NEW FEATURES

• New Menu theme selection: The players can now switch menu theme from “Original” to “Heat”. For all our dedicated heisters we upgrade the menu theme so they can pick their favorite theme to heist in.
• New option: Light adaption on/off: The players can now choose to have Light adaption on or off.
• Unveiling of the Technician class: The players can now view a tease of the Technician class (unlocked with upcoming DLC) in the upgrades menu.
• New moves and tactics by the SWAT AI.
• A bright future: Someone in the Garnet Group Skyscraper is heading for a bright future…
• A dark future: Someone in the projects is preparing for a dark future…

BUG FIXES

• Fixed a bug where Bain’s subtitles would appear on the heist result screen.
• Fixed a bug where the reputation limit would be set to level 0 from the edit game settings menu even if it is set higher before creating a heist.
• Fixed a bug where the game would lock if a trip mine left by a character who was in custody defeated a law enforcer.
• Fixed a bug where enemies sometimes would teleport to a nearby location after performing an evasive maneuver.
• Fixed a bug where the “Play With Team AI” selection would not save when turned off.
• Fixed a bug where there would be error text in the online in-game menu for Edit Game Settings.
• Fixed a bug in Single Player, with no AI, dialog would still mention freeing comrades after each assault.
• Fixed a bug where previously selected character flashed briefly on screen when navigating back to ‘Choose Character’.
• Fixed a grammatical error in the Reputation Limit description.
• Fixed a bug that made it possible for Cloakers to club players from a distance.
• Corrected the Select Difficulty description.
• Removed the Merry Xmas challenge from the Challenge list.
• Fixed a bug where masks would not update correctly after a game had been played.
• Fixed a bug where a late join would cause looping sound effects.
• Fixed a bug where levels are not listed under Available Heists when selecting difficulty.
• Fixed a bug where the number of players in a game would not display correctly on the load-out screen.
• Fixed a bug where the challenge complete bar would not pop up when completing any of the 145+ challenges.
• Fixed a bug where Dallas’ President mask would appear incorrect.
• Fixed a bug where the Clean Hit, Like A Pro, and Bulletproof challenges did not unlock on the harder difficulties.
• Fixed a bug where the Grim Reaper challenge would not appear to unlock as stated by the challenge requirement.
• First World Bank: Fixed a bug where grey rectangular polygons would drop in and out in the basement area.
• First World Bank: Fixed a bug where a location right outside the Basement was identified as “Unknown Location”.
• First World Bank: Fixed a bug where the game would lock all players when a player late joined after the heist had started.
• First Word Bank: Fixed a bug where dialog would continue to play after commanding the Bank Manager to get down.
• Heat Street: Fixed a bug which made it possible to complete only ten out of eleven objectives.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where corrupt graphic was seen coming from a mouse on the floor.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where corrupt ceiling fan graphics was seen.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where there were no enemies in the smoke that fills the stairway to the roof.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where there would be multiple collision issues during game-play.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where flickering text graphics could be seen above each doorway.
• Panic Room: Fixed a bug where the enemies throughout the heist could be found in a T-pose.
• Heat Street: Fixed a bug where the door for the orange container next to the crashed van was slightly clipping into the van.
• Green Bridge: Fixed a bug where two objective markers appear on-screen at the same time when running to the exit.
• Green bridge: Fixed a bug where there would be missing side rail graphics at the end of the bridge during the “Make The Escape” objective.
• Green Bridge: Fixed a bug where the yellow end game marker did not appear if players reach the exit before the escape prompt.
• Green Bridge: Fixed a bug where the zip lines would not show from the towers to the top of the scaffolding.
• Green Bridge: Fixed a bug where the player was able to place trip mines on invisible collision on open prison trucks.
• Diamond Heist: Fixed a bug in Diamond Heist, as the alarm was triggered some AI guards would appear to be warping from their original location.
• Diamond Heist: Fixed a bug where two waypoints appear on the screen at the same time.
• Diamond Heist: Fixed a bug where the game would crash when the vault door codes did not work.
• Diamond Heist: Fixed a bug where it was possible to take the Big Red Diamond through the metal fence that drops down.
• Diamond Heist: Fixed a bug where there would be multiple collision issues during game-play.
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed a bug where the player could become stuck inside the falling safe.
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed a bug where the armored truck was appearing incorrectly in the main room.
• Slaughterhouse: Fixed a bug where the AI was seen standing on invisible collision.
• Slaughter House: Fixed bugs where four “unknown locations” were found near the Main Room.
• Slaughter House: Fixed a bug where meat hanging in the main room would be inconsistent between the host and the clients.

