PAYDAY 3 News

PAYDAY 3: Medic Bag Blog Update #11

Hey heisters!

As was mentioned in the original Operation Medic Bag update way back in February, a new LMG primary will be added into the game for free. The team is working to put the finishing touches on this new weapon for a future update, but today we wanted to take the opportunity to talk a little bit more about it, and who better to interview on the topic of weapons in PAYDAY 3 than the one designing it?

Check out the full blog post here!

PAYDAY Community Day & Double Weapon XP Weekend

Hello heisters,

Some of you may already be familiar with a community created initiative called the PAYDAY Community Day. This is an initiative started by pdLucky with a simple concept; Every first Friday of the month is PAYDAY Community Day! On this day you are encouraged to join the community and play any of the three PAYDAY games, and also participate in some fun challenges issued in the Community Day Discord server.

As developers we really love this initiative and we wanted to take it one step further, and we will be doing so by offering any player who plays PAYDAY 3 during Community Day and the whole following weekend, a double XP boost to your Weapon XP!

Now that Patch 1.1.3 is available it's easier than ever to quickly hop in to a PAYDAY 3 heist with Quickplay, and we hope to see players coming back to check out the improvements we made with Operation Medic Bag so far. There's still lots of work to be done, but let's have some fun with the crew this weekend and level up those weapons!

See you in New York!
//SBZ_Elisabeth

PAYDAY 3: Patch 1.1.3 Changelog

As we gear up for an intense summer for the PAYDAY 3 team, more and more features are finishing up painting a more clear image of what the game should be. Our focus has been on stability and ensuring we can deliver what we want at the pace you want, and now finally we’re starting to see the fruits of that labor.

[h2]Update Highlights & New Features[/h2]

Quickplay
- This feature lets players join ongoing session, either in lobby or ongoing heists. This is our first iteration of quickplay and is a feature we hope to build on going forward.
Post-Game Party-Up
- To help players find like-minded heisters with whom to do crime, there will now be an option post-game to let players vote to stick together as a party. Any players who click will be partied up, after all, crime is better with friends
Top Crash Causes Fixed
- We’ve made significant improvements to our backend, making sure that games should be more stable overall. We solved the top offenders causing servers to crash or matches to fail, around 90+% of server crashes and with this patch, around 70% of client (game) crashes.
Shock Grenade
- This grenade will create a short-time shock effect on the ground, disabling any enemy caught within. The big metal shields of the Shield units, the battery packs of the Zappers, and all the high-tech gear of the Techie will react poorly when faced with the high-intensity electrical currents of the shock grenade, killing them all instantly - nice.
Skip Mission Intro
- You can now skip the intro fly-over, it'll be skipped if all coop players or a single solo player vote to do so by pressing ‘escape’ on PC, ‘X’ on PS5 or ‘B’ on Xbox. We even added a settings option always to skip, should you prefer.
Escape Van Open For Business
- Back by popular demand, you can now again feel the warm embrace of the escape van’s luxurious (and bullet proof) interiors as you jump inside the back to hide from the storm of bullets aimed at your face.
Unique Assault Rifle Inspect Animations
- The KU-59, Northwest B-9, CAR-4 and VF-7S have each received their very own inspect animations as well as an animation improvement pass, so they should look a bit better when still and in motion. We’ll keep rolling these out as our animation team make them!

[h2]Known Issues[/h2]

Players who have already reached level 39 prior to updating the game will not be able to equip the Shock Grenade immediately. Completing any heist on any difficulty will correctly unlock the Grenade for affected players.
Using ‘Hacker Aced’ alongside ‘Scrambler base’ should detonate Techie gun drones in a small area EMP, stunning those around it. Currently, while the drones will still detonate, the EMP effect is currently not working, meaning it won’t stun when detonated. A fix will be in the next patch.
If inspected when it’s completely out of ammo, the VF-7S will appear with a displaced barrel.
Certain weapons will appear with displaced attachments when previewed. This is not reflected in any heist but is only visible in their preview.

Read the full changelog on our website.

Keep those helmets flying,
SBZ_Elisabeth

PAYDAY 3: Blog Update #10

Heisters, we have a new blog post ready for you today, talking about our thoughts for the upcoming Loud Modifiers we are working on for PAYDAY 3. Read the post to learn more, and share your own thoughts about how you think modifiers will affect your gameplay experience.

You can read the full blog post here.

One of Payday 3's biggest problems is finally being fixed

One of the most-anticipated new shooters of 2023, Payday 3 had a seriously troubled launch. The heist sequel faced criticism due to performance problems, missing features, unwelcome tweaks and overhauls, and the always-online functionality that impacted matchmaking. Starbreeze has since initiated an expansive campaign to try to save Payday 3 - veteran developers from the first two games have been arranged into a 'strike team,' and a series of resuscitative updates called 'Medic Bag' are underway. Seven months since launch, one of Payday 3's biggest problems is now being fixed. Could this be the start of a comeback?

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