Dev Team Reveals Plans for Modifiers in PAYDAY 3

The development team working PAYDAY 3 announced that they’re going to make some adjustments to the modifiers in the game. This is a result of the survey conducted a while back.

In the game, modifiers are a feature which make changes to the difficulty. Basically, what happens is that the higher the difficulty, the more changes are made to certain heists. For example, the number of guards present in a map are increased. However, unlike the ones in the previous titles, the modifiers in PAYDAY 3 randomly, as well as drastically, changes the playing field. By the way, it's only present on Very Hard and Overkill difficulties.

Survey Results

Before going into what's being planned, let's take a look at some of the results of the survey. For starters, majority of players choose their heist according to what they want. In terms of difficulties, most players prefer to play not just on Very Hard but even Overkill.

When asked about the duration of the modifiers changing, around 40% said they prefer it daily. However, it's interesting to note that about 17% said they preferred that modifiers didn't rotate at all.

For favorites, the top 3 were Combat, Titan Cameras, and Threat Detection. The top 3 disliked modifiers were Threat Detection, Armor Piercing Rounds, and Lead Guard.

To view the results of the survey, click here.

Moving Forward

Based on the results of the survey, the development team revealed that it was clear that what the community wanted was to have to have to ability of being able to build their experience using modifiers. The team admitted that while they do like this approach, they have yet to start looking into "what this means or what is possible" considering they also are working on something to be released next year.

For now, the plan is to make some adjustments to modifiers, which are based on the feedback received in the survey. The first step is to determine whether it is possible to have an automated rotation that's going to "cycle new modifiers daily." The team is also going to look into the frequency of some modifiers based on their popularity.

What this all means is that for now, there won't be any changes made to the modifiers that are available. However, the team said that it's finding way to minimize what may well be the most egregious combinations.

You can get PAYDAY 3 on Steam.