PAYDAY 2 News

Some of you have noticed not being able to participate in the ongoing PAYDAY 2 sale, or might have heard from friends that they are having issues. The most common issue is that items on sale are available and visible, but the buy-button is grayed out.

This is due to a recent change in Steam’s pricing policy that changed the minimum acceptable price of any piece of content on the Steam Store to $0.99 as standard, or $0.49 on sale.. This limit is the same, in USD, regardless of what currency you make your actual purchase in.

These problems are particularly noticeable in heavily discounted bundles, something we use often to discount PAYDAY 2. When one of the DLCs in a bundle costs less than the minimum limit of $0.49 on sale, the whole bundle will become unavailable for purchase.

If you’d like to know more about how this works, start with the blog post linked above!



Due to this, we’ll need to raise the prices of our DLCs in certain regions to ensure that the bundles are purchasable and that we can set the discounts at the levels we want going forward.

We wanted to let you know ahead of time, to give you a chance to purchase the DLCs you want at their current price if possible. If not, they should be available for their regular, non-discounted price for a short period of time before the base price is increased.



There’s no one answer since it’s very likely many regions will see some minor change. Smaller changes may occur even in regions where the issues aren’t as readily apparent. We also expect a few DLCs to get lower prices as part of this change, but assume you guys are cool with that.

Going forward, we'll mostly rely on the standard pricing matrix provided by Valve. Doing so will “normalize” the price of PAYDAY 2 when compared to other titles on the platform. More information here.

The countries we know for a fact will see an increase are Turkey and Argentina who have been having issues related to this for an extended period.



If the issues mentioned above have been relevant anywhere, it’s been the Infamous Collection.
In this brand new bundle, we collected all available PAYDAY 2 DLC at a permanent 52% discount. This setup caused some of the DLCs to fall below the $1 limit for a number of regions, prompting us to expedite these pricing changes.

We apologize for the inconvenience, our goal is to change as little as possible while making the game available for more people.

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PAYDAY 2: Update 239.2 Changelog
Update Size: 5.5 MB

After fixing the previous issue with the side-job which was not triggering correctly, we noticed that for a lot of players, the side-job still did not unlock as expected. This new issue happened to players who had completed the personal part of the side job before the hotfix went live. We can finally say that this issue has now been addressed and we hope you will enjoy the musket for the rest of the event.

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue where the completion of the "SMASH AND GRAB" event side-job would not load correctly for some people.
  
• Fixed an issue where buffs and warthog presence would not sync correctly to drop-in clients.
  

Updates may be incompatible with the mods you may have installed. Even seemingly unrelated mods may cause unexpected issues. If you are experiencing any problems 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 process may take some time to finish.


Keep those helmets flying!
OVERKILL_Tobias

PAYDAY 2: Update 239.1 Changelog
Update Size: 9.5 MB

A few hours ago the PAYDAY 2 Community smashed the first Milestone in the anniversary event. However, due to a small bug the associated side job did not unlock. This has now been addressed and should work correctly on the next restart of the game.

[h3]Changes[/h3]

• Fixed an issue with the "SMASH AND GRAB" event side-job not unlocking correctly
  
• Fixed an issue where the new cosmetic kit was not available for Akimbo Deagles
  
• Fixed a crash on the Stealing Xmas Heist
  

Updates may be incompatible with the mods you may have installed. Even seemingly unrelated mods may cause unexpected issues. If you are experiencing any problems 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 process may take some time to finish.


Keep those helmets flying!
OVERKILL_Tobias

Can you believe PAYDAY 2 has been around for a whole 10 years? Indeed heisters, thanks to you, we’ve managed to keep delivering new PAYDAY content since 2013.
We’ve been celebrating since this Sunday when we hosted a massive 10-hour stream, we had guests, gameplay, and reminisced about the years past together with our viewers. In case you missed it, you can watch both parts of the 10-hour stream here.

Tuesday, we announced the Infamous Collection. Which is practically every PAYDAY 2 DLC currently still available in one package, for the ultimate collector! Yesterday also marked the start of a grand anniversary sale! Check it out on our store page.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/218620/PAYDAY_2/



Rejoice heisters! Today marks the return of the most popular porcine payday pal, the golden piggy! Whatever heister is having this fever dream must’ve eaten something horrid.

You might recognize elements of previous community events for this one, though Mr. Piggy has gone through some… improvements. Bigger, stronger, piggier!

TL;DR - defeat enemies to feed the pig, once the pig grows big enough for you, smash it, and make off with the rewards!

To explain it a bit more thoroughly… Defeating enemies will cause them to drop piggy bucks, remember to check the side-jobs to see what you can unlock and what you need to do. How you defeat enemies will affect how efficiently you gain piggy bucks, you’ll get 1 piggy buck for every:

• 5 headshots kills
  
• 10 body shot kills
  
• 5 cash blaster kills
  
• 1 kill with either of the two available event weapons

The piggy will then feast on the fruits of your labor! To put it simply, throw the piggy bucks into the pig to make it grow, the bigger it gets the more you’re rewarded.
The piggy will grow in up to 5 stages, each stage will grant you a random buff such as faster run speed while carrying bags, increased drill speed, or less damage taken. You can choose to get out before the piggy is full if you smash it early, your reward will depend on what stage the piggy was in, so the more you risk the more you stand to gain.

For every 3 million piggy bucks the PAYDAY 2 community collects, we’re upping the ante and providing rewards! Check out the event page to see what the community can earn!

Do note that we use telemetry in order to track the progression of this event, so if your telemetry is turned off, your contributions will not count. Check here for how to turn it on or off. The event starts today August 16th and will run until [day] August 22th



You ask, we deliver! We’ve been getting the question for a while now, “is there any way to show my accomplishments in PAYDAY 2 when playing PAYDAY 3”. Well, now you can!

We’ve created a list of challenges from PAYDAY 2 which will lead to rewards in PAYDAY 3. The challenges are varied but all tied to achievements. The wise heister might use the in-game achievement tracking UI located from the main menu to keep an eye on their progress.
This campaign will continue for at least a while after the launch of PAYDAY 3, so if you don’t have time to finish everything now, you may do so in the future.

There are more details of how the technical aspects will work on the event website.


Another lost tape is located, grab it to hear what the enemies of the Payday Gang are up to. Find the lost tapes from the crimenet side-menu.



There’s a PAYDAY 2 sale running on practically all content. The sale will extend until August 24th, check it out here:
https://store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/218620/



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Keep those helmets flying!
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