PAYDAY 3: Blog Update #40 – Armor 2.0 and Party Powder Heist Preview
Hello heisters!
Long time no blog; we’ve been hard at work on upcoming updates as well as making plans for more PAYDAY 3 in 2025. We apologize for the wait heisters, so without further ado, let’s get going!
Armor 2.0 will launch on May 26th alongside the "Party Powder" Heist
Jacket
To begin with, we'd like to start off this blog post with a massive thank you to each of you! The reception of Jacket was amazing, and not only are we thrilled with it, but Dennaton as well!
You guys have given the DLC great reviews and spoken well of it (including giving us feedback!), and we've seen a lot of people playing as Jacket. So, thank you to everyone who helped make it a success. Your support really means a lot to us and motivates us to make PAYDAY all that it can be.
Being worked on
So you don’t have to skim the text looking for it, this is an all-in-one update releasing on May 26th. We’re going to be previewing some of the below content in our weekly streams on Twitch, YouTube and Social channels.
Armor 2.0
The highly anticipated feature, Armor 2.0 is all but ready to release! Since we haven’t mentioned it in a while, here’s a preview for those who have had time to forget.
Anyone who needs a recap on Armor 2.0 can see the full blog here. The full system ended up being pretty much spot on when compared to that first draft. It’s been tested & validated both internally and with partners to good feedback, it’s shaping up nicely.
Some context for the images, these are the four different armor frames, there’s 4 in total and they have 1-4 armor slots respectively. Each has a bonus effect and their own up and downsides such as affecting your amount of downs and carry capacity.
Medtech Frame
Specialist Frame
Saboteur Frame
Mercenary Frame
After you select the frame, you fill the slots with plates. Plates are the three different types of armor you can use; Resistant Plate, Adaptive Plate and Impact Plate. These too each have advantages and disadvantages. For instance, plate recharge time stacks, so 4x Impact Plates will mean a 12 second recharge before they start regenerating.
And that brings us to the last gif, the Impact Plate! It’s a new armor type that will always regenerate and restore fully, here’s a sped-up gif. See how it regenerates all plates fully despite having been destroyed, awesome! As a downside, it has no damage reduction like the other armor types.
Armor 2.0 will launch on May 26th alongside the next heist. We hope you’re excited to try it out by customizing your own armor!
Upcoming Heist
Speaking of, the new heist, Party Powder, it’s looking great! Development and testing are progressing well, and we think it plays beautifully. It leans more into open-ended gameplay - similar to Diamond District, it gives you the freedom to tackle objectives your way, rather than following a fixed route. Visually, we've aimed to capture that grimy, low-rent criminal underbelly vibe we love.
Party Powder will be priced the same as our previous heist DLCs.
We’re always smashing bugs and working on quality-of-life features, so with this update, you’ll see some good fixes and improvements, such as OVERKILL weapons now being delivered right to your feet via drone. And a new but recognizable (free) gun that we’ll talk about more in the coming days.
We have more surprises in store for PAYDAY 3 in 2025, and we're looking forward to share more with you in the coming time. We hear your concerns about the future of PAYDAY 3 and let us be clear: there are no plans to shut down PAYDAY 3.
Your feedback and support are the reason we’ve come this far. We'll keep focusing our efforts where they can have the most impact, and keep building something that’s worth your time.
