Gameplay

• Fixed an issue with controller deadzone settings, causing it to never be below 0.2 even though the settings said it was lower.
• Safe doors will now pass through players if a player moves into their path while they are opening.
• RFID readers will now turn grey once they can no longer be interacted with.
• Fixed an issue where interrupting a human shield takedown could leave the player stuck.
• Fixed an issue where players could become stuck in a deployable equipment state while casing, preventing actions such as sprinting.
• The FBI antenna can now be damaged with the baseball bat in addition to the saw.
• Reflector shields will now correctly blind players again.
• Fixed an issue where weapon ammo information would not update correctly when changing mods.
• Fixed an issue where the ATK7 would not correctly eject ammunition during reloads and could incorrectly retain a round in the chamber. The ATK7 Quick Mag now also has the same ammo pickup rate as its other magazines.
• Players can now shoot open safe deposit boxes.

Balance

• Zappers will now die when their battery is detonated.
• Fixed an issue where Nader would get stuck while navigating certain areas, such as when rappelling or crawling.
• Fixed an issue where using the legacy controller button layout occasionally caused inputs to be registered twice.
• Slightly reduced the number of enemies that spawn across all difficulties.
• Improved enemy coordination during assaults, with enemies now forming larger squads and attacking from more focused directions. Most special enemies will also gravitate towards groups, making them harder to isolate.
• Fixed an issue where killing enemies at longer distances would not properly contribute to the assault intensity.
• HEAT decay now starts 2.5 seconds earlier.
• Fine-tuned assault pacing on lower difficulties so combat intensity builds up more gradually.
• Fixed an issue where SWATs would look at their targets through walls, floors, ceilings etc.
• Slightly faster cop and SWAT speeds
• Rebalanced Snipers to specialize in breaking armor. Their health damage has been reduced from: 
  • 100 to 30 on Normal
  • 100 to 38 on Hard
  • 200 to 50 on Very Hard
  • 300 to 50 on Overkill
• Their armor damage multiplier has been increased to x3.
• On Very Hard and Overkill, Snipers now also take one second longer to line up their shots, giving players more time to react.
• The dozer faceplate is now about 50% harder to crack. 
  • An estimated 22 -> 33 shot increase using the CAR-4. 
• Rebalanced Zapper and Nader's weak points. The Nader weak point explosion radius against players has been reduced from 500 to 350, while the explosion can still damage nearby enemies for up to 520 base damage with falloff over distance. The duration of being tased after destroying a Taser's weak point has also been reduced from 6 seconds to 3 seconds.
• Cloakers will now throw a gas grenade instead of shooting at players they cannot reach, giving them a new way to pressure targets from a distance.
• Naders are now more aggressive with their throwables. Their grenade cooldown has been reduced from 15 seconds to 3 seconds, their throwing animation is faster, and they can now also throw Frag Grenades.
• Increased Nader survivability by giving them more health and additional ammo plates.
• Players can now rotate farther while tased, giving them more freedom to react and fight back.

Skill Changes

New grenade build balance

The aim was to retain the power of grenades, while balancing in-the-moment and total amounts of throwables that players gain access to throughout a heist.

• New Base values:
  • Starting grenade amount - 3 -> 2
  • Replenishment of throwables from ammo bags: 3 -> 2
• Base Grenade values:
  • Base damage increased from 350 -> 552 within 2 m, with an additional distance bracket of 2.5 with damage 350
• Grenadier branch changes:
  • Bombs Away Base: damage bonus 7.5% -> 2.5%
  • Stockpile: Frag grenades Aced - additional grenades 3 -> 2
  • Sudden Impact Aced: additional Frag grenades 3 -> 2
  • Mad Bomber Base: chance to restore 1 grenade 25% -> 15%
  • Mad Bomber Aced: reworked - now secondary grenades are Flashbangs, that do not have a chance to restore a grenade, and are influenced by skills in the Flashpoint skill branch
• Ammo Specialist branch changes:
  • Munitions Expert Aced: instead of accumulative replenishment based on the amount of invested skill points, the skill increases the amount of throwables restored by an ammo bag charge by 1
  • Ammo Up 1 Aced: additional charges 2 -> 1
  • Utility Belt Base: total throwables increase 2 -> 1
  • Utility Belt Aced: total throwables increase 5 -> 2
  • Premium Bag Base: amount of granted throwables 2 -> 1
• Fixed an issue where Sunburn, Sunburn Aced, and related flashbang skills stopped functioning after the Unreal Engine 5 update.
• Munition Expert Aced now grants a fixed bonus instead of scaling with the number of skill points invested.
• Frag Master Aced grenade clusters now spawn Flash Grenades, which can benefit from other compatible skills.

UI

• Updated item backgrounds to improve icon readability.
• Moved mod information to the right side of the screen so related information is displayed together.
• Added interaction text when deploying road spikes.
• Updated several item icons to display at a higher resolution.
• Added new background artwork to vendors' screens.
• Updated Crimebond logos and naming to better reflect their content.
• Removed the "Beta" label from Solo Mode.
• Improved Crimebond navigation, including fixing the shop back button so it correctly returns to the DLC store.
• Added an animation to the black market inspection screen.
• Added the "mark enemy" input to the controller reference while viewing through cameras.
• Fixed an issue where some player names could appear as "User content blocked."
• Fixed an issue where the lobby could continue displaying the "Any" tactic after the host changed it.
• Weapon description panels in the inventory can now display sight and perk information.
• Weapon charms and stickers are now equipped through the mods menu instead of the cosmetics menu.
• Fixed the sorting order of items in the inventory.

