Hey guys,

Hope all is well. So listen, I was at Valve earlier this week. We talked about, you know, stuff. Nothing you'd be interested in so I won't bother you with the details.

Anyway, I'm in Los Angeles right now visiting Skybound, our partner for OVERKILL's The Walking Dead.

I'm flying back to Sweden tomorrow, but while I'm here in Los Angeles, I was wondering if any PAYDAY fans would like to meet up with me and let me buy you dinner? We can talk about anything PAYDAY-related, or about OVERKILL's The Walking Dead or what have you. I also got four PAYDAY masks for you to take home with you. I can sign them if you want me to.

Sounds interesting? Follow me on my twitter and send me a tweet with the hashtag #LETSDOTHIS. Tell me you're free to have dinner tonight and you got three friends ready and able. If I pick you, I'll private message you with details on where we'll meet.

Tweet me with the above and you might get picked to eat dinner with me tonight at some cool restaurant in Los Angeles. You probably need to live in Los Angeles for this to work, seeing as we'll probably eat dinner at 19-20 or so. Which is in a few hours.

Follow me on @almirlisto.

Keep those helmets flying, people.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Hey guys,

Hope all is well. So listen, I was at Valve earlier this week. We talked about, you know, stuff. Nothing you'd be interested in so I won't bother you with the details.

Anyway, I'm in Los Angeles right now visiting Skybound, our partner for OVERKILL's The Walking Dead.

I'm flying back to Sweden tomorrow, but while I'm here in Los Angeles, I was wondering if any PAYDAY fans would like to meet up with me and let me buy you dinner? We can talk about anything PAYDAY-related, or about OVERKILL's The Walking Dead or what have you. I also got four PAYDAY masks for you to take home with you. I can sign them if you want me to.

Sounds interesting? Follow me on my twitter and send me a tweet with the hashtag #LETSDOTHIS. Tell me you're free to have dinner tonight and you got three friends ready and able. If I pick you, I'll private message you with details on where we'll meet.

Tweet me with the above and you might get picked to eat dinner with me tonight at some cool restaurant in Los Angeles. You probably need to live in Los Angeles for this to work, seeing as we'll probably eat dinner at 19-20 or so. Which is in a few hours.

Follow me on @almirlisto.

Keep those helmets flying, people.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Heisters,

The following is information regarding a voluntary beta test. Continue reading if you're interested in volunteering.

Please restart Steam to get access to the open_beta.

The following is an invitation to an open beta focusing on stability changes as well as tweaks to the XP and money systems. By testing this with us, we hope to add these changes to the live game.

If it crashes while you play, you can find your crash dumps (file extension .mdmp) in this folder: \Steam\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2. Please share this with us by sending an e-mail to info@overkillsoftware.com. As subject, type "Open Beta Crash dump"

The open beta update size: 134mb

1) Right click on PAYDAY 2 in your Steam library
2) Go to properties
3) Go to the "BETAS" tab
4) Switch to open_beta (there is no password)
5) Press "CLOSE"
6) Download the update

Do this at your own risk. You might lose your save file so please back it up before you start. This is a beta so the game might crash during play.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170416480

If you choose to participate, please uninstall any mods you use. We can't use your feedback if you have any mods installed, as that feedback won't reflect the unmodified experience.

This open beta includs two major changes; PART ONE: focusing on network, stability and enemy related changes. PART TWO: focuses on money and XP related changes. There will be two seperate threads for each major change. All changes are part of the same open beta, but to simplify discussion, please discuss the appropiate part in the appropiate forum.

The changes suggested in PART TWO are suggestions. We want you to try them and tell us what you think. If you love it, we'll include it, if you hate it, we'll not. Simple as that.

Restart Steam to get access to the open_beta!

When you play the open_beta, please note that you can only play with other open_beta participants.

You keep any progress you get in the open_beta to the live, public version of the game.

• Under ”Network Options” in the ”Options” menu you can find a new setting called ”Forwarding”. Enabling this will try to reduce the risk of disconnections. If your computer loses connection with any player(s) on the server the game will try to use another player as a relay. If this situation occurs the game may experience lower response time but the connection will be kept until a direct connection can be reestablished.

• Fix for lobby being unjoinable if host terminates contract before all clients have finished loading.
  
• Crashfixes. The crashes happened mostly on game start or when another player spawned

• Fix for enemies standing idle after having sprinted.
  
• Cloaker will animate his position correctly when doing his sprint-kick.
  
• Tweaked cloaker dodge pattern

If you feedback please tell us in the bug reporting forum thread created for PART ONE. You can find it here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/10/35222218648092119/

From the help of some members of the community, we have gone through all experience and money rewards. The following changes were made:

• Experience on all job was raised to be on the same terms as Rats
  
• Bag values were changed to reduce the gap between some missions
  
• Heat was reduced since there should be no preferential farm missions
  
• 50% of the stealth bonus was balanced to the experience reward of the stealthable jobs

If you have feedback please tell us in the bug reporting forum thread created for PART TWO. You can find it here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/10/35222218648145323/

Thanks for your help!

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Heisters,

The following is information regarding a voluntary beta test. Continue reading if you're interested in volunteering.

Please restart Steam to get access to the open_beta.

The following is an invitation to an open beta focusing on stability changes as well as tweaks to the XP and money systems. By testing this with us, we hope to add these changes to the live game.

If it crashes while you play, you can find your crash dumps (file extension .mdmp) in this folder: \Steam\steamapps\common\PAYDAY 2. Please share this with us by sending an e-mail to info@overkillsoftware.com. As subject, type "Open Beta Crash dump"

The open beta update size: 134mb

1) Right click on PAYDAY 2 in your Steam library
2) Go to properties
3) Go to the "BETAS" tab
4) Switch to open_beta (there is no password)
5) Press "CLOSE"
6) Download the update

Do this at your own risk. You might lose your save file so please back it up before you start. This is a beta so the game might crash during play.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=170416480

If you choose to participate, please uninstall any mods you use. We can't use your feedback if you have any mods installed, as that feedback won't reflect the unmodified experience.

