Co-op heist shooter Payday 3’s launch has gone so badly that extra persons are taking part in its 10-year-old predecessor on Steam than its sequel. Now, developer Starbreeze has apologised for its lack of communication, and defined the holdup with Payday 3’s first patch.
“We’ve been quiet over the previous couple of days, and for that we apologise,” started the assertion printed on the Payday web site. “It’s not simple to speak when we’ve not been capable of supply any updates on the one massive subject that’s on everybody’s thoughts proper now: when are the patches coming to Payday 3? Despite our silence, we need to guarantee you all that the group remains to be engaged on our principal precedence, which is to get the patch we promised out to you, and to verify our patching course of permits us to proceed publishing them at a gentle cadence sooner or later.”
Starbreeze went on to clarify that Payday 3’s first patch is at the moment going via a testing and certification course of with PlayStation proprietor Sony and Xbox proprietor Microsoft, which is necessary with the intention to preserve parity between all platforms.
The delay, Starbreeze mentioned, has to do with the invention of an error that risked participant development being wiped.
“The cause it has taken so lengthy to get this primary patch prepared may be very lengthy and sophisticated, however the quick model is that we found essential errors with our replace pipeline shortly after the sport launched,” Starbreeze mentioned. “There was a big threat to participant development being wiped if we didn’t tackle this and ensured a stable check setting.”
Starbreeze mentioned it’s trying to enhance Payday 3’s development system, which gamers have criticised, “to steadiness each the problem system in addition to providing infamy factors for every heist.” Expect extra on this quickly.
“Once we will constantly ship patches, the group may even ship on our plans for extra content material for the sport,” Starbreeze added. Free content material updates are anticipated earlier than the top of the 12 months.
“Again, we apologise for our silence. We see your frustration and anger, and we will guarantee you this isn’t a scenario we need to be in. The group is working laborious on a recreation that shall be supported for years to come back and making Payday 3 the brand new felony daybreak!”
Payday 3’s launch was plagued with server points that compelled Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren to apologise. “We are so sorry that the infrastructure did not maintain up as anticipated, and though it is unattainable to organize for each state of affairs — we should always be capable of do higher,” he mentioned.
Over a month after Payday 3’s September 21 launch and the patch promising to handle these points remains to be unavailable. Starbreeze boasted Payday 3 had 3.1 million gamers as of October 2, however this quantity has dwindled, no less than on Steam. According to SteamDB, Payday 3’s 24-hour peak is at the moment 3,234 customers, considerably decrease than Payday 2’s 36,538. The third recreation would not even crack Steam’s 100 hottest video games listing, falling under the likes of Cookie Clicker, Bloons TD 6, and Russian Fishing 4.
Starbreeze blamed its third-party matchmaking companion for server points at launch and mentioned it will look into making an offline mode (as Payday 3 requires a continuing on-line connection). “We have loads of diligent and constant work forward of us to regain group belief, however we’ll work laborious to do it,” Sjögren mentioned.
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