PAYDAY 3 often looks beautiful, and it's disappointing that I can't officially disable the hud with one button and take a stunning screenshot.

I used to use a ReShade-based preset, but it's now broken due to the transition to UE5.

This will also help content creators create previews, guides, and other content to ensure better quality. Please add this officially!

My soul left my body

This has been driving me nuts since the game launched three years ago, but for some reason, the AI is able to spot special enemies and announce that they’re on the scene, but when they actually kill a special enemy, they are dead silent and don’t let the player know they’ve killed one.

It’s really aggravating when you’re playing solo and you hear that a Cloaker is on the map and you’re on high alert preparing for them to attack you, only to find out ten seconds later that one of the bots already killed him. Please have the bots tell us when they’ve killed an enemy!!!

I’ve been an avid Sokol player. I’ve been playing a lot of payday 3 and been thinking of ways to add him into the game. He retired to Cyprus and would only be 35 years old during the games events. I find it odd that he was a possible future leader for the gang and we haven’t seen him yet.

Here’s how we could write Sokol into payday 3:
The gang need another member of the gang and shade makes some calls and stumbles across Sokol struggling in Cyprus with his new budget and can’t figure a way out of the financial burden. Maybe he tried opening a couple businesses but they fail significantly. Leading him to be in a hole. He meets some loan sharks that are trying to kill Sokol unless he pays them back. Shade calls him at the right time so they fly him to the US yet again and we meet a new crime family. This can become some new heists for the gang to go on so they can help Sokol out.

Bringing back Sokol can also bring us new weapons such as the PPSH-41, AS Val, some new AK variants. As Sokol can give gage some new contacts to get those kind of weapons.

Of course this is all suggestions and I have no experience writing video games.

I’ll start by saying that I think the new campaign was a good way to tie all of the heists together and allow the current team to start fresh with whatever heists come up next. The whole Palatucci mob thing was absurd and clearly wasn’t going anywhere, I think their biggest mistake was ending the Concord storyline way too early with Fear & Greed when that was something that should’ve been continuing for years. We still don’t know the status of the majority of the PAYDAY Gang’s members, so just writing the guy who was responsible for it all out of the narrative after only finding two other heisters alive was such a baffling decision to me. Why wouldn’t you just keep that going as more and more heisters were confirmed alive or dead as they continued to search for their missing friends? I remember when Almir basically confirmed Rust wasn’t coming back, and when that happened, I really wanted them to use that to their advantage and show how much of a threat Concord was. Show that he actually SUCCEEDED at wiping one of them out. Have the heisters find Rust’s mask on the floor in a pool of blood in a new heist. It would’ve been SO COOL and it would’ve been an interesting way to unlock his mask and stuff and have the gang react to it. But they ended that storyline before anything like that could happen, which was such a shame. And it’s clear they had no idea what they were doing afterwards since the whole Palatucci mob thing was absurd and didn’t seem to be going anywhere, so I’m glad they just took that shit and just blended it into the new story with the rest of the heists in a way that made it flow a bit nicer if that makes any sense. The way Mason used the gang to his advantage to ruin Blythe and basically anyone who was standing against the SINS AI was cool, and I absolutely thought it was the right move to have SINS be almost like a final boss for the campaign since to me, it was bizarre that they gang literally faced off against an AI and it was only like…a thing that happened in the story, instead of a central focus of the story being told (but we seriously could use a rework of Syntax Error - I really really want SINS to play a greater part in the actual heist - since they’re doing a much better job with heist RNG lately, this heist should REALLY take advantage of the AI enemy and have it contribute to the RNG of the heist.) And then to make Fear & Greed about Scry Digital was also a great idea, and I’m glad we still ended this chapter of the story with us tanking the stock market. A much better order to the current heists if you ask me. And of course, Dallas blowing Lucas’ brains out and Shade freaking out was some of the best writing in the game. So overall I think the rewrite was a net positive.

However, I think we can all agree there are some serious issues with the new campaign in its current state that I would seriously ask the team at Starbreeze to consider adding to it/addressing.

1. The Dragan Files no longer being canon really really sucks

Now look - I know that the Houston video can’t be canon anymore because the rewrite focuses heavily on Houston being captured at the very beginning of the story. But I thought one of the most intriguing parts of the old story was that Dragan was helping Shade search for the missing members of the gang. I really think the assassination storyline shouldn’t have been completely removed - it makes far less sense for Hoxton, Chains, Wolf, etc. to come out of retirement just because Dallas’ little brother was captured. Just make it so Mason also attempted to capture the other members of the gang but he was unsuccessful and the remaining members whereabouts are now unknown and the current members don’t know if Mason succeeded. It’d be vague, sure, but at least then that concept could still be getting used in the current storyline and we can still have that mystery element of “who survived and who didn’t”. But frankly, at this point, I’m not expecting them to do this and at this point, it is what it is. But I think the thing they absolutely do need to add back in is the Dragan Files in general. We should still have him looking for the rest of the gang. The videos about Jacket going on a killing spree and Dragan finding him should still be canon. And the stuff we learned about Pearl and Beckett should also still be canon. This brings me into my next two points of frustration with the new campaign