Enjoy!

/The OVERKILL Crew

You’ll notice that the soundtrack even contains the music from the not-yet-released DLC heists!

Here are the teaser clips, so far (more are coming!):

Stay tuned for more teaser clips!

Keep yourself updated with the newest Fan Service art from OVERKILL Software by checking it out here.

Which one is your favourite? Log onto our forums and tell us and your fellow heisters what you think!

Sincerely,

/The OVERKILL Crew

We’re a well into 2012 and now we can finally look back and really pick deserving winners in each category! Payday went up against titles such as Bulletstorm and Rage, and went out on top!

Payday's NAVIGATR Award

Payday was also nominated for its soundtrack, in the category best original dramatic score for a new IP.

Read all about it in the Forbes online edition, right here!

Despite all the new candy in this update, remember that this isn’t the DLC we’ve been talking about. No, the DLC will contain even more stuff that will be even more awesome! New heists (complete with new scenarios, new settings, new music and all), new weapons and equipment, raised level cap, and more! But we digress… Anywho, here’s the PS3 patch 1.02 change log:

NEW GAME FEATURES!

• New difficulty! For the PAYDAY fans that think the action is the juice, we now introduce a new difficulty setting called OVERKILL 145+. It can only be played if you have reached reputation level 145.
• New challenges! The patch includes eight new challenges
  • FOUR MORE YEARS: Reach reputation level 145. When completing this challenge, you are also rewarded with the presidential mask set!
  • BANK ON ME: Beat FIRST WORLD BANK on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • HILLS STREET BLUES: Beat HEAT STREET on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • BRUSH WITH DEATH: Beat PANIC ROOM on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • BEAT THE SHIELD: Beat GREEN BRIDGE on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • BAD CODE: Beat DIAMOND HEIST on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • LOTS OF PIGS, BUT NO PIGS: Beat SLAUGHTERHOUSE on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting
  • YOU ARE GOLDEN! Beat all six original heists on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting. When completing this challenge, you are also rewarded with the golden 145+ mask. Overkill salutes you!
• Slaughterhouse and Diamond Heist are now available in the Normal difficulty setting

NEW AI FEATURES AND EVENTS!

• New law enforcement tactics on all heists!
• New random events on all the heists on all difficulty settings (including the new Overkill 145+ difficulty setting) which will surprise and challenge you like never before!
• Improved AI algorithms to allow AI to make smarter and faster decisions
  • Team and enemies now pick better cover and firing positions, and use more intelligent firing lanes for suppression and sniping
  • Enemy AI move in tighter formations and coordinate better
  • Team AI now keeps up with human players much better
  • AI teammates now pick weapons that better suit the current combat situation
• Enemies now master additional acrobatic moves (such as dashes and slides) and they can fire at you while doing them!
• More cover moves for both team AI and enemies
• Optimized AI behavior to make enemy AI pause less when traveling long distances
• Smoother turn and aim on team AI and reduced animation glitches on general movement
• Team AI no longer has “ants in the pants” (they don’t move around so much) when there are no enemies around

NEW MASKS!

• Added the BEEEF masks – a set of four masks with designs inspired by four popular FPS games. Guess which ones!
• Added the presidential masks. If you reach reputation level 145 (and beat the FOUR MORE YEARS challenge) you are awarded with the presidential mask set!
• Added the golden 145+ masks. If you beat all heists on the new OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting (and beat the YOU ARE GOLDEN! challenge) you are awarded with the golden 145+ mask – the most fashionable way to show other players that you are a true career criminal!

