Notoriety: A PAYDAY® Experience event
Notoriety Shady Contracts: Schedule, Start Times & Next Countdown
Shady Contracts is the weekly job drop in Notoriety: A PAYDAY® Experience, Moonstone Games’ co-op heist shooter. Every Friday a fresh batch of anonymous, limited-time contracts lands for crews to clear before the window closes, and it has become one of the fixtures regulars build their week around. The game itself is no small corner of Roblox: it has drawn over half a billion visits across its lifetime—about 560,000,000 and counting—sits on more than about 2,800,000 favorites, and usually keeps a few thousand players in active rounds, about about 2,400 at the moment.
This runs on a steady rhythm rather than as a one-off: a new set of contracts appears on the same day each week, stays open for a short stretch, then clears until the next cycle. The next run and the usual start time are on the card below, so you can plan a session around it.
Notoriety: A PAYDAY® Experience
Shady Contracts
Oct 23, 12:00 PM ET
Next in 4d 2h 55m
- Fridays, 12:00 PM ET
Runs weekly.
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How often Shady Contracts runs
Shady Contracts runs weekly, opening every Friday at 12:00 PM ET, and it has come around 5 times so far. The next set opens Friday, October 23 at 12 PM ET. Because it lands at a single weekly time, the one slot is what matters—here is how that noon-Eastern start converts across the major regions so players anywhere can line it up:
| Region | Local start time (Friday) |
|---|---|
| US Eastern | 12:00 PM |
| US Pacific | 9:00 AM |
| UK | 5:00 PM |
| Central Europe | 6:00 PM |
| India | 9:30 PM |
| Japan | 1:00 AM (Saturday) |
| Eastern Australia | 3:00 AM (Saturday) |
What happens in Shady Contracts
The premise leans into mystery. Every so often the crew receives a run of anomalous jobs with no named client and no explanation of who is behind them—only the promise that the payouts are worth the trouble. The hook is the clock: these contracts stay open for a short duration and then vanish, with no guarantee of when a similar batch will show up again. In practice that means:
- A fresh set of time-limited heist contracts to clear as a crew.
- Rewards tied to finishing jobs inside the open window.
- A short run time, so it pays to jump in rather than put it off.
As the in-game briefing frames it, “time is of the essence”—the event rewards crews who show up ready to go rather than those who wait.
Tips for catching Shady Contracts
- Pick the window that falls in your evening or afternoon from the table above, then set a reminder—the noon-ET start is late evening in India and overnight across East Asia and Australia.
- Line up a crew in advance. The jobs are built for co-op and the short runtime rewards a group that is ready at the start.
- If you miss a week, don’t sweat it—the slot comes back next Friday, so there’s always another cycle to catch.
How Shady Contracts fits Notoriety’s schedule
Shady Contracts sits alongside the game’s larger, occasional drops. Right now the seasonal Spooky event is live, and earlier beats like the July Update, the Valentine’s Update, the Meadowland Bank job, and a Skills, Balance & Weapons pass have each come and gone. Where those are one-time content updates, Shady Contracts is the dependable weekly beat between them—a reason to log in on Fridays even when no big patch is on the horizon.
Shady Contracts FAQ
What time is the Notoriety Shady Contracts event in my timezone?
It starts at 12:00 PM ET on Friday, which is 9:00 AM on the US West Coast, 5:00 PM in the UK, 6:00 PM in central Europe, 9:30 PM in India, and the early hours of Saturday (around 1:00 AM in Japan, 3:00 AM in eastern Australia).
How often is the Notoriety Shady Contracts event?
Weekly—a new set of contracts opens every Friday at 12:00 PM ET and stays live for a short window before clearing until the following week.
When is the next Notoriety Shady Contracts event?
The next run opens Friday, October 23 at 12 PM ET; the exact countdown is on the card above.
What do you do in Notoriety Shady Contracts?
You and your crew clear a batch of anonymous, time-limited heist contracts for their payouts before the window closes—the jobs have no named client and a short runtime, so the draw is high-value rewards for finishing quickly.
Last updated October 19. We update this page as the schedule changes.