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My biggest wish before Overkill fully commits to Payday 3 development and stops Payday 2 development, is to do a final, complete rebalance of the perk decks. I often see newer players be completely overwhelmed by how many choices there are, and they have no easy way of knowing which ones are actually good and which are trash.

i honestly think it's hilarious that you mentioned a downside of Gambler being that people are annoyed at their ammo boxes being taken, when, without fail, EVERY gambler game on dw/ds i've played, people are just like "oh shit you're running gambler? you're a hero" and don't care at all

Maybe Gambler should get a special ammo bag deployable. Pick up enough ammo to recharge it, and you can put down an ammo bag for your allies to make up for your greedy ammo-snagging, as well as establishing a playstyle of going balls to the walls with Bulletstorm and less ammo-efficient weaponry.

Biker can be defended given it can occasionally armor gate better than anarchist and socio combined, even. Additionally, in botless solo, it's a pretty consistent deck for armor gating since no one else interferes with the timers. As for the other decks, I've got nothin lol

Just a reminder people: Just because a perk deck, weapon or anything else is the "worst" or "not the best" doesnt mean you can't use it. Everything in this game works on dsod, even biker, you just need to learn and know how to use it.

Overkill should categorize the decks in terms of difficulty of use, I.e. simple/straightforward decks with mostly passive buffs like Muscle & Armorer should be in the “Easy/Basic” category, whereas ones that require slightly more thought & input from the player (but still easy to understand) like Grinder & Kingpin belong to the “Medium”-tier list, and so on. Having them all lumped in chronological order of release date makes it so confusing for a new player who just started out EDIT: Thought about a different way to categorize skills, check my reply in comments but TLDR categories would be “Passive”, “Skill/Playstyle”, and “Active/Ability”

Gambler has always held a special place in my heart, as it was my first perk deck. When playing Overkill its my favorite perk deck to turn my brain off with. Hope it’ll be buffed someday.

I've been running Maniac for a while now and can say that the damage absorption can come in handy as long you do ungodly amounts of damage, also it goes good with the Viper Grenades, it can keep up the Hysteria Stacks.

I do like the idea of each perk deck getting a "One Down" only upgrade

I personally love burglar in stealth. The page answer increase in itself is enough for me, as I tend to play solo. It allows me to kill 2 guards, answer 1 pager, run across the room and answer the other one. It could be better, but I think it's good. As for loud, I kinda understand it not being very powerful, because I think it's meant to be for situations where you get caught and just need to escape, but still it needs a buff.

For Gambler to buff it, I would just push further on the ammo pick up usage. Let it pick up ammo for specials and bows, also grenades in the style of Aced Fully Loaded. And as suggested, making the heal happen over time, as a weaker teamwide Grinder

I feel damage absorbsion can also be done in % figures. I mean, that would rebalance every perkdeck at the same time, but also make higher difficulties still... More difficult

About 5 minutes in and I agree with everything about Tag Team, I've been using it and surprisingly having fun with it, I've been brainstorming ways of making it more powerful or effective, it just requires aggression which is also the downside of it. Tagging up with a Grinder, Kingpin or Leech who is aggressive could heal both parties up to max and push to objectives. Deciding for a more armour or dodge build is up to the tag team player, Armour means more survivability but getting to teammates for healing or boosting will be limited while dodge is movement and getting down easier. Personally both could work but more open maps will showcase the downfalls of it as Tag Team requires the team to work together and that the signal that a player has been tagged is quite unnoticeable (as I was told by a friend). Just wanted to share my thoughts about a deck I thought was getting dunked on by too many peeps, as it has been enjoyable becoming an unstoppable mess with friends on lower difficulties.

Changing gamblers healing to be like the reverse of stoics damage reduction where the more ammo you pick up the more you heal per second and probably keep a flat armor increase while just resetting its duration might actually make it almost as busted as stoic but hey if everything's broken everything's balanced

With Yakuza, I think a good change would be its dodge being tied to your health. The less health you have, the more dodge. So if you're at a sliver of health, you may have like a 75% or more chance of dodging bullets.

Honestly pleasantly surprised that you didnt bring up Crew Chief. Me and a friend had a real bastard of a time trying to do DSOD Hells Island, and my Crew Chief/Jokers/Frenzy/Thanatos/Graze build got me through it way better than my Sicario/Rogue build did. My friend was running a crit LMG build and we kept getting bodied by shields on the stairway to the roof, so I made that build out of spite and it served me well.

