Anyways: my first impressions
> I load up the "Birth of Sky" heist
> Original! (Clouds even give you a sense of speed)
> We fight through the plane and finally release the cash
> We all grab a parachute and jump, yay!
But then
> Sokol screams "За Пытинаааааа!" (Translation: "For Poutiiiiine!")
I am Russian so I am obliged to play as him
> I landed and stood still for a minuteor two, wondering if I was halucinating
> We finish the heist, it was great!
Next day:
> I retry "Birth of Sky"multiple times to see if I was hallucinating
> Sokol screams it again
> I land
> I am SO ????ING DONE
> I get handcuffed by a cop becauseI was walking around my room being AFK
> GG
Actual review
These heists are more "fun" type than your regular bank heists: although they do not bring alot of money like Hoxy breakout, they are definitely fun.
This is what makes these heists unique... oh and NOT A SINGLE DRILL YAY!!!
"Beneath the mountain" can actually get you ~1M in spending cash if you collect all 10 bags of loot (and thus get an achievement), and if you have a coordinated-enough team to do it.
I actually go the commando achieement because my team and I knew what we were doing and proceduraly opened each vault, right after the other one finishes opening.
Beware! When you land on the ground in the "Birth of Sky" heist, if you have 4GB of RAM and not the greatest CPU, you might experience lag, or even a crash (happened twice).This demonstrates the ammount of detail put into that heist, even for a 203 game (OR it is justthat it is unoptimized).
The weapons
The baby deagle is quite OP...
OVK nerfed all the pistols and then aded this thing... Power creep anyone?
Also, this gun boasts some quite useless barrels (not barrel attachments). They would be nice if youcould attach a barrel extension to it, but this would not make much sense realistically (especially with threaded barrel and suppressor).
It is the gun that Cowboy Beep Bop was wielding, so if you are a fan, you can een customize it to replicae his, with the tow spike attachments.
Other than that, the melees are not the best, but the selfie stick! Nothing is as good as taking a selfie with a sniper or a dozer, even though it is not that good statistically speaking, it is a very fun melee to use, or troll.
The ice pick is also quite nice, although hitting for the head is essential for it wo work.
I would stay away from the other two: the diving knife and that thing (a cubic-bent machete, IDK how to describe it). You would think that at first glance, they boast average stats for a rapid-hitting melee, the last part is the one that caught me: they are not fast-hitting ... at all.
Even the selfie stick beats them, and is alot more fun.
Masks and patterns
I unfortunately cannot tell you a great deal about them, and the community does not really seam to care about them.
But they do look nice, although I would not buy this DLC just for the masks.
Price
Like with all of OVK's DLCs, you know that the good time to buy them is on sale, 2 heists, 1 pistol (OP), 4 melees, masks and patters. Is it worh 6.99? You decide, I onlybought it because I had a few euros hanging around from my TF2 sales, and my friends really wanted to try theses new heists.
But if a sale comes around, get it, definitely! It is the DLC to offer the most fun compared to others, but not as useful as say Gage courrier pack.
TL;DR
Buy this heist when it goes on sale, it is definitely fun.