Perk decks
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This article details the changes to perk decks added by Total Crackdown.
Since the skill tree rework's goal was to cut back on cross-contamination and defensive skills mix well with everything, almost all defensive Skills were moved out of the trees completely and condensed into various Perk Decks (since Perk Decks were mostly defensive in the first place anyways).
List of perk decks
- Crew Chief
- "Jack Of All Trades" Team Deck that gives a variety of moderate defensive bonuses. Very referential.
- Muscle
- Massive Health and Health Regeneration. Flex eternal!
- Armorer
- Heavy Armor all day, every day.
- Rogue
- Provides Dodge Chance and comes with Special Dodges that are guaranteed to avoid certain attacks. Features a rebranded Sneaky Bastard.
- Hitman
- Armor Recovery and nothing else. Features a rebranded Messiah.
- Crook
- Ballistic Vests and Dodge Chance. Features a rebranded Swan Song.
- Burglar
- Stealth and the legacy of the Arkansas Toothpick. No, it's not a typo.
- Infiltrator
- Provides a solid mixture of general and special defenses for melee users. Features rebranded versions of Counterstrike, Shockproof, and Resilience (Aced).
- Sociopath
- Focused on most closely replicating Hotline Miami while still being playable in the context of Payday 2.
- Gambler
- A Team Deck that provides healing from Ammo Pickups. Probably the most subject to rebalancing once testing begins.
- Grinder
- Sustain type changed to Life Steal, providing the same overall effect of healing while in combat but requiring a constant damage output to maintain it instead of being able to tag an enemy and hide.
- Yakuza
- Trades Health for Damage Resistance both in the short-term and long-term. Technically Frenzy's successor.
- Ex-President
- Still stores health on kill, but now also features a slow consumption of that stored health so players don't need to break their Armor to access their healing.
- Maniac
- A Team Deck that generates ablative Damage Resistance. Go crazy!
- Anarchist
- Trades Health for Armor and generates Armor on dealing damage.
Biker: A Team Deck that provides Armor and offensive Stagger effects for the team.
- Kingpin
- An Item Deck that can redirect enemy attention and withstand heavy onslaughts.
- Sicario
- An Item Deck that can use a Smoke Bomb for defense and offense.
- Stoic
- An Item Deck that can stagger and negate damage taken.
- Tag Team
- An Item Deck that can directly heal allies. Features a rebranded Inspire and the worst memes of our generation.
- Hacker
- An Item Deck that stuns enemies in Loud and jams electronics in Stealth.
- Leech
- An Item Deck that temporarily converts Health and Armor into Hit Points.