
Enemy Health and InfoĪs the name implies, the Enemy Health and Info mod provide you with the name and current health of each enemy when you’re aiming at them. If you’re not a fan of Bain, or simply would prefer most of the in-game chatting to be between you and your friends, this makes for an amusing alternative to Bain’s less necessary chatter. The Mute the Goldfish mod replaces most of Bain’s dialogue with short bubbling sounds (the modder refers to Bain as a “goldfish” due to his oft-repeated dialogue over the course of a single mission).ĭon’t worry – the really important audio, like sniper alerts and escape locations, is kept intact. The creator of this mod clearly does, anyway. Some players are fine with this and consider it an effective method of immersion and of giving the game some character.

Mute the Goldfishīain has a tendency to talk in your ear a great deal throughout the average heist. It’s great for when you’re running the game on a more low-end PC, and really, slightly fewer effects hardly make the game any less fast-paced or thrilling. The Less Effects Mod, in brief, reduces the number of special effects in the game in order to improve the framerate. Nobody wants a slow responder in their crew. Low framerates are bad enough in single-player games, but they can make time-sensitive co-op games like this one unplayable. There really is nothing more painful than hearing your friends going on about how much fun Payday 2 is and buying a copy so that you can join them on your next heist, only to find out that it lags horribly on your PC. It’s tremendously satisfying to see the frustration of those players looking to compromise the integrity of your game. The mod works on flagged players and can be toggled on and off. With the Stop the Cheaters mod, you can make those pesky cheaters’ days just a little bit harder by forcing them to play the game at half-speed.

It completely goes against the spirit of teamwork and, well, co-operation that co-op games are supposed to be based on.

When it comes to co-op games, there’s nothing more tiresome than a player using cheats. You can check out a full list of the new features on the mod’s page, but overall, when you have to fill some team slots with AI players, this mod is another great one for immersion. The Better Bots mod, well, makes the bots better by changing teammate AI to more closely emulate human players and give them a number of new abilities.