Maybe, for Maniac, have the damage absorption scale with difficulty. 12/24/36/48/60/72/84 to give an example. You can have it scale harder at the high end to compensate for shots that deplete armor in one or two hits and encourage being more risky.

In my opinion, as someone who has played around with Tagteam a lot on lower difficulties, one of the BEST buffs Overkill could give Tagteam is a freaking indicator for the player tagged. It's surprising how little is told to players in vanilla in this game and just, letting them know "Hey, go kill some cops to heal us both" would go a long way towards making it better outside of a voice call.

Infiltrator isn’t too bad and actually doesn’t need too much except maybe a speed boost on hit, the idea is to get into crowds get as many kills as possible as you escape, melee with heavy armor isn’t too good with hit and run strategy so a speed boost would make a hit and run melee build much better

As someone who regularly uses some of these decks, here are my thoughts on them: Burglar: I have had a lot of runs saved by the faster pager, bagging, and lockpicking speed. Hacker being able to turn off cameras at a moment's notice is helpful, but getting out of sight from the other guards and civilians is more intuitively useful. Remember, how effective a tool is depends heavily on your playstyle; for a lot of people,. all a PECM will usually do is make a failure take six seconds longer to register. I do agree that it's main issue is that it's essentially a stealth-only deck, potentially making it a costly trap for new players. Biker: You seem to be treating the health.armor gain as something you need to actively pursue. Your crew is constantly killing things, so Biker essentially a passive inflow of health and armor, and you can get some decent armor gating with Bullseye. It won't hold up under sustained damage as well as some other decks will, but having your health and armor refill while you're dealing with objectives is pretty handy. Gambler: I agree that the actual effect of the deck is very underwhelming compared to what it seems like it should do, but it's far from useless. The fact that you're effectively trading health for health does mean you need a very particular kind of player to keep up the crew's momentum, (and, I admit, I'm not really that player), but it can keep you going for a while if you can handle it. And, why would players be annoyed at pickups "disappearing"? Gambler is a pickup multiplier. Unless you're desperate for a throwable, having one magical madman constantly shoving fresh health and ammo into the entire crew for free is pretty helpful.

the most underrated deck in this game is ex-president. It literally has everything. You can even use an ICTV on it and have that hitman feeling with the armor recovery on kill. This deck deserves more light

My wish is that infiltrator and sociopath are changed so one can be offense orientated and one is defense orientated, that way they don’t compete with each other and can both be used effectively in their own way without competing with each other.

I'm DW player primarily and i dont have much experience with DS/DSOD but i have a an idea for buffing Inflitrator. From my experience using infiltrator WITHOUT frenzy was always way more effective so first i'd like to just slighty bump up the damage resistance (no more than 10%) to be on par with its current frenzy stats. The absolute worst skill in the deck is definetly the last one. I believe the idea of making damage translate into health is neat. Instead of having fixed health regen, you'd get more health the more melee damage you deal, and the more damage you dealt the longer the cooldown of the effect (capped at 10 seconds or above). Unlike its counterpart (Sociopath), Infiltrator excels at one hit melee kills due to overdogs 7 second duration (being able to combo overdog with a fully charged melee strike on top of bloodthirst can easily one shot even the tankiest enemy types). This skill would be able to fully heal you if you manage to do enough damage. This i believe would also fit Dragan as a character. Perk decks are supposed to be representations of the character that came with them. Dragan is notorious for being extremely violent up close, so the idea of more damage being more rewarding fits this trait imo. Its a simple change, but i think it would make infiltrator more fun and fitting of the character its supposed to represent.

Good video! Generally I agree with the overall balance opinions and definitely would love to see some buffs to these underwhelming decks. However, I have a couple points: first, tag team's damage absorption is absolutely not negligible! Paired with quick fix/underdog aced, it grants 3 shot health and 2 shot ICTV. Infiltrator, I think, is also underrated, since it gets, once again, innate 3 shot health which is supplemented by its pretty darn good healing. You also unfairly rate maniac, which has a niche 3 shot ICTV (Koldat has a guide somewhere if you dig), whereas Kev's build that you showcased lacked that. It's also batshit busted below DS if you run a max damage resistance setup.

i love using Burglar on rare occasions in loud because of that lowered detection rate from enemies, because you need to crouch to get benefits often. Say for instance your weapon has average accuracy. Well, standing and firing gives that base accuracy, but aiming and firing while standing gives extra accuracy and lowered recoil. when combining ADS with crouching, you get a max aim benefit, which works really well for precision builds that use snipers and/or pistols.

