PAYDAY 3: Update 3.1 Changelog – Shopping Spree Heist

Balance

• Headshots now deal 54% damage against armor, up from 0%
• The Throwing Knife throwable had its damage increased from 150 to 350 and its headshot multiplier from 2 to 5
• The Frag Grenade throwable had its closed damage increased from 200 to 325, ensuring its able to one-shot a regular SWAT
• Increased the damage of the Sociopath OVERKILL weapon and increased its attack range
• The HET-5 Red Fox OVERKILL weapon had its damage adjusted slightly from 3000 to 2850
• The M135 Arges OVERKILL Weapon had its damage increased from 30-50, and armor penetration reduced from 3.2 to 2

Favors

The favor groups have been set to the following:

• Rock the Cradle - Fear & Greed - Under the Surphaze - Touch the Sky
• Road Rage - 99 Boxes - Cook Off - Boys in Blue - Party Powder
• No Rest for the Wicked - Gold & Sharke - Syntax Error - First World Bank
• Diamond District - Turbid Station - Dirty Ice - Houston Breakout - Delivery Charge - Shopping Spree

Smash & Grab

These run on a different system from the normal favors, and are grouped as such:

• Bank Withdrawal; Diamond District - No Rest for the Wicked - Dirty Ice - Touch the Sky
• Search and Seizure; Party Powder - Boys in Blue - Cook Off - Road Rage

Gameplay

• The dozer will now be stunnable when using the EMC jammer gadget combined with the skill 'Electrical interference'
• The Quality AA setting no longer turns marksman scopes white when using ADS
• Fixed an issue where smoke grenades using the 'Poisonous Gas' skill would treat cuffed guards as enemies instead of civilians and eventually kill them
• The 'Bounty Hunter' skill can no longer be used to place down an infinite number of tools. Instead, each tool has its own placement limit; earlier placed tools get deleted as more are placed per player
• Fixed a bug where the primary weapon wouldn't reload after doing various movements while swapping weapons
• Fixed an issue where some glass cases wouldn't get destroyed by throwing knives
• Fixed an issue where crew AI remained stuck in place after getting revived if downed during the Techie drone flash effect
• Lowered ammo pick-up rates for all weapon types except SMGs
• Laser beams have been improved in order to make them more reliable when playing with higher latency
• Fixed an issue where all armor frames had the 2 seconds damage resistance when a plate breaks. The function is now exclusive for the 4 plate armor frame as intended

Skill Changes

• Several skills were changed following the feedback in the skills survey (thanks for participating!) The exact changes are visible here in the survey blog.
• Fixed an issue where the 'Berserker' skill didn't give damage reduction for the 1 second after a reload was completed
• The 'Bounty Hunter' skill now has Zappers, Naders, and Techies in the base version, and Cloakers and Dozers when Aced
• The 'Human Resources' skill now allows throwables to ignore hostages (Base) and civilians (Aced)

UI

• Defeating enemies using the skill 'Hidden Blade,' no longer adds damage dealt in the post-game statistics
• Implemented performance improvements related to the techie glitch effect

Enemies

• Adjusted enemy armor and health to normalize the experience following the release of skills 2.0. This change should make enemies feel more in-line with how they felt before the skills update
• Normalized the experience of increasing or decreasing difficulty, making the jump in challenge less drastic
• Increased damage scaling of crew-AI to ensure relevance following enemy adjustments

Feature

• The Temporal Anti-Aliasing Upsampling (TAAU) graphical options now work as intended

Heist Changes

Known Issues