Art

• Added a burst of money when bags land and restored the leaking money trail on dyed bags.
• Improved bag physics so bags behave more naturally when moving and landing.
• Adjusted the sight positioning on the Skogskrigare AG-9.

Audio

• Added additional sound effects to destructible objects such as cans, glasses, cups, vases, and fruit.
• Enemy Gunfire Sound Changes - Created individual gunfire sounds for each cop and SWAT type.
• Added cone attenuation to Cops and SWAT gunfire - Easier to hear when you're being fired on.
• Added Individual Gunfire sounds and cone attenuation to Crew AI.

Heist Changes

Most heists have had VO, and text has been changed to accommodate the new story and campaign mode. We won’t mention them all here to not overfill the changelog.

Known Issues

• Campaign - We are aware of several instances of outdated mission objectives and subtitles in Boys in Blue, Fear & Greed, and Syntax Error. If you discover any more, especially in non-English, please report them as best you can.
• Combining the Haymaker weapon perk and the Hidden Blade skill causes a conflict, resulting in the throwing knife being consumed without killing the enemy.
• Shooting Range - If the Interceptor Overkill Weapon is equipped, the phones held by the mannequin characters will be misaligned.
• Emote preview won’t show secondary items, such as the coin in a coin flip.
• Weapon perks lack an in-game explanation of equipped and persistent weapon perks. Equipped perks have a blue hand icon, and persistent perks have a green holster icon.
• When stealing a Crimebond item while at maximum renown level, it is currently not possible to regain those levels.
• The background image in the vendor’s menu shows weapons that cannot actually be bought in the weapons vendor.
• The “owned” checkmark won’t properly appear on purchased items in the in-game shop UI.
• Changing the paint colors on any Weapon does not take effect on the next heist you play after customisation, but will correct itself on the second or third heist.

Heists

Gameplay

• Adjusted the escape van’s center of mass to prevent it from bouncing up and down while moving.
• Fixed an issue that prevented AI from taking cover behind first responder police cars.
• Fixed an issue where some moving objects could flicker due to incorrect position and velocity calculations.
• Fixed an issue in Art Gallery, Turbid Station, and Delivery Charge where moving cameras, sensors, and drones would not move correctly for clients.
• Fixed an issue where applying multiple cosmetics at once could cause players to get stuck on the “Getting Ready” screen.
• Fixed an issue where preplaning favors were consumed with every restart of the heist by the player.
• Fixed an issue from the Techie enemy AI where the teammate HUD would not update correctly while the glitch effect was active.
• Fixed an issue where the host couldn't restart the heist from the result screen if they created a party with clients.

Skills

• Fixed an issue where the Bastion and Rabid skills did not correctly prevent stagger effects.

Art

• Fixed an issue where crow animations could appear distorted due to incorrect texture settings.
• Unified ambient occlusion values across the game for more consistent lighting and shading.

Tech

• Improved clarity when using Upscalers and Anti-Aliasing.
• Enabling DLSS, FSR, or XeSS will now automatically display the corresponding Anti-Aliasing option in the settings menu instead of showing "None".
  • This is a visual change only and does not affect graphics or performance.
• Improved performance by optimizing texture sizes and memory usage.
• Updated DLSS to version 8.5.0
• Updated FSR to version 4.0.3
• Updated XeSS to version 5.5
• Optimized textures used on world objects to improve texture handling and performance.
  

Heists

Known Issues

• The Sunburn skill does not correctly apply its debuff.
• Enemies can see players through smoke.
• Zappers sometimes have difficulty targeting players.
• The Weapon Experience/Favor Tab may sometimes not be accessible on the Heist Results Screen.
• PC
  • The FSR Frame Interpolator setting currently doesn't function correctly. 
  • No input is currently detected from PlayStation Controllers.
    • Temporary Workaround for Steam: Force-enable Steam Input for PlayStation Controllers in Steam's PAYDAY 3 Properties, however, XBOX Glyphs (button icons) will be displayed in-game instead of PlayStation Glyphs.
  • (Steam) Canceling a menu purchase of a mod or weapon with the escape key won’t work. Press to decline with the mouse, or complete the purchase to exit the prompt.
• XBOX
  • Some players are able to join Invite-only lobbies without being invited by the lobby leader.
• Heists
  • A rare lighting bug can occur on several heists where a flat, static plane of shadow can appear.
  • Turbid Station
    • SWAT units may be unable to leave their spawn points resulting in fewer enemies.
    • Enemies can unintentionally walk and shoot through one of the basement doors.
  • Fear & Greed
    • Crew AI (Bots) may be unable to move from their spawn location on the roof.
  • Boys in Blue
    • SWAT units may be unable to navigate around the gate at the back of the inner courtyard.
    • The colors in the evidence room may appear desaturated.
  • Delivery Charge
    • In rare cases, game sounds may cease to function other than Gunshots and Sound Effects.