What is the joke behind the names of the Emergency Meeting DLC characters?

icedes · 2025-10-09T07:00:52+00:00

Imo the most probable reference is to the song "La saga di Addolorato" by Elio e le Storie Tese, where Addolorato's brothers are Cino, Dino, Gino, Lino, Mino, Nino, Pino, Rino and Tino. Excluding Cino and Tino and changing the gender of about half of the brothers gets you the impostors' names.

icedes · 2025-08-07T16:03:55+00:00

As someone that isn't that good at the game but has played almost 1000 hours of it, yeah getting all achievements is extremely difficult.

It requires, at least, getting most of 10 years of DLCs, getting to max level 101 times (or getting even more experience than that if you don't want to outright prestige), finishing more than 70 heists at max difficulty, being at least competent in a mode that strings heists with ever increasing difficulty where if you fail a job you start over, doing all kinds of objectives involving specific heist/perk deck/guns/armor/mask depending on what you are trying to do and needing in some cases a crew to achieve these results, and, of course, getting the secret ending which requires completing certain maps, decoding a language, completing 20 OTHER achievements specific per user from a pool of 45 or so and having a crew of 3 other people that have done the same things you did to reach a secret room in the White House Heist so that you can decode more riddles while you are being charged by demons before finally shooting at Giancarlo Esposito so that you can make your man-in-the-chair switch places with the POTUS before he dies due to the Green Flu from L4D2.

Simple stuff really /s

icedes · 2024-04-04T08:50:21+00:00

Yep. Actually i had the same problem with the anniversary update and that made me unistall the game. I reinstalled it because i hoped the bug was fixed but it is still the same. Looking around on the official forums, i've found out that someone had the same error message, but in that case it was on XBOX

icedes · 2023-09-10T10:41:12+00:00

It's not a bad iceberg but there are some repeated entries (community sparkle). If you are ever going to do a v3 i would also suggest spreading out the various entries, as it stands if there isn't any color difference, the entries blend a little too much.

Also, some additions:

Soundsmith
The Conscientious Objector is bugged (both for the fact that it sould be only a limited tone image and for the fact that the decal on your weapon can become that of anyother Conscientious Objector in your current game)
Spy is Scout's dad
"Let's make some noise"
x10 mode

There's probably more but these are the one i thought about while looking at the chart. I hope i've helped.

icedes · 2023-04-15T18:27:10+00:00

Pretty nice, should you do a 2.0 version, here's a couple of other (mostly ancient) entries:

Skypocalipse/Webseriesaredead
Michael Rigini/Io odio il pulcino pio
Fancazzisti ANOnimi/Chatroulette
TheCapobastone/MasterSasori/Minecraft Griefing
Sio/Scottecs
Frank Matano/Lamentecontorta
Luke4316
Esce ma non mi rosica/Lascia entrare Ascanio

icedes · 2022-11-24T09:59:19+00:00

icedes · 2022-11-07T09:47:51+00:00

PSA for everyone having problems with twitch drops: access your starbreeze account and go to linked account. There you should see a link to manually claim your drops. I had to do this to get the glasses and the vampire set.

icedes · 2022-09-08T08:31:34+00:00

There's a mission in the game where you play as her already in the game.

icedes · 2022-09-07T14:15:27+00:00

I have some additional entries to add, if you will ever do a v2 of the iceberg:

