PAYDAY 2 News

Update size: 61.9MB

Hello Heisters
We found an issue in the 208.1 hotfix where you could get stuck in the lobby and forced disband and restart the lobby to be able to pick a new heist. We decided to revert the patch and until we can address the issue.

We apologize for the inconvenience.


OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

The City of Gold campaign continues as we bring you two new DLCs. The first one is a brand new heist playable in both stealth and loud. In order to heist in style we also offer a Tailor Pack with some cool new streetwear in several versions for everyone in the gang to have a different look while looking like the tightest crew ever.


Someone is waiting for your aid. Get in there and follow the screams from the container in the back. Get your friend back from the clutches of the triads and get him out of there.

We bring you a brand new heist in the San Francisco Dockyards. Sneak past dockyard guards and triad thugs patrolling among the containers, or perhaps you prefer to go in loud and let them know you are coming.

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]Visit the The Ukrainian Prisoner Steam store to continue the City of Gold campaign.


What else would you wear on a rescue mission than the new masks and suits in the Guardians Tailor Pack? In this pack, you will find 4 masks based on the Four Auspicious Beasts, 2 suits with 4 color variants each, and 2 gloves with 4 color variants each.

Rust: Black Tortoise, Ripstop Casual Black, Comfort Moto Black
Dragan: Azure Dragon, Ripstop Tactical Azure, Padded Moto Azure
Bonnie: White Tiger, Ripstop Casual White, Comfort Moto White
Joy: Vermilion Bird, Ripstop Tactical Vermilion, Padded Moto Vermilion

Visit the Guardians Tailor Pack Steam store and grab all these kickass outfits.

Visit the The Update Website to see more previews for the DLCs and all its content, including the free new variant for the Dragon Bomber outfit.


We continue our efforts to work on changing up the current meta of the game to keep the game fresh and exciting for all of you. Our ambition is to do small but frequent updates that help minimize the gaps between different weapon and/or perk decks; so that even if you have 20h or 2000h in the game there is something interesting for you to try out.

Firstly, we lowered the unlock of the Rattlesnake Sniper Rifle to level 0 to make it available for new players and the ones fresh out of infamy. We improved the Gewehr 3’s Assault Kit to be able to pick up more ammo and addressed a bug where the Buckshot 000 ammo type for shotguns negated the damage falloff. The Chimano Compact pistols have been tweaked to set them more apart from other Chimano pistols. The last weapon adjustment in this update is the Patchett L2A1. It’s been reverted back to a high damage tier SMGs.

Finally, we buffed the Muscle Perk Deck to give anyone with the full perk deck more health and make the deck more viable on Death Wish.

Check out the changelog linked at the bottom for more details about the meta tweaks in this update. And take to the forums to tell us what you think about the changes so far or join our Discord.


In an effort to make the game easier to navigate both for new and veteran heisters we’ve worked on the main menu, Crime Net, and the inventory. We wanted to make the game more accessible and offer a better user experience, especially for the heisters new to our criminal world.

Main Menu
The most notable changes will be in the main menu. We increased the font size of some items in the menu items as well as renamed “Crime Net” and “Crime Net offline” into “play online” and “play offline”. The quickplay feature has been moved to the Crime Net side menu while playing online. You will now find the story mode feature to the main menu and it’s been renamed to “career”. We wanted to highlight the feature better for anyone new to the game.

Career Mode
We’ve made some other modifications to the career mode other than the new name. Most notably we removed Shadow Raid from the lineup of heists. The heist is still available on Crime Net and in the contract broker. The level has proven particularly difficult to newer players so we did not want it to block them from enjoying the rest of the career mode. However, if you have problems with a heist in the career mode there is now an option to skip the heist after failing it once.

Tutorials
We moved the stealth tutorial further down the career mode to let new players get more used to the game before they are offered to try stealth. This also means that we moved a few lessons from the stealth tutorial to the loud tutorial. As well as tweaking the pop-up to have a lot less reminders if you decide not to play them.

