Beyond One Down

A lot of you would agree that the One Down difficulty is a bit of a mess. Rather than increase the difficulty in more advanced ways, the difficulty was artificially increased by turning all the police into bullet sponges, preventing most conventional weapons from killing them easily. This take on the game aims to make the game more realistic; keeping it hard whilst also making it easier to kill cops with normal weapons than on One Down.

THE RULES:

1. All games are to be played on the OVERKILL difficulty, with the 'Because of Training' and 'Friendly Fire' mutators turned to their maximum values.

2. Players are limited to the following weapon classes: Assault Rifles, LMGs, SMGs, Shotguns, Pistols (NO AKIMBO), and the Saw. Restricted weapons within these classes include DMRs, Desert Eagle, Bronco, Judge and Akimbo SMGs.

3. Players cannot use the Sentry gun or Trip Mine deployables as the sentries in Payday 2 would be too hard for the gang to get a hold of, and trip mines in reality would also be a major hazard to the heisters.

4. The following skills are NOT allowed due to being unrealistic:

When there is a ACED behind the skill it means that the BASIC version of that skill is allowed but no the ACED if there is nothing behind it it means that BOTH verions are NOT allowed.

• Inspire
  
• Painkillers
  
• Confident ACED , Joker and Partner in Crime - Police officers would not fight for the most notorious criminals in Washington and would be trained to resist persuasion from criminals.
  
• Stockholm Syndrome ACED
  
• Hostage Taker and Bullseye - Regeneration skills are unrealistic.
  
• High Value Target
  
• Agressive Reload ACED
  
• Ammo Efficiency
  
• Gun Nut ACED
  
• Shotgun Impact, Overkill, Specialized Killing, Low Blow, Unseen Strike, One Handed Talent, Trigger Happy and Berserker - Damage boosting skills are unrealistic.
  
• Far Away
  
• Resilience ACED
  
• Iron Man ACED - ICTVs are too uncommon and high-tech.
  
• Bulletstorm
  
• Combat Engineering
  
• Kickstarter ACED
  
• Fire Trap
  
• Surefire ACED
  
• Lock and Load ACED
  
• Body Expertise ACED
  
• Shockproof
  
• Dire Need
  
• Sneaky Bastard
  
• All of the skills in the Relentless tree
  
• Bloodthirst
  
• Counterstrike ACED - The Cloaker would have higher military/martial arts training than any of the Payday gang members, preventing them from realistically being able to fight back.
  
• Frenzy

Despite being in the Engineer tree, Jack of All Trades is allowed.

5. Players can not use Javelins, Shurikens or explosive throwables, as these would be very impractical to carry.

6. Only small knives, small blunt objects and fist/weapon butt melees are allowed. No special melees.

7. No HE/Dragon's breath rounds.

8. Players can only use the following perk decks as the others have unrealistic properties:

• Crew Chief
  
• Armorer
  
• Hitman