Payday 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Overkill Software and published by 505 Games. The game is a sequel to 2011’s Payday: The Heist and receives constant updates. A while ago a new patch launched, which is pretty extensive. Let’s dive deep into the Payday 2 240 update patch notes.

Payday 2 Update 240 Patch Notes

Heist optimizations & changes

• Optimized Hell’s Island with portals
• Optimized Border Crossing Heist with portals
• Optimized Bulucs Mansion Heist with portals
• Optimized San Martin Heist with portals
• Optimized White House with portals
• Fixed a bug on Hell’s Island where team AI could get stuck out of bounds
• Fixed a bug where “Buy all assets” in mission briefing no longer lets you buy all assets if you do not have enough cash
• Fixed an issue on Diamond Heist where a guard would get stuck in a certain position

Gameplay changes

Special enemies are now being tagged to register as special enemies. This means

• Mini dozer, medic dozer, and headless dozer now counts as dozer spawns.
• Medic dozer also counts as a medic spawn
• Marshal shields counts in the spawn shield cap
• Marshal shields and marksmen now counts as special enemies for skills & achievements
• Fixed a bug with the enemy accuracy being too accurate at times
• Fixed some weapon preset modifications intended for the minigun dozer applying to dozer instead of minigun dozer
• Adjusted the fire mode tables for enemy AI to function more towards it’s intended functionality

UI

• Adjusted so that weapon skins of same quality & bonus now stacks.
• Adjusted so that “equipped to weapon” icon can be seen in weapon skin of the steam inventory menu.
• Doubled the amounts of skill loadouts along with new requirements for some of the new ones.
• Doubled the amount of mask & weapon inventory slots
• Doubled the amounts of profile loadouts
• Client players can now access sidejobs in lobbies
• Added a new function to allow players to scroll through the history of chat messages in lobby menus and in-game heists using the arrow keys
• Added a search box functionality for
  • Store- Masks
  • Store- Weapons
  • Outfits
  • Gloves
• Near damage bonuses are now displayed in the optimal range stat with a “+”
• Updated the preplanning icon in the mission briefing for Branchbank & Firestarter Day 3 to use the proper Branchbank icon.
  • Fixed a couple of bugs regarding UI-elements
  • renaming weapon/skill no longer opens lobby chat when pressing t
  • lobby chat no longer gains focus from mouse press on input or scrolling when renaming weapon/skill
  • Fixed scroll bar visibility issues in hud chat
• Added a toggle setting to show ammo in reserves instead of total magazine & reserve ammo

Weapons & mods

• Fixed a bug with weapon reload stop not working when it’s meant to be interrupted
• Allow weapon mods that add falloff to display it on a weapon in the inventory
• Optimal range stat in the inventory will now be able to display how mods have an effect on it
• Fixed a crash with updating weapon charms
• Fixed a crash when updating the bullet belt on SG Versteckt 51D LMG
• Fixed a crash when syncing under-barrel switch
  • Added weapon stats boosts normally only obtainable through skins to be purchasable for continental coins.
  • Total Ammo (+4) for the IZHMA 12G Shotgun.
  • Damage (+1) for the MA-17 Flamethrower.
  • Stability (+8) for the Deagle Pistol, AMR-16 Rifle, Eagle Heavy Rifle and Tempest-21 Rifle.

Gamemode

• Special events will now be re-enabled on specific time & dates

Achievements & Side jobs

• Daily side job “Target Practice: Sentry Practice” now counts kills from suppressed sentry gun
• Daily side job “Bulldozer” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Daily side job “Build a raft of shields” now counts kills of marshal shield
• Daily side job “A Trip Down Memory Lane” now counts No Mercy as a classic heist
• Event side job “Dozers killed” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Event side job “Special Enemies Killed” now counts kills of all types of specials (adding minigun and medic bulldozer, marshal shield, and sniper)
• Achievement “Close Shave” now counts kills of marshal shield and sniper
• Achievement “Precision Aiming” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “Bang for the Buck” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “Are You Kidding Me” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “The Man With the Golden Gun” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “Surprise Motherfucker” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “Knockout!” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun and special bulldozer)
• Achievement “Knock, Knock” now counts kills of marshal shield
• Achievement “Police Brutality” now counts kills of marshal shield
• Achievement “Fool Me Once, Shame on…” now counts kills of marshal shield
• Achievement “UMP for Me, UMP for You” now counts kills of all types of Russian specials (adding minigun and medic bulldozer, marshal shield, and sniper)
• Achievement “A Trip Down Memory Lane” now counts No Mercy as a classic heist
• Achievement “Maximum Penetration” now counts kills of marshal shield
• Achievement “Hedgehog” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun, and special bulldozer)
• Safehouse trophy “Medic” now counts kills of medic bulldozer
• Safehouse trophy “Dozer” now counts kills of all types of specials (adding minigun and medic bulldozer, marshal shield, and sniper)
• Safehouse trophy “Big Daddy” now counts kills of all types of bulldozers (adding medic, minigun and special bulldozer)

Others

• Fixed an issue where some platform players had a loud sound at the start of the intro video
• Updated the translator plauqe in the safehouse
• Fixed a crash in civilian damage if the unit was missing some features
• Fixed a crash when civilians are damaged by fire
• Fixed an issue where recently played with on Steam didn’t work properly
• Fixed a crash when joining a game
• Fixed a crash when players enter a vehicle
• Fixed an issue where unaquiring the melee weapon now unequips it instead.
• Fixed an issue with melee weapons using idle animation of guns