VISUAL IMPROVEMENTS!

• New and improved blood, gunfire and explosion effects
• Explosions affect the player camera (camera shake)
• Graphical updates on some heists. New events have caused us to make certain graphical improvements, changing the layout of several environments
• The shotguns now have new – more realistic – reload animations, in which the weapon isn’t cocked unless it’s needed
• Better looking recoil animations on team and enemy weapons
• The party goers in DIAMOND HEIST have new dance moves (ah, ah, yeah, pump it up!)

BUG FIXES!

• Fixed several rare random crashes
• The legendary über killer sniper has been removed from Heat Street
• Fixed the drill that kept resetting to full time for some people
• Chains is no longer replaced by Wolf on rare trade occasions
• In Panic Room, Bain will now correctly call the equipment “saws” instead of “drills”
• Sounds (e.g. SWAT rappel sounds) will no longer get stuck in loops
• All sounds are now connected to the sound sliders in the audio options menu
• Fix for Bulldozer trying to do acrobatics such as jump over tables and crashing the game in the First World Bank
• Fix for drop-in disabling some interactions for the dropped in clients on Slaughterhouse
• Added a fix for those who experience lag after a successful heist
• Collision fixes on all heists
• Added a fix for AI movement in Diamond Heist
• Added a fix for the big red diamond abuse in Diamond Heist
• Added a fix for the glitch where the enemy could not see you in Slaughterhouse
• Added a fix for the Cloaker who would not attack players
• Added a fix for the Cloaker who would do range attacks on players
• Added a fix for snipers that would shoot through the building walls in Panic Room

REBALANCED GAME ELEMENTS!

• Made team AI more aggressive and agile
• Enemy AI tweaked to make combat more mid-ranged
• Single Player has improved scenario and difficulty balancing
• All weapons now have alert ranges, unique for each weapon
• Added more money bundles to First World Bank
• Tweaked the Taser behavior, so that he now has a longer interval before he starts to tase again after being interrupted
• Increased the difficulty of the Hard and Overkill difficulty settings by tweaking some AI group logic
• New damage from explosions

NEW SYSTEM FEATURES AND OPTIMIZATIONS!

• Improved network code, reducing overall lag
• Increased performance for even higher frame rate
• Added ability for players to drop-in mid-game
• Added ability to filter servers by difficulty
• Added ability to pause single player games
• Possible for server to set a reputation limit for the server: Players with a reputation level lower than the set value will not be able to join
• Possible for server to allow/refuse mid-game drop-in, as well as the ability for the server to change permission, reputation limit and allow/refuse mid-game drop-in in the in-game menu
• New patch system to reduce size of patches (patch 1.02 would have been about 800 Mb larger without this feature)
• Improved team voice audibility

MISC STUFF

• You can now see the cash value of the “near completion challenges” in the SELECT screen
• Payday players can now view statistics on how large a percentage of players in the world have completed the different heists on all difficulties. Access this information in the “Select Heist” menu
• HUD update: Players can now see the name of the character they are currently playing in the portrait window while in-game
• The DJ at the party in DIAMOND HEIST has a nice, new playlist
• Added big-ass tooth brush to Panic Room

That’s all for you – enjoy!

Here is the complete change log for PC patch 6:

• NEW DIFFICULTY For the PAYDAY fans that think the action is the juice, we now introduce a new difficulty setting called OVERKILL 145+. It can only be played if you have reached level 145 and opens up the possibility for new achievements as well as the OVERKILL 145+ leaderboards!

