PAYDAY 3: Update 2.1.2 Changelog – Party Powder Heist & Armor 2.0

Known Issues

• We have had multiple reports of users who have had their custom masks revert to the default Dallas mask, and this appears to be related to a mod/modloader issue.
  If you experience such issues, please update or remove all mods and modloaders from your PAYDAY 3 install folder, and try again.

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Balance

• Increased AI Crew health to 170% of baseline
• Increased armor on the shield visor, hardness 1.5 > 1.75 and Armor 250 -> 450
• Increased Shield AI armor hardness from 2 -> 2.5
• Increased Zapper and Grenadier armor hardness from 1.5 -> 2.0
• Reduced hurt animation probability for Zapper, Nader, and Shields on Very Hard and OVERKILL
• Doubled crew AI damage on all difficulties
• Increased charges on AI dropped ammo, health, and armor deployables from 2 to 4
• Lowered the amount of ammo players get from enemy ammo drops on Very Hard (70%) and OVERKILL (50%)
• Increased the sentry AP turret armor penetration 1 -> 2
• Increased max heat bonus from Engineer - 'Engineer' ACED from 30% to 50%
• Increased max enemy cap by 5-15 when depending on heist size and player count.
• Increased special unit spawns on Very Hard and OVERKILL difficulties.
• There are more specials spawning across all heists
• Lowered enemy sniper aim time on Very Hard and Overkill difficulty.
• Lowered enemy Sniper damage on OVK from 400 to 300
• Lowered ammo when leaving custody on Very Hard and OVERKILL difficulties.
• Increased health, armor, and throwables on respawn across Normal, Hard, and Very Hard.
• Lowered the amount of OVK meter needed for the Sociopath.
• Lowered damage interval on OVK difficulty (leads to more damage)

Gameplay

• Increased the brightness of the screen effect when using Jacket’s baseball bat
• Fixed an issue where small vault doors would collide with the player, causing them to get stuck
• Container doors and medium vault doors no longer get stuck if opened while holding the Sociopath bat
• Fixed an issue where using the weapon fire button during melee animation caused desynced shots
• Fixed an issue where using Mower's Ammo Replenish and Ammo Funnel caused it to not consume Edge correctly on Gunslinger's Finisher.
• Fixed an issue where, if a camera detects a corpse and got hacked with ECM, its detection bar would still go up after the ECM effect ended and the body was out of sight
• Fixed an exploit where the Sociopath could be equipped indefinitely
• Increased hit box height for light/heavy SWAT from 50/75 cm to 90/90 cm so that the crouched AI is easier to hit with a Sociopath bat
• Fixed an issue where the safecracking mini-game was still active while the game was paused
• Fixed an issue where installed mods on a destroyed weapon would appear on a fresh one from the vendors
• Updated the deployment logic for sentries, making them simpler to deploy on uneven surfaces
• Improved pick-up hitbox of some small interaction objects like keycards or QR phones
• Tools placed on security cameras, or other larger props, can now more easily be picked back up
• New accounts now start with an equipped silencer on the S40 pistol

Feature

• Added rotating preview of mask, weapon, and armor in the vendor menu
• Added animation to the player model when inspecting cosmetics through vendors

Skill Changes

• ‘Fortitude - Pain Asymbolia’ skill now gives a 40% reduction instead of 10%
• Fixed an issue where the 'Gunslinger' - Locked and Loaded skill wouldn't trigger when the ammo reserve was full
• Fixed an issue where 'Interceptor - Signal Block' skill wouldn't work on the street cops
• Assassins Mettle changed to 5/30 health below 75% to 5/10 health below 50%
  • To: If you have one armor plate or less, killing a marked enemy with a suppressed weapon will heal you for 5 health, or 30 health if you are also below 75% of your maximum health. If you are already at max health, you will receive adrenaline.
  • From: If you have one armor chunk or less, killing a marked enemy with a suppressed weapon will heal you for 5 health, or 10 health if you are also below 50% of your max health. If you are already at max health, you will receive adrenaline.

Art

• Prevented loose cash loot from displaying shadows on the surface from which they were taken
• Fixed so that tools fall if they're on a glass surface that gets destroyed
• Visual improvements to volumetric fog light scattering
• Swapped icons on spray can patterns "Weird Sky" and "Steel Sky"
• Fixed an issue where the Blyspruta MX63 ammo belt would disappear when inspected from certain angles in the main menu
• Fixed issue where oxygen tank would reappear on a thermal lance if taken out before the timer for burning reaches 0
• The 'Crackhead' mask had an unused pattern tab that has now been removed
• Fixed Mosconi 12 sticker placement

UI

• Improved UI navigation in the Loadout menu when using controllers and keyboard arrow keys
• Prevented text from being cut off on the police captain's PC screen in Spanish, Portuguese, and German
• The server browser now updates when the player fails to join a selected game
• Fixed a bug that caused finished lobbies or ended games to appear in the server browser
• Added descriptions to "Upscaling mode" in the options menu
• Fixed incorrect player status in the social menu in some cases
• Fixed an issue where the selected character wouldn't update correctly in the Character Selection screen
• Added secondary/primary weapons tags in vendors
• The "Invite to Party” button now changes to “View Party” when the party is full
• Fixed an issue with visually corrupted masks
• Mask Of The Week comes with a mask slot now
• Improved UI backwards navigation in the Loadout/Vendors menu allowing you to more easily go "back" one menu
• Fixed having to press the weapon switch button twice to swapping weapons while using controller
• Changing outfits in the main menu after completing a heist will now update the visuals for other players

Audio

• Updated the audio on the Thermal Lance bolt interactions to improve sync
• Fixed camera and battering ram audio bug
• Fixed a bug where the cooking audio would keep playing when the meth lab explodes

Technical Changes

• Fixed a bug that occurred while trying to play the game with the same Nebula account on different platforms at the same time
• Improved game loading time on Xbox Series S
• Show "Join Game" button in native overlay for "Friends Only" game sessions
• Fixed "Remove friend" action when using Epic Games Store. It was opening an external web browser to display the user profile. It now shows native Friends UI instead
• Fixed server crash that occurred when restarting a level while in a party
• Steam, EGS, and Windows Store players can't play together anymore with crossplay settings disabled
• Improved usage of memory to reduce loading times when failing to join a game that got full before the user got into the lobby
• Cancelling matchmaking while viewing the game mode screen no longer causes the QP/Solo/Tutorial options to become inaccessible
• Player parties no longer disband when heists are restarted
• Players trying to play the tutorials while the PS5 installation is still ongoing are no longer stuck in spectator mode
• Revoking the Jacket DLC (refunding it,) now also removes the Sociopath bat from the loadout, if previously equipped
• Prevented a crash caused by the player going into custody with the Mamba OVERKILL weapon in hand, while having an unexploded grenade in play.
• The game no longer crashes if a host player rejoins their own ongoing game, and then quits during the 'getting ready' screen, if the players have voted to restart
• Prevented a crash caused when dropping into a game where the players were spinning the barrel on the Arges OVERKILL Weapon

Heist Changes