| A Criminal Carol | |
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 A Criminal Carol 2022
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| In-Game Event | |
| Event Type | Holiday |
| Duration | December 15, 2022 -- January 12, 2023 |
| Website | Event Webpage |
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A Criminal Carol was a community event for PAYDAY 2 that started on December 15, 2022. The event featured a special game mode, free outfits, weapons, and other special rewards for playing. Released alongside the event was a special community challenge, with each milestone reached providing new rewards for all players.
A Criminal Carol Gamemode[]
A Criminal Carol is a new gamemode. During this event, select heists are available for the event. Some heists, specifically GO Bank, Brooklyn Bank and Buluc's Mansion, are marked as "event" when sorted by tactic in the Contract Broker.
In these heists, a player must interact with the Christmas tree found in the heist. It will then start wobbling and shaking. After a full minute, present bags will spawn under the tree, up to a maximum of 4 at a time. Three variants of the presents will spawn: money, continental, and XP presents.
Presents can either be shredded or secured. Shredding presents will despawn the present bag and give the entire team a crew boost (see Shredding below). Securing presents will grant the team more rewards when the heist is done (see Securing below).
Notes[]
- The Tree spawns a random present every 60 seconds, up to a maximum of 4 presents under it at a time.
- If 4 presents are under the tree, 2 presents must be removed before the tree will spawn another present.
Snowmen[]
A Snowdozer will spawn in every 9 presents secured or shredded. The Snowman is a regular bulldozer painted completely white, with a crude smiling snowman face painted onto the visor.
They wield the snowthrower, a modified Flamethrower Mk.1 painted blue that spits out blue flames. The snowthrower has a range of 15m, slightly longer than other flamethrowers, but does only a third of the damage. If a player is hit by the flames they will be slowed down by 5% each time, up to a maximum of 90% and will not be able to run. This effect lasts for 4 seconds and slowly fades away for another second.
They also have a "throwable cocktail" attack, as blue flames will appear if a player gets within 3m.
Snowmen are also unique from bulldozers in that they are immune to fire, ECMs, and all other stuns. They also receive a 50% resistance to explosions, unlike the regular bulldozer's 10% vulnerability. Lastly, the visors of Snowmen can not be broken, and will not take any extra headshot damage.
Police Buffs[]
After a bag is spawned from the tree, all police units will receive special buffs. Snowmen are not affected by both damage and damage resistance buffs.
| Police Buffs | ||||
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| Bag Type | Buff | Description | ||
| Red | Damage Resistance | Each bag reduces the amount of damage police units take by 10%, up to a maximum of 75%. | ||
| Green | Damage | Each bag increases the amount of damage police units deal by 10%, up to a maximum of 200%. | ||
| Yellow | Speed | Each bag increases the move speed of police units by 10%, up to a maximum of 200%. | ||
Shredding[]
Presents can be shredded by the player to give the crew various buffs.
| Shredding Buffs | ||||
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| Bag Type | Buff | Description | ||
| Red | Health Regeneration | Health Regeneration All players are healed for 500 health.
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| Green | Ammo Refill | Ammo Refill All primary and secondary weapons are fully refilled and reloaded.
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| Yellow 50/50 chance |
Bag Move Speed Explosive Ammo |
Bag Move Speed Each bag shredded increases the player's bag carrying speed by 5%, up to a maximum of 650%.Explosive Ammo Bullets fired by the player trigger explosions on impact for 30 seconds.
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Securing[]
Presents can be secured in the sleigh for bonuses at the end of the heist.
