Payback 2

• Improved support for Android 14
• Updated app integrity protection

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes
• Updated app integrity protection (Android only)
• Raised minimum supported version of Android to 6.0.

• Fix for not being able to sign into Game Center on iOS 17 (iOS only)
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Improved support for Android 13

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Fixed volume controls and back button not working
• Bug fixes

• Switched to GameActivity for improved stability
• Updated to latest Google Play billing library
• Bug fixes

• Added 2 new cities to explore!
• Added 2 new campaign episodes!
• Added app integrity protection (Android only)
• Lots of tweaks and bug fixes

• Made the helicopter race in campaign mode easier
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Includes relevant improvements from 2.105.0 (iOS only)
• Raised minimum iOS version to 10.0 (iOS only)
• Bug fixes

• Quadrupled resolution of some textures
• Improved support for Android 12
• Fixed excessive speed on high frame rate devices
• Improved detection of invalid player data when online
• Made the helicopter race in campaign mode easier
• Updated to latest Google Play billing library
• Optimised SDK usage
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Fix for problems with iOS 14.5 (iOS only)
• Fixed sign in problems (Android only)
• Bug fixes

• Fix for problems with iOS 14

• Bug fixes
• Raised minimum supported Android version to 5.0

• Bug fixes

• Fixed sign in problems
• Fixed irony bonus
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Added 64 bit support
• Optimised install size
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Increased time limit to deliver the swag
• Regular cops now use pistols
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes
• Raised minimum supported Android version to 4.1.x

• Added ragdoll physics
• Added loads of new apparel
• Added aim sensitivity option
• Added a time limit to deliver the swag
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Totally new character models and animations, including female characters
• Loads of new character and weapon customisation options
• Completely reworked weapons - for example, explosives can now be attached to objects
• Option to reset your progress (see the "extras" menu)
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Fixed hang when device goes to sleep (iOS only)
• Fixed crash loading allegro city (Android only)

• Reduced download size (Android only)
• Fixed excessive game speed on new iPads (iOS only)
• Raised goal indicator in races so it doesn't overlap with route arrow
• Various other bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Significant environment quality improvements - much higher texture resolution and improved lighting (fresnel is now supported)
• Added loads of new event variations to all game modes, particularly Capture The Swag and race-type events
• Added two new campaign episodes
• New game mode, city and vehicle control icons
• Added iPhone X support (iOS only)
• Added customisable graphics settings
• Added separate "in vehicle" vs "on foot" camera settings
• Added "No Ads" IAP
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Added two new vehicles: X550R and Rambler
• Added cloud save support
• Added status messages and other HUD improvements
• New UI font
• Multiplayer bug fixes
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

• You can now invite anyone to a multiplayer match by sharing a link or shortcode
• Added vehicle headlight controls
• Multiplayer bug fixes
• Vehicle handling tweaks
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

• Added more options when creating public multiplayer matches
• Added muting to chat
• Police siren and wanted level improvements
• Vehicle control improvements
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

• Campaign and story mode are now free!
• Added an option to lock the game mode in public multiplayer matches
• New flamethrower pickup model
• Tweaked campaign difficulty
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• New remote bomb model
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Wheels can now come off vehicles
• Improved vehicle weapon impact effects
• New shotgun pickup object
• Helicopter now autohovers
• Used casings now eject from weapons
• Performance improvements, including better LOD-ing
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• New autoturret model and animations
• Particles now have shadows
• Weapons now damage the environment
• You can now shoot through some surfaces, and shots are 4x faster
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Campaign events can now be permanently unlocked, and unlocked without coins
• Improved rocket, grenade and minigun models
• Added speedometer and other HUD tweaks
• File size optimisations - saved about 6.5MB, despite adding more stuff to the game
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes, particularly to multiplayer

• Fixed rendering of character in customise section and globe in campaign section
• Various bug fixes

• Added first person mode!
• Game mode HUD improvements, particularly in Kingpin
• Added "killed by" information when waiting to respawn
• Added some hidden boats around the cities
• Added gear and RPM indicator
• Lots of other tweaks and bug fixes, particularly to multiplayer

• Fix for not being able to fly helicopter with the "joystick" control scheme
• Fixed several intermittent crash bugs
• Made vehicles take less damage in impacts, trucks harder to roll
• Moved up/down control on small screen devices away from screen edge
• Daily reward fixes