2. Clover and Pearl’s backstories being cut REALLY sucks

I hate hate HATE that Clover’s backstory has been cut entirely. I hate that her name isn’t mentioned a SINGLE time during the new campaign when her reveal was one of the big parts of the previous one. She was our first new Heister post launch and was a huge part of Boys in Blue, so it really sucks she got completely sidelined. Since it’s pretty clear they could’ve get Aoife Duffin into the studio to record new lines for this new campaign, my suggestion would be to add some dialogue recontextualizing the story we already have for her. Keep the aspect of her training a new crew and having them get completely wiped out, but just make Mason the one responsible. The dialogue we do have of her talking about this does not mention Concord at all, and you can easily take that existing dialogue and have Dallas just say “but Mason took them out, didn’t they?” Yes, that would just be them taking dialogue from a completely different conversation and blending it into new dialogue, but like…they did that with Mac and Keegan and Locke, so why couldn’t they do it here? I also think that they still should’ve kept Clover joining the gang during Boys in Blue for this reason. I liked that part of the story and it should’ve stayed.

As for Pearl, I would’ve just done the same thing but with her scene where Shade introduces her to the gang. That entire scene where Chains says they need more members and talks about her con on Harvest and Trustee should have been kept. That entire scene where she talks about her crew getting wiped out should’ve been kept. These scenes and bits of dialogue don’t contradict the new narrative, and we’d at least get to HEAR PEARL TALK during the new campaign and she gets a little more than just some throwaway bit of writing from Shade where she says “so yah Pearl’s here and the gang’s warming up to her”. I’m sorry, but that’s not enough, and there was no reason for Pearl’s backstory to be cut. The tiny little bit we DID have of her was good. Please add it back in as another audio conversation.

In fact, while we’re at it, let’s talk about the other crew members and how they’re not part of the story at all:

3. Hoxton, Chains, and Wolf having no lines whatsoever in the new campaign REALLY sucks

I understand that they couldn’t get all the voice actors back to record new lines, but it really does suck that some of them don’t talk a single time. I think there are so many places where they could take dialogue from the old campaign and just dump it into the new one so we’d at least feel like the rest of the crew is actually involved. Hell, they did this with Joy for Fear & Greed, why couldn’t we do that with the rest of the gang? Keep the entire conversation that these three have about retirement from the old story, because it contradicts nothing in the new one and it shows the gang interacting with each other. Keep the lines where Hoxton and Chains talk about ruining Garnet’s birthday party and work them into the conversations leading up to Under the Surphaze. Keep some of the 99 Boxes lines from Chains and Hoxton too. Bring back the “lady I like you already” line Hoxton has in the old story (referring to Shade) and maybe even the lines he has leading up to Houston Breakout. These are just a couple examples, but I’m sure there are more. I just hate that we barely hear them talk in the new campaign when there were solutions available to work around the inability to get the voice actors back.

(Also, a minor nitpick, but since Kosha Engler is the voice actress you have the easiest access to right now - can y’all please have Shade tell Wolf to stay off the dance floor in the Rock the Cradle briefing? Y’all put in the trouble of having her record a whole new briefing for this heist, and you STILL didn’t have her say this? C’mon guys, give me this tiny bit of fan-service, I’m begging for it.)

What do you guys think of the new story and how would you feel if they added these things in?

put in 30 hours since 3.9 dropped and haven't gotten a single pattern are they just rare drops from missions?

i was expecting getting 180 stable fps on payday 3 with my recent pc upgrade, but somehow im getting lower fps than my friend with almost same specs

hes playing everything on medium, fsr 3 quality

so do i

i have a:

ryzen 7 5800x3d

9060xt 8gb

he has

ryzen 7 5700x3d (slightly lower performance)

hes getting 165 fps stable fps in all maps, im getting arround 160 ta drops to the 120-100 fps sometimes, what is wrong here?

I didn't even know this was possible.

hoping the other person making vogue covers posts their art here too eventually

fun fact: i designed this dress in dressmaker (the game)

even more fun fact: i still cant draw a background to save my life

My MONEY!!!! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been playing Payday 2 for several years now, XBOX and Steam. I didn't actually buy all the DLCs until, get this, like 4 days AFTER point break and wick heists left. I really want these, considering I own every other legacy heist (and border crossing/crystal) as well as Brooklyn 10-10 literally being my FAVORITE HEIST. Combine this with me having every other character cept' Tony, most of the other melees, every other perk deck, I want these.

However, i actually LIKE giving the company who made the game I've spent 900 hours on my money. Yet, I cannot give them my money. I have looked at certain DLC Unlockers and most of them unlock everything in the game. My friend also wants Tony.

Do you all think there is any way for me to do this without pirating all the DLC? I play a lot of public lobbies, and so if I start running cheated weapons (that i don't know if I cheated them in or not, since I've bought a lot of weapon packs and such) I might not be able to join most pubs, as well as the morals.

Please mods, don't take this down, I really do want to give big overkill their money to buy things but I actually can't here.