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Kikas posted:Yeah, all we get is weekly updates on stuff that's maybe gonna happen in the future. Yeah this is what I meant. Its cool that you can do it but when you do it, it becomes apparent that its mostly pointless because the rewards for the effort put in are so minimal Edit: in hindsight that describes my experience with the game. Fun to try but once i understood the mechanics the rewards were so boring I didn't continue. ZeusCannon fucked around with this message at 13:28 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Payday 3Kikas posted:It's all good mechanics in principle, they're just executed poorly.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 13:59 |
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Yeah, it's poo poo like this: https://twitter.com/PAYDAYGame/status/1767888854965514279/photo/1 Okay, rotating modifiers to spice up the higher difficulties sounds great in principle but... why is it only 3 things lol. And why are they so meaningless. Like, once again, pointing to Helldivers 2, every planet has it's own modifier and they can change how the game is played dramatically, plus a lot of the daily/weekly events giving players new toys in addition to new challenges. They are also thematic, cold planets get different modifiers as opposed to warm ones etc. Here, night or day, loud or stealth, all the modifiers work the same and can be applied to all heists. What's more, they only add anything to the stealth gameplay, if you want to go loud from the get go, this does nothing to you. The whole developement of Payday 3 would seem like a misplaced effort but... I can't see the effort. I see things like new maps and weapon models and whatnot that you had to rebuild in Unreal, maybe even from scratch, but... I dunno.
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I'm also surprised how much i missed multi-day heists. I didn't think i would but the loss of the prep screen and really any sort of planning beyond "bring ammo" is a shame.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 14:06 |
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Yeah I said it before itt but Helldivers 2 coming out so soon after Payday 3 and absolutely crushing the live service content side of things really shines a light on how poorly they've handled PD3. That's a weak update with more stuff that seems like should've been in the game already to stop people from getting bored and going to play something else with their friends. The whole operation medic bag thing basically allowed me to stop caring about payday 3 because it's a list of fundamental flaws that need to be fixed to make it feel like an acceptable state for a game like this to launch in. If the studio exists by the time that's all done that's basically just their cue to start pumping out paid dlc to maybe try to make some money from this game that nobody is playing. Just a real loving bummer what happened to this game and studio.
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# ? Mar 13, 2024 14:21 |
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they should be fine for money I would think. for all its flaws this game did sell like gangbusters. there’s something fundamentally wrong with their workflows and processes. i actually don’t think pd3 was a badly designed game. I really like the heists that are there. there’s just so much basic poo poo missing and so much jank present and such an enormous delay in fixing anything or adding new content
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:they should be fine for money I would think. for all its flaws this game did sell like gangbusters. there’s something fundamentally wrong with their workflows and processes. i actually don’t think pd3 was a badly designed game. I really like the heists that are there. there’s just so much basic poo poo missing and so much jank present and such an enormous delay in fixing anything or adding new content Yeah, for me, the biggest problem is just the delay in pushing updates. I don't mind missing or broken poo poo as long as I can fathom the pipeline to fix it.
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Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:they should be fine for money I would think. for all its flaws this game did sell like gangbusters. there’s something fundamentally wrong with their workflows and processes. i actually don’t think pd3 was a badly designed game. I really like the heists that are there. there’s just so much basic poo poo missing and so much jank present and such an enormous delay in fixing anything or adding new content With all the online-only server costs and that all the money came from preorders and day 1 purchases since nobody is buying it in 2024, I question if this game did make a profit despite what Starbreeze said. Even Embracer said it fell short of expectations and for how trigger-happy Embracer is for killing studios for far less I'm kind of surprised there's no talk, at least publically, about how Starbreeze should go on the chopping block.
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Yeah I would also be extremely surprised to hear that Payday 3 actually sold "like gangbusters" considering it was on Gamepass day 1 and the 70k concurrent players on steam vanished after less than a month. Even if it did the excitement for the game has also vanished so I can't imagine they're selling any DLC packs for $10-$15 for a game that has no players.