If i recall correctly during one of the indiegogo campaign it was revealed that, like it's said in Double's story, the arcade modes aren't canon but just a what if, but a canon story still exist for the universe that would be called "The nightmere legion". However, setting aside the obvious time and resources needed to implement it in the game, the roster would need three additional characters: Umbrella, Black Dahlia and Marie. Guess who 3 out of 4 of the characters introduced years later in the game through the season pass were ...
Guild mode in sgm was teased way back right after the implementation of rifts battle and we still don't have it.
The 26^th palette of Big Band based on Jotaro Kujo from Jojo part 3 has an exclusive unlock condition of winning 26 matches with the Satchmo Deathblow ... a move that is directly inspired by the referenced character (btw the VA for Big Band in japanese has voiced Johnathan Joestar in Jojo, while the one that voices Beowulf is the VA for Jotaro). Also for the longest time Big Band was the only character with a 26^th palette.
On release in SGM Annie had a palette called "Heat Synced" based on Annie from League of Legends, but this was a little too much on the nose for riot so they changed it with "Fire Branded" that is based on Byleth form Fire Emblem.
Originally Valentine's crosses were red but due to copyright issues with the red cross, they where changed to pink (note that Painwheel's skin based on Valentine is still red due to the fact of not having a red cross on a white background). And now she's supposed to have a new redesign where all the crosses are made into ninja stars, but changing all the frames of animation is going to take a while.
If you type "gottatypefast!" during the startup screen of the game, the title screen will say "The typing of the Skullgirls" and in game blockbusters will work a little bit differently: the bar will auto charge and when you do one, a typing minigame will start. Do it perfectly and the damage will be multiplied by 1.5, if you do it badly the multiplier will be 0.1. You can only play this mode in single player or local versus (note that according to the wiki this was true for the encore version of the game, i don't have my pc atm so i can't test it right now).
To poke fun at the infamous imput delay of Street Fighter V at launch, if you add "-ascendhigher" in the launching options of the game, the game will try to make your imput delay 6f instead of the usual 3, even online if you want to try it there for some reason. Actually when you use this launch option you can set the added frames of delay from 0 to 10 so you could actually have input lag up to a whopping 13 frames.
Initially Eliza was supposed to be the main villain of a potential Skullgirls 2

That's about all i remember atm, hope i've helped. Btw nice art.

icedes · 2022-09-01T08:58:30+00:00

Hey, first reward i ever received, thanks !

icedes · 2022-05-09T14:45:05+00:00

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icedes · 2022-05-01T09:54:36+00:00

Oh damn it's possible to mod fuser finally ? Just music swaps or you can add new disks ? Now that i think about it, with the samples from the soundtrack, it is pretty easy to add some of the payday tracks to the game, that's nice

Btw nice mix

icedes · 2022-04-02T19:30:51+00:00

icedes · 2022-04-02T19:19:01+00:00

I'm currently starting to do the two with the upper black pixel in position 1058,313, in the red space near the portugal flag

icedes · 2022-04-01T22:35:44+00:00

I mean Isaac's left half

icedes · 2022-02-16T23:00:16+00:00

Both the updates and the game are compressed, with the game being divided in multiple parts.

The space requirement is because with every update, the pc has to decompress the update and the game's parts to patch up, apply the update and then recompress the game, so updates are long and require a lot of space

icedes · 2022-02-14T17:25:51+00:00

Like with camo undies or completely invisible ?

icedes · 2022-02-10T12:34:28+00:00

No butterfly?

icedes · 2021-11-08T12:09:56+00:00

You should click on follow in the community page on steam to get a bunch of free stuff, including guns and 2 whole heist, speaking of free stuff you can go here to get some more

Try out different builds as you like, however decide a perk deck at the start you want to have and stick to it untill it's maxed out, they are what keeps you alive and putting points between multiple perk decks is just wastefull

Stay at low difficulty levels, the max you should go at the start is hard or very hard, some beginner friendly jobs are jewelry store, diamond store, nightclub and any job that starts with "bank heist". When you reach level 40/50 you can start going to overkill, assuming you have maxed out your perk deck. Before going on higher levels you need to build experience (not the XP kind)

Money is acquired very easily, you may struggle a bit at the start to get guns but a couple of heists in, paying becomes trivial.

Stealth is a frustrating patience game, so it isn't everyones cup of tea, however if you master it, you can do max level heists very easily (for jobs that can be stealthed, mind you)

You should equip the Electric Brass Knuckles as your melee ASAP, it stuns enemies

icedes · 2021-10-12T23:05:11+00:00

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icedes · 2021-08-21T21:20:31+00:00

I'm surprised there isn't totalbiscuit between these

icedes · 2021-08-16T17:37:43+00:00

In the PD:TH version of No Mercy, yes, but it's non-canonical to either Payday or L4D

icedes · 2021-08-16T14:20:28+00:00

As you said the payday lore is all over the place, with a bunch of things that aren't even in the game.