This open beta includs two major changes; PART ONE: focusing on network, stability and enemy related changes. PART TWO: focuses on money and XP related changes. There will be two seperate threads for each major change. All changes are part of the same open beta, but to simplify discussion, please discuss the appropiate part in the appropiate forum.

The changes suggested in PART TWO are suggestions. We want you to try them and tell us what you think. If you love it, we'll include it, if you hate it, we'll not. Simple as that.

Restart Steam to get access to the open_beta!

When you play the open_beta, please note that you can only play with other open_beta participants.

You keep any progress you get in the open_beta to the live, public version of the game.

• Under ”Network Options” in the ”Options” menu you can find a new setting called ”Forwarding”. Enabling this will try to reduce the risk of disconnections. If your computer loses connection with any player(s) on the server the game will try to use another player as a relay. If this situation occurs the game may experience lower response time but the connection will be kept until a direct connection can be reestablished.

• Fix for lobby being unjoinable if host terminates contract before all clients have finished loading.
  
• Crashfixes. The crashes happened mostly on game start or when another player spawned

• Fix for enemies standing idle after having sprinted.
  
• Cloaker will animate his position correctly when doing his sprint-kick.
  
• Tweaked cloaker dodge pattern

If you feedback please tell us in the bug reporting forum thread created for PART ONE. You can find it here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/10/35222218648092119/

From the help of some members of the community, we have gone through all experience and money rewards. The following changes were made:

• Experience on all job was raised to be on the same terms as Rats
  
• Bag values were changed to reduce the gap between some missions
  
• Heat was reduced since there should be no preferential farm missions
  
• 50% of the stealth bonus was balanced to the experience reward of the stealthable jobs

If you have feedback please tell us in the bug reporting forum thread created for PART TWO. You can find it here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/218620/discussions/10/35222218648145323/

Thanks for your help!

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

HEISTERS!

You won't believe it. Simon Viklund himself got challenged by Mr.Payday from Cash.net - and boy did Simon deliver. (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cashnet#announcements/detail/201854770665618153)

Simon challenges Simon Kerr (the voice of Dallas), Pete Gold (the voice of Old Hoxton) and Jon from Destructoid.

Share our tweet here.

Watch the movie here.

Enjoy and thumbs up for Simon's version of Pat Briscoe's hit song!

We'll be donating an additional $1000 to the ALS Foundation to a total of $2000.

Please consider a donation at: http://www.alsa.org/ !

ALS is a Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

HEISTERS!

You won't believe it. Simon Viklund himself got challenged by Mr.Payday from Cash.net - and boy did Simon deliver. (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cashnet#announcements/detail/201854770665618153)

Simon challenges Simon Kerr (the voice of Dallas), Pete Gold (the voice of Old Hoxton) and Jon from Destructoid.

Share our tweet here.

Watch the movie here.

Enjoy and thumbs up for Simon's version of Pat Briscoe's hit song!

We'll be donating an additional $1000 to the ALS Foundation to a total of $2000.

Please consider a donation at: http://www.alsa.org/ !

ALS is a Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Motor neurons reach from the brain to the spinal cord and from the spinal cord to the muscles throughout the body. The progressive degeneration of the motor neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of the disease may become totally paralyzed.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Heisters!

The second reward of the CRIMEFEST is ready! Here's the mask from Bain that was promised.

Please enjoy. ;)


Update size: 14.5 MB

• Added the Peter mask from Bain, for free to all community members

• Fixed an issue where the completion stats on Watch Dogs and Big Oil wasn't visible
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes crash if the host kicked a player that was loading into the level
  
• Fixed an issue where the heists were shown twice in the filter menu
  
• Fixed localization issues on the Gage Shotgun Pack masks

A: Are you or someone you're playing with using a mod? The mod most likely isn't compatible with the latest update. Either uninstall your mods or wait until the mod developer has updated the mod so it works with the latest update.

Enjoy everyone and don't forget to taste the rainbow...

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Heisters!

The second reward of the CRIMEFEST is ready! Here's the mask from Bain that was promised.

Please enjoy. ;)


Update size: 14.5 MB

• Added the Peter mask from Bain, for free to all community members

• Fixed an issue where the completion stats on Watch Dogs and Big Oil wasn't visible
  
• Fixed an issue where the game would sometimes crash if the host kicked a player that was loading into the level
  
• Fixed an issue where the heists were shown twice in the filter menu
  
• Fixed localization issues on the Gage Shotgun Pack masks

A: Are you or someone you're playing with using a mod? The mod most likely isn't compatible with the latest update. Either uninstall your mods or wait until the mod developer has updated the mod so it works with the latest update.

Enjoy everyone and don't forget to taste the rainbow...

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Hey heisters,

We accept Jack Mitchells (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cashnet#announcements/detail/201854770576333172) ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and will be donating $1000 to the ALS Foundation as well! In turn we nominate Giancarlo Esposito, James from The Creatures and Karl the 16th Gustav, King of Sweden.

Share our tweet here.

Watch the movie here.

Enjoy.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

Hey heisters,

We accept Jack Mitchells (http://steamcommunity.com/groups/cashnet#announcements/detail/201854770576333172) ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and will be donating $1000 to the ALS Foundation as well! In turn we nominate Giancarlo Esposito, James from The Creatures and Karl the 16th Gustav, King of Sweden.

Share our tweet here.

Watch the movie here.

Enjoy.

Almir
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.