PAYDAY 3

We hope you’re having a joyous holiday season! Whether you’re spending it with family or friends, or taking some well-deserved time for yourself, we sincerely hope you’re enjoying a great end to the year. With 2025 coming to a close, it’s time to look back at what happened during the year. It’s definitely been busy and often challenging, but also one of the most important years in our studio’s history, as we made the foundational decision to align our focus on PAYDAY. Below are highlights from the past year, covering…

It’s time to get together with your friends and play PAYDAY this holiday season! Finish your PAYDAY 2 DLC collection for a steal.The PC version just got brand-new Wolf voicelines, improved akimbo weapon skins, and a stack of quality-of-life updates. Get PAYDAY 2 Now: Steam Epic Xbox PS4 The holidays should be enjoyed with a classic heist game. Go back to where it all began with 67% off the base game and 50% off the Wolfpack DLC. Get PAYDAY: The Heist Now: Steam PAYDAY 3 and DLCs are up to…

New Feature Skills 2.0 It's been a long time coming, but Skills 2.0 is finally here! This FREE update to PAYDAY 3 completely revamps the skill system, providing heisters even more ways to create the perfect build. Want to take a look at the new skills while your game updates? Check out our Skills 2.0 Simulator! Known Issues Due to unforeseen issues, the build on Epic remains as 2.4. Players may have difficulty playing online when playing on this build. The new 2.5 build will be pushed when available. Using…

T-minus 7 days until Skills 2.0! As we promised, today we launch a brand new webpage where you will be able to pick your skills to create brand new builds with Skills 2.0. Check out the website today and let us know your favorite build on socials! Launch the Skills 2.0 Simulator

Remember the blog last month with the updated Skill 2.0 preview? You know, the one that had a survey attached to it. Well almost 1000 of you do since that’s how many responses we received, thanks for that! The feedback that you gave through the survey has helped the team to better understand what you are looking for in the new system, and how we can best evolve it with time. 22 skills are changing as a result of this exercise That’s right, your feedback alone has had a direct…

Update 2.4 is now available for PAYDAY 3 on all platforms, and fixes various issues that have been discovered since the release of the Delivery Charge Heist update. UI Added a HUD indicator to show if a player or crew AI is carrying a bag. Prevented the HUD distance icon from blocking the thermal drill display panel. Fixed instances of C-Stack amounts displayed on the result screen, sometimes not matching what the player receives. Prevented the game from displaying a prompt informing the player they are "not the party leader"…

Hello Heisters! Today, we’re overjoyed to introduce Paul Keslin, the new General Manager for Live Service. Long and nonsensical title aside, he’s the guy in charge of making sure we reach all the goals mentioned later in this post! We just released this video where Paul presented himself and this is a rough summary of what was said, if you want the full experience in Paul’s own words, watch the video above, else have a read of our summary below. We set several goals going into next year. Most of…

Hello heisters! We’ve done work on the skills since last time and thought you might be interested in an update. The new skills are tagged, and the point costs are now defined and added to the tables below. This is likely close to the version we release. We fully expect to have to make adjustments following release, however, so don’t despair. In fact, we’d like to get a feel for what you think already with this fancy form, which is embedded at the bottom of the blog post as well!…

On October 2, Starbreeze hosted a special PAYDAY 3 Vision Stream, where the new PAYDAY General Manager Jonas, joined Elisabeth to walk through the studio’s long-term plans for the game. The conversation focused on the general pillars around bringing PAYDAY back to the forefront of the heisting world — where it belongs! Bear in mind that this is not a roadmap, we’re still doing a ton of planning, we’ll share more when we’ve put pen to paper! Setting the Stage Jonas recently joined Starbreeze as General Manager for PAYDAY, bringing…

The PAYDAY Trilogy is ON SALE now – don’t miss the heist of the century! Haven’t yet walked the mean streets of PAYDAY? Now’s your chance to suit up, break in, and get away clean… for a killer price. All three PAYDAY games and many DLCs are discounted; this is your chance to score potentially hundreds of hours of criminal chaos across the franchise! Visit the PAYDAY Franchise Sale Page PAYDAY 3, the modern era of heisting. Sleek visuals, cross-platform action, and we’re just getting started—Year 1 updates are live…