We are super happy with how many of you have joined us in our assault of the Coyopa Cartel and Murkywater. We hope you are enjoying playing the new content as much as we have had making it. Of course, there are always things that get missed so we bring you a hotfix that addresses the most urgent issues.
Reduced the drill timers on the Border Crossing heist for the storages on the American side from 240s to 120s
Fixed a VO issue on the Border Crossing heist, where Locke would comment on taking out the cameras while playing the Mexican side in loud
Lowered the frequency of Lockes banter VO while playing the Border Crossing heist on the Mexican side in stealth
Restored Dallas' model that had inadvertently been reverted to an outdated version
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck behind a sofa on the Border Crossing heist
Fixed an issue where all AI teammates would use the loadout specified for the first AI
Fixed an issue where the statistics for the Bolivian guards would not count correctly
Reduced the timer before the waypoint for the explosives would appear on the American side of the Border Crossing heist to 30s
Lowered the number of snipers that Spawn on Normal difficulty while playing on the American side the Border Crossing heist to 1
Lowered the number of times the drills can jam on the American side of the Border Crossing heist to 1
Move the spawn location for the addition keycard that can spawn on the Mexican side of the Border Crossing heist for solo players, to an easier to find location in the small warehouse
PAYDAY 2: Silk Road Update
Hello Heisters!
It's time to get back in the van and kick some ass. We here at OVERKILL have something wonderful for you. A big update to make up for the recent year of silence. We bring more content and fixes to the game we all love. So suit up and join the fray as we once again put on our masks; let's head south of the border to hunt murkies.
Outfits system
A new cosmetic Outfits system is introduced in PAYDAY 2 with this DLC. In addition to selecting a mask of their choice, players can now also select an Outfit from a selection in their inventory. Outfits are clothes that the character wears below the neck and are selected in the same screen as armor.
Improved UI
The general UI and menus have been given an overhaul and streamlined to make things more efficient and easier to navigate. This also, of course, includes added elements for managing the new outfits system.
Outfits
In addition to the outfits system itself, the following outfits are made available in the Silk Road update: Silk Road update (free) outfits:
Tactical BDU
Raincoat
Scrubs
Winter Camo Parka
Tuxedo
Murkywater Uniform
Community Safe 8
Alongside the update, a new community safe is added to the drop pool. The safe contains 16 new weapon skins from the Steam workshop to customize your loadout with. It will have the same drop chance as all other community safes.
Border Crossing Heist DLC
The Payday Gang’s enemies, Murkywater and the Dentist, are moving money and illicit merchandise from the US to Mexico through a tunnel across the border. The Gang gets wind of this and formulates a plan. While some Payday Gang members are off rescuing Bain, others will travel to Arizona to hit Murkywater and the Dentist.
Tailor Pack 1 DLC
Tailor Pack 1 DLC outfits (each of these has 5 color variations, for a total of 20 outfits):
The Showman
The Casual Formal
The Sunny Rico
The Classic
Cartel Optics Mod Pack DLC
The Cartel Optics Mod Pack DLC includes 10 new weapon mods to help you customize and improve the performance of your weapons in combat. The central theme for this mod pack is optics and sights. Mods included:
Fixed an issue where players would be able to use Pocket ECMs on objectives that would normally lock when exposed to the ECM effect
Another attempt at fixing an issue where an ammo bag that appeared empty could prevent smoke and corpses from properly despawning for clients
Fixed a crash that could occur if the player used the HRL-7 Rocket Launcher on Captain Winters
Fixed an issue where the clients would not get progress on Holdout if the host changed from regular lobby to holdout after they joined
Fixed an issue with containers always showing the 'hold F to open' prompt even though you are closing the containers
Fixed so that you can play on Steam OS with the Xbox One controller as well as the Xbox 360 controller
Fixed so that the Steam Marketplace does not use a localized string when searching
LEVELS
Fixed an AI navigation issue on Shadow Raid