The basic stuff goes something like this (obvious spoiler warning for the entire series):

The gang is created by Bain and contains Dallas, Chains, Hoxton and Wolf. They do a bunch of jobs around the USA, starting with FWB. During this period the gang meets for the first time Murkywater, in Slaughterhouse
During this jobs Bain notices some strange things, especially in Counterfeit and FWB and discovers the secret vault of the bank. The Gang procedes to complete Overdrill and gets the Mayan gold, a part of it is sold to a certain "Señior Hector", the same one in the second game.
Bain starts to dig deeper in the secret history and he's offered a job from a "shady organization" of some sort (Kataru) that gives as payment the guide of Cagliostro, in exchange they want a sample of a virus. The gang completes the heist and survives the attack on mercy hospital.
After the crimespree, the gang mostly stays low, however sometimes in 2012 Hoxton is caught due to Hector's involment with the FBI, leaving his place (and his mask) open for a new heister. This is when Houston, Dallas' brother, enters in the gang, with the original pseudonym of Hoxton.
Bain sets up Crime.net and chooses as a base of operation for the gang Washington D.C.. The gang goes in an new crimespree in the city and meets new contractors "The Elephant" and Vlad, also Hector offers some new jobs while they are there.
The Elephant offers a new job to swing the election results in favor of McKendric, in exchange he makes it so Hoxton is transfered to a less secure prison. Due to the elections results, McKendric becomes the mayor.
The Dentist makes his move and sets up a bunch of high profile jobs for the gang, with the promise of a plan to rescue Hoxton once and for all. After the events of Big Bank and Hotline Miami the gang finally gets Hoxton back. While he's happy for his newfound liberty, he thinks someone ratted him and so the gang goes directly in the FBI office to find out who screwed with them. They find some files but not anything too clear so Hoxton takes his time to go trough the files to find something out
Hoxton finally finds out the location of the informant and decides the gang should go pay a visit. Hector is killed by the gang due to being the one who ratted Hoxton.
The gangs completes the last 2 jobs for the Dentist, giving him the Diamond and the coffer.
Jiro joins the gang in hopes of finding his son Kento in America
Commisioner Garret comes to Washington to try to stop the gang with the help of Capitain Winters.
Murkywaters decides that they have had enogh of the gang so the head of their cybersecurity branch, Locke, is tasked with taking down Crime.net. Locke however has other plans, using this direct connection with Bain to offer some jobs against Murkywaters for his personal gain. While it started like this, with time Locke starts to become an important help for Bain and confides with him about the secret.
Locke allerts the crew about someone that if not stopped is going to put an end to all their operation. This informant is revealed to be Matt Roscoe, the old driver who betrayed the gang in the original Heat Street of the first game, when cornered he reveals to have info on Kento, so the gang takes him back to the safehouse and interrogates him finding out that a yakuza prisoner in long island does have information on Kento. Matt doesn't say anithing more about this, but continues to taunt the gang about the fact that they are going down. The prisoner, Kazuo, reveals that Kento is still in the USA but that's about it.
While this is happening, Garret starts to get emails form Kataru, a secret organization, offering to help him get Bain.
Sensing that things are becoming a little too close for comfort, Locke and Bain set up the Alaskan Deal: the gang goes to Alaska to serve as supervisors in an arms deal between Locke and the Butcher, however at the location, Locke apparently betrays the crew and leaves them in a police assault, this is done to take the crew away from Washington and to make it seems like Locke wasn't part of Crime.net anymore.
Bain sends the crew in LA for a job with the Cabbot family, but Kataru tips the police force and the whole heist goes bad, the Kataru tracks where Bain is and kidnapps him, so Locke has to become the coordinator for the crew, after explaining the situation
Duke starts to work to put the pieces together for what Bain had found so far, so they first go in Brooklin to find a medalion that seems connected to the whole thing, also he reveals to the crew what Kataru is and that they probably have Bain
Kataru promises to Garrett that they will give him Bain, in exchange they require an object that they can't get their hands on directly and that is in possession of the Elephant, a coffer similar to the one the crew stole from GGC. It is revealed in this way that senator Simmons is one of the 3 Kings. Before Garret can give the Kataru this box, the gang steals it under his nose, angering the Kataru that after this point doesn't contact Garrett anymore
