Payday: The Heist (WolfPack DLC)

The Wolfpack DLC lets you continue your path on the other side of the law with two new heists, Undercover and Counterfeit, along with new weapons and equipment, such as the GL 40 grenade launcher, AK riffle, STRYK pistol, sentry guns, among others. It also brings a new upgrade tree, the technician. In order to enjoy the DLC every player needs to download a massive update, regardless of whether they buy it or not, which means those who have bought the DLC can host games on the new maps for those who haven’t bought the DLC to play on. In other words, everyone can play the new content, but only the ones who have bought the DLC can access new weapons, equipment, trophies and achivements. Seems fair.

The Counterfeit heist is somewhat an easy heist. Set in American suburbs, your gang is disguised as handymen fixing an electrical fault of some kind with the security system. Your goal is to hack into that security system and access the contents of the safe hidden in the lower area of the house. The main challenge comes from the objectives drawing the players out of the secure area underneath the house and back into the open area. It's a novel setting, but apart from that, it’s about as close to a templated Payday heist as you can expect – it’s mostly waiting for timers to countdown with the odd run for an external objective point breaking up the enemies.

Undercover it's harder, forcing you to be on a good team of players if you want to beat it on the highest difficulty setting, Overkill. This is much better. You start by overlooking an exchange with ‘Taxman’ taking a server, when the FBI break up the exchange. The heist begins when a helicopter picks up the limo Taxman is in and drops it over your building, as you then force him to hack into the server to collect $25,000,000. Just like with Diamond Heist, this map is brilliant because there are lots of different layers to pick through. First, you need to cut Taxman out of the limo (sometimes you need to shoot it down, depending on where it drops) while fending off assaults. Then you need to escort Taxman to the server room, then ‘co-oerce’ him into giving you the passwords, then keep the power running, then make your escape.

If you are up for an extra challenge, the Wolfpack DLC is worth the money for Payday fans. The two new heists and the new gadgets of the Technician class, makes this game an endless wave of possiblities, strategies to beat the heists and will make you busy for a great ammount of hours.

Marco Cecilio, NoobFeed