Large numbers of Payday 3 Steam players have abandoned the heist FPS, which now sits more than 100 places beneath predecessor Payday 2 on the most-played chart.
Damn shame. At its core, it has the potential to be a really fun game! It just started off as an absolute shit show with far less QoL features than it’s predecessor had. Payday 2 got several hundred updates over its decade of activity, so the game will get better over time. The new companies in charge, Starbreeze and Deep Silver, really shit the bed on their decision making, though. There’s a lot of absolutely dumb shit involved with launch-day PD3.
Hell, there was supposed to be their 1st patch coming out today, that was pushed back from the 10th. It’s been pushed back again without even a hint of a new deadline.
I can give them credit for basically redesigning everything on a whole new engine. But a lot of the new issues they have that PD2 didn’t have are entirely from their top-level decisions. They wanted always-online crossplay, but haven’t gotten anywhere near an infrastructure that provides the same capabilities that PD2 had. There’s no built in voice chat. Matchmaking is limited to picking specific heists at specific difficulties. There’s no real way in-game to get in touch with another player you just met.
For a game that’s all about playing with people, or makes it a lot harder to get them together, especially compared to the previous game.
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Damn shame. At its core, it has the potential to be a really fun game! It just started off as an absolute shit show with far less QoL features than it’s predecessor had. Payday 2 got several hundred updates over its decade of activity, so the game will get better over time. The new companies in charge, Starbreeze and Deep Silver, really shit the bed on their decision making, though. There’s a lot of absolutely dumb shit involved with launch-day PD3.
Hell, there was supposed to be their 1st patch coming out today, that was pushed back from the 10th. It’s been pushed back again without even a hint of a new deadline.
Payday 2 is the standard baseline that payday 3 should have launched at.
I can give them credit for basically redesigning everything on a whole new engine. But a lot of the new issues they have that PD2 didn’t have are entirely from their top-level decisions. They wanted always-online crossplay, but haven’t gotten anywhere near an infrastructure that provides the same capabilities that PD2 had. There’s no built in voice chat. Matchmaking is limited to picking specific heists at specific difficulties. There’s no real way in-game to get in touch with another player you just met.
For a game that’s all about playing with people, or makes it a lot harder to get them together, especially compared to the previous game.