Fixed an issue where players could kill the escape driver on day one of Watchdogs causing a blocker on day two
Adjusted spawn points for snipers on Beneath The Mountain
Fixed an issue where one of the cameras on Big Oil day one was not connected to the landmines
Fixed an issue where the trip mines on Hotline Miami day one were missing their lasers
Fixed an issue where the team AI could not get to the player on the roof of the building on Cook Off
Fixed an issue on Brooklyn 10-10 where the player could get stuck inside a police car near the escape
Fixed an issue on Firestarter day 3 that could cause the AI to break stealth if the player got electrocuted
Fixed a hole in the wall near Sokol in the New Safe House
Fixed issues causing noticeably reduced enemy spawns on Golden Grin Casino
Fixed an issue on The Big Bank where the player could be prevented from progressing when breaking stealth after having opened the vault
Fixed an issue on Biker Heist day two where the AI would not follow the player upon the train car
Fixed an issue on Framing Frame day three where the players could throw bags into an unreachable area
Fixed an issue where players could get stuck behind plants in a staircase on Breaking Feds
UI
Move Credits into the options menu
Renamed "GAMEHUB" to "COMMUNITY"
Renamed the "EQPT & SKILLS" column in the inventory to "ABILITIES"
Moved Equipment to the character column in the inventory
Move Crew Management and Infamy into the inventory under the Abilities column
Moved and adjusted the size of the detection risk indicator under overall stats in the inventory
Created a new Advanced category under options
Moved Ban List to Advanced in the options menu
Moved Workshop into Advanced in the options menu
Moved Clear Progress into Advanced in the options menu
Change name “CLEAR PROGRESS” to “RESET ACCOUNT PROGRESSION”
Move “MUTE CONTRACTOR VOICES” from gameplay to sound
Move “THROWABLE CONTOUR” from gameplay to user interface
Move “AMMO CONTOUR” from gameplay to user interface
Moved "QUICKPLAY" options to the main menu and integrated it with the "QUICKPLAY" button
Replaced the heister icons with the heisters faces
Added separator spaces between groups of buttons in the main menu
VISUALS
Fixed an issue causing the monitors on drills and saws to retain the glare after playing certain heists
Fixed an issue where, if playing No Mercy before Hotline Miami, would remove the fog on Hotline Miami
TEXT
Fixed a text overlap issue in Russian when selecting weekly holdout
Fixed text strings related to Storyline mode
Fixed incorrect text for Joys room upgrades in the Safehouse for German, Dutch, Japanese and Russian
ACHIEVEMENTS
Fixed strings related to achievements. Some of them were missing what difficulties they could be unlocked on
Added information on how to activate the One Down modifier to achievements that were missing instructions
Added information about what masks are needed to unlock certain achievements
Fixed various inconsistencies in achievements names and descriptions between the in-game interface and steam
Renamed "A Taste of Their Own Medicine" to "Return to Sender" to better differentiate from a similar achievement name
Renamed "Every Dog Has Its Day" to "Every Dog Has It's Afternoon" to better differentiate from a similar achievement name
Renamed "This Is WAR Baby!" to "What Is It Good For?" to better differentiate from a similar achievement name
Renamed "Don't forget to vote" to "You Can't Vote Twice" to better differentiate from a similar achievement name
Renamed "Makin' My Way Downtown" to "All The Noise and The Hurry" to better differentiate from a similar achievement name
Removed duplicate information from various achievement descriptions
Fixed an inconsistency between steam achievements and the in-game achievement interface causing the wrong infamy achievement to be displayed in the in-game interface
Added the "Raincoat" outfit as a reward for the "Taking the High Road" achievement
Added the "Winter Camo Parka" outfit as a reward for the "Friendship Frozen" achievement
Added the "Tactical BDU" outfit as a reward for the "Valuable Ornaments" achievement
Added the "Tuxedo" outfit as a reward for the "Trip to the Coast" achievement
Added the "Scrubs" outfit as a reward for the "Just Some Medical Students" achievement
Special thanks to community member andole for helping us collect bugs! An additional special thanks to our volunteer translators, Bad_Karma, Sylvanas_Windrunner, Shadai, Hoxi and Dagged for all their efforts in making sure that the new content is properly localized!
