Payday 2: How Do The Cops Choose Who To Shoot?

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There's also one more important thing regarding online gameplay - broken and harder client gaming. It's not a big deal on most difficulties since getting shot once or twice more hardly ever matters, but it can and will be very painful on death sentence. Generally cops can't shoot you when they're performing some sort of animations while spawning or simply climbing, but that is not the case if you're a client. As client, you can get shot by cops during their animations, so even if you're near some spawn point and they're using both hands to climb, it won't save you. The only solution is staying away from the spawn points which is not a game ending thing, but it's kinda dumb and causes clients to always be targeted more in such situations which also makes the experience less fun.

Desync in general can break their entire targeting too. Someone from your crew can desync so hard they will be frozen in the air for you and every cop on the map will keep shooting them.

[CarrotIsBad]

Step 1: equip burglar
Step 2: crouch next to team mates
Step 3: profit

[Jakewake]

Nah mate: its whoever has the cooler mask

[michaelzhang]

Well, I imagine they look for the group of insane people dressed in clown masks shooting everything in sight.

[thetrashmann]

I massively respect the people who made the Long Guide because they had to reverse engineer all of these mechanics and/or look through PD2's source code which is... messy to say the least.

[redtheyiffer]

While I never learned the specifics, I did learn a couple of their quirks, for example: running a relatively short to medium distance from cover is safer than many people think and it's because the AI needs time to to stop shooting your teammates and shoot you instead, there's around 3 seconds of safety before the AI focuses on you.

Also don't shoot back if you plan to move, as that will make them focus on you quicker. It's kind of more effective to pretend they aren't there so they also pretend you aren't there.

[yourpall]

Hey Kknowley, any chance you'll talk about Armor and Supression? I think it'd be an interesting topic since some people don't know exactly why their armor just sometimes regen longer when enemies are shooting at their general direction.

[hppip]

The arrest is also unique to street cops, security and gensec light swats (assuming cause they use the same preset as murkywater units for e.g. shadow raid), so you will never get arrested by any swat unit outside of mayhem and dw

[vam_ola]

Cops choose how to shoot is due to 7 main factors.
Factor 1. Optical Illusions, Elusive, And the card in burglar

Factor 2. Is your gun surpressed?

Factor 3. How far away are you?

Factor 4. Is any targeting increasing thing enabled? (Injector, meat shield, etc.)

Factor 5. Your gun's threat.

Factor 6. Have you damaged them?

Factor 7. Are there any objectives?

[consumerofbepsi]

Fun fact: the reason the cops are targeting chains over the other heisters in the thumbnail is because he's bla-

[Suegiclah]

This is a thing I've ALWAYS wanted to know about the game for the 5 years I've played. I love to learn about the cop AI and I find it intriguing to know how it works. Thanks a bunch for the explanation

[sssuperslayer]

I absolutely LOVE these kinds of deep dives into the intricate mechanics of my favorite games, especially ones that explain the intricacies of video game AI. This was a great experience, please do many more. This type of video is my favorite.

[skibur]

Just thought about the thumbnail a bit longer. Good one Kknowley

[bryce]

As a muscle main (don't have Scarface dlc) who likes to help new players, man I love my lmg

Ty for simplifying this for me! Keep it up!

[CheeseAndCrackers_]

Did you know that cops are 20% more likely to target chains, this is a reference to the fact he’s bla-

[elderrusty]

When using AI teammates it’s pretty simple
1. It detects if you are the player
2. If you are the player, they shoot you

[Kunnoc]

Cop:
That guy has a minigun and a rocket launcher
**The guy playing burglar with a minigun and a rocket laucher starts crouching**
Cop: on second thought Imma just prioritise shooting that pistol boi over there.

[ЯнМатвеев-гя]

Blud knew what he was doing in that thumbnail 😭😭😭

[sledgetype]

It could be just me, but when there's someone playing as Chains in the team, he's always the target.. not sure why

[imbadatzombies]

Any chance for a video about the other specials?
I think a Captain Winters video would be epic.