Decided to reinstall GTAV and oh wow guess what? IT GOT WORSE. And NO, I'm not talking about the mods that actually make this fun (even the players that used singleplayer mods got banned.. and I MEAN A LOT OF PLAYERS GOT BANNED as of the 25th). I'm not talking about the RP servers that make this fun. I'm talking about the "community" the has to shoot you the second you exit a shop. The "community" that goes afk on the best paying heists and jobs. This game is now a HUGE dissapointment. If you start getting spawn raped or killed by someone, you might aswell leave, cus you arent getting payback on that level 193 with unlimited sticky bombs. I really don't know where to start with this review so i'll just end it with this.
Shark Cards are $100 for 8MILLION... For the past YEAR.. ALMOST EVERY DLC VEHICLE has been around 30-40MILLION. So unless you wanna spend about 400 bucks for one of the "low end DLC vehicles" YOU CAN GRIND AND PLAY THE MONTHLY MISSIONS. Like this month, it's this parachuting car thing. Super fast, and fun mini game... until 9 players land, and 1 player DECIDES TO FLY AROUND IN CIRCLES FOR 5 MINUTES, 20 TIMES (5 waves total) AND YOU CAN MAKE 100k!!!
Well... it took me one whole hour to play this mission... and I made 70k. I COULD just spend 100 bucks to get a LITTLE closer to getting that new bike. The game is No where near newbie friendly, in fact the original community, IS FAVORED and HAS BEEN from the begining.. better vehicles, fast xp.. yada yada.. different events.

If you're trying to get into this game and catch up to your friends who somehow seem to get past all the players who leave sticky bombs outside of barber shops, the kids who scream into mics with their british accents, then LOOK NO FURTHER!! If you get started today, you can spend many MANY hours on DYING, or.. CALLING YOUR MECHANIC FOR A NEW REPLACEMENT CAR. OR... DEALING WITH A BOUNTY BECAUSE YOU FINALLY KILLED THTA TROLL WHO KEPT SPAWN CAMPING YOU.
Anyways.. yeah. This game sucks. Look at the overall reviews. Look at how often the DLC updates are coming out now? This game came out years ago, and you can tell by their efforts of updating the game, that its falling in shambles. Too bad it is filled with kids whom had their PC's made by their Papis..

With that new vietnam thing coming out for Insurgency right now.. this is a waste of time. This isn't what I thought it was. I played the ♥♥♥♥ out of DoI when it was a mod for Insurgency. Then this... this came out.. and I waited a bit, watched gameplay videos, reviews. ALL of which.. just for some reason kept giving me red flags. Yet I still got it.. I only played 30 minutes, and I'm done. The maps aren't immersive as they look VERY similar to DoD. The weapon attatchments are more time consuming and asthetic than they are beneficial for your gameplay. I was incredibly disappointed, for someone with 500+ hours on Insurgency, and at least 100 of that being on the mod for this game.

This will be my first Steam Refund. Which is a shame, because I wanted something to get into tonight.

I am giving this game a positive review since it has held together for the first few years. But here are a couple of my complaints I have to get out there since I started playing again.
Now also, mind you.. This used to be my favorite game. But simply said, It isnt quite the same anymore.

Don't play the Safehouse Raid. I and other players have been getting "kicked out" of the safehouse and forced outside. You then have to quit the game and rejoin. This has been going on for a week or so now? Bout to give up on this game after all the micro transactions and skins crap. This was one of my favorite games. I regret taking a break for a year.. Because now it is just complete crap with these new missions.

The Payday creators mentioned a while back how they were going to dedicate 2 MORE years to this game. Little did we know that meant make it into a game that brings them residual income by putting a price tag on pointless things and making new maps, THE SAFE HOUSE MIND YOU... SOMETHING WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING ON... and almost every round ive played, I get popped out. I dont even think they test this stuff anymore.