On Sept. 24, Starbreeze CEO Tobias Sjögren mentioned an offline mode for Payday 3 is doubtlessly being added to the sport.
Since its launch final week, Payday 3 has encountered an absolute flood of server errors, and followers haven’t held again on expressing their frustration. Whereas this information does deliver a ray of hope, our prayers haven’t been answered simply but.
Sjögren’s assertion was written in response to a streamer who mentioned the sport went “from a purchase to a tough go” when it was introduced Payday 3 can be on-line solely. In his response, Sjögren jokingly advised Sport Go over onerous go earlier than writing. “Jokes apart, been communicated by Andreas for instance that workforce is risk so as to add some type of offline mode,” he mentioned on X (previously Twitter.)
The individual Sjögren was referencing within the tweet is Andreas Häll Penninger—the lead producer for Payday 3. We couldn’t discover the place Penninger apparently communicated a workforce is wanting right into a solo mode for the sport, so maybe it’s not on-line. Regardless, we’re prepared to take the CEO’s phrase for it.
To be completely candid, Payday 3’s servers have been an absolute dumpster fireplace since launch. The sport itself is nice enjoyable, however thus far, you’re rolling cube which might be loaded towards you each time you attempt to bounce right into a heist. After all, offline play would resolve that downside. Not solely would it not enable individuals to play the sport even when the servers are down, however it will additionally considerably lower the stress positioned on servers as many individuals truly need to play alone no matter server standing.
Payday 3 doesn’t enable gamers to set any type of desire for what kind of play type they need to use in a heist when trying to find a match. Naturally, many (myself included), would fairly play a heist alone than hope that the three strangers they’re paired with additionally need to preserve issues quiet and stealthy.
Fixing the servers can be a fantastic begin (and a fully essential one), however even when the servers had been completely infallible, the demand for solo play wouldn’t dwindle. If Starbreeze needs that to occur, it will additionally have to make a change to public matchmaking that allowed gamers to pick out heist preferences and be positioned accordingly. Even then, it’s simple to examine a state of affairs during which a number of gamers disconnect from a heist after stealth is by accident damaged.
Really, there isn’t a single world during which no person needs a solo play choice in Payday 3, and it isn’t like it will be tough so as to add one. Hopefully, Sjögren, Penninger, and the remainder of the workforce are ready to again up their phrases with actions and we get a minimum of one other replace quickly. Sjögren did write later in the identical thread that Payday 3 will proceed to be labored on for years to come back, which is definitely promising (assuming that work for years to come back includes listening and responding to the neighborhood of the sport).
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