I once jumped straight to Crook after falling into the "dodge gud" mindset. My brother told me 60 dodge is better than 45 dodge 195 armor. Needless to say, my main perk deck is now Anarchist to spite him.

NGL I'm glad you gave some love to those of us that run Hybrid builds (HBV w/ decent enough dodge). I've got a DSOD viable hybrid build with Sicario and it's so much fun. I didn't even know Crook was another option for this!

The best loud way I've found Burglar felt kinda obvious to me, but the idea of having a semi-decent dodge and crouching still to remain less targeted REALLY helps when you decide to pick up a sniper and pick away at armored units and graze kill crowds while one of your more tanky buddies (preferably ones with Muscle or Kingpin enemy attraction) gets shot at works pretty well from experience.

Maniac is my go-to deck for my "Tower Defense" turret build on Holdout because the turrets contribute to Maniac stacks and keeps it well topped off, so long as you keep em fed.

Maniac was my first Perk Deck and honestly, i love it. The Damage absorbtion can come in Handy very good in clutch situations, there are so many moments, where i would have gone down but my Maniac kept me Alive lomg enough to survive

I have been rocking gambler for years now. It pairs well with my turret build. Its dangerous to run out and grab ammo sure, but thats the "gamble". But with a good killzone, usually a pile of ammo are all in one place. Paired with 4 turrets, mastermind heals from hostages, 2 jokers and extra ammo skills and i have a build that makes even Overdrill a literal breeze. Literally my best build to date and now with the new copycat perk i have a badass stealth build!

Something my friend used to do with gambler, was using snipers with the ammo regen in headshots, being kinda of a support back line support It's super nieche but fun

I was under the impression that the maniac perk deck stacked with other crew members. I saw it as a holdout deck more than anything else.

I remember when rogue was the hottest perk around when deathwish came out. All the infamous players in lobby would be in suits. Getting up to 90% dodge back then before the nerf made rogue perk the absolute best! Good times!

@TheKknowley what ui mod are you using I've been trying to find one like the one your using but I can't seem to find anything similar on mod sites everything is minimal ui mods and I'm not looking to take away the information i'm already getting

I've been playing a lot of biker recently on DS and it's pretty fun. It almost reminds me of rogue a bit, with a somewhat random chance to armor gate. The healing is nice too, and reminds me a bit of playing grinder. Burglar is also a deck I like for loud. The lock pick, crouch and targeting can all be pretty nice, and the dodge helps a bit. I wouldn't say it's a strong deck, but I have more fun playing it than most stoic or hacker setups The more I get into DS the more I appreciate having some more underpowered decks. Just playing anarchist/stoic/KP can get kind of boring, and having those less powerful decks can be a nice break.

Tag team isn't that bad tbh. However it is very punishing if you can't kill effectively with it. Health is actually the best thing to build for in terms of dsod especially combined with the armour gating. The reason why armor gating and berserker builds are soo popular is because of not the armour gating aspect, it is because of the berserker skill being borderline overpowered. Maniac is just underrated on dsod. It has ton of ways to build for it and it is a support deck on top. Hell you can build it to not take damage for light swats if you really want. But yeah I agree with the rest. Also thanks for the shout-out. Appreciate it.

Crook is actually pretty good in DSOD Solo. Through crew boosts and more points to spend from not taking Inspire, you can make a build with 40% dodge and enough armor to tank two hits from a Heavy ZEAL.

for Burglar in loud, I love to use it one heists with objectives that need you to stand still (drill repair, hox breakout day 1 doors). With OI, your target chance while standing still is super low and lets you do objectives without worrying much.

