PAYDAY 2

PAYDAY 2

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Alto's legendary builds
By B〄F Altonator
This is a collection of my setups from over the years. 3k+ hours of hard work and experimenting to make some of the best, most optimised, or simply even quirky meme builds.
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Intro
Hi it's altonator. Welcome to my collection of builds.
Quick disclaimer, not all of these builds are designed for every difficulty. Some builds will even work great on modes like one down but suck ass on lower difficulty. The majority, if not all will work on death wish. Some of the meme builds might be hard to use on death wish but give it your best shot!

(Warning: As of recent updates a few of the builds need updating to compensate for new weapon modifiers. I have marked these for you.)
Kingpin AR crit with backup shotty
This is probably my most used build at this moment of time.
It's very powerful and versatile for any difficulty.

- Can be used on one down.

Weapons used:
Tempest Rifle
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Accuracy boost
- Auto fire custom
- Compact laser module
- Speed pull mag
- 45 degree ironsight secondary sight
- Any primary sight with max -1 concealment

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Heavy ballistic vest

Deployable:
Med bags

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Kingpin

Throwable:
Kingpin injector

Kingpin full shotgun loadout (To be modified)
This is similar to the kingpin AR build but it primarily uses shotguns instead.

Build redesign in progress! Stay tuned for updates!
(Needs updating!) LBV Anarchist with AR and shotty
This is another build which i use for one down, very strong for any difficulty though, not just one down. I will go into a bit further detail on this build because i get a lot of confused mixed results for using a light vest with anarchist. Suit seems to be the meta and it does work very well, but i find lbv to be even better mostly for efficiency and reliability.

- Can be used on one down.

Weapons used:
Car-4
- Short barrel
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Auto fire custom
- E.M.O foregrip
- Compact laser module
- Titanium skeleton grip
- Thrust lower receiver
- Speed pull mag
- 45 degree ironsight secondary sight
- Compact profile primary sight
- Folding stock
- LW upper receiver

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Light ballistic vest

Deployable:
Med bags

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Anarchist

Throwable:
Incendiary grenades

So, you might be asking, why the lbv? I'll go through some quick points about using it on death sentence:
- Only needs iron man to get 2 shot armour on DS without relying on jokers.
- Can get 3 shot armour if going for frenzy ace as well as iron man.
- It might have a 3 second delay for armour regen, but bullseye and lust for life exist so you will always be regenning as long as you are shooting.

So basically, the lbv is the slightly more tanky version which can survive a shot or two more. If you get ace bullseye (which i highly recommend) iron man is a mere 8 points away. Jokers are 12 points away and you need to rely on them if using a suit. Jokers need to be captured and can die whereas iron man is constant.
You could take frenzy in a suit, but that's a hell of a lot more points than just getting iron man for 2 shot armour.

As for death wish, the lbv is even more superior because it helps you survive more than just 1 extra shot and still has the very fast regen time.

(Needs updating!) Copycat biker
This is mainly a death wish build. It works as a sort of grinder with armour regen and a bit of dodge.

Weapons used:
Car-4
- long barrel
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Auto fire custom
- Competition foregrip
- Compact laser module
- Titanium skeleton grip
- Thrust lower receiver
- Speed pull mag
- 45 degree ironsight secondary sight
- Compact profile primary sight
- Folding stock
- LW upper receiver

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
Med bags

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Copycat (2 cards dodge, 2 cards health and prospect last card)

Throwable:
Whatever you like

LMG Ex-pres
This build was designed for death wish. It focuses on killing fast with an LMG to constantly get kills to regen armour. It also uses a nice stun grenade launcher for those tricky moments.

Weapons used:
KSP LMG
- long barrel
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Lion bipod
- Stability boost
- Railed foregrip
- LED combo
- Solid stock

Arbiter grenade launcher
- X1-A Tactical zapper ammo
- Bombardier barrel
- Any boost
- Compact laser module
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Any primary sight compatible with secondary sight

Armour:
Ballistic vest

Deployable:
Med bags

Perk deck:
Ex president

Throwable:
Whatever you like

Melee:
Whatever you like

Hacker stealth build
This is my full stealth setup. It has a few skills for a backup plan just in case the alarm goes early.
If used right, you can even survive a loud deathwish heist with this. But it is mainly for stealth.

