Overkill Software's Game Director, David Goldfarb, recently said the studio has "a year of DLC planned" for Payday 2, its multiplayer heist game that launched this week on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 (August 23 for Xbox Games on Demand). Goldfarb tells Joystiq that five DLC packs in total are in the works.

"Payday 2 - just like its predecessor Payday: The Heist - is a living thing. We have 5 DLCs planned together with 505 Games for the coming year." Goldfarb went on to say that Overkill would continue to update the game with both paid and free content, "just like we did with the first game."

In Payday 2, the same maps are recycled over many different types of jobs, suggesting a natural fit for modding support or Steamworks integration. "We would love to add support for creating community generated content," Goldfarb said, but in the meantime the team will "continue to look into this."

Almir Listo, a producer at Overkill Software, posted a message on Steam yesterday about absent safe house customization options and Cloakers, special heavy-duty police units seen in the beta. Both will be added down the line: "The safe house is what we intended it to be at release," Goldfarb said. "Just like Bain says when you enter the safe house for the first time, it's not much at the moment, but give it some time. He's working on it and he'll let us do some decorating soon."

Finally, Goldfarb addressed the idea of further franchise crossovers. The first Payday had a mission set in the No Mercy map of Left 4 Dead, serving as a non-canon prequel to Valve's co-op zombie shooting gallery. On this point Goldfarb said, "We can't discuss if we have any crossovers planned right now, but we will let you know when/if that should change."

Posted: Aug 17, 2013 6:11 pm
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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/15/overkill-adding-5-dlc-packs-to-payday-2-would-love-to-add-mod/