Payday: The Heist

Payday: The Heist
Developer: OVERKILL Software Publisher: Sony Online Entertainment Platforms: Windows, PlayStation 3 Released internationally: October 18, 2011 This game has unused code. This game has a hidden developer message. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has unused text.

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

To do: The Troll mask that got removed in November 2015.

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Unused Textures Including leftovers from when the game was known as Stone Cold.

A message from Simon Viklund

If you owned the game's soundtrack DLC, a .txt file called A_message_from_simon_viklund.txt will show up in the game's directory. It reads:

Hi there,

Thank you for buying Payday: The Game Soundtrack and supporting Overkill Software - I'm sure you will appreciate this totally OVERKILL soundtrack release!

Stay awesome, and enjoy the music!

Best regards,
Simon Viklund, music composer at Overkill Software

Unused Sounds

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

Bain Lines

In the Panic Room heist, Bain was originally going to brief the team. In the final game, the characters talk to each other about it instead.

This line would've played once you failed the stealth portion of Diamond Heist. However, Murkywater units only appear on Slaughterhouse, so this is unused.

It seems there were supposed to be objectives related to cameras in Diamond Heist. In released game, destroying cameras works the same as it does on other heists.

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.

(Source: Lolnoob1 on Facepunch)

Early Heat Street

Heat Street originally had a different story, Two bank guards originally stole the briefcase, and then they crashed just like Matt in the original version; The player was supposed to drill into the van (Files suggest Bruce had the drill in his trunk)

The drill had the model of the First World Bank drill, and this early version of Heat Street was made while Simon Viklund was still a placeholder voice-actor

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.)

(Source: Dougley and CGNick on Facepunch)

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 Heist

alaska_plane

The contrast for the models' texture was adjusted.

This plane is also used in Green Bridge

Community Archive Server

There's a community archive server just for this game, the invite is https://discord.gg/qvKTw4QAN6

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.

Level name	World name	Music	Equipment	Loading image	Movie	Suit
sony_tutorial1	sonybootcamp	Gun Metal Grey
sony_tutorial2	sony_bootcamp_arena	Gun Metal Grey
wfv	alleys		drill	guis/textures/level_wfv	movies/level_wfv
departing	diamond2			guis/textures/level_departing	movies/level_departing
alaska	warehouse			guis/textures/level_alaska	movies/level_alaska
yacht	yacht_mod			guis/textures/level_yacht	movies/level_yacht
gold_heist	goldheist	Crime Wave	drill		movies/level_yacht	raincoat
casino_boat	tests/casino_boat	Crime Wave	drill		movies/level_casino_boat

Unused text

String ID	Text	Notes
dialog_does_not_own_heist_info	Heist "$HEIST;" cannot be played with player $PLAYER;.	Seems that before release, you could only play DLC heists with players that own the DLC.
dialog_mp_invite_message	Please Join my Payday Game	Possibly was used for testing
menu_character_1	RUSSIAN	Dallas' internal name
menu_character_2	AMERICAN	Hoxton's internal name
menu_character_3	GERMAN	Wolf's internal name
menu_character_4	SPANIARD	Chains' internal name
debug_interact_tear_painting	Press $BTN_INTERACT; to Tear the Painting
debug_gold_heist	Gold heist	Unused heist
debug_gold_heist_briefing	The Gold Reserve has never been hit. Until now. Getting the gold is easy. Just blow a hole through the wall and take it. Getting away with it in a city crowded with cops, choppers and SWAT's however, is not.
wp_gold_heist_alley	Alley	Objectives for the unused Gold Heist
wp_gold_heist_van	Van with gold
wp_gold_heist_pickup	Pickup
wp_gold_heist_heli	Helicopter
wp_gold_heist_escape	Escape
debug_casino_boat	Casino boat	Unused heist
debug_casino_boat_briefing	Briefing text for Casino boat.	Placeholder