• Fixed crash on startup on Android 6.0 devices
• Fixed intermittent crash on startup on some devices

• Completely rewritten physics engine for improved handling, collisions and destructability:
  • Proper rigidbody system - objects tumble and crash realistically
  • Almost all scenery objects (even trees if you hit them hard enough) are now breakable, and many can catch fire
  • Realistic suspension, tire and transmission simulation
  • Simulation of small bumps on rough surfaces
  • Much less gravity than before (although still about 80% more than realistic as it's more fun that way)
• Improved vehicles:
  • Helicopter - including much more versatile control system for much more freedom of movement, but more skill required
  • Truck - now articulated
  • Hotrod - improved handling model means you can now do donuts!
  • Van
  • Pickup truck
  • Ice cream van
  • Fjord
  • Bus
• You now shoot forward from vehicles, rather than sideways
• Reworked "wanted" system, including display of your wanted level
• Completely rewritten particle system for improved explosions, wind effects, smoke and tire debris
• Reworked the cities and some campaign events:
• Added pavement edges
• Slopes are now less unrealistically steep
• Several campaign events are now completely different, and include new vehicles
• Completely rewritten skidmark system
• New and improved sound effects - variable tire effects, wind, brake hiss, engine sounds, impacts and metal scraping
• Reworked scenery objects: Bollard, rock, briefcase, key, cycle sign, gravestone, prison bed and bedside table
• Traffic vehicles now flash their headlights if they think you're going to hit them
• Added different wheel types to the vehicles
• Added an indicator for when grenades are about to explode, or your car in knockout mode
• Performance optimisations
• Loads of other tweaks and bug fixes

• Minor bug fixes

• Improved the appearance of the Mundaneo, statue and radar objects
• Fixed rendering issue with burnt vehicles
• Stopped some vehicles disappearing after a task switch in certain circumstances
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

• Added lights and exhaust particle effects to all new vehicles
• Much better looking vehicles:
• Portia
• Taxi
• Cop Car
• SWAT Van
• Limo
• Patrol Boat
• Improved scenery objects:
• Roadblock
• Info Icon
• Dummy
• Snowman
• Faster load times
• Added iPad Pro-specific icon
• Reduced download size on Android (101MB->80MB)
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes

• Fixed issue preventing the player's name from being shown sometimes

• Crash bug fixes
• Removed unnecessary READ_PHONE_STATE permission

• Massively improved shooting/aiming controls:
• You can now aim up and down.
• You can now aim without shooting.
• Aiming is now mouse-style rather than joystick-style by default.
• New icon
• Much better looking vehicles:
  • Rocket Car
  • Pug Racer
  • Cop Car
  • Vapour Racer
• Dramatically increased vehicle texture resolution.
• Many improved environmental objects.
• You can now have up to 10 human players in a multiplayer match.
• Added iPad Pro support. (iOS only)
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes, including lots of fixes to multiplayer.

• Added a third person view.
• Added online chat.
• Dramatically better looking vehicles with a completely rewritten lighting model:
  • Tank
  • Evo
  • Pug
  • Pug GTI
  • RC Truck
  • RC Car
  • Scooby
  • Vapour
• Improved lighting, especially on night levels.
• Improved appearance of trees, streetlights and water.
• Added very high resolution sky textures.
• Lots of graphics optimisations - performance is generally better than with the old viewpoint.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes, including lots of fixes to multiplayer.

• Improved texture sharpness and colour.
• Various minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Performance improvements on low end devices. (iOS only)
• Fix for multiplayer compatibility issues. (Android only)
• Various minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Completely rewritten graphics engine!
• Completely redrawn environment textures - much sharper and higher quality than before.
• Dramatically improved lighting.
• 64 bit support (iOS only).
• Resolution now adjusts dynamically to maintain a consistent framerate.
• Speech compression improvements - smaller download size but at a higher quality than before (48KHz vs 22KHz).
• Faster bullets, with better sound effects.
• Added camera dirt, bloom, internal reflections.
• Added screen shake.
• Added CRT-style night vision effect on menu screens.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

• Fixed an intermittent bug with video ad rewards.

