PAYDAY: The Heist Marks 15 Years With a Small PC Update
The anniversary patch keeps the original game on life support while the work goes to the studio that already maintains PAYDAY 2, which says where Starbreeze puts its upkeep.
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Starbreeze released Update 23 for the PC version of PAYDAY: The Heist to mark 15 years since the game's October 20 release. Sidetrack Games, which handles development support for PAYDAY 2, put together the patch: bug fixes, borderless window mode, Steam play status support, mod_overrides, and a restored Overdrill 7200-second timer that rewards survivors with 12 gold bars. The game is on Steam at 67 percent off until October 28.
The Overdrill piece is the part with weight. Players who reach the corridor in front of the vault, then return to the server room and destroy the hidden statue, can start the original 7200-second timer. Survive it and 12 gold bars appear in the Overvault.
Most of the rest is housekeeping. The patch adds mod_overrides, borderless window mode and Steam play status, and fixes a mask display bug tied to Steam group membership, an Alt+Tab cursor grab, mouse wheel scrolling on a second monitor, and a broken forum link on the main menu. Mod developers get two new DB class entries and a Steam avatar texture loader.
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