I love playing morbius maniacs. It's such a terrible deck, but on lower difficulties, you become everyone's best friend as that absorption pretty much makes everyone on your team unkillable

One change I'd give to infiltrator is to swap the middle card for something that goes like: after killing an enemy with a melee attack, the next enemy you land a melee attack on will become "tagged" . Tagged enemies revive a 20% damage over time effect for 5 seconds. When a tagged enemy dies to this effect your armour will instantly regenerate fully, this effect can only occur every 10 seconds and you will not be able to tag an enemy again until getting another melee kill. *I would also add 4% damage reduction to the middle cards to make up the difference from swapping the middle one

Does anyone know the song playing at around 1:25? I’ve heard it in lots of payday videos but don’t know what it’s called

Beautiful video bro, you explain very well and even finding a "bad" deck you show the positive points of the deck. too nice Ps: Could you put some subtitles in Portuguese in your videos? my english is very bad and the subtitles of youtube sometimes don't put anything

I reccomend a shotgun loadout for manic, when its maxed out you can play cook off on death sentence and just chill out side as long as your shooting someone.

Burglar is actually my favorite perk deck for my stealth build (i mainly stealth) and i do not see it as a perk deck that is trying to be a combination of loud and stealth. It's completely geared towards stealth play, and dodge is meant for avoiding situations, not gunfire, the quicker pager, bagging and lock picking are invaluable for pure stealthing. 10% on a pager doesnt sound like much, but it often is the difference in being spotted while bagging (which is also 20% faster) or not being spotted. And 20% quicker lock picking, well.. as i see it, the name of the deck "Burglar" means you steal everything you can get your hands on, so lets say at the bank.. those locked boxes? suddenly are not that annoying anymore, but.. it's pure stealth only, not meant for rushing through a mission. Obviously to make best use of this deck, you have to set your skills to a full stealth build as well.

Quick question how do you have the damage show and the effect on top?

Hitman is actually great for akimbo pistols or SMGs due to how small of an ammo pool those weapons generally get. Getting 50% increased ammo capacity makes dual pistol builds actually work in long loud heists without the player constantly running dry of bullets, and it was the deck I used the most until I started branching to Mayhem difficulty and beyond. Since then, I've been using Anarchist, but I've also had to move away from akimbo pistols simply due to them now having poor ammo economy without the bonus from Hitman. The most major thing I could think of doing with it is actually moving the 50% ammo capacity to the Gunslinger skill tree instead of the Hitman perk deck (could replace that terrible skill that increases pistol firing rates, 'cos they fire fast enough without it!), making akimbo pistols more usable in general instead of requiring the use of a perk deck with low survivability, and then change it's bonus so that, when equipped, the player could bring along akimbo pistols as a secondary, as well as a primary, maximising the use of it's bonuses and offsetting the low ammo economy of akimbo pistols by doubling the usable weaponry. To add to survivability, make it so that when armour breaks, the player receives 50% less damage for 'x' seconds, giving the player time to move to cover to make use of the faster armour recovery. It would still somewhat be a glass cannon, but at least with this it would be a glass cannon that doesn't run out of ammo or drop dead the moment a dozer looks in their direction.

I feel like hitman could have been about taking out high value targets. Like special enemies and bosses. killing the regular swat and police could temporarily add a 50% damage bonus to all enemies and a 100% to special enemies. Then every special enemy killed adds a permanent stackable 0.5% health regen per second. Then every special enemy killed will spread panic to all nearby enemies, and all enemies panicked by killing special enemies will boost the health regen temporarily. Then killing special enemies will give 20 armor and every non special enemy you kill will add a stackable 10 armor boost to the total amount you get back from killing special enemies, killing a special enemy will reset the armor gain back to 20 and not getting any kills for a certain amount of time will reset the bonus armor gain as well. the bonus armor can only be stacked up to 250 armor. This is probably horrible balanced so let me know just how badly balanced this idea is.

I think that Biker is a good deck for lower levels. It's a mini grinder, but you can use it with any armor. I personally love it for singleplayer as well as It is very useful for xp grinding and staying in the fight as you can tank shots from cops as armor and health regenerates, and if you keep killing you keep regenerating. It's great with LMG's imo. I get that it's not very DSOD viable, at least I assume.

Quick question: what hud do you use ?

Yakuza only really needs a way to force a full armor gain some how or maybe a thing that divides the into slices like how health is divided in leach, maybe every 30 armor = 1 slice

What hud mod you're using? Can i get a link?

I have a question what is in your opinion the best gun to give the AIs

Burglar is solid for team games where need to bag bodies, answer pagers and pick locks. It for that "objective" player while your friends are basically Space Marines just in case shit hits the fan.

