Rather than having swappable classes, the game uses a more refined character class system you spend skill points to level up different class trees that contain different abilities, allowing you to mix-and-match abilities. Like its predecessor, PAYDAY 2 involves hitting a target for huge cash bonuses, and carries a lot of similarities: guys in clown masks, tropes and ideas borrowed from heist movies, and core mechanics that mirror the Left 4 Dead series.

Eventually, the original Hoxton was brought back to the fold through a prison break, and his replacement was renamed 'Houston' to avoid confusion. After fan outcry, the voice actors returned, save for Chains ( who remained the same character in-story) and Hoxton ( who was replaced in-story by Dallas's brother). This wasn't the case initially, due to a complicated situation involving the original voice actors being replaced. The game follows the same crew of hardened criminals Dallas, Chains, Wolf, and Hoxton who have moved on to bigger and better heists in Washington, D.C.

Payday 3 characters