Payday: The Heist

PAYDAY: The Heist is the result of the developers watching one too many heist movies.

Unused TexturesIncluding leftovers from when the game was known as Stone Cold. Unused Mission-Related ContentToo many cut objectives to count, let alone complete.

Unused Items#

Hand Grenades#

There are some scrapped hand greanades that did not make it into release but were later introduced in the sequel. These include a flash grenade, a smoke grenade and a fragmentation grenade.

Code suggests that grenades would occupy the equipment slot for the player.

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Unused Sounds#

To do: There are many more unused lines lying around in the files.

Wolf Lines#

A raw WAV file that consists of 40 seconds of Ulf Andersson (Game Designer and Wolf's VO) improvising "cover my back" variants off the top of his head. Probably included by accident.

Unused Music#

An unused song still exists in the game's files. It's unknown where it would've been used. (Note that the actual song is broken up into separate .wav files.)

Unused Models#

To do: Get pictures of these models. In particular, Model comparisons between the now-released Yacht Heist from Payday 2 might be a good idea.

Models from the scrapped Alaska, Departing, and Yacht heists are still present in the game.

alaska_plane#

The contrast for the models' texture was adjusted. This plane is also used in Green Bridge.

Alaska Heist#

Unused Strings#

Test dialogue strings for Dallas outline a rough sequence of events for the heist.

<conversation id="alaska_01_plan" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_02_gather" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_03_keep_eye_for_cargo" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_04_hunting_tower" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_05_where_are_we" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_06_follow_powerlines" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_07_who_is_shooting" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_08_clients_ambush" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_09_no_trust" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_10_forget_cash" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_11_good_regroup" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_12_small_lake" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_13_chopper_takeoff" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_14_shit_flares" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_15_cut_fence" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_16_careful_drop" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_17_down_here" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_18_cargo_parachute" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_19_cargo_dragmarks" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_20_cops_pickup" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_21_up_that_bridge" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_22_clients_around" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_23_sawmill" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_24_lets_take_stairs" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_25_wtf_cops" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_26_see_box_on_car" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_27_whats_in_box" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_28_dunno_get_it_open" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_29_cargo-secured" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_30_must_had_plan" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_31_push_to_sawmill" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_32_open_gate_first" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_33_gate_is_open" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_34_keep_pushing" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_35_keep_pushing_2" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_36_keep_rolling" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_37_get_inside_gate" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_38_good_work" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_39_another_gate" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_40_boats_ashore" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_41_cops_mountainpass" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_42_is_that_train" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_43_train_train" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_44_holy_shit" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_45_haha_awesome" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_46_lucky_there" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_47_ok_hurry_our_track" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_48_nono_no_tunnels" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_49_move_to_trainyard" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_50_switch_track" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_51_trackswitch_busted" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_52_head_for_tunnel" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_53_head_for_sawmill" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_54_allrght_sawmill" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_55_allrght_tunnell" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_56_forget_sawmill" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_57_almost_there_push" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_58_lets_open_box" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_59_use_cutting" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_60_use_saw" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_61_organs_wth" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_62_livers_hearts" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_63_worth_million" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_64_grabe_case" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_65_to_many" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_66_use_radio" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_67_pilot_on_way" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_68_keep_cops_away" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_69_keep_up" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_70_cops_from_tunnel" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_71_cops_from_left" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_72_cops_from_train" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_73_cops_from_forest" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_74_cops_from_behind" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_75_cops_from_forest2" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_76_cops_from_every" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_77_hear_plane" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_78_one_of_2_docks" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_79_land_big_dock" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_80_dock_with_boat" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_81_keep_dock_clean" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_82_there_he_is" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_83_keep_loading" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_84_ok_landing_soon" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_85_to_hot" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_86_good_to_see" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_87_no_cash" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_88_pilot_game" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_89_allright_we_got" priority="2">
<conversation id="alaska_90_we_did_it" priority="2">

Organs#

The unused 'organs' equipment type intended for the heist can be found in the files. It lacks localization for the name and message that would appear on pick-up and uses the thermite icon as a placeholder.

self.specials.organs = {
    text_id = "debug_equipment_organs",
    icon = "equipment_thermite",
    action_message = "organs_obtained"
}

Code for the 'alaska_plane' object can also be found, requiring the 'organs' equipment to be interacted with. It similarly lacks localization.

self.alaska_plane = {}
self.alaska_plane.icon = "develop"
self.alaska_plane.text_id = "debug_interact_alaska_plane"
self.alaska_plane.equipment_text_id = "debug_interact_equipment_organs"
self.alaska_plane.special_equipment = "organs"
self.alaska_plane.equipment_consume = true
self.alaska_plane.interact_distance = 400

Gold Heist#

About Gold Heist

"This is one of several levels i worked on for the game PAYDAY: The Heist during my time at OVERKILL Software. The crew has broken into the gold reserve and are trying to get away with a large sum of gold. The level has several ways of playing out and each playthrough gives a different experience. I came up with the concept, did script, layout, lights and visuals (most models were re-used from another level, albeit with a different lighting/weather to make it stand out). The level never made it into the final game. Maybe some day..."

Screenshots & Layout

Unused Code#

levelstweakdata.lua#

In lib/tweak_data/levelstweakdata.lua there are mentions of quite a few levels that don't exist in the released game.

Unused Text#