Uhhhh frankly dont know if I will submit any times now. its kind of a pain in the ass to have to uninstall and reinstall all my skin mods if I want to play to have fun, or run for a new time. Disappointing, but what can you do beyond just put the runs on youtube and call it good.

We understand your frustrations, and i hope you understand we didn't make this decision lightly. The reason we leaned towards this rule is to help improve competitive integrity between different runners, especially across PC/Console platforms - as for example - a custom FOV mod would allow players to gather more visual information than a player without a custom FOV mod.

With the current state of modding being up in the air until starbreeze writes up their modding policy - we will continue to monitor the situation regarding mods and refine this rule as more time passes. Remember, rules can always be tweaked down the line! :)

yeah. im just depressed af now. i put like 30/40 hours into grinding times and getting my runs ready to submit, and they just auto get disqualified. feels bad. My little blahaj lootbag has revealed itself to be a burdon i must carry LMAO

If you have a good time or you want to speedrun the game, I don't see why you wouldn't just disable the mods?

What about mods that only affect like some sounds or the hud?

Thing with mods is that you can hide literally anything in them. Especially since modding is apparently incredibly easy compared to payday 2. I think requiring people to run vanilla experience for speedruns is a good idea. Keep in mind that not everyone will know how to mod payday 3 and there are/will be mods that give advantage to people that do know (Like InfoHUDs for example) EDIT: Also, keep in mind that console players will have a harder time/not be able to mod the game.