Payday 3: Starbreeze Says Matchmaking Points Mounted, First Replace Hits This Month

Payday 3 lastly launched final month, greater than six years after its preliminary reveal in 2017. We fairly loved it, and you could find out why in Recreation Informer’s Payday 3 evaluation. Regardless of our enjoyment, many gamers encountered extreme matchmaking points that made it robust to play the sport given its always-online nature. Now, slightly below two weeks after the sport’s launch, developer Starbeeze Studios says the matchmaking points are mounted. 

The staff has additionally revealed the sport’s first replace will launch this month. Plus, Starbreeze says greater than 3.1 million distinctive gamers performed the sport final month, with the height concurrent participant rely hitting 124,254. Starbreeze “will now intensify the industrial actions round Payday 3, after partially pausing these in the course of the earlier week,” it says, with plans for the primary post-launch replace to go stay early this month. 

Within the coming months, the studio has updates deliberate to deal with content material, quality-of-life enhancements, bug fixes, and new performance. This is a take a look at the deliberate updates timeline: 

• October: 200+ quality-of-life enhancements for all platforms
• October/November: quality-of-life enhancements, new content material, and new performance
• November: quality-of-life enhancements, new content material, and new performance
• Winter 2023: The DLC “Syntax Error” on sale (together with in Silver and Gold editions of the sport)

Starbreeze says along with these deliberate updates, platform-specific updates may even hit the sport. 

“Before everything, I want to thank our gamers for the persistence they’ve proven us,” Starbreeze Leisure CEO Tobias Sjögren writes in an replace. “Our group is the engine that drives each our video games and our firm ahead. I do not actually need to repeat that this was not the beginning we needed, however on the similar time, our enterprise mannequin is a marathon and never a dash and we’ll tirelessly proceed to construct Payday 3 larger and higher to ship the best attainable worth for our gamers.” 

For extra, learn Recreation Informer’s Payday 3 evaluation. 

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