Hello heisters.

Earlier this week we were excited to share our Halloween celebration this year with all of you, via a Halloween themed stream on several platforms. One of the main features of this stream was that we offered Drops on Twitch, for ingame outfits matching the outfits of our stream stars for the evening. We’re incredibly honored to see the excitement you all showed us for our evening look.

However, shortly after the festivities died down we noticed a problem; A lot of you reported that you were unable to find the Haunted outfit ingame after claiming the Drop. When we started the investigation, we quickly found an issue with the way this particular outfit was named on the Twitch campaign side, so it didn’t award correctly for most of you despite filling the conditions. We’re not able to fix this without restarting the Twitch campaign. Instead of this, we have decided to award the outfit to all players with a Starbreeze account. All you need to do to receive the outfit is to launch the game, with your account connected, before the end of the Twitch Drop campaign.

We apologize for the inconvenience caused by this. We hope you now will still enjoy dressing up as our banshee, and keep watching PAYDAY 2 on Twitch to earn the remaining Twitch Drops.

Keep those helmets flying!

Much love,
OVERKILL_Elisabeth

Happy scary-day heisters!

A solid three updates in a single month each with new content, what’s going on here? Who are we and what did we do with the good people at OVERKILL? Well the crew is safe and this is just your lucky month. You’ve just been good this year and we wanted to give you something special yet again.

We’re releasing three new outfits that you can use to show enemies and innocent bystanders alike the true meaning of fear! … I mean, I guess gunfire and excessive violence would do that just fine… In any case, you are getting brand new outfits, a whole 3 outfits including suits, masks and gloves. And a pair of "non-descript" glasses.

To claim these items, all you need to do is to watch a stream! Ideally ours, starting (live now!). You’ll also need a Starbreeze Account connected to Twitch and Steam. If you can't make it to our Horrifying Halloween stream, just watch any participating PAYDAY 2 streamer in the week that follows.

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

Good orange month to you heisters! And a happy spring to the southern-hemisphere crooks out there. Despite getting closer to the end of the year, we’re not done yet. Coming right out of celebrating 11 years since the release of PAYDAY: The Heist, we move on from old to new with the release of the Lost in Transit heist!

The crew has been tasked by their new Texas accomplices with getting their hands on a shipment of printing plates being transported by high-security trains. While our heisters are no strangers to train robbery while in movement, this time we’ll try to stop the trains while they’re still at the station.

We hope to see you in crime.net playing the new heist!

While we've certainly enjoyed our time in Texas, they have not liked having us. We tread on their pride once too many and now they're bringing forth new forces against us.
The Marshal Shield units have, not entirely surprisingly, shields. These high-tech shields are equipped with flashers able to blind any foe brave or foolish enough to face them. This does not come entirely without downsides though as a diligent heister can destroy the shields, revealing the soft highly shootable Marshal beneath. Even if you manage to de-shield this new threat however, don't feel safe yet - as that's when they bring out the big guns, literally.

Not only are you getting a new heist and new enemies, we've upped the ante with some new Twitch drops. A classic outfit to make you fit in at the train yard you're about to absolutely destroy.

The drops are available to anyone that has a Starbreeze Account linked to Steam and Twitch, check it out here

Lastly, we’ve added options for those of you who’d like to protect your hearing in Disable Tinnitus Ringing Effect under accessibility options. Additionally now that we added more flashes to the game, you can turn those flashes dark instead of bright white also under accessibility > Screen Flash Color. This’ll help you not hit your toes on everything after a session of late-night heisting.

This release continues the Texas Heat campaign and rounds off the Lost in Transit story. If you haven’t already the Lost in Transit bundle contains 4 DLC at a huge up-front discount.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2074250/PAYDAY_2_Lost_in_Transit_Bundle/

If, on the other hand, you prefer your DLCs on their own, you can pick up the Lost in Transit heist as a single.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2074240/PAYDAY_2_Lost_in_Transit_Heist/

Update size 289.2 MB

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

Happy 11th PAYDAY anniversary heisters! If PAYDAY was a person, it’d be able to vote, have a beer or drive… ok, maybe not any of those, but certainly old enough to take part in armed robbery!

We’re thrilled to yet again have you with us as we celebrate another year of PAYDAY. While 11 years isn’t the most well celebrated anniversary, we still feel you’ve been good at being bad this year and deserve a little something.
When preparing for this celebration, we asked ourselves, what or who aside from PAYDAY personifies crime? Our minds were brought back to the gangster era of 1920’s USA and all the great stories that were born there. To that end, we put together a very special outfit, two masks and a stinger reminiscent of one of the world’s most known and (beloved?) criminal masterminds, for you, our favorite crooks.