• Various minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Various minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• The entire story mode from Payback 1 has been remastered and added to the game!
• The 3 main cities from Payback 1 have also been added to the main game, and include support for all game modes.
• There are 12 new race events and new Conquest, Kingpin and Capture The Swag zones on the new cities.
• Added speech when hijacking cars and throughout story mode.
• Added shadows to grenades and rockets.
• Multiplayer compatibility fixes.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

• Various minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Multiplayer is now free - no more time limits!
• Added weapon customisation options, and reorganised the character customisation menus.
• Made AI use weapons in vehicles.
• Improved respawning in sprint/race/knockout events.
• Made it so you lose control of your vehicle when it is on fire.
• More unique sound effect for in-game notifications.
• Improved the tutorial race.
• Various other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Added an arrow pointing towards the nearest enemy in Brawl and Gang Warfare events.
• Added an option to control cop difficulty in custom rampage events.
• Improved steering when using the "joystick" vehicle control method.
• Vehicle handling improvements.
• Made AI not abandon damaged vehicles in races.
• Various other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• Updated Spanish translations.
• Fixed a couple of rare crash bugs.

• Added support for iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
• Significantly reduced level loading times, particularly on older devices.
• Increased the field of view on small-screen devices.
• Improved HUD image quality.
• Limited the rocket's rate of fire to make the weapons more balanced.
• Increased responsiveness of tilt controls.
• Fixed multiplayer invites.
• Added a Game Center sign in button when appropriate.
• Reduced the maximum wait for more multiplayer time in the free version.
• Increased respawn invulnerability duration to prevent spawn camping.
• Hourly and daily challenge notifications are now only shown if you played the previous challenge.
• Various other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• You can now get multiplayer time and unlock custom mode items without spending any coins in the free version.
• Fixed a bug that caused incorrect pistol shots in multiplayer.
• Fixed incorrect race position and other issues in multiplayer race, sprint and knockout events.
• Player's upper bodies now rotate correctly in multiplayer.
• Fixed various bugs with the crime stats.
• Stopped music resuming after a video even if the playlist was set to "none".
• Made it so the player's car isn't always black.
• Added a route up to the helicopter on the D-Town map.
• Removed an invisible wall in Destra City.
• Various other minor tweaks and bug fixes.

• You can now shoot from vehicles.
• The weapon selection system has been improved on the iPhone/iPod Touch.
• You can now unlock campaign events without spending any coins in the free version.
• All the vehicles are now about 20% faster.
• Tweaked the difficulty of some campaign events based on user feedback.
• Improved intro camera.
• Improved the look of some parts of the user interface.
• Reduced network load in multiplayer in certain situations.
• Multiplayer racing improvements.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

• Multiplayer reliability improvements.
• Changes to messages on the results screen.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

• The time until multiplayer matches start has been reduced.
• The XP of all players is now shown in the multiplayer lobby.
• You can now easily send friend requests to people in the current room.
• Fixed several bugs that meant players joining an existing match would sometimes end up in an invalid state.
• Fixed a bug where the multiplayer results could sometimes disagree between two devices.
• Fixed a bug that stopped the phone boxes ringing in rampage mode.
• Various other tweaks and bug fixes.

• We've made major changes to multiplayer in this update! Here's a few of the biggest improvements:
  • We now have our own multiplayer servers. This means there can be more players in a match (now 8, twice as many as before - and we're working on increasing this further!) with less strain on your internet connection.
  • You can now see all the public matches that are going on around the world and pick the one you want to join.
  • Players can join and leave halfway through a match without ending the event for everyone else.
  • After each match players can vote on what the next event will be.
  • You can now invite your friends to matches already in progress.
• There's also the usual collection of tweaks and bug fixes.

• Improved HUD and menu quality on 4th generation iPod Touch
• Bug fixes

• Improved reliability on 4th generation iPod Touch
• Added a visual effect when earning or spending coins
• Localised Twitter and Facebook messages
• Various tweaks and bug fixes

• Facebook and Twitter integration
• Made it easier to find unplayed events
• Reworked reward system for tell a friend/share
• Quicker respawn in race/sprint/knockout events
• Made it so you need to win to submit your score in brawl and gang warfare challenge events
• Fixed a crash when resuming hourly and weekly challenges

• There are now hourly and weekly challenges as well as the existing daily challenge!
• Fixed a bug that was stopping some players from being able to submit their scores in challenge mode
• Improved robustness, particularly on the 4th generation iPod Touch
• The game now runs in Spanish on Mexican devices, rather than in English

