

The skill level of this article is for junior to mid-tier level designers, if you are a senior designer some of this article may sound familiar to you. While parts of this article are specific problems and solutions for Payday level design, I made sure to discuss them in a broader sense. Today, I wanted to talk about my adventures designing stealth levels for Payday 2 before leaving Starbreeze in January 2018. With a thriving subreddit, it has consistently been in the top ten games played on steam.

It was released on Augand has since shipped over 50 DLC packs and counting.

Either low, medium or high in-game graphics settings are acceptable.įor our latest suggestions, see our new top five game picks for for nongaming laptops list.ĭisclaimer: CNET may get a share of revenue from the games featured in this guide.Payday 2 is a four player cooperative first-person shooter with RPG elements that centers around robbing banks and stealing rare loot. My strong preference is for that to happen at full 1080p resolution, but in a couple of cases, I dropped the resolution for better performance.

The standard here is that the game installs without errors, and runs smoothly enough for a satisfactory casual gaming experience. Your mileage will vary depending on your PC setup, so use this list as a general guide. These weren't especially high-end configurations, but they weren't bottom-of-the-barrel either. We tested a wide range of PC games for this updated list, using a few different laptops with seventh- and eighth-gen Intel Core i5 CPUs and Intel HD 620 graphics. But if you're stuck using a standard laptop (or desktop) with only Intel's built-in integrated graphics instead of a dedicated GPU from Nvidia or AMD, finding games that will work well is a little tougher. Thinner and fancier gaming laptop designs. There's never been a better time to be a PC gamer.