To claim the items you need to have a Starbreeze Account linked to your Steam account, if you don’t already have a Starbreeze Account you can sign up here.

In addition to the freebies we also got an absolutely massive changelog of various fixes and changes, you can check those out here.

Lastly, we stream on most Thursdays from 17:00 CEST(GMT+1). This week we're hosting special anniversary stream playing PAYDAY: The Heist, feel free to stop by our Twitch Channel.!

Keep those helmets flying!
OVERKILL_Tobias

• Players in the lobby are now notified when someone picks an entry or escape plan.
  
• Changed Graze skill so that it no longer hits civilians.
  
• Fixed an issue for clients where AI were able to start shoot actions and open fire while performing certain actions like climbing, jumping, vaulting etc.
  
• Added checks for periodic fire damage to prevent crashes. Also changed it so that applying burning on an enemy that was already affected by burning, refreshes the damage per tick and duration.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed a player, with the Berserker Aced skill, to still receive healing from third parties when the player was equipped with the Tag Team Perk Deck.

• The feedback interval has been corrected to match the in-game description (1 second)
  
• If an effect is synced, but one is already running locally, the synced one will be queued, preventing latency from blocking them.
  
• Only the user that starts an effect will sync it to other players, instead of all players being able to inconsistently do so.
  
• Feedback stunning still runs stuns through the host, but clients no longer have to wait for a response, nor are they able to waste charges by using the ability twice in quick succession.
  
• Stopping of effects is not synced anymore, to prevent effects from ending earlier than intended for other players.
  
• Feedback will now work with the intended interval and do multiple stun ticks instead of only once.
  
• Feedback now uses the camera position (or synced camera position from other players), instead of the root position of the unit (around the feet).
  
• Improvements for drop-ins while the effects are on-going.
  
• Berserker states now block feedback heal-on-kill provided from other players.
  
• Frenzy healing reduction now applies to feedback heal-on-kill.

• Black Cat - Fixed a graphical issue that could be seen when looking out of certain windows.
  
• Black Cat - Fixed an invisible collision around the casino machines that would cause objects to look like they were floating.
  
• Black Cat - Fixed a graphical issue that would allow the player to see out of bounds.
  
• Fixed a random crash that could occur on every heist.

• Added the VD-12 stock mod as an available mod for more weapons.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed the heatsinked suppressed barrel and the R4 Medved suppressor to be equipped on the Patchett SMG, and its Akimbo version, at the same time.
  
• Fixed an issue that allowed the player to see through the Hailstorm, when reloading, with the conversion kit applied.
  
• Fixed some text on the Hailstorm to display properly on the weapon.
  
• Characters now comment when a viper grenade is thrown.
  
• Changed so that the Tombstone slug no longer gives extended range and falloff reduces tick ratio.
  
• Increased the damage on the Basilisk 3V Grenade Launcher.

• Fixed Chromatic Aberration not working outside of VR.
  
• Fixed a VR issue where a white box would appear over the health icon, when using an active throwable from a perk deck.

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 process may take some time to finish.

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

Hello Heisters,

We hope the autumn season is treating you well and that the skeletons in your closet have yet to find their trumpets, keeping you awake with their incessant dooting.

Today’s announcement isn’t about skeletons or pumpkins though, it’s about the Lost in Transit heist being delayed. Though first planned for October 19th, we’ve made a promise to ourselves that if we feel the content needs to be delayed for the sake of quality, we’ll delay it.

The level is looking good already, but we have more bugs than we’d like still roaming around the heist than we’d feel comfortable releasing with. The new release date for the Lost in Transit Heist will be the 25th of October.

We hope you’ll have patience as we politely ask those pesky bugs to get lost... In transit.

Keep those barrels doot'n
OVERKILL_Sebastian

Update size: 16.2MB

• Fixed a crash when equipping a VD-12 stock on The Little Friend rifle.
  
• Fixed a crash with the Hailstorm when switching between auto fire & volley fire.
  
• Fixed an issue with the Advanced Combat Sight x3.25 mod on the VD-12 while ADS.
  
• Fixed an issue where unintended mods were dropped as loot at the end of the round.
  
• Updated the visuals of exclusive set on Kahn .357 revolver.

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 process may take some time to finish.

Keep those helmets flying!
OVERKILL_Sebastian
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.

You know, for a story-line called ‘Lost in Transit’ we sure seem to find a lot of great stuff… While the finalé and heist are still a little way out, we still have a lot of goodies to deliver for you weapon enthusiasts out there, and for all the Lost in Transit bundle owners.