• NEW RANDOM EVENTS All the heists now have new events that will surprise and challenge you like never before.
  • FIRST WORLD BANK: New OVERKILL 145+ events
  • STREET: New OVERKILL 145+ events
  • PANIC ROOM: New OVERKILL 145+ events
  • GREEN BRIDGE: New OVERKILL 145+ events
  • DIAMOND HEIST: New OVERKILL 145+ events
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE: New OVERKILL 145+ events

• NEW ACHIEVEMENTS The patch includes eight new achievements for Steam.
  • FOUR MORE YEARS: Awarded for reaching reputation level 145. Along with the achievement, players are also rewarded with the presidential mask set!
  • BANK ON ME: Awarded for beating FIRST WORLD BANK on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • HILLS STREET BLUES: Awarded for beating HEAT STREET on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • BRUSH WITH DEATH: Awarded for beating PANIC ROOM on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • BEAT THE SHIELD: Awarded for beating GREEN BRIDGE on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • BAD CODE: Awarded for beating DIAMOND HEIST on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • LOTS OF PIGS, BUT NO PIGS: Awarded for beating SLAUGHTERHOUSE on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting.
  • YOU ARE GOLDEN! Awarded for beating all six original heists on the OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting. Along with the achievement, players are also rewarded with the golden 145+ mask. Overkill salutes you!

• NEW MASKS
  • Players who reach reputation level 145 (and get the FOUR MORE YEARS achievement) are awarded with the presidential mask set.
  • Players who beat all heists on the new OVERKILL 145+ difficulty setting (and get the YOU ARE GOLDEN! achievement) are awarded with the golden 145+ mask – the most fashionable way to show others that you are a true career criminal!

• NEW OPTION By popular demand, players can now set their FOV (field of view) ranging from 60 to 100. Simply go to the Advanced Graphics Menu to make the change.

• HALL OF FAME 200 dedicated career criminals are in for a surprise! As a token of appreciation to our community, 200 of the most dedicated PC players have gotten their nick names immortalized in the PC version of the game. Where could your name be hiding?

• WORLDWIDE SUCCESS RATE Payday players can now view statistics on how large a percentage of players in the world have completed the different heists on all difficulties. Access this information in the Select Heist Menu.

• NEW CHARACTER ANIMATIONS The law enforcers can now move like never before! Expect the unexpected! Also, the party goers in DIAMOND HEIST have new dance moves.

• HUD UPDATE Players can now see the name of the character they are currently playing in the portrait window while in-game.

• NEW MUSIC The DJ at the party in DIAMOND HEIST has a nice playlist.

• BUG FIXES
  • Added a fix for those who experience lag after a successful heist.
  • Collision fixes on all levels.
  • Added separate mouse sensitivity for aiming and looking. Added an optional check box for mouse sensitivity (PC only).
  • Added a fix for AI movement in DIAMOND HEIST.
  • Added a fix for the glitch where the enemy could not see you in SLAUGHTERHOUSE.
  • Added a fix for LOD (level of detail) steps on several heists.
  • Added a fix for the big red diamond abuse in DIAMOND HEIST.
  • Added a fix for crashes when leaving multiplayer.
  • Added fixes for several rare crashes.
  • Added a fix for the Cloaker who would not attack players.
  • Added a fix for the Cloaker who would do range attacks on players.
  • Added a fix for brightness control which previously didn’t always work properly.
  • Added a fix for snipers that would shoot through the building walls in PANIC ROOM.

• BALANCING
  • Added a fix for the Taser, who now has a longer interval before he starts to tase again after being interrupted.

• MISCELLANEOUS UPDATES
  • The shotguns now have new – more realistic – reload animations, in which the weapon isn’t cocked unless it’s needed.
  • Graphical updates on some heists. New events have caused us to make certain graphical improvements, changing the layout of several environments.

That’s all for now – enjoy!

Check out the full list of nominees and winners right here!

You’ll notice that the soundtrack even contains the music from the not-yet-released DLC heists!

Here are the teaser clips, so far (more are coming!):

Stay tuned for more teaser clips!

You’ll notice that the soundtrack even contains the music from the not-yet-released DLC heists!

Here are the teaser clips, so far (more are coming!):

Stay tuned for more teaser clips!

You’ll notice that the soundtrack even contains the music from the not-yet-released DLC heists!

Here are the teaser clips, so far (more are coming!):

Stay tuned for more teaser clips!