. My fav payday song will probably be Break The Rules forever though, man did Simon Viklund do a good job with that one.

4:39 I have confidence that its not the case, I got alt soundtrack at literally first assault, so yea, those are completely random with, I think, better chances of happening during their deafult heists

so that is a thing i was doing hold out with a friend and they have a bad connection so I would go from having 4 turrets and one ammo bag to 10 turrets because of teh desync XD

got the buluc one in the one and only time i played that heist in loud. thought it was normal

I would like to add that I have gotten the special vocals of break the rules almost once every heist and I am certainly concerned that the chances for that were rare

Bro I started putting on deadeye because I thought it's a good song and at like my third heist with it on I got the alternative version

That build you use in no mercy looks super fun. Must have plz.

I love how you tried for to weeks to get it. And the first time I played the mansion I got it. First wave.

Somehow a couple days ago I got the alternate track to play 3 times along with Ode to Greed's vocals guess I'm incredibly lucky.