Changelog

• Multiple improvements to dual-wield animations when viewed in third-person.
• Prevented the Quickshot Perk for the Thunder’s Scythe from preventing reloading if combined with the Return Policy skill from the marksman’s tree.
• Fixed inaccurate heist payouts on multiple heists.
• Fixed the Arges damage reduction decaying while firing.
• Fixed lost access to the sawblades from the Brute Force Crimebond.
• Removed vendor slots for the three saw blades, instead making them available exclusively from the Brute Force Crimebond.
• Renamed the Quickshot perk for the Lawman to “Lethal Cadence”.
• Dual Grimshots
  • Fixed multiple left-hand animations.
  • Fixed the game crashing if trying to place a medkit while chambering a new round.
  • Fixed the left weapon getting stuck after firing, becoming unusable for the rest of the heist.
  • Prevented firing faster than the animation could play.
  • Fixed the Grimshots not dealing any damage if firing too fast.
  • Prevented the cycle animation from playing twice if ADSing during the cycle.
• Dual Outlaws
  • Fixed several left-hand animations.
  • Fixed the animations when crouching and inspecting the weapon.
  • Fixed the guns floating if holding ADS after reloading.
  • Fixed the barrel mod floating if using the short barrel.
  • Fixed the Smooth Cylinder reload animation replacing the entire cylinder instead of just the ammunition.
  • Fixed the mods appearing to detach during rapid equip/unequip.
  • Fixed the Trickshot perk not working when combined with the CQB barrel.
• Fixed the Scales of Justice only unlocking for the player holding the judge while escaping.
• Fixed the mask pattern having a broken normal

Gameplay

• Adjusted the cooldown of specials across multiple heists during FBI-van assaults.
• Fixed an issue where Cloaker would attack the revived player a second time.
• Fixed an issue where Zapper would electrocute and kill a player who had just been revived.
• Fixed an issue where Quickshot Overskill caused the weapon to get stuck in its reload animation.
• Fixed an issue where Studsgranat S18 kills weren't counted in challenge progression. 
• Prevented sentry guns from attaching to ammo boxes.
• Haymaker perk no longer conflicts with Hidden Blade skill. Now it will kill as long as you have knives, and stun the enemy so you can take a human shield when you don't have any knives left.
• Arges' damage reduction is properly removed when it's supposed to.
• Enabled the "hold to run" option in settings for console.
• Armored changes in the lobby are now reflected in the heist.
• Fixed an issue where default emotes were missing in loadout.

UI

• Updated the interaction text on the security room monitors to say "Watch Cameras"
• Target Practice, the unique perk for the Freedom's Fortune Iconic pistol, now shows a duration bar on its buff icon.
• Hot Lead, the unique perk for the Lycan Iconic SMG, now shows a duration bar on its buff icon.
• Ammo Feed, the unique perk for the Veteran Ranger Iconic SMG, now shows a duration bar on its buff icon.
• Fixed an issue with the percentage rounding of Marked Damage for the Bullseye perk.
• Updated the splash screen sequence.
• Changed the tense of the "Requested Armor" emote name and chat message.
• Updated the briefing text for Fear & Greed.
• Updated the contractor image for Rock the Cradle.
• Updated the contractor image for Turbid Station.
• You can now press the secondary interact key (R, X, Square) in Loadout to go and directly mod your weapons.
• Fixed bug where trying to modify armor from variants would open an empty modding menu.
• Fixed confirm purchase button sometimes being grayed out.
• Fixed an issue where calling the Overkill button in the HUD would sometimes appear disabled even though the action was allowed.
• Improved UI navigation on DLC items.
• Fixed an issue where unowned emotes would not show up in inventory if you owned their DLC.

Weapon Balance

The weapons below have been updated to have clearer breakpoints against enemies, resulting in a more consistent combat experience.

• Assault Rifle RG5
  • Slightly increased damage and damage distance for near damage
  • Adjusted Headshot multipliers and distances
• LMG - Blyspruta MX63
  • Increased near-distance headshot multiplier
• Marksman - Spearfish
  • Increased damage distance
• Shotgun - R880
  • Slightly increased base damage
• Shotgun - TAS 12
  • Increased damage at near distance

Art

• Fixed an issue where stickers would clip into the bullet chamber of the SA A144 marksman.
• The coin in the coin rolling emote is now visible whilst in the main menu.
• Fixed an issue where the Operator Overkill weapon was rendered incorrectly, instead showing the phone as a floating asset not attached to the mannequin hand.

Audio

• Updated helicopter sound effects.

Tech Changes

• Prevented switching to borderless window mode from triggering the "unapplied changes" window bug.
• Contracts can no longer be completed while in the shooting range.
• The ready screen for Turbid Station now displays animated elements correctly.
• The campaign is now scrollable on controllers using the right stick.

Heist Changes

Known Issues

• Charms, stickers, and paints won’t appear in the first heist played after weapon customization. They will appear after that.
• Consumables dropped by enemies won’t show an outline until you’ve gone close to it.
• The HUD keybind buttons will have inconsistent graying.

UI

• Fixed the in-game store showing incorrect prices for Japanese players.
• Fixed a crash that could occur after saving a loadout.

Gameplay

• Controller players using the legacy control mapping should now be able to lockpick again.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when a player’s throwable is destroyed while they are in custody or offline.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when shooting a Zapper’s Proxy Mine.
• Fixed Team AI not targeting Cloakers who are attacking a downed player.
• Cloakers will no longer kick a player immediately after being revived by Team AI.
• Cloakers can once again be stunned by a melee attack when they are charging at a player, and have a higher chance to be stunned by ranged weapons.
• Zappers and Grenadiers no longer instantly respawn after dying to damage inflicted on their weak points.
• Reduced the spawn rates of Cloakers and Techies.
• Fixed Techies not spawning at all on Normal difficulty.
• Increased the limit of Techies from 1 to 2 on the OVERKILL Difficulty.

Crimebond and Renown

• Saw perks through the OVERKILL vendor no longer require the Brute Force DLC, allowing stolen saws to be equipped with perks.
• Fixed players at max Renown (1600) being unable to gain Renown after stealing from the Brute Force Crimebond.
• Fixed controller players being sent to the store and having their selected skills reset after unequipping a stolen skill.
• Fixed suits stolen with Renown not showing as owned.

Heists

• Fixed loot in safes opened with the Saw not being interactable, blocking progress.

Weapons and UI

• Fixed the Queen's Revenge description showing a placeholder instead of its correct variable.

Gameplay

• Fixed crash related to using the OVE9050 Saw or the Sociopath bat.
• Fixed a crash when switching loadouts in the Shooting Range while a grenade was still live.
• Fixed a crash related to a grenadier explosion, causing the Sentry Gun to overheat.
• Fixed a crash when deploying an Ammo Bag.
• Fixed a crash when voting to restart a heist.
• Fixed a crash when Shield enemies spawned for clients.
• Fixed a crash when a reload was interrupted by a loadout change.
• Fixed a crash that occurred when using the OVE9050 Saw against a cop drone with the Grave Robber weapon perk equipped.
• Fixed a crash related to unequipping a weapon cosmetic.
• Fixed a crash related to critical hits at various distances.

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.