Payday 2 - Missing Features? No Problem!

So for all you Payday fans out there, let me just say that I've only just recently discovered how awesome the franchise is, particularly so with the newly-released sequel: Payday 2. Now, I was playing the beta a few weeks before release, and I discovered the full version would include certain new features such as making your safehouse (needs no explanation hopefully) customizable, and inclusion of the "Cloaker", a badass special enemy which I didn't even know existed until trying the first Payday when I was taking a break from 2's beta.

Payday 2 has been fully released for a few weeks now, and many of the special features the devs talked about have not been implemented in the final version. I had originally gazed upon various forums for confirmation that I wasn't just being a noob and couldn't figure out how to get the features to work, but also to see the reaction of others. Many were upset; many were not.

Where do I stand? Think of it like this: for the staggeringly low price of $29.99, an already solid game doesn't even need these extra features at all really. Sure, they were promised to be in the final release, but Overkill Studios assures us that these features will, in fact, be added anyway, once all the bugs have been worked out. They claim to want to ensure the features work as intended when they're added, and that sounds pretty reasonable to me. So yes, they essentially missed a deadline, but who hasn't (think Duke Nukem Forever)? The positive aspect of this is that Overkill appears to be a trustworthy, competent, and benevolent company, who are not only working on these features for free but is making frequent updates to improve the game's stability and content.

So, if you're like me you'll be racking up the heists for now, and saving an enormous amount of cash in preparation for the new content. As Dallas says... "time to break a little bad".