Highlights
- Payday 3’s next update will introduce quickplay and player merging to improve the game’s multiplayer experience.
- The addition of quickplay will allow players to easily join heists that match their desired difficulty settings.
- Player merging will let players remain in a party after a heist if they wish to continue with the same team.
The next update for Payday 3 will 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.
While Payday 3 ended 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 that Payday 3 will get two new multiplayer features.
Payday 3 Is Still Having Serious Problems
Starbreeze Studios, the developers of Payday 3, confirms that the title is still experiencing a raft of issues some months after its release.
In a recent blog post, Starbreeze Studios stated that Payday 3 will 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 many popular 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 for Payday 3, which is considered by many to be one of the most 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 in Payday 2, to be a more elegant solution, as it will use existing systems that players are already familiar with. With many Payday 3 players opting to return to Payday 2, reintroducing already familiar elements could push people to give the series’ latest installment another try.
Payday 3 has struggled to retain its player base as 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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Payday 3 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Overkill Software that was released in September 2023.
The game is set after the end of its predecessor, Payday 2, and features the original cast of characters from 2011’s Payday: The Heist.
- Released
- September 21, 2023
- Metascore
- 67