Grinder with a sentry gun build is great! Your almost invisible as long as you make sure the sentrys are shootin something lol

My personal buff to tag team would be to make the dmg negate a % that can stack to 50 or more aswell as not heal frenzy players. This would make it usable for all parties and make for a solid supportive playstyle where you could perhaps be the one to do objectives, brushing off potential damage while your duo/tagged player becomes a one man army drawing the attention. now this would not be unfair I think as you would need to keep up the massacre to keep the buff. I believe that it goes up by 0.5 per kill and if you manage to keep a tag team going for 100 kills it should be rewarded. It would also make for the only deck (that I know off) that would run a full ICTV as you could potentially bring it to a three hit break on DSOD with the right build

A great way i think to buff burglar is to make it a targeting deck. As in to provide a less chanche to be taregted like elusive in rouge or in optical illusions skill. It would be unique to not just be another dodge deck but not overly broken because there is a much lower chance to dodge when you are targeted. Maniac could work in a fashion where it is a separate bar of health, similar to armor and shares some of the mechanics as armor. While still having the flat damage reduction, it could also have a the armor mechanic that allows for armor gating, “absorption gating”. To balance this you could make absorption stack deplete much faster to not allow for essentially immortality.

What is funny is that I used Biker with a mastermind joker build and Gambler on a sentry build, not that I play dsod but I do love to use them in those builds.

Something i've been wanting to see as a perk deck is something that buffs existing throwables, not adding a new unique one limited to the perk deck but instead letting you use stronger grenades more often. Possible bonuses could include: doubling your held capacity, increasing blast radius (concussion enjoyers rejoice), increasing throw velocity, Health on throwable kill (lifesteal knives for consistent healing, or massive full heal with explosive aoe), and finally... We already have a method to get grenades back via fully loaded aced on ammo pick up, and stockpiler ai skill on cop kills, so how about in respective perk fashion, throwables automatically regenerate overtime, shortening with every kill. Where do the throwables come from? lets say they make it through your intestines after movin your body for a while. Hillarious thought but could work. In any case, i want a better reason to use dynamite and HE grenades and all that, because the alternatives are just so much better at doing the same job and more.

Can someone explain how does the buld at 15:02 have 65 cc?

What's the mod that ads the effects UI?

i think Gambler could work similar to the scout in tf2s man vs machine mode. his job is to run around and grab the money and since hes directly in the action money heals him past full health to an overshield. Gambler could get this in the form of armor regen on pick up as well as a bit of a passive speed boost to help get in and out. as for the ammo make it so that if he gets the ammo everyone gets a reduced amount of ammo from it but when totaled up its slightly more than normal ammo for one person, that way you want him to be the one getting ammo boxes. another thing i thought of would be a throwable with a cooldown that could give off all the effects that picking up an ammo box would but that you could use from safety or behind cover if its needed.

Latching onto the Burglar Objective Push idea, what if it gave extra boosts to drills, saws and hacks alongside the lines of the drill skills so long as the alarm has been tripped? Extra speed, tripping up enemies that get near it, faster restart speed, that sort of stuff. Another concept, for every player running Burglar after a certain level (maybe level 9), helicopters and escape vans will arrive faster when you have to wait for those sorts of things. Get things done fast and efficiently, stealth or loud. Here're my ideas. Sneaky: Your chance to dodge is increased by 20%. Drills, Saws and Hacks complete 10% faster once the alarm goes off. Bag of Tricks: Your Drills, Saws and Hacks are rigged to blast enemies when they break, clearing out the area around them. This will only occur if the alarm has been tripped. You bag corpses 20% faster. Luck of the Irish: Your chance to dodge is increased by an additional 5%. You pick locks 20% faster. Your intuition as a thief will make it more likely your first choice is the correct choice. (For instance, on No Mercy whichever ward you saw has a chance to become the infected patient's ward if it wasn't already the infected patient's ward.) Dutch Coverage: Your chance to dodge is increased by an additional 5%. You take 20% less damage when interacting with objects and you can interact with them 10% faster. Breath of Fresh Air: Once the heist goes loud, the getaway drivers will be primed and ready to go, and will thus arrive on the scene 20% faster. You gain 10% crouching movement speed.