PAYDAY 2: Border Crossing Heist Trailer
Heisters!
It's time to cross some borders. Available November 7th.
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Check out http://www.overkillsoftware.com/games/silkroad/
EDIT: The website has now been updated with more info.
Let's do this,
OVERKILL_Almir OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.
Winds of Change
Heisters,
I’m posting this today to communicate a few of the changes coming to PAYDAY 2. Most of you don’t know me, and that’s how it should be. The day to day interactions you have with our OVERKILL devs, community managers and moderator crew are by far more interesting, I’m sure. Our team, together with you, provide a forum where firsthand input can be discussed, and these are dialogues that directly affect our current and future development. I took over the helm in December of last year (for the second time). I see myself primarily as the custodian, facilitator of making great games. If you look at a company as a well-oiled machine; every cog in the engine is more important than I. I’m just here to make sure everything’s clean, oiled, and running smoothly. My job is to create an environment where the team can focus on what’s important, the game(s). As many of you may or may not know, our company has gone through something of a purgatory fire in the past year. Because of this, we’re announcing a few PAYDAY 2 changes today. I’ll summarize them here in a TL;DR right here at the top, and then dive into the details:
Preface
In the beginning of this wall of text, I mentioned the purgatory fire that we’ve been through in the past months, and challenges we’re still facing. To keep it relevant and not too lengthy, I’ll condense some of the background to this here, most of the details can be found on our website if you’d like to learn more.
Late 2018 Starbreeze found itself in an acute liquidity shortfall (fancy words for: “we were urgently really out of cash”). In December of 2018, Starbreeze entered into “reconstruction”, a procedure similar to the US version of Chapter 11. On December 3rd, we only had projected cash reserves to run the company until mid-January 2019. This was how serious the situation had become. Since then we’ve been able, through extremely hard work and commitment by all of our employees, been able to stay afloat, clean up our business and start thinking about our future and the future of PAYDAY. We’re not entirely there yet, but we are starting to look ahead at what’s next. This brings me to the changes we’re making.
PAYDAY 2: Legacy Collection & À la carte
To get it out of the door immediately; yes, I know we’re breaking a promise. We do not do so with ease or take this lightly.
At one point in time, our company believed that the interest and engagement in PAYDAY 2 would decline over time, as new internal games were released. Resources were needed on new projects and production of PAYDAY 2 was scheduled to stop and no more updates to come. By popular demand this deadline was extended a few times, but development on PAYDAY 2 ultimately shut down December 2018.
It was also believed that the sheer amount of six years of DLC-releases was confusing for returning or new players and a blocker for people to get into the game. At the same time, getting the game with all of its content, was coming in above 200 USD, a respectable sum for any game. Hence, PAYDAY 2: Ultimate Edition was born as a packaged deal. It was basically the promise of “get everything PAYDAY 2 in a package, until we release the next installment of PAYDAY”.
Now we’re breaking the Ultimate Edition promise of forever-free-content. The reasoning for this is plain and simple:
We want to move forward and make more of PAYDAY 2, and to do so we need your support to continue producing content. New DLCs will be a mix of paid and free updates.
Enter The PAYDAY 2: Legacy Collection!
The Ultimate Edition will be retired today, but PAYDAY 2: Legacy Collection will immediately replace it. This will still be the best offer on anything released 2018 or earlier. Also:
À la carte is back on the table!
I’ve had reports from our team that the smörgåsbord, or à la carte option, to be able to purchase DLC separately, is very much requested; I’m happy to announce that we’re making individual DLC available again starting later today. The prices for the individual DLCs will remain as stated as the original price in the bundles.
More Payday 2!
What about the next content drop for PAYDAY 2? Be patient with our team please. They’re working hard to deliver the next PAYDAY 2 update and will present it in all its glory, sneak peek here!
Thank you for your support and for sticking by us.
Mikael CEO Starbreeze / OVERKILL
Happy 6th Birthday to PAYDAY 2
Hello Heisters!
