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Highlight Loot & Key Items
"Give key items, loose loot, bags and Gage packages their own outline colours in PAYDAY 2."
How do I install Highlight Loot & Key Items?
Download the free ProjectMods desktop app, then install Highlight Loot & Key Items for PAYDAY 2 in one click.
</>What does Highlight Loot & Key Items do?
PAYDAY 2 draws the same orange outline around doors, drills, keycards, jewelry and loot bags, so the things you came for are easy to miss. Highlight Loot & Key Items gives four kinds of pickup their own outline colour and can mark two of them with a distance marker. Highlight Key Items turns the outline of keycards, crowbars and other mission equipment you pick up pink. Highlight Loose Loot turns loose cash and jewelry cyan. Highlight Bag Loot turns loot you can bag, and bags lying on the floor, green. Highlight Gage Packages turns Gage packages yellow. Each switch works on its own, so you can show only what you're looking for. Add Distance Markers puts a marker with the distance in metres on every highlighted key item and Gage package. The marker follows the edge of your screen when the item is behind you and disappears when the item is picked up. Loose loot and bag loot get the outline only. The mod recolours the game's own outline, so an item is outlined where the game would outline it and still turns white when you aim at it. A few items the game doesn't outline at all keep their normal look. Body bags are left alone. Everything is drawn on your screen only. Nothing is sent to the host or other players, so it works solo, as host and as a guest. Turn a switch off and the orange outline is back at once.
</>What is Highlight Loot & Key Items?
Highlight Loot & Key Items is a PAYDAY 2 mod with five switches. Four of them recolour the game's orange outline on keycards and other mission equipment, loose loot, bag loot and Gage packages so each kind stands out. The fifth adds on-screen markers that show how far away the rarer pickups are. Outlines and markers are shown on your screen only, and the normal outline returns when a switch goes off.
</>Common questions about Highlight Loot & Key Items
Can other players see the outlines or markers?
No. The outline colour is changed on your own copy of the item and the markers are added to your own HUD. Nothing about them is sent to the host or the other players, so the mod works solo, as host and as a guest.
Which items count as key items?
Key items are the things you pick up that go into your mission equipment, such as keycards and crowbars. The mod finds them by the way the game handles the pickup, so mission equipment in other heists is covered too. A few pickups that the game shows without any outline keep their normal look, and the key items among them still get a marker when Add Distance Markers is on.
Why do loose loot and bag loot get no distance markers?
Those two kinds often sit close together in large numbers, and a marker on every piece would cover the screen. They get the coloured outline only. Keycards, other mission equipment and Gage packages are spread out and few, so a marker on each one stays easy to read. A marker appears only while the highlight switch for its kind is turned on.
How do I set it up, and how do I get the normal outlines back?
Start PAYDAY 2 through the launcher, turn the mod on and switch on the kinds you want to see. You can change the switches in the middle of a heist: items already in the level are recoloured within about a second, and items that become available later in the heist are recoloured the same way. To go back, turn a switch off. The items of that kind get the game's own outline colour at once and their markers are removed. Turning the whole mod off in the launcher does the same for every switch. Nothing is written to your save, so nothing is left over afterwards.
Does it show items through walls?
The mod recolours the outline the game already draws, so an item is outlined in the same places and from the same distance as before, only in a colour that stands out. The distance markers work differently: a marker stays on screen wherever the item is, with the distance in metres, and slides to the edge of the screen when the item is behind you.
What options does Highlight Loot & Key Items include?
Highlight Key Items
Gives keycards, crowbars and other mission equipment you pick up a pink outline in place of the game's orange one.
Highlight Gage Packages
Gives every Gage package in the heist a yellow outline in place of the game's orange one.
Add Distance Markers
Adds a marker with the distance in metres on each highlighted key item and Gage package. Needs Highlight Key Items or Highlight Gage Packages turned on.
Highlight Bag Loot
Gives loot you can bag, and bags lying on the floor, a green outline. Body bags keep their normal look.
Highlight Loose Loot
Gives loose cash and jewelry a cyan outline in place of the game's orange one.
Highlight Loot & Key Items for PAYDAY 2 recolours the game's outlines: key items pink, loose loot cyan, bag loot green and Gage packages yellow. A fifth switch adds distance markers to the pink and yellow ones. It changes only your own screen and works solo and online.
System Requirements
What features does Highlight Loot & Key Items include?
- Highlight Key Items: keycards, crowbars and other mission equipment you pick up get a pink outline
- Highlight Loose Loot: loose cash and jewelry get a cyan outline
- Highlight Bag Loot: loot you can bag and bags on the floor get a green outline, body bags stay as they are
- Highlight Gage Packages: every Gage package in the heist gets a yellow outline
- Add Distance Markers: a marker with the distance in metres on each highlighted key item and Gage package
- Shown on your screen only, and the game's orange outline comes back when a switch goes off
Best For
- Spot the keycard on a desk in a room full of orange outlines
- Collect every Gage package in a heist by following the markers
- Clear a jewelry store without leaving loose loot behind
- Keep track of the bags you threw during a loud heist
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