Lastly, we’ve removed the old safe house from the game. It was not a very good tutorial and did not fill its purpose as an introduction to the game. This meant that we needed to adjust the rewards for the tutorials.

Weapons and Inventory
As mentioned above we lowered the unlock level for the Rattlesnake Sniper Rifle from level 15 to level 0 so you have a sniper rifle option early in the game if you want it. We have worked on the weapon and mask inventory icons, so the items are clearer to see and if they are locked behind progressions or DLC. Any items locked by DLC will now have a yellow icon instead of the old red icon.


Gear up everyone, it’s a rescue Op!
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Find the Changelog Here!

Update size: 886.7MB



General

• Increased the health bonus for the 800-pound Gorilla card in the muscle perk deck from 40% to 60%.
  
• Fixed a graphical issue on the female version of the Saints & Sinners Outfit.
  
• Fixed a graphical issue on the male version of the Saints & Sinners Outfit when worn with certain gloves.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Boom Bap Outfit would cause a graphical issue in First Person View with the Joceline O/U 12G shotgun.
  
• Fixed a graphical issue that appeared when Ethan wore the Saints & Sinners Outfit in combination with certain gloves.
  
• Added tracking points for main menu items, to better understand how users interact with the menu.
  
• Added tracking for career mode progression, to better understand how users progress though the game mode.
  
• Lowered the amount of perk points needed to unlock the first card of each perk deck.
  

UI

• Improved clarity of mask and weapon inventory icons.
  
• Updated sorting for inventory items so all locked items are listed last and ordered by the type of lock.
  • Locked items are in the order community, reputation level, side job, infamy, achievement, holdout, crimespree, dlc.
• Updated lock icons for inventory items to clearly separate dlc and progression locked items.
  
• Changed the color of the text for "Visit DLC store" to yellow.
  
• Simplified the HUD stats on the Main Menu UI for better clarity.
  
• Renamed main menu items for better readability.
  
• Changed size of some main menu items for better readability.
  
• Updated the inventory to hide certain items that are unavailable.
  
• Removed the "QUICKPLAY" button from the main menu and added it to the CrimeNet sidebar.
  
• Remove the pop-up for the tutorial.
  
• Remove the pop-up for the old safehouse.
  

Heists

• Fixed an issue on the Border Crossing heist where drop-in players would not receive XP at the end of the Heist.
  
• Fixed an issue on the Green Bridge heist where looting jewelry would not activate the loot drop-off point.
  
• Fixed an issue on the San Martín Bank heist where drop-in players would not receive XP at the end of the Heist.
  
• Added missing subtitles to the Four Stores heist.
  

Loud Tutorial

• Added a hint that the player can interact with objects to the loud tutorial.
  
• Added the objective to put in the mask to the loud tutorial.
  
• Added the hint to use the TAB UI to read objectives to the loud tutorial.
  
• Increased the rewards given by the tutorial heists.
  
• Updated the loud tutorial to show the player how to tie-up civilians.
  
• Updated the loud tutorial to show the player how to move a hostage.
  

Stealth Tutorial

• Fixed a progression blocker when a player bags the corpse of the second guard before going up the stairs.
  
• Added a delay to the pop-up about the TAB Ui to not cover the hint for how to crouch.
  
• Added an additional spawn point to avoid a teammate to spawn on top of the player.
  
• Moved the spawn of a guard to give the player a bit more time before the body is discovered.
  
• Removed the delay between the objective and the dumpster being active.
  
• Lowered the boxes to make it easier to throw away the body.
  
• Removed the objective to put on the mask.
  
• Removed teammate VO about providing cover if it goes loud.
  
• Rotated the player spawn to face the first objective.
  
• Adjusted the spawn of the last guard to be faster and less punishing.
  
• Adjusted the waypoint for where to hide the bodies to appear faster.
  

Safe House

• Clicking the "Safe house" button in Crime Net will always take the player to the new Safehouse.
  
• New Safe house is now unlocked from the start.
  