Today PAYDAY 2 turns 6 years old. It’s been an incredible journey so far. Many of you reach out to us and express how much the game has meant to you. It is amazing to see how active the community is around this game, and we love seeing your memes, cosplays and gameplay. Whether you’ve been with us for the long haul or have just discovered the joy of heisting more recently, we would like to thank you for being part of the Payday gang.
To commemorate the 6th birthday, we're asking for your input. We've made a community survey of PAYDAY 2 that we'd like you fill in, and spread to any PAYDAY heisters you know. The results of the survey will help us navigate our course going forward.
In addition, one of our artists made a fiery image in honor of the anniversary.
You can download it here:
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While we got the gang gathered we also want to bring some attention to a charity stream that is being held by MadeofSandL on the 30th of this month. He’s streaming for 24h and will also hold an auction for a mask signed by us here at OVERKILL. If certain milestones are met, he will also be holding giveaways for additional PAYDAY crew masks. All proceeds will go towards Macmillan Cancer Support. https://www.twitch.tv/madeofsandl
Keep those helmets flying!
OVERKILL_Crew
Last Chance! Ultimate Edition 95% off during the Summer Sale.
Heisters,
The Summer Sale is Almost Over!
Thank you for a crazy summer sale. It's great seeing the support and all the activity over on Crimenet. We hope you are having a great time robbing banks with your friends.
Get PAYDAY 2: Ultimate Edition for 95% off
Just your friendly career criminal reminder: there's less than 24 hours left of the summer sale. This year you can get PAYDAY 2: Ultimate Edition for a staggering 95% off. If you have a buddy who hasn't turned to a life of crime yet, now's their chance.
Heisters, thanks to everyone who's been playing our summer sale story adventure. We enjoyed making it and it's great seeing you play it. Whether it's for the immersive story, deep progression system, the incredible graphics or just to nab a code or two (or three), we appreciate you spending your time with the PAYDAY gang.
We'll keep the text adventure available after the sale, but we'll remove the possibility to gain bonus keys. If you want any of the keys made available through the text adventure, make sure to play it before the Steam summer sale ends.
Summer is upon us with all that it entails, from holidays to heat, and of course Steam sales and heisting. For the duration of the Steam Summer Sale, you can get up to 80% off on PAYDAY 2: Ultimate Edition! and 50% off on PAYDAY: The Heist!
In addition to the hefty discounts on Steam, we wanted to do something for those of you who already own the PAYDAY games and might be hoping for something new. We proudly present:
PAYDAY: The Text Adventure.
This short story takes place during the pre-planning for a heist and will let you pull the strings and lead the crew to either glorious victory or bitter defeat. There are different paths to take that will affect what ending you get, and who knows, there might even be something shiny at the end for you, should you succeed.
Edit:
We addressed the feedback and confusion about the recent changes to the discount for the Ultimate Edition. We apologize for the inconvenience. More information can be found here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/8/1643167006260385389/
PAYDAY 2 Free to Play, Ultimate Edition discounted at 80%!
Heisters!
PAYDAY 2 is free to play until Monday! Just head to the store front and download the game to play. We've also discounted the base game at 50% and the Ultimate Edition at a whopping 80% off - a steal!
The Free to play period as well as the discounts end on Monday at 10am Pacific.
Check out the website for a link to the wallpaper! https://ovk.af/free-weekend-cdfb4
It is time for the next offence in the never-ending PAYDAY rap sheet. Today we want to give you a first preview of what is to come in the somewhat near-ish future. We are proud as punch to be able to give you 99 new reasons to mask up in PAYDAY ROYALE.
As you and the opposition gather on Hell's Island waiting for the Hype Train to take off, tensions are high and the stakes... are also high. As the twitch shooters, the youtubers and the no-scopers gather; the train is fueling up and soon it is time... to put your game face on.
All aboard
Board the Hype train and hunt the safes that fall from the skies over Bain Island. There’s also a 0,5% chance that a Sputnik satellite will appear with some extra epic loot. Mask up, get down and let's get rambling. Go solo or as a crew and fight your way to the title of Loot Master. The tactics are endless and the playstyles are quite a few. But beware there are not just 99 other players out there against you out there somewhere out there someone else is on the hunt and the last thing you see is his bright green eyes. Bring him down to get some special loot the gives you an edge in combat. Unless he finds you first.
