Payday 3 Has Had a Really Rough Launch Week
Payday 3 launched earlier this week with three days of early access to those who shelled out some extra money and yesterday for standard edition owners and Xbox Game Pass subscribers. Unfortunately, the week has been filled with issues. On day one, PlayStation 5 players who paid $30 extra to play early wasted one day of early access because the wrong version of the game was released, resulting in players getting an out of date build. Starbreeze stated that this was out of their control and Sony was working to fix the matter. A day later, the correct build of the game was pushed to PlayStation players. PC players have also reported issues with frame rate being inconsistent and prompting poor performance.
Payday 3 Matchmaking Issues
Matters became much worse when the game was released for all players on September 21st. Per SteamDB, the game peaked at over 77,000 concurrent Steam players and was the best-seller on the platform, but just over 24 hours after launch, the game currently has just over 7,000 concurrent players on Steam. The reason is because the matchmaking basically doesn't work. Servers appear to be getting slammed and since this is an "always online" game, you can't do anything besides the tutorial if matchmaking doesn't work. Even those trying to play with a full squad in a private match or friends only lobby will be stuck in an extended searching for match screen. I personally spent about 20 minutes last night looking for a match with two of my friends and we eventually gave up and got off the game.
On the morning of September 22nd, the Payday Twitter account reported that the issues were resolved. Unfortunately, things went back to being broken shortly after this and as of writing, there continues to be a matchmaking issue. It's pretty frustrating to see and has once again caused players to demand games drop the always-online functionality so they can at least play with AI in games when there are server issues. Otherwise, as we're currently seeing, there is no incentive for anyone to play the game and player counts will drop rapidly. Hopefully, things will be fixed soon so players can enjoy the game over the weekend, but it remains to be seen.
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Source: https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/payday-3-matchmaking-server-issues-status-update/
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GhostPosted:
Couldn't be as bad as cyberpunk lmfao
So many dramatic people when it comes to new releases.
So many dramatic people when it comes to new releases.
tO0tPosted:
2018 Not from what i have seen. Some of the videos I have watched make it look like the best payday and people are having alot of fun playing it
It was completely broken for the first 3 days after launch, then again this weekend. Sure people played the beta and had a day or 2 this week where it worked, but it was actually quite sad how poorly matchmaking worked for its launch week. (Couldn't even play solo)
QTPosted:
Not from what i have seen. Some of the videos I have watched make it look like the best payday and people are having alot of fun playing it
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