Gemma McShay, our new weapons contact in Texas, delivers another package brimming with weapons and options. Three new weapons each with their own unique flavor to bring to the table. The package also contains a total of 15 mods and each weapon gets its own Exclusive Set, we must’ve been really good in a previous life to earn this because we certainly haven’t been in this life.

First off we have the Kahn .357 revolver, the first ever revolver in PAYDAY 2 that lets you pick between 6 or 8 rounds with the click of a mod, for a full 16 rounds in akimbo. It also offers quite a fast rate of fire. Then we have the VD-12 shotgun, available either as a powerful single weapon or still powerful albeit slightly smaller version of itself in akimbo. Gemma is also bringing out a very special treat with the Hailstorm Mk 5 prototype, a small caliber weapon with the ability to fire all 15 barrels at once to bring the hailstorm to, well, Hailstorm.’

As an extra treat, we get an Exclusive Set for each of the new weapons, giving you a unique and exciting style for each of the weapons in this set.




As is tradition when we add new content, we like to add a little bit of spice that is available to anyone owning the base game of PAYDAY 2 as well. This time we decided to deliver on a popular request after we previously introduced Viper grenades; Tombstone slugs. This new ammo type for shotguns will allow you to really make your opponents get down with the sickness, with the ability of poison. This will cause them as much nausea as the police chief will face when he receives the medical bills after each heist.

There are also two new weapon charms available, allowing you to further customize the visual appearance of your weapons. Show your support for your local sports team with the Home Team charm, or send subliminal messaging to your fellow heisters about what your plans are for the after-heist party at the Safe House with the Drink Up charm.



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

Find the Changelog Here!

Update size: 587.6MB

• Fixed a graphical issue that occurred when the Ladrón de Pollos charm was equipped on a weapon.
  
• Fixed a graphical issue that occurred when Ethan equipped the Pistolero gloves and charged the Electrical Brass Knuckles
  
• Dragons Breath rounds effective range has been reduced from 30 to 14 meters. Enemies further than +14 meters from target won't ignite.
  
• Cross-save between Linux/Windows has been disabled to ensure stability of Linux saves

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 process may take some time to finish.

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

We hope you’ve all had great vacations and are well rested, ready for new heisting adventures. As for us? It’s been an eventful few weeks over here at OVERKILL, we’ve celebrated our 9 year anniversary. Working hard on the content for the Lost in Transit Bundle, making weapons, building the heist and putting together a music DLC! All while getting tempted by new goodies at Gamescom.

We made a lot of new music for the Silk Road campaign. We’ve chosen some of our favorites and collected them together into the first music DLC we’ve done in quite a while!
This DLC is part of the Lost in Transit Bundle, it’s available either as part of the bundle or on its own.
The following tracks are included in this package:

1. Joke's On You (Breakin' Feds - Spring Break 2018)
   
2. Ojos de Esmeralda (Menu music based on Ojos de Diamante)
   
3. Cakewish (PD2 Anniversary 2020)
   
4. Heistival (Music for the Balloon Popper event)
   
5. It's Clown Time (Music for the Balloon Popper event)
   
6. Today is Payday Too (Christmas 2021 Update)
   
7. Underground Lockdown (Henry's Rock - Spring Break 2018)
   
8. Trick of the Trade (Shacklethorne Auction - Spring Break 2018)
   
9. Dirt & Dust (Border Crossing - Silk Road)
   
10. Bonebreaker (San Martin Bank - Silk Road)
    
11. Sucker Punch (Breakfast in Tijuana - Silk Road)
    
12. Deadeye (Buluc's Mansion - Silk Road)
    
13. Silk Road Campaign Song
    
14. Ojos de Diamante (Mariachi band music for San Martin Bank)

The Tijuana Music Pack is part of the Lost in Transit Bundle. The Bundle also includes the High Octane Tailor Pack (out now!), the McShay Weapon pack 2 (releases Sep 21st) Lost in Transit Heist (releases Oct 12th). Getting the bundle now nets you a hefty 40% discount in advance for getting all of it early, saving you the trouble of waiting for a sale!

After being introduced in the Midland Ranch Heist, the US Marshall units are being introduced in all other heists. You read that correctly, every heist will now start seeing the US Marshall unit on every difficulty between Normal and Death Sentence. Heists taking place outside of the US will have their own model not affiliated with any US groups.


Outfit items: The Pistolero Muerto Suit, The Pallbearer Gloves, The Telaraña Mask

Weapon skin: The Heist in Peace.
Weapon charms: Ladrón de Pollos, Husuda Granada


I guess it's time to face the music!
OVERKILL_Tobias
OVERKILL - a Starbreeze Studio.


Find the Changelog Here!