

While weak doors are usually made of wood, they also include glass doors with metal frames. You want to aim for the door handle/knob for best return on investment. Particular about where it wants you to shoot the door for the shots to count. You should also note that the game is very. With a shotgun that usually goes in a single hit but most other weapons will take multiple shots.

This is because the locks have a certain amount of "hit points" that you have to deplete.

However, you may notice that you keep shooting the doors and nothing happens. Contrary to what NT might say, this is the preferred method for opening these doors. Alternately, you can "breech" them by shooting the lock off with any firearm. You can pick their locks by hand without any skills necessary, and it'll take you 10 seconds to do so. You have examples of all three kinds in the room. Generally speaking, there are three kinds of doors: weak doors, strong doors and security doors. This area is there to teach you how to open the doors themselves, as well as what kind of doors there are in the game. You can walk around the doors and get to the other side, but that's not the point. Left of the staircase is a room with a bunch of closed doors secured to a makeshift wooden frame. The rest of the rooms I'll make into minor tutorials of their own. This is where your money will stack up once you have any. Straight ahead from the staircase is your vault. Eventually he'll let you into the basement and essentially leave you on your own. He'll teach you how to pick up and drop bags (a central mechanic of the game) as well as how to use guns. This is "Bain" and he'll be your mission control for the rest of the game. Once in the Safe House, a voice will talk at you over the radio. Don't worry about Skill or Inventory for the moment - you very likely can't do anything there yet, anyway. This is your tutorial and it'll introduce you to the basics of the game. Once that's done, hit the "Safe House" option. There are other options to mess with there, but this is the one that you WANT to max out as soon as possible. This has the effect of making you almost blind to enemies coming in on your side and can cause some people to feel motion sick. What this means is you have next to no peripheral vision. The default FOV (Field Of View) in Payday 2 is very, very low. Go into Options menu under Video -> Advanced and adjust your FOV slider to the maximum the game will allow.

So you just launch Payday 2 for the first time? I'll try to spread this out over several posts and probably several days, but I'd like start where you would if you just picked up the game, or if you'd never played it before: The very basics. In request, I decided to create a sort of beginner's guide to Payday 2.
