After multiple delays, Payday 3 finally arrives this month, but if you just can’t wait to get your hands on the game, a free open beta is being held this weekend. The Payday 3 Technical Open Beta won’t require you to have pre-ordered the game – anybody on Steam or Xbox Series X/S can jump in (PS5 is excluded for whatever reason). Starbreeze does warn the beta build is from a few months back, so it doesn’t necessarily represent the final state of the game – the beta is more about testing the capacity of the Payday 3 servers.
The Payday 3 open beta will offer similar content to the recent closed beta – a single heist, the original four heist-ers, and most of the game’s weapons and cosmetics. Progress will not carry over to the full game. Here’s a bit more detail on what the beta includes.
- The original gang: Dallas, Hoxton, Chains and Wolf. The iconic clown-masked characters that made the Payday franchise infamous are all playable.
- No rest for the wicked is a Payday 3 bank heist, that charges the players with relieving a relatively small bank of all the cash cluttering up their vault. It’s their own choice to go stealth without anyone noticing how the cash evaporated or go loud to really experience that NYC robbery feeling.
- All difficulties will be playable. Meanwhile, the level cap is Infamy Level 22 and Weapon Level Progression is at 8.
The Payday 3 Technical Open Beta will run from Friday (September 8) to Monday (September 11). Haven’t been keeping up with Payday 3? Here’s the game’s basic setup…
“The legendary Payday Crew, dreaded by the law and underworld alike, is back. Ripped from their peaceful retirement to rejoin the criminal world by a new threat, one born from the chaos the Crew left in their wake. In order to identify and crush this new threat, the Crew is leaving their Washington DC roots behind them and moving to New York City. A new location will bring with it new challenges, but also new opportunities for a heister with a plan.”
Payday 3 launches on PC (via both Steam and the Epic Games Store), Xbox Series X/S, and PS5 on September 21. The game will be available via Xbox Game Pass on Day 1.
