Payday 2 – Guide for Crime Spree 10K+

So, I play a lot of Crime Spree (CS) and a lot of people consantly join my lobbies and add me to their friends list thinking im hacking, cheatsy using mods or any other third party software.

Note that after 10k the difficulty of the spree does not change in any way, so this build works for whatever spree you are at, be it 100k or even 1mil

This guide will be very detailed including the process of thought in all the CS maps that are played more and less often with the reasoning why people do or don’t play a particular map.

If you are a more experienced player, a lot of theese things won’t be of much use, but maybe, just maybe, you may take something usefull from this!

If you are looking for a certain heist hold down Ctrl and press F while holding Ctrl and now just type in the name of the heist you want to learn about.

Weapons

Primary:

OVE9000, used for gates, doors that need to be drilled or picked.(used and advised by me)

All bows/crossbow: poison arrows allow you to stun ranged enemies like snipers.(Not advised when put up against the saw or flamethrower, can work if you cant get anything else)

Flamethrower: Huge CC in tight corridors or small rooms. (good for maps like cook off, not as good on most heists since it doesnt have the greatest ammo pick up)

Secondary:

Any shotgun with dragons breath except claire, 2 shots won’t do it if you want to survive.(Grimm being the best since it can be used full auto and the reload is quick.)

Flamethrower: Same as the primary, good for qcq, bad for bigger maps.

Crossbow: Same as primary, its just too slow to make it worth it.

Melee:

Kunai, electric brass knuckles or the taser all work, i personally use the taser since it stuns 100% of the time unlike the kunai and is faster than the knuckles.

Mastermind

Combat Medic: The skill is useless in CS, however it’s used to gain access to other skills.

Quick Fix aced: Being able to place Med Bags faster is a life saver and considering after CS 10k+ Damager reduction is useless cause you will get oneshot either way.

Combat Doctor aced: Doc bags are used to refresh downs and since your hp is always oneshot no matter what, First Aid Kits are useless, though you can keep putting them in in choke spots and use the auto healing, this is way less efficient though.

Inspire aced: This skill is used to help other players and/or bots, since you can shout at the teammate(s) to get them back up. Note that this skill only works only if you are 8 or less meters away from the downed teammate

Forced friendship: This skill is used for the extra ties and the tying speed, a good skill to have overall, but in CS hostages are quite important.

Confident: Used to make dominating non-special units easier.

Stockholm syndrome aced: This acts more as a failsafe more than anything, incase everyone dies, you can still get out of jail and possably complete the heist.

Stable shot: Had spare points, add weapon stability, not much to add here.