Payday 3 is getting an open beta this week on Xbox and PC

Deep Silver and Starbreeze have announced an open beta for their upcoming co-op heist shooter Payday 3.

Running from September 8-11, the beta is designed to stress test servers on Steam and Xbox Series X/S ahead of the game’s release later this month,

The test will feature the same content included in a closed beta last month, which the companies said is based on a version of the game from April 2023 rather than the final product.

It will include one heist, No Rest For The Wicked, which is set in a small bank. All difficulties will be playable, the level cap is Infamy Level 22, and weapon level progression is at 8.

“Go stealthily without anyone noticing how the cash evaporated or go loud and create cinematic chaos in an NYC robbery that’s worthy of the silver screen,” reads a description from Starbreeze.

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Payday 3 will be released on September 21 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S including Game Pass, and PC via Steam, Epic Games Store and PC Game Pass.

In a recent Payday 3 preview, we said the game “seems like it has all of the ingredients necessary to pull off its lofty goal of emulating the classic heist films of Hollywood, but the question remains whether its new stealth systems will be fully embraced by a player base that has gotten so used to the ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ action of the previous games”.