There were a lot of tutorials on how to mod PayDay 3 for the Epic or Steam versions. From the commentary I saw, there were a lot of people saying that the Game Pass/Microsoft Store/UWP version could not be modded. I found a bit of a workaround to allow you to mod it just the same as all of the other versions.

Finding the PayDay Directory:

Open up a new Command Prompt as Administrator (normal user won’t work) Navigate to cd <DRIVE WHERE PD3 GamePass is Installed>:\WindowsApps in my case this was D:\WindowsApps type in dir

You should get an example that looks similar to this:

10/16/2023 08:50 AM <JUNCTION> DeepSilver.39921928C90D0_1.0.8.0_x64__hmv7qcest37me

Take note of this directory name, you will need it for later Open a new File Explorer and put in the path that you found earlier in my case it was D:\WindowsApps\DeepSilver.39921928C90D0_1.0.8.0_x64__hmv7qcest37me

Creating the Mods Folder:

You should see the Engine, PAYDAY3 folder in there Navigate to Content\Paks as you normally would for Steam/Epic versions, create the ~mods folder and insert your mods like normal

Creating the Launch Shortcut:

Next go up 2 directories, and enter the Binaries\WinGDK directory, so for me this is D:\WindowsApps\DeepSilver.39921928C90D0_1.0.8.0_x64__hmv7qcest37me\PAYDAY3\Binaries\WinGDK

Right Click and drag and drop on your desktop the PAYDAY3Client-WinGDK-Shipping.exe and create a new shortcut via Create Shortcut Here

Right click on the shortcut -> Properties, at the end of the Target: path add a space and -openfilelog

Double click the shortcut and PD3 should open, this is what mine looks like for example (the dx11 flag can be ignored, I have it for preventing crashing reasons) D:\WindowsApps\DeepSilver.39921928C90D0_1.0.8.0_x64__hmv7qcest37me\PAYDAY3\Binaries\WinGDK\PAYDAY3Client-WinGDK-Shipping.exe -dx11 -fileopenlog

Enjoy 🙂

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