Starbreeze Studios has finally released the first major patch for Payday 3 after almost a month since its initial promised date.
16.10.2023 - 20:53 / pcgamer.com / Tobias Sjögren
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.
«We’re sorry for the lack of communication regarding the first patch,» Starbreeze community and influencer manager Elisabeth Elvestad wrote on the game's Discord. «We have identified some issues that need to be fixed before we can bring it to you, but rest assured that this is the main priority for our teams.
»We're spending additional time revamping our patching process to ensure that we can have a steady cadence and momentum with patches going forward. We are careful with giving you an ETA right now, as we want to make sure we can deliver before we do so. Please bear with us. The patch (and more news) are coming."
Payday 3 players have been living on the promise of the patch ever since it was slated for the first week of October. Reports of matchmaking errors, empty lobbies, cheaters, and frustrations with the challenge-based progression system have continued in the interim.
The news of another delay for the patch has left many players losing patience with Starbreeze.
«Games only get one launch and they thoroughly shit the bed with this one oh my god,» Reddit user Mahoganytooth wrote in a reply to a post about the delay. «I'm sure they'll make the game better and more successful like they did with Payday 2, but they're building themselves their own hill to climb.»
«I truly believe you can turn this game around, but I believe it less and less with each delay,» Hank Garretson wrote in a reply to the announcement on Twitter (X).
The worst issues with Payday 3 were cleaned up with server maintenance early on, but players still find the co-op FPS lacking compared to Payday 2. One of the biggest criticisms is Payday 3's online-only requirement, which forces solo players to enter a queue before every mission. Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren said earlier this month the team is «looking at [the] possibility to add some sort of offline mode.» Work on an offline mode for Payday 3 hasn't actually begun at this point, however.
If Payday 3's roadmap hasn't been pushed forward from the delay, it will receive another quality of life patch in November and its first DLC, Syntax Error, before the end of the year. Three more DLCs are planned to release throughout 2024.
Meanwhile, on Steam, 60% of the 31,000 user reviews for Payday 3 are negative, with fewer and fewer trickling in as the concurrent player count drops into the thousands. Payday 2, however, has returned to its spot in the top 50 most played games on the platform with around 31,000 players in-game right now.
Starbreeze Studios has finally released the first major patch for Payday 3 after almost a month since its initial promised date.
Payday 3's long-delayed first patch is finally here, with developer Starbreeze addressing what it calls a "massive" number of issues with the cooperative heist shooter.
After multiple delays, Starbreeze Studios’ Payday 3 has finally received its first patch with bug fixes and quality-of-life changes. It provides items available on pre-order and specific to Editions for all players while updating aim assist for PS5. Crashes that occurred when answering a radio, vaulting before the heist ends and from multiple explosions have also been fixed.
Payday 3's launch was rough, with long queues awaiting would-be heisters in the always-online game, and issues with progression and absent systems awaiting those who could login. Starbreeze Studios have now begun the process of making good on promised fixes to those criticisms, with patch 1.0.1 live now. It mostly includes "minor fixes", but lots of them.
It took a whole lot longer than anyone expected (or reasonably thought possible), but the first Payday 3 patch is finally here. Developer Starbreeze says the update makes «a massive amount of fixes to make your heisting a smoother experience,» and that the instability issues players have been dealing with since the game launched in September are finally fixed.
Payday 3 hasn't exactly had the smoothest of launches; matchmaking issues, online-only requirements, and a hugely unpopular challenge-focused progression system immediately soured its arrival for players back in September, and a highly anticipated first patch promising «200+» quality of life improvements has been repeatedly delayed. Finally though, after much waiting, the heist-shooter's 1.01 update is here on all platforms.
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Co-op heist shooter Payday 3’s launch has gone so badly that more people are playing its 10-year-old predecessor on Steam than its sequel. Now, developer Starbreeze has apologised for its lack of communication, and explained the holdup with Payday 3’s first patch.
One month after launch, Payday 3's PC player count has dropped to around 10 times less than that of its predecessor, Payday 2.
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”.
Payday 3 developer Starbreeze has apologised for its lack of communication surrounding the game's highly anticipated first patch, which promises to address the disastrous launch.