How to play Notoriety: A Payday Experience

Notoriety: A Payday Experience is a first-person shooter experience based on the Payday series. This title focuses on cooperative gameplay where you team up with fellow Robloxians to go on missions and earn Cash. Notoriety is an officially licensed game that takes many cues from Payday 2 for its core gameplay for a well-rounded high-octane shooter experience.

This guide covers Notoriety and its primary gameplay systems, summarizing of what the experience is all about.

An overview of Notoriety: A Payday Experience

Official cover art for the game (Image via Roblox)

Notoriety is primarily about completing heists and robberies with your friends while ensuring all team members leave unscathed. Its cooperative system supports up to four players at once, each given a distinct role to play in the mission. Without working together, missions can become chaotic shootouts where one or more teammates end up being the casualty.

Missions start with loadout selection, where you can choose your primary, secondary, melee, and projectile weapons. Weapons can be slotted into different loadout profiles, which you can quickly swap between during the selection phase to save time. Once all players are ready, the selected mission begins.

Each mission has a predefined structure, where you have a set objective and everyone’s job is to ensure everything goes according to plan. If a player is shot down at any point, others can revive them as long as they reach the downed teammate in time.

All players are expected to fulfill their roles and upon doing so successfully, everyone receives their cut of the score, along with XP.

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Featured gameplay elements

Heists and shootouts

A mission in progress (Image via Roblox)

Notoriety: A Payday Experience includes 20 missions you can choose from while setting up the lobby. These missions include a mixture of stealthy and loud approaches; the stealthy approach requires you to remain undetected, while the loud approach has you go in guns-blazing. Depending on the team’s performance, these can either go smoothly or devolve into difficult shootouts.

Missions are also segregated based on their difficulty: Normal, Hard, Extreme, and Nightmare. Nightmare is the most difficult mode in the game and it can lead to quick deaths if all team members aren’t careful.

Shootouts typically happen in a specified area, where you must survive a certain duration until an event triggers and you have the opportunity to escape. In the mean time, not only do you have to keep the police at bay but also ensure your teammates are not taken into custody.

Finish missions to progress in the Infamy system and earn rewards for a job well done.

Guns and Gear

Notoriety: A Payday Experience offers a loadout system where you can freely equip your weapons and gear. Weapons can be slotted into four slots: Primary, Secondary, Melee, and Projectile. You can unlock new weapons through mission completions and by using in-game Cash.

As for gear and customization options, you can obtain sights and silencers for weapons and Masks for your avatar. Sights and silencers directly impact weapon performance, making them more suited for ranged and stealthy approaches, respectively.

Masks are disguises required to be equipped before a heist begins. You can receive additional alternatives by opening safes, which can be found on the map or as a reward for mission completion. Safes can include one of six Mask rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, Infamous, and Exclusive.

Infamy

Notoriety: A Payday Experience includes an Infamy system that is the equivalent of a Prestige system, where reaching a high-level grants you exclusive rewards. You can reach Infamy Level 1 by achieving Level 100 and accruing 20 million Cash. Opting into this system resets your level and weapon unlocks, granting you unique perks in return.

Infamy perks include Notorious Safes for each level, XP and Cash bonus, and permanent skill points.

Challenges

You may also complete Challenges in Notoriety, which grant you weapon unlocks and other lucrative rewards. Challenges come in two varieties: Daily and Weekly. Daily Challenges reset each day and consist of relatively simple objectives, such as completing a stage on the specified difficulty.

Weekly Challenges are more elaborate and require you to complete a series of tasks. Thus, the rewards are far better than their Daily counterparts, making them worth the extra effort.

Game passes

Notoriety offers experience-improving game passes that can be purchased using Robux. These game passes can simplify the Infamy grind, unlock new weapons, safes, and exclusive heists, and boost Cash or XP gain rate. However, none of these apply active gameplay effects like boosting damage or reducing enemy spawns, preserving the game’s balance.

Use these game passes to speed up your progress in Notoriety: A Payday Experience and reach high Infamy levels quickly.

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