VanillaHUD Plus is cited as a 'Compilation HUD' mod, which collects popular standalone HUD mods together into one package.

While not essential, it can dramatically improve your experience.

Pocohud and Additional PocoHud Trackers is an incredibly popular fan made HUD mod.

Closed Captions and Subtitles implements Closed Captions and Subtitles for character dialogue, such as players calling to each other.

These fixes have been officially implemented within the game in the past and the mods were later updated to remove those said fixes, both are still recommended.

The Fixes and Tweakdata Fixed is a collection of fixes for a lot of base game bugs and crashes.

BeardLib, A large library that assists in mod creation, and is essential for the majority of mods to work in Payday 2.

SuperBLT, the successor to BLT-Hook and BLT4Linux, is essential for having multiple mods in Payday 2, and is designed to be both Windows and Linux-compatible.

There are multiple ways to improve the way Payday 2 looks, using an injector such as SweetFX will also help.

9.8 Run the game at screen refresh rate.

9.4 Issues with mouse movement near the top of the screen in fullscreen mode.

9.3 Not fitting fullscreen despite running at 1080p/Black screen when selecting 1080p.

9.2 Main Menu gets excessively brighter upon launching the game.

9.1 Game crashes with memory issue in crash log.

3.3 Transfer save data from base game to VR beta.

Payday 2 mod override