So I use Biker as a bootleg Anarchist on a full sentry/utility build. Having turrets down and constantly proccing armor gate and healing allows me to handle objectives without focusing on killing enemies myself (because Anarchist doesn’t work on turrets oddly enough). The constant stream of health and armor helps with long interacts. Well, that and the shaped charges I throw on with Jack of all Trades. Still pretty sure Copycat with the Biker perk is still way better for the health/armor boost.

I don't think the loud buffs from Burglar were quite meant to make it a hybrid perk deck, more so they are there in the eventuality that your stealth goes wrong at the last minute (or is forced into loud by the nature of the heist (screw you big oil)) and you might want to try to endure through the last few stages of the heist in loud to avoid restarting, hence why its so focused on dodge and sneaking around, its less of a viable loud option and more of a last ditch effort to maybe clutch it when all goes south.

could someone explain why armorer wasn't on the list I mean I barely alive in ovk with armorer but perfectly fine in dw with infiltrator

i love gambler to a point that i still use it on higher difficulty with a build i found pretty decent with it, but i can agree that it need a buff and one that i can think of would be health received depends on weapon ammo pickup rate for which you are holding out, so the lower ammo and pick up is the more you get b ack as health similar to anarchist armor chunks being big or small based on what armor you have on.

What if Gambler automatically picked up ammo drops from enemies you kill? I recall a mod (Irenfist) which has a sniper perk deck and that part was amazing for selfsustaining

Has anyone told you how good your diction is? Like fr you're good at voice acting

yeah cool video and all but, why would you put a laser on a flamethrower? serious question

im happy that my go two pair, armour and muscle aint here. I was thinking despite the buffs that due to the stupid amount of high level damage that can happen the "just face tank it lol" style of theirs wouldnt hold up as well as the others.

Gambker is funny as shit on ps4 when cop spawns glich and spawn 10 times of what the normally do and btw whats a good hacker build (stealth)

Is the 20 damage absorption from tag team really that bad though? It's enough to make ICTV tank a heavy shot on DSOD without relying on the inconsistent underdog aced

5:55 does anyone know what this mask is called?

As a gambler main, I fully agree with the pick up range and healing over time buff. The main downside of all those ammo boxes is having to slowly wait for the healing cooldown to recharge so I am able to heal my teammates again. As I run a sentry gun build myself, Inshallah don’t have a problem being a more supportive role for my team but DAMN would it feel good to be more active with healing

i really enjoy playing tag team and crook on dsod as some variety from the decks that overshadow them. i find it amusing how you can also ruin other players zerk by tagging them, and as the deck is hardly used on dsod, i have seen some players have no clue why they are healing

Man, I love your vids

what hud mod is that i neeeeeeeed it

I think Yakuza’s rage should be in the throwable slot, and maybe the characters can make an angry yell in loud, and a quiet curse in stealth.

What's the mod you use for the dot crosshair?

About gambler: I would just remove the cooldown on the ammo sharing all together and change the healing to refund its cooldown partially if picking up ammo while its on cooldown. Then just change the "more self healing when lower health then your team" to something like "1% increased self healing for every 1% health missing" to break the anti synergy with teammates running berserker and we should be good to go That way you could give the three support decks each their own flavor: Gambler as the ammo refill perk deck, Master Mind as a perkdeck that buffs your entire team passively and Tag Team for on demand Burst healing.

personally i use gambler with my tank build with scavenger aced, i am yet to try DSOD cuz i am still new to the game but its quite overpowered with weapons like grenade launchers and miniguns, i can go around scavenging for ammo packs after killing a horde of units for health which for me works quite well

I'm running Burglar for hundreds of hours by now (I only play stealth). The body bag speed can save a heist, if I accidentally knock a guard too far and it gets spotted, I can bag it before it'd alert them. Quicker lockpicking is also nice. So, other than Hacker, can someone recommend a good stealth deck? (ECM rushing is good for sweating, but I hate it.)

5 months later and ive been giving crook a run with lightweight ballistics and revenant in the worlds stupidest mix of a dodge/down build, i heartily suggest you try it if you like running around with an smg like you have plot armor

Can I just say it's refreshing to see you willing to learn from others in your comment section. I've met players and seen other KZfaqrs who refuse to learn from others and it's obnoxious. Also much love as a crook simp who loves playing hbv frenzy crook for you spotlighting that playstyle

Biker used to be super good because of a glitch where if you killed multiple enemies with one shot it only counted as one kill, I used to pair it with explosives and get huge chunks of health and armor back (granted I’ve never gone above mayhem but that’s besides the point) That got me thinking that it biker was something like “every 10 seconds gain a charge, (max of 1) upon getting a kill for the next 5 seconds all kills are converted into health, armor and ammo, but that’s my “I think the best melee is the one that looks the funniest” view

I feel like Infiltrator shouldn’t be on here as if you don’t have hotline miami 2, it is the best option for a purely melee build.