• Improved first-time user experience - there's now an introductory event and you're asked to chose your control scheme
• More informative challenge leaderboards - your friends are now highlighted in blue, and your score and rank are now shown at the top
• Better scoring in challenge mode - brawl and gang warfare now use time rather than CP, removed kingpin events as the scoring could often result in a draw
• Reduced the max cost of unlocking the daily challenge
• Fixed some iOS 7-related issues
• Fixed a bug where inputs were sometimes incorrectly detected as being released
• Fixed a bug where the rocket car was described as a remote controlled car in challenge mode
• Fixed a bug engine sounds on some vehicles when damaged
• Fixed a bug where sometimes a score was shown as "new personal best" when it wasn't
• Fixed intermittent crash when loading save data
• Added support for Flurry interstitials and video ads
• Switched to latest compiler for improved performance

• Added a daily challenge with global leaderboards
• Faster startup times
• Improved match randomisation
• Added more info to "other games" menu
• Fixed an intermittent crash triggered by task switching rapidly
• Fixed a bug where input was ignored sometimes
• Fixed a bug where audio was silent sometimes
• Fixed a bug where the intro would stall sometimes
• Fixed a bug where the player would continuously shoot sometimes
• Fixed a bug where game can't close a popup if the Game Center login pops up at the same time
• Fixed a bug where the player couldn't move until they re-pressed the screen after getting out of a vehicle using the "Touch 2" control scheme
• Added optional interstitial video ads
• Adverts are now shown after mp matches
• Made game not show two popups in a row sometimes
• Changed "XP to next rank" text

• Improved control tutorials
• You can now (optionally) earn coins by watching video ads in the free version
• Improved "other games" menu in the free version
• Changed how custom mode is unlocked in the free version
• The multiplayer menu now shows how far from the next rank you are
• Tweaked event prices and "thank you" reward in free version
• Fixed a bug where the game would be restarted unnecessarily when a web page was opened, or if the player was in the middle of an IAP during a task switch
• Made the helicopter take off automatically when using the "Touch 1" control scheme
• Fixed bug where multiplayer menu could be slightly offset when in sub menu in some circumstances
• The "tell a friend" message is now localised

• Renamed the free version to "Payback 2" and the full version to "Payback 2 Pro"
• Your progress is now automatically restored if you reinstall the game
• Added "tell a friend"
• Locked episodes now show how many stars are needed to unlock them
• Made the game slightly more generous when detecting bullet collisions
• Tweaked shotgun bullet spread pattern to be more distributed
• Tweaked coin awards in the free version
• Updated translations

• The free version's unlock structure has been completely reworked
• Fixed an intermittent crash when exiting an event
• Fixed a rare bug that could cause the player to shoot continuously
• Fixed an intermittent bug that could cause sound effects to be temporarily disabled
• Tweaked the difficulty of some levels

• Lots of new and improved sound effects
• Added a higher quality audio mixer
• The total number of players is now shown in the "play" menu
• Added a preview of custom mode in the free version
• Unlock prices are now shown on buttons in the free version
• Fixed a bug where the "retrieving leaderboard" message would show indefinitely if the player didn't have a Game Center account

• Added a multiplayer leaderboard
• Added different icons for each multiplayer rank
• Added an option to challenge your friends to beat your rank
• Added previews of locked events to free version
• Fixed handling of game center and playlist names with non-ASCII characters
• Reduced memory usage on iPad 1 to prevent crashes

• Added a ranking system to multiplayer
• Added an option to choose your playlist
• More events are now initially unlocked in free version
• Made free version award extra mp time for coming back each day
• Various text changes

• Redesigned icon
• More events unlocked initially in free version
• Added "more games" screen
• Fixed mute-related issues
• Various text changes

• Added $5M and $10M targets to rampage mode
• Stopped app sometimes crashing on task switch
• More improvements to multiplayer connectivity
• Removed an invisible wall from one level
• Increased maximum number of fingers tracked to avoid potential issues

• Added alternative touch controls for vehicles
• Fixed multiplayer connectivity issues
• Made touch controls work when driving a remote controlled car
• Fixed some typos in the Spanish translation
• Fixed issue where touch input sometimes didn't work

• Initial iOS release