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The real-world cheating scandal involving Ethan Klein does not officially affect or change the canonical Payday lore. Developer Starbreeze Studios has not made any adjustments to the game's fictional universe, and Starbreeze producer Almir Listo had already confirmed long before the incident that neither character would be returning for PAYDAY 3. [1, 2]

However, the scandal has had a massive meta-impact on how the community interacts with the game:

• Steam Review Bombing: Following Hila Klein's public statement regarding the separation, players flooded the Steam page for the 2017 h3h3 Character Pack DLC with negative reviews. According to a report by TheGamer, the backlash pushed the DLC's recent review status to "Overwhelmingly Negative". [1, 2, 3]
• The Irony of the "Tag Team" Perk Deck: The community has widely pointed out the irony of the DLC's mechanics. The pack introduced the Tag Team perk deck, a unique co-op ability that requires players to "bind" themselves to a teammate to absorb damage, heal each other, and reduce cooldowns. Players are jokingly noting how poorly the co-dependent flavor text and gameplay mechanics have aged. [1, 2, 3]
• Contradiction of In-Game Lore: In the fictional PAYDAY 2 FBI Files, Ethan and Hila are written into the gang as an inseparable "dream team" of internet personalities recruited by Bain to handle media manipulation and propaganda. The contrast between their in-game portrayal as a unified dynamic duo and their real-world separation has become a primary target for community memes and satire. [1, 2), 3, 4, 5]

If you want, I can provide more details on:

• The exact mechanical buffs of the Tag Team perk deck
• The history of why the h3h3 Character Pack was initially controversial with players back in 2017

Let me know what you'd like to explore next!

you don't know what a shill is if that's what you got from this

you are an idiot bruh

lol now you're calling me a dingus ok well I'm gonna make some more posts like this if it really makes you that angry

jokes aside though, look at yourself, you're getting this mad at literally every post I make, you could just ignore the post like a normal person but you do this? go upload some more vids to your dying channel, please 🙂

fcking idiots🤦

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nga what the fuck?😐

you're better than me lol I was wishing misery upon those pieces of shit, I'm mad seeing them win in life 💀💀💀

bruh

YOU turned it into a fucking sook by crying miserable 🤦🤦🤦

I'm not talking to you bro, you wanna call me a bot then obviously your idiot ass doesn't deserve the time of day

it's just a chronically online little shit, fuck you

oh you're that mad lol anyway try being a better person because this is not the way to act, good day to u sir

teenagers are edgy squiggles idk wtf ur expecting

if you a grown man using virgin as an insult you obviously haven't matured past high school

yeah redditors really are some of the most illiterate idiot negative fcks on the internet, should've stayed off this platform.....

that's not what I said you illiterate mf🤦🤦🤦

how is this nonsense? you always cherrypicking my posts, you said "he needs to make one coherent post" my posts are always coherent, it's not my fault that an idiot like you has no media literacy to where you automatically call the post "nonsense". you have a brain, now use it, jesus christ bruh it's not rocket science

you pissed me off bad with this stupid comment

EA and dice are a small AA studio nga!!😤😤😤

this ain't 2042 my nga

they don't see a downside because modern battlefield fans just don't give a fck about anything. this fanbase is now filled with a bunch of 50 year old dad's working 80 hours a week and coming home to feed 6 kids and a wife and could care less about if their gun game got a mode removed, which in that case, why are they even gaming bruh lol

because most people are traitorous and fake now. tf kinda world are you looking at

On Cartoon Network I'd watch Gumball, Clarence, Teen Titans, I don't remember everything else. On Nickelodeon I'd watch Spongebob and Henry Danger and older stuff like iCarly and Drake & Josh and Neds declassified whenever there were reruns

you don't remember rugrats? courage? total drama? chowder? the loud house? pig goat banana cricket? oggy and the cockroaches? dexters lab? harvey beaks? no fairly oddparents 😭😭😭

you don't have to be a fucking smartass

I mean he's right

this grown ass man said "betabuxxers" unironically

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you are fcking deranged.

because this is reddit, we have discussions here idiot