Where will you disembark the Train?
As with any normal train no one really knows the actual path of the Hype Train, each ride will be different and you never really know where it will go but one thing is certain you won't like where it's heading. Stay too long and you bought yourselves a one way ticket to Mercy Hospital Morgue.
You can jump off Downtown and get right into the fray or run for the Safehouse since nothing bad ever happens there. If you are looking for something more interesting make your way to the Meth Woods or get some top tier wheels from The Rust.
Do you sneak around or go for the Safes?
Safes attract a lot of attention but give great rewards, if you can take the heat. Every now and then Vlad and his brother-in-law lies over the island and parachute a safe, safely to the ground. Inside is an arsenal that would make Chains shed a tear of joy as long as you can wait out the broke dick piece of shit drill.
Wanna look like a million bucks?
Get yourself a Miisters, mister! and unlock some sweet sweet exclusive gear. You unlock special skins, emotes and player portraits. Here are some examples of the awesome special unlocks a Miisters can give you and what Miister you would need to purchase:
High Society, each of the heisters has a Miister in this classic look
White Tux, a stylish bond-like look that available to with some Miisters (e.g. High Society - Dallas, High Society - Sydney)
Fancy Top Hat, nothing says class like a top hat (High Society Chains) or perhaps a Classy Monocle (High Society - Bonnie)
A Toast, you can’t have class without booze cause (High Society - Jimmy) and when you score that final kill you can perform the Deep Bow (High Society - Duke)
Golden Heisters, each heister from the classic PAYDAY 2 crew has a Golden Miister
Classical suits in muted colors such as The Classic Brown (Golden - Dallas) or perhaps you prefer The Pickle, this skin needs no introductions it is exactly what you think (Golden - Chains)
Golden Mask, the iconic masks rendered in glorious gold (All Golden Miisters)
The Circle, An emote that has your character draw a circle in the air for no apparent reason (Golden - Hoxton) or if you want something more dramatic then you can go for The Drill, An emote that has your character take out a drill, and push it down against anyone who you might be standing over (Golden - Wolf)
OVERKILL_Almir, A special limited edition Miister
Taco Tanktop: The legendary outfit is, of course, available as an exclusive skin for the true Almir fans.
The Beard: The classic mask of the beard brings his well-known glory to the battlefield.
Make it Rain: Your character takes a second away from the fight to throw a DLC around the nearby area.
OVERKILL_Tobias, A special limited edition Miister
Police Uniform: A handsome uniform with polished buttons even you be an awkward cameo in this traditional police garb.
The Doctors Beard: The special mask that is so ugly it was surprising if anyone used it.
Shake it Baby: Take out a cocktail shaker and shake it, shake it, shake it...
OVERKILL_symN, A special limited edition Miister
The V-Neck: If there is one thing you don't want to bring to the battlefield it's an ill-fitted V-neck t-shirt but if you insist, this skin got you covered.
The Beanie of the Universe: Bring the beanie of all beanies! Once you put it on it can't be taken off.
German Dance: Your character does absolutely nothing since dancing is not an efficient way to fight a battle.
PAYDAY Royale will be released completely untested and utterly broken some time today and will most definitely break every mod known to man. We look forward to seeing all of you on the Hype Train or somewhere among the famous PAYDAY locations on Bain Island.The race is on for who will earn the title of Loot Master first and who will have to live with the shame of being the first to be taken into custody. The guns will roar in the streets and dense forests and yes...
Helmets will fly.
Good Luck!
To celebrate the Year of the Pig, PAYDAY 2 joins the Steam Lunar New Year Sale!
Curious, reliable, patient and sometimes impulsive are just a few attributes that are connected to pigs but can also make a great Heister! Start your criminal career now by securing yourself the best deal out there! PAYDAY 2 on 50% and PAYDAY 2: Ultimate Edition on 80% discount until the 11th of February!