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EorayMel posted:With all the online-only server costs and that all the money came from preorders and day 1 purchases since nobody is buying it in 2024, I question if this game did make a profit despite what Starbreeze said. Even Embracer said it fell short of expectations and for how trigger-happy Embracer is for killing studios for far less I'm kind of surprised there's no talk, at least publically, about how Starbreeze should go on the chopping block. I mean they JUST offed the CEO, the head has already been cut off, yet the chicken seems to run around the farm. ZeusCannon posted:I'm also surprised how much i missed multi-day heists. I didn't think i would but the loss of the prep screen and really any sort of planning beyond "bring ammo" is a shame. I've been saying this since before the launch. I miss having my little stories and consequences of playing heists in a specific way, Payday 2 was the strongest with stuff like Watchdogs, Firestarter, Framing Frame and actual whole-rear end Rats. Hell, the last great heist for me is Reservioir Dogs and it would NEVER have such an impact of me if Payday 2 didn't have the multi-day structure. As annoying as 5 day Rats could have been with both escapes, it added some excitement to every time you play, hell, even every restart is different. There were bad variants and good variants, and while failing an easy one felt bad, failing a really lovely one (gently caress you, center of Crossroads) meant going "yeah okay the game wants to kick out teeth in" but it made me feel something. Heistsing in PD3 is okay, but it is mostly going through the motions every time. I still cannot believe how bland this game feels, I could write a whole-rear end book on How Not To Make Sequels here. Ghislaine of YOSPOS posted:they should be fine for money I would think. for all its flaws this game did sell like gangbusters. there’s something fundamentally wrong with their workflows and processes. i actually don’t think pd3 was a badly designed game. I really like the heists that are there. there’s just so much basic poo poo missing and so much jank present and such an enormous delay in fixing anything or adding new content I remember that the excuse with Payday 2 was "yeah well our engine is a real pain in the rear end to work with" but with the move to Unreal, this excuse is gone. And that's why it pisses me off twice as hard. Kikas fucked around with this message at 17:04 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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It's pretty funny seeing the subreddit go through the five stages of grief only now landing on acceptance that the best part of payday 3 was the memes that spawned because of the bad launch.
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Kikas posted:I remember that the excuse with Payday 2 was "yeah well our engine is a real pain in the rear end to work with" but with the move to Unreal, this excuse is gone. And that's why it pisses me off twice as hard. And the classic racing game engine crashes have been brought back via matchmaking errors, which feels even meaner because at least in payday 2 most of the crashes would just crash to desktop right away. If you crash or get a matchmaking error in payday 3, the error message menu has a button to go back to the main menu or reconnect, but it's grayed out. And the only button you can access is quit game, wasting that much more time
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Operation "Auuuuugggggghhhh, I'm dyyyiiinnnggg I neeeed a Medic Bag!" I'd love for them to turn things around and be proven wrong, because I'd hate for Payday's legacy to end with a whimper. Grimthwacker fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Mar 13, 2024 |
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Grimthwacker posted:Operation "Auuuuugggggghhhh, I'm dyyyiiinnnggg I neeeed a Medic Bag!" I'm still of the opinion that the fact that Payday 2 is still going pretty strong and that it has a very unique aesthetic and style means that the IP is going to get used someway, somehow in the future, and if anything HD2 makes that more likely since it demonstrates that Payday 3's core concepts (cooperative ultraviolent shooter with a kind of political comedy) are very marketable, the specific studio in question just hosed the execution. I really do think we're going to get a Payday 4 at some point, I just think that it involves the existing studio dying completely and the IP getting bought by somebody else. I don't think it'll happen super fast, since 2024 has been very much a year of game downsizing, but this stuff moves in cycles and somebody is going to be smart enough to go "I could make a co-op action game from scratch...or I could try and take advantage of this decade plus old game that consistently has 30kish players after they ended support." If I had to guess the CEO was fired so they could bring in a breaker: fire everybody, sell IP off, auction off the chairs and such.
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Operation "I need a medic bagholder!"
