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Payday 2 Makes Like Santa, With A Free DLC Present

Christmas cheer

The term "DLC" is always most welcome when preceded by the word "free". It was always the point, really. Rewards for investing in the game in the first place. Remembering this is Overkill, with Payday 2, as it receives an appropriately gruesome Christmassy update today. Set in the bank from Counter-Strike: GO.

Called Charlie Santa, it's a custom map for the game, a new "classic" heist, peculiarly based on a map from CS:GO, and of course featuring Santa masks - also free in the update. There are two routes through the robbery, which is demonstrated in a really quite unnerving video from the perspective of an onlooker calling 911:

It doesn't sound so Christmassy to you? Well, how about the added achievement for wrapping dead bodies and placing them beneath the bank's Christmas tree?

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