Weapons used:
Akimbo parabellum pistols
- Short barrel
- Concealment boost
- Engraved grip

LEO pistol
- Monolith suppressor
- Accuracy boost
- Micro laser
- Extended mag
- Pistol red dot sight
- Custom slide

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
ECM jammer
Body bags / doc bag / other secondary

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Hacker

Throwable:
Pocket ECM device

Team manager shotty build
This build focusses on keeping your team alive and helping them through their day. Give them health by taking damage or even just drop a first aid kit.
Great for death wish but be advised, since this deck uses leech only 1 shot can take away a segment of health. This means even on normal mode a shot does the same damage as death wish.

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Dragons breath ammo
- Short barrel
- Shark teeth nozzle
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Flip up sights

Locomotive shotgun
- Flechette ammo
- The silent killer suppressor
- Concealment boost
- LED combo
- Titanium skeleton grip
- Extended mag
- Riktpunkt secondary sight
- Compact profile sight primary
- Tactical shorty stock

Armour:
Ballistic vest

Deployable:
First aid kits
Doctor bag secondary

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Leech

Throwable:
Leech ampule

Old plan C setup
This one is a blast from the past. I used this build quite often back in the day when i wanted to be a bit sneaky but not all the way. Instead of full stealth, this plans for loud but has some stealth skills for infiltration technique.

Weapons used:
Heavy crossbow
- Explosive bolt
- Total ammo boost

Stryk 18c pistol
- Champions suppressor
- Stability boost
- Medved R4 laser sight
- Ergo grip
- Pistol red dot sight
- Pistol stock

Armour:
Ballistic vest

Deployable:
First aid kits
ECM jammer secondary

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Stoic

Throwable:
Stoics hip flask

Stealth sentry loadout
This build uses a silent sentry gun to shoot guards in stealth. Good for those moments where you have a lot of hostages to guard or people run out of body bags and you have a corpse on the floor.

Weapons used:
Car-4
- Short barrel
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Auto fire custom
- E.M.O foregrip
- Compact laser module
- Titanium skeleton grip
- Thrust lower receiver
- L5 Mag
- 45 degree ironsight secondary sight
- Compact profile primary sight
- Folding stock
- LW upper receiver

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Light ballistic vest

Deployable:
First aid kits
Silenced sentry

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Kingpin

Throwable:
Kingpin injector

Copycat biker w/ sentry
Similar to the copycat biker build but it uses sentries instead. This build also uses shotguns for primary and secondary.

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Tombstone slug ammo
- Short barrel
- The silent killer suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Compact profile sight

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
Suppressed sentry guns
(Can also bring loud sentry guns with front shield instead)

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Copycat
(2 cards with dodge, 2 with health and last card prospect)

Throwable:
Incendiary grenades

Specialist distractor
This build uses loud sentries as a distraction tool as well as the kingpin injector. You are basically here to keep fire off your team mates or even yourself.

- Can be used on one down

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Tombstone slug
- Short barrel
- The silent killer suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Compact profile sight

Claire 12G
- Dragons breath rounds
- Sawed-off barrel
- Concealment boost
- Deadmans stock

Armour:
Flak jacket

Deployable:
Sentry guns and any secondary

Melee:
Kunai knife

Perk deck:
Kingpin

Throwable:
Kingpin injector

Suit muscle shotty build
This is a very good build for death sentence, it works better for DS than death wish because on DS the armour choice won't matter.

- Can be used on one down.

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Dragons breath rounds
- Short barrel
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Flip up sight

Gsps shotgun
- Flechette rounds
- Riot barrel
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Stakeout stock

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Muscle

Throwable:
Incendiary grenades

Tag team support build
This build focuses on giving your team mates as much health as possible. Either via first aid kits, tag teams effects or combat medic ace. Anarchist players especially need the extra health as they have half the normal HP! This also supports people with damage reduction from forced friendship aced.