Crew Cheif needs a buff, and it should add health regen for every civilian hostage you have

As a Hitman main. The quick armor regen is incredible. I tried running Muscle and I despised not having my armor come back instantaneously.

have they done any of the improvements?

I love how this video is about the worst perk decks but he starts off with a couple good decks.

Dumb question, why is it referred to as DSOD and ODDS as in what are the odds we'll live through this XD?

Maniac with turrets is a lot of fun on Overkill and lower, especially on heists like day 2 of Hoxton Breakout or Big Oil day 2, but as someone who regularly uses the deck I can absolutely see why it's not great on higher difficulties. Conveniently for me I feel like Overkill is the best difficulty anyways.

Well.. While i don't see most of these builds working in Death sentence, for obvious reasons, they do have very good uses in Lower difficulties that just make them good. You talked about Hysteria for Maniac. Here's the Thing. Turrets can also activate Hysteria. And if you constantly keep them online, the team is practically invincible, and you don't even need an ICTV for it. With Gambler, there seems to be one overlooked stat. The healing is increased, when your teammates have higher health have more health than you. Which also applies back from you, to your teammates, increasing their healing. In Frenzy, you can basically always feed them the same amount of health you would usually get in Gambler. And for someone who plays on Console, it works surprisingly well as an Aggressive Healing tool. I'm a bit of a psycho though, and I still don't wear an ICTV with that build. I actually just take advantage of skills that increase Ballistic Vest armor, and Iron Man basic. That gives me enough armor to just keep running around with the equivalent of a Flak, but without the downsides.

Burglar is convenient for heists you really want to stealth, but if things go to shit at the 11th hour you can push to finish anyway lol I would love for the stealth bonuses to get an increase, for sure, but I still use it

pls someone what is this hud????

What’s your KSP build?

For anyone that prefers deathwish over death sentence, Maniac is actually a really good perk deck. Because damage resistance applies before damage absorption, stacking Maniac with skills that give damage resistance can turn you invulnerable easily on deathwish. A shot from a heavy swat deals 75 damage, that can be lowered by 25% through frenzy then by another 15% through underdog. This lowers the damage either to 47.8. This is lower than the 48 absorption from maniac, so at max hysteria stacks you will be invulnerable to almost all incoming fire. The 24 absorption for your teammates is a great bonus too, and I've had multiple occasions where one of my mates exclaims "your maniac just saved me" when he escapes from somewhere with a sliver of health. Another hidden benefit of Maniac is that it makes inspire unnecessary, as even a small number of hysteria stacks will keep you alive combined with the above semi-passive damage resistances, plus 30% from combat medic and a whopping 50% from die hard. This can save you from going down any of the medic tree apart from the first skill, freeing up skillpoints to use for other things (i.e. turrets, that build up your hysteria stacks for you). I have very little death sentence experience so I can't speak for Maniac's balance on that, but the only thing I would change for deathwish is lowering the amount your hysteria decays. Losing a minimum of 66% of your stacks every time it ticks is brutal, and means that even with constant infinite damage output it's impossible to keep hysteria at max forever. I'd tweak it so that you lose roughly 40% hysteria at max stacks, have a higher hysteria gain cap, increase the rate of hysteria gain/loss ticks slightly, and decrease the amount of hysteria lost during interactions. These tweaks should buff active and aggressive playstyles that are dealing a consistent amount of damage over time while giving you a chance to let go of the trigger and semi-safely open a door that takes a 20s interaction for no good reason.

my suggestion for gambler buff is probably: 1. make the heal based on the amount of ammo that added to your weapon, maybe something like if you pick up 1 ammo box and it add 5 bullet to your gun, it would heal around 25, if it added 1, it would heal 5 instead 2. Make the heal works even if you use the ammo bag, like maybe if you use the ammo bag when one of your weapon running dry, it would be a full team FAK 3. Maybe, just maybe, make Gambler can replenish ammo for weapons like rocket launcher or saw when picking up normal ammo box