Summary
The next update forPayday 3will finally add quickplay and player merging to the game, developer Starbreeze Studios announced seven months after the troubled shooter was released. The previous update, 1.1.1, for the Deep Silver-published game introduced more than 300 bug fixes, a new hardcore challenge, and improved gameplay performance.
WhilePayday 3ended up selling well following its launch last September, the game suffered from numerous issues, including server failures, bugs, and missing features. Developer Starbreeze Studios has promised to make its Unreal Engine 4-powered title meet the expectations of players, releasing updates that have tried to address the game’s many problems. For its next patch, the Stockholm-based studio has announced thatPayday 3will get two new multiplayer features.
In a recent blog post, Starbreeze Studios stated thatPayday 3will finally get quickplay in the game’s next update as part of the company’s ongoing Operation Medic Bag initiative. This should allow anyone to quickly join a heist, with players being able to hop into any open lobbies or ongoing games that fit their preferred difficulty settings. Starbreeze Studios explained that it wanted quickplay - a staple in manypopular competitive multiplayer games- to get people into the kind of game they want with just the press of a button.
Aside from quickplay, the next update forPayday 3, which is considered by many to be one of themost disappointing games of 2023, will also add player merging to the title. This feature will allow people to stay in a party following a heist, helping them find like-minded players with whom they can continue to do heists.
Payday 3 Features Coming in April 2024
After releasing the first iteration of quickplay, Starbreeze Studios plans to build on it with a new version that will either be a standalone system with filters, or a part of the Crime.Net-style server browser expected to come out in 2024. According to the developer, some may find the latter, which is based on the Crime.Net contract system introduced inPayday 2, to be a more elegant solution, as it will use existing systems that players are already familiar with. With manyPayday 3players opting to return toPayday 2, reintroducing already familiar elements could push people to give the series' latest installment another try.
The goal is to help players find like-minded heisters with whom to commit even more crimes!
Payday 3has struggled to retain its player baseas a result of the shooter’s many issues, and the game peaked at around 400 concurrent players over the past week, data provided by analytics website SteamDB showed. In comparison,Payday 3’s predecessor,Payday 2,reached more than 34,000 concurrent players within the same period.
Payday 3
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Step out of retirement back into the life of crime in the shoes of the Payday Gang, the envy of their peers and the nightmare of law-enforcement wherever they go. Several years after the crew’s reign of terror over Washington DC has ended, they assemble once again to deal with the threat that roused them out of early retirement.The legendary Payday Crew, dreaded by the law and underworld alike, is back. Ripped from their peaceful retirement to rejoin the criminal world by a new threat, one born from the chaos the Crew left in their wake. In order to identify and crush this new threat, the Crew is leaving their Washington DC roots behind them and moving to New York City. A new location will bring with it new challenges, but also new opportunities for a heister with a plan.A professional heister knows it takes planning, hard work and a good amount of luck in order to execute a successful heist. In PAYDAY 3 the choice is put in the hands of the players, deciding how to tackle the heist, whether you sneak or go in guns blazing, whether you let your hostages go or keep them around as pawns, whether you go at it alone or bring friends. The choices are endless and in your hands, they will vastly change how the game plays.
