Starbreeze have delayed for the second time a very much needed patch for PayDay 3. The game’s always-online requirement made it unplayable for many at launch as servers ran in to “an unforeseen error”.
02.10.2023 - 10:37 / eurogamer.net / Tobias Sjögren
PayDay 3's matchmaking issues have been fixed, developer Starbreeze has announced.
In a new release, the developer stated scheduled maintenance had successfully addressed the server issues that plagued Payday 3's launch and prevented players from actually being able to play the game. Starbreeze said matchmaking is now «stable» and has «good performance».
In addition, the developer has said it will now «intensify» Payday 3's commercial activities, having put these on pause as it tried to sort out those matchmaking issues. This will include an update, due early this month, that will see «200+» quality of life improvements added across platforms.
Here is a summary of what Payday 3 players can expect in the coming months:
In addition to the above, Starbreeze said it will also be launching platform-specific updates.
«First and foremost, I would like to thank our players for the patience they have shown us. Our community is the engine that drives both our games and our company forward,» Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren said in a statement shared with Eurogamer.
«I don't really need to repeat that this was not the start we wanted, but at the same time, our business model is a marathon and not a sprint and we will tirelessly continue to build Payday 3 bigger and better to deliver the greatest possible value for our players.»
Soon after Payday 3's release, the studio said it had been left «disappointed» by how its latest launch had gone.
At this time, Starbreeze placed a fair amount of the blame on a third-party matchmaking partner. This prompted the developer to state it will look into «evaluating a new partner for matchmaking services» in the future. It also plans to find a way to make «Payday 3 less dependent on online services» as part of its long-term plans for the series.
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Starbreeze have delayed for the second time a very much needed patch for PayDay 3. The game’s always-online requirement made it unplayable for many at launch as servers ran in to “an unforeseen error”.
Almost a month after Payday 3's disastrous launch, its highly-anticipated first patch, which is said to include over 200 quality of life improvements, has been delayed a second time with no estimated release date.
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If Starbreeze themselves were actually a Payday 3 heisting team I suspect they'd be verging on putting money back into the vault at this stage - retracing their steps with bulging duffel bags, while apologising to security guards not so much for the whole bank robbery thing as for smashing so many utilities on their way out. Shortly after announcing plans to make the four-player PvE shooter less online-dependent, the developers have announced that they're also reworking Payday 3's much-reviled progression system.
was finally released on all current-gen consoles and PC — and was included as part of the main Xbox, PC, and Ultimate Game Pass tiers — on September 21, 2023. The title was highly anticipated by fans of the heist shooter series who had waited just over a decade since the release of its predecessor,, but unfortunately, it has suffered from one of the worst launches of the year so far. Developer Starbreeze Studios seems intent on turning things around, though, promising over 200 improvements are on the way.
Following a disastrous launch which led to Payday 3 nosediving to a Mostly Negative rating on Steam, developer Starbreeze has promised over 200 quality-of-life changes this month, as well as further improvements scheduled in a series of patches set to release throughout the rest of the year.
To say that Payday 3, Starbreeze’s long-awaited follow-up in the heist shooter series, had problems would be an understatement. Matchmaking issues, lackluster solo play that’s always online, the list goes on (check out our review for more details). Nevertheless, it has proven popular. The publisher announced 3,167,938 unique players for September 2023.
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