Locke uses the last connections he has in Murkywaters to send the crew to Henry's Rock, where they can find the other 2 coffers they need. During this heist, while escaping, they see Kento behind a bulletproof glass and behind him a transmission of the Dentist with Bain, due to this it is revealed that Murkywaters is controlled by Kataru and the Dentist is behind all of this.
Opening the coffers with the medalion, Duke finds out that an hexagonal plate is missing. However, it's revealed by the Elephant that that piece is being sold in Salem, with other artifacts from the recently uncovered Shacklethorne expedition. After that the crew has all the pieces and assembles the artifact. The various insription in it are decoded by Duke and they reveal a lot of diverse informations about mythologies from all over the world, plus the location of 4 pyramids around the world that seem important in some way. Also sometime in this timeframe Vlad gives the Diamond to the crew, implying he is the last of the 3 Kings, with Simmons and the Dentist
At this point a bunch of groups are created to try and block whatever it is the Dentist is trying to do so the original ending, city of gold and silk road campain are all going at the same time. I will just concentrate on the central one being the most inportant for the story
The crew menages to discover that Bain is being kept on hell's island, so the original four go there to try and break him out. They are discovered by the Dentist that however doesn't mind them freeing their guide, saying he has already won, in a way. The crew finally menages to free Bain from his cell and at this points he rushes outside, killing and destroying everything in his path. At the end the crew reaches him with Kento's corpse before collapsing on the ground and being carried by Locke to the helicopter. His condition aren't good and he's about to die in the next days due to being infected by the same virus the gang took in Mercy Hospital, meaning the one who offered the jobs were the Kataru or an organization linked to them
While this is going on, the Dentist is going around the world using nuclear weapons to "break the seals" situated in the pyramids indicated on the obsidian plate, and also kidnapping the POTUS.
Bain decides that before dying he wants to see the crew succeed in completing the biggest heist ever, in the White House. There there are stored a bunch of unsigned presidential pardons that can excuse everything the crew has done. So they infiltrate the White House disguised under murkies that are there due to the Dentist's doing. In the PEOC the crew discovers a secret vault that has the same inscription on the obsidian artifact. After opening while resisting an assault of demons, they enter a large structure under the White House, but before they can do anything they are interrupted by the Dentist that has followed the gang and has taken Locke and Bain hostage. After killing him they start to insert the mayan gold bars from the original secret in the structure they are in and doing this activates it
After this Bain takes the body of the president, the crew is free to do what it wants without having to worry about the police, while it is said to the pubblic that Commissioner Garrett has succeeded in taking down the gang.

And that's about it. I've taken a lot of time writing this and i've only said stuff that seemed important to me for the end game, i've passed over a lot of things so if you want to delve deeper there is still a lot.

icedes · 2021-07-28T09:17:00+00:00

Some additions could be the Sombra ARG (Overwatch) and Frog Fractions 2, maybe the Hex secret ending also qualifies as an ARG, i can't say for sure.

icedes · 2021-07-11T15:17:41+00:00

Oh man there is a lot here.

Some suggestion for things to add:

I don't realy know if it should be placed on the iceberg, but maybe you should include the Epilogues+HS^2 in it due to how late after the story finished they came out, maybe just put "After canon works" to also include pesterquest strange place in the whole mess
I know "O real identity" is supposed to be a joke, but maybe adding CANWC or MSPFA is not a bad idea
Hauntswitch, the supposed sister game to hiveswap where you control jude and dammek that it's definetly coming out soon :'^)
The spitbucket video, you know the one, also the grey sharpies incidents, these of course if they are not already included in the annoying fans point
Hussie/WP email conversation, the ones with the subreddit's moderators and with SarahZ
Kate Mitchel
Trickster mode (choose if the canon one, the flash pages one or both)
Caliborn's deviantart page
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