• Added a pop-up for a new safe house when a player reaches reputation level 20.
  • Using the "Skip" button in Career mode missions gives half the original reward.

Career Mode

• Change name of Story Mode to Career Mode
  
• Streamlined early Career Mode progression
  
• Divided Career Mode heists into acts.
  
• Difficulty of Career Mode can now be chosen by the player.
  
• A "Skip" button has been implemented in Career Mode.
  
• Updated the Main Menu UI to highlight Career Mode when under reputation level 25.
  
• Added a "Start Level" button next to the tutorials.
  
• Removed the Shadow Raid from the career mode.
  
• Removed the mandatory visit to the safehouse from the career mode.
  
• Moved the stealth tutorial to the “Moving up in the World” mission.
  
• Updated the VO for certain heists in Career Mode.
  
• Updated some descriptions in Career mode Heists to fit the new story path.
  
• Increased the reward for "The Basics" mission from 4000xp to 6000xp.
  

Weapons

• Fixed an issue with the Miyaka 10 Akimbo SMGs where there was an additional delay between reloading and being able to shoot again.
  
• Fixed an issue with a missing description for the X1-a ZAPper underbarrel attachment on the Little Friend 7.62 Assault Rifle.
  
• Increased the ammo pickup for Gewehr 3 when the assault kit is equipped from approximately 5-7 to approximately 7-12.
  
• Lowered the unlock level for the Rattlesnake Sniperrifle from reputation level 15 to reputation level 0.
  
• Fixed an issue where the buckshot did not have a damage falloff.
  
• Fixed an issue that would change the position of a weapon in the player's hands after throwing the X1-ZAPper grenade.
  
• Tweaked the Chimano Compact pistol and Akimbo Chimano Compact pistols to make them stand out more from other Chimano pistols.
  • Made the concealment boost mod available for the weapons.
    
  • Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Mag” weapon mod.
    
  • Reduced the stability for the “Striking Mag” from +8 to +4.
    
  • Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Body Kit” weapon mod.
    
  • Removed concealment penalty from the “Striking Slide” weapon mod.
• Reverted the Patchett L2A1 to a high damage tier Submachine Gun.
  • Damage increased from 41 to 99.
    
  • Accuracy increased from 28 to 54.
    
  • Total Ammo decreased from 220 to 96 for the secondary variant and from 280 to 168 for the akimbo variant.
    
  • Magazine Size increased from 20 to 24 for the secondary variant and from 40 to 48 for the akimbo variant.
    
  • Damage falloff set to “Far”.
    
  • Magazine Size reduction for the Short Mag mod decreased from -10 to -4 for the secondary variant and from -20 to -8 for the akimbo variant.
    
  • Magazine Size boost for the Extended Mag mod decreased from 10 to 6 for the secondary variant and from 20 to 12 for the akimbo variant.

Updates may be incompatible with the mods you may have installed. Even seemingly unrelated mods may cause unexpected issues.

If you are experiencing any issues with the game; try removing any mods you may have installed and try again.

If you are having issues with an unmodded game you can try to verify the integrity of the game files. In the steam library; right click on PAYDAY 2. Select "Properties" from the menu. Under the tab "LOCAL FILES" select "VERIFY INTEGRITY OF GAME FILES...".

The progress may take some time.


Keep those helmets flying.
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Hello heisters.

I hope you're ready for another developer update. The team has been working hard, and we're ready to share more on what's coming to PAYDAY 2.

Tune in to the premiere of our latest developer update to hear more, we'll be live in an hour from the time of this post!

[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

Keep an eye on our campaign website: https://ovk.af/UkrainianPrisonerSW

Our official PAYDAY 2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/PAYDAYGame
Our official PAYDAY 2 group on Steam: https://steamcommunity.com/games/218620​

Stay awesome!

Much love,
OVERKILL_Elisabeth OVERKILL - A Starbreeze Studio

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Saints and Heisters, what more can you ask for?
OVERKILL_Tobias OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.