[PAYDAY 2] New fastest Infamy farming method: How long per Infamy?
What's the fastest way to farm infamy levels? The common fast choice is Diamond Store spamming (27 heists per infamy, resulting in 1 infamy every ~40 minutes if you include loading times), but there's an alternative, for those who enjoy ECM rushing, and feel like they can rush more "complicated" heists: combining a rotation of Diamond Store, Shadow Raid, Election Day, and Big Bank, you can avoid the -30% XP penalties, significantly increasing the efficiency of each individual heist, and getting one infamy level every ~42 minutes (comparison to Diamond Store spamming is included below).
Note that some heists can be switched for more complicated rushes if you want to be even faster, but the general idea is that the overall difficulty of this heist rotation is about a 5/10: accessible to all heisters (if you need a crew, join our Steam group, linked below). Individual guides for each heist have been (or will be) provided to ease the introduction of new rushers into this playstyle. Enjoy!
➤ Diamond Store: • [PAYDAY 2] Diamond Store ECM rush: 1.27M X...
➤ Shadow Raid: • [PAYDAY 2] Shadow Raid ECM rush: 1.4M XP i...
➤ Election Day: • [PAYDAY 2] Election Day ECM rush: +20% ste...
➤ Big Bank: • [PAYDAY 2] Fast infamy farming: Big Bank r...
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➤ SAW STEALTH BUILD: • [PAYDAY 2] The saw expert stealth build ||...
➤ BEST PERK DECK FOR STEALTH: • [PAYDAY 2] Hacker perk deck 101: basics an...
➽ COMPARISON TO DIAMOND STORE SPAMMING: This approach requires 27 heist completions, and results in 1 infamy every ~40 minutes (loading times included), compared to 10-11 heists, and 1 infamy every ~40-45 minutes (loading times included). The advantage of the latter is that it's not mindnumbingly boring, and it's faster if your team has average loading screens (fewer heists = less loading). The advantage of the former is that it's easier, and any random team of 2-4 heisters can easily farm infamies non-stop with barely any coordination.
Note that, if we take the average loading time on this recording, to compare both methods fairly, then 27 Diamond Store runs (1m05s average) + 27 loading screens (33.77s average) comes out to 44m26s, slower than the approach shown here by about 2 minutes.
➽ STEAM GROUP? I've created a Steam group for subscribers, with the objective of bringing together heisters who are informed about these strategies. This should make it easier to find crews for coordinated ECM rushing, stealth lobbies, achievement runs, and more strategies coming soon! If you're interested, here's the link: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Mar...
➽ REGARDING XP PENALTIES: Generally, this rotation of four heists (DS SR ED BB), will reduce your penalty on DS SR, but increase it for ED BB. After 4-5 infamies you might start noticing a -1 or -3 on ED or BB -- but since the entire heat system is random, it's impossible to predict. If the malus appears for ED you're fine, but if it gets on BB that's bad... the optional BB Gage packages help alleviate that, but you might wanna do a couple rotations of 5-maps, if that happens. Video on that coming in the future!
➽ TIME STAMPS:
0:00 → Brief introduction: what's the fastest way to farm infamies?
0:37 → New approach starts: general aspects.
1:07 → Optional: Ukrainian Job at Lv0, as a brief 5-minute break when farming multiple infamies in a row.
3:01 → Heist #1: Diamond Store
4:55 → Heist #2: Shadow Raid
7:17 → Heist #3: Election Day
10:50 → Heist #4: The Big Bank
19:17 → Heist #5: Diamond Store
20:54 → Heist #6: Shadow Raid
23:17 → Heist #7: Election Day
26:50 → Heist #8: The Big Bank
34:31 → Heist #9: Election Day
37:33 → Heist #10: The Big Bank
45:25 → Lv100 reached!
45:46 → End screen!
➽ PLAYLISTS? Check out my PAYDAY 2 playlists here! / marcmb
➤ Ultimate Stealth Guides (all heists): • Ultimate Stealth Guides
➤ Mythbusting: • Mythbusting
➤ More stealth guides (and miscellaneous videos): • More stealth guides (and other miscellaneo...
➤ ECM rushes from start to finish (4-6 minutes): • More ECM rushes, from start to finish! (6 ...
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Special thanks to Cookie (amazing ECM rusher), h3llcruizzer (always very consistent, and very fast learner for innovative strategies), and Readraid (very passionate ECM rusher, and a big fan of Diamond Store and ECM rushing in general), for their help with this video! This showcase wouldn't have been possible without them :)
Also special thanks to tarramas, who contributed a lot to optimizing all these rushes, although he's currently taking a break from PAYDAY! And also to Green, who attempted to help us with the recording, but sadly he did not have enough time to stay with us!
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Recorded with: GeForce Experience
Edited with: Vegas Pro 12.0
Game version: Jun 17th, 2021 patch (Update 208.1)