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Payday 3's highest difficulty option will be 'unfair'

Four difficulty modes will be available at launch.
Alex Hopley Editor UK 6 July 2023

Payday 3's latest developer diary has given us a lot of information about the combat we'll experience when our heists inevitably go awry.

Senior game designer Miodrag Kovacevic has revealed we'll be able to decide how crazy things can get in combat, with four difficulty options being available from launch. They are Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and Overkill.

Hard is the new normal, it seems, as that's the difficulty the developers expect us to play on when levelling up. Then, we'll likely move on to Very Hard when we've got our loadout ready. Overkill is not for the faint of heart, and will see players meet the ultimate challenge.

Difficulty will be scaled by enemy accuracy and their numbers. They won't have increased health but will do more damage the higher you put the scale, meaning you will have to be extra careful heading into a firefight on the higher difficulties.

Check out more details in the developer diary below:

Editor UK Alex Hopley covered the video game industry for Gamereactor, from new announcements and launches to the business behind them. He also wrote on tech, film and entertainment, and his coverage wasn't tied to any one region.
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