Weapons used:
KSP Light machine gun
- Long barrel
- The bigger the better suppressor
- Lion bipod
- Stability boost
- LED Combo
- Solid stock

Arbiter grenade launcher
- X1 Zapper ammo
- Bombardier barrel
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Compact profile sight

Armour:
Heavy ballistic vest

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Tag team

Throwable:
Gas dispenser

Hacker shotty dodge build
This is actually an insane build which is very powerful. Can be tweaked for one down if you remove tier 2 drill skills and shotgun impact to get nine lives ace. Though, it's not necessary.

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Dragons breath rounds
- Short barrel
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Flip up sight

Locomotive 12G
- Tombstone slugs
- The silent killer suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Straight grip
- Extended magazine
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Compact profile sight
- Tactical shorty stock
- Shell rack

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Hacker

Throwable:
Pocket ECM

Hacker shotty V2
Alternate version of the hacker shotty build.

Weapons used:
Raven shotgun
- Dragons breath rounds
- Short barrel
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Flip up sight

Locomotive 12G
- Tombstone slugs
- The silent killer suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Compact laser module
- Straight grip
- Extended magazine
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Compact profile sight
- Tactical shorty stock
- Shell rack

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Hacker

Throwable:
Pocket ECM

Hacker dodge w/ pistols
Pistol variant of the hacker dodge build.

Weapons used:
Akimbo crosskill guard
- Hurricane compensator
- Concealment boost
- Medved R4 laser sight
- Blinged grip
- Extended mag
- Milled slide

5/7 AP Pistol
- Tin treated barrel
- Champions suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Medved R4 laser sight
- Extended mag
- Pistol red dot sight

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Hacker

Throwable:
Pocket ECM

Hacker dodge pistols V2
Pistol variant of the hacker dodge build. Revised some skills.

Weapons used:
Akimbo crosskill guard
- Hurricane compensator
- Concealment boost
- Medved R4 laser sight
- Blinged grip
- Extended mag
- Milled slide

5/7 AP Pistol
- Tin treated barrel
- Size doesn't matter suppressor
- Concealment boost
- Medved R4 laser sight
- Extended mag
- Pistol red dot sight

Armour:
Suit

Deployable:
First aid kits

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Hacker

Throwable:
Pocket ECM

Challenge build
Can you survive the ultimate challenge? This build is for masochists who think even 0/9 crew chief is too easy.
In this build you get a "stun gun" (Basically a gun that can stun but not much else) a saw, no armour and a pitiful health pool.

Weapons used:
Ove 9000 saw
- Any boost
- Silent motor
- Sharp blade

Grimm 12G shotgun
- HE rounds
- The silent killer suppressor
- Accuracy (-4) boost
- Single fire custom
- Little brother foregrip
- Compact laser module
- Riktpunkt magnifier gadget
- Holographic sight

Armour:
LBV

Deployable:
Ammo bag

Melee:
Whatever you like

Perk deck:
Stoic

Throwable:
Incendiary grenades

To be continued
Lots more builds to be uploaded, stay tuned!
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15 Comments
B〄F Altonator  [author] 27 Sep, 2024 @ 3:37am 
New build added The challenge build!
B〄F Altonator  [author] 14 Jul, 2024 @ 3:00pm 
I've not updated this guide in a while, might start doing more stuff with it. Here's an old kingpin build of mine i used to use back in 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKcvAFpkiSw
sandal 14 Jul, 2024 @ 2:32pm 
Can you please post more kingpin builds?
B〄F Altonator  [author] 11 Jul, 2023 @ 6:25am 
Some more builds added, Alternate version of hacker shotty build and some pistol variants
B〄F Altonator  [author] 3 Jun, 2023 @ 10:28am 
New build added Hacker dodge build!
B〄F Altonator  [author] 19 May, 2023 @ 9:11am 
New build added Tag team support build!
B〄F Altonator  [author] 19 May, 2023 @ 9:01am 
New build added Suit muscle shotty build!
B〄F Altonator  [author] 10 Apr, 2023 @ 6:27am 
New build added Specialist distractor!
B〄F Altonator  [author] 10 Apr, 2023 @ 5:28am 
Warning: As of recent updates a few of the builds need updating to compensate for new weapon modifiers. Guns that use the speed pull mag have been mostly affected.
B〄F Altonator  [author] 3 Feb, 2023 @ 7:36am 
New build added Copycat biker w/ sentry!