| Sleigh Buffs | ||||
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| Bag Type | Bonus | Description | ||
| Each secured present adds a 0.05% multiplier to the final present reward. | ||||
| Red | XP Bonus | XP Bonus Each bag secured adds additional experience at the end of experience calculations (after event doubling). Normal: 20,000 Hard: 30,000 Very Hard: 40,000 Overkill: 60,000 Mayhem: 70,000 Death Wish: 80,000 Death Sentence: 100,000 | ||
| Green | Cash Bonus | Cash Bonus Each bag secured adds additional cash at the end of the heist. Normal: 45,000 Hard: 67,500 Very Hard: 90,000 Overkill: 135,000 Mayhem: 157,500 Death Wish: 180,000 Death Sentence: 225,000 | ||
| Yellow | Continental Coins | Coin Bonus Each bag secured adds an additional 1 Continental Coin at the end of the heist. | ||
Side Jobs[]
| Challenges: A Criminal Carol | ||||
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| Name | Requirements | Description | Challenge(s) | Reward |
| Lucky Star | N/A | I'd wish you good luck, but when you have a weapon this powerful, luck has nothing to do with it. | • In A Criminal Carol, kill a total of 100 enemies with snowballs on any difficulty. | |
| Constellation Prize | Lucky Star | A rifle is cool. A rifle with mods is cooler. | • In A Criminal Carol, kill a total of 500 enemies with the North Star rifle on any difficulty. |
• 300k Experience |
| Diamonds In The Sky | Lucky Star | More mods! More mods! MORE MODS! MORE MODS! | • In A Criminal Carol, kill a total of 150 special enemies with the North Star rifle on Overkill difficulty or above. |
• 300k Experience |
| Gift Swap | N/A | Ah yes, stealing from the cops. Our favorite holiday tradition! | • Secure 3 presents on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the first milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
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| No Presents For You | N/A | Santa must have made a mistake, giving the cops all these nice gifts. Correct that mistake. | • Sacrifice 3 presents on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the second milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
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| Frostbite | N/A | Contrary to popular belief, snowmen are actually made of steel-plated armor! | • Kill 1 Snowman units with your team on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the third milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
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| Shredding Christmas | N/A | Sure hope they kept the receipts... | • Sacrifice 30 presents on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the fourth milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
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| The Abominable Dozer | N/A | These snowy bastards hit hard! At least their bowties are cute? | • Kill 10 Snowman units with your team on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the fifth milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
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| Holiday Cheer | N/A | A heist is a gift you give yourself! | • Secure 30 presents on any difficulty. • Community: Reach the sixth milestone of the Criminal Carol event. |
 Green Elf  A sociopath with a degree in Chemistry, Green Elf is the North Pole's resident expert on poisons and neurotoxins. THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!  Red Elf  As a soldier in Santa's Yuletide Militia, Red Elf likes to bathe in the blood of his enemies. Wouldn't you? THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!  Yellow Elf  Behind his sunny disposition, Yellow Elf is a raging pyromaniac who will not rest until he's burned the Naughty from this world. THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!  Purple Elf  Purple Elf is actually a really chill guy. Sure, he's a necromancer who may or may not engage in human sacrifice, but beyone that he's super nice. THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM! |
Rewards[]
Weapons[]
Weapon Modifications[]
Perk Decks[]
Masks[]
You will unlock 1 of each mask in your inventory. It can't drop during a PAYDAY and can't be sold. Instead, it can be returned to your mask stash for free, but any pattern, color or material as well as the customization fee to put these together will be lost.
A sociopath with a degree in Chemistry, Green Elf is the North Pole's resident expert on poisons and neurotoxins.
THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!
Purple Elf is actually a really chill guy. Sure, he's a necromancer who may or may not engage in human sacrifice, but beyone that he's super nice.
THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!
As a soldier in Santa's Yuletide Militia, Red Elf likes to bathe in the blood of his enemies. Wouldn't you?
THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!
Behind his sunny disposition, Yellow Elf is a raging pyromaniac who will not rest until he's burned the Naughty from this world.
THIS IS A CRIMINAL CAROL 2022 ITEM!
Outfits[]
Weapon Charms[]
Trivia[]
- The event name A Criminal Carol is a play on the phrase A Christmas Carol.
Bugs[]
- For a short amount of time, players could unlock the rewards for the challenges requiring the community to earn a collective amount of presents. The rewards have since been locked again until the community milestones are reached.
- Due to developer oversight, XP Presents and Continental Presents have a 16% higher move speed reduction than intended.
- Alongside this, the Money Presents have a 16% lower move speed reduction than intended.
- For strange reasons when you throw snowballs at enemies in the event they don't progress.
- If there's a corpse or bag infront of Santa in any Stealthable heists (i.e. Jewelry Store), he will get suspicious.
- This is mainly a visual bug, and he will not panic and call the cops.
- In Counterfeit, Santa will get up from the sleigh and attempt to flee when the alarm goes off. He will not actually exit the map, and instead walks around near Wilson's house.
- This is mainly a visual bug, as his presence has no effect on securing presents.
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