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Tulip posted:I'm still of the opinion that the fact that Payday 2 is still going pretty strong and that it has a very unique aesthetic and style means that the IP is going to get used someway, somehow in the future, and if anything HD2 makes that more likely since it demonstrates that Payday 3's core concepts (cooperative ultraviolent shooter with a kind of political comedy) are very marketable, the specific studio in question just hosed the execution. I really do think we're going to get a Payday 4 at some point, I just think that it involves the existing studio dying completely and the IP getting bought by somebody else. I don't think it'll happen super fast, since 2024 has been very much a year of game downsizing, but this stuff moves in cycles and somebody is going to be smart enough to go "I could make a co-op action game from scratch...or I could try and take advantage of this decade plus old game that consistently has 30kish players after they ended support." Yeah but will it be P4yday, Payd4y or P4yd4y?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ozKtcAowZQ this is definitely the best payday 3 has looked to me since release
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They are adding quickplay and player merging in the next update. Perhaps the second part has already been achieved:
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# ? Apr 21, 2024 03:46 |
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is payday 3 good yet
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Kith posted:is payday 3 good yet it was never a bad game in terms of how fun the missions are to play imo. i had a blast playing payday 3. just literally every other possible thing is garbage. extremely limited content updates, lovely ui, bad matchmaking to the point where the majority of the missions I did were with me, a friend, and two bots, byzantine character progression (you had to consult a third party web site that used an API call to your steam profile to see how to unlock your skill points), unbelievably bad weapon balance, random crashes and a patch schedule that honest to god seemed to be on a quarterly cadence.
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I never got around to playing it at release. Then I heard terrible things about it from people that did. Then the devs said they would change a billion things to make the game better and they haven't done that yet, so I'm still waiting to give it a try for the first time.
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# ? Apr 22, 2024 12:07 |
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Yeah I enjoyed payday 3, its crime was that it wasn't as good as payday 2. If payday 2 didn't exist i'd have thought 3 was a fantastic game. The loss of multi day heists, the matchmaking being poo poo and the progression being poo poo probably wouldn't have felt so bad if they hadn't already gotten that right before.
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When I got to actually play the game I liked it, but having no way to differentiate between loud and stealth lobbies killed the game for me. I am dogshit at stealth and seem to always trigger an alarm whenever I do anything in stealth. My favorite was on the mission that had the weapon bug (that bug was awesome and made it actually possible to unlock gun poo poo. Good job fixing that and making the game worse) where the team was doing it stealth while I hung out at the start. I decided to walk towards a door, but I guess that was wrong because a civ saw me, immediately alerted, and started a gently caress up cascade that ruined stealth. My usual experience with the game before I quit was joining a match with my loud gear, realizing everyone planned stealth, and reading poo poo on my phone while they did the entire mission without me. If an alarm was tripped I would get excited to actually play the game, but everyone else would leave so I'm suddenly on my own. It sucks playing the game for 2 hours but only experiencing like 15 mins of actual gameplay. I also hated winning missions but because I didn't hit an achievement of some kind I didn't get any experience. I would get gun experience, but I could never figure out HOW that experience was calculated and the unlocks made the gun worse or had a confusing explanation. What a disappointing game.
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limp_cheese posted:When I got to actually play the game I liked it, but having no way to differentiate between loud and stealth lobbies killed the game for me. I am dogshit at stealth and seem to always trigger an alarm whenever I do anything in stealth. My favorite was on the mission that had the weapon bug (that bug was awesome and made it actually possible to unlock gun poo poo. Good job fixing that and making the game worse) where the team was doing it stealth while I hung out at the start. I decided to walk towards a door, but I guess that was wrong because a civ saw me, immediately alerted, and started a gently caress up cascade that ruined stealth. My group has the understood strategy of we stealth as far as we can, but are ready for loud at the drop of a hat. We normally end up loud, sometimes just because someone forgot the stealth button moved to G.
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limp_cheese posted:When I got to actually play the game I liked it, but having no way to differentiate between loud and stealth lobbies killed the game for me. I am dogshit at stealth and seem to always trigger an alarm whenever I do anything in stealth. My favorite was on the mission that had the weapon bug (that bug was awesome and made it actually possible to unlock gun poo poo. Good job fixing that and making the game worse) where the team was doing it stealth while I hung out at the start. I decided to walk towards a door, but I guess that was wrong because a civ saw me, immediately alerted, and started a gently caress up cascade that ruined stealth. that's just a matter of knowing the stealth rules. civilians will never worry about you unless you have a gun out or are interacting with something you shouldn't. If you have a gun out it's cop time, if you just get caught playing on the computer a guard cuffs you and they all go off path and wander around
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Once you have done a mission a few times in Stealth, which is normally really cool, you really should just go loud from the start. My group would always try for stealth and just finish it loud if things went amiss, but just grinding out stealth runs and restarting at the first mistake is a nightmare.
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