Payday 3’s shaky launch has the developers “looking at the possibility of some sort of offline mode”
Starbreeze will also evaluate “a new partner for matchmaking services”
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Payday 3developer Starbreeze Studios has confirmed that it’s looking towards making the new heist shooter “less dependent on online services”, following the constantserver issues and matchmaking problemsencountered by players from launch.
In anupdate postshared by Starbreeze yesterday (Monday, September 25), the studio acknowledged that “matchmaking infrastructure has not performed as tested and expected”. It stated that an “unforeseen error” made the game unable to handle the number of players attempting to dive in at launch, and, although a new version of its matchmaking server software was later rolled out, Starbreeze’s matchmaking partner introduced another new update on Sunday (September 24) which, once again, made the infrastructure unstable.
The post continued, confirming that in the long term, the studio will be “evaluating a new partner for matchmaking services and makingPayday 3less dependent on online services”.
As PC Gamerreports, over on Twitter, Starbreeze Studios’ CEO, Tobias Sjögren, also touched on the title’s potential move away from being an always-online game, and wrote: “[It’s] been communicated by Andreas for example that [the] team is looking at [the] possibility to [sic] add some sort of offline mode.”
Recommendation; ”Game pass” is better than ”hard pass”… 😉Jokes aside, been communicated by Andreas for example that team is looking at possibility to add some sort of offline mode.September 24, 2023
In the official statement, Sjögren said: “We are disappointed in the issues our playerbase has faced during our launch weekend, but we are confident in our core product and the quality ofPayday 3– and all available metrics point to it. We have a lot of diligent and consistent work ahead of us to regain community trust, but we will work hard to do it.”
Today (September 26),Payday 3was temporarily taken offline in order to “improve server and matchmaking stability”. It’s set to gooffline againon Friday (September 29) at 2am ET / 11pm PT / 7am BST / 5pm AEDT for approximately three hours.
As it stands, most players affected by Payday 3’s server issues probably wouldn’t consider the title to be one of thebest FPS games. If you’re looking for something else to play with your friends, though, be sure to take a look at our list of thebest co-op games.
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